2.
The organism of the Triune God in the divine dispensing
15:1—16:4
a.
The vine and the branches being an organism to glorify the Father by expressing the riches of the divine life
15:1-11
John 15
:1
15:1
I am the
1true avine, and My Father is the
2husbandman.
John 15
:2
15:2
Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes it away; and every
branch that bears fruit, He
1prunes it that it may bear more fruit.
John 15
:3
15:3
You are already
aclean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
John 15
:4
15:4
aAbide in Me and I
bin you. As the branch cannot bear fruit
1of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither
can you unless you abide in Me.
John 15
:5
15:5
I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in Me and I in him, he bears
amuch fruit; for apart from Me you can do
bnothing.
John 15
:6
15:6
If one does not abide in Me, he is
1acast out as a branch and is dried up; and they gather them and cast
them into the
bfire, and they are
cburned.
John 15
:7
15:7
If you abide in Me and My
1awords abide in you,
2ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.
John 15
:8
15:8
In this is My Father
1aglorified, that you bear much fruit and
so you will become My
bdisciples.
John 15
:9
15:9
As the Father has
aloved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.
John 15
:10
15:10
If you
1keep My
acommandments, you will abide in My love; even as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.
John 15
:11
15:11
These things I have spoken to you that My
1joy may be in you and
that your
ajoy may be made full.
b.
The branches loving one another to express the divine life in fruit-bearing
15:12-17
John 15
:12
15:12
This is My
acommandment, that you
blove one another even as I have loved you.
John 15
:13
15:13
No one has greater love than this, that one
alay down his
1life for his friends.
John 15
:14
15:14
You are My
afriends if you do what I command you.
John 15
:15
15:15
No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all the things which I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.
John 15
:16
15:16
You did not choose Me, but I
achose you, and I
1set you that you should
2go forth and
bbear fruit and
3that your fruit should
4remain, that whatever you
5cask the Father in My name, He may give you.
John 15
:17
15:17
These things I command you that you may
1alove one another.
c.
The vine and the branches, separated from the world, being hated and persecuted by the religious world
15:18—16:4
John 15
:18
15:18
If the world
ahates you, know that it has
bhated Me before you.
John 15
:19
15:19
If you were
1of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are
anot 1of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
John 15
:20
15:20
Remember the word which I said to you, A slave is not
agreater than his master. If they have
bpersecuted Me, they will
cpersecute you also; if they have kept My word, they will keep yours also.
John 15
:21
15:21
But all these things they will do to you because of My
aname, because they do
bnot know Him who sent Me.
John 15
:22
15:22
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have
asin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
John 15
:23
15:23
He who
ahates Me hates My Father also.
John 15
:24
15:24
If I did not do among them the
aworks which no one else has done, they would not have
bsin; but now they have both seen and hated both Me and My Father.
John 15
:25
15:25
But it is so that the word written in their law may be fulfilled,
a"They hated Me without cause.''
John 15
:26
15:26
But when the
aComforter comes, whom I will
bsend to you
1cfrom the Father, the
dSpirit of reality, who proceeds from the Father, He will
etestify concerning Me;
John 15
:27
15:27
And ayou testify also, because from the beginning you have been with Me.
