The Last Night (John 13-17) – Bearing Fruit in the Vine

Peter Barnes | John 15:7-11

SERMON  NOTES
Bearing Fruit in the Vine
Psalm 80:1-19; John 15:1-11

– fruit shows that we are in Christ (15:8)

1. Answered Prayer.

– 15:7; this is not How to Write Your Own Ticket with God

– prayer comes from abiding in Christ and having His words abide in us.

2. Love.

– 15:9; see 1 John 4:10; Rom.8:38-39

– Jonathan Edwards: ‘the essence of all true religion lies in holy love’.

3. Obedience to the commandments.

– 15:10; grace leads to works (Eph.2:8-10)

4. Joy.

– 15:11; ‘Joy is the serious business of Heaven’ (C. S. Lewis)

– John 3:29; 16:20-22