I Am Statements Of Jesus - The Greatest Joy Of The True Branch

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Coming from a source from Roy Zuck from the speaker's quote book, he asked that question, says, where is joy found?

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He says not in unbelief for Voltaire was an infidel of the most pronounced type.

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He wrote, I wish I had never been born. Won't find joy in pleasure for Lord Byron lived a life of pleasure if anyone did.

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And he wrote, the worm, the canker and grief are mine alone.

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Not in money for J. Gold, the America millionaire, had plenty of that. When dying he said,

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I suppose I am the most miserable man in all the earth. You won't find joy in position or in fame for Lord Beaconsfield enjoyed more than his share of both.

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And he wrote, youth is a mistake, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

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It's rather depressing. Well not in military glory for Alexander the Great conquered the known world in his day and having done so he wept in his tent because he said there are no more worlds to conquer.

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So where then is real joy found? Well the answer is simple, in Christ alone.

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The true joy of the true branches for which

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Christians, those that have repented of their sin and placed their full faith and trust in Jesus Christ are the true branches and we'll see that this morning.

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That true joy comes from abiding in Christ, abiding in our Savior. And we're going to look this morning at why it's so important, how we do that, and what

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God uses to prune us as branches. To start with you'll notice in John chapter 15 in verse 11 it says,

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Jesus is speaking here to disciples. He says, these things I've spoken to you so that my joy may be in you.

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My joy in you and that your joy which will be my joy which is in you may be made full.

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Now John the writer repeats some of this same language in 1 John. If you look at 1 John chapter 1 in verse 4 he talks about how these things we write so that your joy may be full.

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So it's very plain and that's one of our defenses and understanding that John was the writer of both the letter of 1

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John obviously 2 and 3 John as well, but also the Gospel of John because he says in quoting

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Jesus here that Jesus spoke these things so that His joy may be in them and it is by having the joy of Christ in you that your joy is full.

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So it means that by abiding in Christ, by abiding in the joy of Christ, your joy can be made full.

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So many people look for joy in all the wrong places. As we pointed out with this illustration you had some that looked for it in their unbelief which was this would apply to all cults, all false religions, all false teaching, all

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New Age, just fill in the blank with anything that's not Christianity, but basically anything like that you won't find the joy and the pleasure and money or position and fame.

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And certainly the writer of Ecclesiastes knew this because he said, I sought out to not hold anything back from myself and I found it was all vanity, striving after the wind.

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There's nothing new under the sun, it's just stuff. He says when I'm dying gone it'll just go left to someone else.

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It's just stuff. It's why people matter more than things. It's why we very commonly after a storm or after a storm comes through and there's damage we'll say, well it's just a house or it's just things.

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The main thing is that everybody, every person is okay. But they look for joy in all the wrong places when the true source of joy comes from the same person that's the true source of life.

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And this teaching here in John chapter 15 about Jesus being the vine, the

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Father being the vine dresser and we being the branches is not in a vacuum unto itself. It's in context going all the way back to what we looked at last week in John chapter 14 when

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Jesus is giving final lesson, final teaching, final words to His disciples because He knows

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His time is about to come and He's going to have to go to the cross. And He's looking to comfort them.

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You remember from last week He told them, do not let your heart be troubled. Don't let it be agitated or stirred up.

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Let it remain firm because if your heart is in Me and I am your joy and I am your strength, you have no need to be troubled.

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And He comes down here and I think it's no mistake really that He talks about vine and the branches right before Judas runs off to go and betray

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Him. You see one of the biggest misunderstandings about John 15 is that it somehow is teaching that Christians can lose their salvation.

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They say, oh well you see, they're talking about these branches that didn't bear fruits or they were attached to the vine but God cut them off and sent them off to be burned.

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See, you can be attached but then, no, that's not what it's saying. These branches may be attached to the vine but they have no life in them.

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And also this section here in John chapter 15, one of the keys to biblical interpretation is understanding what is actually being taught.

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Jesus is not giving a discourse, or giving a teaching on the subject matter of justification and its permanence.

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What He is doing is give an example of what true disciples look like. What true branches look like.

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Those that do have life in Christ. Those that will have Christ's joy in themselves.

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What that looks like versus what it doesn't look like. And the way we know this is look what happens right on the heels of this.

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Judas runs off and betrays the Lord Jesus Christ. 30 pieces of silver. So, think about it.

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They're all disciples, right? Hanging out with Jesus, doing their thing. Getting up every morning, going off and doing miracles, and Jesus doing all these good things.

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By all accounts, on the outside, Judas looks like a disciple. He walked like a disciple, talked like one, fit in pretty good.

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You go forward and look, the disciples are like, well who is it Lord? Who is it? Who's going to betray you? Who's it going to be?

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They didn't know. There was nothing about Judas that said, hey, I'm the one that's going to betray Jesus.

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He didn't walk around with a sign or a name tag that says, hello, my name is Betrayer. You see? By all accounts, he was one of them.

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And my friends, that won't change until Christ returns. As long as the Church is in existence, there will always be the true branches.

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But just like it talks in other parables about the weeds growing with the good plants, and all the good and the bad, and there's always unbelievers with believers, and the mixture of the branches, and there will be true branches, and the untrue branches.

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And you know, it is Christ that knows who are His. We've covered that, and this is right on there.

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So, what He's telling these disciples is, look, there are true branches, and there are ones that are not. And one of them that is not is going to go and betray

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Me. You go and look at Matthew chapter 7, it talks about how a good tree can't produce bad fruit.

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And a bad tree can't produce good fruit. The unsaved can't produce righteousness.

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The saved will not fail to produce righteousness. Now, we won't obviously walk with Christ perfectly.

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We need to be pruned. We need to be pruned so we can bear more fruit. But there's no such thing as a fruitless

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Christian. There's no such thing as a Christian that will fail to produce any kind of fruit.

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If you abide in Christ, you will produce that fruit. So, it's not teaching that. It's talking about what a true disciple and a true branch looks like.

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Now, when He tells them in John 15, 11 He says, these things I have spoken to you, naturally the first question would be, what things?

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What things? Well, for example, John 14 He says, believe in God, believe also in Me.

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In verse 1, the teachings He had done about His deity, the teachings about who He was, the teachings about why

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He did what He did, the teachings about where He had come from. Remember John chapter 6, and the bread, the living bread that came down out of Heaven.

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He had taught them. He had taught them more intimately than a lot of His other disciples because of the natural intimacy

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He had with them as His inner 12. And even within that 12 He had that inner 3, and He had certain ones

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He got along with a little bit better, and certain ones He poured into better based on His divine purposes. He says, it means all these things, all the things

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I've been teaching you. In 1 John, when John writes again he talks about that which was from the beginning, which we have seen, which we have heard, which we have touched with our own hands, it is that we proclaim to you.

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He's talking about everything we've seen, everything we've heard Jesus teach and do, that is the only thing we care to proclaim to anybody, because it's the only thing that's of any value.

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I'll never, ever as long as I have breath in my body ever preach man's wisdom.

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It's of no value. The only thing that's of any value is the Living Word of God. That is what we preach.

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That is what we live by. And it is these things, He says, if you abide in these things your joy will be full.

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Now in John chapter 15 verse 1 it says, I am the true vine, this is Jesus speaking, I am the true vine.

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My Father is the vinedresser. So, while we're not going to labor long here, but another

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Trinitarian reference, He's already equated Himself with the Father, making Himself God.

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John chapter 14 verse 1, believe in God. Yes, believe in Me also. Why? I'm God also.

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And He says, I am the vine, the second person of the Trinity, the first person of the Trinity, the Father is the vinedresser.

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That means it's His vineyard. It's His vineyard. It's His world. He's the one that does the pruning, which we'll see in a minute.

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He says, every branch in Me that does not bear fruit,

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He takes away. And every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it or cleanses it and prepares it so that it may bear more fruit.

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You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in Me and I in you, as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.

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Christ is the only true vine. This means He's the only true source of spiritual life.

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And just as a vine will impart sap and productiveness and life and efficiency to the branches so in our spiritual life

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Christ being that vine, if you're not attached to Him you don't have life. But being attached to Him and being in Christ we'll have the very sap of spiritual life.

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We'll have all the power, everything we need to produce the righteousness of Christ, to live and walk with Christ, to abide in Him and be spiritually alive and to be good

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Christians. And He says, I am the vine, verse 5, you are the branches. He who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit for apart from Me you can do nothing.

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One of the saddest things that I have seen in my life, the thing that probably breaks my heart more than anything is someone to profess in Christ and think they can live the

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Christian life apart from Christ. I'll do it my own way. Oh, thank God I'll figure it out.

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I've lived this long, haven't I? I'll figure it out. It's such a sad state of affairs it should break your hearts.

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Break your hearts. Because He says apart from Me you can do nothing. I'll probably have to repent for this later, but sometimes

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I read things and it's like, this is just my opinion, but I just feel like in 2019 language

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Jesus is kind of saying, oh, you want to go live the Christian life apart from Me? Good luck. Lord, I apologize.

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I just feel like He's saying, oh, good luck. Go ahead. See how far you get. It's probably not what

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He was saying, but that's probably my sinful flesh coming out of me. But it's like I just don't get it.

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How in the world would you think that the very one that saved you, you're somehow then going to go live

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Christ's life apart from Him? And see this comes from the false teaching that we live our

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Christian life. You don't live your Christian life. You'd have no Christian life without the

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Source, the Vine, Jesus Christ. We as Christians live out

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Christ's life in us. He is our life.

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He is our righteousness. We produce none of that apart from Him. And it is only to the degree that we are yielded and submitted to Him and His Word that we will produce more fruit.

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Don't be a fruit minimalist. The Christian life is how can

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I do as least as I can, the smallest amount possible and get by?

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That may have worked for some of the people that work for me at Food Lion. It will not work for you in the Christian life.

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Any of you that are around employees, you know. I forget what Gina's dad said. I think it's 5 % of your employees will always do everything they are supposed to.

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They go over and beyond. 5 % I think is like literally do nothing.

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And then there is all these big mix in the middle of different people. But it's basically what it is.

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You know who your good workers are. You know who you can rely on. And you know who you can't. There is nowhere in God's Word where it says, well, you know if you get around to it.

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Or, well, bless your heart, you're doing the best. No! Bear fruit! Abide in Christ and then

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He'll prune you so you can bear more fruit. There's never a point where you can say, well,

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I've done all the fruit I can do. I've borne all the fruit I was intended to. No, if you have breath in your body, guess what?

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There's still more fruit to come. There's always something else to do. There's no retirement. There is no retirement in Christianity.

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If you're 90, 100, 150, if you're 150 God bless you. If you're 80, 60, 10,

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I don't care! As long as you have breath in your body there is fruit you can bear.

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Well, how do we abide? Going back to chapter 14 we're going to skim over a few verses real quickly here because whenever something is repeated in Scripture that's usually one of your signs that you may want to pay attention to it.

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Well, how do we abide in Christ? Chapter 14, verse 15 it says, In verse 21

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Jesus says, Notice He says,

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Notice He says, That means if you don't keep God's commandments you hate Him. You're still a rebel sinner.

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Now He doesn't say you will do it perfectly. Obviously there is practical sanctification. We're increasingly made in the image of Christ.

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But He says, if you don't keep My commandments, if you don't follow My Word, if you don't appreciate My words, why are you doing it?

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Because I've already told you those that truly love Me will keep My Word. He says, He who keeps

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My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. Verse 23, Jesus answered and said to him, if anyone loves

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Me he will keep My Word. And My Father will love him. Almost a word for word quote from verse 21.

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We will come to Him and make our abode with Him. Now just in passing you'll remember this talking about our abode.

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This should take you back in your mind to last week when we talked about verse 2 of chapter 14, in My Father's house are many dwelling places.

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And we talked about I don't care if it's a trailer, a mansion, someplace out in the woods. I really don't care what my dwelling looks like because the greatest dwelling anyone can ever have is to be with God the

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Father, to be with God Almighty. And if I'm aboding, if I'm in the literal presence of Jesus Christ, the literal presence of God in eternity,

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I really don't care what the destination spot is. I'm with God. And it will be perfect and wonderful beyond what

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I can imagine, and that's all that matters. And that's what He's saying. You love Me. You show forth yourself to be one of My disciples.

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And you can know with certainty and have hope in My Son that you will not only abide with Me now, but in the future you will permanently and very literally abide with Me.

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Because remember in Revelation it talks about how God comes and He says, our abode, the Trinity's abode will be with our people for all eternity.

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Verse 24, He who does not love Me does not keep My words. And the word which you hear is not

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Mine, but the Father's has sent Me. This is very practical, very obvious. We know them. There's always professing

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Christians saying, oh, yeah, man, I love God. Yeah, I'm down with church. You see how they live their life?

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They show themselves not to be true disciples. They don't truly love Christ, so they'd want to keep

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His Word. They'd want to follow after Him because everyone that's in and attached to that vine is going to produce what the vine infuses into those branches.

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And so how do we abide? We abide in Christ by abiding in His Word. We covered this last week and won't belabor on this long, but you remember

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John 17 in the High Priestly Prayer, Jesus Christ says, Lord, our God the Father sanctify them in truth.

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Thy Word is truth. There are Psalms, and the Old Testament tells us about walking in truth.

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Colossians tells us to walk in Christ. So, Christ is equated with God. He is God. He is also equated with truth.

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Revelation 19 talks about how His name is the Word of God. So, Jesus Christ is the very Word of God.

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So, if you want to walk in Christ, if you want to abide in Christ, you have to by nature and by consequence abide in the

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Word of God because Jesus Christ as the second person of the Godhead is the Divine Author of Scripture.

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No Christian will ever bear fruit apart from the Word of God. Why? Because the

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Word of God is the pruning knife. Think about it. How many of you have ever pruned anything?

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Plants, I don't know, I don't do a whole lot of that. What do you prune? Bushes? Oh, yeah, bushes.

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We have those back home. Actually, Gina does most of that now. God bless her. We have a little pruning knife.

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So, you cut them back so they'll grow more, right? Seems kind of counterintuitive, doesn't it? Why would you want to harm or cut down something?

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That's the way it works, right? That's pruning. The Word of God is the pruning knife.

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God the Father, the Vinedresser, uses His Word to prune us, to prune His branches. What does that mean?

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Well, it means He'll remove or cut back anything that will keep you from living out your

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Christian life. So, the word prune in here means to cleanse by purging.

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So, what God the Father will do is He will remove any undesirable elements.

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He will eliminate what is fruitless. Makes sense. There's a lot of things that used to be in my life that are not anymore.

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Sin, different things like that. God the Father knows each one of us.

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He knows each one of you so intimately, well because He created you, and you're His people, and we are by nature

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His, or not by nature, but by adoption His family, His children. And He knows you. He knows what you're created for.

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He knows where He wants to get you. He knows what it's going to take to get you there. So, He knows exactly how to prune you.

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There are no two bushes. There are no two plants. Anything that we prune in this life, there's no two that are exactly the same.

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Are there? No! Think about it. He knows the exact amount of stars that are in the universe.

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And I forget what the latest number is. It's a number I can't even, I probably can't even pronounce the name. That's how it's like I'm not even going to try it.

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All I know is alien is on the end of it. You know like million, billion. I know alien is on the end of it. I have no idea what comes before it.

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It's just an unimaginable number of stars. Far more than the number of humans.

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And God knows every single one of them. And no two are exactly alike.

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Variety. Diversity. You want diversity? You get it from God. Not from politics.

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God is the most diverse, creative person that is in existence. Just look at the stars.

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Look at creation. But He knows. Each one of you He knows what it's going to take.

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He knows your personality. What it takes to prune me is probably going to be a lot different than someone that's more introverted.

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Or someone that doesn't have my personality type, or my traits, or the things that I like and dislike, and all those things that make up who you are.

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God doesn't have to learn you. He told Jeremiah before He even formed you in the womb,

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I knew you. He knows exactly how to prune you. And He doesn't do it to harm you, does it?

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So you can bear more fruit. But it is the pruning knife. So we want to look and turn with me in your

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Bibles to Hebrews chapter 4. I want to spend the remainder of our time looking at this pruning knife and how

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God uses it to prune us. In Hebrews chapter 4 in verse 12 it says, "'For the

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Word of God is living and active and sharper than any two -edged sword, and piercing as far as the vision of soul and spirit above joints and marrow, and is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

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God's Word is living and active, it's divinely inspired, it's inerrant, and it's the final authority. How is it used by God the

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Father, who is the vinedresser, to prune us as the branches? Well, it's because this tool, this pruning knife, the

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Word of God that He uses to prune us is not just a tool, but it's a tool that accomplishes a lot of different things.

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Number one, it's a living tool. It's a living tool because its origin is

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God the Divine Author of Scripture. They utilize many human authors, but the

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Divine Author of Scripture that literally God breathed, the Anastas, God breathed inspired

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Scripture. That source and that Divine Author being God Himself is the source of eternal life.

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Jesus Christ has said, I come that I may have life and have it more abundantly. It is that life that is inspired and written in the

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Word of God. It's a living tool. It's an active tool, meaning it's productive and effective.

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It literally as being active means it's full of God's energy. Something that's at rest or still is not active, right?

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But something that's active and working and producing and doing things is something that's full of energy.

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Well, the Word of God is full of God's energy. It's unlimited.

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There's no way you can put a cap on it. We read all these stories about these

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Christians, sometimes one Christian, or a group of Christians, or a church, or whoever it is, they accomplish these great feats for God.

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I'm like, how? Word of God working in and through them. The energy you need to do the work for Christ is the same energy you'll find in the active

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Word of God. It's a sharp tool. It's a sharp tool because it's precise. And it's not only precise, it's decisive.

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You see, my dad is a land surveyor and he'd cut lines through the woods with machetes.

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And you could always tell when your blade was getting dull, because you'd have a little twig of a tree or something, you'd be whacking and beating on that thing.

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Eventually you'd just grab it and stomp on it because the machete ain't working. Like, well that was easy.

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I whacked at it like 50 times with a machete, nothing. Oh, okay.

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That was pretty easy. Keep moving. The Word of God is not like that. And you know what?

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Here's the cool thing, not only is the Word of God always sharp, always precise, always decisive, it never needs sharpening.

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It never wears out. The message is the same yesterday, today, and forever because Jesus Christ, who is the divine author of Scripture, is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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It doesn't matter what age we live in. It doesn't matter what time period. The Word of God is always sharp and precise and decisive.

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It's a sharp tool. It's a two -edged tool. This means it penetrates at every point of contact, going in, going out, no matter what at any time, it's always going to penetrate down to the heart.

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It's going to penetrate down exactly where it needs to go. It's a piercing tool.

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This goes along with number four, but number five, it's a piercing tool. It means it will literally cut right through you.

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It says it pierces as far as the division of soul and spirit. You can't get to know anybody no better than the division of their soul and spirit.

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We see so much of the outside, oh, well so -and -so looks this way, they have hair this way, or they walk a certain way, or they do this job, or they have this kind of car, you know they like to do this, or like to do that.

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You know certain attributes of people, right? God's Word knows you so well it cuts straight down to the bare bones of who you are, your very soul.

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Because it's a piercing tool. And it's amazing to me that both the inerrancy deniers and those that don't believe in Scripture, it always comes down to something they've encountered in Scripture that tells them something about themselves that needs to change.

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They don't want to hear it, so the easy thing is just say, well, you know, it's not God's Word. Because then we can put it in a closet somewhere and pretend like it doesn't exist.

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Because when you read it and you really get down into it, it shows you who you are. It has shown me who

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I am in so many countless times in my life. And you know what that means? What it implies? You can't just bring it on Sunday morning.

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Christianity is not a Sunday morning, 11 o 'clock to 12 p .m. life.

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If you're not in the Word of God daily, would any of us? I probably need to at least get close to trying this, but I still would recommend it.

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It's not healthy. But nobody would eat just one meal a day. If I was told

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I could only eat one meal a day, it would be Bojangles every day. But you can't just eat one meal a day and be healthy. It's not what we do.

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Now obviously they would recommend you control the portions of what you eat. But we eat more than one meal, don't we?

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More than one meal. Why in our spiritual life then do we think we can have one meal a week?

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One of the saddest things I've ever heard is someone told me one time that they knew this Christian, and they were,

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I don't even remember where this was. I hear things at Pops and Mad. It probably was somewhere back home. But somebody was telling me a story one time about some

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Christian they knew and they said, well where's your, they were out doing something in the middle of the week or something. They're like, well where's your

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Bible? Like, oh it's in my car. Why? Well I won't need it again until Sunday. That's where it stays until next Sunday.

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I'm like, what? That's my food.

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It's the food for my soul. I would not want to live without this book.

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It's that piercing tool, and it's how God prunes us. Because it's going to show you not only who you are, but what needs to change.

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One of the most dangerous Christians is the one that says, I don't need change. I'm perfect the way I am.

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Dangerous words. The Christian life is nothing but change. Continual conformity to the

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Son of God. Lastly, the Word of God is a discerning tool. It says it knows our thoughts and intentions.

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This kind of goes along with what we've always said. Don't ever think that God and His wisdom in revealing what we need doesn't know the intentions and thoughts of your heart.

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You think you can hide from God? Good luck! He knows where to find you. It's amazing to me how many people

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I talk to that haven't been in the Word of God long, and then they get back into it and say, Andy I don't even know how this happened, but I just happened to be looking through, and I landed here and it was exactly,

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God put His thumb exactly on what needed to change. The sin, or whatever it was that was in my life.

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It's like, okay, I get it. It's kind of what I do when I'm by myself. It's my whole like, yeah, okay

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God, I don't know how to look up because He's everywhere, but that's what I do. Yeah, I get it. He does that.

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Why? It's a discerning tool. It's not random. It knows exactly what you need at the exact right time.

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And sometimes what you're going to need is comfort. Sometimes what you're going to need is a pick -me -up. Sometimes you're going to need to read the promises of Scripture and know that tomorrow is going to be there and it's going to be okay.

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You can get up and face it because you have Jesus. And sometimes you need to be taken down a couple notches and realize that you're not

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God, and He is. Sometimes we need to be humble, but sometimes we need to understand,

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Lord I'm dealing with this problem, I don't know what to do. And this is where godly counsel comes in very well because we all are never going to have a full, exhaustive knowledge of everything in God's Word.

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We're going to need other Christians and other teachers that may have spent more time in a particular area to come alongside us and say, hey look,

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I'm a little bit more versed in this area. Let me walk you through the Word of God and show you some stuff. I have people like that in my life because I don't know everything.

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None of us do. But you know what we can know? If you're in the

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Word of God, He's going to prune you and you're going to bear more fruit. So finishing up, looking at John chapter 15,

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I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in Him, He bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. You will never know true joy.

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The true joy of John 15, 11 when He says these things, I have spoken to you so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be made full.

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You'll never know that joy if you don't abide in the Word of God. If you don't abide in Christ.

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Abide in Him. It's the greatest joy of the true branch is to abide in their vine.

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I want to abide in Christ. I want to abide in that vine. Because I want to have that joy.