John 15:8-27, What Is Fruit?; Why Strive For Rewards?; Does God Love Us?; If you keep My commandments; Lordship Salvation; To Die For A Friend; Now Friends No Longer Slaves; Is God My Friend?; “the elect” eklego eklektos; Different Levels Of Torment, Accountability; Not Have Sin?; The Holy Spirit’s Ministry, Purpose And Work

1. John 15:8-27
What Is Fruit?; Why Strive For Rewards?; Does God
Love Us?; If you keep My commandments; Lordship
Salvation; To Die For A Friend; Now Friends No Longer
Slaves; Is God My Friend?; “the elect” eklego eklektos;
Different Levels Of Torment, Accountability; Not Have
Sin?; The Holy Spirit’s Ministry, Purpose And Work
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2. BIBLE IN FIVE
Pastor Dave Kooyers
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God bless you as you examine His Word,
Your servant in Christ, 2Cor. 4:5
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3. John 15:8, What Is Fruit?
• NAU John 15:8 "My Father is glorified by this, that
you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples.
• Abiding love; NAU John 15:9 "Just as the Father has
loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love.
• NAU Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love
[#1], joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such
things there is no law.
• Some teach that “love” is the fruit and the rest just
describe love.
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4. John 15:8, What Is Fruit? agape
• NAU 1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is
from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows
God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, for
God is love. 9 By this the love of God was manifested in us,
that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so
that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that
we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be
the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us,
we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has seen God
at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and
His love is perfected in us [fruit?]. 13 By this we know that we
abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His
Spirit. 4

5. John 15:8
Why Strive For Rewards?
• NAU John 15:8 "My Father is glorified by this,
that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be
My disciples.
• NAU Philippians 3:12 Not that I have already
obtained it or have already become perfect,
but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for
which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus… 14
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the
upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
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6. John 15:8
Why Strive For Rewards?
NAU Hebrews 6:1 Therefore leaving the
elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press
on to maturity…
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7. John 15:9-11
• NAU John 15:9 "Just as the Father has loved
Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. 10
"If you keep My commandments, you will
abide in My love; just as I have kept My
Father's commandments and abide in His love.
11 "These things I have spoken to you so that
My joy may be in you, and that your joy may
be made full.
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10. John 15:9, Does God Love Us?
• NAU 1 John 4:9 By this the love of God was
manifested in us, that God has sent His only
begotten Son into the world…
• NAU John 3:16 "For God so loved the world…
• NAU Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His
own love toward us…
• 1 John 4:8 1 John 3:16 John 15:9-11
Ephesians 5:1-2, 25-27
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11. John 15:10
Keep My Commandments
• NAU John 15:10 "If you keep My
commandments, you will abide in My love; just
as I have kept My Father's commandments and
abide in His love.
• NAU 1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that
we keep His commandments; and His
commandments are not burdensome.
• Billy Sunday once said, “What has Jesus Christ
ever asked you to do that wasn’t for your own
good?” 11

12. John 15:10, Lordship Salvation
• NAU John 15:10 “If you keep…
• NAU Hebrews 5:9 And having been made perfect,
He became to all those who obey Him the source
of eternal salvation,
• The issue with this controversy and the
understanding of these types of verses is, is this
referring to a condition of salvation, salvation as a
reward, or result of salvation?
• Obedience and commandment keeping, along
with love, are the attributes and identification of
being in Christ.
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13. NAU John 15:10 “If you keep”
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14. John 15:11, Jesus’ Joy In Us?
• NAU John 15:11 "These things I have spoken
to you so that My joy may be in you, and that
your joy may be made full.
• Studying John 15 should make our joy
complete and full.
• How ya’ doing?
• NAU John 15:9 "Just as the Father has loved
Me, I have also loved you…
• Maybe you missed verse nine.
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16. John 15:12, Love One Another
• NAU John 15:12 "This is My commandment,
that you love one another, just as I have loved
you.
• So, how do you love one another?
• Soren Kierkegaard said, “To love another
person is to help them love God.”
• I think he's right in this regard, to help direct
someone's eternity out of hell and into God's
love must surely be a great act of love.
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17. John 15:13-15, Now Friends
• NAU John 15:13 "Greater love has no one than
this, that one 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 slaves, for the
slave does not know what his master is doing;
but I have called you friends, for all things that I
have heard from My Father I have made known
to you.
• So, a good friend/teacher makes known all of
God’s Word? What does that say about 17

18. John 15:13, Die For A Friend
• NAU John 15:13 "Greater love has no one
than this, that one lay down his life for his
friends.
• Can Acts of Love Earn Us A Place In Heaven?
drcraigvideos, William Lane Craig
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo93r9Z
ws1U&feature=em-subs_digest
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19. John 15:10, Lordship Salvation
• At John 15:10 (If you keep), I asked if this is referring
to a condition of salvation, salvation as a reward, or
result of salvation? Now;
• NAU John 15:14 "You are My friends if you do what I
command you. 15 "No longer do I call you slaves, for
the slave does not know what his master is doing; but
I have [past tense] called you friends, for [it does not say,”You
obeyed, or, “you are going to obey”] all things that I have heard
from My Father I have made known to you.
• Our position is not based on our practice, but on our
position in the sinless Son of God. 19

20. John 15:15 , Now Friends
• John 15:15 "No longer do I call you slaves,
…but I have called you friends, for …
• A dispensational (oikonomia) change? Or a
change in position based on Christ's perfect
obedience to the Father
• A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with
difficulty kept. By Jerome
• James 2:23 …ABRAHAM…was called the friend
of God.
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21. John 15:15, No Longer Slaves
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22. John 15:15, Is God My Friend?
• gracethrufaith.com, “This question was derived from
watching a video on Youtube. The speaker frightened
me by saying that “God is not your good buddy, he is
not your friend”. After I watched this video I felt like I
lost my only true friend, and it made me feel like I’ve
shamed God by praying to him as my friend as well as
my Lord. I pray throughout my day while I’m at school
or while I’m working and I don’t always bow my head
and close my eyes. Is this disrespectful?
• A. One of the advantages of the Internet is that it gives
us access to a much wider variety of information than
ever before. But it requires that we have a stronger
foundation of belief so we can discern what the Bible
teaches from
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23. John 15:15, Is God My Friend?
• something that’s just someone’s opinion. Otherwise
we risk becoming hopelessly confused.
• In Acts 17:11 Paul commended the Bereans for
searching the scriptures daily to prove that what he
was teaching them was the truth. If you do that in this
case you’ll find that God has given us the authority to
become His children, (John 1:12) and to call Him our
Father (Gal. 4:6). You’ll find that Jesus called us His
friends (John 15:12-15) and that God says we’re not to
fear Him (Rom. 8:15-16). And you’ll conclude that
while it’s right to respect God, it’s also right to think of
Him as a friend and to desire a close and personal
relationship with Him.”
• http://gracethrufaith.com/ask-a-bible-teacher/is-god-my-
friend/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Gracethrufaith+%28GraceThruFait
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24. John 15:16, Whatever You Ask
• John 15:16 "You did not choose Me but I chose
you, and appointed you that you would go and
bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so
that whatever you ask of the Father in My
name He may give to you.
• 1 John 5:15 And if we know that He hears us in
whatever we ask, we know that we have the
requests which we have asked from Him.
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25. John 15:16, “the elect”
• NAU John 15:16 "You did not choose [eklego]
Me but I chose [eklego] you, and appointed you
that you would go and bear fruit…
• Root is literally “out called”
• <1586> ἐκλέγω eklego
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26. Mark 13:20, “the elect”
• Mark 13:20 "Unless the Lord had shortened those days, no life
would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect [out called
ones] , whom He chose, He shortened the days.
• <1588> ἐκλεκτός eklektos
• Meaning: select, by impl. Favorite… Usage: choice(2), choice
man(1), chosen(1), chosen(9), chosen one(1), elect(8).
• Mark 13:22 for false Christs and false prophets will arise, and
will show signs and wonders, in order to lead astray, if
possible, the elect.
• Mark 13:27 "And then He will send forth the angels, and will
gather together His elect from the four winds, from the
farthest end of the earth to the farthest end of heaven.
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27. Chosen Or Elect Or What?
gracethrufaith.com
• “…In the New Testament the Greek word translated “elect” (16
times) is also translated “chosen” (7 times) and can refer to
believers on Earth, believers in Heaven, Israel, the Church, Jesus,
and certain angels…..
• Showing that Matt. 24 pertains to Israel can be done by pointing out
that the Lord never mentioned the Church there, but did mention
the people in Judea (Israel), the Temple (Israel), travel on the
Sabbath (Israel), and a warning against being fooled by false Christs
(Israel). Also, His phrase “He who stands firm to the end will be
saved” in Matt. 24:13 cannot apply to the Church because our
salvation is guaranteed from the moment we believe (Ephesians
1:13-14). The entire chapter was devoted to the Lord’s answer to
three questions of Matt. 24:3. When will these things happen (the
destruction of the Temple and Jerusalem), what will be the sign of
your (2nd) coming, and of the end of the age, (completion of
Daniel’s 70 weeks prophecy). All these were of primary importance
to Israel….”
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28. John 15:17, Love One Another
• NAU John 15:17 "This I command you, that you
love one another.
• Jesus repeats the commandment to love one
another, as a commandment.
• Why do you suppose Jesus I had to command
this?
• If the “if” in John 15:10+14 etc. are conditions,
or prerequisites, to our salvation then Jesus is
commanding here that we save ourselves by
our obedience. That would be salvation by
works. Clearly the “if”s must represent
evidence of our salvation by grace.
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29. John 15:18
If The World Hates You
• NAU John 15:18 "If
the world hates
you, you know that
it has hated Me
before it hated you.
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30. John 15:20, The Secret History of
the Jesuits - Edmond Paris
• NAU John 15:20 "Remember the word that I said to
you, 'A slave is not greater than his master.' If they
persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they
kept My word, they will keep yours also.
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• The Secret History of the Jesuits - Edmond
Paris
• http://www.slideshare.net/EboBlack/the-
secret-history-of-the-jesuits-edmond-paris
• “The most dangerous of men are those who
appear very religious, especially when they are
organized…”

31. John 15:22
Different Levels Of Accountability
• NAU John 15:22 "If I had not come and spoken to
them, they would not have sin, but now they have
no excuse for their sin.
• NAU John 9:41 Jesus said to them, "If you were
blind, you would have no sin; but since you say,
'We see,' your sin remains.
• NAU John 15:24 "If I had not done among them
the works which no one else did, they would not
have sin; but now they have both seen and hated
Me and My Father as well.
• Matthew 11:20-21,
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32. John 15:22, Not Have Sin?
• NAU John 15:22 …they would not have sin…
• NAU Acts 17:23 "For while I was passing through and
examining the objects of your worship, I also found an
altar with this inscription, 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.'
Therefore what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim
to you… 30 "Therefore having overlooked the times of
ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people
everywhere should repent, 31 because He has fixed a day
in which He will judge the world in righteousness through
a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to
all men by raising Him from the dead."
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33. John 15:22, Not Have Sin?
• NAU Romans 3:25 whom God displayed
publicly as a propitiation in His blood through
faith. This was to demonstrate His
righteousness, because in the forbearance of
God He passed over the sins previously
committed; 26 for the demonstration, I say, of
His righteousness at the present time, so that
He would be just and the justifier of the one
who has faith in Jesus.
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34. John 15:22, Not Have Sin?
• NAU Acts 14:16 "And in the generations gone by
He permitted all the nations to go their own ways;
17 and yet He did not leave Himself without
witness, in that He did good and gave you rains
from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your
hearts with food and gladness.”
• NAU Micah 4:5 Though all the peoples walk Each in
the name of his god, As for us, we will walk In the
name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
• Eph 2:12, Psa 81:12,
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35. John 15:22
Different Levels Of Torment
• NAU Matthew 11:22 …more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the
day of judgment than for you.
• NAU Matthew 10:15 …more tolerable for the land of Sodom and
Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.
• NAU Luke 12:47 "And that slave who knew his master's will and
did not get ready or act in accord with his will, shall receive many
lashes, 48 but the one who did not know it, and committed deeds
worthy of a flogging, will receive but few. And from everyone who
has been given much shall much be required; and to whom they
entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more.
• NAU James 4:17 Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to
do and does not do it, to him it is sin.
• 2 Peter 2:20-21, Luke 10:12, Hebrews 10:26, John 5:14, 2 Timothy 3:13
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36. John 15:24, Prophecy
• “The odds of Jesus fulfilling just EIGHT of the
prophecies from the Old Testament is
1:100,000,000,000,000,000. [17 zeros]
• These are just a few of many prophesies...this
book was not an invention of man but written
by God. The Holy Spirit used men to write.”
• From: The Reformation Resurgence.
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37. • From: The
Reformation
Resurgence.
• NAU 2 Peter 1:20 But
know this first of all,
that no prophecy of
Scripture is a matter of
one's own
interpretation, 21 for
no prophecy was ever
made by an act of
human will, but men
moved by the Holy
Spirit spoke from God.
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38. John 15:26, The Holy Spirit’s Ministry,
Purpose And Work
• John 15:26 "When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you
from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from
the Father, He will bear witness of Me, 27 and you will bear
witness also, because you have been with Me from the
beginning.
• John 14:26 "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father
will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to
your remembrance all that I said to you.
• John 14:17 that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot
receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you
know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.
• John 16:13-15…13 "But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He
will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His
own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He
will disclose to you what is to come. 14 "He shall glorify Me; for
He shall take of Mine, and shall disclose it to you….
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39. In conclusion,
wait on the LORD
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40. THE END
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41. BIBLE IN FIVE
Pastor Dave Kooyers
Valley Bible Fellowship
Box 433
Boonville CA 95415
http://www.slideshare.net/dkooyers
www.ValleyBibleFellowship.org
(707) 895-2325
God bless you as you examine His Word,
Your servant in Christ, 2Cor. 4:5
41
These Microsoft PowerPoint presentations are provided "for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ"
(Ephesians 4:12-15). To help Christians to "to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ." So that "we are no longer...tossed here and
there...by every wind of doctrine." They may be downloaded and modified free of charge.
Matthew 10:8 …Freely you received, freely give.

42. John 15:26 is at 27 minutes in
• https://archive.org/details/Dr.MalCouchJohn1
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• John 15 by Dr. Mal Couch, John 14-16
• Topics Dr. Mal Couch, John, Revelation,
Dispensationalism, Bible, Christian, The
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Church, Scofield, Bible Answers
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43. Salvation and Eternal Security - Part 8 (John 15:1-6)
What does it mean to abide in Christ? [59 minutes]
• http://www.spiritandtruth.org/teaching/Soteri
ology_by_Andy_Woods/26_Eternal_Security_
8/index.htm?x=x
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44. Abide in Me
• http://www.dts.edu/edia/
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45. 1 John 2:27-28, John 15:4-10, Abide
in Me
• http://www.dts.edu/media/play/following-
him-pentecost-j-dwight/
• Following Him
• J. Dwight Pentecost on September 1, 2011 in
DTS Chapel
• Dr. Dwight Pentecost, Distinguished Professor
Emeritus of Bible Exposition; Adjunct Professor
of Bible Exposition, DTS, reflects on what it
means to abide and follow Him.
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46. John 15:13, altruism, “lay down”, BIRDS
HELPING BIRDS, TODAY'S CREATION MOMENT
• “Altruism – helping one another – is a real puzzle to those who explain the
world of living things in terms of materialistic evolution. Evolution is
supposed to work on the selfish survival-of-the-fittest principle, so there
should be no reason for any creature, including man, to develop a helping
attitude. In fact, there is no way to explain how the genetic code could
possibly develop and pass on a trait such as altruism.
• Researchers have studied a bird called the white-fronted African bee-eater.
Members of this species help each other, sometimes even at the sacrifice of
their own life. For example, one bird will face a spitting cobra to defend
another, and scientists have been puzzled to know how this altruistic trait
can possibly be passed on, when it often results in death. Another common
altruistic habit of the African bee-eater is that one female will put off
starting her own family to help another bee-eater raise her young. Some
argue that such behavior is limited to birds that are related. But they admit
that even adopted orphaned bee-eaters will help their adopted parents in
this way.
• While it is often denied, the theory of evolution has yet to adequately
explain altruism. Altruism is a demonstration of that commandment given
by our Creator to “love our neighbor.””
• Notes: Kathy A. Fackelmann, “Avian Altruism,” Science News, Vol.135, June 10, 1989, pp. 364-365. Photo: Courtesy of Luc Viatour. Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation 1.2 License.
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47. John 15:9, God Is Love, God's Love,
Does God love me? gotquestions.org
• Question: "Does God love me?"
• Answer: The question of whether God loves us – personally and individually – is common. Surrounded by the conditional
love of finite humanity, we cannot easily comprehend that God would love us. We know our faults. We know that God is
perfect and sinless. We know that we are not. Why would God, who is infinite and holy, love us, who are finite and
sinful? And yet the great truth of the gospel is that He does! Time and again, Scripture reminds us of God’s love for us.
• To begin with, God created mankind in His own image. And He did so with great care and concern. He “formed the man
from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being … the
Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and closed
up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her
to the man” (Genesis 2:7, 21-22). There’s an intimacy here between God and mankind. With the rest of creation, God
merely spoke and it was. Yet God took time in forming man and woman. He gave them dominion over the earth (see
Genesis 1:28). God related directly to Adam and Eve. After the Fall, the couple hid from God when He came “walking in
the garden in the cool of the day” (Genesis 3:8). It was not abnormal for them to speak with God; it was abnormal for
them to hide.
• Relationship with God was broken after the Fall, but His love remained. Immediately following God’s pronouncement of
curses on the sinful couple, Scripture paints another loving image of God. “The Lord God made garments of skin for
Adam and his wife and clothed them. And the Lord God said, ‘The man has now become like one of us, knowing good
and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and also take from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.’ So
the Lord God banished him from the Garden of the Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken” (Genesis
3:21-23). God’s action here is not vindictive or punitive; it is protective. God clothed Adam and Eve to hide their shame.
He drove them out of Eden to protect them from further harm. God acted out of love. Then, God’s plan of redemption
and restoration begins to unfold—a plan not designed after the Fall, but before creation (1 Peter 1:20). God loves
humankind so much that He chose to create us even knowing the heartache it would cause Him to redeem us.
• There are many verses that demonstrate God’s love. We can see His tenderness in Old and New Testament alike. David47