The Cost of Rejecting Christ

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

John 15:22

When someone hears the gospel of Jesus Christ, it is a divine appointment and they are…

Wither or Grow

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

John 15:6

If ever a verse of scripture could be used to teach that someone could lose their salvation…

If You Keep My Commandments

If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.

John 15:10

Another verse that is easy to misunderstand. Is Christ teaching conditional salvation here —…

Fruit that Will Abide, Part 3

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

John 15:16

Fruit that Will Abide, Part 2

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

John 15:16

An Absence of Relationship

But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.

John 15:21

The great dividing line between Christians and non-believers is the knowledge of the Father — in other words, a…

Not Greater Than Our Master

Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

John 15:20

Friends in the Know

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

John 15:15

His Friends

You are my friends if you do what I command you.

John 15:14

Christ in these words introduces to the world the new status of His followers, that will be until He returns. We are called His friends, stressing the intimacy and the closeness we have to the…

If the World Hates You

If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.

John 15:18

There are three entities that stand opposed to God: the world, the flesh, and the devil.