John:15:16 says that our Lord’s desire is that we should produce fruit that remains. So often we forget that fruitfulness is one of first principles that the Bible teaches. In the first chapter of Genesis we read that God created every plant and tree and every animal of every species to reproduce and multiply, and in verse 28 man himself was told to be “fruitful and multiply.” It should come as no great surprise, then, that spiritual fruitfulness is one of the Lord’s highest purposes for which believers are on the earth.