dennis j adams

The “garden” of the Lord is His church.  The church must bear fruit to share with the “seekers” and the hungry.  As we look into scripture we can easily find many references to bearing fruit and the importance of it.  A “healthy” vine will bear fruit in due season.   Seasons are very essential in bearing fruit.  The vine will not bear fruit out of season but in turn should bear abundant fruit in season.  The saint must be attached to the Lord to be able to bear good fruit.  A good tree bears good fruit and a bad tree bears bad fruit.  We read this in Matthew: 

So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.(Matthew 7:17-19 ESV)

This is really a very simple reality that seems to be made overly complicated by this world.  The Holy Spirit cultivates the “fruit” that is produced.  An interesting scripture is found in the Book of Psalms that illustrates this:  

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. (Psalm 1:1-3 ESV)

Being attached to the world and its system of doing things will not allow a “believer” to bear the right fruit.  The “believer” when bearing fruit in season is a true witness to the love of God for this world.  Sharing the purity of the Word and the dynamics of the indwelling Holy Spirit leaves no room for bearing “corrupted” fruit.  As a matter of fact in one of the Lord’s declarations to His disciples He stated a very strong exhortation:

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. (John 15:1-2 ESV)  

He goes on to say: 

I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.(John 15:5-6 ESV)

As anyone can easily ascertain it is to the utmost to bear fruit in season and to share that fruit so the Father will be glorified here on this earth.

Dennis