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I AM the True Vine
turn with me to John chapter 15
How I get connected
Move
Move to abiding
I’m not sure where you are today in your journey in life but this one thing I know — if you’re not connected to Him you need to get connected today
Being connected means:--
I have new life— resurrected life-- eternal life
Romans 10:
I have peace with God
I have His abundant blessing
I have been made righteous in Christ
How I stay connected
Abiding in the Vine:
Abiding in Christ
abide — to wait, stay, or remain, continuing in a permanent state
abiding in Christ is such a central idea to the Christian life
Paul uses “abide” 10 times the first 10 verses of this chapter
as well as many places in the New Testament
to abide in Christ means to continue in a permanent state of relationship with Him
I want to abide in a constant of fellowship with Him, of relationship with Him, of connection with Him
abide
John 15:
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John 17:23
john 6.56
Jo
john 8.35
Not abiding
ohn 8.35
john 15:4
What happens when I am connected
connected
Joy
Joy
One of the primary things that comes from our connection with him this joy
Neh 6;6
Answered prayer
a second benefit of abiding in him is answered prayer
the third thing we gave from abiding in him is fruit
Fruit
john 15
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john 15:5
john 15:18
Are you connected?
Will you?
Introduction
Today we are going to share about the last "I Am" found in the gospel of John.
This I Am Jesus declared to his disciples in John Chapter 15.
I believe it is probably one of the most critical and powerful I Am spoken to us as believers.
I have sensed an urgency for us at this church to get ready and to be prepared for the days ahead.
Jesus continues to remind me about this as I talk with him week by week.
So in the midst of preparation for this message I began to understand why He stirred our hearts about "I am the Vine...you are the branches" last.
It needs to become central to our thinking.
I pray that as we share this word it would settle in your spirits and that He...Jesus would quicken it in your hearts this morning.
Truth sets us free and I believe that this truth this morning is very liberating.
Illustration:
A missionary in Africa several decades ago lived in a small hut which was electrically supplied by a quiet, small generator.
The little gas powered wonder supplied current for both his home and the primitive church building beside it.
Late one afternoon two African men from another much more remote village visited the Pastor in his hut, and were amazed when night fell, and he simply switched the room lights on.
They were wide-eyed at the electric light bulb hanging from the ceiling of his living space.
One of the visitors asked the Pastor if he could have one of the bulbs.
Thinking perhaps he wanted it for a sort of trinket, the Pastor obliged and gave it to him.
Months passed.
On his next visit to the remote village of that same man, the Pastor stopped at the hut of the man who had previously asked for the bulb.
Imagine his surprise when he saw the bulb hanging from an ordinary string.
The man understood the general idea of connection, but he didn’t understand empowering.
Lots of believers today are like that.
Let me read in John chapter 15 starting in verse one to you.
“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.
2 “Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
3 “You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 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. 5 “I am the vine, you are the branches.
He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
6 “If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.
8 “By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.
9 “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. 10 “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.
11 “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.
This teaching from Jesus speaks of planting and growing and reaping.
When you consider a farmer and all the long hours he spends year round with one purpose....harvest...a good harvest...a rewarding harvest......
1. Jesus is the only true vine.
In verse 1, Jesus says,
"I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser."
This metaphor may seem strange us.
For a long time, I thought Jesus was just using a vine as an illustration.
I imagined Jesus walking through a vineyard,
and thinking to himself,
"I can probably use a vine to illustrate what I want to teach my disciples."
To be sure, the vine is an illustration.
But he is not just using the vine to illustrate his teaching.
He is doing more than that.
Jesus has carefully chosen the vine image to say something controversial and outrageous.
Did you notice the scandal of verse 1? Jesus did not say, "I am like a vine."
He is not just comparing himself to a vine.
He is the vine.
And He doesn't say, "I am a vine," as though there were many vines, and He is just one of them.
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