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Introduction
[SLIDE 1]: NEW SERIES INTRO
[SLIDE 2: MADE FOR SPIRITUAL VITALITY
[SLIDE 3]: 2019 is in the books!
Turning the page.
Some: Glad 2020 is over
Others: sad its gone
Gym memes
What’s Your 2020 Vision?
What will you do to be your best self this year?
Or how about to have your best, optimized life?
Or even experience the promise of God for new life?
You, family
How can we experience the promise of God for new life?
What will the year hold?
Our Church
What will we do to be a more deeply spirit filled faith community?
Reach more people?
SLIDE 4] What We’re Seeking
Vitality: More meaningful and fruitful lives…to be more well, productive, have deeper relationships, etc.
Plenty of Solutions to Help you Get there FAST
Gurus
Systems
Plans
Hacks, etc
#1 thing to do or pay attention to
No Shortcuts, Hacks, etc
The How is as (if not more) important as the what
Vine Metaphor
John experienced Jesus’ life and ministry.
He was familiar with the expectations for the messiah; he lived the ethnic hostilities between Jews and Samaritans and the contempt the religious people had for the common people.
#1 thing to do or pay attention to
He understood Jewish ideas, customs and traditions as well as the Greco-Roman context where his readers lived.
He wanted anyone who would read this that they might believe (for the first time AND in this passage keep on believing that Jesus is the Messiah and have
Life - the Messiah is not just for information but the path to life...
Vitality
Main message: God sent Jesus and he comes to bring vitality to life.
The How is as (if not more) important as the what
So John writes about the last of the 7 I am sayings after the last supper during passion week.
This is the last of the 7 I am sayings (I am the true vine...my father is the gardener).
[SLIDE 5] Jesus on the What: 2 Parts
Jesus on the What
[SLIDE 5.1] Fruitful Life
Galatians 5
[SLIDE 5.2 ]Fruitful Ministry
Disciple making which is the result of the work of the Kingdom and it’s Gospel in and through us
2-3: Vine metaphor helps us understand roles, relationships, function or work.
SLIDE 6] Jesus on the Who: 3 Players
The Father
Gardener.
The Father (gardener) is in control of both Jesus' ministry (as the vine) and that of his disciples (the branches).
Provides everything needed for a healthy, fruitful vineyard.
There is a play on the words to clea (kathairo) and clean (katharos).
The disciples have already been made clean and now the Father also cleanses/prunes the disciples/branches so that they would bear more fruit.
Jesus
True Vine
The fruitful vine (Ez 17:5–10) and “the vine brought out of Egypt” () were symbolic of the Jewish people.
Jesus compares himself to the true vine of which his disciples were the branches ().
The grape vine was held in high regard by the Israelites.
True (alethinos) - what is genuine.
True worshipers, true bread, true vine, true God.
As the true vine, he produced what the nation of Israel failed to produce: fruit for which the Father was looking: restoration, salvation, etc.
Disciples
Made clean through the word Jesus spoke and then our response to it is where we become more fruitful or are continually pruned.
branches = Fruit Bearers
Disciples - branches/fruit bearers.
Ex: Judas was a branch cut off ().
Allusion her to the spring pruning of vines during the flowering stage so that fruit-bearing is maximized.
Relationships
The Father and Jesus
Jesus and Us/Disciples
[SLIDE 7] Jesus on the How: 2 Activities
Pruning
MSG - v 2 - he cuts off every branch OF me.
Others - IN me.
Disciples are pruned to increase our fruit bearing OR cut off because they fail to produce fruit.
Ex: Judas was a branch cut off ().
Allusion her to the spring pruning of vines during the flowering stage so that fruit-bearing is maximized.
To prune (kathairo) also means to clean or to purify
3 - MSG: you are already pruned back by the message I have spoken.
Declared clean/right/good
Continually made clean/right/good
Jesus Gives that which makes us clean: the word spoken to them = what he taught them.
Every branch (disciple) that does produce fruit he cuts back so it will bear even more fruit
Disciples are pruned to increase our fruit bearing OR cut off because they fail to produce fruit.
Ex: Judas was a branch cut off ().
Allusion her to the spring pruning of vines during the flowering stage so that fruit-bearing is maximized.
Ex: Judas was a branch cut off ().
Allusion her to the spring pruning of vines during the flowering stage so that fruit-bearing is maximized.
Every branch that does produce fruit he cuts back so it will bear even more fruit.
What he taught them and us empowers us through his abiding with us
In 13:10-11 is used to describe the disciples (- Judas) as clean and here to the 11: you are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
There is a play on the words to clea (kathairo) and clean (katharos).
The disciples have already been made clean and now the Father also cleanses/prunes the disciples/branches so that they would bear more fruit.
Pruning - have been made clean (declared) and are continually made clean (Spirit and word) through the ongoing work of the spirit and truth and our response to it.
Made clean through the word Jesus spoke and then our response to it is where we become more fruitful or are continually pruned.
What else gets cut back?
What are the things that God cuts out of our lives in order that we might experience his presence and others would experience his presence by being around us?
How is our response to Jesus' teaching doing that?
Some of us read this and clearly it’s sin.
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