“I am the real vine and My Father is the Farmer. He removes every single branch on Me not producing fruit, and He cleans every single branch which produces fruit so that it would produce more fruit. You are already clean because of the logos which I had talked to you; make your home within Me, and I within you. Just like the branch can’t produce fruit from itself if it shouldn’t make its home on the vine, in this way neither you if you shouldn’t make your home within Me. I am the Vine, you’re the branches. This person making his home within Me and I within him produces a lot of fruit, because separated from Me you can’t do anything at all. If someone shouldn’t make his home within Me, he was tossed outside like the branch and was dried up and they collect those branches and toss them into the fire and they are burned. If you should make your home within Me and My words should make their home within you, you will ask whatever you might want and it will happen for you. With this My Father was reputed, so that you would produce a lot of fruit and would become disciples for Me. Just like the Father loved Me, I also loved you; make your home within the love which is Mine. If you should keep My commands, you would remain within My love, Just like I had kept the commands of My Father and I make My home within His love.
I have talked these things to you so that the joy which is Mine would be within you and your joy would be filled to the brim. This is the command which is Mine, so that you love one another just like I loved you. No one holds better love than this, so that someone would lay down his breath of life on behalf of his friends. You are My friends if you would do what things I Myself am commanded for you. I am no longer saying to you, ‘slaves,’ because the slave doesn’t know what his owner is doing; yet I have said, ‘friends,’ because everything which I heard from the side of My Father I made known to you. You didn’t choose Me, but I chose you and set you down so that you should go and should produce fruit and your fruit should make its home so that anything whatever you should ask the Father with My name He will give you. These things I am authorized for you so that you do love one another.
If the order of this world hates you, you know by experience that it had hated Me first. If you were from the order of this world, the order of this world would have affection for its own; yet because you aren’t from the order of this world anymore, but I chose you out of the order of this world, the order of this world hates you for this reason. Remember the message which I said to you, “A slave isn’t better than his owner.” If they hunted Me, they will also hunt you; if they kept My logos, they will also keep yours. But they will do all of these things to you because of My name, because they don’t know the One having sent Me. If I didn’t come and talk to them, they wouldn’t have had an error; yet now they don’t even have a pretext about their error. The person hating Me also hates My Father. If I didn’t do the works among them which no one other did, they wouldn’t have had an error; yet now they have also seen and have hated both Me and My Father. But [it is] so that the message which is written within their Torah would be fulfilled that, “They hated Me for no reason.”
When the Advocate should come, whom I will send to you from the side of the Father, the Pneuma of Reality which goes out from the side of the Father, that One will testify about Me; yet you also will testify, because you were with Me from the start.”
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