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The Daily Word of Righteousness
The Great Design, #11
Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. (John 15:8)
Fruitfulness
The God of Heaven has planted one true Vine. The true Vine is Jesus, the Christ of God. The Vine is spiritual but it is designed to be revealed in the earth.
God desires that the Vine bear fruit. The fruit for which God is looking is His own image: love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, and self-control. The Divine image is found only in Christ and is Christ.
God desires that this fruit be visible and available to the nations of the earth. When the nations eat the fruit of the true Vine they will live spiritually and worship and serve the God of Heaven.
Adam and Eve were in the image of God to a limited extent, as we have stated previously. They were commanded to reproduce this image in the earth.
The Lord Jesus Christ is perfectly in the image of God. It is our role, the role of the members of the Body of Christ, to reproduce the image of Christ in the earth. The image of Christ is the precious fruit of the earth for which God is looking.
It is through the Seed of Abraham, Christ and His Body, that God will bless the nations of the earth. The emphasis in the present hour is on the maturing of the branches of the Vine. When that occurs, the image of God will appear for the nations to behold, and beholding to be saved.
For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations. (Isaiah 61:11)
"Before all the nations."
God has planted a Vine, and all the creation is waiting for, is dependent on, the bringing forth of the fruit of that Vine. The nations will continue to grope blindly for the light until the only true Light shines from the branches of the Vine.
The believer in Christ in whom the image of God is formed, and who enters restful union with God through Christ, will bear the fruit of the image of God in unnumbered multitudes during the ages to come. His fruit will be as that of Abraham if he chooses to believe God.
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman [vinedresser]. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. (John 15:1,2)
The issue here is not Heaven or Hell. Too much emphasis has been placed on going to Heaven when we die. This is not the biblical emphasis, although we hope to go to a place of peace and joy when we leave this flesh.
Indeed, through Christ we can escape the wrath of God. God has made a way for the sinner to escape destruction. But the emphasis of the majority of the writings of the New Testament is not on our "being saved and going to Heaven." It is on the godly behavior of those who have been called to be branches in the true Vine.
To be continued.