To live a life that bears much fruit is to live according to God’s intent for our lives. In this passage, Jesus explains to us what the fruitful life of a Christian is. He shows us that a life that conforms to the Lord Jesus Christ is the product of the Father’s expert orchestration of all things and the Son’s provision of all that need for life and godliness. Jesus explains this to us with a beautiful picture of a vineyard wherein the Father is the vinedresser, the Son is the vine, and humans are the branches. In this part 1 of the study of the fruitful life, we examine what fruit-bearing is and how it is that God operates in this world to bring about maximal fruitfulness in His people: cutting off the fruitless branches and the pruning of the fruitful ones.