Grace Fellowship Church Pastor/Teacher - Jim Rickard Tuesday, December 21,

Doxology Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise Him, all creatures here below; Praise Him above, ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.— Amen.

Memory Verse 2 Tim 2:4, “No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier.”

The Complete Translation of John Chapter 15

John 15:1, “I AM the True Vine and My Father is (has been and will always be), the Vinedresser.”

John 15:2, “Every branch, (Church Age believer), in Me, (in union with Jesus Christ the Vine), that does not bear fruit, (no Divine good production), He, (God the Father), takes it, (non fruit bearing Church Age believer), away, (divine discipline); But everyone bearing fruit (mature believers) He (God the Father) prunes it (Undeserved Suffering) in order that it should bear more fruit, (Divine good production).”

John 15:3, “You all (believers only) are already clean because of the Word (Gospel of Jesus Christ) that I (Jesus) have spoken to you all.”

John 15:4, “You all abide in (the sphere of) Me, (as I want you to), and (when you do) I (will abide) in you. As the branch (believer) is not able to produce fruit (Divine Good) by means of itself, unless it (the branch / believer) abides in the sphere of the Vine (Bible Doctrine), so neither are you all able to (produce Divine Good), unless you all abide in the sphere of Me.”

John 15:5, “I am the Vine, you the branches. He who abides in the sphere of Me and I in the sphere of him, this one brings forth much fruit. For since apart from Me you are not able to do, (produce Divine good), in any respect.”

John 15:6, “If any believer does not abide in Me, (is not Occupied with Me), He (the reversion- istic believer) is thrown away (Divine discipline) as a branch and he withers away; and they, (servants of the Vinedresser - Angels), gather them, (reversionistic believers), and they throw them into the fire; and they, (reversionistic believers), are consumed (Sin Unto Death).”

John 15:7, “If, (and maybe,) you are occupied with Me, and, (maybe,) you are occupied with My words, (Bible Doctrine), begin to ask whatever you all desire and it, (your prayer petitions), will come to pass, (be answered).”

John 15:8, “In the realm of this, (Divine Good Production), My Father is glorified that you all keep on bearing much fruit and you all become My disciples.”

John 15:9, “Just as the Father (has, does and will forever) loves Me, I also love you all; You all abide in the sphere of My love.”

John 15:10, “If you, (maybe you will and maybe you will not), persist in obedience to My commandments, then you will abide in the sphere of My love; just as I have persistently observed the commandments of My Father and therefore abide in the sphere of His love.”

John 15:11, “These doctrines I have spoken (taught verbally) to you all (disciples), in order that My joy (+H) might keep on being in the sphere of you all, and your joy (+H) might be made full.”

John 15:12, “This keeps on being My commandment, that you all (believers) love one another (fellow believers), just as I loved you all.”

John 15:13, “No one has greater love than this; that someone lay down his life on behalf of his beloved (fellow members of the Royal Family of God).”

John 15:14, “You all are and you keep on being My loved ones (friends), if you all, (maybe you will and maybe you will not), keep on doing what I myself command you.”

John 15:15, “I no longer call (designate) you all bond-servants, for the bond-servant does not know what his master is doing. To the contrary, I have called (designated) you all friends (loved ones). For everything I heard from My Father I have begun to make known to you all.”

John 15:16, “You all yourselves did not choose Me, on the contrary I Myself have chosen you all and appointed you all for the purpose that you might keep on going out (under the authority of God’s Word), and you all might keep on bearing fruit (Divine Good Production), and your fruit, it might keep on remaining (with the result of eternal rewards), for the purpose that whatever you all ask the Father in (the sphere of) My name (God’s protocol plan for our prayers), He (God the Father) may give to you all (answered prayers).”

John 15:17, “These things I command you all, with the goal that you all love one another.”

John 15:18, “If the world (Satan’s Cosmic System) hates you all (and it does), then you all keep on knowing (remembering), that it (Satan’s Cosmic System) has hated and still hates Me before (it hated) you all.”

John 15:19, “If you all were from the world, (Satan’s Cosmic System), (but you are not), the world would keep on having rapport love for its own, (you as an unbeliever), (but it does not); because to the contrary you are absolutely not from the world, rather I chose you for myself out from the world, for this reason the world (Satan’s Cosmic System) keeps on hating you all (the believer).”

John 15:20, “Remember My Word that I said (taught) to you all, if they persecuted Me (and they have), they will also persecute you all, (and they will). The servant is not greater than his master, (the believer in comparison to the Lord Jesus Christ); If they persecuted Me (and they have), they will also persecute you all, (and they will). If they kept My Word (Bible Doctrine) and they have, they will also keep yours (Bible Doctrine).”

John 15:21, “But all these things, (persecutions), they, (those of Satan’s Cosmic System), will do to you all (disciples of the Lord) for the sake of My (Jesus’) name. Because they (self-righteous legalistic religious types) inherently do not know the One (God the Father) who sent Me (Jesus Christ).”

John 15:22, “If I had not come (Christ’s First Advent / witness of life) and spoken (witness of words) to them, they (hypothetically) would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.”

John 15:23, “He who hates Me, also hates (keeps on hating) My Father.”

John 15:24, “If I had not done the works among (in the presence of) them which no one else did, they would not have (this category of) sin. But now they have (absolutely) both seen and hated not only Me but also My Father.”

John 15:25, “But in order that the Word written in their Law might be fulfilled, ‘they hated Me without cause’.”

John 15:26, “Whenever the Helper (God the Holy Spirit) comes, whom I (Jesus) will send to you all from (the source of) the Father, that is, the Spirit of Truth, (Bible Doctrine), who proceeds from (the source of) the Father, That One (God the Holy Spirit) will bear witness concerning Me.”

John 15:27, “And you also will bear witness, because you all have been with me from the beginning (of My ministry).”

Grace Fellowship Church Tuesday, December 21, 2010 Tape # Complete Translation of John 15 Upper Room Discourse, Part 454 John 15:1-27 James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2010