1. The Vine and the Branches
John 15:1-11
The Vine and the Branches

2. ("True" as opposed to "Copy")
John 15:1-11
1 "I am the true vine,
21 "Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a seed of highest quality. How then have you turned before Me Into the degenerate plant of an alien vine?" (Jer. 2:21)
("True" as opposed to "Copy")

3. ("True" as opposed to "copy")
John 15:1-11
1 "I am the true vine,
24 For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us (Heb. 9:24)
("True" as opposed to "copy")

4. John 15:1-11 1 "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.
5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one? 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.
7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. (1 Cor. 3:5-7)

5. John 15:1-11 1 "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.
8 Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor. 9 For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, you are God's building. (1 Cor. 3:5-7)

6. John 15:1-11 1 "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.
2 "Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away;
17 And … some of the branches were broken off, and you … became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree (Rom. 11:17)

7. John 15:1-11 1 "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.
2 "Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
12 "For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance" (Matt. 13:12 )

8. John 15:1-11 1 "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.
2 "Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
3 "You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word (Eph. 5:26)

9. John 15:1-11
4 "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
A branch that has been broken off cannot bear fruit.
We abide in him by putting forth the effort to bear fruit.
He abides in us by our abiding in him.

10. John 15:1-11
4 "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
32 "Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. 33 But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven." (Matt.10:32-33)

11. John 15:1-11
4 "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
5 "I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
We abide in him and avoid being broken off by bearing fruit.

12. John 15:1-11
6 "If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
10 "And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire." (Matt. 3:10)

13. John 15:1-11
6 "If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
12 "His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire." (Matt. 3:12)

14. John 15:1-11
6 "If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.
If and to the extent that His words abide in us, what we desire will be in harmony with His revealed will.

15. Are you glorifying the Father?
John 15:1-11
6 "If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.
8 "By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.
Are you glorifying the Father?

16. John 15:1-11
9 "As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.
10 "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.
34 "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another." (John 13:34)

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9 "As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.
10 "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 remain in you, and that your joy may be full."
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