Isaiah 11:1-5 English Standard Version (ESV)

¹ There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse,
    and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.
² And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him,
    the Spirit of wisdom and understanding,
    the Spirit of counsel and might,
    the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
³ And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.
He shall not judge by what his eyes see,
    or decide disputes by what his ears hear,
⁴ but with righteousness he shall judge the poor,
    and decide with equity for the meek of the earth;
and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth,
    and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.
⁵ Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist,
    and faithfulness the belt of his loins.

The branch cannot produce anything but what the root supplies. If we are the branches of the True Vine this is what is expected to be produced. These attributes listed above are available to us thru Christ our Lord. Christ is our access. Truth is the soil that this root is planted in and love is the nourishment that brings life to the branches.

How many different ways must God depict this life in Christ in order for us to understand this relationship between God who provides for every need, Christ who demonstrated it and the Holy Spirit who manages it in us?

If we trust and obey, God’s will is manifested in us and He will be glorified. We worry too much about results. We see ourselves thru earthly eyes rather than how God sees us. We strive to win a victory that has already been won for us.

2 Corinthians 3:3 English Standard Version (ESV) And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

Revelation 14:18-19 English Standard Version (ESV) And another angel came out from the altar, the angel who has authority over the fire, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, “Put in your sickle and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth, for its grapes are ripe.” So the angel swung his sickle across the earth and gathered the grape harvest of the earth and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.

Which vine or vines are we seeing here? Given what I declared yesterday to be the essential truth that not all vines are rooted in truth, nor in agape love, then what fruit is being produced that is the grapes of wrath? Where are their roots? There has to be a common thread that identifies these vine types in the world.

Isaiah 40:20 English Standard Version (ESV) He who is too impoverished for an offering chooses wood^[a] that will not rot; he seeks out a skillful craftsman to set up an idol that will not move. Footnotes: a. Isaiah 40:20 Or He chooses valuable wood

Those who find value in earthly things are of a multitude of beliefs.  The impoverished soul in them has no respect or fear of God. They do not know Him because their roots are not in Him. I will not name those organizations because it is for each of us to search our souls to determine the roots of our vine.