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Secret of Fruitfulness
Ron Dunn
John 15:1-8, 16
I want you to open your Bibles tonight to the Gospel of John, chapter 15.
As I have read this chapter over and over again, I have decided that I will confine myself to the first 8 verses of this chapter.
I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.
He removes every branch in Me that bears no fruit; every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it to make it bear more fruit.
You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you.
Abide in Me as I abide in you.
Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in Me.
I am the vine, you are the branches; those who abide in Me, and I in them, bear much fruit; because apart from Me you can do nothing.
Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch, and withers; such branches are gathered and thrown into a fire, and they are burned.
If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done to you.
My Father is glorified in this, that you bear much fruit, and show yourselves to be My disciples.
You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask in My name.
A few years ago, my wife and I attended the Southern Baptist Convention in Portland, Oregon, which is in the northwestern part of the States.
Our convention, which is supposed to be the largest non-Protestant denomination in America, has an annual meeting, and 20,000-30,000 of us gather together.
We go and listen to speakers and they have exhibits and specialists on different aspects of church work.
My wife and I love to go to conventions.
When the Southern Baptist Convention was over, we really weren't ready to go home.
I happily noticed in the newspaper that the FPA was having their annual convention that year.
You've heard of the FPA—Fruit Pickers of America.
So we decided to attend the Fruit Pickers of America Convention.
Surprisingly, it was a lot like our own convention.
That had exhibits, a room full of stalls and exhibits where they were showing the latest shears for doing this, and the latest fruit picking instruments, and the latest baskets—different colors and sizes.
They also had speakers, and we really enjoyed them.
One I liked was "Fruit Picker Burn-out," which evidently was common among the fruit pickers of that day.
I think the message I enjoyed the most was the last one.
This was the fellow who led the convention the year before in fruit picking.
He was telling everybody how to do it.
He was really dynamic.
He just challenged and challenged those men and women to go out and pick more fruit than they had ever picked before—challenged beyond their ability.
When they dismissed, they all grabbed their baskets and went out for an afternoon of fruit picking.
Kaye and I hung around to see the results.
As the hours passed, the fruit pickers came dragging in without any joy, without any enthusiasm, and mostly without any fruit.
So they couldn't understand it.
It stymied the convention.
After they had all these exhibits, the latest techniques in fruit picking, and these motivational speakers, how could they go out and not pick a single fruit.
So they did what you usually do.
They appointed a task committee to study the problem.
Well, we couldn't hang around for that; we went back home.
But I read the results of it later.
It seems they came to this conclusion: you can't pick fruit unless, first of all, you bear fruit.
They had concentrated all their efforts on the picking of fruit and none on the bearing of fruit.
You'll notice how often in this passage of Scripture that Jesus speaks to us of bearing fruit.
He says, unless you abide in Me, you cannot bear fruit.
In this is My Father glorified, that you bear much fruit.
The sense I get from this passage of Scripture is that we are to be fruit bearers.
The emphasis here is on bearing fruit.
In verse 8 he says, herein is my Father glorified that you bear much fruit.
All of us want to glorify God.
That ought to be the theme of every song, the theme of every sermon—that God be glorified.
Well, how do we glorify Him?
He says that God is glorified when we bear much fruit, and we become his disciples.
The Greek literally has the idea of you show yourselves, prove yourselves to be disciples.
So I want to talk to you tonight a bit about fruit bearing.
In these closing words as Jesus gives us what is normally called the Upper Room Discourse, he is speaking things of importance to these disciples.
These are his last words.
Notice the progression there: that we not just bear fruit, but that we bear more fruit, and much fruit.
That is God glorified.
So let me just mention three or four things about this.
1) Bearing fruit is proof that we are in Christ.
It is the proof of our union with Christ.
You'll notice that at the very beginning he says, I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser (or vine grower).
He removes every branch in Me that bears no fruit.
Later on in verse 6, he says, whoever does not abide in Me is thrown away like a branch, and withers.
Such branches are gathered together and thrown into a fire and are burned.
So the idea is that abiding in Jesus and bearing fruit are synonymous.
If I am abiding in Jesus, if I have a vital union with the life of Jesus, the natural result will be fruit in my life.
He says, every branch in me that does not bear fruit, He removes it.
Later on, he says, every branch that does bear fruit, he prunes it.
Notice he doesn't say that he prunes these non-bearing branches.
He removes them.
But the ones that do bear fruit, he prunes them.
There is a big difference between pruning and removing.
Now I don't believe you can take this statement and say, oh, there's proof there that a believer can be lost even after he is saved.
I don't think that is what he is talking about.
The very fact that these branches bear no fruit proves that they have no vital union with Jesus.
I talked to a vineyard keeper about this sometime ago.
I asked if he would help me throw some light on this.
He said, oh yes, that's very easy to understand.
He said, in every vine there are branches who have only a superficial attachment to the vine—just a skin attachment.
You can take a knife and cut that outer skin all around and the branch will fall off because the branch itself is not penetrating into the vine.
And it has just enough of the life flowing through it to bear leaves and to stay there.
But it has no vital union or connection.
Therefore, it does not bear fruit.
So he removes it.
Why?
Because if I am in Christ, and abiding in Christ, and he is abiding in me, then the evidence of that will be fruitfulness in my life.
Now, I think we need to define fruitfulness.
What does the Bible mean when it talks about fruitfulness.
I know it is this way in the States when we talking about bearing fruit, our minds immediately go to winning people to Christ.
That is a very important part of bearing fruit.
But I think it goes much further than that.
Let me give you a definition of fruit.
I don't think you'll find this in any book.
Actually, you will find it in mine.
That's where I got this definition—from reading my book.
Fruit is the outward expression of the inner nature.
Don't you think that will work?
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