The Gospel of John: Chapter 15 | Pastor Terrey Brown

Message Date: April 9, 2025

Reading John 15:1-27 NKJV

¹“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. ²Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. ³You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. ⁴Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

⁵“I 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. ⁶If 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. ⁷If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, youwill ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. ⁸By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.

⁹“As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. ¹⁰If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

¹¹“These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. ¹²This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. ¹³Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. ¹⁴You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. ¹⁵No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Fatherin My name He may give you. ¹⁷These things I command you, that you love one another.

¹⁸“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. ¹⁹If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. ²⁰Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. ²¹But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. ²²If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³He who hates Me hates My Father also. ²⁴If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and also hated both Me and My Father. ²⁵But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’

²⁶“But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me. ²⁷And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning. – John 15:1-27 NKJV

”Arise, let us go from here.” – John 14:31 (NKJV)

Jesus had been with the disciples in the Upper Room. He now prepared to go to the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives to pray.

What did He talk about in the Upper Room?

Jesus was instructing His disciples on three vital relationships in John 15:

- Disciples are to be rightly related to Jesus. (15:1-10)
- Rightly related to one another. (v.11-17)
- Rightly related to the world (v.18 – 16:4)

Disciples are to be rightly related to Jesus. (15:1-10)

- To abide, or to remain with Him.

⁴Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. – John 15:4 NKJV

Disciples are to be rightly related to Jesus. (15:1-10)

- To abide, or to remain with Him.
- To bear much fruit or show evidence of the fact that He is in us.
- You cannot bear fruit without Jesus.

⁵He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. – John 15:5 NKJV

Disciples are to be rightly related to Jesus. (15:1-10)

- To abide, or to remain with Him.
- To bear much fruit or show evidence of the fact that He is in us.
- You cannot bear fruit without Jesus.
- This bearing fruit or showing evidence to the fact also proves that you are My or Jesus’ disciples.

⁸By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples. – John 15:8 NKJV