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46. John 15:1-6

From: Answers to Correspondents: From Things New and Old 1858-1863 By: Charles Henry Mackintosh

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“S. F.” In John 15:1-6¹I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. ²Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. ³Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. ⁴Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. ⁵I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. ⁶If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. (John 15:1‑6), there is no question as to the believer’s security. The grand point of the passage is simply this: Christ is the only source of fruit-bearing, and the Father must reject everything that springs not from realized union with Him. Thousands have been perplexed by this passage of Scripture, owing, as we believe, to the habit of introducing questions which have nothing whatever to do with it.

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• 31. Philippians 3:12

• 32. Sin in the Assembly

• 33. Salvation of Infants

• 34. On Fasting

• 35. Have Faith in God

• 36. The World Estimated in the Light of God

• 37. Baptism

• 38. The Love of Christ

• 39. Traveling on the Lord's Day

• 40. Conscience

• 41. Willful Sin

• 43. The Lord's Day

• 44. Thanksgiving at the Lord's Supper

• 45. Warnings in the Epistle to the Hebrews

• 46. John 15:1-6

• 48. Life in Christ

• 49. Proverbs 23:2

• 50. Family Worship

• 51. The Christian's Path

• 52. The Gift of Working Miracles

• 53. Watchman, What of the Night?

• 54. Matthew 10:23

• 55. We Walk by Faith

• 56. On Following Man

• 57. Revelation 14:13

• 58. The Ministry of Angels

• 59. Christ, the Life of the Believer