Enjoying God

JOHN 15-1-11 nasb

15 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branchthat bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.4 Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself but must remain in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me. 5 I am the vine, you are the branches; the one who remains in Me, and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not remain in Me, he is thrown away like a branch and dries up; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If you remain in Me, and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples. 9 Just as the Father has loved Me, I also have loved you; remain in My love. 10 If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love. 11 These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.

ABIDE - TO LIVE, TO REMAIN, TO STAY, TO DWELL 

JOHN 5:38

38 Also you do not have His word remaining in you, because you do not believe Him whom He sent.

JOHN 8:37

37 I know that you are Abraham’s descendants; yet you are seeking to kill Me, because My word has no place in you.

PSALM 51:12

Restore to me the joy of Your salvation,

And sustain me with a willing spirit.

GOD WANTS TO BE LIVED IN 

WE ENJOY LIFE THE MOST WHEN WE ENJOY GOD, 

& WHEN WE ENJOY GOD, WE LOVE LIFE MORE 

ABIDING IN HIM IS ABOUT LEANING & LEARNING 

JOHN 15:9

Just as the Father has loved Me, I also have loved you; remain in My love.

ROMANS 8:1-4

Therefore there is now no condemnation at all for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. 3 For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

JOHN 15:12-17

“This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that a person will lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are My friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. 17 This I command you, that you love one another.