“Hey, this fruit has seeds in it!”

John 15

Being fruitful, seeds and all.

“15 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes[a] so that it will be even more fruitful. 3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

9 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. 12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. 17 This is my command: Love each other.”

An apple tree produces apples. We eat the fruit, throw out the seeds. The apple tree doesn’t care that we eat it’s fruit. It just want its seeds spread around. The apple tree wants to reproduce itself.

As Christians we produce fruit or I should say that the Holy Spirit produces fruit through us or in us; love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, goodness and self control. I’m not sure if this works like I think it works but here’s my understanding of this.

These are the things that grow on us that those around can take away from us and be nourished, but inside these fruits are the seeds to grow more of us. To reproduce christians we share the fruit that the Holy Spirit is producing in us.

Jesus longs for those that are lost to come back home. Can we be sharing the fruit that He is producing in us?