Jesus The True Vine

(Jn 15:1-17)

Putting into practice the teachings of Jesus is the way to bear fruit. The Lord will purify those who do so that they bear full fruit, including love and joy, and thereby God is glorified.

 

Some Greeks Visit Jesus

(Jn 12:24)

God is glorified when the seeds that He plants produce much fruit. For as great as life is on earth, and it is, greater is the insight that the soul is also a seed in the earthly body, the death of which is necessary to fully bear the fruits of the Holy Spirit, even in the service of one’s fellows throughout the earth.

 

Parable Of Vineyard And Tenants

(Mt 21:34, Mk 12:2, Lk 20:10)

Another example. Because of greed and other forms of spiritual blindness (idolatry), men see a vineyard, but they lack insight: they do not see the kingdom of God.

Men would rather sell their souls for a bunch of grapes, and they are so selfish in their superficial intent that they even habitually kill those who point out that they lack insight.

 

Parable Of The Barren Fig Tree

(Lk 12:17)

Our souls need care, even care from fellow souls. The Lord gives us a chance to care for ourselves and our fellows, expecting them to bear fruit. If not, they will be cut down and their energy transformed into fodder for those who do bear fruit.

 

Parable Of The Rich Fool

(Lk 12:17)

An example of the difference between the sightful and the insightful, the fruits of the earth and the fruits of the Holy Spirit, the idolater and the spiritually mature man.

 

Parable Of The Weeds Among Wheat

(Mt 13:24-43)

The Sovereign Lord plants His good seed throughout His creation, including living creatures endowed with free will, the essence of creation, the image and likeness of God. Some will use their will to be disobedient to the word of God, and the insightful and the idolaters grow in the creation together.

The insightful must make the effort to grow deeper roots than the idolaters. On the Last Day, and maybe even before, the Lord will help them, the Holy Spirit, bearing fruit, even energized by the fire fueled with the waste of the fruitless, fruit that matures and souls that shine like the sun (see Preaching of John the Baptist).

 

Parable Of The Sower

(Mt 13:8, Mk 4:7, Lk 8:

The Creator leaves His mark, plants His seed, throughout the Creation, including free will in living beings with a soul, each one having the chance to bear fruit according to his own will and talents, and according to God. Some will choose to outright reject the will of God. Others will perceive the will of God, but will live most of their earthly lives according to their sight and neglect insight. Yet others will accept the will of God, but it does not penetrate deeply into their hearts because their insight lacks depth, and their joy, and other fruits of the Holy Spirit, will not be fulfilled, will not come to maturity. Still others will soften their hearts and let the will of God to penetrate deeply, allow the seed to grow, mature, and hear the fruits of the Holy Spirit.

 

Jesus And The Woman Of Samaria

(Jn 4:1-42)

Men see with their eyes that the fields are ready for harvest, thus securing their food supply, thinking that this or that land is the promised land, holy ground.

But it matters not so much whether one obeys the will of God in this place or that place as whether one obeys the will of God in spirit and in truth.

For men with insight also know that the everlasting food (and water) is doing the will of God, sowing and cultivating the fruits of the Holy Spirit, a gift from God for men to receive through their own free will, and God and man rejoice together when this work is done.

 

Parable Of The Growing Seed

(Mk 4:29)

The Lord planted free-willed creatures, like seeds, into His universe. Each seed contains the fruits of the Holy Spirit, the work of His hands. The soul of man has contained within itself and in the wider universe to grow into maturity and produce the fruits of the Holy Spirit that He expects to find on the day of the harvest, on the Last Day.

 

Tree Known By Its Fruit

Tree And Its Fruit

(Mt 7:16/12:33, Lk 6:43)

You can know the nature of a soul by the fruit that it produces.

The truly insightful soul takes the negative energy of the fruitless and uses it to good purpose with energies multiplied.

We must take this view: the Lord allows for negative energy in the creation, the essence of which is free will, and we the fruitful must take advantage of this situation to turn the negative energy into positive at an even greater pace than may have otherwise been the case.

Of course I am talking about energy of the soul and its capacity to produce love, peace, joy, kindness, patience, goodness, faith, gentleness, and discipline.