April 5, 2026 I Am Message

Part 8 | The True Vine

From John 15

The Bible is bookended with one theme:
God wants to with .

📖  Genesis 3:8 ESV And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day…

📖 Revelation 21:3 ESV Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be His people…

Am I with ?

📖 John 15:1 ESV “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.”

It is quite possible to be very and spiritually .

A. fruit branches need .

📖 John 15:2 ESV Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away

📖  John 15:3 ESV Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.

B. No branches get .

📖 John 15:6 ESV If anyone does not abide in me, he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.

📖 Matthew 13:20–21 ESV As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy, 21 yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away.

📖 Matthew 13:22 ESV As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.

C. branches get .

📖 John 15:2 ESV and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

📖 Hebrews 12:6–8 ESV For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.” 7 It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

📖 Hebrews 12:11 ESV For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

📖 John 15:4 ESV 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.

📖 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.

1. When I abide in Christ, my is .

📖 John 15:7 ESV If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

📖 Psalm 37:4 ESV Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

2. When I abide in Christ, my is .

📖 John 15:8 ESV By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

📖 Isaiah 43:7 NLT Bring all who claim me as their God, for I have made them for my glory. It was I who created them.

3. When I abide in Christ, His and are .

📖 John 15:10–11 ESV If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. 11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.