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I love JOhn 15. The lord is the true vine and we are the branches. Thank you heavenly father storing my family.

What about just giving up some of your time to spend with someone. God created us for Relationships! Spend some time with the Least of these.

u doing my lord work

JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD JESUS IS THE WORD OF GOD JESUS. IS THE ETERNAL LIFE THAT IS WITHIN GOD

My heavenly Father loves me as much as He does Jesus and Jesus loves me as my heavenly Father loves me. You talk about a love now that is Agape love. Mere man cannot love me as God does. WOW !!!! I will continue in His Love.

God loved Jesus so much. Jesus Christ Loved us and gave His life for us. Jesus is expecting each and everyone of us to love ourselves.

LETS LOVE ONE ANOTHER UNCONDITIONAL JUST AS OUR LORD HAS,SO THAT WE WILL FIND HIS GRACE AT THE TIME OF TROUBLE

Sir As we approach Veteran 's Day 2014, on November 11, 2014, I am thinking about the supreme sacrifice Jesus made on the Cross to save us from our sins. His death and his resurrection permits us to get down on our knees and confess or admit our sins to God then to repent from our sins. And, if we believe that Jesus Christ died for our sins on the Cross and believe that on the third day God the Father raised Jesus from the dead and confess that fact with our mouth we are saved. Finally, through prayer we receive Jesus Christ into our heart and minds. Finally, Jesus said in John Chapter 15, verses 12 13 "12 This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you. 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. So, on Veteran 's Day,November 11, 2014, we will honor and praise to our military men and women who have fought and died on foreign soils to permit the people of the USA to be able to have and cherish the freedoms and liberties we have in this country when people from do not have the extreme freedom we so enjoy in this United States of America. My LOVE in Christ Jesus

I love this to have King James bible online

Healing nd very powefull

Thank God for inspiring Bro. Mardia Scott Jr. with correction of a traditional error. I found that the Gr.word used here is something like "hairei " and the Analytical Greek Lexicon, defines it as "3rd person, singular , present tense, indicative, and active, thus indicating that the Father does something. However, I could 't find whether that action is destructive or constructive. I feel, the gospel in general supports help for His children in Christ, rather than the traditional interpretation of discarding us. May our Lord direct and bless.

This is an exceptional type of love, dying for your enemies, something most of us would not do. God is love.

Why does it seem like most of Christ 's rejecters are IN crowders? Well, I know if I was in the in crowd id be too proud to admit that I have any problems. Id be pushing away all the soulwinners. When the world respects you, your relationship with God won 't be very good. food for thought

John is saying that we should love one another because Christ first love us.... And He died for us so we can live abundant life.

A Superior love checkmate God before time began set out to prove His Greatest Love to us. For, offering Himself up as a sacrificial Lamb to die on the Cross in the Form of His dear Son to pay for our sins is the exact opposite of what the enemies of our souls set out to do for us. Given a 1,000 million years no one 's mind will ever conceive of a greater love than Jesus offering everything, His life, breathe and each and every drop of His Blood dripping as He allowed Himself to be ridiculed, spat on and tortured though He could 've summoned Holy Angels at any time to defend Himself. This verse does MORE than express the obvious this verse is written to spur us on to go witnessing to share the Greatest love and fulfill and obey God 's Greatest commandment to love God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength and to love thy nieghbor as thyself. How can you love thy neighbor greater than sharing the good news of the gospel of Jesus?

Deciples bear fruit is how simple this passage is. Fruit is obience , love for one another and joy. Our lives win others to The Lord Jesus christ

John is telling us to beleave in Christ truthly and love one another.

In Corinthians Paul said "I die daily. " He didn 't mean physical death but denying "self " and allowing Jesus Christ to be his vine, his all. John 12 24 "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. "

Abide in Jesus as branches are always connected to the vine. No sooner a branch detaches it self it will whither away and die. In the same sentence Jesus says without me you can do nothing. What does this mean to us today ? World is trying to do all things without Jesus. It tries to live in the absence of Jesus, love without him, achieve peace without him . Love is a God trait, grace is also a God trait, real peace only comes from God, we cannot even really forgive someone without God in us because true forgiveness is a God trait and not a human trait like he showed in Calvery. So abiding in Jesus is so fundamental that we cannot do anything without him. This was the purpose from the beginning and we have to choose the tree of life over the tree of knowledge.

For a very long time I have pondered John 15 13! Read in the full context of John 15, the suicide death of my nephew and even the recent suicide of Robin Williams I find myself questioning whether "laying down 's one life " means voluntary death I have no doubt it can surely mean this but I think there is more! For me that Christ would lay down set apart his life in heaven and come to earth took the greatest love. To think that he who knew no sin would come amongst us for but a moment in time but he stayed some 33 years in all "our " filth. And so when Christ says "greater love hath no man then this " I feel he is very much saying that when we set apart lay down all our plans and ambitions our life to reach down up to a friend this is the greatest love we can show. And to do so for those who hate us is even greater love then this as Paul says. Death is such a final act for us on earth but in heaven death is not known so the greatest demonstration of love must be different. In conclusion I would suggest that when the death of Christ came even by death on the cross he had already layed down HIS life. That He rose again forces us to acknowledge that his death alone was not sufficient because if he had stayed in death then we would most certainly be still lost.

These things I command you, that you love one another. For GOD so loved the world GOD is love the fruit of the spirit is LOVE. ...... LOVE thy neighbor as thy self GOD WORDS IS ALWAYS SPEAKING OF LOVE FOR GOD SO LOVE THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE ............. If we as CHRISTIANS would love more there be less sin less lust less war LOVE covers a multitude of sin

The fact that God has chosen us proves that he has high expectations for us. He expects us to bring forth fruits and we need to please him in doing so.

Evangelism is the commandment from God. Mark 16v15. No wonder, Jesus said in this verse that he has chosen us and ordained us that we should go and produce fruit, that is, we should go and persuade others to believe in God. Not only to produce fruit but our fruits should abide, that is,our fruits should be rooted in Christ and telling others to believe in Christ.

I am old and ha I am old and could have lived a better and less selfish life.What I have read here has filled me with remorse when I think of all the good people I have known and the lessons wasted on me. I see the truth now and am deeply ashamed,and hope the world will see the truth also.God bless.

As believers we are not promised a trouble free life but whenever we go through troubles we can rest assured the same God that raise Jesus from the dead will see us through.

Church stand for Truth and expect persecution from the world, stop yapping that hatred is directed at you, this is a continuation for it hated HIM first, and now HE lives in you, what do you expect? Good news is that we shall overcome because HE did.

If the firstfruit be Holy, the rest shall be holy also translation mine . This goes along with tithes also so if Jesus is the "first part ", and the first part was persecuted, then the rest shall be persecuted also. but if the rest is not like the first part, then it has no part in the first.

JESUS IS LORD HALLELUJAH. THERE ARE PEOPLE in the physical building they call church and are still of the world.we are not to be conformed to the world. we are to be transformed.

When we take a stand for God we will be persecuted If I am not persecuted for what I stand for then something is wrong There will be some that will receive the word of God that you speak and believe. There is always someone watching you . They watch your manner of walk and talk. Even if they know not God they do know a hyprocrite when they see one . Sometimes I think that the lost world has a 6th sense that can detect certain things. but know this even though they see that your fruit is Good they may still persecute you because you are tredding on their territory and they are under conviction.

Jesus was telling us about what we may likely encounter in the future, that is, what the wicked people of this world did unto him, they will also do unto us. if they have persecuted him, we should be expecting persecution. He went further by saying, if they have obeyed his words, they will also obey ours meaning that, we are not greater than him, what happened to him will definitely happen to us.