“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.
We are by nature dry and fit only for fire. We must be grafted into Christ by the Father's hand and continually molded by meditation on the Word and the cross; otherwise grafting avails nothing unless we cling fast and draw juice from the vine.
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Christ compares Himself to a vine, humble, outwardly unremarkable, yet spreading to the ends of the earth and bearing fruit that honors God. He is the true vine, not a deceiver like the wild vine; in Him dwells all the excellency that creature vines merely shadow forth.
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Commenting on John 15:1-8
Christ is like a vine, weak and mean in appearance, yet fruitful beyond measure. He submitted to be trodden in God's wrath as the vine is pressed, that His sweetest benefits might flow to His people; and we draw all our nourishment and fruitfulness from Him as the root.
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