What do think it means when God cuts off the branch and takes it away. Do you think that could do with you not getting EL with him. It is a scriptural metaphor for what it takes to lose your salvation. Being cut off the true vine means you are no longer in line for EL.
If you do not produce fruit for the KOG, you will not be in the KOG. IOW you will not have salvation in the KOG.
ben.... again
youre lacking context
John 15
1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
one of your mistakes is not seeing there are two sorts of brances here
branches that bare fruit
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every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit"
"He that abideth in me, and I in him,
the same bringeth forth much fruit"
and branches that do not bare fruit
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"If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned"
"As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself"
you are focused on the word "in" when this whole thing is largely an example of the power of CHRIST
compared to the lack of power in fakers
dont you know what judas already did and what was about to happen in context when this was said?
maybe you need to focus more on the whole message
including the word ABIDE
but this has NOTHING to do with the loss of salvation to a saved believer
and MUCH to do with two separate types of men (branches) in the same congregation
ben.... this is a bump but only because ive seen you post this same broken argument that ignores the gospel and the promises of Jesus
John 6:37-39
37
All that the Father giveth me shall come to me;
and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of
all which he hath given me
I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.