Saturday, August 6, 2022

Follow Me - Meeting Jesus in the Gospel of John (Since We Abide in the Vine (15:1-26))

Join with your friends and neighbors at Sligo Presbyterian Church to meet Jesus in the Gospel of John. During the study, we’ll follow the outline below:

  • Session 1 - Introduction and Prologue (1:1-18)
  • Session 2 - Let the Witnessing Begin (1:19-51)
  • Session 3 - Transforming the Old (2:1-25)
  • Session 4 - In a Nutshell (3:1-35)
  • Session 5 - A Woman at a Well (4:1-54)
  • Session 6 - Jesus as Testimony (5:1-47)
  • Session 7 - Jesus as Bread (6:1-71)
  • Session 8 - Who Is Jesus (7:1-52)
  • Session 9 - Who Is Jesus [Part 2] (8:1-59)
  • Session 10 - The Blind See and the Sighted Become Blind (9:1-41)
  • Session 11 - Gates and Shepherds (10:1-42)
  • Session 12 - Lazarus (11:1-57)
  • Session 13 - Jerusalem for the Last Time (12:1-50)
  • Session 14 - The Last Supper (13:1-38)
  • Session 15 - Someone Else Is Coming (14:1-31)
  • Session 16 - Since We Abide in the Vine (15:1-26)
  • Session 17 - To Our Advantage (16:1-33)
  • Session 18 - Last Prayer (17:1-26)
  • Session 19 - Jesus Is Still in Control (18:1-40)
  • Session 20 - Lifted Up (19:1-42)
  • Session 21 - Raised (20:1-31)
  • Session 22 - Love vs. Like (21:1-25)

In our sixteenth study, we looked at John 15:1-26. The passage and a recording of the lesson is below:

John 15:1-26

”I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower. He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit. You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.

As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete. “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.

”If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you. If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world—therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, ‘Servants are not greater than their master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also. But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. Whoever hates me hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. It was to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

”When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, he will testify on my behalf.

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