Sermon Guide - The Pruning Process
John 15:1-11
Big Idea: How does God grow us and what is our part in the process.
Prune - trim (a tree, shrub, or bush) by cutting away dead or overgrown branches or stems, especially to increase fruitfulness and growth.
John 15:1-2
I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more.
John 15:3-11
“You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you. Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me. Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing. Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers. Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned. But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted!
When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father.
I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.. I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow!”
3 Things We Experience When We Remain
1. We will produce much fruit.
2. We will experience answered prayers.
3. You will be filled with joy.
What area of your life is dead or overgrown?
Are you willing to remain when Gods is asking to prune you?
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