John 15:1-4

Be prepared for the ride of your life……

everything will change! Anything that is separating you from God will be sifted and taken away leaving you with more and more of Him and less and less of the world. 

His love conquers a multitude of sins and Christ within us is our only hope for God’s glory!

Jesus’ purpose was to move His disciples from servants to friends. This would involve a process of discipline in regard to His commandments. No plant produces fruit instantaneously; fruit is the result of a process. Such is also the case with believers. Once the fruit is on the vine, the vinedresser cleanses the fruit of bugs and diseases. The spiritual counterpart is cleansing which is done through the Word.

The believer who lovingly obeys the Word of God produces much fruit.

Galatians 5:

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control. ….

John 15:1-4
15 “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. 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.

¹³ But He answered and said, “Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. 

Matthew 15:13

¹⁷ Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. 

John 17:17

¹⁷ that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 

Ephesians 3:17

²³ if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister. 

Colossians 1:23