Abide in ME (Sync'd #1)
Channel: The Gathering Christian Church
Date: 02/06/2014

Speaker: Don Vanzant
Title:Abide in ME
Series Name: Sync'd
Series #: 1
Subject: It's easy for us to sync up with other things other than God, but Christ talks about us abiding in Him--syncing with Him--and staying there.  What does that look like?
Date: June 1, 2014
Sermon Notes:
* Rhythm is in nature and a necessary part of the order of life.
* Jesus used the common experience of vine dressing to teach his disciples about the rhythm of  spiritual growth and remaining in Him.
* "I am the true vine."   This is one of the seven "I am" statements that John records for us that reveal who Jesus is.
* Abide=Stay home in me in the same way that I stay home in you.  
* He says "There will be fruit if you live in me.  It is natural.  But it is conditional.  You must stay in me.  If you do not live in me you won't be able to do anything."
* These words of Jesus when he says "I am the true vine" point out to us that there is a lot of competition and alternatives to living in him.   
* If I'm not abiding in Jesus, then where is it that I abide.
* The difficulty seems to arise for many of us in the reality that remaining in Christ is 24/7.   That is what it means to abide.  We live in Christ.  
* What most people do is to compartmentalize life into work, play (entertainment), and holy time. 
* "We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed." 
? Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God
*    He says that if we are abiding, then our prayers will be answered.   Are your prayers being answered? 
* Jesus produces the fruit, not us.
 
John 15:1--8 
John 8:58 

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