John 1:14
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.
John 15:5
I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing
John 15:7–8
If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
Romans 6:5
If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection.
Romans 6:8–11
If we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Romans 7:4 NLT
So, my dear brothers and sisters, this is the point: You died to the power of the law when you died with Christ. And now you are united with the one who was raised from the dead. As a result, we can produce a harvest of good deeds for God.
· When about to leave for heaven, He gave them a new word, in which their more intimate and spiritual union with Himself in glory should be expressed. That chosen word was: “Abide in me.”
· The wholehearted surrender to abide in Him alone brings the joy unspeakable and full of glory.
· Put yourself into living contact with the living Jesus, to yield yourself distinctly and consciously to His blessed influence; so will you give Him the opportunity of taking hold of you, of drawing you up, and keeping you safe in His almighty life.
· It was not that He said, “Come to me and abide with me,” but, “Abide in me.” The intercourse was not only to be unbroken, but most intimate and complete.
· Do not undertake to remove all difficulties; this Jesus Christ Himself alone must do by His Holy Spirit.
· May the feeling of our deep need, and the faith of Thy wondrous love, combine with the sight of the wonderfully blessed life Thou art waiting to bestow upon us to constrain us to listen and to obey, as often as Thou speakest: “Abide in me.”
· Entire surrender to Jesus is the secret of perfect rest.
· But, alas! I hear someone say, it is just this abiding in Jesus, always bearing His yoke, to learn of Him, that is so difficult, and the very effort to attain to this often disturbs the rest even more than sin or the world . . . Does it weary the traveler to rest in the house or on the bed where he seeks repose from his fatigue?.. It is as if we cannot believe that Christ, the Almighty One, will in very deed teach and keep us all the day. And yet this is just what He has promised, for without this He cannot really give us rest.
· It is not the yoke, but resistance to the yoke, that makes the difficulty; the whole-hearted surrender to Jesus, as at once our Master and our Keeper, finds and secures the rest.
· The power and the perseverance to abide in the rest, and the blessing in abiding—it belongs to the Savior to see to this; ‘tis mine to obey, ‘tis His to provide.
· Let each consciousness of failure only give new urgency to the command, and teach us to listen more earnestly than ever
· It is simply weakness entrusting itself to a Mighty One to be kept—the unfaithful one casting self on One who is altogether trustworthy and true.
· Abiding in Him is not a work that we have to do as the condition for enjoying His salvation, but a consenting to let Him do all for us, and in us, and through us. It is a work He does for us—the fruit and the power of His redeeming love. Our part is simply to yield, to trust, and to wait for what He has engaged to perform.
· It is when the soul becomes utterly passive, looking and resting on what Christ is to do, that its energies are stirred to their highest activity, and that we work most effectually because we know that He works in us.
· Christ’s aim is to have me abiding in Him.
· Fix your eyes on Christ. Gaze on the love that beams in those eyes, and that asks whether you cannot trust Him, who sought and found and brought you nigh, now to keep you. Gaze on that arm of power, and say whether you have reason to be assured that He is indeed able to keep you abiding in Him.