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Decoding Devotion - "Serious Fruit" - Part 2

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Kee Won Huh

Scripture

John 15:1-17

The Vine and the Branches
¹ “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 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.

Corporate Prayer

Gracious Father,

We thank You for the gift of Your Son, the true Vine, and for Your Spirit who remains in us and never leaves us. In a world that tempts us to believe that Your commands diminish life, remind us that every word You give is life-giving, every boundary You set is rooted in love, and every call to obedience leads us into true freedom.

Lord Jesus, teach us to abide in You—not with a passive remaining, but with an active, engaged dwelling. May our lives not be marked by mere survival, but by the intimacy, depth, and fruitfulness that come from walking with You daily. As we love one another, serving, forgiving, and bearing with each other, draw us closer to Yourself. In the face of gossip, selfishness, or apathy, help us choose love, for in loving our brothers and sisters we encounter You.

Holy Spirit, remind us that abiding is not a mystical feeling but a life of obedience, a life patterned after Christ. Cut away what is fruitless in us, even when pruning is painful, and cultivate in us the fruit that will last—fruit that blesses the world, glorifies the Father, and flows from communion with You.

Make our church a community where Your Spirit moves freely, where obedience is embraced as joy, and where saints are formed into their true selves by surrender to Christ. May we not aim at fruit alone, but at Jesus Himself, trusting that fruit will follow.

We pray this in the name of the Vine, our Lord Jesus Christ.

Amen.

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