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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to your Nightly Scripture, a calming

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Speaker 2: Scripture Center devotional podcast designed to help you end each

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Speaker 2: day with God's word in your mind and on your heart.

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Speaker 2: Right after the short word from our sponsors, we will

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Speaker 2: reflect on tonight's scripture, John chapter fifteen. Our evening reflection

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Speaker 2: is written by Lynette Kittel and read by Kyle Mormon.

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Speaker 2: John chapter fifteen. I am the true vine, and my

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Speaker 2: father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in

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Speaker 2: me that bears no fruit. Well, every brand that does

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Speaker 2: bear fruit, he prunes so that it will be even

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Speaker 2: more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word

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Speaker 2: I have spoken to you. Remain in me as I

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Speaker 2: also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself.

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Speaker 2: It must remain in the vine. Either can you bear

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Speaker 2: fruit unless you remain in me. I am the vine.

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Speaker 2: You are the branches. If you remain in me and

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Speaker 2: I in you, you will bear much fruit. Apart from me,

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Speaker 2: you can do nothing if you do not remain in me.

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Speaker 2: You are like a branch that is thrown away in withers.

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Speaker 2: Such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire, and burned.

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Speaker 2: If you remain in me, in my word remains in you.

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Speaker 2: Ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

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Speaker 2: This is to my father's glory that you bear much fruit,

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Speaker 2: showing yourself to beat my disciples. As a father has

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Speaker 2: loved me, so I have loved you. Now remain in

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Speaker 2: my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain

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Speaker 2: in my love, just as I have kept my father's

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Speaker 2: commands and remain in his love. I've told you this

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Speaker 2: so that my joy may be in you, and that

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Speaker 2: your joy may be complete. My command is this, love

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Speaker 2: each other as I have loved you. Greater love has

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Speaker 2: no one than this, to lay down one's life for

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Speaker 2: one's friends. You are my friends if you do what

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Speaker 2: I command, and no longer call you servants, because a

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Speaker 2: servant does not know as master's business. Instead, I've called

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Speaker 2: you friends. For everything that I've learned from my father,

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Speaker 2: I have made known to you. You did not choose me,

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Speaker 2: but I chose you, and I appointed you so that

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Speaker 2: you might go and bear fruit, fruit that will last,

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Speaker 2: and so that whatever you ask in my name, the

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Speaker 2: Father will give you. This is my command. Love each other.

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Speaker 2: If the world hates you, keep in mind that it

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Speaker 2: hated me. First. If you belong to the world, it

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Speaker 2: would love you as its own. As it is, you

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Speaker 2: do not belong to the world. But I have chosen

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Speaker 2: you out of the world. That is why the world

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Speaker 2: hates you. Remember what I told you, A servant is

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Speaker 2: not greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they

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Speaker 2: will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they

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Speaker 2: will obey yours. Also. They will treat you this way

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Speaker 2: because of my name, for they do not know the

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Speaker 2: one who sent me. If I had not come and

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Speaker 2: spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin.

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Speaker 2: But now they have no excuse for their sin. Whoever

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Speaker 2: hates me hates my father as well. If I had

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Speaker 2: not done among them the works no one else did,

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Speaker 2: they would not be guilty of sin. As it is

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Speaker 2: they have seen. And yet they have hated both me

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Speaker 2: and my father. But this is to fulfill what is

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Speaker 2: written in their law. They hated me without reason. When

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Speaker 2: the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from

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Speaker 2: the Father, the Spirit of truth, who goes out from

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Speaker 2: the Father, he will testify about me, and you also

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Speaker 2: must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.

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Speaker 2: Are there any sweeter words than the words Jesus speaks

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Speaker 2: to us, calling us to remain, to stay forever connected

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Speaker 2: to him and to let his life and love flow

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Speaker 2: through us. Jesus has chosen and appointed us, and through

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Speaker 2: him we have the promise of bearing lasting fruit that

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Speaker 2: glorifies God, the kind of fruit that identifies us as

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Speaker 2: being true followers of Christ. He tells us that we

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Speaker 2: can ask the Father for anything, for whatever we wish

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Speaker 2: in his name, and he will give it to us.

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Speaker 2: At our day and age, many of us don't consider

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Speaker 2: what it means to bear fruit, seeming like an outdated

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Speaker 2: way of thinking, but bearing fruit is a vital in

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Speaker 2: our lives and is the goodness of God throwing in us. Jesus'

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Speaker 2: words carry, encourage, strengthen, and sustain us through every season

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Speaker 2: of our lives, including times of drought or sorrow, times

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Speaker 2: of a law or persecution. Even when the world hates us,

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Speaker 2: God's word comforts us. As Jesus assures us of his love,

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Speaker 2: He also urges us to remain in his love, and

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Speaker 2: when we do, it will overflow through us. To love

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Speaker 2: one another as he commands us to do so, we

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Speaker 2: accomplish it by keeping his commandments that lead us to

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Speaker 2: a joy that benefits and completes our lives. Even when

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Speaker 2: Jesus had to physically leave this earth, he was thinking

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Speaker 2: of us and how he could stay close to us

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Speaker 2: after his departure by sending his Holy Spirit to live

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Speaker 2: within us so that we are never alone in this world. Lord,

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Speaker 2: My heart desire is to stay close to you in

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Speaker 2: every season of my life. You have chosen and called

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Speaker 2: me to remain in you, to bear lasting fruit, and

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Speaker 2: to be connected to you forever. Deal me with your joy.

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Speaker 2: Let it be complete in me today and every day.

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Speaker 2: Help me to complead your commandments to love one another.

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Speaker 2: Lead me in asking you anything so that you may

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Speaker 2: be glorified. Let your sweet words and promises comfort me

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Speaker 2: when the world hates me as I hated you. Lead

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Speaker 2: me to walk in your ways, strengthening me to lean

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Speaker 2: on and follow the lead of your Holy Spirit in

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Speaker 2: my life. Amen, how did Tonight's scripture speak to you?

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