The Good Field

John 15:1-2 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.

God is the gardener and we are His field.

1 Corinthians 3:9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building.

The seeds that He plant within us remains forever.

1 Peter 1:23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,

As a man with the word of God, thoroughly equipped with every good work, we are expected to change our behavior with the world.

John 15:19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

They begin to think we are different for not joining them as we did before.

1 Peter 4:3 For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles—when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.

Finally they will declare us their enemy, a stranger that they know not.

1 Peter 4:4 In regard to these, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you.

They don't understand that we are now the good field with a good seed keeping distance from the weeds sowed by the devil.