John 15:1 – 8                

In the Old Testament the Lord spoke through three prophets – Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel referring to Israel as the wild vine. After all the effort that the Lord had taken to make Israel yield good fruit, it still yielded only wild grapes (Isaiah 5:1 - 7).

Apostle Paul in Ephesians 5 and 6, talks about the way a Christian should conduct himself with the seen world - slaves to their masters, husbands to their wives and children to their parents (Ephesians 5:21 – 6:9). Towards the end of the letter, Paul addresses the Christians’ defense against the unseen world – the principalities and powers, the world’s ruler of darkness and the spiritual host of wickedness in the heavenly places. He instructs all flesh and blood to put on the whole armour of God to be able to stand against the wiles of the unseen enemy (Ephesians 6:11).