The Lord’s commission in Matt. 28:19 is to go into all the world and disciple all the nations; His promise in Acts 1:8 about the coming of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples also says that “you will be My witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and unto the uttermost part […]
we were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ
November 27, 2009 by 1 Comment
1 Cor. 1:9 says God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Our God is a faithful God – He called us into the fellowship of His Son – He called us and placed us in the vine, Christ as the embodiment of God! Here […]
loving one another has a lot to do with our bearing fruit, which is our destiny
November 26, 2009 by Leave a Comment
In John 15:16 the Lord told us that it wasn’t us who chose Him, but He chose us, and He set us to bear fruit – and that our fruit should remain! Our goal and our destiny, as branches in the vine, is to bear fruit! All we need to do is to abide in […]
Apart from Christ we are and we can do nothing! We just need to abide in Him
November 25, 2009 by 1 Comment
I was enjoying John 15:4-5 this morning, which says, 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. I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in Me and I in […]
We are the branches in Christ as the vine (who is the organism of the Triune God)
November 23, 2009 by Leave a Comment
John 15:1-2 tells us that Christ is the real vine, and the Father is the husbandman. We, the many believers in Christ, are the many branches in the vine – and we are set to go forth and to bear fruit! In this whole universe there is a vine-tree, a universal vine-tree: Christ as the […]
