"I am the real vine and my Father is the vine-dresser. He destroys
every branch in me which does not bear fruit; and he cleanses every
branch which does bear fruit, so that it may bear more fruit. You are
already clean through the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in me
even as I abide in you.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE VINE AND THE BRANCHES (John 15:1-10)... [ Continue Reading ]
"I have spoken these things to you that my joy might be in you, and
that your joy might be complete. This is my commandment, that you love
one another, as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this,
that a man should lay down his life for his friend. You are my
friends, if you do what I com... [ Continue Reading ]
"If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated
you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but the
world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have picked
you out of the world. Remember the word which I spoke to you--the
servant is not greater than h... [ Continue Reading ]
"If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of
sin. As it is, they have no excuse for their sins. He who hates me
hates the Father too. If I had not done deeds among them, which no one
else had ever done, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they
have seen and they have hea... [ Continue Reading ]
"When the Helper comes, the Helper whom I will send to you from my
Father, I mean the Spirit of Truth who comes forth from the Father, he
will be a witness about me. And you will be witness about me because
you have been with me from the beginning."
Here John uses two ideas which lie very close to... [ Continue Reading ]