John 15:12-17 / Pastor David VanAcker

12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 17 These things I command you, so that you will love one another.

The big idea of this passage is that Jesus chose His followers (they didn’t choose Him) and He did so in order that they might bear lasting fruit among all mankind. Throughout the six verses, Jesus named five specific kinds of abiding following fruit: love, obedience, friendship, teaching, and prayer. Consequently, the main takeaways are to love, obey, befriend, teach, and pray. Let's pray together that it would be so among us.

Service Order

Welcome
Exhortation
Assurance of Pardon
How Great (Ps 145)
     Reading: Psalm 57
Blessed Assurance
     My Hope Is Built On Nothing Less
Offering
Sermon
Yet Not I, But Christ In Me
Glory
Benediction

Memory Verse

Romans 5:8 - [but] God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Service Times

Prayer
8:30-8:45am
Sunday School
9:00-10:00am
Worship Service
10:30am-Noon

Berea

Join us at 9 for Sunday School of all ages. This week the adults will resume their course on Biblical Doctrine. We will look at the Doctrine of the Church: Gifts of the Spirit. Kids will continue their curriculums as well. Join us, even if you've never attended.