{"id":3337,"date":"2017-10-15T15:03:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T19:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=3337"},"modified":"2017-10-15T15:03:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T19:03:24","slug":"branch-life-session-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=3337","title":{"rendered":"Branch Life, Session 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sermon by Rev. Richard Jones<\/strong><\/h3>\n

rec1015-112701<\/a><\/p>\n

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BRANCH LIFE<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n

Session\u00a03<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

John 15:9-17<\/strong><\/p>\n

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John 15:9-17 (ESV)
\n<\/strong>9 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.<\/span>
\n10 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father\u201d\u2122s commandments and abide in his love.<\/span>
\n11 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.<\/span>
\n12 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0\u201cThis is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.<\/span>
\n13 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.<\/span>
\n14 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0You are my friends if you do what I command you.<\/span>
\n15 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.<\/span>
\n16 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.<\/span>
\n17 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0These things I command you, so that you will love one another.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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FAVOR OF OBEDIENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n

9 <\/sup>\u00a0As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.<\/span>
\n10 <\/sup>\u00a0If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father\u201d\u2122s commandments and abide in his love.<\/span><\/p>\n

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John 10:27-30 (ESV)
\n<\/strong>27 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.<\/span>
\n28 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.<\/span>
\n29 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father\u201d\u2122s hand.<\/span>
\n30 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0I and the Father are one.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Romans 8:31-34 (ESV)
\n<\/strong>31 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
\n32 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
\n33 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Who shall bring any charge against God\u201d\u2122s elect? It is God who justifies.
\n34 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died\u201d\u201dmore than that, who was raised\u201d\u201dwho is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. <\/span><\/p>\n

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FELLOWSHIP OF THE KING<\/strong><\/p>\n

11 <\/sup>\u00a0These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.<\/span>
\n12 <\/sup>\u00a0\u201cThis is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.<\/span>
\n13 <\/sup>\u00a0Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.<\/span>
\n14 <\/sup>\u00a0You are my friends if you do what I command you.<\/span>
\n15 <\/sup>\u00a0No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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John 13:34-35 (ESV)
\n<\/strong>34 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.<\/span>
\n35 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

1 John 3:23 (ESV)
\n<\/strong>23 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.<\/p>\n

Psalm 25:14 (ESV)
\n<\/strong>14 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0The friendship of the LORD is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.<\/span>
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FUTURE OF MINISTRY<\/strong><\/p>\n

16 <\/sup>\u00a0You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.<\/span>
\n17 <\/sup>\u00a0These things I command you, so that you will love one another.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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Ephesians 1:4-5 (ESV)
\n<\/strong>4 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
\n5 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,<\/p>\n

Romans 8:29 (ESV)
\n<\/strong>29 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.<\/p>\n

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