Earlier Jesus had presented abiding in (in contrast to departing from) Him as a real possibility for His believing disciples (cf. They became heated, they become violent. "Abide in me, and I in you." Here the Lord presents Himself as the only source, not of life, as elsewhere, but of fruit-bearing for disciples, or His professed followers. There are things which are allowable in a child which are not allowable in an adult, because the child does not know any better. All analogies are imperfect but we must work with the ideas which we possess. The tree snake will make its nest and lay eggs there. This alone explains our chapter, without forcing it. They might be disliked of the Gentiles. And if you suffer with Him, you will also reign with Him.So, Jesus said, "If they've persecuted me, they will also persecute you. When redemption was accomplished, and Christ was raised from the dead, and the Holy Ghost was given, then they were competent to enter into all the truth, not before. Surely it will be sweet reward now, if God deign thereby to give some of His children to approach His word with more reverence and a more childlike trust in every word He has written. Were they really united to Christ by faith, they would bear fruit; but being only tied to him by the thread of an outward profession, though they seem to be branches, they will soon be seen to be dry ones. By the Christian state I mean that in which a man is conscious of his nearness to his God and Father, and able to draw near in virtue of the Holy Ghost even. But, all of these things will they do to you for My name's sake because they have not known the One who sent Me.". If their service is based on a true knowledge of God and the true exercise of self-sacrificing love, they can expect it to result in lasting fruit (John 15:12-17). Then the cherubim rose up. We must abide in Christ's merit as our righteousness and plea, and it in us as our support and comfort. 2. Jesus promised that He would never withdraw that from us (John 6:37-40; John 10:28-29). The disciples had now been three years under Christ's instruction; and now you are clean. Each one had four faces and each one four wings, and beneath their wings was the form of human hands. Abraham was the friend of God ( Isaiah 41:8). [1.] It is a title which Paul counted it an honour to use ( Titus 1:1); and so did James ( James 1:1). See under John 14:20. For the time has come when he will sit as judge. A few words, however, may perhaps give the general outline. They would call no man "Lord" except Jesus Christ. Many a great man had counted it an honour to give gold to mould a new bunch of grapes or even a new grape on to that vine. And those people and thousands of people came forward in the Finney services and in the Finney revivals. But somehow you know that everybody knows it's you. "As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue [abide] ye in my love." Thomas, then, represents the slow mind of unbelieving Israel, seeing the Lord after the present cycle of time is completely over. The wing of the other cherub, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house; and its other wing of five cubits was attached to the wing of the first cherub. But it is interesting how many people are unreasonable in their hatred for Jesus. Each one had four faces and each one four wings, and beneath their wings was the form of human hands. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask what you will, and it will be given to you. It was His commandment specially. and there were in it all kinds of four-footed animals and crawling creatures of the earth and birds of the air. It was not only that the government persecuted the Christians; the mob hated them. The glory that will redound to God by our fruitfulness, with the comfort and honour that will come to ourselves by it, John 15:8; John 15:8. If they kept my word, they will keep yours. But the day is coming when there will be the knowledge and the sight of glory in the earth. John 15:9-10). The pax Romana, the Roman peace, stretched over all the world. and for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the model of the chariot, even the cherubim that spread out their wings and covered the ark of the covenant of the. Salvation is of the Lord. 11:49 The wisdom of God, agreeably to this, hath said - In many places of Scripture, though not in these very words, I will send them prophets - Chiefly under the Old Testament: and apostles - Under the New. We must abide in Christ's word by a regard to it, and it in us as a light to our feet. It is a great mistake to think that the subject peoples resented Roman government; for the most part they were profoundly grateful for it. The Father, the Son and the Spirit. 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. Soon there would be multitudes who would come out from Israel and be baptized unto Christ; but still they must be fully tested. I have never read this in the Bible. There is no mention in any translation I have ever read about angels having wings at all. I just did a search You're not greater than the Lord; if they hated Him, they're going to hate you. Joseph charges himself with the body too; and Nicodemus, who came first by night is here by day, honoured by association with Jesus crucified, of whom he had been ashamed once, spite of the miracles He was doing. There is always this opposition between the Father and the world, proved by His person in the world. So then there are three ways in which we can be useless branches. The Lord would have us bear much fruit, and the only way in which fruit is to be borne is by abiding in Him in whom we believe. Their whole body, their backs, their hands, their wings and the wheels were full of eyes all around, the wheels belonging to all four of them. Original Price $2.00 Clearly there is a special teaching in this. As they produce the fruit, the fruit actually is lying right there on the stony ground of the vineyard. We have already seen the reason for that. 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. A grape branch is only good for one thing, and that's to produce grapes. We see those who had come out to Christ from all that they had previously valued in the earth. For Christianity is the revelation, not of a dogma, but of a person who has wrought redemption; doubtless, also, of a person in whom is life, and who gives it. The cross, as we know it, closes all connection with even Him in this world. [2.] The man who abides in me, and in whom I abide, bears much fruit, because without me you can do nothing. Christianity is apolitical. It is a peculiarly American thing nowadays that Christianity has been curated by politics and has become part of the po If, indeed, everything be secondary to the supply of man's need, if the unfolding of God's glory and ways in Christ be comparatively a cipher, I understand as much as I hate a principle so base and unbelieving. And the Lord said, "You didn't tell me what kind you wanted. Good news! The word of Christ is spoken to them; there is a cleansing virtue in that word, as it works grace, and works out corruption. You know how it's all going to work out, you know what the end result is. 40 Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD. 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. Matthew 13:49 So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just. 4.5 out of 5 stars It is more of an extended metaphor similar to the shepherd and sheepfold metaphors in chapter 10. That believers are branches of this vine, which supposes that Christ is the root of the vine. If we bear much fruit, [1.] Original Price $122.00 And each one had four faces. Original Price $17.99 And this is the way I want you to love one another, with a self-sacrificing, giving love, where you will lay down your life for each other. His Word. And twice here in this final discourse with His disciples, He speaks about this fullness of joy. But that's because it's in the realm of emotions, and our emotions are variable and they can change so quickly. He said, "It's a good thing that God chose me before I was born, because He never would have chosen me afterwards." It was Christ now, or nothing. Thus a double scripture is fulfilled. The classic instance is the fate which befell Aristides in Athens. A young vine is not allowed to fruit for the first three years and each year is cut drastically back to develop and conserve its life and energy. He doesn't say that the Father "shall" give it to you, but that the Father "may" give it to you, indicating that the Father is desiring to give it to you all the time and prayer opens the door, that the Father may do for you what He is wanting to do the whole while. And we don't make big emotional appeals, and some people fault us for this. So, at that point, they left the upper room. 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. Moreover, the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty when He speaks. There the Holy Ghost is both a teacher and helper. 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. 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. 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 The tremendous choice laid before us is that we can accept or refuse partnership with Christ in the work of leading the world to God. Had they only failed to meet the requirements of God, as man had done under the law, there was ample provision to meet him in mercy and power; but now, under this revelation of grace, man, and Israel most of all, the world (for in this they are all merged now) stood out in open hostility to, and implacable hatred of, the fullest display of divine goodness here below. And shouldn't God be fair? II. Christ is ever the test, and this the close declares, as much as the beginning sets Him forth as the only power of preparing for, and producing fruit. "And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. ], 5. Luke gives us, "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit," because there the perfect man never abandons His perfect reliance on God. Was not that the picture that prophet after prophet had drawn? And they can't tell you. In fact, their clearer knowledge increased their guilt. Suffice it to say, that the one point which meets us here, as distinct from the other gospels, is His person. Hence He speaks of that which pertains to a disciple on the earth; and accordingly the Lord speaks of having Himself kept His Father's commandments, and of His own abiding in His love; for, indeed, He had ever been here below the dependent man, to whom the Father was the moral source of the life He lived; and so He would have us now to live because of Himself. Revelation 14:6-8 And I saw another angel flying through the sky, carrying the eternal Good News to proclaim to the people who belong to this worldto every nation, tribe, language, and people. #Mt 23:34|. When the Christians met each other in the early days they greeted each other with the kiss of peace. 8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. May we truly abide in Jesus Christ. If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you ( John 15:18 ). If God's Spirit is working in a person's life, they will respond. (ii) The world acutely dislikes people whose lives are a condemnation of it. That's the kind of love I have for you. And sometimes I get upset with God because He doesn't follow my directions. The law remains, and the Spirit of God often employs it, specially if a man be in self-righteousness. A human being. (Compare verses 22, 23 with the Revelation) However, I do not enlarge here, but rather apologise for the time that I have occupied in going over so large an extent of God's word. The apostles also had heard Jesus words and seen his works, but they had believed. What He shows is, that they need Him just as much for every day as for eternity; that they need Him for the fruit the Father expects from them now, just as much as for a title to heaven. And in the subject of prayer, He makes here a very broad promise. It is possible that they went on in through the temple gates, because they were left open all night during the Passover season, so that anyone who wanted to come and pray could come and pray at any time. "Wherewithal shall a young man take heed of his ways? There is no doubt that the Jews were at least to some extent responsible for these slanders. Just know that they hated Him before they ever hated you. And whenever those rose from the earth, the wheels rose close beside them; for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels. Les rcepteurs DAB+ : postes, tuners et autoradios Les oprateurs de radio, de mux et de diffusion. for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh! If that man disregards the diagnosis and refuses to use the cure, he has no one to blame but himself if he dies, or comes to a condition which makes life wretched for himself. For thus says the Lord:Behold, one will fly swiftly like an eagleAnd spread out his wings against Moab. I said, Oh, that I had wings like a dove!I would fly away and be at rest. And later on, when Peter stood up before the assembled disciples, he said, "It is important that we choose one of us who has been with Christ from the beginning, that we might choose him to take Judas's place, who by his transgression and has gone to his own place. How can God be fair when He has chosen those that are to be saved?" 52Woe unto you, lawyers! The vine has an unsightly unpromising outside; and Christ had no form nor comeliness,Isaiah 53:2. None would stand by baptism, or by any other ordinance, but by abiding in Christ. Isn't that neat? You could not have faith without a new nature, nor this again without the exercise practically of that which was according to God's will. It appears to me that the Lord Jesus Himself clearly sets forth the new thing at the highest value, which no general reasonings of men ought to weaken in the least. Next week, we'll take sixteen and seventeen. That would actually be pretty Deb of her. On John 17:1-26 I must be brief, though its treasures might well invite one to devote ample space to weigh them. The cherubim had their wings spread upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward each other; the faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat. Jeremiah complains that the nation has turned into "degenerate and become a wild vine." If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also." They had already come to Christ; they had forsaken all to follow Him, and were then around Him. If you were of the world, if you were a part of its system, then they would love you because they love their own. And I say, "Of course I love you. Wherever the spirit was about to go, they would go in that direction. How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling. Too many people think that prayer is an information time, where I'm going to inform God of all of my difficulties that He doesn't know about. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained." It is of children on earth now the Lord speaks, not of the Father's house by-and-by. But in John 15:1-27 it is One who is Himself everything for the disciples from on high. And whenever the living beings rose from the earth, the wheels rose also. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! As I have kept my Father's commandments, so I abide in his love.". 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