Have you ever walked through a vineyard and tasted those delicious grapes? It requires a lot of hard work to grow good grapes. The husbandman must constantly prune the branches and pull out the weeds. If a branch is to bear fruit, it must be connected to the vine in order to get nourishment. Now, the Lord is the true vine who brought forth fruit for God the Father. If we want to be fruitful, we must abide in the Lord and obey His words. If we live for ourselves, we cannot bring forth fruit for God. The reason these things were spoken unto us is because God wants us to be happy and our joy to be full.
In the Old Testament, there was a man named Abraham who was called “the friend of God” (James 2:2323And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. (James 2:23)). But, do you know that we can be friends of God too? And if we are His friends, He will make all things known to us. Also, friends of God are not loved by the world, because they don’t belong to this world.
While here, the Lord certainly comforted His own. Now He was going to leave this world and send another Comforter from the Father. The Son came from the Father to bear witness to the Father, and the Spirit was coming from the Father to bear witness to the Son.
1. In order for the branch to bear fruit, where must it abide? __________ John 15:___
2. If we abide in Christ and His Word abides in us, He says we can ask what we will and what will happen? __________ John 15:___
3. The Lord Jesus has spoken these things to us that His joy would remain in us and that our joy __________. John 15:___
4. If we were of the world, it would love us. Why does the world hate us? We are __________. John 15:___
5. The Comforter that is sent from the Father also has another name. What is it? __________ John 15:___