John 15:18-27 

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John 15:17

¹⁷ This is my command: Love each other.

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John 15:18-19

¹⁸ “If hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. ¹⁹ If you belonged to , it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to , but I have chosen you out of . That is why hates you.

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The World:

The fallen world system, under the dominion of darkness (the Devil), that we once belonged to.

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Eph 2:1-3

As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, ² in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air… gratifying the cravings of our flesh…

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Rom 1:29-32

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1 Jn 2:15-16

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1 Cor 6:7-10

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1 Cor 6:11

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2 Cor 2:15-16

¹⁵ For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. ¹⁶ To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life.

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The church has often erred in two ways…

1. Allowing the degree of separation between the world and the church to get too thin.

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Homosexuality and gay marriage are not biblical alternatives to the lifelong, monogamous union of one man and one woman called marriage. Neither is cohabitation—when a man and woman live together in a marriage-like relationship without actually being married.

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John 3:16

¹⁶ For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

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The church has often erred in two ways…

1. Allowing the degree of separation between the world and the church to get too thin.
2. Allowing the degree of separation between the church and the world to get too big.

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John 17:15-16

¹⁵ My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. ¹⁶ They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.

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John 15:20-22

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John 15:23

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John 15:24-25

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Gal 1:10

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John 15:26-27

²⁶ “When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will about me. ²⁷ And you also must , for you have been with me from the beginning.

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Acts 1:8

⁸ But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be …

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Matt 5:10-12

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Time to break up.

Bring Jesus with you.

Don’t celebrate what the Bible calls sin.

Share with others about Jesus.

Personal Notes:

The Fruitful Christian Life

1. What is ?
2. Who is the of the “fruitful” life?
3. How do we “fruitful?” (And reach Optimum Fruitfulness)
4. One significant of a fruitful life.
5. The “fruit” of all.

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John 15:1-17

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John 15:1-2

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The True Vine =

Gardener =

Branches =

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John 14:6

I am the , the and the .

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Fruit of

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Fruit of

Prov 3:5-6

“Perhaps there is a better way – we think so. For we are now on a different basis; the basis of trusting and relying upon God. We trust infinite God rather than our finite selves. We are in the world to play the role that He assigns.” AA Big Book

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Fruit of the

Gal 5:22-23

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Fruit of and

Ps. 100

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Fruit of and

Eph 4:32

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Fruit of

James 5:16

1 Jn 1:9-10

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Fruit of

Phil 4:6-7

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Fruit of

Acts 1:8

Matt 28:18-20

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Can you be a Christian?

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Fruitless Christian is an .

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Rom 5:3-5

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John 15:4-5

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John 15:6

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John 6:66-68

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John 15:7-8

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John 15:9-17

⁹ “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. ¹⁰ 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. ¹¹ I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. ¹² My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command… ¹⁷ This is my command: Love each other.

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1 Cor 13:13

Personal Notes:

 

Do You Love Jesus? Prove IT!

Study Passage: John 14:15-27

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John 14:15

¹⁵ “If you love me, keep my commands.

John 14:21

²¹ Whoever and is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”

John 14:23-24

²³ Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. ²⁴ Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching.

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Luke 6:46

⁴⁶ “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?

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A Simple Command: Love like Jesus.

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John 13:34-35

³⁴ “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. ³⁵ By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

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¹² My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command.

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Obedience without Holy Spirit =

Obedience with the Holy Spirit =

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John 14:15-17

¹⁵ “If you love me, keep my commands. ¹⁶ And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another  to help you and be with you forever— ¹⁷ the Spirit of truth…

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(Building)

John 14:16 (NIV)

¹⁶ And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another  to help you and be with you forever…

John 14:16 (KJV)

…and he shall give you another …

John 14:16 (ESV)

…and he will give you another …

John 14:16 (CEB)

…and he will send another …

John 14:16 (CSB)

…and he will give you another  to be with you forever.

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John 14:15-18

¹⁵ “If you love me, keep my commands. ¹⁶ And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— ¹⁷ the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

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Ps. 139:7-12

⁷ Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
⁸ If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
⁹ If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
¹⁰ even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
¹¹ If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,”
¹² even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.

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Rm 8:38-39

³⁸ For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,^[k] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹ neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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John 14:25-26

²⁵ “All this I have spoken while still with you. ²⁶ But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,  and will remind you of everything I have said to you.

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John 14:27

²⁷ Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

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Applications:

like Jesus

Daily ministry of Holy Spirit

Receive the that only Jesus can give

Personal Notes:

 

Troubled Hearts Need More Than Answers

Jesus Is the

Jesus Is the

Jesus Is the

Knowing About Jesus vs. Knowing Jesus

Growing as a

My Next Step This Week

Memory Verse

John 14:6

Personal Notes:

Key Question: When the world sees you, what do they see?

We may be the closest thing to Jesus that people encounter this week

Sometimes we struggle because we define glory differently than Jesus does.

• We tend to glorify comfort or convenience. Jesus glorified obedience.
• We glorify success. Jesus glorified sacrifice.
• We glorify winning. Jesus glorified serving.
• We glorify being noticed. Jesus glorified laying His life down.

When Jesus is glorified, people stop seeing us and start seeing Him.

Love like Jesus

Jesus calls his followers to follow Him

The question isn’t whether people are watching.The question is, what do they see?

• Do they see someone who is pursuing their own glory? Or someone who is pointing to the glory of Jesus?
• Do they see people who love the way Jesus loved?
• Do they see people who keep following Jesus even after we’ve failed?
• Do they see people choosing to follow Jesus?

Personal Notes:

Expectation that God is

Expectation that God’s promises are

Expectation that God is who says He is

We don’t put our on God. We put our in Him.

Personal Notes:

If you could summarize the Christian life with two words, they would be and .

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John 13:1-17 Readable sections…

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Luke 22:24-27

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John 13:1

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John 13:2

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Luke 22:1-6

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John 13:3-5

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Phil 2:5-11

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John 13:6-8

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John 13:9-11

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John 13:12-17

Personal Notes:

Mission:

To share the and of Jesus with the and community, so that they too can be reached and set free.

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What comes into your mind when you think about Evangelism?

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Two Approaches:

Confrontational / Combat Evangelism

“I see a sinner who needs to be converted.”

Conversational Evangelism

“I see a person God loves, and the most loving thing I can do is share Jesus with them.”

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Conversational Evangelism

We share story,
to share story,
so others can meet Him too.

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What Is the Gospel?

“For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures…” 1 Cor 15:3-4

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Why is it so important that we share the gospel?

Romans 10:14 (NLT)

¹⁴ But how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them?

John 14:6

⁶ Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

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The Five Gospel Truths:

1. God you.
2. Sin you.
3. Jesus for you.
4. If you , you will be saved.
5. There is a party in heaven, and a new creation on earth.

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• God Loves You

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

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(building)

• Sin separates you.

Romans 3:23
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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• Jesus died for you.

Romans 5:8
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

1 Corinthians 15:3–4
…Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures…he was buried…(and) he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures…

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• If you believe, you will be saved.

Romans 10:9
“If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”

Eph 2:8-9

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.

John 14:6

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

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• There is a party in heaven, and a new creation on earth.

“I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.” Luke 15:7

“This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!” 2 Cor 5:17

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Conversational Evangelism

We share our story,
to share His story,
so others can meet Him too.

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Your story has three parts:

1. This is who I (Acts 26:4-5, :9-11).
2. This is what (Acts 26:12-18).
3. This is who I am (Acts 26:19-21).

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What Is Your Gospel Hook?

A gospel hook is an engaging entry point into your story.

Examples:

“I grew up in the church…”

“I did not grow up around faith…”

“I thought I was a Christian, but…”

“I was invited by a friend…”

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Paul’s Hook:

Gal 1:13-14

For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it. I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

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The Six Steps of Conversational Evangelism:

1. Make a connection.
2. Share story.
3. Share story.
4. the question.
5. with them.
6. their step of faith.

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Ask the Question

Would you like to believe in Jesus and be saved?

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Pray With Them

A Simple Salvation Prayer

“Lord Jesus, I confess that I am a sinner in need of being saved.

Jesus, I believe that you died on the cross for my sins,

that you were buried, and that you were raised from the dead.

I trust in you, Jesus. Please save my life.”

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Pair up and practice this week:

1. Ask a genuine question.
2. Share your gospel hook.
3. Share your story in 2 minutes.
4. Share the five Gospel truths.
5. Practice asking the question.
6. Celebrate their step of faith.

Personal Notes:

Revival happens when we let to change our

God is at work! But are we ready for it?

The Gospel goes people!

Revival happens when we what God

Personal Notes:

John 21: 15-19

Peter encountered Jesus, and his whole life was changed.

You can encounter Jesus and experience life change.

Acts 1:14 

They had an encounter with the Holy Spirit and their lives were changed.

Acts 2: 1-4

Acts 2: 37-41

The crowd encountered Jesus and their lives were changed.

Revival needs to start with you as an individual, but it was never meant to stay with you. Revival needs to happen in community, in the fellowship of believers, with us, but it isn’t meant to stay with us. Revival is meant for us to carry out into the world, that desperately needs Jesus. 

Personal Notes: