From Genesis to Revelation — The Tree of Life!

7/25/2026

In so many ways, it seems to me that what Jesus says in John’s account is the very core and essence of what He desires for each of us, connecting the Tree of Life in the bookends of Genesis and Revelation to HIMSELF. I replaced “Vine” with “Tree of Life” to see that even clearer.

I am the Tree of Life

My Father is the gardener

My Father cuts off every branch in Me

That bears no Fruit

While every branch that does bear Fruit

My Father prunes

So that it will be even more Fruitful

You are already clean

Because of the Word

I have spoken to you

Remain in Me

As I also remain in you

No branch can bear Fruit by itself

The branch must remain

Vitally connected to the Tree

Neither can you bear Fruit

Unless you remain

Vitally connected to Me

And IN Me

I am the Tree of Life

You are the branches

If you remain in Me

And I in you

You will bear much Fruit

Apart from Me

The Tree of Life

You can do nothing

If you do not remain in Me

(By trusting your own knowledge of good and evil

and acting like your own god)

You are like a branch

That is thrown away and withers

Such branches are picked up

Thrown into the fire and burned

If you remain in Me

And My Words remain in you

Ask whatever you wish

It will be done for you

This is to My Father’s glory

That you bear much Fruit

Showing yourselves to be My disciples

As the Father has loved Me

So have I loved you

Now remain in My love

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

I have told you this

So that My joy may be in you

And that your joy may be complete

My command is this:

Love each other

As I have loved you

Greater love has no one than this:

To lay down one’s life

For one’s friends

You are My friends

If you do what I command

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

You did not choose Me

But I chose you

And appointed you

So that you might go and bear Fruit

Fruit that will last

So that whatever you ask in My Name

The Father will give you

This is My command:

Love each other

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