November 21

DAILY READINGS: 2 Chronicles 16-17; Ezekiel 37; John:15:1-16 [1] I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. [2] Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. [3] Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. [4] Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. [5] I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. [6] If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. [7] If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. [8] Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. [9] As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. [10] If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. [11] These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. [12] This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. [13] Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. [14] Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. [15] Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. [16] Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Romans:8:35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
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For the love of Christ constraineth us... 2 Corinthians:5:14For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
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And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Ephesians:3:19And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
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The love of Christ secures us in a world of tribulation. What shall separate us? Nothing! The love of Christ compels us not to live for our flesh, "...that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again" (2 Cor:5:15And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
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See All... [6]). The world, the flesh, the devil. Christ's love is sufficient. —Tom Steere

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