By saying He is the true vine, Jesus declared He is the manifestation of God and only through Him can we obtain eternal life, without Him we can do nothing. Yet with Jesus Christ we can do all things! Philippians 4:13.
We are clean (sanctified) through the Authorized Word of God. The condition of the promise in the parable is that we abide in Jesus Christ (dwell in HIs Word) and we allow Jesus Christ to abide in us (Holy Spirit Baptism)! The consequence of not abiding in Christ is to be cut off from the vine. Which sounds harsh but if we are not one with Christ we ourselves choose to not belong.
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The Last Days | Neal Frisby’s Sermon CD #1065 | 05/22/85 PM
We are just the branches, the bible says, Jesus is the vine. He would bring you the nutrients and He would bring you the food that your spiritual body needs. Now, you have to be associated with the vine. He is the vine, ye are the branches. So, you are just a branch. Sometimes, people today as the bible says, they are too self-righteous—in the organizations and systems in different ways—they are the vine and they make the Lord the branch. That doesn’t work, does it? Why? If they make the Lord the branch and they become the vine, then they cannot get any food from Him and it is death written across that horse (Revelation 6: 8). How many of you say praise the Lord now, see what I mean? If you want to get that life (food), you have to turn it around like it is supposed to be in the name of the Lord Jesus and life comes. So, you are a branch. He is the Almighty vine. He is the true vine, the bible says. We are, as we believe in His word, the true branches and that is the only way the true food [fruit] will come; that is to be on the true vine. Not on the false vine because on the false vine is destruction
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John 8:31-32
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; 32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
John 14:6-7
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
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Psalms 91:1
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.