John 15:1-5
CHRIST THE TRUE VINE. The Husbandman, the Vine, and the branches:... [ Continue Reading ]
CHRIST THE TRUE VINE. The Husbandman, the Vine, and the branches:... [ Continue Reading ]
I AM THE TRUE VINE, AND MY FATHER IS THE HUSBANDMAN.... [ Continue Reading ]
EVERY BRANCH IN ME THAT BEARETH NOT FRUIT HE TAKETH AWAY; AND EVERY BRANCH THAT BEARETH FRUIT, HE PURGETH IT, THAT IT MAY BRING FORTH MORE FRUIT.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW YE ARE CLEAN THROUGH THE WORD WHICH I HAVE SPOKEN UNTO YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
ABIDE IN ME AND I IN YOU. AS THE BRANCH CANNOT BEAR FRUIT OF ITSELF EXCEPT IT ABIDE IN THE VINE, NO MORE CAN YE EXCEPT YE ABIDE IN ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
I AM THE VINE, YE ARE THE BRANCHES; HE THAT ABIDETH IN ME AND I IN HIM, THE SAME BRINGETH FORTH MUCH FRUIT; FOR WITHOUT ME YE CAN DO NOTHING. Whether the Lord spoke these words in the courtyard of the house in which He had celebrated the Passover with His disciples, or on the way through the valley... [ Continue Reading ]
IF A MAN ABIDE NOT IN ME, HE IS CAST FORTH AS A BRANCH AND IS WITHERED; AND MEN GATHER THEM AND CAST THEM INTO THE FIRE, AND THEY ARE BURNED.... [ Continue Reading ]
The earnest application:... [ Continue Reading ]
IF YE ABIDE IN ME AND MY WORDS ABIDE IN YOU, YE SHALL ASK WHAT YE WILL, AND IT SHALL BE DONE UNTO YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
HEREIN IS MY FATHER GLORIFIED, THAT YE BEAR MUCH FRUIT; SO SHALL YE BE MY DISCIPLES.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS THE FATHER HATH LOVED ME, SO HAVE I LOVED YOU; CONTINUE YE IN MY LOVE.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF YE KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS, YE SHALL ABIDE IN MY LOVE; EVEN AS I HAVE KEPT MY FATHER'S COMMANDMENTS, AND ABIDE IN HIS LOVE. Ten times in these ten verses is the necessity of abiding in Christ emphasized, the need of keeping a firm hold on the Savior by love. So much depends upon that fact that every... [ Continue Reading ]
THESE THINGS HAVE I SPOKEN UNTO YOU THAT MY JOY MIGHT REMAIN IN YOU, AND THAT YOUR JOY MIGHT BE FULL.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE NEW STATUS OF CHRIST'S DISCIPLES. The joy of the Christians:... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS IS MY COMMANDMENT, THAT YE LOVE ONE ANOTHER, AS I HAVE LOVED YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS.... [ Continue Reading ]
YE ARE MY FRIENDS IF YE DO WHATSOEVER I COMMAND YOU. The parable of the Vine and the branches with its application had a definite object, namely, that the joy which Christ has enjoyed, which is His in a peculiar sense, may be in His disciples, may become their property, their special and cherished p... [ Continue Reading ]
HENCEFORTH I CALL YOU NOT SERVANTS; FOR THE SERVANT KNOWETH NOT WHAT HIS LORD DOETH; BUT I HAVE CALLED YOU FRIENDS; FOR ALL THINGS THAT I HAVE HEARD OF MY FATHER I HAVE MADE KNOWN UNTO YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
The meaning of Christ's friendship:... [ Continue Reading ]
YE HAVE NOT CHOSEN ME, BUT I HAVE CHOSEN YOU, AND ORDAINED YOU, THAT YE SHOULD GO AND BRING FORTH FRUIT, AND THAT YOUR FRUIT SHOULD REMAIN, THAT WHATSOEVER YE SHALL ASK OF THE FATHER IN MY NAME, HE MAY GIVE IT YOU. This new character of the disciples the Lord explains more fully. He makes the distin... [ Continue Reading ]
THESE THINGS I COMMAND YOU THAT YE LOVE ONE ANOTHER.... [ Continue Reading ]
The result of the Christians' calling:... [ Continue Reading ]
IF THE WORLD HATE YOU, YE KNOW THAT IT HATED ME BEFORE IT HATED YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.... [ Continue Reading ]
REMEMBER THE WORD THAT I SAID UNTO YOU, THE SERVANT IS NOT GREATER THAN HIS LORD. IF THEY HAVE PERSECUTED ME, THEY WILL ALSO PERSECUTE YOU; IF THEY HAVE KEPT MY SAYING, THEY WILL KEEP YOURS ALSO.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT ALL THESE THINGS WILL THEY DO UNTO YOU FOR MY NAME'S SAKE, BECAUSE THEY KNOW NOT HIM THAT SENT ME. The Lord again summarizes all the demands of Christian life in the one command, namely, that the Christians love one another. This is not a command in the sense of the Mosaic injunctions, but a tru... [ Continue Reading ]
IF I HAD NOT COME AND SPOKEN UNTO THEM, THEY HAD NOT HAD SIN; BUT NOW THEY HAVE NO CLOAK FOR THEIR SIN.... [ Continue Reading ]
The hatred of the world and the testimony of the Spirit:... [ Continue Reading ]
HE THAT HATETH ME HATETH MY FATHER ALSO.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF I HAD NOT DONE AMONG THEM THE WORKS WHICH NONE OTHER MAN DID, THEY HAD NOT HAD SIN; BUT NOW HAVE THEY BOTH SEEN AND HATED BOTH ME AND MY FATHER.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THIS COMETH TO PASS THAT THE WORD MIGHT BE FULFILLED THAT IS WRITTEN IN THEIR LAW, THEY HATED ME WITHOUT A CAUSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHEN THE COMFORTER IS COME, WHOM I WILL SEND UNTO YOU FROM THE FATHER, EVEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, WHICH PROCEEDETH FROM THE FATHER, HE SHALL TESTIFY OF ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND YE ALSO SHALL BEAR WITNESS, BECAUSE YE HAVE BEEN WITH ME FROM THE BEGINNING. The position of the unbelieving Jews at the time of Jesus was much like that of Paul, Romans 7:7. If Jesus had not come and revealed Himself to the world as the Messiah, if He had not taught and preached as He did, then... [ Continue Reading ]