We can and must take everything to God in prayer; but when we have done so we must accept the answer which God in his perfect wisdom and perfect love sends to us. Why? and the red kite, the falcon, and the kite in their kinds. If I knew everything, then I could always make the right decision. Matthew and Mark both give our Lord saying, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" The fact is, that the Authorised Version gives rather obsolete English. The way to spread Christianity is to be Christian. 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. But my desire is that I not only bring forth fruit, but that the fruit remains, lasting fruit. The duty enjoined (John 15:4; John 15:4): Abide in me, and I in you. I've got that underlined with a bold underline in my Bible. Then I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like the gleam of a Tarshish stone. When did God choose me? What I gather from this is, that those who had even used the Lord's prayer, as the disciples had done up to this time, did not know what it was to ask the Father in the Lord's name. 49Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute: 50That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; 51From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation. We are told, "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world, for he who has the love of the world in his heart has not the love of the Father" ( 1 John 2:15 ). And I say, "Of course I love you. As I have kept my Father's commandments, so I abide in his love.". It is in this second sense that Jesus spoke of abiding here (cf. #Mt 23:34|. If a man will be ignorant, let him be ignorant, and show his unbelief by such an assertion, if he will. 8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. So long as he continued in that fine home and that fine presence he was safe. WebLuke 11:49 Because of this, the wisdom of God said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and others they will persecute.'. But where there is not a life exercised in self-judgment and in enjoyment of Christ. Ruth 2:12 Verse Concepts May the Lord reward your I know not a more sweet and wonderful proof of how completely He was divinely superior to all circumstances. And there came a voice from above the expanse that was over their heads; whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings. "And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. 43 You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you have slain without pity. [3.] As for their rims they were lofty and awesome, and the rims of all four of them were full of eyes round about. Any service towards God not directed by the Spirit is worthless. For when once God had brought out Christ, He neither could nor would go back to anything less. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me." Unconditionally, of pure grace, He loved them that were His. "The imagery of the vine is stretched a little but the point is clear: continuous dependence on the vine, constant reliance upon him, persistent spiritual imbibing of his life-this is the sine qua non of spiritual fruitfulness." We know right well that a disciple only renders testimony by the power of the Holy Ghost. (25% off), Sale Price $16.19 The fruit of the vine honours God and cheers man (Judges 9:13), so does the fruit of Christ's mediation; it is better than gold,Proverbs 8:19. We can understand this: nothing is more natural; but, for that very reason, it was not all in the power of the Spirit of God, with Christ as the first object. So there came the day when once a year every inhabitant of the Empire had to burn his pinch of incense to the godhead of Caesar. And I have no intention of doing anything else.Jesus said. Just one commandment: that I love you as He loved me.Now this love, as I said, is the fruit that God is looking for, and Jesus said, "Apart from Me, you can do nothing." (iii) They were said to practise the most flagrant immorality. which proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me ( John 15:26 ): Look how it's just intertwined. (10% off), Sale Price $100.04 If they kept my word, they will keep yours. And if she would spy me in the back of the car, with this loud operatic voice, she would say, "Praise the Lord, brother!" Apparently a primary word; a 'son', used very widely of immediate, remote or figuratively, kinship. The fire was bright, and lightning was flashing from the fire. . The Bible says, "It would have been better for them to have never heard than to have heard and turned away." Each one had four faces and each one four wings, and beneath their wings was the form of human hands. and the little owl and the cormorant and the great owl. Clearly there is a special teaching in this. "Now, of thoseand how many there were that were disciples following Jesus, we do not know. I do not believe that silence is evidence or proof of anything. No external qualification can set a man right with God; only the friendship of Jesus Christ can do that. It may even be a slip back into the world, into the open enemy of the Father; for this is no uncommon result, where there is for a time an abandonment of the old fleshly vine, the religion of ordinances, of human effort, and of assumed privilege. (Verse 8) "Disciples," be it noted; for we must carefully bear in mind that we have not the Church as such here, and, indeed, we have never the Church, strictly speaking, in John. There may not be faith so as to have peace with God, but assuredly enough to judge of one's own ways and condition before God; and this is precisely the way in which He does ordinarily work. they and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, all sorts of birds. He it was that first gathered the disciples. (50% off), $2.00 For He is come here to glorify the Son, just as the Son, when here, was glorifying the Father. (1.) [4.] If they persecuted me, they will persecute you. A man is held responsible for that which he knows. They looked to the Second Coming of Christ. Christ offers an intimacy with God which not even the greatest men knew before he came into the world. I can't do anything to enhance that. "Every branch in me that beareth not fruit;" for fruit was what God looked for, not merely acts or obligations, but bearing fruit: "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." It may be but the first working of God's grace in the soul that produces it. $100.04, $122.00 Jesus, on the other hand, would always abide in the believer by His Spirit even if the believer did not abide in Him (John 14:17; cf. All analogies are imperfect but we must work with the ideas which we possess. The man who abides in me, and in whom I abide, bears much fruit, because without me you can do nothing. The Lord, lifting up His eyes to heaven, no longer speaks to the disciples, but turns to His Father. "And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee; for my strength is made perfect in weakness. WebYou yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles wings, and brought you to Myself. Abiding in Christ is necessary in order to our doing much good. What is His commandment? (10% off), Sale Price $2.51 By these, moreover, you will be made unclean: whoever touches their carcasses becomes unclean until evening, and whoever picks up any of their carcasses shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. So luxuriant is it that the slips are set in the ground at least twelve feet apart, for it will creep over the ground at speed. 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. 1. 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. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." Such a demand was right and seasonable for a man in the flesh for a Jew especially; but it could not suffice for the heart of a Christian, and, in fact, he who denies this, quarrels with the Lord's own words. So the millennium will differ from what is now. (Verse 25) There is nothing that so demonstrates man's total alienation and enmity. The classic instance is the fate which befell Aristides in Athens. And they'll cleanse them in order that the fruit might ripen to perfection. In 2020 alone, purchases on Etsy generated nearly $4 billion in income for small businesses. Original Price $3.00 But the disciples were to have the hatred of the world, of the Jew as much or more than of the Gentile. One that had not a conscience exercised before God might sleep over sin and accustom himself to evil for a while; and an unreal disciple would grow. It is a picture of the assembly that was about to be formed at Pentecost and this is the assembly's function. It will do so much for you.May the Lord help us now to be doers of the Word and not hearers only, lest we deceive ourselves. The first face was the face of a cherub, the second face was the face of a man, the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle. Here it is not a question of love everlasting, but of present communion. On the contrary, prayers that suppose a person to be an object of divine displeasure, anxious, and doubtful whether he is to be saved or not such an experience supposes one incapable of speaking to the Father in Christ's name. And it was lasting fruit, that your fruit should remain.Now, I believe that God ordained Moody, and I believe that God ordained Finney. Yet these you may eat among all the winged insects which walk on all fours: those which have above their feet jointed legs with which to jump on the earth. And Jesus said. 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. Of Christian faith,? They then (for Judas was gone) were already clean through the word Christ had spoken to them. But we need to replace him in the board of twelve here. It is the same Christ manifested in life here upon earth. If none could take His life unless He laid it down, so none could take Him prisoner unless He gave Himself up. As for their rims they were lofty and awesome, and the rims of all four of them were full of eyes round about. A Mikhtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave. And surely it ought to be so, and we would not desire it to be otherwise. To persuade them to this, he urges. The idea of being the friend of God has also a background. You know how it's all going to work out, you know what the end result is. But no man can know life in this world or in the world to come if he disregards the Lord of all good life. $16.19, $17.99 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. God help us. By so doing, he showed that he was a loyal citizen of Rome. 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. Where Scripture speaks of union with Christ, or, again, of life in Him, you never have such a thought as a member of Christ cut off, or one that had eternal life losing it. Many a man tells men to love each other, when his whole life is a demonstration that that is the last thing he does himself. "But go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God." But when he kicked over the traces and went off on his own, he fell. They may even be zealous for the law, and tack on Christ to it. Typically, orders of $35 USD or more (within the same shop) qualify for free standard shipping from participating Etsy sellers. Those who heard and saw him had no excuse for not believing him. Thus the reality of God's work in the soul proves itself, so to speak, by continual looking and clinging to Christ. Just one commandment, but it isn't simple. And I believe that God had Moody reach people that Finney could not reach, and Finney reach people that Moody could not reach. Jesus teaching and work showed clearly that he came from God. The importance of abiding in Jesus 15:1-16. (iv) Jesus did not only choose us for a series of tremendous privileges. The doctrine of this similitude; what notion we ought to have of it. I would never botch things up. There are things which are allowable in someone whose upbringing has been bad which are not allowable in someone who has been brought up in all the benefits of a Christian home. He did not speak of abiding as the inevitable condition of believers. The disciples are his witnesses because they have been with him from the beginning. And He appeared on the wings of the wind. 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. Now God is giving out the vineyard to others. Here it is the Jews insist He ought by their law to die, because He made Himself the Son of God. When the story of Jesus is told us and his picture is set before us, what makes us feel that this is none other than the picture of the Son of God? His master never opened his mind to him; the slave simply had to do what he was told without reason and without explanation. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full ( John 15:10-11 ). 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. )." It was Christ now, or nothing. "Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. The weekly meal of the Christians was called the Agape ( G26) , the Love Feast. Do you suppose Matthew let it slip? 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 To take but two examples, Nero's favourite actor Aliturus, and his harlot empress Poppaea, were both adherents of the Jewish faith. The Empire was vast; it stretched from the Euphrates to Britain, from Germany to North Africa. I said, Oh, that I had wings like a dove! It likes a pattern; it likes to be able to label a person and to put him in a pigeon-hole. And I did. That we love one another. It may be a conditional statement. In Jesus' name. WebAnd probably cussing up a storm! What is meant by that? The world today is in a mad pursuit for happiness, but happiness is an experience of the emotions, where joy is an experience of the spirit. Such were their faces. I start out as I receive Jesus Christ. and in thy name done many wonderful works? It puts the emphasis on the believers responsibility primarily. Witnessing as the disciples did of what they had known of Christ here, witnessing of what the Spirit taught them of Christ on high, the consequence would be, "They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service." Jesus was laying it down that not Jewish blood but faith in him was the way to God's salvation. He has fallen to temptation; he has made a mess of things; he is on the way down to degeneracy of mind and heart and mental fibre. And when the time came for fruit, he sent his servants that he might receive from his vineyard. We all know that Israel of old is called the vine the vine that the Lord had brought out of Egypt. Earlier Jesus had presented abiding in (in contrast to departing from) Him as a real possibility for His believing disciples (cf. It is a matter of communion, not of salvation. "The elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up" ( 2 Peter 3:10). for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. Matthew 24:31 And he shall So Jude speaks of men twice dead; and, in fact, experience proves that men who have no life in Christ, after having professed awhile, become fiercer adversaries, if not grosser sinners, against the Lord than before any such profession was made. And each went straight forward; wherever the spirit was about to go, they would go, without turning as they went. Now, my mind immediately begins to take this truth and race with it and say, "Wait a minute! May He vouchsafe this through Christ our Lord. Surely it all deserves to be weighed, and demands from us that we should wait upon God to learn His precious things. This is the case our Lord describes here: "If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned." This is a description of the fearful state of hypocrites that are not in Christ, and of apostates that abide not in Christ. 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. Union with Jesus, however, will bring some suffering, because disciples, like their master, will be hated by the world. Jesus often used a grapevine to describe the nation of Israel (cf. "Wherewithal shall a young man take heed of his ways? The nation Israel failed. But Jesus said: "You are not my slaves; you are my partners. Then come the soldiers, breaking the legs of the others crucified with Him; but finding Jesus dead already, one pierces His side, land forthwith came thereout blood and water. If I take the wings of the dawn,If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea. He preserves throughout His personal dignity and His conscious relationship, but withal in perfect submission to His Father. We cannot do that unless we deliberately take steps to do it. The word of Christ is spoken to them; there is a cleansing virtue in that word, as it works grace, and works out corruption. A human being. As they allow the Father to remove the hindrances of sin from their lives, they will bear even more fruit (John 15:1-5). If God has chosen some, then that isn't fair to the others. No one expects the same kind of conduct from a savage as from a civilized man. 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. Next week, we'll take sixteen and seventeen. "In that day," He says, "ye shall ask me nothing." And she says to me sometimes, "Honey, do you love me?" On the concluding chapters of our gospel I cannot speak particularly now. This comes of quitting Christ, this is the end of barren trees. And the wheels rose close beside them; for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels. 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. But as for the world, it has rejected and crucified Christ. They would call no man "Lord" except Jesus Christ. As John saw it, they had only done what it was foretold they would do. 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. (Ver. A man gives up himself to confide in God. Indeed, He died for them when they were enemies; but this is out of sight here. And for you to try to manufacture this fruit, this love, is an impossibility, and you just can't do it. But I beseech them to consider whether they are not allowing habits and prejudices to blind them to what seems to me the mind of Christ in this grave question. a man now in glory, at the right hand of God, above all angels, principalities, and powers. The friends of the king were those who had the closest and the most intimate connection with him. So necessary is it to our comfort and happiness that we be fruitful, that the best argument to engage us to abide in Christ is, that otherwise we cannot be fruitful. He puts Himself in the place of all to which they had been attached and belonged here below, and the Father in lieu of Almighty God, or the Jehovah of Israel. How much would life circle back around if Jen and Michael got back together. A Christian, I repeat, is not absolved from loving his neighbour nobody means that, I trust; but what I affirm is, that a Christian is called to love his fellow Christian in a new and special manner, exemplified and formed by the love of Christ; and I cannot but think that he who confounds this with love to his neighbour has a great deal to learn about Christ, and Christianity too. "You," said Jesus to his disciples, "win be witnesses about me." See here, [1.] All depends upon one's being "in Christ," and abiding "in him" until probation has ended. But they saw that they could not stop this movement. The charge stuck, and it is little wonder that the mob looked on the Christians with loathing. 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. And in that, He is saying, "You are the ones to whom this vineyard is given," or, "You are now the vineyard, the true vineyard of God. Thus Christ is not only everlasting life to the soul that believes in Him, but He is the only source of fruit-bearing, all the course through, for those that have received Him. That God would just bind our hearts together tonight in the glorious love of Jesus Christ. They find their attraction in religious feelings, experiences, frames, or visions; in imagining some new good self, or in anatomizing the old bad self; in sacerdotalism, ordinances, or legalism, of one sort or another. They cast them into the fire, that is, they are cast into the fire; and those who seduce them and draw them to sin do in effect cast them there; for they make them children of hell. Whenever he was tempted to carry out a bit of sharp practice, he would rush into the back room and look at the photograph and the temptation was defeated. The seller might still be able to personalize your item. 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. He was thinking of Christians whose Christianity consisted of profession without practice, words without deeds; he was thinking of Christians who were useless branches, all leaves and no fruit. Abraham was the friend of God ( Isaiah 41:8). WebNebuchadnezzar answered and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel and delivered his servants, who trusted in him, and Loyalty to Jesus will bring persecution (John 15:18-20). That reaction of the human mind, that answer of the human heart is the work of the Holy Spirit. (Verses 24-29) One of the disciples, Thomas, had not been with the others when Jesus had thus appeared. They may have claimed to be worshippers of God, but if they hated Jesus they hated God (John 15:21-25). (Ver. They are the living beings that I saw by the river Chebar. 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