Can Do Nothing, Day 13
Key Scripture: John 15:5c. ... for without Me you can do nothing. Key Idea: The one lesson of the parable is--as surely, as naturally as the branch abides in the…
You Are The Branches, Day 11.
Key Scripture: John 15:5a. "I am the vine, you are the branches. ... --NKJ Key Idea: Let us present ourselves before our Lord, until He speak to each of us…
I the Vine, Day 10
Key Scripture: John 15:5a. "I am the vine, you are the branches. ... --NKJ Key Idea: ... the lesson, simple as it appears, it is the key of the abiding…
Abide, Day 8
Key Scripture: John 15:4a. "Abide in Me, and I in you. ... Key Idea: "Abide in me": that refers more to that which we have to do. We have to…
The Branch, Day 3
Key Scripture:
John 15:2a. “Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; …
Key Idea:
The branch is exactly like the vine in every aspect–the same nature, the same life, the same place, the same work. In all this they are inseparably one.
— Murray
Pray for revelation:
Lord Jesus, I pray Thee, reveal to me the heavenly mystery of the branch, in its living union with the Vine, in its claim on all its fullness. And let Thy all-sufficiency, holding and filling Thy branches, lead me to the rest of faith that knows that Thou workest all.
— Murray
Key words:
Branch.
Before a vine can produce fruit, there needs to be a branch. More on fruit tomorrow, but to continue the comparison of Jesus to the vine, we are the branches. Focus on that idea. The vine is the main trunk of the plant. It grows in the ground and provides life giving nourishment for the branches.
A vine doesn’t normally grow fruit on it directly, it grows branches, and those branches is where the fruit is produced.
There needs to be unity. The branch needs
Learn Self Control: James 3:1-4.
James 3:1-4. 3:1. My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment. 3:2. For we all stumble in many things. If anyone…