Four Themes of John 15 | 21 Days in John | Dave Hoffman | September 16 & 17, 2023
Part of Message Notes
September 16, 2023
John 15:4-5
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. 5 I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.
Four Themes of John 15
1. Apart from me you can do nothing.
I’m only as good as I let God make me.
Four Themes of John 15
1. Apart from me you can do nothing.
2. God answers prayer.
John 15:7, 8, 16
If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
8 My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples.
16 You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.
1 John 5:14-15
This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 15 And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.
1. Yes.
2. Yes, in a little while.
3. Yes, but you’re part of the answer.
4. Yes, I hear you, but I have something better planned.
Four Themes of John 15
1. Apart from me you can do nothing.
2. God answers prayer.
3. Love one another.
John 15: 12-14, 17
12 “This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.
13 Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.
14 You are My friends if you do what I command you.
17 This I command you, that you love one another.
Eros = Romantic love
Phileo = Deep friendship
Agape = Self sacrificial love, a love of action
1 John 3:7-8 (Living Bible)
7 Dear brothers, I am not writing out a new rule for you to obey for it is an old one you have always had, right from the start. You have heard it all before. 8 Yet it is always new, and works for you just as it did for Christ; and as we obey this commandment, to love one another, the darkness in our lives disappears and the new light of life in Christ shines in.
Four Themes of John 15
1. Apart from me you can do nothing.
2. God answers prayer.
3. Love one another.
4. Persecution is inevitable.
John 15:18-20
“If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also.
Romans 1:16
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
1 Peter 4:14
14 If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
2 Chronicles 16:9
For the eyes of the Lord move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His. You have acted foolishly in this. Indeed, from now on you will surely have wars.”
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