{"id":546,"date":"2025-07-05T11:15:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T11:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soulsforchrist.co.nz\/blog\/?p=546"},"modified":"2025-07-22T11:54:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:54:02","slug":"john-155-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soulsforchrist.co.nz\/blog\/?p=546","title":{"rendered":"13. 5-Jul 2025: John 15:5-7 Abide in Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

 <\/sup>\u201cI am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.  <\/sup>If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them  into the fire, and they are burned. <\/sup>If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.<\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

( From Google )The word \u201cabide\u201d is used ten times in the first ten verses of John 15. Looking at the Greek roots of the word, we discover helpful definitions. To abide is to \u201cdwell,\u201d \u201cremain,\u201d \u201cbe present,\u201d and to \u201cbe held and kept.\u201d<\/strong>Abiding addresses our posture and place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hello friends, we see the true meaning of the word abide, is to dwell. this reminds me of David in Psalm 27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Psalm 27:4 One thing I have desired of the Lord,
That will I seek:
That I may dwell in the house of the Lord
All the days of my life,
To behold the beauty of the Lord,
And to inquire in His temple.<\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dwelling in Him, our Lord all the days of our lives. A connection deep down in our soul, where His word and Spirit is our essence and fragrance of life, springing out of our hearts, in His perfect love. The trinity of God our Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit abiding in us, if we abide in Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John 14:23<\/strong>. Jesus answered and said to him, \u201cIf anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.<\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a state of being, remaining spiritually connected through Jesus our source of life and light, so that He may produce an abundance of eternal fruit. Following His commandments, is obedience to His word, the vine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John 1:1-4<\/strong>. In the beginning\u00a0was the Word, and the\u00a0Word was\u00a0with God, and the Word was\u00a0God.\u00a0He was in the beginning with God.\u00a0All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.\u00a0In Him was life, and\u00a0the life was the light of men.<\/mark><\/em> And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.<\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus is just so incredibly unique, the greatest beauty to behold, to dwell or abide in. A beauty, that I am firmly intertwined with, drawing continually from His eternal love. He glorifies our Father in Heaven, the Holy Spirit glorifies Him through us, and we get to dwell in His house for ever and ever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you Father God for your perfect gift to us, our vine, your word, our Saviour, our life and light. The Christ our King, our everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God bless my friends, let us abide in Him together, in perfect love and unity for ever. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 \u201cI am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.  If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them  into the fire, and they are burned. If you abide in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encouragingourreaders"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulsforchrist.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulsforchrist.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulsforchrist.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulsforchrist.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulsforchrist.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/soulsforchrist.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"https:\/\/soulsforchrist.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulsforchrist.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulsforchrist.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulsforchrist.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}