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Intoduction
Good morning if you have your Bibles go ahead and open up to John chapter 15 and we will start in verse 1 in a moment.
Today in the life of the church is Palm sunday.
It is tranditionally the focus on holy week reflecting and celbrating on the last week of Jesus life.
This upcoming friday would be good friday that would mark the death of Jesus.
and then as we gather together next Sunday we will celebrate the risen saviour together.
and as we move towards that celebration we gather together today to look at our 6th I am statement in the gospel of John
In case you haven’t been with us we have looked at the I am statements in the gospel of John to learn about who Jesus is.
So often at this time of year we relfect on what he’s done and miss the beatuy of who Christ is and who that makes us.
We started with
I am the bread of life- Jesus alone satisfies
I am the light of the world- Jesus steps into our darkness
I am the door- looking at the safety and security Jesus provides
I am the good shepard- Focused on the qualites of the shepard
I am the way, the truth and the life.....Jesus gives us access to the father
Next week we will look at the passsage where he says I am the resurection and the life but this week the I am statement can be a little confusing to us because of the analogy Jesus uses.
However to a first centruay Jewish person it would have been a normal everday use of the the images they interacted with.
Just a reminder as we read this passage today we are in the last 24 hours of Jesus life.
These are some of the last words he would speak to his disciples before he would be crucified.
most likely these words are spoken between the upper room and the garden of gastheme.
let’s dive in a read the text
Pray
Verse 1 is actually the 7th I am statement in the book of John and reading it at first glance with no OT background would be a litlle confusing....your thinking Why in the world is Jesus saying that he is the true vine?
but the OT imargery is vivid.
All throughout the OT the nation of Isreal or Gods people are reffered to as the vine.
However almost everytime Isreal is reffered to as the vine it is negitive.
they are failing and gods wrath and judement is coming on them.
and now in this moment Jesus looks at his disiciples and changes this concept radically.
He says I am the vine.
IN fact I am the true vine. in every single place Gods people have got it worng, I will get it right
I will do what they can’t do.
I will follow the father in perfect obeidence.
What he is saying right here to his disiciples is I am who you can’t be
And teaching us this timeless truth that
1. Jesus suceeds where we fail.
and becasue Jesus suceeds where we fail he prunes us so that we produce more fruit.
so he makes it clear he says anyone who doesn’t produce fruit in their lives is not of me.
but if you do produce fruit, not only does it prove that you belong to me but as you do bear fruit I will prune you for one purpose to produce more fruit.
This can be a little scary at first blush.
Jesus is basically saying hey if you are mine I am going to come like a gardner does to a vineyard and I am going to cut you like a gardner does.
I don’t know about you but If I am with Jesus that night.....I am not like dude that sounds awesome.
No I am backing up in that moment.
I am thinking.
this is not what I signed up for.
Like I don’t want you to cut me Jesus.
HOwever Jesus is clear there is a purpose, there is a reason, and that is so that you produce more fruit.
Like the goal of a fruit bearing plant isn’t to just produce fruit so that people can just look at it and say AWESOME fruit.
no it’s to feed people and then to grow more fruit.
same with a christina.
you don’t live a certain way so people just look at you and say AWESOME!
That looks great.
No it’s to produce the fruit, get pruned and produce more fruit.
and what’s this fruit suppose to look like.
That’s found in
Galatians 5:22-23
notice what paul does here.
He says the fruit of the spirit....not the fruits but singular the fruit.
These chartirestics are all tied together.
And if you are a christ follower Jesus makes it clear these will be evident in your life.
not in a perfect way but there will be some evidence of these in your life.
In our fots sereis back in summer 2015 we talked about tim kellers defenations on these words and while we can’t unpack the whole sermon series here is a reminder of what this fruit should look like
Agape – love
Definition – To serve a person for their good and intrinsic value, not for what the person brings you.
Chara – joy
Definition – Delight in God and his salvation for sheer beauty and worth of who he is.
Irene – peace
Definition – Confidence and rest in the wisdom and sovereignty of God more than your own.
Makrothumia – patience
Definition – Ability to take trouble (from others or life) without blowing.
To suffer joyfully.
Chrestotes – kindness
Definition – Practical kindness with vulnerability out of deep inner security.
Agathosune – goodness.
(integrity)
Definition – Honesty, transparency.
Being the same in one situation as another.
Pistis – faithfulness.
Definition – Loyalty.
Courage.
To be principle-driven, committed, utterly reliable.
True to one’s word.
Prautas – gentleness.
(humility)
Definition – Self-forgetfulness.
Egkrateia – self-control
Definition – Ability to choose the important thing over the urgent.
and when Jesus says if you in me I am going to prune some things out of your life so there will be more of this type of fruit in your life.
Let me illustrate it for you this way
Seminary
preaching class
I got this
I felt like I was gods gift to my NOTBS extenstion center class there where 8 of us.
it was my turn to preach preached to 8 people at FBC athens in my class
and I knew it I KILLED IT. my best friend zach said I killed it…and to this day he stands by that.
I got a 72
I was crushed.
as the class went on we had a lady in the class who was in her late 60s early 70s
and she was awesome.
She had gone to seminary with her husband and he was retiring from ministry and she was coming back to finshish her degree.
YOu got up to preach which was pretty interesting.
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