Section 3
know the Father's desire that He be expressed in a corporate Body.
THE BRANCHES BEING CHOSEN AND APPOINTED
TO BEAR REMAINING FRUIT
The branches have been chosen and appointed to bear remaining fruit. In verse 16 the Lord said, "You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and I appointed you that you should go forth and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He may give you." The King James Version uses the word ordained instead of appointed. I like the term ordained. We all have been ordained. To be ordained means to be appointed. Ordained is an old-fashioned word for the modern word appointed. All of the sisters, including the younger sisters, must realize that they have been ordained. Do you know that we all have been or dained? We have been ordained to bear fruit. Do not say that you are too young for this. Regard less of how young you may be, you have been chosen and ordained to bear remaining fruit.
In John 15 there are four ways of referring to the fruit: bearing fruit (v. 2), much fruit (v. 8), more fruit (v. 2), and remaining fruit (v. 16). How