John 15:21-22 But all these things they will do to you for the sake of My name, because they do not know the One who sent Me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin. This breaks my heart, and…
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John 15:18-19 If the world hates you, know that it has hated Me before you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. But you are not of the world, since I have chosen you out of the world; therefore the world hates you. Did you ever leave a…
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John 15:17 These things I command you, so that you may love one another. What we are reading here in John 15, is a continuation of the dialogue that began in John 13, in the upper room at the last supper. Yeshua is speaking the truth urgently, because He is well aware that time is…
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John 15:16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you. I selected you so that you would go and produce fruit, and your fruit would remain. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in My name. What a treasure Yeshua spoke in His last hours on earth. He, Himself, was the first…
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John 15:13-14 No one has greater love than this: that he lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends if you do what I command you. I couldn’t resist putting these two verses together. Yeshua’s profession of love for His friends, coupled with a serious definition of who His friends are. This…
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John 15:12 This is My commandment, that you love one another just as I have loved you. Oh, the error! How is it even possible, this verse could be read and completely misunderstood? Yeshua is making His summation. These are His final words to His disciples before His crucifixion. Time is short. The situation is…
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John 15:11 These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and your joy may be full. Let’s try this again. Last time, we dealt with this same verse, but naturally, there was much left unsaid. Joy is a huge subject in the Bible, mentioned 165 times. It is…
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John 15:11 These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and your joy may be full. Joy is mentioned twice. Yeshua never speaks without a purpose. He is teaching us the principles of the kingdom of heaven (His kingdom) for a purpose, and that purpose has a lot…
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John 15:9-10 Just as the Father has loved Me, I also have loved you. Abide in My love! 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. “Abide” appears 3 times in these two verses. “Abide in My love!” “You…
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John 15:7-8 If you abide in Me and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it shall be done for you. In this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be My disciples. The translators didn’t do us much of a favor here. In English we…
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