HALLEJULAH – PRAISE YE YAH FOR EMMANUEL
THE REASON FOR THE SEASON
OUR MOTHER’S FAVORITE SCRIPTURE
“John - Chapter 15”
THE REASON FOR THE SEASON
OUR MOTHER’S FAVORITE SCRIPTURE
“John - Chapter 15”
My Mother was 84 years old when she departed this flesh life to be reunited with our LORD, however never missed a day studying our Father God’s Word of Truth, in-depth, Chapter by Chapter and Verse by Verse. You are never to young or too old to embrace the Truth of the Word of Almighty God no matter how many years are spent sitting on a church pew never learning. One of our Mother’s favorite Bible Scriptures was John – Chapter 15.
John15:1 says, “[I] AM the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.” Jesus said, “I am the True Vine”, signifying there must also be a false vine. In this Second or Flesh Age, for every positive there is also its corresponding negative [Ecclesiastes 3:1 – 8].
John 15:2 says, “Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.” Those who do not bear fruit unto the True Vine, Christ Jesus, are those who belong unto the false vine, satan. There are only two choices one can make, good or evil, [not good and evil], which is Jesus Christ or instead of jesus [satan] [Genesis – Chapter 2].
John 15:3 says, “Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.” Christ Jesus is our Living Word made flesh full of grace and truth [John – Chapter 1]. “Clean” as in a similitude [likeness], like a vine cleansed by pruning and so fitted to bear fruit, if one hears, keeps and does the Word of Truth of our Father God. Bearing fruit requires work as James 2:18 says, “Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.”
John 15:4 says, “Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.” Without Christ Jesus we are nothing and our Lord teaches in John 3:16, “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” “Abide” is “meno”, meaning, we are the temples of our Father God, and He comes unto us and makes His dwelling place within us [I John 2:1 – 6]. Our Father God breathed the breath of life into us at our conception because our God is a Spirit and we must worship Him in spirit and in truth.
John 15:5 says, “I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.” We learn in John 14:6 that “Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” “Jesus is Emmanuel”, meaning “God with us” and our Father, who through His only Begotten Son, gives to all life, and breath, and all things.
John 15:6 says, “If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.” One can either abide in Christ Jesus, having eternal life, or, satan who is death and judged to die in the lake of fire. Eternal life with our Eternal Father God is never-ending and uninterrupted life. “Abide” is an interesting word, meaning, “to continue to be, not to perish, to last, endure, to remain as one, not to become another or different, to wait for, await one.” David teaches, “Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD [Psalms 27:15]”. Even though we are born into flesh bodies, we must remain in spiritual kinship with our Father God.
John 15:7 says, “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” Our Father’s will is that all men come unto the knowledge of the Truth of His Word and be saved. If one asks, seeks and knocks, it is our Father God’s good pleasure to give unto one the keys of the Kingdom of knowledge. Jeremiah 15:16 says, “Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.”
John 15:8 says, “Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.” “Glorified” means, “to cause the dignity and worth of our Father God to become manifest and acknowledged.” All souls are created by our Father God to pleasure and glorify Him whether people of this world realize this or not. When one bears fruit unto our Father God, you are leading those lost in the world back unto their Creator. It should be understood that just because you sit on a church pew on Sunday and Wednesday does not mean you are not still lost in the world. Christ Jesus said, “The harvest truly [is] great, but the labourers [are] few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest [Luke 10:2].”
John 15:9 says, “As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.” “Love” is “agape”, meaning, “one of the bridegroom's friends who on his behalf asked the hand of the bride and rendered him various services in closing the marriage and celebrating the nuptials.” We are Christ Jesus’ betrothed, male and female, and it is our duty to remain spiritual virgins until His long awaited Second Coming and to bring as many with us to the marriage, reunited with our True Bridegroom [John 3:23 – 36].
John 15:10 says, “If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.” Jesus said in Verse 9, “continue ye in my love.” “Continue ye” is “Abide” in this Verse; “Meno”, and we learned the meaning is “to continue.” Our Father did not just transliterate the word abide, however translated the word, giving us the full impact from the Greek to the English. “Continue” is a topical of itself, simply put, Christ Jesus has bid us to continue, in the sense of with one's activities, over a prolonged period of time, until that appointed is accomplished in unbroken fellowship and [agape] love.
John 15:11 says, “These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and [that] your joy might be full.” The joy that Christ speaks of in this Verse cannot be found in the world, only in unbroken fellowship with our Father God. This joy can only be found in our Father God’s only Begotten Son in whom He is well pleased; Christ is the reconciliation between our Father God and us. This is [agape] love, meaning, to intervene; therefore, one who fulfils another’s needs even though that one may not be worthy. Paul teaches in Romans 5:8, “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
John 15:12 says, “This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.” Christ commands us to love one another as He loves us and Paul teaches us that the love of Christ was evidenced in His Passion of the cross where Christ died for us. John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” One of the meanings in the Greek of the word “gave” is “to give one to someone to whom he already belonged, to return.” “Jesus is Emmanuel”, meaning “God with us” and we are His people and the sheep of Our Father God’s pasture. I Corinthians 6:2 says, “For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now [is] the accepted time; behold, now [is] the day of salvation.”
John 15:13 says, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” There is no greater love than the love of our Father God and His only Begotten Son, Christ Jesus. Yet, Christ commands us to love one another as He loves us. Christ said in Matthew 5:41, “And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.” Sometimes in displaying the love of our Father God and His only Begotten Son, Christ Jesus, we have to go the extra mile or beyond that expected. I call to mind Christ’s Parable of the Lost Sheep. Jesus said in Matthew 18:12 & 13, “How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?” “And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that [sheep], than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.” Thusly, we experience the full joy or blessedness of our Lord; “my cup runneth over [Psalms 23:5].”
John 15:14 says, “Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.” “Friends” is derived from the same word as “agape”, which is “love”, meaning, “one of the bridegroom’s friends who on his behalf asked the hand of the bride and rendered him various services in closing the marriage and celebrating the nuptials.” One then that is the friend of Christ [God], is one who is His best man or maiden or maid of honor [John 15:9].
John 15:15 says, “Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.” There are no mysteries in Christ Jesus concerning the Word of our Father God, however you have to study to show yourself approved of our Father and fit to receive and understand the truth. Continuing in Christ’s love is to have revelation into the Word of Truth and Life, bearing fruit; thereafter, you are Christ’s friend and not a servant. Solomon teaches in Proverbs 18:24, “A man [that hath] friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend [that] sticketh closer than a brother.” Christ showed Himself friendly when He shed His blood and gave His life upon the cross. We show ourselves friends of Christ and no longer servants when we deny ourselves and take up our cross daily following Christ Jesus [Luke 9:23], which includes not living by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of Almighty God.
John 15:16 says, “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and [that] your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.” There is a great deal of meat in this Verse, however keeping it simple is simply to say that chosen vessels in Christ were ordained from the Former or First Earth Age, not this Flesh or Second Earth Age. I hear many preachers, pastors and reverends say that they were called by Father God, however most do not realize that chosen vessels that preach the Gospel must have taken a stand against satan in the First Earth Age to be teachers in this Second Earth Age. Our Father God said to the prophet in Jeremiah 1:5, “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.”
John 15:17 says, “These things I command you, that ye love one another.” To love and be loved is a most precious, yet rare commodity. Most say the words, I love you, but few ever really experience the joy and the depth of true love. True love is not controlled love, however a love displayed by our Father God where He gives His children the choice to love and obey Him, or not. True love also loves in spite of the outside person, seeing into the depths of the inner man. I Samuel 16:7 says, “But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for [the LORD seeth] not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.”
John 15:18 says, “If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you.” James 4:4 says, “Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.” One cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of the world; one cannot be partakers of the Lord's table and of the table of the world. This world Age will pass away, but the Word of our LORD abides forevermore, and Christ Jesus is the “Word of God [Revelation 19:13].”
John 15:19 says, “If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.” I John 4:4 says, “Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.” “Overcome” is speaking of christians that hold fast their faith even unto death against the power of their foes, temptations and persecutions.
John 15:20 says, “Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.” John further teaches in I John 4:6 which says, “We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.” Most often it is seasoned church attendees who persecute the one chosen of Father God who teaches our Father’s Word in the Spirit of Truth. Christ Jesus said in Matthew 9:16 & 17, “No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.” “Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.” Therefore, purge out the old leaven and become a new lump unto our Father God. One must beware of the leaven of tradition and hearsay and study our Father God’s Word for themselves daily, Chapter by Chapter and Verse by Verse.
John 15:21 says, “But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.” The church attendees think they know the True Vine, Christ Jesus, however that is impossible when they never study Father God’s Word Chapter by Chapter and Verse by Verse, rather hearing and receiving instructions taught by traditions and fairytales.
*** Christ teaches what they will do unto Father God’s election for His name’s sake in Matthew 10:17 which, says, “But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;” When satan is cast to this earth in disguise as the instead of jesus, anti-christ, our Father God’s very elect will be delivered up to his love filled fellowship halls by the deceived ones who believe his deception. These are they who attend church houses faithfully, however never took the time to study our Father God’s Word, spiritually, to stand against satan’s deception as the first/false christ. In their deluded state they will believe they are doing a service for our Father God by helping satan devour His very elect with his destructive abomination. Matthew 10:18 says, “And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.” Gentile includes anyone who is deprived of the Truth of the Seven Events [Signs] that end this Flesh or Second Earth Age. A Gentile is anyone who is deceived by satan in disguise as the first/false christ, the instead of jesus [Matthew – Chapter 24 & II Thessalonians – Chapter 2]. The Book of Revelation tells us that the locust army are satan’s fallen angels in disguise as ministers of righteousness [II Corinthians 11:13 – 15]. Revelation 9:11 says, “And they had a king over them, [which is] the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue [is] Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath [his] name Apollyon.” “Abaddon” and “Apollyon” is “satan” and the meaning of these names is “the angel of the bottomless pit, the destroyer.” Matthew 10:19 says, “But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.” This hour is satan’s time when he is cast unto the earth as the instead of jesus, the first/false christ to return unto this earth, which precedes the Second Coming of Christ Jesus [Revelation 3:7 – 13]. “Deliver” in the Greek means “by betrayal to cause one to be taken to be judged, condemned, punished, scourged, tormented, put to death”, and satan is death and will be here on the earth in disguise as the false/first christ [Hebrews 2:14-18]. Matthew 10:20 says, “For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.” The Apostle Peter teaches us what will happen when Father God’s very elect are delivered up as a witness against satan and his false churches and deceived membership, which includes members of our own families.
*** Acts 2:14 says, “But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all [ye] that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:” Verse 16 says, “But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;” Verse 17 says, “And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:” Verse 18 says, “And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:” Verse 19 says, “And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:” Verse 20 says, “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:” Verse 21 says, “And it shall come to pass, [that] whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Everyone shall hear our Father God’s Spirit preach the Gospel around the world in their own tongue [language] wherein they are born, utilizing His very elect who are delivered up to satan’s false churches of apostasy during his hour of temptation.
*** Matthew 10:21 says, “And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against [their] parents, and cause them to be put to death.” Remember satan is death and he will be trying to convince the world that he is Christ Jesus, instead of the first/false christ. Family and friends who are deceived by satan’s deception as the instead of jesus will think they are doing those with eyes to see and ears to hear a favor when they bow a knee to the false one and offer their loved ones up to satan’s bed of abomination and rebellion. The only physical death will occur to the two witnesses of Revelation 11:3 which says, “And I will give [power] unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred [and] threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.” Revelation 11:7 says, “And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast [satan] that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.” Revelation 11:8 says, “And their dead bodies [shall lie] in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.” Keep in mind that our Father God is in control. Psalms 105:14 says, “He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;” Verse 15 says, “[Saying], Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.” The death of Father God’s two witnesses will be the prelude to the Second Advent of Christ Jesus. Revelation 11:11 says, “And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.” Revelation 11:12 says, “And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.” Revelation 11:15 says, “And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become [the kingdoms] of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.” The Seventh Trump is the last trump to be sounded and signifies the return of our long awaited Bridegroom, Christ Jesus and His one thousand year [Millennial] reign upon the earth as “King of kings and Lord of lords.”
*** Matthew 10:22 says, “And ye shall be hated of all [men] for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.” Luke 21:18 & 19 says, “But there shall not an hair of your head perish.” “In our patience possess ye your souls.” “Patience” means “steadfastness, constancy, and endurance, a steadfast waiting for;” in the “NT the characteristic of one who is not swerved from one’s deliberate purpose and one’s loyalty to faith and piety by even the greatest trials and sufferings.” Christ Jesus will not return to this earth until the sounding of the Seventh Trumpet which is after satan appears as the first/false christ at the Sixth Trumpet. You must wait for our True Bridegroom, our “Lord of lords and King of kings” and not be deceived by satan’s disguise as the instead of jesus when we have been foretold the seven events that bring this Second or Flesh Earth Age to a close, in advance. Our Father God tells us that He will give His two witnesses the power to prophesy before satan is cast to the earth as the first/false christ and also during his reign as the instead of jesus. After their testimony is complete, and they are killed, we are taught in Revelation 11:10, “And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.” “Torment” is “Touchstone”, which means, “to vex or grieve one with the truth.” It is the equivalent of David’s teaching as Psalms 118:22 says, “The stone [which] the builders refused is become the head [stone] of the corner.” If you are deceived by satan’s disguise as the first/false christ, then Christ Jesus is refused by those deceived and the two witnesses will certainly be a torment to those steeped in apostasy, falsehood and deception.
*** Matthew 10:28 says, “And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” Ecclesiastes 12:13 says, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear {love} God, and keep his commandments: for this [is] the whole [duty] of man.” Psalms 118:6 says, “The LORD [is] on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?” Verse 7 says, “The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see [my desire] upon them that hate me.” Verse 8 says, “[It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.” Verse 9 says, “[It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.” Our Father God’s will is that all receive instruction and knowledge of the Truth of His Divine and Holy Word and that none of His children perish. This choice is for each individual, however none will be judged to die [death of the soul] before the Millennial or one thousand year reign of Christ Jesus upon the earth [Revelation – Chapter 20]. There is only one soul that has been judged and sentenced to die and that is satan, the son of perdition, who is both a man and a prince [Ezekiel – Chapter 28].
John 15:22 says, “If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.” “Cloke” means, “a pretext (alleged reason, pretended cause), show oneself ostensibly.” Christ Jesus has spoken unto us the Seven Events that bring this Second or Flesh Earth Age to a close, therefore all are without excuse in not realizing the seasons we are now living in and those things that will come to pass before Jesus’ Second Advent. [Matthew – Chapter 24, Mark – Chapter 13, Luke Chapters 17 & 21].
John 15:23 says, “He that hateth me hateth my Father also.” “Jesus is Emmanuel”, which means, “God with us.” Matthew 1:23 says, “Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.” There are only two choices in this Second [Flesh] Earth Age, our Father God or satan [Deuteronomy - Chapter 30].
John 15:24 says, “If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.” One can only hate good if one is evil, as satan, and we are taught by our Father God that He made everything good in the day when He created it [Genesis – Chapter 1]. Our Father God teaches us that He made satan perfect in the day that he was created and his evil generated from within himself [Ezekiel 28:15].
John 15:25 says “But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.” Our Father God is love and what can you find to hate in love, unless like satan, iniquity was found in thee [Ezekiel 28:15]. Psalms 69:4 says, “They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, [being] mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored [that] which I took not away.” “To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David.” “Shoshannim” means “lily of testimony; to exult, rejoice, display joy.” We shall be made to rejoice, be made glad, to leap and spring for joy after suffering persecution, affliction and tribulation over a period of time. II Corinthians 4:16 says, “For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward [man] is renewed day by day.” Verse 17 says, “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of glory;” Verse 18 says, “While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen [are] temporal; but the things which are not seen [are] eternal.”
John 15:26 says, “But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:” Our Father God has revealed to us whom the Comforter is, the Spirit of Truth. Remember when our Father God’s very elect are delivered up to satan’s churches of apostasy when he is disguised as the false/first christ, our Father’s Spirit of Truth will speak through His election. Joel the Prophet and Peter the Apostle teach us that our Father God’s sons and daughters will prophesy at that time and the Gospel will be preached around the world in one’s own language and dialect [Acts – Chapter 2].
John 15:27 says, “And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.” “From the beginning” means, “from the Former or First Earth Age {Spiritual}.” Ephesians 1:4 says “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:” Verse 5 says, “Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,” Verse 6 says, “To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.” Verse 8 says, “Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;” Verse 9 says, “Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:” Verse 12 says, “That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.” The vile one, satan, rebelled against our Father God and was overthrown in the First Earth Age. Although one-third of our Father's children rebelled against our Father God with satan, there were the chosen few who stood with our Father against satan's rebellion; thusly, many are called unto the Gospel to choose between our Father God and satan. Few, however are chosen because they stood then and stand now with our Father God.
My blessed Mother loved John - Chapter 15 because “YAHOVAH Father God is Love” as He personified Himself through His Beloved Son, “Yeshua Christ Jesus” to give to His children the “Greatest Love of All.” Mom was a Mother above Mother’s, always sacrificing and putting other’s before herself as she lived to please our Father God. This is the love that Christ Jesus said we must have one for another. This is the love that our Father God expressed when He sacrificed His only Begotten Son, for this is the love of a Parent for their children. Remember these things as you celebrate our “Lord Jesus Christ” who is “Emmanuel, which means “God with us.”
John 15:2 says, “Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.” Those who do not bear fruit unto the True Vine, Christ Jesus, are those who belong unto the false vine, satan. There are only two choices one can make, good or evil, [not good and evil], which is Jesus Christ or instead of jesus [satan] [Genesis – Chapter 2].
John 15:3 says, “Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.” Christ Jesus is our Living Word made flesh full of grace and truth [John – Chapter 1]. “Clean” as in a similitude [likeness], like a vine cleansed by pruning and so fitted to bear fruit, if one hears, keeps and does the Word of Truth of our Father God. Bearing fruit requires work as James 2:18 says, “Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.”
John 15:4 says, “Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.” Without Christ Jesus we are nothing and our Lord teaches in John 3:16, “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” “Abide” is “meno”, meaning, we are the temples of our Father God, and He comes unto us and makes His dwelling place within us [I John 2:1 – 6]. Our Father God breathed the breath of life into us at our conception because our God is a Spirit and we must worship Him in spirit and in truth.
John 15:5 says, “I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.” We learn in John 14:6 that “Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” “Jesus is Emmanuel”, meaning “God with us” and our Father, who through His only Begotten Son, gives to all life, and breath, and all things.
John 15:6 says, “If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.” One can either abide in Christ Jesus, having eternal life, or, satan who is death and judged to die in the lake of fire. Eternal life with our Eternal Father God is never-ending and uninterrupted life. “Abide” is an interesting word, meaning, “to continue to be, not to perish, to last, endure, to remain as one, not to become another or different, to wait for, await one.” David teaches, “Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD [Psalms 27:15]”. Even though we are born into flesh bodies, we must remain in spiritual kinship with our Father God.
John 15:7 says, “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” Our Father’s will is that all men come unto the knowledge of the Truth of His Word and be saved. If one asks, seeks and knocks, it is our Father God’s good pleasure to give unto one the keys of the Kingdom of knowledge. Jeremiah 15:16 says, “Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.”
John 15:8 says, “Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.” “Glorified” means, “to cause the dignity and worth of our Father God to become manifest and acknowledged.” All souls are created by our Father God to pleasure and glorify Him whether people of this world realize this or not. When one bears fruit unto our Father God, you are leading those lost in the world back unto their Creator. It should be understood that just because you sit on a church pew on Sunday and Wednesday does not mean you are not still lost in the world. Christ Jesus said, “The harvest truly [is] great, but the labourers [are] few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest [Luke 10:2].”
John 15:9 says, “As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.” “Love” is “agape”, meaning, “one of the bridegroom's friends who on his behalf asked the hand of the bride and rendered him various services in closing the marriage and celebrating the nuptials.” We are Christ Jesus’ betrothed, male and female, and it is our duty to remain spiritual virgins until His long awaited Second Coming and to bring as many with us to the marriage, reunited with our True Bridegroom [John 3:23 – 36].
John 15:10 says, “If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.” Jesus said in Verse 9, “continue ye in my love.” “Continue ye” is “Abide” in this Verse; “Meno”, and we learned the meaning is “to continue.” Our Father did not just transliterate the word abide, however translated the word, giving us the full impact from the Greek to the English. “Continue” is a topical of itself, simply put, Christ Jesus has bid us to continue, in the sense of with one's activities, over a prolonged period of time, until that appointed is accomplished in unbroken fellowship and [agape] love.
John 15:11 says, “These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and [that] your joy might be full.” The joy that Christ speaks of in this Verse cannot be found in the world, only in unbroken fellowship with our Father God. This joy can only be found in our Father God’s only Begotten Son in whom He is well pleased; Christ is the reconciliation between our Father God and us. This is [agape] love, meaning, to intervene; therefore, one who fulfils another’s needs even though that one may not be worthy. Paul teaches in Romans 5:8, “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
John 15:12 says, “This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.” Christ commands us to love one another as He loves us and Paul teaches us that the love of Christ was evidenced in His Passion of the cross where Christ died for us. John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” One of the meanings in the Greek of the word “gave” is “to give one to someone to whom he already belonged, to return.” “Jesus is Emmanuel”, meaning “God with us” and we are His people and the sheep of Our Father God’s pasture. I Corinthians 6:2 says, “For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now [is] the accepted time; behold, now [is] the day of salvation.”
John 15:13 says, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” There is no greater love than the love of our Father God and His only Begotten Son, Christ Jesus. Yet, Christ commands us to love one another as He loves us. Christ said in Matthew 5:41, “And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.” Sometimes in displaying the love of our Father God and His only Begotten Son, Christ Jesus, we have to go the extra mile or beyond that expected. I call to mind Christ’s Parable of the Lost Sheep. Jesus said in Matthew 18:12 & 13, “How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?” “And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that [sheep], than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.” Thusly, we experience the full joy or blessedness of our Lord; “my cup runneth over [Psalms 23:5].”
John 15:14 says, “Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.” “Friends” is derived from the same word as “agape”, which is “love”, meaning, “one of the bridegroom’s friends who on his behalf asked the hand of the bride and rendered him various services in closing the marriage and celebrating the nuptials.” One then that is the friend of Christ [God], is one who is His best man or maiden or maid of honor [John 15:9].
John 15:15 says, “Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.” There are no mysteries in Christ Jesus concerning the Word of our Father God, however you have to study to show yourself approved of our Father and fit to receive and understand the truth. Continuing in Christ’s love is to have revelation into the Word of Truth and Life, bearing fruit; thereafter, you are Christ’s friend and not a servant. Solomon teaches in Proverbs 18:24, “A man [that hath] friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend [that] sticketh closer than a brother.” Christ showed Himself friendly when He shed His blood and gave His life upon the cross. We show ourselves friends of Christ and no longer servants when we deny ourselves and take up our cross daily following Christ Jesus [Luke 9:23], which includes not living by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of Almighty God.
John 15:16 says, “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and [that] your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.” There is a great deal of meat in this Verse, however keeping it simple is simply to say that chosen vessels in Christ were ordained from the Former or First Earth Age, not this Flesh or Second Earth Age. I hear many preachers, pastors and reverends say that they were called by Father God, however most do not realize that chosen vessels that preach the Gospel must have taken a stand against satan in the First Earth Age to be teachers in this Second Earth Age. Our Father God said to the prophet in Jeremiah 1:5, “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.”
John 15:17 says, “These things I command you, that ye love one another.” To love and be loved is a most precious, yet rare commodity. Most say the words, I love you, but few ever really experience the joy and the depth of true love. True love is not controlled love, however a love displayed by our Father God where He gives His children the choice to love and obey Him, or not. True love also loves in spite of the outside person, seeing into the depths of the inner man. I Samuel 16:7 says, “But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for [the LORD seeth] not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.”
John 15:18 says, “If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you.” James 4:4 says, “Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.” One cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of the world; one cannot be partakers of the Lord's table and of the table of the world. This world Age will pass away, but the Word of our LORD abides forevermore, and Christ Jesus is the “Word of God [Revelation 19:13].”
John 15:19 says, “If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.” I John 4:4 says, “Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.” “Overcome” is speaking of christians that hold fast their faith even unto death against the power of their foes, temptations and persecutions.
John 15:20 says, “Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.” John further teaches in I John 4:6 which says, “We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.” Most often it is seasoned church attendees who persecute the one chosen of Father God who teaches our Father’s Word in the Spirit of Truth. Christ Jesus said in Matthew 9:16 & 17, “No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.” “Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.” Therefore, purge out the old leaven and become a new lump unto our Father God. One must beware of the leaven of tradition and hearsay and study our Father God’s Word for themselves daily, Chapter by Chapter and Verse by Verse.
John 15:21 says, “But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.” The church attendees think they know the True Vine, Christ Jesus, however that is impossible when they never study Father God’s Word Chapter by Chapter and Verse by Verse, rather hearing and receiving instructions taught by traditions and fairytales.
*** Christ teaches what they will do unto Father God’s election for His name’s sake in Matthew 10:17 which, says, “But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;” When satan is cast to this earth in disguise as the instead of jesus, anti-christ, our Father God’s very elect will be delivered up to his love filled fellowship halls by the deceived ones who believe his deception. These are they who attend church houses faithfully, however never took the time to study our Father God’s Word, spiritually, to stand against satan’s deception as the first/false christ. In their deluded state they will believe they are doing a service for our Father God by helping satan devour His very elect with his destructive abomination. Matthew 10:18 says, “And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.” Gentile includes anyone who is deprived of the Truth of the Seven Events [Signs] that end this Flesh or Second Earth Age. A Gentile is anyone who is deceived by satan in disguise as the first/false christ, the instead of jesus [Matthew – Chapter 24 & II Thessalonians – Chapter 2]. The Book of Revelation tells us that the locust army are satan’s fallen angels in disguise as ministers of righteousness [II Corinthians 11:13 – 15]. Revelation 9:11 says, “And they had a king over them, [which is] the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue [is] Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath [his] name Apollyon.” “Abaddon” and “Apollyon” is “satan” and the meaning of these names is “the angel of the bottomless pit, the destroyer.” Matthew 10:19 says, “But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.” This hour is satan’s time when he is cast unto the earth as the instead of jesus, the first/false christ to return unto this earth, which precedes the Second Coming of Christ Jesus [Revelation 3:7 – 13]. “Deliver” in the Greek means “by betrayal to cause one to be taken to be judged, condemned, punished, scourged, tormented, put to death”, and satan is death and will be here on the earth in disguise as the false/first christ [Hebrews 2:14-18]. Matthew 10:20 says, “For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.” The Apostle Peter teaches us what will happen when Father God’s very elect are delivered up as a witness against satan and his false churches and deceived membership, which includes members of our own families.
*** Acts 2:14 says, “But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all [ye] that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:” Verse 16 says, “But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;” Verse 17 says, “And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:” Verse 18 says, “And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:” Verse 19 says, “And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:” Verse 20 says, “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:” Verse 21 says, “And it shall come to pass, [that] whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Everyone shall hear our Father God’s Spirit preach the Gospel around the world in their own tongue [language] wherein they are born, utilizing His very elect who are delivered up to satan’s false churches of apostasy during his hour of temptation.
*** Matthew 10:21 says, “And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against [their] parents, and cause them to be put to death.” Remember satan is death and he will be trying to convince the world that he is Christ Jesus, instead of the first/false christ. Family and friends who are deceived by satan’s deception as the instead of jesus will think they are doing those with eyes to see and ears to hear a favor when they bow a knee to the false one and offer their loved ones up to satan’s bed of abomination and rebellion. The only physical death will occur to the two witnesses of Revelation 11:3 which says, “And I will give [power] unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred [and] threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.” Revelation 11:7 says, “And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast [satan] that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.” Revelation 11:8 says, “And their dead bodies [shall lie] in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.” Keep in mind that our Father God is in control. Psalms 105:14 says, “He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;” Verse 15 says, “[Saying], Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.” The death of Father God’s two witnesses will be the prelude to the Second Advent of Christ Jesus. Revelation 11:11 says, “And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.” Revelation 11:12 says, “And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.” Revelation 11:15 says, “And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become [the kingdoms] of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.” The Seventh Trump is the last trump to be sounded and signifies the return of our long awaited Bridegroom, Christ Jesus and His one thousand year [Millennial] reign upon the earth as “King of kings and Lord of lords.”
*** Matthew 10:22 says, “And ye shall be hated of all [men] for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.” Luke 21:18 & 19 says, “But there shall not an hair of your head perish.” “In our patience possess ye your souls.” “Patience” means “steadfastness, constancy, and endurance, a steadfast waiting for;” in the “NT the characteristic of one who is not swerved from one’s deliberate purpose and one’s loyalty to faith and piety by even the greatest trials and sufferings.” Christ Jesus will not return to this earth until the sounding of the Seventh Trumpet which is after satan appears as the first/false christ at the Sixth Trumpet. You must wait for our True Bridegroom, our “Lord of lords and King of kings” and not be deceived by satan’s disguise as the instead of jesus when we have been foretold the seven events that bring this Second or Flesh Earth Age to a close, in advance. Our Father God tells us that He will give His two witnesses the power to prophesy before satan is cast to the earth as the first/false christ and also during his reign as the instead of jesus. After their testimony is complete, and they are killed, we are taught in Revelation 11:10, “And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.” “Torment” is “Touchstone”, which means, “to vex or grieve one with the truth.” It is the equivalent of David’s teaching as Psalms 118:22 says, “The stone [which] the builders refused is become the head [stone] of the corner.” If you are deceived by satan’s disguise as the first/false christ, then Christ Jesus is refused by those deceived and the two witnesses will certainly be a torment to those steeped in apostasy, falsehood and deception.
*** Matthew 10:28 says, “And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” Ecclesiastes 12:13 says, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear {love} God, and keep his commandments: for this [is] the whole [duty] of man.” Psalms 118:6 says, “The LORD [is] on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?” Verse 7 says, “The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see [my desire] upon them that hate me.” Verse 8 says, “[It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.” Verse 9 says, “[It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.” Our Father God’s will is that all receive instruction and knowledge of the Truth of His Divine and Holy Word and that none of His children perish. This choice is for each individual, however none will be judged to die [death of the soul] before the Millennial or one thousand year reign of Christ Jesus upon the earth [Revelation – Chapter 20]. There is only one soul that has been judged and sentenced to die and that is satan, the son of perdition, who is both a man and a prince [Ezekiel – Chapter 28].
John 15:22 says, “If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.” “Cloke” means, “a pretext (alleged reason, pretended cause), show oneself ostensibly.” Christ Jesus has spoken unto us the Seven Events that bring this Second or Flesh Earth Age to a close, therefore all are without excuse in not realizing the seasons we are now living in and those things that will come to pass before Jesus’ Second Advent. [Matthew – Chapter 24, Mark – Chapter 13, Luke Chapters 17 & 21].
John 15:23 says, “He that hateth me hateth my Father also.” “Jesus is Emmanuel”, which means, “God with us.” Matthew 1:23 says, “Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.” There are only two choices in this Second [Flesh] Earth Age, our Father God or satan [Deuteronomy - Chapter 30].
John 15:24 says, “If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.” One can only hate good if one is evil, as satan, and we are taught by our Father God that He made everything good in the day when He created it [Genesis – Chapter 1]. Our Father God teaches us that He made satan perfect in the day that he was created and his evil generated from within himself [Ezekiel 28:15].
John 15:25 says “But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.” Our Father God is love and what can you find to hate in love, unless like satan, iniquity was found in thee [Ezekiel 28:15]. Psalms 69:4 says, “They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, [being] mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored [that] which I took not away.” “To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David.” “Shoshannim” means “lily of testimony; to exult, rejoice, display joy.” We shall be made to rejoice, be made glad, to leap and spring for joy after suffering persecution, affliction and tribulation over a period of time. II Corinthians 4:16 says, “For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward [man] is renewed day by day.” Verse 17 says, “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of glory;” Verse 18 says, “While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen [are] temporal; but the things which are not seen [are] eternal.”
John 15:26 says, “But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:” Our Father God has revealed to us whom the Comforter is, the Spirit of Truth. Remember when our Father God’s very elect are delivered up to satan’s churches of apostasy when he is disguised as the false/first christ, our Father’s Spirit of Truth will speak through His election. Joel the Prophet and Peter the Apostle teach us that our Father God’s sons and daughters will prophesy at that time and the Gospel will be preached around the world in one’s own language and dialect [Acts – Chapter 2].
John 15:27 says, “And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.” “From the beginning” means, “from the Former or First Earth Age {Spiritual}.” Ephesians 1:4 says “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:” Verse 5 says, “Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,” Verse 6 says, “To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.” Verse 8 says, “Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;” Verse 9 says, “Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:” Verse 12 says, “That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.” The vile one, satan, rebelled against our Father God and was overthrown in the First Earth Age. Although one-third of our Father's children rebelled against our Father God with satan, there were the chosen few who stood with our Father against satan's rebellion; thusly, many are called unto the Gospel to choose between our Father God and satan. Few, however are chosen because they stood then and stand now with our Father God.
My blessed Mother loved John - Chapter 15 because “YAHOVAH Father God is Love” as He personified Himself through His Beloved Son, “Yeshua Christ Jesus” to give to His children the “Greatest Love of All.” Mom was a Mother above Mother’s, always sacrificing and putting other’s before herself as she lived to please our Father God. This is the love that Christ Jesus said we must have one for another. This is the love that our Father God expressed when He sacrificed His only Begotten Son, for this is the love of a Parent for their children. Remember these things as you celebrate our “Lord Jesus Christ” who is “Emmanuel, which means “God with us.”
“Bless The LORD, O My Soul:
And All That Is Within Me, [Bless] His Holy Name”
[Psalms 103:1]
And All That Is Within Me, [Bless] His Holy Name”
[Psalms 103:1]
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