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John 15
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| 15:1 I am the true vine, and my Father
is the husbandman. |
BOM: 1 Nephi 15:15
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Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch
that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. |
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Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. |
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Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself,
except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. |
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I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him,
the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. |
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If a man abide not in
me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and
cast them into the fire, and they are burned. |
 (15:6) "If a man abide not in
me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and
cast them into the fire, and they are burned."
Those who do not believe in Jesus will be cast
into a fire to be burned.
What the Bible says about burning people to death
 (15:7, 16)
"Ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you."
Christians get whatever they ask for in prayer.
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If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done
unto you.
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Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my
disciples.
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As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
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If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept
my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
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These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and
that your joy might be full. |
BOM: 2 Nephi 9:18
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This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have
loved you. |
 (15:12, 17)
"This is my commandment, That ye love one another."
If this is what it takes to be a Christian, then count me in. Unfortunately, Christians often take Jesus'
commandment to mean that Christians should love other, like minded, Christians, and to hell with
everybody else.
 (15:15) "All things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you."
Yet in Jn.16:12
he says that there are many things that he has not told them.
Did Jesus tell his disciples everything?
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Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
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Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
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Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his
lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I
have made known unto you.
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Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye
should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that
whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name,
he may give it you.
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| 15:17
These things I command you, that ye love one
another. |
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If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
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 (15:18-19) "The world hateth you."
Jehovah's Witnesses, like Jesus, are hated by the world and are not
of the world. Thus they don't vote or take part in any human organizations outside the
Watchtower Society.
One of Ann Coulter's
favorite Bible verses
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If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are
not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the
world hateth you.
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Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than
his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they
have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
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| 15:21
But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because
they know not him that sent me. |
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If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they
have no cloak for their sin. |
(15:22)
"But now they have no cloak for their sin."
Now that Jesus has come, non-believers have no excuse for not believing in him.
(15:23)
"He that hateth me hateth my Father also."
Oh, that's a good one. If you don't like Jesus, then you don't like God. (You're a damned God hater.)
Martin Luther used this verse to justify the mistreatment of the Jews.
On the Jews and Their Lies (Part 12)
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| 15:23
He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
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| 15:24
If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had
not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
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But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written
in their law, They hated me without a cause.
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But when the Comforter
is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the
Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: |
"When the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you"
Who sent the Holy Ghost?
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And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the
beginning.
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