He throws you away!

For many saints, John 15 verse 6 seems to clinch the argument that God can pluck you out and throw you away. Now, all serious students of the Scriptures will find out soon enough that we can use a parable or a metaphor of Jesus and give it all kinds of fanciful meanings. We should understand that Jesus uses them to drive home a point and we cannot afford to find ten different points from them. In this portion where Jesus is teaching on fruit bearing, it is very interesting to note that the branch was cut away not because it dried up but because it did not bear fruit. Jesus says that it was thrown away and therefore soon dries up. Now we all know that if the tree is healthy every branch will be healthy and the tree in no way can find fault with the branch because the life flows from the tree!  If Jesus was trying to bring a teaching on God destroying you or sending you to hell, He would have said that you were cut away as a branch after you dried up and not the other way round. God is surely not so wicked as to cut you off when you still have some life left. We just cannot stretch that metaphor to include a teaching on our final destiny too.

So the lesson that Jesus is teaching here is not on the security of your salvation but on fruit bearing.The branch should see to itself that it is bearing fruit or else it has lost its purpose. The emphasis is that just some kind of life is not enough but the whole purpose of our life is to bear fruit. If we are bearing some fruit, He will work on us to bear more. If we bear nothing and live solely for ourselves, it prevents Him from working more in our lives and that is the warning we have to heed to.