Category: John 15
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The Abiding Life
John 15:5 “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.” In the verse above Jesus tells us that without Him we can do nothing. Do you believe Him? Maybe you’re a person who doesn’t…
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Legacies
John 15:16 “I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide” Do you want your life to count for something? Do you want to leave a legacy? Most people do, I think. For example, have you ever noticed how it seems every president writes his memoirs…
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The Joy Filled
John 15:11 “These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.” One of the greatest blessings that come to those who are students of the Word of God is joy. In John 15 Jesus tells us that the reason that He has said the things…
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Karen
John 15:16 (NIV) “I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last” Saturday morning, tragedy rocked my daughter’s world. We were visiting her and suddenly her coworker came to her house to tell her that their supervisor, Karen, one whom they loved very much, had suddenly died. …
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Why?
John 15:25 “They hated me without a cause.” Do you realize that your reaction to Christ and his words has a lot more to say about you than it says with Him? In other words, there is absolutely no reason in heaven or earth for Christ to be hated by anyone. He is without sin,…
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The two sides of the “good news”
John 15:22-25 “If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. Whoever hates me hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they…
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Knowing God
John 15:21 “But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.” Perspective, how we see things, means everything. This includes, first and foremost, how we see God. Before we actually know God, we can think we know a great deal about Him, but our…
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Do you love? What’s your definition?
John 15:19 “If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own.” How does the world, i.e., the world that is opposed to Christ and all He represents, love? We are told in the verse above that the world does show love, i.e., “brotherly love” or phileo, as rendered in the…
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The silent treatment
John 15:18 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.” According to the words of Jesus in the verse above, the world will likely hate us if we are one of His followers. By the “world” Jesus is referring to the ordered systems of this world, and…
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The greatest friend
John 15:15-16 “I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide.” As Christians, it is good to remind ourselves often of the things Jesus…
To Encourage You 