I Am The VineI Am The VineYou Are The BranchesYou Are The Branches

Abiding In Christ

• John 15:4

• 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.

Abiding In Christ

• John 15:5

• 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.

Abiding In Christ

• John 15:6

• 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.

Abiding In Christ

• John 15:7-8

• 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.

Abiding In Christ

• Galatians 3:26-27

• For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

• 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Abiding In Christ

• Romans 6:3-5

• as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death,

• if we have been united together in the likeness of His death,

Abiding In Christ

• Romans 6:5 if we have been united together in the likeness of His death,

• 1 Corinthians 6:17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.

Abiding In Christ

• 1 John 2:24

• Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning.

• If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.

Abiding In Christ

• 1 John 3:24• Now he who keeps His commandments

• abides in Him, and He in him.

Abiding In Christ

• 1 John 4:16

• God is love,

• and he who abides in love

• abides in God, and God in him.

Abiding In Christ

• Hebrews 3:12

• Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;

Pruning The BranchesPruning The Branches With The Word With The Word

John 15:1-3John 15:1-3"I am the true vine, and "I am the true vine, and My Father is the My Father is the vinedresservinedresser. . 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and fruit He takes away; and every branch every branch that bears fruit He prunesthat bears fruit He prunes, , that it may that it may bear more fruitbear more fruit.. 3 3 You are already clean because of the You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to youword which I have spoken to you..

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2 Timothy 3:16-172 Timothy 3:16-17

16 16 All Scripture is given by inspiration All Scripture is given by inspiration of Godof God, and is profitable for doctrine, , and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correctionfor reproof, for correction, for , for instruction in righteousness, 17 instruction in righteousness, 17 that that the man of God may be complete, the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good thoroughly equipped for every good workwork..

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1 John 2:241 John 2:24

Therefore let that abide in you which Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. you heard from the beginning.

If what you heard from the beginning If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.Son and in the Father.

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2 John 92 John 9

Whoever transgresses and does not Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God.have God.

He who abides in the doctrine of Christ He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Sonhas both the Father and the Son..

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1 John 2:191 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they They went out from us, but they were not of uswere not of us; for if they had been ; for if they had been of us, they would have continued of us, they would have continued with us; with us; but they went out that they but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none might be made manifest, that none of them were of usof them were of us..

Bearing Much Fruit

• John 15:4-8• John 15:2 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.

• 8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.

Bearing Much Fruit

• Matthew 13:23• But he who received seed on the

good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty."

Bearing Much Fruit

• John 12:24• Most assuredly, I say to you,

unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.

Bearing Much Fruit

• John 12:25-26

• 25 He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

• 26 If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.