How Abiding in God’s' Word Sets You Free John 8:31-32
Jesus’s Word, the supernatural Word of God, literally goes into the darkness, finds you, opens your eyes to the truth, lights your way out of the darkness, and fills your life with light so you can see and know God. In this video, we will define the Biblical concept of “abiding” and you will see How Abiding In God’s Word Brings You into the Light and Sets You Free.”
0:00Abiding in Christ
2:41 Abiding in Jesus’ Word, His Love, and His Joy
3:45 Abiding in Jesus’ Love
4:45 Abiding in Jesus’ Joy
6:12 How Abiding in Jesus’s Word Will Set You Free
6:31 *Understanding
7:16 *Wisdom to Make Good Decisions
7:40 *Power to Set You Free
Jesus used grape vines to explain the Biblical concept of “abiding in Christ.”
John 15:5 NKJV
Jesus said: “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.”
This is a beautiful picture of our relationship with Jesus. He draws everything we need from God. Even though we are connected to the vine (to Jesus), it is our heart hunger, our desire that reaches out and receives what we need from Christ.
Abide– to stay, to remain, to wait, to continue in a place, to live in a place
Abiding is drawing from Jesus; it is receiving and trusting Jesus to provide everything we need.
John 15:4 NIV
Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
John 15:6 NLT
Abiding in Jesus’ Word, in Jesus’ love, and in Jesus’ Joy
John Piper points out that John 15 specifically mentions three things that we are to abide in as we abide in Christ:
1. Abide In Jesus’s Word
John 15:7 NIV
If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.
2. Abide in Jesus’ Love
John 15:9-10
“As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love;…
Abiding is relational. This isn’t just discipline. It is romance.
3 Abide in Jesus’ Joy
John 15:11
These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.
Psalm 16:11
Let's focus on:
How Abiding in Jesus’s Word Will Set You Free
1. Satan keeps men in darkness by blinding them to the truth
2 Corinthains 4:4 NIV
2. God’s Word Brings Light of Revelation – Understanding from God
Psalm 119:130 KJV
The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.
1 Corinthians 2:14 NKJV
3. God’s Word is a Light to Guide our Choices and Decisions in Life
Psalm 119:105 NKJV
Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.
4. The Word of God Has Power to Save Your Soul
James 1:21 AMP
John 17:17 NIV
Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.
5. Daily Living God’s Word Sets You Free
Satan’s authority over the earth was stripped from him over 2,000 year ago, but he still deceives us today.
John 8:31-32 AMP
Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Abiding – Jesus’ personal promise to you is that as you abide (as you live daily in His Word, reading, memorizing, declaring, obeying, and praying His Word) you shall know the truth.... and the truth will set you free. Satan’s deceptions will be broken and revelation light will flood your life.