Tuesday April 28th, 2026
« If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin »
1 “I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener.
2 He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and He prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more.
3 You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you.
4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me.
5 “Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.
6 Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers. Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned.
7 But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted!
8 When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father.
9 “I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love.
10 When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
11 I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow!
12 This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you.
13 There is no greater love than 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 slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.
16 You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name.
There are many people who become born again and say that they don’t want to preach the gospel.
They think that as long as they don’t backslide, they are fine.
This is a fallacy.
You have joined yourself to the Vine,
and John 15:2 states clearly that every branch that is joined to the Vine must bear fruit.
- It is a must to bear fruit if you want to continue to be a part of the Vine.
Do you want to be a part of the Vine ?
You must do the work of an evangelist.
Backsliding as a believer does not only start with drawing away from God and committing sin.
- Refusal to preach the gospel is also a form of backsliding.
John 15:6 tells us that any branch the Father cuts off is going straight into the fire.
Some people who preach about unlimited grace usually say that once you are born again, nothing can ever send you to hell;
I disagree completely with this theology.
When people become born again, they become a part of the Vine, but if they do not produce fruits, they will be cut off from the Vine.
When a person is cut off from the Vine, he or she will dry up, and men will gather whatever is left to be thrown into the fire – that is clearly what the word of God says.
So, in your own interest, make sure you are bearing fruits for the Most High God.
Another reason you must win souls is so that your prayers can be answered.
John 15:16BRG says
« Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you »
I don’t know if you have observed that it appears as if God often sends the answers to the prayers of baby Christians relatively promptly.
You probably experienced those prompt responses to your prayers when you freshly became born again, but now,
does it appear as if you sometimes command mountains to move,
and it seems like they refuse to yield ?
Has God changed ?
Does He no longer fulfil His promises ?
Why then are your answers being delayed ?
It just might be because you have not been winning souls.
Application – Pick up your phone and share the gospel with at least one person through a phone call, text message or any other means.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
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