This is the seventh I am statement found in John 15.
Jesus says in John 15:1, “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit, You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.”
There is a lot here. This is a very intense section and goes all the way through John 15:11. There is so much, so we will just have to hit some highlights of this passage. We find that Jesus is the source of life here. He gives the analogy of a vine, and most of us don’t know a lot about growing grapes today, but we know the concept. There is a vine, and you cannot grow fruit unless you are connected to the vine. So, He is saying that He is the vine. The Father is the dresser, so to speak, He takes care of the vineyard, but we are the branches within that vine and unless we are connected to the vine, we cannot have life and we cannot draw life from Christ, and we cannot bear fruit.
