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🗓️ 19 November 2009
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Where's Dr. Park? Oh, there it is. |
| 0:03.0 | Dr. Pike. |
| 0:05.4 | John, same book, Chapter 15. |
| 0:11.0 | I've been in discussions with men of the Bible, and some have the belief that John |
| 0:18.7 | Chapter 15, Jesus Christ being a vine, Father |
| 0:22.6 | being a husband man, that |
| 0:24.7 | that verse is speaking of |
| 0:26.6 | a man |
| 0:28.1 | being able to lose his salvation |
| 0:30.2 | in that verse |
| 0:32.1 | stating that the branch that is |
| 0:34.5 | in me. That very |
| 0:36.6 | verse, the branch is in me. |
| 0:39.3 | But if it don't produce fruit, it will be cast away and burned. |
| 0:45.3 | Is that talking about salvation, if it is not, can you distinguish? |
| 0:50.3 | My, oh my, that's a really good question. Well said. Good point. The branch that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Okay, here's the way I go about answering a question like that. It's a picture, a vine, a branch, a farmer, |
| 1:15.6 | and you gotta be so careful with pictures, all right? |
| 1:19.6 | What aspects of an analogy or a comparison |
| 1:23.6 | is meant to be taken precisely and what aspect isn't. |
| 1:28.9 | And so I move out, stay in the same book, but I move out and say, |
| 1:34.2 | okay, Jesus, the Jesus of the Gospel of John, |
| 1:38.0 | you got anything else to say to me about perseverance, |
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