[EE] [PREACHING LESSON 8:] GOOD DAILY HABITS OF THE CHRISTIAN THAT HELP THE CHRISTIAN TO BE MATURED IN CHRISTIAN LIFE AND BE FRUITFUL IN THEIR SPIRITUAL LIFE.

GOOD DAILY HABITS OF THE CHRISTIAN THAT HELP THE CHRISTIAN TO BE MATURED IN CHRISTIAN LIFE AND BE FRUITFUL IN THEIR SPIRITUAL LIFE.

 

Abide: meaning

1: to remain or fix our love to the Lord

2: to continue to be faithful to God

(John 15:1-16)

 

1. ALWAYS ABIDE IN JESUS CHRIST TO ASSURE INTIMACY WITH GOD.

 

(John 15:1-3) [1]I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

[2]Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

[3]Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

4.Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

 

* Abide: meaning to remain your love and faith to Christ.

 

2. ALWAYS ABIDE IN JESUS CHRIST TO ASSURE A CLEAN LIFE OF THE CHRISTIAN.

 

(John 15:3) [3]Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

 

3. ALWAYS ABIDE IN JESUS CHRIST TO ASSURE FRUITFULNESS IN CHRISTIAN LIFE.

 

(John 15:5-6) [5]I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

[6]If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

 

* Christ is the ultimate source of fruitfulness of the Christian.

 

(John 15:8) Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

 

( John 15:16 ) Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

 

4. ALWAYS ABIDE IN JESUS CHRIST TO ASSURE TO CONTINUE IN THE LOVE OF GOD.

 

(John 15:9-12) [9]As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

[10]If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

[11]These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

[12]This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

 

5. ABIDE IN JESUS CHRIST TO ASSURE THE PRAYERS OF THE CHRISTIAN BE ANSWERED.

 

( John 15: 15-16 ) [15]Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

[16]Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

* God bless you all always *