01-23-2009, 01:37 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Texas, USA
Posts: 597
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CKG
From a devotional perspective I would say John 15:1-7 gives us truths of discipleship for the church age believer, but from a doctrinal and dispensational perspective I think there is a possibility it applies to the nation of Israel. I'm not hard on this...
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Some things to ask yourself.
John 15:2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. - Does every branch mean every branch? Jew and Gentile?
- Is the seventeenth chapter part of this same discourse?
John 17:20-22 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
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