WHENEVER GOD SEEMS DISTANT--HERE'S WHAT TO DO TO GET BACK TO HIM! (WWJ-63)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Abiding Sanctified: We need to do a self-checkup of our spiritual health. Are you distant these days from God? Can you hardly remember the last time your life was fruitful?
Do you feel far from joy and peace, victory and blessing? Do you hope that no one gets too close and asks you personal questions? Does your Bible feel as heavy as lead when you pick it up? Do my challenges for you to jump in to serve and speak up for Christ push you away? Do you wonder if you’ll get any reward in Heaven? In fact, do you just hope that you will ever get there? Has the zeal you once knew dried up, and become a far off memory?
If these or a myriad of other telltale signs of spiritual listlessness and barrenness have cast their shadows across your path, then Christ's invitation to His spiritual gardening clinic is for you. Come to the vineyard and learn. Listen to Jesus as He introduces us to God’s vineyard.
Get a Spiritual Checkup
Jesus is talking about grapes. Nothing was clearer in the 1st Century Judea than vineyards to these men. They lived, walked, slept, and ate often in the very shadow of the vine. The seasons of each Israelite’s life were marked by the heavy clusters of fall grapes, the joys of harvest; the winter pruning of the vines; the first buds of spring; the vigorous growth of summer; and the joys of fall’s harvest again!
Jesus sums up everything about His relationship to us in John 15. All we need He has supplied (that is a summary of His teaching from John 1-14). Now in John 15, He describes the delivery system. A promise is only as good as the delivery system.
Question number three: How does God make us fruitful?
Open with me to Christ's explanation of what He wants from each of us who know Him this morning. That explanation is in John 15.1-8. As we turn there let me remind you that Jesus chose a very special image to help us grasp what He was ordering. Like a catalog with pictures - He paints a picture for us so we would be clear on what He desires from us.
You can live next to Hoover Dam but not have water or power if there are no lines to transport them to you. Jesus explains our lifelong relationship with Him in these precious words of John 15.5 and every word is packed with a powerful truth.
v. 5 “I AM the Vine and you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in Him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.” Jesus who is the Eternal Unchanging God of the Universe opens His arms to us opening an intimate and personal relationship directly with us.
v. 5 “I AM the Vine and you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in Him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.” Jesus gives the seventh and final declaration of His Divine relationship to us. In God's Word, a seven-part truth is a completed set. Jesus says that I AM all you need, needed, and will ever need. And in John 15 explains - how to get and keep everything He has promised us.
• He started in John 6.35 revealing Himself by saying: “I AM the Bread” we need to never perish, then in John 8.12 by declaring: “I AM the Light” we need to live.
• In John 10 He opens to us the truth that He is related to us in two more ways: “I AM the Door” we need to enter God’s Presence; as well as “I AM the Good Shepherd” we need -- who loves, leads, gives Himself to care for us.
• At the grave of His friend Lazarus in John 11.25-27 Jesus tells us that “I AM the Resurrection Life” all that we need to live here and there in serenity and security. As the hymn writers say: “no guilt in life, no fear in death Jesus has set my destiny”!
• In the Upper Room Jesus comforts His troubled disciples in John 14.6 with the three-fold cord that can’t be broken as He promises “I AM the Way, the Truth, and the Life”. The way for today, the truth for tomorrow, and the life forevermore.
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Good morning, I am grateful for Pastor John Barnett and this ministry, thank you Father, Jesus and Holy Spirit, amen. 💝 🙌
Blessings to you and Bonnie for your work 🙏❤️
Great teacher a real gentleman
Always a pleasure and blessing pastor John to hear you sermons ❤
🤎🩵Please pray for MY HUSBAND, PETE AND TWO SONS, CHRIS AND NICK FOR SALVATION. THANK YOU🌹
I only wish that John Barnett would grasp the concept of BREVITY!! ... at least once in a while! information overload ! please get to the point ! already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I, politely, disagree. I like the details.
@@thensingsmysowell so do I, that's why I said 'at least once in a while! ' can't keep up with all these hour long vids as good as they are!
Go to his "shorts" videos that do just that. 🙂@@Blizzmatic777
@@thensingsmysowellI do too 🙂, "shorts", videos are available for those who want. 👏👌
He can’t please everybody. I see people asking for longer videos and shorter videos. It’s not about YOU! There are many other people who watch his videos!!