Bearing fruit pt.4 A warning This topic of abiding in Christ has its example in the life of Jesus. John 15:10 Jesus says, “If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in His love.”KJV And He warns us in verse 6 what will happen if we don’t abide (keep His commandments) in the vine. We will be cast off. Into the burn pile. Discarded. That doesn’t sound…
Bearing Fruit – pt. 3 How? Jesus tells us in John 15:4 “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.” NKJV Abiding in Christ is simply going about our normal everyday lives aware of His presence and living to please Him. In verse 9-10 Jesus encourages His disciples to abide in His love. “If you keep my commandments, you…
Let’s go to the beginning John 15. John 15:1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.” So we see right away as branches we get all our sustenance from Jesus the vine. All our nourishment from Him. All our abilities come from His life in us. Now we move on to verse 2. “Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may…
Image by FotoRieth from Pixabay A few weeks ago I wrote a little about abiding in Christ and said I would write to you more about it. I’ve read more in two books that explains it well which I will list at the end. Jesus loves us and wants us to abide in His love. In that place, He is surrounding us and empowering us. Abiding in Him, living in the atmosphere of His love. Living in Him That is…
I was reading in John 15 this week and something kind of jumped out at me. Something I’ve seen many times before but hadn’t noticed. Exchanged life option I’ve written much about the Exchanged Life and how we can appropriate it in our personal life. The freedom it brings when we realize we don’t have to be who we were raised to be. We can find freedom from thought patterns. We can find freedom from addictions. We can discover a…
