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Life in the Vine | Week 6
Episode 517
Sunday, 12 October, 2025
Life in the Vine - Week 6October 12, 2025Teacher: Pastor Dave Brown As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.— John 15:9-11As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.— John 15:9My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.—John 17:20-23One with the Father, Son, and Holy SpiritHe became what we are so that we might become what He is.—IrenaeusIn all of Jesus’ teaching, what we call God is, in a mysterious but beautiful way, a flow of love between the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. God is a community of self-giving love; each member of the Trinity is distinct yet somehow still one. To be with the Spirit is to be with Jesus, and to be with Jesus is to be with the Father. It’s to enter the flow of love within the inner life of God himself.— John Mark ComerAgape God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. — 1 John 4:16bIn God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give…God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them. He creates the universe, already foreseeing the buzzing cloud of flies about the cross, the flayed back pressed against the uneven stake, the nails driven through the medial nerves, the repeated incipient suffocation as the body droops, the repeated torture of back and arms as it is time after time, for breathes sake, hitched up. If I may dare the biological image, God is a “host” who deliberately created His own parasites; causes us to be that we may exploit and take advantage of Him. Herein is love. This is the diagram of Love Himself, the inventor of all loves.— C.S. LewisThe Four Loves If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.— John 15:10Jesus’ Commands Are All About LoveHear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.— Deuteronomy 6:4Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself.— Leviticus 19:18The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.— Leviticus 19:34Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.— Deuteronomy 7:9“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”— Matthew 36-40I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.— John 15:1
