The Vine & The Branch
John • Week 12
Jesus shares a powerful word with His disciples before he begins the final hours approaching the cross. He invites and commands them to abide in Him and remain attached to the true vine. Adam Barnett continues our study of John by looking at the single goal of being Christ's disciple.
MESSAGE NOTES
The Vine & The Branch
John | Week 12
August 2, 2020 | Adam Barnett
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John 15:1-8 NIV
I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
John 15:1 NIV
I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.
John 15:2,6 NIV
He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. 6 If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.
John 6:66 NIV
From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.
John 15:3 NIV
You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
John 15:4-5 NIV
Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
John 15:7 NIV
If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
John 15:8 NIV
This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
The first step of Christianity is to become Christ’s disciple; and its summit, to be Christ’s disciple.