By Ellen G. White
“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. 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.” See John 15:1–8.
Jesus and the disciples were on the way to Gethsemane. Drawing their attention to a flourishing grapevine, He employed it as a symbol.
“I am the Vine, you are the branches,” Christ said to His disciples. The scion is engrafted into the living vine, and fiber by fiber, vein by vein, it grows into the vine stock. The life of the vine becomes the life of the branch. So the soul dead in trespasses and sins receives life through connection with Christ.
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