The Abiding Life, Part VThe Secrets to a Supernatural Life

Pastor Joe Pursch

Chinese Grace Bible ChurchSunday, February 26, 2012

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John 15:7-8 (ESV)

7  If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

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John 15:7-8 (ESV)

8  By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

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I. Realize the Amazing ____________ You Have In Christ!Potential

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John 15:7 (ESV)

7  If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

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John 15:1-5 (ESV)

1  “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.

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John 15:1-5 (ESV)

2  Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

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John 15:1-5 (ESV)

3  Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.

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John 15:1-5 (ESV)

4  Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.

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John 15:1-5 (ESV)

5  I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

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Galatians 5:22-23 (ESV)

22  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

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Galatians 5:22-23 (ESV)

23  gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

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Hebrews 13:15 (ESV)

15  Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.

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Colossians 1:5-10 (ESV)

5  because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel,

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Colossians 1:5-10 (ESV)

6  which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth,

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Colossians 1:5-10 (ESV)

7  just as you learned it from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf

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Colossians 1:5-10 (ESV)

8  and has made known to us your love in the Spirit.

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Colossians 1:5-10 (ESV)

9  And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

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Colossians 1:5-10 (ESV)

10  so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.

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John 4:35-37 (ESV)

35  Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest.

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John 4:35-37 (ESV)

36  Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.

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John 4:35-37 (ESV)

37  For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’

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Galatians 2:20 (ESV)

20  I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

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I. Realize the Amazing ____________ You Have In Christ!Potential

A. The Promise to See

B. The Principle to Believe

C. The Process to Follow

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II. Realize the Amazing ______________ You Have In Christ!

Authority

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John 15:7 (ESV)

7  If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

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1 John 5:14-15 (ESV)

14  And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

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1 John 5:14-15 (ESV)

15  And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

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Psalm 37:4 (ESV)

4  Delight yourself in the Lord,    and he will give you the desires of your heart.

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Colossians 3:16-17 (ESV)

16  Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

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Colossians 3:16-17 (ESV)

17  And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

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II. Realize the Amazing ______________ You Have In Christ!

Authority

A. The Promise to See

B. The Principle to Believe

C. The Process to Follow

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III. Realize the Great _________ You Have in Christ!

Honor

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John 15:8 (ESV)

8  By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

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John 14:13 (ESV)

13  Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

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Matthew 5:16 (ESV)

16  In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

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Philippians 1:11 (ESV)

11  filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

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III. Realize the Great _________ You Have in Christ!

Honor

A. The Promise to See

B. The Principle to Believe

C. The Process to Follow