" If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands , I will send you rain in its season , and the ground will yield its crops and the trees of the field their fruit .” ( Lev . 26:3-4 )
“ I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers , and I will keep my covenant with you . You will still be eating last year ' s harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new .” ( Lev . 26:9-10 )
Furthering this purpose-bearing fruit includes doing the works Yeshua did while he was living on the earth . It is moving in signs , wonders , and miracles . By doing Yeshua ’ s work we bring Him much glory .
Yeshua said that abiding in the vine is necessary for fruit bearing and fruit bearing releases joy . He said that if one does not abide in the vine , it is impossible to bear fruit . Then he states that one continues to abide in the vine through loving Him and obeying His commandments ( John 15 ).
Perhaps it would be helpful to define what God means by fruit . I believe that all fruit is somehow an expansion of God ’ s Kingdom rule as His character takes over more and more of His creation . This fruit manifests in us first as love , joy , peace , patience , kindness , and self-control ; second , it manifests when we extend his rule in the building up of the members of the body of believers into the fullness of the Messiah ; and finally , it manifests in the spreading of the Gospel ( i . e . more and more come under the rule of Yeshua and take on more and more of His character ). God ’ s Kingdom expands as more and more people come out of Satan ' s kingdom of darkness and into the Kingdom of His son , Yeshua . This happens as we come to understand and appropriate more of God ’ s abundant grace in our lives and then proclaim this grace to others .
“ All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing , just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and understood God ' s grace in all its truth .” ( Col . 1:6 )
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