How many times does God, whenever I'm not being fruitful, by pruning bag, he'll chasten me because he loves me?

You ever think about that?

And part of the pruning is chasing in tooth so that you can bring forth more fruit.

He's always willing to work with us and with our lives.

I am falling, I am falling in love. I am falling in love. I am falling in love. I am falling to have you with us.

Welcome to Somebody Lives You Radio, the Bible teaching ministry of Roll Rees in Diamond Bar, California.

We're so glad to have you with us today for the conclusion of our true salvation series.

Contemplating the symbolism of a vine with fruit-filled branches,

Roll will encourage us to live out our faith in such a way that it's evident to everyone around us.

As you allow the Lord to prune away old sinful habits and look to Jesus for purpose and strength,

you can bless others with God's love. Today's lesson is simply titled Abiding. Join us in John

Chapter 15. Here's Roll Rees. He says, I am the true vine, and my father is the vine dresser.

Notice that.

Every branch in me, who's every branch?

Every branch is from Jew to Gentile.

That's you and me.

We are the branches. Jesus is the vine,

and his father is the vine dresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away,

and every branch that bears fruit, he prunes that it may bear more fruit. Notice what he's saying. He's giving you now the whole gospel.

What a child of God is supposed to be like. Now when he uses the word here in chapter 15, beginning with verse 2, every branch, notice, every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away.

Now, again, historically and culturally, because I'm not a farmer, but I've read on it, what they used to do is that usually when a vine would not give any longer fruit,

the branches in the vine would be cut off and they would be thrown out.

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