The Jews did and do look for Him; but when He came, they would not have Him. And so, you see how your happiness can change to sorrow in such a hurry, because of the change of the outward circumstances, and not the joy.And the Lord wants your joy to be full. And each went straight forward; wherever the spirit was about to go, they would go, without turning as they went. If I had not done deeds among them, which no one else had ever done, they would not be guilty of sin. We depend upon Christ, not only as the vine upon the wall, for support; but, as the branch on the root, for sap. Not to speak of Christ, even on the lowest ground, we are depriving ourselves of what is good and profitable. The problem is, I want to know one year from now, how many of those same people are going on with the Lord? There is no reference even to the blessed Lord when on earth, or to what He did here. their wings touched one another; their faces did not turn when they moved, each went straight forward. The purging of fruitful branches, in order to their greater fruitfulness, is the care and work of the great husbandman, for his own glory. He was called Aristides the Just; and yet he was banished. Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so persecuted they the prophets that were before you" ( Matthew 5:11-12 ). He doesn't always do it my way. Good news! Of course it is right and of God to hold fast all He gave at any time; but if there be real faith, it will be found out ere long that the Holy Ghost has before Him the present need for the Lord's glory in the Church; and those that have real confidence in His power will not merely hold fast the old but accept the new, in order so much the more to walk in communion with Him who ever watches and works for the name of Christ and the blessing of His saints. The fruit that comes forth from our lives is a very natural thing; it's not forced. "Except the Father draw a man, he cannot come to Jesus Christ. Abide in my love. Whenever the living beings moved, the wheels moved with them. But, besides, we have His direct immediate action among the disciples. And he said, "Wouldn't you like to go through the sinners prayer?" He shall glorify me; for he shall receive of mine, and shall report it to you." for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. Jesus chose us, first to come in to him, and then to go out to the world. God made His choice on the basis of the fact that He knows everything. (Verse 24) There was a full testimony, as we have seen already, in John 8:1-59; John 9:1-41. But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall. The guy was very forceful.There was an interesting study made after Moody's campaigns. Your Father wants to answer your prayers. What, indeed, can be more ruinous than putting aside that which condemns any state in which we find ourselves? Who can honestly, or at least intelligently, deny it? Oh, may the fruit of God's Spirit just really spring forth in our lives as we abide in Jesus and as He abides in us.Now Jesus tells them of the problems that they are going to experience in a world that is alien to Him. "I," He says, "am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman." He plucked off the topmost of its young twigs and brought it to a land of merchants; he set it in a city of traders. It is vain, for instance, to fall back now on the principles put forward and acted on two or three hundred years ago. I know not a more sweet and wonderful proof of how completely He was divinely superior to all circumstances. No standard less than this could be entertained, now that Christ was revealed. However the differences between them make dispensational theologians conclude that the church only superficially fulfills Israel. It is I who am the true vine. I said, Oh, that I had wings like a dove! That's why the Lord doesn't promise happiness; it might not last. When you set your eyes on it, it is gone.For wealth certainly makes itself wingsLike an eagle that flies toward the heavens. If we bear much fruit, [1.] . Thus they really return, in some shape or degree, to the false vine, instead of cleaving to the true. It will keep you from sin. Sometimes we live as if we were sent into the world to compete with one another, or to dispute with one another, or even to quarrel with one another. We know he besought the Lord thrice to take away that which was an immense trial to him, making him despicable in the eyes of the less spiritual. Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens. It was not difficult to spread abroad the report that the Love Feast was an orgy of sexual indulgence, of which the kiss of peace was the symbol and the sign. They talk about God; they speculate about the Deity, providence, fate, or chance. And this is my plan by which I intend to fulfill this goal." 14) He called them friends, not slaves; for the slave knows not what his master does; but He called them friends, for He made them His confidants in all He had heard of His Father. You say, "Well, then it would be better if I had never heard." ], 5. But as it is there cannot be a more painful proof of their own state. or any other man? I've chosen you." There is a two-fold dealing with those who took the place of being branches of the true vine. See Isaiah 5:1; Isaiah 5:2; Isaiah 27:2; Isaiah 27:3. Just so the Jew will acknowledge Jesus. "Abide in me, and I in you." "The vineyard of the Lord is the house of Israel" ( Isaiah 5:1-7). 52Woe unto you, lawyers! What joy, what full joy it brings to us to see God's answers to prayer! And it will hatch and gather them under its protection. On the concluding chapters of our gospel I cannot speak particularly now. A gloomy Christian is a contradiction in terms, and nothing in all religious history has done Christianity more harm than its connection with black clothes and long faces. As we have already said, by the world John meant human society organizing itself without God. (See Zechariah 12:1-14) It is not association with Christ, and He not ashamed to call us brethren, according to the position He has taken as man before His and our God and Father, but the recognition forced on Him by the marks of the cross, which drew out the confession of Christ's divine glory and Lordship. "Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. But for a saint, true-hearted in the main, nothing is more certain than that Christ would deal with him, and that he would lose meanwhile all sense of the love of Christ as a present practical thing. And the wheels rose close beside them; for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels. Now this is the first time the gospels mention anything about the joy of Jesus Christ. He had before Him with perfect distinctness all the truth of God. or that Mark and Luke never heard of it? Nothing is too hard. Matthew 18:7 Woe unto the world because of offences! To take the simplest example, the holiday-maker might be praying for sunshine while the farmer is praying for rain. The fire was bright, and lightning was flashing from the fire. Souls receive it in a general way; and too often one reason why it is received so easily is, because they do not face the truth, and their conscience is not exercised by it. "He shall not speak from himself; but whatever he shall hear, he shall speak: and he will report (or announce) to you things to come. (Verses 8, 9) It was evidence; and there is no moral value in accepting on evidence. The duty enjoined (John 15:4; John 15:4): Abide in me, and I in you. And I used to ride the streetcar home from work in the evening, and every once in a while, she would get on the same car that I was on. It puts the emphasis on the believers responsibility primarily. But there is another though negative, as that was the positive, proof of righteousness that the world has lost Christ, "and ye see me no more." This comes of quitting Christ, this is the end of barren trees. But the Holy Ghost has another work. That's the fruit that God is looking for from His vineyard, that love flowing in and through our lives from Him to each other. The only blessing for a soul now was found in Christ Himself; and so He opens the discourse (or, as we saw, closes what went before) with "Rise up: let us go hence." The fact we have noticed, the administrative position of the Spirit, is thus owing to the work He has voluntarily undertaken for the Father and the Son, though, of course, as a question of His own glory, He is equally to be adored with the Father and the Son, and is always comprehended in God as such. "Wherewithal shall a young man take heed of his ways? They lose themselves thus. Jesus gave us this intimacy with God, so that he is no longer a distant stranger, but our close friend. [1.] This hatred every true witness, without compromise, and separate from the world, must more or less experience. The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits, and they stood on their feet facing the main room. And each one had four faces. Of Christian faith,? (Ver. It is an instance of the humility of Christ that he is pleased to speak of himself under low and humble comparisons. that whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you ( John 15:16 ). The charge stuck, and it is little wonder that the mob looked on the Christians with loathing. If they thought, weighed, and let into their souls the real truth conveyed, they might at first be startled, but the way and the end would be blessed to them. But Isaiah the prophet, in chapter 5, speaks of the nation as a vine, and how God planted it, hedged it, put it about, put in a winepress. But because you're not of the world, it hates you. or is there no radical change which accompanies the work of Christ when accomplished and known? And as you analyze the hatred people have towards Jesus Christ, it is hatred without a reason, without a cause. And every right thing I have ever prayed for, God had determined to give it to me before I ever asked. Those who heard and saw him had no excuse for not believing him. In John He says, "It is finished," because He is the Son, by whom all worlds were made, Who but He could say it? From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. Henceforth I do not call you bondslaves; for the bondslave does not know what his lord is doing: but I have called you friends; for all things have I heard of my Father I have made known unto you ( John 15:15 ). "For God," He says, "so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. These people get all hung up on eternal security and all. (Verse 20). Twice the Psalmist had said: "They hated me without a cause" ( Psalms 35:19; Psalms 69:4). Apparently a primary word; a 'son', used very widely of immediate, remote or figuratively, kinship. It is not what God is in grace towards those that are outside Him and lost, but the appraisal of the ways of those associated with Christ, the dealings of God, or more strictly of His Father, with those who professed to belong to the Lord. It is a picture of the assembly that was about to be formed at Pentecost and this is the assembly's function. The way to spread Christianity is to be Christian. He said that, if two people agreed in asking anything in his name, it would be granted ( Matthew 18:19). - Reusable Coffee Cup can be used for Piety then, manifested in good works, in love, and self-denial, is as natural, as easy, as unconstrained. On the other hand, He says, "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you." Within it there were figures resembling four living beings. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. The appearance of the wheels and their workmanship was like sparkling beryl, and all four of them had the same form, their appearance and workmanship being as if one wheel were within another. It was futile for the Christians to point out that in fact they were the best citizens in the country. Jacob fled from Canaan when his twin brother, Esau, threatened to kill him. Twenty years later, Jacob was returning. The night before he crossed th The consequence is, that where there is carelessness in one who belongs to Christ, in a living, branch of the vine, the Father as the husbandman deals in purging judgment. And therein is the big issue in this verse, and the thing that you want to take note of. He did not choose us to live a life retired from the world, but to represent him in the world. He was thinking of himself, of his brethren, and of the work; but God graciously brought him to Christ, as the One sustained and sustaining object to abide in Him, as it is said here, and to have Christ's words abiding in himself, and then all the resources of God were at his command. I admit that, being such an One, there could be no failure. Conviction of sin is wrought in all who are born of God. But they refused to listen to him; they refused to accept him; therefore they were withered and useless branches. Not many are actively hostile to Christ, but many live their lives as if Christ had never come and simply disregard him. And so he sent other servants to them which they also beat, and some they stoned. It is presumption for a man in this life to count himself a child of God! The former of these is an exhortation to continue in the exercise of faith and love upon Christ, holding to him the head, cleaving to him with full purpose of heart, and so deriving life, grace, strength, and nourishment from him; the latter is a promise encouraging to the former; for as Christ is formed in the hearts of his people, he continues there as the living principle of all grace. It had been used of God when there was nothing more. Dont see this option? Hebrews 1:6,7,14 And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him. This adds to the picture Jesus draws. Christ is the true light. The Lord, lifting up His eyes to heaven, no longer speaks to the disciples, but turns to His Father. 7 Fear God, he shouted. Normal rational people; but yet, they have such a hatred. But this phrase is lit up by a custom which obtained both at the courts of the Roman Emperors and of the eastern kings. Even fruitful branches, in order to their further fruitfulness, have need of purging or pruning; kathairei--he taketh away that which is superfluous and luxuriant, which hinders its growth and fruitfulness. The wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits; the wing of one, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and its other wing, of five cubits, touched the wing of the other cherub. As for the form of their faces, each had the face of a man; all four had the face of a lion on the right and the face of a bull on the left, and all four had the face of an eagle. The first sentence in this verse is capable of three different interpretations. The Lord intimates a new character of drawing near to the Father, which they had not yet known. (i) We are chosen for joy. LOL. At these courts there was a very select group of men called the friends of the king, or the friends of the Emperor. The Jew ought to have known better than Pilate, and Judas better than the Jew. Though the earth is the Lord's, it yields him no fruit unless he work it. Genesis 19 KJV.I don`t think it says that anywhere.Here Men of Sodom want to know where the men are that came into Lot`s HOuse.They wanted to know We'd better get rid of Him." 3. It is in this second sense that Jesus spoke of abiding here (cf. He that loves Christ will enjoy all truth, because Christ is the truth. Well, very little of the fruit was lasting fruit. Under the expanse their wings were stretched out straight, one toward the other; each one also had two wings covering its body on the one side and on the other. You say, "But what if you don't abide in Him?" Hence, it would be putting them, not merely into prisons, but out of the synagogues; and this under the notion of doing God service. WebWhen they had approached Jerusalem and had come to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, Luke 22:35 Verse Concepts And He said to them, When I sent you out without money belt and bag and sandals, you did not lack anything, did you? They said, No, nothing. Acts 9:17 Verse Concepts Seraphim stood above Him, each having six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have picked you out of the world. Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and, "Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:" Luke 11:49 KJV. Who but John could mention that He delivered up ( ) His spirit? He has an eye upon all the branches, and prunes them, and watches over them, that nothing hurt them. Those who bear no fruit are like the dead branches of a vine. Our Lord, therefore, sets aside openly, and for ever, as regards those that He was now calling out of the world, all connection with Israel. And whenever the living beings rose from the earth, the wheels rose also. May we spend more time in the Word; less time with television and other fleshly distractions, and more time with Him, learning of Him, receiving from Him, growing in Him. (Verses 16-22) The world might rejoice in having got rid of Him; but He would give His own joy, which would not be taken from them. It was discovered that eighty-five percent of the people that had gone forward in the Moody meetings five years later were not going on in their Christian walk. HalliesCollectibles. The slave could never be a partner. But the fact is clear, that the Holy Ghost is sent down; as it is also clear, that the Holy Ghost, being here, convicts the world i.e., what is outside where He is. There the Holy Ghost is both a teacher and helper. Away back in the old days there had been the goddess Roma--the spirit of Rome. We must keep contact with the fine thing in order to defeat the evil thing. I repeat, that he who values the Master will not despise the servant; but there are many who do acknowledge their responsibility to the law of Moses without appreciating and obeying the words of Christ. They are the living beings that I saw by the river Chebar. Abide in me - Remain united to me by a living faith. Therefore, as all saints from the beginning had faith, and were regenerate, so also there were spiritual ways in accordance with it. Here is. We must abide in Christ's word by a regard to it, and it in us as a light to our feet. Even when we look at children of God, scattered here and there in the waste, they are trembling and fearful, and practically at a distance, instead of consciously near in peace, as if it were God's will that His children should now stand off in Sinai distance and terror. (Ver. The only thing that could be done with the wood pruned out of a vine was to make a bonfire of it and destroy it. (John 19:1-42) Here, too, He answers Pilate, after scourging and mockery, "Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin." Nor is there, to my thinking, a single petition of that prayer which is not a model for the prayers of His followers ever since; but all remains true and applicable at all times at least, till our Father's kingdom come. Here He was the one spring of whatever fruit was borne, and He is gone on high, but is the same there; and so not merely asks the Father to send, but Himself sends them from the Father the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from with the Father, if so literal a turn may be allowed. That sure takes the pressure off, doesn't it? Original Price $54.95 She had trained for opera and had a voice I'm sure that came close to Enrico Caruso's as far as volume. Second, he provided the remedy for sin; and he did that in a double sense. (ii) Christian witness comes from inner conviction. "This is my body which is for you." So they go together. OM double G. And it was lasting fruit, that your fruit should remain.Now, I believe that God ordained Moody, and I believe that God ordained Finney. Surely it all deserves to be weighed, and demands from us that we should wait upon God to learn His precious things. They still continued at a comparative distance from their Father; but this is not the Christian state. Now when the cherubim moved, the wheels would go beside them; also when the cherubim lifted up their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels would not turn from beside them. I think that Jesus established this pattern for us. Rather than trying to direct God on just how to work things out, just lay the whole things before Him and say, "Lord, I know that You're much wiser than I am. WebGod Said I Will Send Them Without Wings So No one Suspects They Are Angels Sign Dog Sign Distressed Wood Wall Hanging Pet Lover Gift Rescue. Next, our Lord is before the high priest, Caiaphas, as previously before his father-in-law Annas, and, finally, before Pilate. Canvas and Posters have many different sizes. First, he was thinking of the Jews. Luke gives us, "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit," because there the perfect man never abandons His perfect reliance on God. In Wis_7:27 Wisdom is said to make men the friends of God. If anyone does not abide in me he will be cast out like a withered branch. It is not outward corporeal presence on earth, but a greater nearness, though He is ascended to heaven, because of the power of the Holy Ghost. for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers. The problem with this view is that Jesus had already committed Himself to abiding within His believing disciples (John 14:17). The doom of the unfruitful (John 15:2; John 15:2): They are taken away. Don't judge God too quickly. Mark 13:27 And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven. As long as it is in the vine, from the nature of the case, the parent stock imparts its juices, and furnishes a constant circulation of sap adapted to the growth and fruitfulness of the branch. Jesus chose us to be privileged members of the family of God. Clearly not; yet there is a meaning, and a most weighty meaning for those that belong to Christ, in these words. The main difference is, that the Holy Ghost is more spoken of here apart from the question of who sends. In John 14:1-31 it is evidently the Father giving another Comforter to the disciples, and sending Him in Christ's name: Christ is looked at there as One who prays, and whose value acts for the disciples. It may be a conditional statement. Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken to you ( John 15:3 ). And observe, here, that He has given them the Father's word ( ) for their testimony (as before His words, ), but sanctifies them, not by this only, which kept them from the evil of the world, but by Himself, always separate from sin, but now made higher than the heavens, so as to fill them with an object there that could engage and expand and purify their affections. Now as I looked at the living beings, behold, there was one wheel on the earth beside the living beings, for each of the four of them. The law remains, and the Spirit of God often employs it, specially if a man be in self-righteousness. Don't I bring the food home for dinner? (Compare 2 Thessalonians 1:10). He just didn't follow my directions. Of those that were disciples He named twelve of them apostles, but there were many others that were following Him. The prayer of Christians is often far from this. Psalm 147:9 tells us that God is concerned for all His creation, including the animals He created: He provides food for the cattle and for the young ravens when they call.. "And when he is come, he will reprove [or convince] the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment." We must abide in Christ's merit as our righteousness and plea, and it in us as our support and comfort. It occurs 11 times in this chapter and 27 times in Johns epistles, where John expounded Jesus teaching on this subject further. He had made known to them the Father's name, and would yet more, "that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them;" this last verse bringing into them, as it were, the Father's love, as the Son knew it, which was the secret source of all the blessing and glory, and Christ Himself in them, whose life by the Spirit was the sole nature capable of enjoying all. Hence, John tells us (John 18:1-40) what no other gospel does, that when the band came to take Jesus, led by one who knew too well the spot where His heart had so often, poured itself out to the Father, at once they went backward, and fell to the ground. In the reign of Nero came the disastrous fire which devastated Rome and it was easy to connect it with people who preached of the consuming fire which would destroy the world. 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