We are reading through the Book of John together… join us as we finish the last 7 chapters this week… read a chapter a day..

John 15:5 “Yes,
I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in
them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.

• Jesus is vine, we are branch…

• He is the source of life and the
  point of the branch is to hold the fruit…

• the point is not the branch!! Why
  do we always think it's about us?

¹² This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. ¹³ There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command. ¹⁵ I
no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his
slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the
Father told me. ¹⁶ You
didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce
lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for,
using my name. ¹⁷ This is my command: Love each other.

• anytime Jesus says a “this is a
  command” we should probably listen and obey!

• Love like Jesus loves… wow!

• No greater love than ultimate
  sacrifice… give your life in place of somebody else…

• we are friends of Jesus if we
  obey….

• Obey what? LOVE EACH OTHER!

²³ Anyone who hates me also hates my Father. ²⁴ If
I hadn’t done such miraculous signs among them that no one else could
do, they would not be guilty. But as it is, they have seen everything I
did, yet they still hate me and my Father.

• opposite of love is hate

• if loving Jesus means obeying
  Him… and people don't obey Him… then they (and we, when we as
  Christ-followers don't obey) are actually hating Him!

• He is not just a good teacher, He
  is not just another viewpoint… He is either Lord or He is a liar!

• Just as there is no middle ground
  for who He is… there is no middle ground for us…

• we are either obeying Him…or not

• we are either loving Jesus… or
  not

• we worship Him as Lord… or not

• not a “fun” thought in a world
  where we are taught that all views are equal and valid… but once
  again, there is no middle ground here!!