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From John 15: 1-9
📖 John 15:1 ESV I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.
Jesus made several “I am” statements. Just a few are:
📖 John 4:26 ESV … ” I who speak to you am he.”
📖 Mark 14:62 ESV … “I am, and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.”
📖 John 6:35 ESV Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.”
📖 John 8:12 ESV …“I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
📖 John 8:58 ESV …”Truly, Truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am!”
📖 John 11:25 ESV … “I am the resurrection and the life.” …
Identity:
1. Christ is the , are the .
📖 John 15: 2 ESV Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
📖 Romans 5: 3-5 ESV Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
📖 John 15:3-4 ESV Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
Responsibility:
2. There is an of for us.
📖 John 15:5 ESV 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.
📖 Philippians 2:3 ESV Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Reality:
3. We do without !
📖 John 15:6 ESV If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and dries up, and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
📖 John 14:6 ESV Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
Commitment:
4. We are an of !
📖 John 15:7-8 ESV If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you. 8 My Father is glorified by this: that you bear much fruit, and prove to be my disciples.
📖 John 15:9 ESV Just as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love
📖 Philippians 1:20 ESV as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.
📖 John 14:26 ESV But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
Sermon in a sentence:
I am with Christ and know my , understand my , and know the and of needing Christ in my LIFE.
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