The Fruit Of The Spirit

Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes With Jesus. Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name, Jesus said, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth: mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. (Jude 1:2)

Thank you Heavenly Father; thank you for this day, Father; we bless your holy name; we worship you; we thank you for this program. I ask you to bless this program, and that you would grant grace and mercy to every person reading this to be truly edified and to be ministered to by your Spirit the truth of your Word. Thank you Lord.

Today’s program is called, The Fruit Of The Spirit. Let’s turn to Gal 5:16,  I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. They that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. Gal 2:20, I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. Amen. 

Jesus loved me and gave Himself for me. He was crucified for my sins and raised again for my justification. He did that because He loved me. Because He loved me, when I was dead in my sins, and gave Himself for me upon the Cross to save me from them, and to give me His righteousness, I love Him. I love Him, and I want to yield to the Holy Spirit every day to keep His commandments. He baptized me in the Holy Spirit so that I could be led by the Spirit; so that I could walk in the Spirit every day, and fulfill the righteousness of the law; so that I could become a son of God. Rom 7:4, Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. Now we serve God in the newness of the Spirit, not in the letter. In Christ we receive the Holy Spirit, and He will lead us every day to do the Father’s will; to keep the Sermon on the Mount in every situation. We can do this because we love Him; we love Him because He first loved us.

Jesus is our great High Priest at the right hand of the Father, He has been tempted in every way as we are, yet without sin. Heb 4:14, Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Whenever we are being tempted to not keep the Lord’s Word, we can come to Him boldly and ask for grace, and He will grant us grace. He grants grace to the humble, so we must humble ourselves and come boldly, Amen. 

Rom 8:1, There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father." The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together. Verse 13, For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.  That’s how you do it!, through the Holy Spirit, as you learn to yield to Him and be led by Him every day to follow Jesus and keep His Words. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God. As you yield to Him, more and more, His fruit will manifest in your life, more and more. And you will be putting to death the deeds of the flesh: confessing your sins and forsaking them; being forgiven and cleansed by the Blood of Jesus.

It is love that makes the difference. Jesus said, If you love Me, keep My commandments. When you understand how much He loved you, and suffered for you, to save you from your sins, and how much He has given you, you will love Him, and you will want to receive all that He has given you, and you will give Him your life, to follow Him and do His will every day. If you love the world; the things of the world, the love of the Father is not in you, and you will want to do your own will rather than yield to the Holy Spirit every day, denying yourself and taking up your cross and following Jesus. Yes, if you go with Jesus, you will suffer, according to the Father’s will for your life, but it is only for your perfection. The scripture says, He that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin. Jesus said, They hated Me, and they will hate you also. People will reject you and despise you, but God has a family!: a wonderful family of people that truly love Him, and they will truly love you. You will not be alone, not forever. 

This is what we’ve got to do if we want to be a real Christian; if we want to inherit eternal life with God. We must deny the flesh and receive the Holy Spirit and walk in the Holy Spirit. In Christ we are dead and our life is hid with God in Him. When we are baptized in water, we are baptized into His death; we are crucified with Him, and we are raised with Him to walk in newness of life in the Spirit. We must then be baptized in the Holy Spirit, and learn to walk in the Spirit, to fulfill the righteousness of the law. The fruit of the Spirit will then be manifesting in us, and against such there is no law.

Every day around here we start by praying in tongues and in English, that we might enter into the Spirit and into the will of God for us that day; reaching forward to that which is before; forgetting what lays behind, and pressing toward the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus, building ourselves up on our most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keeping ourselves in the love of God, and looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. (Php 3:13 & 14, Jude 1:20 & 21) Most of the time it is a struggle: to overcome distractions and powers of darkness resisting us. We just have to keep on until the Holy  Spirit is finished. Jude 1:24, Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen. 

Prophecy:

I am God Almighty. My people, I want you to consider these Words very seriously; this is the truth of My Word. My servant Rob is speaking My Word to you. You must bear fruit; you must be led by the Spirit of God in your life for your works to be acceptable to Me. Turn to Me with all your heart; be filled with My Holy Spirit and learn to walk in the Spirit and not fulfill the lusts of the flesh, and you will live, says the Lord.

Thank you for reading this message from 15 Minutes With Jesus at roberthaymes.com . May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth, Amen.

 The Lamb’s Book Of Life

Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes With Jesus. Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name, Jesus said, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth: mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. (Jude 1:2)

Thank you Father in Jesus’ name; we thank you for this program; we thank you for this day, Father. Lord we ask your blessing on every one of us to have ears to hear what the Holy Spirit is saying this day.

Welcome! Today’s program is called The Lamb’s Book Of Life. Is your name written in the Lamb’s Book Of Life? Only those whose names are written there are going to be with Him in His glorious Kingdom. Let’s go to John chapter 3. When Jesus was talking to Nicodemus, He said, in verse 5, Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Verse 14, And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. Whoever believes in Jesus: that He is the only begotten Son of God, who gave Himself for us; who died for our sins upon the Cross, and rose again from the dead on the third day, has eternal life; your name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. John 1:12, But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. If you are born of God, your name is written in the Lamb’s Book Of Life. But, you must follow on to know the Lord!, to learn His ways and continue with Him, for it to remain there.

Let’s turn to Rev 3:1,   And to the angel of the church in Sardis write, These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works perfect before God. Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you. You have a few names even in Sardis who have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with Me in white, for they are worthy. He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. We must overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil by continuing in Jesus’ Words with the Holy Spirit teaching us and leading us in doing them every day, denying ourselves; our own desires, taking up our cross, and following Jesus. We must continue to follow Jesus in the Father’s will for our name to remain in the Book Of Life. Don’t believe the prophets of false grace, promising you liberty, when they themselves are the slaves of corruption. 

Let’s turn to Ex 32:30, this is in the wilderness, when Moses brought the Children of Israel out of Egypt, Now it came to pass on the next day that Moses said to the people, You have committed a great sin. So now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin. Then Moses returned to the Lord and said, Oh, these people have committed a great sin, and have made for themselves a god of gold! Yet now, if You will forgive their sin—but if not, I pray, blot me out of Your book which You have written. And the Lord said to Moses, Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book. Moses boldly interceded for Aaron and the Children of Israel at this time, and he found grace in God’s sight, and God had mercy and grace upon them, but, He told Moses, Those that sin against Me I will blot out of My Book. You may say, “That was the Old Covenant. Now we are under grace in Jesus.”  Remember, Jesus plainly said that He could blot out a person’s name from the Book of Life. 

Heb 10:26, For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. Anyone who has rejected Moses' law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know Him who said, Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord. And again, The Lord will judge His people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God. If we continue in sin and will not repent, God will blot out our name from His Book of Life. 

Let’s go to Rev 20:11, Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the Earth and the Heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire. At the final judgment, we will all stand before the Lord Jesus Christ, and God’s Books will be opened. Everyone will be judged according to his works, and the Book of Life will be opened, and whoever is not found written in the Book of Life will be cast into the lake of fire. Rev 20:4, And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the Word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years. The Apostle Paul said in Php 3:7, But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. 

Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. We must continue to exercise ourselves daily, like the Apostle Paul, to have a conscience void of offense toward God and man. Do you have offense in your conscience toward God or man; toward anyone? You must deal with it now! 

1 John 1:1, That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life—the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us—that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. And these things we write to you that your joy may be full. This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.  Come out into the light!, the truth of His Word; confess your sin to God and man; be cleansed and return to fellowship with the Father and with His Son and with your brother and sister. If we say that we have fellowship with God or with one another and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth. If you have anything against anyone, forgive them now, that you may be forgiven yourself. 

Rev 21:1, Now I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth, for the first Heaven and the first Earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of Heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away. Then He who sat on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. Verse 22, But I saw no temple in it, (in the New Jerusalem) for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it. Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there). And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it. But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life. 

Thank you for reading this message from 15 Minutes With Jesus at roberthaymes.com . May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth, Amen.

 The Lord Is My Shepherd

Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes With Jesus. Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name, Jesus said, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth: mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied.

Thank you Lord! We thank you for this program Father; we thank you for this day; we worship you; we praise your Holy Name! Father, I pray that you would bless your people, every one of us; open our ears; open our hearts to receive the things that you are saying by your Holy Spirit. Thank you Father. Today’s program is called The Lord Is My Shepherd. So let’s turn there, to Psalm 23, verse 1, The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. 

He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake. 

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want. If the Lord is your Shepherd, you shall not want. In John 6:35 Jesus said,... I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.

Let’s turn to John chapter 10, verse 1, Jesus said, Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers. Jesus used this illustration, but they did not understand the things which He spoke to them. Then Jesus said to them again, Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep. I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own. As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd. Let’s go down to verse 25, Jesus answered them, I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father's name, they bear witness of Me. 

But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand. I and My Father are one.  The hireling does not care for the sheep. He is only in it for the money. When Satan comes to destroy you, the hireling will not stand with you, but he will flee, because he is a hireling. Not so with Jesus! He is the good Shepherd. He knows His sheep, and His sheep know Him, and He laid down His life for His sheep. He said, I will be with you always, even unto the end.  Is He your Shepherd? Really? Be honest with yourself: are you really following Jesus, or are you following a hireling, a businessman, who cares nothing for you. If Jesus is your Shepherd, you belong to Him, and He will care for you! He bought you with His own Blood, and no one can take you away from Him! Glory to God! Praise God!  

Psalm 23, verse 2,  He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. He is leading you there; you are following Him, and you shall never hunger; you shall never thirst. Verse 3,  He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name's sake. You are following Him, and He is leading you in righteous paths to deal with you and to restore your soul. Verse 4, Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. You are not afraid of deadly situations and places; you are not afraid of death because you are following Him, trusting in Him, and He promised you that He will never leave you. You fear no evil! His rod and His staff: His authority and power in every situation, comfort you! Glory to God! He has not given you a spirit of fear, but of love and of power and of a sound mind! Verse 5, You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; If you will truly follow Jesus, He will bless you, right in front of your enemies! You anoint my head with oil… that is the anointing: Jesus will baptize you in the Holy Spirit if you truly follow Him. If you don’t want to be baptized in the Holy Spirit, you’re not following Him! Shall not the Father, Jesus said, give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him? And He will fill you to overflowing with His joy and His presence. Jesus said, If any man will be My disciple, let him deny himself, every day, take up his cross and follow Me. The Holy Spirit will lead you to follow Jesus to do the will of His Father, and He will lead you into all truth. And if you will love Him and keep His Words, you will abide in Him and He will abide in you, and you will bring forth fruit in your life, and His goodness and His mercy shall follow you all the days of your life, and you will dwell in the House of the Lord forever! You will inherit eternal life! Glory to God! That’s what that verse is talking about: dwelling in the house of the Lord forever: you are with Him in His glory; you shall never perish; you have eternal life!  All of this is if He is truly your Shepherd; if you continue in His Word and in His Holy Spirit to deny yourself and follow Him to do the will of your Father in Heaven every day. 

It is deceit to take Psalm 23 unto yourself and say, “The Lord is my Shepherd”, if you are not hearing His voice and following Him. The Apostle Paul said, I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me, and the life that I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me. His servant you are to whom you obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness. Are you obeying Jesus? Are you really following Him? Are you in His fold, or are you hanging out with the goats? Remember, Jesus said, Not every one who says, Lord, Lord, is going into the Kingdom of Heaven, but they that do the will of My Father, He said. Are you yielding to the Holy Spirit every day, denying yourself, your own desires and plans, taking up your cross: the fellowship of Jesus’ sufferings, and yielding to the Spirit to follow Jesus? He leads us by His Spirit to do the Father’s will. Jesus only does the Father’s will.  

God created you, and you fell into the traditions and sins of your fathers; you were defiled in all your transgressions, and He, in His great love, sent His Son to die for you a brutal death upon the Cross to save you from your sins, and He raised Him from the dead to justify you and to give you eternal life in Him, and He brought you to Him. No one can come to Me, Jesus said, unless My Father draws him. And what are you doing now? Are you following Him? Do you think you can stay with the goats and everything will be ok? The goats are going to the Lake of Fire! Jesus said, in Mat 25, that when He comes in His glory, He’s going to sit on His throne, and He’s going to set the sheep on His right hand, and the goats on His left. And He’s going to say to the goats, Depart from Me you cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels… The goats are going into everlasting punishment: they would not show mercy; they would not have compassion. Are you a goat, or are you a sheep? If you are a sheep, then you need to be with Jesus’ sheep, following Him. Stop chumming up with the goats! Evil communications corrupt good manners! Bad company corrupts good morals. Remember: Lot was vexed with the things he saw and heard every day while he was living in Sodom, with their evil deeds and their evil conversation. But Abraham, his brother, interceded before the Living God for him, and God remembered Abraham and brought Lot out of Sodom before He destroyed it.  Make no mistake! Just as Sodom was destroyed, so this evil world is going to be consumed by fire. 

I want to intercede for you right now. If you are a sheep who is hanging out with the goats, and you know you need to return to Jesus’ fold: those who are truly following the Good Shepherd, I want you to do all you can do to receive this prayer and agree with me now. So let’s pray. Pray with me,  Father, in Jesus’ name, I pray for everyone reading this message. I know you have given this program by your Holy Spirit, and there are some who are reading this, you know who you are: you’re hanging out with the goats; you’re delighting in things you ought not to be doing, and they are having an effect on you, and you need to return to Jesus, and the Lord is pleading with you right now. Father, in Jesus’ name, have mercy on them; have mercy on them. We pray: you said you would have mercy on whom you would have mercy, and whom you will you will harden.  So we pray right now, for whoever it is, that you would help them; that you would soften their hearts; that they would humble themselves and come back to you with weeping and mourning, confessing their sins, and turn to you and be washed in the Blood of the Lamb, and return into your fold, Jesus! We pray this, Father, in the name of your Son Jesus. Glory be to God! 

Thank you for reading this message from 15 Minutes With Jesus at roberthaymes.com . May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth, Amen. 

 My Grace Is Sufficient For You

Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes with Jesus. Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name, Jesus said, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth: mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. (Jude 1:2)

Thank you Heavenly Father. We thank you Lord; we bless your Holy Name: blessed be God Almighty! Today’s program is called, My Grace Is Sufficient For You. The other day I was coming through something very difficult in my life; I had been struggling for several days, and Jesus spoke to my heart, “My grace is sufficient for you.” At the same time He ministered to me by the power of His Holy Spirit and delivered me out of the affliction. I was overwhelmed with the goodness of My Lord. When the Apostle Paul was being afflicted because of the abundance of his revelations he had received, he sought the Lord three times to be delivered and the Lord spoke to him, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Paul wrote, Therefore I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.  Heb 4:14  Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father, and that is the Throne of Grace. 1Pe 5:5, Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you. Let us therefore come boldly… Humility and boldness go together, because of Heb 10:19, Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, and having a High Priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. We have boldness with humility because of the Blood of Jesus, and we will find grace to help in the time of need. His grace is sufficient for us, even in our suffering. Because His grace is sufficient, I can rejoice, even as I suffer: His grace will bring me through.

Prov 15:15, All the days of the afflicted are evil, but he who is of a merry heart has a continual feast. When you are in faith, through His grace, you are always rejoicing, because you know you have the victory. When you take your eyes off of Jesus and look at the waves, you begin to doubt and you begin to sink and let go of your victory. Mat 14:22, Immediately Jesus made His disciples get into the boat and go before Him to the other side, while He sent the multitudes away. And when He had sent the multitudes away, He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray. Now when evening came, He was alone there. But the boat was now in the middle of the sea, tossed by the waves, for the wind was contrary. Now in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went to them, walking on the sea. And when the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, "It is a ghost!" And they cried out for fear. But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, "Be of good cheer! It is I; do not be afraid." And Peter answered Him and said, "Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water." So He said, "Come." And when Peter had come down out of the boat, he walked on the water to go to Jesus. But when he saw that the wind was boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink he cried out, saying, "Lord, save me!" And immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and caught him, and said to him, "O you of little faith, why did you doubt?" And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased. Then those who were in the boat came and worshiped Him, saying, "Truly You are the Son of God." When you repent and believe, you rejoice again, and you’re on top again; you are the head and not the tail. If you continue to believe in Jesus and keep your eyes on Him, you will overcome Satan, and the world and your own stubborn flesh, and you will have a continual feast. You already have the victory; you already have the overcoming, you just need to stay there until the end: till you get back to the boat, and then, till you are standing on the shore.

The scripture says, you have been crucified with Christ, if you have been baptized, and you have been raised with Him and you are seated in Him in the heavenly places at the Father’s right hand, far above all principalities, powers, and dominions, far above all: you are on top! God put them all under your feet, that’s why they have to bow when they see you, if you are walking in faith. You are like Joseph. He was in prison, in shackles and in pain, and in one day, God made him the ruler of the whole land of Egypt, and everyone had to bow and give him honor, second only to Pharaoh, in one day! In one day God made you a ruler in His Kingdom, under Him and subject to your brethren, and in Him you are at the Father's right hand! Is there something you need? Is there something He can’t do if you believe? If it is His will for you to continue to suffer, His grace is sufficient for you; His grace will get you through to the victory. His grace is His great strong hand and arm reaching out to lift you back up on the top of the water, and get you back to the boat; His grace will uphold you until you reach the shore. 

My grace is sufficient for you.

My grace is sufficient to bring you through;

Bring you through to victory,

And bring you safely to Me.

Though waves be high,

And valleys be low,

My grace is sufficient for you.

Though you are weak, 

I am strong;

My grace is sufficient for you;

My grace is sufficient for you.

Eph 2:4, But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. The Father loved us and He gave His Son; Jesus loved us and He gave His life. His grace is the gift of God.

Tit 2:11  For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works. 

Heb 12:14  Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled; lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears. 

People sell their birthright to have their wicked pleasures; to continue in their fornications; they accept false grace. When you accept false grace and live accordingly, you fail of the true grace of God. Heb 12:28, Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire. 

See how the grace of God is coupled with the fear of God. God is greatly to be feared; He is a consuming fire, and yet He, in His great love wherewith He loved us, has granted us grace through the gift of His beloved Son. The grace of God enables us to serve Him acceptably, which is with reverence and Godly fear.

1 Pet 1:13, Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, Be holy, for I am holy. And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear; knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the Word of God which lives and abides forever. 1 Pet 5:12, By Silvanus, our faithful brother as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand. 

My Grace is sufficient for you.

Though you are weak, 

I am strong.

My Grace is sufficient for you

On a previous message about grace, the Lord spoke at the end of the program, and He said, “My Grace is sufficient for you. I love you. If you are willing, I will help you; if you will call upon Me, you will find grace in your time of temptation. Call upon Me; I will help you to overcome. I already made the way for you through My death, burial, and resurrection. I am with you, says the Lord. Come unto Me; call upon My Name and see My salvation, says the Lord.

Thank you for listening to 15 Minutes With Jesus at roberthaymes.com . May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth, Amen. (2 Cor 13:14)

 What I Know About Jesus

Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes With Jesus. Wherever two or three are gathered together in my name, Jesus said, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth: mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied.

Thank you Lord! We give you thanks Lord! Thank you for this day. Thank you for this program. Thank you Lord. Today we’re going to talk about what I know about Jesus. I’m going to share some things with you that I know about Jesus. That’s what He told me this morning: He said He wanted me to talk about what I know about Him. 

I’m going to read Mat 11:28-30, Jesus said, Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light. What I know about Jesus: I know He loves me. How do I know He loves me? Not only by what is written in His Word, that He has done for me and you, but by experience  I know His love: by the things He has done in my life. And so I know the Father’s love, and that is everything: to know His love. Praise God! Jesus has told me several times, over the years, just when I really needed to hear it, that He loves me. Last night He told me, “Don’t be afraid Rob, I love you.” I’m telling you it made all the difference. This is not just a story written in King James English; this is the truth; this is love: the love of God poured out on the human race, that God so loved us that He gave His only beloved Son to suffer unbelievable torment and pain on the Cross at Calvary for us, when we were dead in trespasses and sins, and we did not care about Him at all, to pay for all our sins, and to deliver us out of darkness and bring us out into His marvelous light; to wash us and cleanse us in His own Blood and change us into holy people, so that we could be with Him. Do you know that God wants us to be with Him? He loves us! He is not willing that any of us should perish, but that we all might come to repentance; that we all might come to Him and take His yoke upon us and learn of Him. For He is meek and lowly of heart, and we shall find rest for our tormented souls, our weary souls, when we know Him. He wants us to know Him! He wants us to fellowship with Him in His joy and His glorious Kingdom forever! He wants that so much; He loves us so much, that He gave His Son to die for us. And Jesus loved the Father so much and us so much that He did it! He did it! He died for us and He rose again from the dead! He overcame sin and sickness and death for us; for all of us who will repent and believe what He has done!, and come to Him. I know He loves me; He has proven it to me many, many times.

I also know that He is a righteous judge, and that He is going to reward every one of us according to our works. After He has done so much for us; loved us so much; suffered so much to save us from our sins and our destructions, if we turn away from Him; if we refuse to come to Him; if we will not serve Him; if we choose to continue in our sins and reject His righteousness, we condemn ourselves, and He will carry out His righteous judgment upon us. God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. This is the condemnation: that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds are evil. Jesus said, Everyone that does evil hates the light and will not come to the light, because his deeds will be exposed and reproved, but he that does truth comes to the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are worked in God.

Let’s turn to 1 John 1:1-10,  That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life—the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us—that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. And these things we write to you that your joy may be full. This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us.  Because He so loved us, we also ought to love Him and love one another. We ought to walk in love, denying ourselves every day; taking up our cross and following Him. If we love Him, we will yield to His Spirit as He leads us to keep His Words and do the Father’s will every day. And we will love others; we will forgive others. I know Jesus wants us to love one another: to give each other some grace, and learn to walk together with Him. 

Some other things I know about Jesus: He loves His Father; He only does what His Father wants Him to do. He is faithful. What He has promised He will do, if we will meet His conditions. He is definitely patient and longsuffering with us. He knows our hearts, and He will wait until He can have mercy on us. Just think about that for a minute: He will endure our wicked ways until such a time as He can bring us to repentance and cleanse us of the evil, so that He can bless us with His righteousness. I know He loves us. I know He has been through a lot of suffering for us, not only on the Cross, but also dealing with our stubborn, stiff-necked, rebellious ways. I know that any person who will humble themselves before Him, and come honestly before Him, and ask for mercy: I know that He will grant it; He will help them. I also know that those who will not humble themselves before Him will not find His grace, and will ultimately be destroyed if they do not repent. I know He will help you if you will ask Him. He will show you how to do things. He will give you understanding; He will bless you with many good things, even in this life in this evil world, if you will humble yourself and ask Him. He said, Ask, and you shall receive; seek and you will find; knock, and it shall be opened! For everyone who asks receives, and to him who knocks, it shall be opened, and he who seeks Him with all their heart: they will find Him!

I know that Jesus is a great King: the King of kings, and that He will soon be returning to this Earth to establish His throne in Jerusalem and He will reign over the whole Earth until all His enemies are put under His feet. I know also that He is our great and merciful High Priest who presently is at the right hand of the Father on His throne in Heaven, and He makes intercession for us before the Father. I believe with all my heart

that there have been critical times in my life that He has prayed for me to the Father, and interceded for me, and the Father listened to Him and decided to grant me mercy, and that’s the only reason that I am alive upon the Earth today, and that I still have hope of eternity with Him. I know that He is soon coming in the clouds in all His glory, and the glory of the Father, with all the Heavenly angels, and those who have died in Christ shall hear His voice and be resurrected from their graves into a glorious, eternal, incorruptible body like His body, and we will be carried by the angels to meet Him in the clouds. Hallelujah! I have this hope, this blessed hope!, and I am purifying myself, that I may be counted worthy to attain to that first resurrection. How about you? 

Let’s turn to Php 3:7-13, the Apostle Paul said, But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.  I want to skip down to verses 20&21, For our citizenship is in Heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,   (Are we eagerly waiting for Jesus? Are we preparing ourselves to meet Him? We’re going to meet Him!)  who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself. 

Thank you Lord. Father, we give you thanks for this message today. If you have anything that you wish to speak, Father, Amen. Thank you Lord, Amen! We worship you; we praise you; we thank you. Praise God, Amen.

Interpretation of a message in tongues:

I Am God Almighty. Those of you listening to My servant Rob this day, know that I love you! I proved My love for you when I gave My Son Jesus to suffer for your sins on that Cross. That’s how much I love you. Meditate on that! Think about that! Understand My love for you! Turn to Me with all your heart; turn to Me now! For the day is soon coming when My wrath is going to be poured out on all the unrighteous; on all those who have rejected My Son. So turn to Me now, says the Lord. 

Thank you for reading this message from 15 Minutes With Jesus at roberthaymes.com .

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth, Amen.

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 Abide In Him

Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes With Jesus. Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name, Jesus said, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth: mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. (Jude 1:2)

Thank you Lord! We give you thanks right now in Jesus’ name, Father, for this program that you’ve given me for your people. I pray that you would help us to have ears to hear and hearts to receive what the Holy Spirit is saying. Thank you Father; we bless your holy name.

Today’s program is called, Abide in Him. Let’s turn to 1 John 1:1, That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life—the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us—that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. And these things we write to you that your joy may be full. This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us. 1 John 2:1, My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He who says, I know Him, and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps His Word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. 

How did Jesus walk? He said, I only do what I see My Father doing and I only say what I hear My Father saying. How did He do that? Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit when He was baptized by John The Baptist in the Jordan River, and He was led thereafter by the Holy Spirit, continuing in prayer and obedience to His Father: first, to overcome the devil in the wilderness, being tempted by him 40 days, fasting and speaking the Word of God to him by the power of the Holy Spirit. He said, It is written… He also overcame the world and His own flesh as He continued in the Spirit and in prayer, doing His Father’s will, culminating in the Garden of Gethsemane, when He wrestled and travailed in prayer, and overcame to take the cup from His Father’s hand and go to the Cross, to suffer so greatly for us; to deliver us from sin and death and the power of the devil. He said, If any man will be My disciple, he must deny himself daily, and take up his cross and follow Me. Every day we must lay down our own desires and plans; our own will, and take up our cross to do the will of our Father, following Jesus in the fellowship of His sufferings. If we truly follow Jesus, we will suffer, according to the Father’s will, for our perfection; for our sanctification, at the hands of those who hate Him. He said, They hated me and they will also hate you; He said, They persecuted Me and they will persecute you. You have to trust Him with your life, and He will uphold you and preserve you. 

How did Jesus walk? He trusted completely in His Father, even unto the death of the Cross, believing that He would raise Him from the dead on the third day. If we will abide in Him, we must walk just as He walked. Heb 12:1, Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 

looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.  For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls. You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin. And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him; for whom the Lord loves He chastens, and scourges every son whom He receives.

Let’s go to John 14:15, Jesus said, If you love Me, keep My commandments, and I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also. At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him. Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world? Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves Me, he will keep My Word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My Words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father's who sent Me. These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 

John 15:1, I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the Word which I have spoken to you. 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. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. If you abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.   By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples. 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, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends. You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. John 16:33, These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. 

As we continue in Jesus, the Holy Spirit will be teaching us and bringing Jesus’ Words to our remembrance. As we continue in His Words, we will know the truth, and He will set us free from sin, and the bondage and torment and tribulation it brings in our lives, and we will know His peace: the peace that passes all understanding. Jesus is the vine; we are the branches. We abide in him by keeping His Words as the Holy Spirit teaches us, and leads us in doing them, in love: loving Him and the Father; loving one another; loving even our enemies, and doing good unto those who hate us; forgiving everyone who sins against us. His Word will bring forth much good fruit in our lives as we abide in Him through the Holy Spirit. For without Him we can do nothing. And we will glorify our Father in Heaven. We must abide in Him! If we don’t abide in Him; if we don’t keep His Words, we will not abide in His love, and we will dry up and be withered, unable to bear fruit, and we will be cast into the fire and be burned. 

Are you abiding in Him? Does His Word abide in you? Are you continuing in His love? 

Jesus said, As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you, abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. When you are tempted not to obey Jesus’ commandments, here is what you do: Heb 4:14, Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. When you are being tempted not to obey Jesus’ commandments, if you are sincere; if you will love Him, and come boldly to Him and ask for grace, He will help you, and you will find His grace, and He will help you to keep His Words and abide in Him. 1 John 2:28, And now, little children, abide in Him, that when He appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming. 

Psalm 72:17, His name shall endure forever; His name shall continue as long as the sun, and men shall be blessed in Him; all nations shall call Him blessed. Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only does wondrous things! And blessed be His glorious name forever! And let the whole earth be filled with His glory. Amen and Amen. 

Thank you for reading this message from 15 Minutes With Jesus at roberthaymes.com .

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth, Amen.