JOHN 15:1-17

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(Jesus continues on the eve of his crucifixion) 1 - “I am the vine, and my Father is the vinedresser” [geórgos - from γῆ - gē, meaning earth or land, and ἔργον - ergon, meaning work or task, someone who works the land, worker of the soil to plant, harvest, nurture and protect].

     2 “Any branch of the vine that doesn’t bear fruit he takes away. And every branch that does bear fruit he prunes. This is so it will be more abundant with fruit. 3 Already you are purged” [katharos - clean, pure, clear, free of contamination, released, english catharsis] “because of the words I’ve spoken to you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. The branch cannot bear fruit by itself, but only if it abides in the vine. And neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5 I am the true vine {of Life}. You are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in them, bears much fruit. And apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in me, they will be like a dry branch that withers. Then the branches are gathered, and burned up in a bonfire. {Not a forever pit called ‘hell’. We must be reasonable! In the parable of the wheat and tares, the same. This slow gehenna flares up into mankind’s wars. Logically, the tares will be gathered to armageddon. The “seven thunders”? Surely there is only one thing they can be. Life apart from God? “Dust are we”. God = Life & “is perfect”. Imperfect = entropy.} 7 IF you abide in me, and my words abide in you, whatever you ask, it will be done for you. 8 By this my Father will be glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. {First comes humility.} 9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. [He is the genuine Sabbath/Rest all other Sabbaths are a shadow/reflection of, Heb.4.] 10 If you keep my words and instructions, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's words and instructions and abide in his love. 11 These things I’ve spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and it may be full.

     12 “This is my instruction [entolé - command, order, instruction] that you love one another, as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I tell you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what their master is doing. But I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You didn’t choose me. I chose you and I have appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should endure, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 17 These things I tell you, so that you will love one another.

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