Live 4 The LORD

Lessons from John 15

Jesus is a vine

The Father is the gardener

Christians are branches on the vine of Jesus

If there is a branch with no fruit the Father cuts it off

Every branch with fruit gets pruned for more fruit

The Word of God cleans 

Remain in Jesus

I must Let Jesus remain in me

If I don’t remain in Jesus I cannot bear fruit

If I don’t bear fruit I will be cut off then burned

If I remain in Him I will bear fruit 

If I remain in Jesus I can ask whatever I wish (for fruit?) and it will be done to glorify the Father

Fruit glorifies the Father and proves discipleship of Jesus

The Father loves Jesus

Jesus loves me like the Father loves Jesus but I must choose to remain in Jesus 

If I continually obey the commandments of Jesus I will remain in His love 

Jesus kept the commandments of the Father and therefore remains in His love 

Jesus has told me this truth so I can have Jesus’ Joy that will make me full of Joy. 

John 15:1-11

“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself but must remain in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches; the one who remains in Me, and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not remain in Me, he is thrown away like a branch and dries up; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. If you remain in Me, and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples. Just as the Father has loved Me, I also have loved you; remain in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love. These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.

Jesus commandment is to love others just as Jesus has loved me. (Told me the truth about how to truly live-remain in Christ)

Greater love is to be willing to lay down your life for the truth that will save your friend 

You are Jesus’ friend if you obey the commandment to love other (telling them truth)

You are a friend because he has let you in on the things of the Father that saves. 

Jesus chose me

Jesus appointed me to bear fruit and that it would remain

Whatever I ask the Father in Jesus’ name he will give me what I need 

John 15:12-17

Disciples’ Relation to Each Other

“This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that a person will lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. This I command you, that you love one another.

The world hates Jesus

The world will hate me too 

Because I was chosen out of the world it will hate me

Since they persecuted Christ they will persecute me

If they follow Jesus they will follow me

Because Jesus came and explained sin, and did the miracles of God as proof of His message, there is no excuses for sin

If someone hates Jesus they also hate the Father

The Holy Spirit Jesus sends to me from the Father

The Holy Spirit is Truth 

The Spirit comes from the Father and testifies about Jesus

I also will testify about Jesus because I am with Him

John 15:18-27

Disciples’ Relation to the World

“If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they followed My word, they will follow yours also. But all these things they will do to you on account of My name, because they do not know the One who sent Me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. The one who hates Me hates My Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well. But this has happened so that the word that is written in their Law will be fulfilled: ‘THEY HATED ME FOR NO REASON.’

“When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, namely, the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, He will testify about Me, and you are testifying as well, because you have been with Me from the beginning.