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Introduction:
At this point in Christ’s ministry His time is short and he about to go to the cross.
He takes his disciples and eats with them one last time the Passover Meal.
You can imagine the disciples all sitting around this spread of food reflecting on God’s initial deliverance of Israel thousands of years ago from Egyptian slavery.
Maybe a small group of Roman soldiers walked by reminding them they still were under someone else’s sovereign rule; rendering the old covenant somewhat ineffective.
None-the-less, with their Christmas like anticipation, they sat with Christ eating the Passover wondering what’s next; will this messiah deliver them for good.
For the next five chapters Christ gives his last instructions to his disciples.
In John’s account, this is the longest uninterrupted speech by Christ ever recorded.
At this point in Christ’s ministry His time is short and he about to go to the cross.
He takes his disciples and eats with them one last time the Passover Meal.
You can imagine the disciples all sitting around this spread of food reflecting on God’s initial deliverance of Israel thousands of years ago from Egyptian slavery.
Maybe a small group of Roman soldiers walked by reminding them they still were under someone else’s sovereign rule; rendering the old covenant somewhat ineffective.
None-the-less, with their Christmas like anticipation, they sat with Christ eating the Passover wondering what’s next; will this messiah deliver them for good.
For the next five chapters Christ gives his last instructions to his disciples.
In John’s account, this is the longest uninterrupted speech by Christ ever recorded.
1) Washes his disciple’s feet
1) Washes his disciple’s feet
2) Betrayal
2) Betrayal
3) New Commandment (Love)
3) New Commandment (Love)
4) I am the Truth, the Life, and the Way.
4) I am the Truth, the Life, and the Way.
5) Promise of the Holy Spirit
5) Promise of the Holy Spirit
6) I am the Vine
6) I am the Vine
7) World will hate you
7) World will hate you
8) Work of the Holy Spirit
8) Work of the Holy Spirit
9) Sorrow to Joy
9) Sorrow to Joy
10) Final prayer
10) Final prayer
Who He Is:
Who He Is:
“I am the vine and my Father is the gardener” ().
“I am the vine and my Father is the gardener” ().
Jesus uses “I Am” language throughout this passage denoting his divine self.
Here in chapter fifteen Jesus is saying “I Am” again, this time equating himself to Israel by saying I Am the True Vine.
His disciples must have had a couple passages come to mind:
Jesus uses “I Am” language throughout this passage denoting his divine self.
Here in chapter fifteen Jesus is saying “I Am” again, this time equating himself to Israel by saying I Am the True Vine.
His disciples must have had a couple passages come to mind:
“A pleasant vineyard sing of it!
I, the Lord, am its keeper; every moment I water it.
Lest anyone punish it, I keep it night and day” ()
“A pleasant vineyard sing of it!
I, the Lord, am its keeper; every moment I water it.
Lest anyone punish it, I keep it night and day” ()
“Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard; My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
He dug it and cleared it of stones and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it” ()
“Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard; My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
He dug it and cleared it of stones and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it” ()
At this point it was clear Christ was in division with the Pharisees, the ‘Israel” of their time.
He has spent the last twelve chapters and three years of his life opening rebuking the Jewish leaders of His day.
He now thinks it necessary to make it clear Israel is not dead, just as the Prophecies and Law are not dead.
Instead, Christ is the fulfillment of all these.
In fact, Christ is the fullness of Israel, the law, the prophets, and the whole Old Testament.
He was about to do what none of these could do in-and-of-themselves.
In a real sense John is paralleling the opening of his Gospel with Christ’s incarnation.
At this point it was clear Christ was in division with the Pharisees, the ‘Israel” of their time.
He has spent the last twelve chapters and three years of his life opening rebuking the Jewish leaders of His day.
He now thinks it necessary to make it clear Israel is not dead, just as the Prophecies and Law are not dead.
Instead, Christ is the fulfillment of all these.
In fact, Christ is the fullness of Israel, the law, the prophets, and the whole Old Testament.
He was about to do what none of these could do in-and-of-themselves.
In a real sense John is paralleling the opening of his Gospel with Christ’s incarnation.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made” ().
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made” ().
This God in the flesh demonstrates this Word with such accuracy it probably seemed to John that the parchment got up and started living right in front of him.
It would not be enough to say that Christ was emulating or personifying scripture, it seems that John thought all of scripture was trying to imitate him!
This God in the flesh demonstrates this Word with such accuracy it probably seemed to John that the parchment got up and started living right in front of him.
It would not be enough to say that Christ was emulating or personifying scripture, it seems that John thought all of scripture was trying to imitate him!
Christ was something that was bigger than the word itself; not as a replacement, but what all of the profits and fore-fathers were pointing to this entire time.
He really was a fulfillment of the law ().
This concept must have been so strong in John’s mind that The Word and Christ became synonyms: Christ’s eternal, so is the word; He created, so did the word; He was with God, so was the word.
This same truth is being explained here, “I am the vine and my Father is the Gardener.”
He is making himself the embodiment of a much larger idea.
In our passage He is Israel.
Christ was something that was bigger than the word itself; not as a replacement, but what all of the profits and fore-fathers were pointing to this entire time.
He really was a fulfillment of the law ().
This concept must have been so strong in John’s mind that The Word and Christ became synonyms: Christ’s eternal, so is the word; He created, so did the word; He was with God, so was the word.
This same truth is being explained here, “I am the vine and my Father is the Gardener.”
He is making himself the embodiment of a much larger idea.
In our passage He is Israel.
Application: This concept would have been immense and challenging for the Disciples to understand that night, and I am not sure they believed it entirely having not understood it.
However, they also would have been very encouraged with the thought that they were the remnant of the ‘True’ Israel.
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