abide in the vine Archives - Page 2 of 2 - enjoying Christ

Not an exchanged life, but a grafted life: Christ replaces us by living in us, with us, by us, and through us!

October 2, 2010 by aGodMan Leave a Comment

This week we are enjoying the fact that Christ is God’s Beloved, His Favorite, and He is the One who is all and in all in God’s economy – so He replaces everything and everyone else with Himself! In God’s eyes, Christ is the best, and Christ is the One God wants – so all […]

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God is willing to do many things, but He waits for our cooperation, our prayer

February 10, 2010 by aGodMan 2 Comments

There are some very encouraging verses in the Bible like “all things that you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and you will have them”(Mark 11:24) and “… that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He may give you” (John 15:16). These and many other verses (John 14:13, 15:7, 16:24) show […]

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our Christian life is a life of preaching the gospel by loving one another

December 14, 2009 by aGodMan Leave a Comment

Until the Lord comes, since we are saved, we preach the gospel through our living, our attitude, our words – our very Christian life is a preaching of the gospel. Actually, according to Paul’s word in Phil 1:5-6, it is Christ who does this good work of preaching the gospel. Christ preaches the gospel in […]

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we were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ

November 27, 2009 by aGodMan 1 Comment

1 Cor. 1:9 says God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Our God is a faithful God – He called us into the fellowship of His Son – He called us and placed us in the vine, Christ as the embodiment of God! Here […]

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loving one another has a lot to do with our bearing fruit, which is our destiny

November 26, 2009 by aGodMan Leave a Comment

In John 15:16 the Lord told us that it wasn’t us who chose Him, but He chose us, and He set us to bear fruit – and that our fruit should remain! Our goal and our destiny, as branches in the vine, is to bear fruit! All we need to do is to abide in […]

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Apart from Christ we are and we can do nothing! We just need to abide in Him

November 25, 2009 by aGodMan 1 Comment

I was enjoying John 15:4-5 this morning, which says, Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in Me and I in […]

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We are the branches in Christ as the vine (who is the organism of the Triune God)

November 23, 2009 by aGodMan Leave a Comment

John 15:1-2 tells us that Christ is the real vine, and the Father is the husbandman. We, the many believers in Christ, are the many branches in the vine – and we are set to go forth and to bear fruit! In this whole universe there is a vine-tree, a universal vine-tree: Christ as the […]

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