Enduring Word John 15 (2024)

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What is the main point of John 15? ›

On the final evening of His mortal ministry, after the Last Supper, the Savior taught His Apostles that He is the True Vine and that His disciples are the branches. He commanded His disciples to love one another and warned them of the persecution they would experience because of their association with Him.

Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit.” In other words, you abide in me and I will bear my fruit through you. And you don't have to worry about fruit bearing if you are abiding. The problem is when you're not abiding apart for me, you can do nothing.

John 15:14 (NIV)

Jesus tells us we are not to consider ourselves as the Lord's friend if our choices are to habitually refuse to follow His commands. That is, quite frankly, a pipe dream destined to simply go up in smoke. Furthermore, to be his friend carries with it abundant joy and peace.

John 15:1-2 (NIV)

In Christ are all supports and supplies needful to produce the fruitful spiritual life in the branch in which His sap flows. The bearing fruit in a believer is always shown in Scripture to be the result of a close and intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.

ABIDING IN JESUS IS A COMMITMENT

When we abide in Jesus, we are no longer living for ourselves, we are living to glorify God and serve others. When we abide in Jesus, His commands and teachings will shape all that we do! Jesus does not want us to be wishy-washy, or to call on Him only when we need something.

True disciples of Jesus bear spiritual fruit, as Jesus emphasizes in John 15:1–6. This fruit, of course, is not what saves us. Salvation precedes fruit—a branch must be attached to the vine to be fruitful, for a branch does not produce fruit on its own (vv. 3–4).

Christ's statement in John 15:13 demonstrates His boundless love for us. Jesus literally laid down His own life for His friends, those who obey Him (verse 14). He exhibited the most remarkable display of love when He died for our sins, showing what true, selfless love looks like.

He sovereignly chooses those whom He will and appoints those chosen to a life that will abide forever in the bosom of the Father. Those who have studied John with me to date know well the myriad times that the apostle has labored to show God's sovereignty in electing those whom He has chosen to life.

The True Vine (Greek: ἡ ἄμπελος ἡ ἀληθινή hē ampelos hē alēthinē) is an allegory or parable given by Jesus in the New Testament. Found in John 15:1–17, it describes Jesus' disciples as branches of himself, who is described as the "true vine", and God the Father the "husbandman".

John 15:3 (NIV)

We honor God in our living as our behavior becomes more and more conformed to the image of Christ. We are set apart to do God's will not Satan's. “Grace can make a few feeble instruments the means of accomplishing great things – things greater even than we can conceive.”

What lesson do we learn from John 15 1 8? ›

Jesus wants us to know that we are branches who cannot stand alone. Jesus himself is our gardener who continuously nourishes our spirit. If we remain faithful to Him, our life will prosper and bear much fruit. If we remain loyal to our belief, the hard work we did will result into more than we ever expected.

The purpose of Chapter 15, and the Model Law on which it is based, is to provide effective mechanisms for dealing with insolvency cases involving debtors, assets, claimants, and other parties of interest involving more than one country.

Just as the branches can't grow fruit unless they are connected to the vine, we can't do anything useful unless we are following closely after Jesus. He is the key to our relationship with God.

Jesus' role as the vine is twice identified, in verse 1 as “the true vine” and in verse 5 as “the vine.” This is the life source of the branches. It is God who tends to the flourishing of the branches, and likewise will “remove[s] every branch” (John 15:2) that gives no yield.

John 15 teaches us what it means to abide in Jesus, to know and have a relationship with Him. This will lead to fruitfulness in our lives and glorifies the Father. We can be certain now, in this very moment of living, that we abide in Jesus and have a relationship with Him, our eternity secure after death.

The purpose of John's Gospel is that people might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing might have life in his name (20:30-31). Throughout the Gospel, Jesus' words and actions are designed to bring about faith.