To become a disciple
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To become a disciple (John 15:1 - 8)
1. to have fruit
Jesus taught his disciples through the parable of the vine.
It is about the mission and the conditions necessary to fully fulfill it.
Disciples are not simply a gathering of individuals, but as a community as God's new Israel.
The unfinished Israel is completed as a new Israel in Jesus.
The new Israel is the redeemed people who receive spiritual life only from God.
Those who believe in Jesus are the organs (branches) connected to the body (tree) of Jesus.
We participate in the true life given by Jesus as a sacrifice on the cross.
Living in intimate communion with Jesus is the constant continual of the Father, the farmer of the vineyard.
The branch that does not bear fruit by living with consideration, the Father removes it,
Every branch that bears fruit makes it clean so that it may produce more fruit.
As the branches of the vine are cleansed so that they bear more abundant fruit.
Believers must be constantly cleansed in order to receive eternal life in Jesus.
The branch of the vine does not have the source of life in itself, but rather the trunk of the tree.
By getting the supply of the earth from the beginning, the disciples of Jesus are constantly sanctified.
If we abide in Jesus, and we abide in Jesus, His church service will be abundant.
They are promised fruit, but they do not want to receive spiritual power from Jesus.
A believer in name who does not even try to obey the discipline cannot bear fruit.
It is like dry branches, which people gather and throw into the fire to burn it up.
It is burned in the fire, for example, Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve.
Believers who trust in Jesus from the heart and obey His commandments
I can confess that it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me,
The effectiveness of the believer's prayer is confirmed by the experience of the indwelling Christ.
If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever you want.
Because of the effectiveness of the prayer that it will be done (7), the believer can bear much fruit,
When a believer bears fruit and proves that he is a disciple of Jesus, the Father is glorified.
You are not worthy as a disciple until you bear fruit,
In order to bear much fruit and prove that we are disciples, believers must be in the love of Jesus.
It means living a life of obedience to keep the commandments of Jesus.
Jesus' obedience to the Father as the Son
Because there was a fellowship of eternal love, and by the disciples keeping the commandments
You can follow Jesus only by reciprocating His love.
At that time, keeping the commandments is not suffering, but keeping them with joy.
The disciples preserve the living fellowship with Jesus and gain true life and satisfaction.
That joy is perfect joy, just like the joy of Jesus accomplishing the work of the Father.
The experience of the indwelling Christ of true believers is to bring each one of them into Christ.
not only to abide, but to unite one another firmly in Christ,
To dwell in is to live in the fellowship of believers in the church of Christ.
Jesus reminds his disciples of the honor and joy of their calling
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, so that you go and bear some fruit.
And that you may remain fruitful, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will receive it.
The disciples were sent by God, who laid down their lives for their friends.
As those who were chosen and appointed as apostles, they knew the dignity of their calling and showed
to find joy in the service of such sacrificial love,
By the power of prayer, He expects you to bear fruit forever and ever.
2. To bear fruit
Christ is the vine planted in the vineyard, not by chance.
We must bear fruit, and for this we must abide in Christ.
Because Christian temperament and character, life and conversation, piety and example are the fruits
We must demonstrate the power and purity of the religion we profess.
We must do good and glorify God, and this is the fruit.
Disciples who follow the Lord must bear the fruit of all righteousness as Christians.
As apostles, we must bear fruit by radiating the fragrance of the knowledge of Christ.
Those who do not bear fruit will be removed.
They will bear fruit if they are truly united to Christ by faith.
If they are bound by an outward confession, they are like dry branches, even if they look like branches.
The unfruitful confessors are confessors of unbelief, and they are no longer confessors.
those who cannot, and are unfruitful in Christ and in the Spirit and in grace,
Like those who bear no fruit at all, they will be cut out, which is natural.
A word of warning against kindness to the fruit-bearing branch.
Those who do not bear fruit because they are not truly united to Christ
Even what they have will be taken away
For those who bear fruit, in order that they may bear more fruit,
He cleanses the branches, so that they bear more fruit,
You remove the branches because it prevents them from bearing fruit.
Christ, according to his word, his Spirit, and his providence
He has promised to cleanse ungodly speech, and will bring forth more and more fruit.
It is in the care of the farmer that the branches are cleansed so that they may bear fruit.
Because of the teaching of Christ, believers benefit, and share that power with Christ.
It must be shown that it is obtained through fellowship. Now you are clean.
When Judas heard the words of Christ, what you were about to do,
By departing from the disciples, they are now cleansed.
The word of Christ has power to distinguish between the noble and the lowly.
He will divide and purify the Church on the Day of Judgment.
The disciples were all cleansed by faith in the word of truth of Christ.
The Spirit of grace through the Word of God frees us from the worldly and carnal,
Removed the Pharisees and scribes, but without the merits of Christ
You can never be justified and you can never reach sanctification except by the Spirit of Christ.
We must depend on Christ as the branches of the vine,
As sustaining, we too must be rooted in Christ and fed from Him.
Those who do not abide in Christ are forsaken and prosper for a little while.
It seems to be growing, but it bears no fruit and soon withers and becomes useless.
Satan's servants and messengers immediately took them and made them their slaves.
In the end you will go into the pit of unquenchable fire and be burned.
Those who abide in the word of Christ can get what they want through prayer.
Ask in the name of Jesus and you will receive.
As two kinds of parables about the relationship with Christ as the vine,
The unfruitful earthly branch and the fruitful spiritual and vital
In order that a branch that has no fruit may continue to bear more fruit,
The farmer removes it.
The only way to bear fruit is to maintain a vital spiritual relationship with Christ.
And he who bears faithful fruit is a disciple in the most perfect sense.
Obedience to Christ's commandments is essential to discipleship and spiritual communion with Christ.
?쏬ife on earth has come to an end, and the fruit of the vine
True discipleship does not begin until it has grown and matured.??Westcott said, ?쏛 true Christian is never perfect.
It is being completed.??
3. The result of bearing fruit
Love harmonizes the moral world and perfects the way of discipleship.
With love comes obedience, and with obedience comes love.
Love and obedience are the elements of the Son to the Father, and the elements of the believer to the Lord.
The ultimate purpose of bearing fruit is
To glorify God the Father and become a disciple of Christ
If you abide in my word, being my true disciples was a condition of bearing fruit.
As a disciple of the Lord through a life of abiding in the word of the Lord
I bless you to become a blessed saint who glorifies God.