There’s a pattern here. It’s hidden in the fruit trees. Let me help you. There are 3 types of fruit mentioned in scripture. I’m not talking about kinds of fruit, but types of fruit.

Now, I’m hoping that by this time, you have recognized the presence of the number 3, which is the number of God. For those that have been following me for a while, you should have picked up the 3 symmetry immediately, because I’ve brought it up before. Here we have 3 types of fruit, and within the organization of this “fruit system,” we have 3 descriptions that tell us a lot about the concept of “fruit.”

At first, I thought it strange that this is “tree yielding fruit,” as opposed to “fruit yielding trees,” which is how we most likely would view this or say this in this day and age. But fruit cannot yield itself. It has to come from a tree. The tree has the action in bearing the fruit.

Jhn 15:4  Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

Why is this relevant? Remember that there are 3 types of fruit, yet all 3 of them have the same pattern of action. All 3 types have the same job, but they work that job in different arenas or environments.

Jhn 15:5  I am the vine, ye [are] the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

Christ calls himself a vine, because, as the vine imparts to its branches sap and productiveness, so Christ infuses into his followers his own divine strength and life. This is the basis for this pattern of 3 in the fruit.

If I were to attempt to sum up what the 3 types do, I’d have to say they are illustrative, demonstrative and actualized. Let me explain.

First, we are His offspring, the work of His hands. Second, we also follow the pattern of the fruit. In this way, we are “tree yielding fruit,” because we birth offspring.

Third, this “fruit system” is actualized in our actions which can have, and most of the time do have, a long term reproductive effect on “life” in general. Every thought we have has potential action that could be dangerous or prosperous for us. This actualization is activated by our given ability of choice.

That choice is the “fruit” of our spirits, which is why abiding in the vine, “Christ,” is so important, because then our choices will be better directed by His Spirit instead of ours.

Psa 1:1  Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
Psa 1:2  But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Psa 1:3  And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

Now, let me bring you back again to the commonality between these 3 types as shown in the actual verse. These were “tree yielding fruit” first, “whose seed was in itself,” second, “after his kind” third.

Let’s go back for just a minute, to that idea of actualization (fruit). The second part of this 3 part description, is “whose seed was in itself.” In other words, this fruit, whether good or bad, destructive or productive, has the potential to spread because it has it’s seed within itself. “It’s seed,” is the important issue here, because this fruit is not carrying the seeds of “ideals,” but that of intentions. Very important.

Just like in a court of law, people get convicted for their actions when their intentions are proven by those actions. Our intentions birth our thoughts, because remember, the battleground is our minds.

If the Spirit is not in control of a certain area of our hearts, then the intent of our heart in that area can birth thoughts that are not beneficial. Subsequent action based on those thoughts not only have seed to birth more non-beneficial actions in our surroundings, but also prove what our thoughts were.

Here we see the “fruit system” in action with repercussive (my word) seed, meaning there are repercussions of whatever the intent was in that reproducing seed. That seed is reproducing “after his kind,” which is the third description of this “fruit yielding system.”

In other words, whatever the intentions behind that fruit were initially, once that tree bears that fruit and its ripe, it’s too late to stop the seeds. They have already been produced in the fruit after the fruit’s kind, or after the intentions behind that fruit.

The only way that seed does not then reproduce, is if the fruit is cut from the tree, and the seed never make it to fertile ground, but once the fruit is cut away, who knows where it will go.

It will certainly move or be moved away from the tree and outside its sphere of influence. Once that happens, it’s “out of our hands, and is basically like a snowball on a mountaintop cliff heading down. You just never know who will gain access to that fruit and the potential action of the seed it bears inside it.

Again, this is the pattern hidden within the design of God’s fruit system, illustrated in Genesis 1, actualized in our actions, and finally, demonstrated in man. To see the entire picture clearly, we need some details that were written into the second chapter of Genesis…