IS YOUR BRANCH LINKED TO THE VINE?

BE CONNECTED TO THE VINE TO GIVE GOOD FRUIT... OTHERWISE YOU WILL BE THROWN OUT IN THE DARKNESS...

JOHN 15:1-27

Continuation of the last instructions to the disciples - Intimate union between Jesus and the believers

1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

2 Every branch in me that bears no fruit, take it away; and cleanse all that bear fruit, that she may bear more fruit.

3 You are already clean by the word that I have spoken to you.

4 Be in me, and I in you; as the rod of itself cannot bear fruit if it is not in the vine, so also you if you are not in me.

5 I am the vine, you the branches; whoever is in me, and I in him, he bears much fruit; because without me you can do nothing.

6 If anyone is not in me, he will be cast out, like a rod, and wither; and they gather them and cast them into the fire, and they burn.

7 If you are in me, and my words are in you, you will ask for anything you want, and it will be done for you.

8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and so will you be my disciples.

9 As the Father loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love.

10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; just as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

11 I have told you this, that my joy may abide in you, and your joy may be full.

12 My commandment is this: That you love one another, as I have loved you.

13 No one has a greater love than this, to give someone their life for their friends.

14 You will be my friends if you do what I command you.

15 I will no longer call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

16 You did not choose me, but I chose you, and named you, that you might go and bear fruit, and your fruit abiding; so that whatever in my name you ask the Father he may grant you.

17 This I command you: Love one another.

18 If the world hates you, know that it hated me first than you.

19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own, but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, that is why the world hates you.

20 Remember the word that he said unto you, The servant is not greater than his LORD. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also; if they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

21 But all this they will do to you because of my name, because they don't know the one who sent me.

22 If I had not come, nor had I spoken to them, they would not have sinned, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

23 He who hates me hates my Father also.

24 If I had not done among them such works, which no one else has done, they would not have sin; but now they saw them and hated me and my Father.

25 But it is that the word which is written in their law may be fulfilled: They hated me without a cause.

26 But when the Comforter comes, whom I from the Father will send to you, that Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father, he will testify of me.

27 And ye shall also testify, for ye have been with me from the beginning.

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