Intimacy With Jesus, Part 1

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Holiness of God

Depravity of Mankind

Holiness in the N.T.

Intimacy With Jesus

Remain In Me, pt. 1John 15:1-4

Issues Related To My Intimacy With Jesus

1. Brokenness/Authentic Humility

2. Fear & Worry 3. Self Reliance vs. FULL

Reliance on the LORD4. Focusing on Competency

Instead of Intimacy5. Comparing & Competing 6. Relying on Methods &

Organization

7. Forgetting What Lies Behind8. Suffering9. Waiting With & Listening to

God10. Guilt & Shame11. Facing off with the Dark

Issues of My Life12. Confusion & Mystery about

the Transformational Process

13. Sabbath & Solitude

14. Living by Grace Not Effort15. Experiencing ALL of Life

WITH GOD16. Contentment & Being

Satisfied (alone) With God17. Taking My Thoughts Captive

to God18. Understanding Biblical

Holiness19. Being Amazed With God

John 15:1-4 - “I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener. 2He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so

they will produce even more. 3You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you.

4Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me. NLT

John 15:1 – “I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener. NLT

John 15:2 – He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more. NLT

John 15:3 - You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you. NLT

1 John 2:19 - These people left our churches because they never really belonged with us; otherwise they would have stayed with us. When they left us, it proved that they do not belong with us. NLT

John 14:24 - Anyone who doesn’t love me will not do what I say. And remember, my words are not my own. This message is from the Father who sent me. NLT

John 15:4 – Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch can not produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me. NLT

John 14:10 - Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I say are not my own but my Father who lives in me does this work though me. NLT

John 14:17 - He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world at large cannot receive him, because it isn’t looking for him and doesn’t recognize him. But you do, because he lives with you now and later will be in you. NLT

John 17:11, 19, 21-23 - ..Holy Father, keep them and care for them—all those you have given me—so that they will be united just as we are. 19And I give myself entirely to you so they also might be entirely yours.

21My prayer for all of them is that they will be one. Just as you and I are one, Father—that just as you are in me and I am in you, so they will be in us, and the world will believe you sent me.

22I have given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are -- 23I in them and you in me, all being perfected into one. NLT

Matthew 28:20 - And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age. NLT

Meditate & Apply

What are the issues in your intimacy with Jesus?

Is your life reflective of Starbucks’ Theology?

Are you focused on

Production, Ministry, Busyness

OR

Intimacy With Jesus?

Do you want to rest more in your love relationship with

Jesus?

Remain In Me, pt. 1John 15:1-4