I AM: The True Vine
Harris Creek Baptist Church
Harris Creek
4.8 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever seen kids playing on a bounce house? It can be such a source of fun and joy! However, without the blower, it’s completely useless. It’s only useful and fun if it’s connected to that which gives it “life”. As we continue our series, I AM, JP teaches us what Jesus means when He said “I am the true vine” in John 15:1-8, and how Christians can only experience life when they are connected to Jesus.
1) If Jesus is the true vine, His true followers must be pruned
2) If Jesus is the true vine, His true followers must remain in Him
3) If Jesus is the true vine, His followers are known by love
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| 0:00.0 | Harry's Creek, good morning. Let's go. How are we doing? I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. Hey, so when Monica and I, when our kids were younger, we were like, it was Christmas time and we were trying to find a gift for them. And so we had asked some people with kids around the same age as ours, like, hey, any idea? We'd really wanted to get one gift for the family. And they recommended a bounce house. and I thought, oh man, that's a good idea. |
| 0:23.3 | And so I started researching bounce houses. the idea we'd really wanted to get one gift for the family and they recommended a bounce house |
| 0:20.8 | and I thought oh man that you know that's a good idea and so I started researching bounce houses |
| 0:24.8 | and and I found a website that was just a wealth of knowledge regarding bounce houses and so I |
| 0:31.1 | started you know studying and it really was like more than we would typically spend on Christmas but we |
| 0:36.3 | kind of came to Monica and I came to this agreement, |
| 0:38.2 | hey, we'll lend it out. Like, we'll let people borrow it. You may have heard me talk about that before where it's just like, hey, we said, hey, if anybody ever wants to borrow the bounce house, you know, we'll lend it out. And so Christmas time came, we give them the bounce house, and it was the perfect gift. |
| 0:52.2 | Like they loved it. |
| 0:53.4 | And we would use it all the time. |
| 0:55.4 | And so it was like brown and green. |
| 0:57.2 | It had these four palm trees on the corners, and it had a slide that went into the large kind of bouncing platform. It was a great bounce house. And so we would use it all the time. Like sometimes we would just throw it in the front yard, put it up, you would connect it. It had this |
| 1:11.0 | long yellow tube that went into this like orange blower and it would just within two minutes. |
| 1:17.2 | Like it was up and going and it's a party. And so you could just decide, hey, we're going to put |
| 1:21.4 | the bounce house up and it was one of those things. As soon as it went up, like kids just started |
| 1:25.5 | coming out of the woods. Like, oh, man, |
| 1:27.9 | party over there. Well, this one particular day, we were hosting a party, so this was a planned |
| 1:33.2 | party in the neighborhood, and it was in our front yard, and we had the bounce house going. And so all |
| 1:38.3 | of the adults were kind of on this side of the sidewalk talking because all of the kids had moved over to the bounce house |
| 1:45.4 | and they're having a good time and so we're free to talk and catch up and have fun it's like a |
| 1:49.8 | babysitter you know and so they're over there and and you just hear sounds of joy and laughter and |
| 1:57.6 | elation and life and just fun it's just this kind of low hum roar of fun coming from the |
| 2:05.1 | bounce house which kind of allows the adults to have peace of mind like hey all is well over there |
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