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jn 15 1-4
Jesus is the SOURCE of ENDURING and FRUITFUL LIFE.
Jesus is the SOURCE of ENDURING and FRUITFUL LIFE.
In the OT, Israel was God’s chosen Vine.
They were to be His source of life and to spread His influence throughout the Nations through their obeying of Him and representing Him.
But rather than bearing healthy, God-glorifying fruit, they bore sore, useless fruit that God was forced to destroy.
So in that light, Jesus is the TRUE VINE, what God intended for Israel was accomplished in Jesus.
The Analogy of Grape Vine, Branches, and Gardeners.
You may not be familiar we a vine and branches.
The vine/trunk of the plant is connected to the root system and provides the strength, stability and nourishment for the plant.
Coming off the vine are shoots/branches on which the fruit is produced.
A branch cannot produce fruit if it is not connected to the vine.
This is Jesus’s point.
Jesus is the life source of us as branches.
We do not exists without Him
We do not continue to live with out Him
We do not bear fruit without Him.
Jesus is integral to enduring and fruitful life.
Any other source of life (any other vine) will produce a fruit that is useless.
Our only hope is to stay connected to the VINE, Jesus.
God DIVIDES and God PRUNES
Not only does Jesus introduce himself as the vine, He introduces the Father as the vinedresser, or gardener.
He is the caretaker of the garden and His role is essential to our understanding of what Jesus is saying about Himself in this passage.
CONTEXT:
Jesus and the disciples have just left the upper room
Judas has left to meet with the Jewish leaders.
Jesus is soon to be arrested and be brought to the cross.
He is sharing some of His last words with them
He wants them to know the distinctness of genuine faith (we will get here in a second) ↓↓
AND He wants them to understand the reality and purpose of struggle.
The Gardener:
There are 2 types of branches connected to the Vine.
DIVIDES
IMPORTANT POINT- connected to the vine doesn’t mean they are Christians necessarily.
Don’t let the analogy go too far.
IMPORTANT POINT- connected to the vine doesn’t mean they are Christians necessarily.
Don’t let the analogy go too far.
The
The fruitless branch in this analogy is a person who professes to know Jesus, but the fruit in their life does not evidence genuine faith.
Considering the context, the disciples are about to see one of their own, who has followed Jesus closely along with them, turn Jesus over to the authorities.
This is the fruition of (depart from me…)
Jesus is giving the disciples a framework for what they are about to see.
PRUNES- A Word about trials, suffering, pain and discipline
Jesus was speaking to the disciples hours before He would be arrested, beaten, sentenced to death, hung on a cross, and killed.
The years to follow would be full of persecution, suffering, and struggle.
We often, mistakenly, think becoming a Christian makes the road ahead smooth, but that was never the promise.
Those who bear fruit will be pruned.
The suffering and trials we face are opportunities for God to train us, teach us, mold us, and shape us.
They challenge are faith, stretch our trusting, and shake our idols.
Suffering and trials are used by God to lead us more and more fruitfulness as we are forced to abide in the vine through all life throws our way.
ABIDING with Jesus is proof of GENUINE FAITH.
The true test of genuine faith in Christ is whether or not you abide with Jesus
He is the caretaker of the garden and His role is essential to our understanding of what Jesus is saying about Himself in this passage.
Abide means to remain, stay, continue with, make your home with...
This is a tough passage
Branches that do not bear fruit
There are 2 types of branches connected to the Vine.
IMPORTANT POINT- connected to the vine doesn’t mean they are Christians necessarily.
Don’t let the analogy go too far.
Abiding with Jesus means to remain in Jesus, to stay/continue with Jesus.
Branches that do bear fruit
There is some debate about these, especially the first.
THIS IS A BIG DEAL
the words “in me”
I preached a whole series on this back in the winter.
Genuine faith in Christ will make a difference in your life.
If you are here today and
I have heard it said too many times to count “I got saved at ____ age, but _____.”
Jesus is saying there is a difference between Judas and the other disciples.
From the outside Judas didn’t look too different from the other disciples, but in the end the truth of his heart was laid bare.
Jesus is saying there is a difference between someone who is genuinely connected to the VINE and someone who is not.
This is a warning to the moms, dads, and grandmas out there who’s kids might have gotten saved at 9, 10 or whatever, but the faith they profess and the faith they live seem to be at odds.
Jesus gives us some things to look for in genuine, abiding faith.
Abiding in Jesus leads to:
1) FRUITFULNESS (vv.
2,4-5,8)
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Abiding with Jesus will show in fruitfulness.
Abiding with Jesus will show in fruitfulness.
you may be asking “what does he mean by fruit?”
He isn’t talking strictly about outward moral conformity (going to church, being a good person, avoiding the really bad stuff…)
He is concerned with our inner fruit, our spiritual fruit
This fruit is nothing less than the outcome of persevering dependence on the vine, driven by faith, embracing all of the believer’s life and the product of his witness.
Paul speaks more to this kind of fruit in
gal 5 22
The word Paul uses here is not FRUITS it is singular.
Believers in Jesus, genuine believers, will be growing in these qualities in their life.
You can pick and choose.
You might be a pretty patient person by nature, but if you live in a perpetual state of negativity and joylessness, then is the Spirit living in you?
The fruit in our life will point to our connection to the VINE.
2) INTIMACY (vv.
6-7, 16)
Abiding with Jesus will lead to a growing and enduring intimacy with Jesus.
Vs 6 points to separation — “thrown away”, brokenness — “withered”, and to judgement — “burned”
When you break a limb off of a tree it doesn’t take long to see how that separation leads to destruction.
“withers” “thrown away” “burned”
as opposed to
Vs points to understanding “words abide in you”, and intimate faith “ask what you wish”
Those who abide with Christ will share an intimacy with Christ where His Words will be sweet to their ears
They will share a relationship of trust and faith where prayer becomes an outworking of their trust in His ability to answer and His desire to listen.
Abiding with Jesus is not something we can do, but something that is done in us.
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