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Abide in Love: Living as Branches of the True Vine

Discover the deep significance of abiding in Christ through John 15:1-26. Learn about the connection, dependence, and continuance involved in being branches of Jesus, the true vine. Explore the profound love and friendship found in abiding in Him.

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Abide in Love: Living as Branches of the True Vine

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  1. Abiding John 15: 1-26

  2. Abide • verb • To stay, remain, to be true, to persevere, to remain beside or near. • To abide is to live from and stay in the very source of life and love – Christ.

  3. The vine is Jesus

  4. We(disciples/ believers) are the branches

  5. The Father is the vinedresser

  6. What does it mean to abide? • Connection • Dependence • Continuance

  7. In verses 1-3, this is our position John 15: 1-3 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear he prunes that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.”

  8. John 15:4 “Abide in me and I in you.” This is a command.

  9. John 15 • v. 12 – We love because he first loved us • v. 13 – Greater love has no one than this… • v. 15 – Not servants, but friends • v. 16 – He chose and appointed us to go and bear fruit, that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give it to you.

  10. John 15 • v. 17 – I command you, so that you will love one another. • v. 26 – But when the helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.

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