Abide in the vine.

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“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.” John 15: 5

“Abide: To continue, to stay, to remain.” Websters’s 1828 Dictionary

“Branches can only bear fruit if they abide in the vine, … The branch is dependent on the vine, but the vine is not dependent on the branch. The branch derives its life and power from the vine. Without the vine, the branch is useless, lifeless, powerless.” by Brian Hedges

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At a recent Roundtable titled, “Remain in Me, and You Will Bear Abundant Fruit” it was instructed, “You don’t get fruit on your own. You can try to strive to produce fruit but it you will not succeed. We are the branches on the vine, the Christ consciousness. God gives us fruit. Call the sap that flows from the vine the Holy Ghost. It flows to us but we must remain in the vine by abiding by and practicing the precepts of Christ Jesus. This is following his life example.” (from my jottings)

Each week we have these tremendous Bible Lessons and classes to help us “abide” in the vine. The Sunday August 23rd, 2020 Roundtable instructed, when we label ourselves and others with the pictures of sin, disease, and death, it opens the door for it to become our identity “as a man thinketh”. By insisting on this identity then it becomes a conviction. We were told that this resistance or harden heart can only be dissolved by divine Love as found in this Science of the Christ. No one can “abide” for me but as I “abide” in the Word I am finding the promise from Science and Health, “The eternal Truth destroys what mortals seem to have learned from error, and man’s real existence as a child of God comes to light.” (page 288) bringing freedom from these ungodlike convictions in my life and others lives.

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