John 15:5-7

John 15:5-15

New International Version (NIV)

Day 1

⁵ “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. ⁶ If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. ⁷ If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
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8} This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

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⁹ “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. ¹¹ I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.  

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¹² My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.  

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¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command. ¹⁵ I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.


Step 2 
What Does God's Word Say?
List Facts
⁵ Jesus is the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. ⁶ If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. ⁷ If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

Step 3 
What Does God's Word Mean?
Learn the lessons
I am a branch.  To bear fruit i must remain in the vine.  Warning - If I don't remain in the vine i will become worthless and be thrown into the fire and burned.  Promise - If I remains in Him and God's word remains in me i can have what i ask for.

Step 4
What Does God's word mean to me?
Do I accept and understand what it means to be a branch?  Do I try to do things apart from Christ and find my good intentions wither and die?  Do I spend enough time in God's word to remain in him?

Step 5
How will I respond to God's Word?
Live it out!
I will learn what it means to be a branch.  I will learn and accept that even my good intentions not lead by God will be thrown in the fire.  I will hold fast in my faith to seek God 1st and through out my day.