Happy Veterans Day! Since I'm the only one of us that actually has school today I've got to post early still.
John 15, just like all the chapters, is amazing! I felt like it taught me as much as a chapter of Proverbs except in a more spiritual way. If you want to know how to do big things for God, this chapter tells you how. John 15 also talk about how the world hates those that do not belong to it. Its a very short chapter so make sure you spend lots of time dwelling on it. I can't wait to see all that God reveals today! Have a God blessed Veteran's Day!
This blog is for the youth at Impact Church, or anyone else that wants to join us to read through the Bible together.
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John 15:4 Remain in me and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, you cannot be fruitful apart from me.
John 15:10-11 When you obey me you remain in my love just as I obey my Father and remain in His love. I have told you this so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow.
John 15:27 And you must also tell others about me because you have been with me from the beginning.
The first three verses I talked about all were about staying close to and remaining in God. Remaining in God is the only way to do big things from Him. Apart from God not only can you not produce works, or fruits, but you will be cast into the fire!
Verse 10 said when we obey Jesus we remain in His love. All anyone has to do to remain in His love is obey Him. Verse 11 says Jesus told us this to make us overflow with joy. It does make me very joyful to know that all I need to do to remain in Jesus' love is obey Him!
Verse 27 reminded me to keep telling others about Jesus. They really need to know how to do stuff in life that actually matters and how to have overflowing joy. My goal today is to tell someone about the LORD.
Wow Nathan, I love everything you just said! I especially like the part about verse 27. I liked that verse too.
Today in my reading verse 16 really stuck out to me. It says: You didn't choose me I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so the father will give you whatever you ask for using my name.
This verse is really cool. It is talking about how God is in control of everything that is happening in our lives and how he chose us to do things he wants us to do. We did not just wake up one morning and say that we were going to do something for God. If we did it was because God was behind it. So God appointed us to bring his children to him. So when it says: "I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit," Jesus might be talking about raising children that were God-loving and wants to do things for God. He might also be talking about bringing people who do not know him to him.
John 15:12-17 12My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. 17 This is my command: Love each other.
I am so thankful that Jesus laid his life down for me! Its amazing to know that my friend (Jesus) had love for me to die on the cross for my sins. I love this verse because it shows how powerful love really is. Oh and if you forgot, "True love breaks any spell". SEEEEE how powerful it is. Also if we as impact students love on the other high school,and middle school students they may even come to youth on Sunday nights, which i am praying for. I hope that any new kid will come and feel comfortable and enjoy time having fellowship with God, and kids their age. I know God has a great plan for Impact Church and I cant wait to see what he does!!!!!
NOO jk that's amazing Maria keep praying and it will happen!
Verses 18-19: "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you." This goes back to what Nathan said a while back which is the difference between being in the world and being of the world. Jesus in the verse says, "...you are not of the world..." meaning you do not act worldly. Then he says "but I chose you out of the world...". We are in the world but not of it and this is why the world hates us. If we are truly acting as followers of Christ, than people of this world will not like it. These verses reminded me of way back to the beginning of John. John 1:5 "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." The darkness or the world does not understand the light or Christianity. So when we are persecuted, we should feel bad or put out because actually we are doing exactly what God wants us to do.
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