John chapter 15, we've been dabbling all throughout these sections for the past quite a few weeks because we did the IAM statements and we've covered a bunch of other kind of Sunday, Saturday topicals.

And so some of this will be familiar, things we've talked about a little bit, a little bit of review, but also some new stuff as well.

But chapter 15 is a beautiful chapter in the Bible, real high point, if you could even say

such a thing.

But it starts off here in verse one.

John 151, I am the true vine, and my father is the husbandman.

Out in the Yamhill area, years ago I was doing a wedding out there. And there's something

about vineyards that are just beautiful, you know, like this time of evening driving out there.

And it's just so beautiful.

And I remember this particular wedding was like that.

It was a wedding about this time of evening and just everything was perfect.

And we were out there kind of in the vineyard with this little gazebo thing.

And it was just a beautiful wedding.

I remember thinking, wow, could it be more

beautiful? But all of a sudden, you know, the bride, she had one of those veils going over her

face and suddenly I saw about an inch-long carpenter ant climbing up her veil and it was on the inside

climbing up. And I saw her looking at it as I was going like this.

And I just was marveling in my mind about, wow, she's tougher than nails.

I'd be shrinking like a little girl and like, get it out of my gosh.

No, but she was like, she just looked at it.

It was stone-faced and like it didn't bother her at all.

And we finished up the wedding and then later I think she pulled the aunt out of there.

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