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dear heavenly father we come before you this morning just so incredibly grateful we can because that are connected to you said with an ongoing flow of nutrients that come from you.

Or let us always recognize our utter dependence on you Lord as we come into this time of studying your word.

we just ask as your word says not by might but by your spirit Holy Spirit, we pray that you will.

Fill me to preach your word effectively and accurately that you'll fill us that we might hear it properly.

Be drawn more deeply.

To you than ever before we might drink more deeply of your blessed supply of spiritual nourishment for our souls than we've ever done before we pray these things in Jesus name.

Amen.

So as we continue our study through the Book of John and pick this back up, we're going to be in John chapter 15 verses 1 through 8, and I've titled this the True Vine.

We are very blessed to live in a place where there is.

Often an abundance of food.

Just think of how much food we even throw away.

Hunger is a major issue amongst many in our community.

But what if there was some massive shortage of food and no longer could we go to the store to buy food?

And we were very limited on what we could make or grow in the ground.

That's our physical Life Source with no food.

There's no nutrition and we die.

How would that change your lifestyle?

Would you still speak luxurious once when your needs were lacking or when your neighbor looks like a skeleton from starvation everything would change you would live where you could get food more readily I once once you learn how to make it yourself and yet see other people literally starving to death all around you you would set out.

If you're a decent citizen you would set out and tripped a train and influence other people to learn what you know about getting the necessary nutrition for life.

You commit yourself to the groups in the entities that get you fed and trained you to make food and provide resources to train your neighbors.

We look at this and think it sounds perilous.

But the reality is that we live in the same situation right now, spiritually not a perfect illustration.

Of course, you can grow as close to God as you want to grow.

But we're entirely unable to provide life for ourselves.

It's been provided for us by Christ.

most people don't know

has finding life and spiritual nourishment in him change the way that you live.

Does it affect your decision-making does is affect where you choose to live?

How about how you spend and invest your money?

Is one who starving to death spiritually who was starving to death spiritually.

Do you commit yourself to teaching your neighbor your family and others where to find food for their soul since you found it the gospel?

If this doesn't describe you it's because you're not recognizing the Peril that you were in or maybe are in and you starve yourself with the nourishment of Christ sitting right in front of you.

So you allow yourself if this is you to wither away and die rather than grow spiritual fruit that brings life and vitality to yourself to your family to your community and Beyond and so here in John chapter 15 verses 1 through 8. Jesus describes himself as the vine that indwells and Carries nourishment to all of the branches that are inwardly connected to him.

As soon as we walked in this text.

The main point is this every person that is saved by Christ recognizes our total Reliance on him and will bear some sort of lasting spiritual fruits.

Let me read with you John 15 verses 1 through 8. Remember even the thief on the cross bore some fruit and a story still told today.

Let me read with you John 15 verses 1 through 8.

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 does bear fruit.

He prunes that it may bear more fruit already.

You are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you abide in me and I in you as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine.

Neither.

Can you unless you abide in me?

I am the vine you are the branches whoever abides in me and I in him he it is that bears much fruit for apart from me.

You can do nothing if anyone does not abide in me.

He's thrown away like a branch and Withers and the branches are gathered thrown into the fire and burns.

If you abide in me and my words abide in you ask whatever you wish and it'll be done for you by this.

My father is glorified that you bear much fruit.

And so prove to be my disciples.

So as we walk through this text Point number one comes out of verses 1 through to every Christian will bear spiritual fruit.

Every Christian will bear spiritual fruit.

Look at first one.

I am the True Vine the True Vine that's key and my father is the vinedresser.

It was very common in ancient agrarian societies to use a Vine or Vineyard as an illustration.

And so Jesus lived in this world.

It makes sense that he did this in a variety of ways and we see him doing it several times as we read of his Parables of The Vineyards and here we read this metaphor.

But Jesus goes beyond merely explaining this to relate to a local context more importantly what he's doing is he's relating this metaphor into a Biblical context many picks up on the Old Testament abundant illustrations of Israel as a fruitless Vine and describes himself as the True Vine.

One such instance is what we read.

When we open the Service here is another one Psalm 80 and I'll give you a few of the highlights verses 7 through 8 of Psalm 80 restore us or God of hosts.

Let your face shine that we may be saved you brought a vine out of Egypt you drove out the nation's and planted it.

It continues verses 14 through 17 Psalm 80 turn again.

Oh god of hosts look down from heaven and see have regard for this Vine the stock that your right hand planted.

And for the son whom you made strong for yourself.

They've burned it with fire.

They've cut it down.

May they perish at the rebuke of your face, but let your hand be on the man of your right hand the son of man whom you've made strong for yourself is real came out of Egypt like a Vine that was to bear fruit to know.

The Nations that the world might know God.

But Israel, utterly failed to produce fruit and the Old Testament repeatedly uses the vine illustration to highlight Israel's failure to produce fruit and judgement coming as a result.

But Christ States here that he is the true vine the True Vine that also came for the Exile in Egypt at the oppression of King Herod.

He is the true is real.

That would bear the life-saving fruit for the Nations.

Here we see the end of a beautiful chain of I am statements that work through this book drawing off of Moses at the burning bush in Exodus.

3:14 where God said to Moses.

It says I am who I am and he said say this to the people of Israel I am has sent you.

Spencer Jesus repeatedly shows I am the same God that was at the burning bush and John highlights these in a chain of statements.

I am the bread of life.

I am the light of the world fear not I am I am the door.

I am the Good Shepherd before Abraham was I am I am the resurrection and the life you call me teacher and Lord and you were right for so I am I am the way the truth and the life no buddy comes to the father except through me as we saw a few weeks ago and why Because the final I am I am the True Vine the true Israel.

It is real itself was not the True Vine because it did not abide in the Lord and produce fruit.

The True Vine is Christ who his real was pointing to Jesus Promised the Holy Spirit leading up to this text.

He speaks of himself as the True Vine and the father is the vinedresser bring engrossed and multiplying fruit.

The Greek word here for vinedressers is ghee orcas.

What are the farmer?

Your got literally farmer here.

We see a picture of Jesus's subordination and obedience to the father.

Producing the fruits that the father has sent him to produce.

The promises of God, but God is given to Israel.

Is depicted as we saw on Psalm 80 as a son to God along to Christ the true Son of God.

punishment of Israel on the world fell on Christ when he boarded on the cross in perfect innocence the perfect sacrifice the perfect righteousness verse 2 every branch in me that does not bear fruit.

He takes away and every branch that does not bear fruit.

He prunes that it may bear more fruit and John 14:20 Jesus already spoke of his indwelling with the believer saying you're in me and I am in you and now the same truth is Illustrated with this Vine imagery Christ's followers in dwell together with and become a true part of the True Vine.

Christ is the vine and Christians are the fruit bearing branches.

And if a branch doesn't bear fruit, what's the problem?

It's a branch that's not alive with the vine.

It was created by the vine and it might kind of look like part of the Vine.

But it didn't receive the nutrients in life from the vine like the living branches inwardly.

It's empty.

It's cut off.

How do you know the difference the true branches are connected to the vine inwardly and receive the flow of nutrients so they bear fruit.