Five Words Rather than Ten Thousand

A teaching on the Gospel of John chapter 15. To understand this passage, you must understand Jesus' “I am" statements.   The end the book of John Jesus made the following" I am" statements: I am the bread of life, I am the bread came down from heaven I am the living bread, I am the light of the world, I am, I am the door, I am the good Shepherd, I am the resurrection and life, I am he, I am the way the truth in the life. In each of these statements Jesus is stating that he is the source of true spiritual and everlasting life .   In John Chapter 15 this “I am” statements is no exception. If you read the previous three chapters you will see that this passage is similar in teaching. John 15 1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Meet the two primary movers in this passage.   Jesus is the true Vine.   Jesus the true vine stands in opposition to the false vines.   As Jesus made his way down to the garden of Gethsemane he would h...

1 Kings 19:1–18 (NASB95) 1 Now Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and even more, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.” 3 And he was afraid and arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. 4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough; now, O Lord , take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.” 5 He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, there was an angel touching him, and he said to him, “Arise, eat.” 6 Then he looked and behold, there was at his head a bread cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank and lay down again. 7 The angel of the Lord came...