Good News #98: Without Jesus, No One Can Do Anything; But Jesus is With Me Always, So I Can Do All Things!

Without Jesus, no one can do anything.

The very breath of life in the nostrils of every human being, believer or unbeliever, came from Him.

Colossians 1:16 says…
For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.

John 15 happened in the Upper Room where ONLY His disciples were with Him. This means the words of Jesus in here are spoken to believers (not to a mixed multitude like the parables). This means the words of Jesus here are specific words for all of us today who believe in Him.

He says we ARE the branches.
Jesus never said for us to be anything but the branch.

The problem is — some of us TRY so hard to be the vine, how?
By making what we do as if it is our source of things.

We make our doing, obeying, serving, praying, doing good works, etc… as if these give us righteousness or make us acceptable before God or make us deserving for the blessings of God…

We focus so much on our obedience, we forget it IS and WILL ALWAYS BE about the obedience of Jesus…

We focus so much on producing fruit when Galatians 5:22-23 says the fruit is from the Spirit of Jesus in us…
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

How exactly does the Holy Spirit produce fruit in and through us?
2 Corinthians 3:18 says…
But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

In other words, we are to behold Jesus in His glory…not our glory, which we have none on our own.
And as we behold Him, the Spirit transforms us into His image.

This is the gospel — Jesus says He is THE vine and we ARE the branches.
He supplies, we are just channels of His supply.
He produces, we are just bearers of His fruit.
He gives the life sap, we are just receivers of it.

Jesus is the gospel.
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Jesus said, “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.”

John15:5