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July 23 - John 15 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello, friends. It's Sean here.
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  It's Tuesday. It is the 23rd of July.
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  And you might think, oh, it's just a typical Tuesday.
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  But did you know that on this day back in 1829, a dude named
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  William Austin Burt actually patented the very first
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  typographer? No, that's not someone who does
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  the typing in the corner. It is the very first typewriter.
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  So this is the day all the way back then that the typewriter
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  was first logged as an invention.
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  And boy, hasn't that been something that has changed the
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  way that we live, the whole concept of replacing our
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  handwriting. I reckon I would have to be in
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  the last generation that actually learnt to type on one
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  of those bona fide typewriters, banging them down with your with
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  your fingers. I had to put a tea towel over my
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  hands so we couldn't see what we were doing.
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  Oh, yeah, that was backward typing was actually a lesson in
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  school. But there you go.
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  Here we have it. I hope your typing is good
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  because boy, that's a life skill, isn't it?
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  Anyway, life skills aside, the other thing that we would love
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  to learn more about is what happened in that room after the
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  Last Supper. And that is what we're going to
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  continue today and today. It also includes my confirmation
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  verse about Jesus, the true Vine.
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  So that's pretty cool. So how about having spoken about
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  it? Let us read these typed words
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  that we have these days lovingly handed down to us as recorded by
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  John in John chapter 15. I am the true Grapevine and my
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  father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch of mine
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  that doesn't produce fruit and he prunes the branches that do
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  bear fruit so they will produce even more.
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  You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have
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  given you. Remain in me and I will remain
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  in you, for a branch cannot produce fruit if it's severed
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  from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in
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  me. Yes, I am the vine, You are the
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  branches. Those who remain in me, and I in
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  them will produce much fruit, for apart from me you can do
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  nothing. Anyone who does not remain in Me
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  is thrown away like a useless branch and Withers.
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  Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned.
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  But if you remain in Me and My words remain in You, you may ask
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  for anything you want, and it will be granted when you produce
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  much fruit. You are My true disciples.
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  This brings great glory to my Father.
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  I have loved you even as the Father has loved me.
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  Remain in My love. When you obey My commandments,
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  you remain in My love, just as I obey my Father's commandments
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  and remain in His love. I have told you these things so
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  that you will be filled with my joy.
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  Yes, your joy will overflow. This is my commandment.
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  Love each other in the same way I have loved you.
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  There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's
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  friends. You are my friends if you do
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  what I command. I no longer call you slaves
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  because the Master doesn't confide in his slaves.
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  Now you are my friends since I've told you everything the
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  Father told me. You didn't choose me, I chose
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  you. I appointed you to go and
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  produce lasting fruit so that the Father will give you
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  whatever you ask for using my name.
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  This is my command. Love each other.
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  If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first.
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  The world would love you as one of its own if you belonged to
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  it, but you are no longer part of the world.
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  I chose you to come out of the world, so it hates you.
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  Do you remember what I told you? A slave is not greater than the
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  master. Since they persecuted me,
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  naturally they will persecute you.
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  And if they had listened to me, they would listen to you.
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  They will do all this to you because of me, for they have
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  rejected the one who sent me. They would not be guilty if I
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  had not come and spoken to them. But now they have no excuse for
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  their sin. Anyone who hates me also hates
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  my father. If I hadn't done such miraculous
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  signs among them that no one else could do, they would not be
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  guilty. But as it is, they have seen
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  everything I did, yet they still hate me and my Father.
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  This fulfils what is written in the scriptures.
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  They hated me without cause. But I will send you the
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  Advocate, the Spirit of truth. He will come to you from the
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  Father and will testify all about me.
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  And you must also testify about me, because you have been with
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  me from the beginning of my ministry.
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  Jesus, thank you for your invitation.
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  No more than that. Your instruction to stay in you,
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  to stay connected with you. And not so that we will be
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  brainwashed and do the things that we're told to do, but so
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  that we will be filled with joy. And out of that joy flowing from
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  that posture of gratitude and joy, we will live lives of
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  service to you. I thank you, Lord, that you come
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  to forgive and you come to draw near to us and draw us to you.
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  And that through this relationship, you transform us
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  to live changed lives. Thank you so much for your love
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  for us, for the way that you invite us into this upper room,
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  not to be your slave, but to be your friend.
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  That we would be the friend of the living God of the universe
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  is something quite beyond our ability to understand.
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  So generous you are, Lord, so gracious and so humble, and we
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  love you. And we come before you all in
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  your name, Jesus. Amen.