Category: John 15
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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…
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The burning heart
John 15:15 “No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.” Col 2:1-3 “For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for…
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The commandment of the One Who could have commanded anything
John 15:12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one that this, ‘that someone lay down his life for his friends. ‘You are my friends if you do what I command you.” Think of what Jesus could have commanded those that were under Hhis…
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The greatest love
John 15:9 – “As the Father has loved me so I have loved you. Abide in my love.” Have you ever thought about how much the Father must love Jesus? What a wonderful Son he is. Perfectly obedient. Always spending time with the Father – always about the Father’s business. Often in prayer, pouring out…
To Encourage You 