Gospel of John

“I AM the True Vine…I AM the Vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, He will bear much fruit; apart from Me you can do nothing.”

John 15:1a,5

Memory Verse

1st sign – Jesus changes the water into wine

2nd Sign - Jesus heals the Official’s son

3rd sign – Jesus heals the invalid in Jerusalem during the Feast

4th sign – Jesus feeds 5,000 men, women and children beside the Sea of Galilee

7 Signs

5th sign – Jesus walks on water

6th sign – Healing a man blind from birth

7th sign – the final and most dramatic sign, Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead.

7 Signs

1st - John the Baptist – the Lamb of God

2nd - Nathanael - the King of Israel

3rd – Peter - the Holy One of God”.

4th - Martha –You are the Christ, the Son of God who was to come into the world”

7 Witnesses

1st - I AM the Bread of Life 2nd - I AM the Light of the World 3rd - I AM the Gate for the Sheep4th - I AM the Good Shepherd5th - I AM the Resurrection and the Life6th - I AM the Way and the Truth and the Life7th - I AM the True Vine and my Father is the

Gardener

I AM Statements

You uprooted a vine from Egypt; you drove out nations and transplanted it. You cleared the ground for it; it

took root, and filled the land.

Psalm 80:8

I planted you in the land like a special vine of the very best stock. Why in the world have you turned

into something like a wild vine that produces rotten, foul-smelling

grapes?

Jeremiah 2:21

Israel was once a lush vine, bountiful in grapes. The more lavish the harvest, the more promiscuous the worship. The more money they got, the more they squandered on gods-in-their-own-image. Their sweet smiles are sheer lies. They’re guilty as sin. God will smash their worship shrines, pulverize their god-images.

Hosea 10:1-3; The Message

You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

John 15:3

I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

John 15:5

It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time: repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage; frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness; trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness; cutthroat competition;

all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; a brutal temper; an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives; small-minded and lopsided pursuits; the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival; uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions; ugly parodies of community. I could go on.

Galatians 5:19-21

But what happens when we live God’s way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard-things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people.

We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments, not needing to force our way in life, able to marshal and direct our energies wisely. Legalism is helpless in bringing this about; it only gets in the way. Among those who belong to Christ, everything connected with getting our own way and mindlessly responding to what everyone else calls necessities is killed off for good-crucified.

Colossians 3:12-17

If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.

John 15:6

For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me. Now this is the will of the one who sent me – that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day. For this is the will of my Father – for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”

John 6:38-40

But you refuse to believe because you are not my sheep. My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father’s hand. The Father and I are one.”

John 10:26-30

If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

John 15:7-8

If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.

John 15:10

“Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He

who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show

myself to him. ”

John 14:21

If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete

John 15:10-11

My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this that he lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command.

John 15:14

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that remains, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you. This is my command: Love each other.

John 15:16

And then he told me, My grace is enough; it’s all you need. My strength comes into its own in your weakness. Once I heard that, I was glad to let it happen. I quit focusing on the handicap and began appreciating the gift. It was a case of Christ’s strength moving in on my weakness. Now I take limitations in stride, and with good cheer, these limitations that cut me down to size - abuse, accidents, opposition, bad breaks. I just let Christ take over! And so the weaker I get, the stronger I become. 2 Corinthians 12:9-10

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates me hates my Father as well. If I had not done among them what no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen these miracles, and yet they have hated both me and my Father.

John 15:22-24

But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: They hated me without reason.

John 15:25

When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me. And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.

John 15:26