Union With Christ John 15:1-11 I Am… I am that bread of life (John 6:48) I am the light of the world (John 8:12) I am the door (John 10:9) I am the good.

Union With ChristJohn 15:1-11

I Am…• I am that bread of life (John 6:48)

• I am the light of the world (John 8:12)

• I am the door (John 10:9)

• I am the good shepherd (John 10:11)

• I am the resurrection and the life (John 11:25)

• I am the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6)

• I am the true vine (John 15:1)

What does John say about…

Vine

Vinedresser

Branch

VineA. The Deity of Jesus

B. The Life of Jesus

C. The Sufficiency of Jesus

D. The Exclusiveness of Jesus

E. The Affection of Jesus

DeityJohn 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 1:18 No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.

DeityJohn 5:18 This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

DeityJohn 10:33 The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.”

DeityJohn 14:9 Jesus said…“Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

John 20:28 Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”

LifeJohn 1:4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

John 6:33 For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.

LifeJohn 6:35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

John 6:48 I am the bread of life.

LifeJohn 6:53–54 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

LifeJohn 6:57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.

John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

LifeJohn 11:25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

SufficiencyJohn 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 1:16 For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.

SufficiencyJohn 6:35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. John 7:37 On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.

SufficiencyJohn 10:9 I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.

John 10:28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

ExclusivenessPsalm 80:7–8 Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! 8 You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.

ExclusivenessPsalm 80:14–17 Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine, the stock that your right hand planted, and for the son whom you made strong for yourself. They have burned it with fire; they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of your face! But let your hand be on the man of your right hand, the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself!

ExclusivenessIsaiah 5:1, 7 Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. 7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!

ExclusivenessJeremiah 2:21 Yet I planted you a choice vine, wholly of pure seed. How then have you turned degenerate and become a wild vine?

ExclusivenessEzekiel 15:1–8 Son of man, how does the wood of the vine surpass any wood, the vine branch that is among the trees of the forest? Is wood taken from it to make anything? Do people take a peg from it to hang any vessel on it? Behold, it is given to the fire for fuel. When the fire has consumed both ends of it, and the middle of it is charred, is it useful for anything? Behold, when it was whole, it was used for nothing. How much less, when the

fire has consumed it and it is charred, can it ever be used for anything! Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And I will set my face against them. Though they escape from the fire, the fire shall yet consume them, and you will know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them. And I will make the land desolate, because they have acted faithlessly, declares the Lord GOD.”

ExclusivenessEzekiel 19:10 Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard planted by the water, fruitful and full of branches by reason of abundant water.

Hosea 10:1 Israel is a luxuriant vine that yields its fruit. The more his fruit increased, the more altars he built; as his country improved, he improved his pillars.

ExclusivenessJohn 6:35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

John 8:12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

ExclusivenessJohn 10:9 I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.

John 10:11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

ExclusivenessJohn 11:25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Affection

VinedresserPsalm 80:8 You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.

VinedresserJohn 5:18–20 …he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God. So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing.

BranchJohn 15:2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

CalvinMany are supposed to be in the vine, according to man’s opinion, who actually have no root in the vine.

BranchJohn 13:10 Jesus said to him, “The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you.”

Branch1 John 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.

BranchReverse Order

• First, he prunes every branch that

does bear fruit.

• Second, he cuts off every branch that bears no fruit.

RyleThey are what they are, and feel what they feel, and do what they do, because they draw out of Jesus a continual supply of grace, help, and ability. Joined to the Lord by faith, and united in mysterious union with Him by the Spirit, they stand, and walk, and continue, and run the Christian race. But every jot of good about them is drawn from their spiritual Head, Jesus Christ.