• 1. Winning Souls and Discipling Them. "Now I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that I often planned to come to you (but was hindered until now), that I might have some fruit among you also, just as among the other Gentiles" (Rom.1:13, NKJV). One of the characteristics of a branch bearing fruit is that it produces a product identical to itself. Accordingly, the first way a disciple bears fruit is by producing another disciple like himself and helping him grow spiritually.

• 2. Sharing With Those in Need. "But now I am going to Jerusalem to minister to the set-apart ones (saints). For it pleased those from Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are in Jerusalem. It pleased them indeed, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in material things. Therefore, when I have performed this and have sealed to them this fruit, I shall go by way of you to Spain" (Rom.15:25-28, NKJV). This is, of course, one of the three tithes we are commanded to pay in addition to supporting the ministry and making provisions for the festivals. "For you know the grace of our Master Yah'shua the Messiah (Lord Jesus Christ), that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich" (2 Cor.8:9, NKJV). It need not be our wealth that we share but our gifts, talents, labour and other things that the Father has bestowed on us. Since the "Vine" (Yah'shua) did this, then naturally the "branches" connected to the Vine will do the same thing: "By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of Elohim (God) abide in him? My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth" (1 John 3:16-18, NKJV).

• 3. Developing Character Like Yah'shua's. "But the fruit of the Ruach (Spirit) is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law" (Gal.5:21-23, NKJV). An easily recongisable fruit is the development of the graces listed here by Paul and one who abounds in such qualities is producing fruit abundantly and growing in knowledge of the Messiah: "But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Master Yah'shua the Messiah (Lord Jesus Christ)" (2 Peter 1:5-8, NKJV). This fruitfulness is the proof that we are being renewed in the image of our Creator: "Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Messiah (Christ) is all and in all" (Col.3:8-11, NKJV).

• 4. Praising Yahweh and Giving Thanks. "Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to Elohim (God), that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His Name (Yahweh)" (Heb 13:15, NKJV). This is to be expected of the "branches" since that's exactly what the "Vine" did too: "In that hour Yah'shua (Jesus) rejoiced in the Ruach (Spirit) and said, 'I thank You, Father (Yahweh), Master (Lord) of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to babes. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight" (Luke 10:21, NKJV). "Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. And Yah'shua (Jesus) lifted up His eyes and said, 'Father (Yahweh), I thank You that You have heard Me" (John 11:41, NKJV). Can we, the "branches", do any less?

If these are not our fruits, then we urgently need to make teshuvah or repent by finding out what it is preventing us from getting them and then doing something about it.