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The Intercessor, Vol 37 No 4

Bible Bedrock
by Norman Grubb

“Apart from me you can do nothing.”
– John 15:5 (New King James Version)

The Vine and branch truth emphasizes the indissoluble union of Christ and the believer. We are organically one. One tree, one life; yet in that relationship Jesus underlined the fact that we, the branches, are merely channels of the sap from the vine. A branch is more than a channel, because a branch is alive whereas a pipe is not, and a branch does absorb and utilize the sap to produce the fruit. It is not entirely inactive, though entirely dependent. But it was the dependence Jesus was pointing to: “Apart from Me, ye can do nothing.”

So that illustration is taking us one [step] further than the vessel. First, we are merely containers. Then, having absorbed and accepted that fact, we are more. We are united to Him whom we contain in a way a vessel can never be united to the liquid in it. We are united because we are living people as He is the Living Person; yet in that union, as branch to vine, we remain as totally dependent as the vessel. Without the sap flowing through us, we can do nothing. Yet it is this time a living dependence, for we are to “abide in the Vine.”

More Articles from The Intercessor, Vol 37 No 4

  • The Son and the Sons
  • Bible Bedrock
  • The Sole Function of the Human
  • Where Things Went Wrong and Why
  • My Liberating Secret
  • Paul’s Testimony To It
  • The Sole Purpose of Our Creation
  • You Simply Receive
  • What is a Person?

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