{"id":4130,"date":"2025-11-04T18:53:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/?p=4130"},"modified":"2025-11-04T18:57:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:57:55","slug":"fruit-that-will-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/?p=4130","title":{"rendered":"Fruit that will remain"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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This is a mangosteen.\u00a0 It\u2019s a blessing to be able to eat these little gems because not only do they taste great, but they are loaded with all kinds of good stuff for your health.\u00a0 You eat the white part on the inside.\u00a0 It tastes unique.\u00a0 The first time I tried one my taste buds were searching to try to identify something to compare it to.\u00a0 I thought it had the texture of a plum with the taste of a tangerine.<\/span><\/p>

These are very common here.\u00a0 The outer hull is brissly.\u00a0 The white fruit on the inside of the hull has a seed in the middle.\u00a0 The white meat also has a unique taste.\u00a0 I would compare it to a sweet green grape \u2013\u00a0 just not as juicy.<\/span><\/p>

John\u2019s gospel speaks of fruit that should remain.\u00a0 This is spiritual fruit.\u00a0 The mangosteen and leechi drop their fruit to the ground where it dies.\u00a0 The germinated seed, as we know, can produce a lot of fruit after its kind. \u00a0 Jesus said, \u201cVerily, verily, I say unto you, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone; but if it dies, it bringeth forth much fruit.\u201d (Jn. 12:24)\u00a0 He is speaking about the result of his death on the cross, resurrection from the grave and the receiving of the gospel message by those who believe. \u00a0 Verse 25 is the charge to every believer to die to himself and find new life as defined by the Lord Jesus, that every believer should be able to bear fruit.<\/span><\/p>

In no uncertain terms Jesus declares in John 15 that we are to bear fruit that should remain (vs.16).\u00a0 To remain means that it would have been built on the foundation of Jesus Christ and will withstand the judgment of fire that is soon to come (1 Cor. 3:10-15). \u00a0 We should be hearing the voice of the Good Shepherd as he directs our steps into everything we do.\u00a0 This will be in conjunction with his word.\u00a0 What Jesus leads us to do will be Holy, just as he is Holy.\u00a0 To make sure what you are doing is of the Lord, try to ask yourself, \u201cIs this something that Jesus would do?\u201d\u00a0 Avoid the correlation with the WWJD fad.\u00a0 Think about Jesus in his ministry, who was about to lay down his life for his friends, and ask yourself if this is something he would do?<\/span><\/p>

The unfruitful life is a very serious problem.\u00a0 It can be one of two categories: 1) that which is empty and does not bear fruit; 2) that which defiles the temple.<\/span><\/p>

The life that is empty of fruit, according to John 15:2 and 6, is \u201ctaken away\u201d and \u201ccast forth as a branch, and is withered, and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.\u201d\u00a0 When a branch is burned, in this example, nothing is preserved.\u00a0 The picture here does not speak of surviving the flames as one might associate with 1 Corinthians 3:15.\u00a0 The branch that is taken away speaks of judgment.\u00a0 The fruitless person needs to repent.<\/span><\/p>

The \u201ctemple\u201d in 1 Corinthians 3 is the individual believer\u2019s body.\u00a0 Notice verse 17 says that God will destroy the one who defiles his temple.\u00a0 Is there any doubt what destroy means?\u00a0 I don\u2019t think so.\u00a0 You need to meditate on what might equate to defilement.\u00a0 Jesus would never lead a person to smoke, get intoxicated, get a tattoo [even if it\u2019s a scripture verse], use curse words, lie, have a second marriage while your first spouse is living, accept witchcraft or astrology.\u00a0 These are just a few things but\u00a0 this is so serious.\u00a0 Not many are willing to pay the price to get right with God these days.\u00a0 Truth is that\u00a0 anyone who is defiling the temple can and should repent.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fruit that will remain 2\/18\/16 This is a mangosteen.\u00a0 It\u2019s a blessing to be able to eat these little gems because not only do they taste great, but they are loaded with all kinds of good stuff for your health.\u00a0 You eat the white part on the inside.\u00a0 It tastes unique.\u00a0 The first time I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4130"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4172,"href":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130\/revisions\/4172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reachhonduras.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}