The Life and Ministry of Jesus

The Life and Ministry of Jesus 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. John 15:10 A believer is motivated by the wonder of Jesus’ love, which is patterned after the Father’s love in …

The Life and Ministry of Jesus “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. John 15:9 Abiding is a continuing communion. That is the relationship of branch and vine. I have a 72’ x 123’ ranch here in California on which grow four avocado …

The Life and Ministry of Jesus If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples. John 15:7–8 What …

The Life and Ministry of Jesus 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. John 15:6 The “burned” branches refer to professing Christians who, like Judas, are …

The Life and Ministry of Jesus “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. John 15:5 Along with this realization we are to consciously, deliberately depend upon Christ. I am not …

The Life and Ministry of Jesus 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. John 15:4 We have come to the third word I want you to mark, which …

The Life and Ministry of Jesus You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. John 15:3 The purging is accomplished by the Word of God. The cleansing power of the Word of God is a wonderful thing. We hear so much today about modern …

The Life and Ministry of Jesus 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. John 15:2 This pruning process is the most important part of the whole enterprise, and the people who …

The Life and Ministry of Jesus I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. John 15:1 Our Lord used a marvelous figure of speech, and He made it very clear that it is not your identification with a religion or a ceremony or an organization that is …

The Life and Ministry of Jesus You have heard Me say to you, ‘I am going away and coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, ‘I am going to the Father,’ for My Father is greater than I. “And now I have told …