Category: John 15
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Bearing Witness to Jesus
(John 15:26-27) Bearing witness is a fundamental process of life today. We see or hear something and then we tell others who may believe what we say or not. those who are sceptical may have the person telling the story say things like, “I saw it with my own eyes,” or “I heard it with…
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They Hated Me Without A Cause
(John 15:21-25) The first question that pops into my head looking at the title of today’s post is, “Why?” Why did the people of Jesus’ day hate Him without a cause? Why also do people hate him still today? There is certainly a common understanding among all people that Jesus did good things. He healed…
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A Servant is Not Greater than His Master
(John 15:18-20) There is a principle here that we can learn that will help us understand just how far we can go in our walk with Jesus Christ. There is also a warning and a reminder of what to expect as we walk with Christ in these verses. We see also that Jesus made us…
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The Friend Of God
(John 15:12-17) What do we need to know or do to be the friend of God? How should we behave? What customs should we keep? What do we give and put into a friendship with the supreme Creator of man and all that we can see and know in the universe around us? And how…
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If You Keep My Commandments
(John 15:8-11) We are looking at the section of John 15 where Jesus is teaching about Him being the vine, we are the branches and the Father is the vinedresser. In fact this is now my third post from this section and here we see Jesus add to the discussion about abiding in His love,…
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Abide In Me
(John 15:3-7) Jesus gives us a tremendous teaching in this section of scripture where He speaks about the need to abide in Him. He tells us that we need to abide in Him if we are to grow and mature, using the analogy of a vine and its branches. There are both blessings and warnings…
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I Am The True Vine
(John 15:1-2) Jesus said these words at the beginning of John 15: 1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch of mine that bears no fruit, he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.” There is a lot…
