1. The Abiding Life Part II Pastor Joe Pursch Chinese Grace Bible Church September 11, 2011

2. 09.04.20112 Introduction

3. 09.04.20113 1. Why Jesus Taught These Things

4. 09.04.20114 John 15:1-2 (ESV) 1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.

5. 09.04.20115 John 15:1-2 (ESV) 2 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.

6. 09.04.20116 John 15:3 (ESV) 3 Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.

7. 09.04.20117 John 13:1-6 (ESV) 1 Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

8. 09.04.20118 John 13:1-6 (ESV) 2 During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,

9. 09.04.20119 John 13:1-6 (ESV) 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

10. 09.04.201110 John 13:1-6 (ESV) 4 rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist.

11. 09.04.201111 John 13:1-6 (ESV) 5 Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.

12. 09.04.201112 John 13:1-6 (ESV) 6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Lord, do you wash my feet?"

13. 09.04.201113 John 13:7 (ESV) 7 Jesus answered him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand."

14. 09.04.201114 John 13:8 (ESV) 8 Peter said to him, "You shall never wash my feet." Jesus answered him, "If I do not wash you, you have no share with me."

15. 09.04.201115 John 13:9 (ESV) 9 Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!

16. 09.04.201116 John 13:10-11 (ESV) 10 Jesus said to him, "The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you."

17. 09.04.201117 John 13:10-11 (ESV) 11 For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, "Not all of you are clean."

18. 09.04.201118 John 14:24-31 (ESV) 24 Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.

19. 09.04.201119 John 14:24-31 (ESV) 25 "These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you.

20. 09.04.201120 John 14:24-31 (ESV) 26 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.

21. 09.04.201121 John 14:24-31 (ESV) 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

22. 09.04.201122 John 14:24-31 (ESV) 28 You heard me say to you, 'I am going away, and I will come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

23. 09.04.201123 John 14:24-31 (ESV) 29 And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe.

24. 09.04.201124 John 14:24-31 (ESV) 30 I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me,

25. 09.04.201125 John 14:24-31 (ESV) 31 but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.

26. 09.04.201126 A. The __________ Of The Present. Problem

27. 09.04.201127 B. The ___________ Of The Future. Pressures

28. 09.04.201128 2. Where Jesus Taught These Things

29. 09.04.201129 John 15:1 (ESV) 1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.

30. 09.04.201130 John 14:31 (ESV) 31 but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.

31. 09.04.201131 John 18:1 (ESV) 1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the Kidron Valley, where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered.

32. 09.04.201132 Isaiah 5:1-7 (ESV) 1 Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.

33. 09.04.201133 Isaiah 5:1-7 (ESV) 2 He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

34. 09.04.201134 Isaiah 5:1-7 (ESV) 3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.

35. 09.04.201135 Isaiah 5:1-7 (ESV) 4 What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes?

36. 09.04.201136 Isaiah 5:1-7 (ESV) 5 And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.

37. 09.04.201137 Isaiah 5:1-7 (ESV) 6 I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns shall grow up; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

38. 09.04.201138 Isaiah 5:1-7 (ESV) 7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!

39. 09.04.201139 A. The _______ He Stood. Place

40. 09.04.201140 B. The _________ He Used. Picture

41. 09.04.201141 3. Who Are The People He Had In Mind

42. 09.04.201142 John 15:2 (ESV) 2 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.

43. 09.04.201143 Matthew 7:15-23 (ESV) 15 "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.

44. 09.04.201144 Matthew 7:15-23 (ESV) 16 You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

45. 09.04.201145 Matthew 7:15-23 (ESV) 17 So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit.

46. 09.04.201146 Matthew 7:15-23 (ESV) 18 A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit.

47. 09.04.201147 Matthew 7:15-23 (ESV) 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

48. 09.04.201148 Matthew 7:15-23 (ESV) 20 Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.

49. 09.04.201149 Matthew 7:15-23 (ESV) 21 "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

50. 09.04.201150 Matthew 7:15-23 (ESV) 22 On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?'

51. 09.04.201151 Matthew 7:15-23 (ESV) 23 And then will I declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.'

52. 09.04.201152 1 John 2:19 (ESV) 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.

53. 09.04.201153 John 8:31 (ESV) 31 So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,

54. 09.04.201154 Ephesians 2:10 (ESV) 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

55. 09.04.201155 A. _______ Believers. False

56. 09.04.201156 B. ______ Believers. True

57. 09.04.201157 3. How God Responds To Each One

58. 09.04.201158 John 15:2 (ESV) 2 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.

59. 09.04.201159 John 15:6 (ESV) 6 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.

60. 09.04.201160 Matthew 13:24-30 (ESV) 24 He put another parable before them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field,

61. 09.04.201161 Matthew 13:24-30 (ESV) 25 but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.

62. 09.04.201162 Matthew 13:24-30 (ESV) 26 So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also.

63. 09.04.201163 Matthew 13:24-30 (ESV) 27 And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, 'Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?'

64. 09.04.201164 Matthew 13:24-30 (ESV) 28 He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' So the servants said to him, 'Then do you want us to go and gather them?'

65. 09.04.201165 Matthew 13:24-30 (ESV) 29 But he said, 'No, lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them.

66. 09.04.201166 Matthew 13:24-30 (ESV) 30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.'"

67. 09.04.201167 Hebrews 12:5-8 (ESV) 5 And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him.

68. 09.04.201168 Hebrews 12:5-8 (ESV) 6 For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives."

69. 09.04.201169 Hebrews 12:5-8 (ESV) 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?

70. 09.04.201170 Hebrews 12:5-8 (ESV) 8 If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

71. 09.04.201171 Hebrews 12:9 (ESV) 9 Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?

72. 09.04.201172 Hebrews 12:10 (ESV) 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness.

73. 09.04.201173 Hebrews 12:11 (ESV) 11 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.

74. 09.04.201174 A. An _________ Consequence. Eternal

75. 09.04.201175 B. An ______________ Commitment. Encouraging

76. 09.04.201176 3. What It All Means For You

77. 09.04.201177 John 15:1-3 (ESV) 1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.

78. 09.04.201178 John 15:1-3 (ESV) 2 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.

79. 09.04.201179 John 15:1-3 (ESV) 3 Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.

80. 09.04.201180 2 Corinthians 13:5 (ESV) 5 Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!

81. 09.04.201181 Romans 6:22-23 (ESV) 22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.

82. 09.04.201182 Romans 6:22-23 (ESV) 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

83. 09.04.201183 A. A _________ Question. Crucial

84. 09.04.201184 B. A _____________ Promise. Comforting

85. 09.04.201185 Conclusion

86. 09.04.201186