Section 6
another in our natural life, with our emotions, or for our own purpose. We must love one another in the divine life, with the divine love, and for the divine purpose of bearing much fruit that the Father may be glorified (v. 8).
THE VINE AND THE BRANCHES
SEPARATED FROM THE WORLD
John 15 has three sections. The first section, verses 1 through 11, is about the relationship be tween the vine tree and the branches; the second, verses 12 through 17, is about the relationship between the branches; and the third, verses 18 through 27, is about the separation between the branches and the world. As branches, we have been separated from the world. We have noth ing to do with the world, for we have been fully attached to the vine tree.
In this portion of the Gospel of John, the term world mainly refers to the religious world (15:18; 16:2). In other words, the world in chapter fifteen is just religion, especially the Jewish religion. To the disciples of the Lord Jesus at that time, the world was the Jewish religion. They had been separated from that Jewish religion unto Christ, the vine tree.