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Show Notes for Grains from Gutteridge Podcast Episode #14: The Vine and the Branches

Summary:

Grapes hanging from a vine.“I am the Vine, you are the branches.”

Of this message, Pastor Gutteridge wrote:

God is the Husbandman, the great Vine-Dresser. He intends that His children should be fruitful with ever-increasing fruitfulness, so He purges them, that they may bring forth more fruit.

But they must abide in the Vine as living branches in the Vine; and the Vine is His own well-beloved Son. This abiding means complete obedience to the Son’s commandments, and in their loving obedience, God’s children bring forth much fruit.

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Show Notes by Jim Kerwin for Kernels of Wheat Podcast
Episode 020 - Do You Have Indoor Plumbing?

Water Pump and Bucket

Is this your experience of the Christian life, or do you have indoor plumbing?

Review of last week’s episode, What We Don’t Know About the ‘Anointing, the second installment in our study of 1 John 2:18-29.

Abiding

  • What is the significance of what we learned about ‘the anointing’ last week?
  • Do you have indoor plumbing?
  • Most Christians don’t have indoor plumbing, and find it hard to believe or even conceive that other people do!
  • Living water (John 4:1-42)
    • What does “living” mean?
    • The water becomes a “well springing up to eternal life” (v. 14)
    • An insignificant fact?
    • Left her waterpot (v. 28) — why is this small fact important?
    • (Side note: Another example of [click to continue…]
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    Jim Kerwin’s Show Notes for Kernels of Wheat Podcast
    Episode 016 – If ‘God So Loved the World,’ Why Am I Not Allowed To?

    Picture of a confused man with questions.

    "Come again?"

    Review and Tie-Up of Last Week: 1 John 2:12-14

    A “Worldly” Word Study—A First Look at 1 John 2:15-17

    Different Uses of the Word World in the New Testament

    • κοσμέω (kos MEH oh, kosmeo –> cosmetics)
    • Pre-New Testament Greek:
    • setting troops in order
    • women “putting themselves in order”— clothing, make-up, etc.; adorn
    • regulating
  • New Testament Usage:
    • Put in order
    • (in the sense of trim): Matthew 25:7—Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps.
    • Matthew 12:44—Then [the unclean spirit]  [click to continue…]
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    Jim Kerwin’s Show Notes for Kernels of Wheat Podcast
    Episode 014 – A New Gift from Jesus

    Reminder:

    Little boy looking into an opened gift box.

    A New Gift from Jesus

    1. Read through the First Epistle of John once a week
    2. Remember to substitute the phrase “the Anointed One” for Christ or Messiah for the next few weeks, to get in practice.

    This Week’s Passage: 1 John 2:6-11–The New Commandment, the New Gift

    • A Christian is someone who abides in Christ, and, thus, ought to walk in the same manner as He walked.  Your walk looks more and more like the walk and life and person of Jesus.
    • What is the New Commandment?
    • “Love one another as I have loved you.”
    • First mentioned in John 13:30-35 (specifically v. 34)
    • “I give to you”—anything given is a GIFT. [click to continue…]
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    Show Notes by Jim Kerwin for Kernels of Wheat Podcast
    Episode 013—The Love Meter

    Review

    The Love Meter

    How do you rate on God's Love Meter?

    • God’s desire: “That you also may have fellowship with us” (1 John 1:3) — intimate communion with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
    • The reason the Holy Spirit comes within — to draw us into that fellowship and to make us godly, Christlike
    • Abiding in that fellowship is the foundation of freedom from sin and sinning
    • “I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.” (1 John 2:1)

    1 John 2:1-2

    • If anyone sins,” not when.  For a Christian who is walking in the Light, living in the profferred communion with God, sin is a rarity, rather than a perpetual inevitability.
    • Jesus is presented as:
    • Our Parakletos, that is, our legal Advocate for when we offend.
    • Same word used of the Holy Spirit in John 14:16,26; 15:26; 16:7
  • Our hilasmos, that is, [click to continue…]
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    Jim Kerwin’s Show Notes for Kernels of Wheat Podcast
    Episode 004 – God Is Light (1 John 1:5)

    The revelations of God’s nature in John’s writings:

    "God is... I AM..."

    • The “I am…” passages
    • The “God is…” passages

    The “I Am” passages:

    • Exodus 3:14–”I AM THAT I AM.”
    • Jehovah/Yahweh as a derivative of the verb to be
    • I AM the Bread of Life (John 6:35, 41, 48, 51)
    • I AM [click to continue…]
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