and the little owl and the cormorant and the great owl. THE LIFE OF JESUS' CHOSEN PEOPLE ( John 15:11-17 continued). 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. ), but Christ is a vine that will not deceive. I mean, there's no value to you. "That my joy might remain in you and that your joy may be full. marg. No one has greater love than this, that a man should lay down his life for his friend. He, she, it, they, them, same. The problem is, I want to know one year from now, how many of those same people are going on with the Lord? Jesus said, "I've chosen you and ordained you that you should be My disciples." And I will abide in you-ye shall receive every help and influence from me that your souls can require, in order to preserve and save them to eternal life. He opened the way to forgiveness for past sin, and he provided the power which would enable a man to overcome sin and do the right. When John wrote, this hatred had long since begun. If any have Him now, it can only be a rejected and heavenly Christ. 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. $49.45, $54.95 Suffice it to say, that the one point which meets us here, as distinct from the other gospels, is His person. The disciples here must be fruitful, as Christians, in all the fruits of righteousness, and as apostles, in diffusing the savour of the knowledge of Christ. WebYou yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles wings, and brought you to Myself. That God would erase all of the bitterness or animosities or hard feelings or whatever we might feel towards our brethren in the Lord, and that we would be obedient tonight to the commandment of Jesus Christ, and truly love one another even as He loved us. "I have chosen you," he said, "to send you out." Both we have in Christianity, which not only maintains the testimony of Christ, as manifested on the earth, but also the Holy Ghost's witness of Christ known on high. Each one had four faces and each one four wings, and beneath their wings was the form of human hands. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. There are things which are allowable in a child which are not allowable in an adult, because the child does not know any better. It's God's work. Why, then, was it not employed formally by the apostolic Church? As in the beginning of John 13:1-38, He had risen up anticipatively as a sign of His work for them on high; so here He calls them to quit all their earthly belongings with Himself; they were now definitively done with. And it was lasting fruit, that your fruit should remain.Now, I believe that God ordained Moody, and I believe that God ordained Finney. Thomas, then, represents the slow mind of unbelieving Israel, seeing the Lord after the present cycle of time is completely over. I have done so, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. As the branch partakes of the nature of the tree, is nourished by its juice, and lives by its life, so ye must be made partakers of my Divine nature, be wise in my wisdom, powerful in my might, and pure through my holiness. Then the home was split in two and the family divided. Now, I believe, it is little to say that there is not, nor ever was, a formula of prayer comparable with the Lord's prayer. (v) There was actually another charge brought and for this fifth charge there were understandable grounds. How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling. They seemed to be so happy and giggling and having so much fun, and suddenly, they're crying. 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. When Christ returns, He will gather His own to Himself, as inJohn 14:1-31; John 14:1-31. Jesus often used a grapevine to describe the nation of Israel (cf. And they become irrational. Who ever heard even of an earthly father, worthy of the name, so sternly repelling his children? Christian faith is essentially believing on Him that we have not seen: believing, "we walk by faith, not by sight." The pax Romana, the Roman peace, stretched over all the world. You are like the wings of a dove covered with silver. THE WORLD'S HATRED ( John 15:18-21 continued). I can't do anything to enhance that. As he saw it, a man is either of the world or of Christ, and there is no stage between. I am the vine; you are the branches. The vine as a symbol of Israel appears on coins of the Maccabees. Why? The contact with loveliness made him lovely. Of Christian faith,? And it's going to come to maturity. It is not a question of a Messianic link to get what they wanted, but they would be able to ask the Father in His name themselves. The branches then should make a deliberate effort (indicated by the imperative verb "abide") to maintain a close personal relationship to the true vine. And so, He is the one that is overseeing the vineyard directly. To Peter, the Lord, thoroughly restoring his soul after proving him to the core, commits His sheep and lambs (His Jewish flock, as we know from elsewhere). The next scene (verses 19-23) is the disciples gathered together. "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, thenunder those conditions you can ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you.". The sea is continually used in contrast to the land in prophetic Scripture. 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. At the same time, the main testimony of John is not so much Christ as man in heaven, but God in Him manifest on the earth. You are pruned. . Matthew and Mark both give our Lord saying, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" There was a tradesman who had a little shop; in the back room he kept a photograph of Robertson, for he was his hero and his inspiration. To John it is, "Stand thou on that side, for on this am I.". A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out. 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. (25% off), Sale Price $16.19 (Verse 25) There is nothing that so demonstrates man's total alienation and enmity. (b) The first term regards not so much them as their actions - their scandalous acts (Goebel); the second, the persons themselves. They were bathed or washed all over, and henceforth needed not save to wash their feet. As the eternal Son of the Father, of course He was ever loved of the Father; as laying down His life (John 10:1-42), He was therefore loved of His Father; but, besides, in all His earthly path, He kept His Father's commandments, and abode in His love. Thence flows a new sort of responsibility; and a very important thing it is to see this most strikingly kept up in him, who, of all the evangelists, most strongly brings in the absolute unconditional love of God. And I would suggest that you spend a lot of time this week meditating on the Lord's prayer in the seventeenth chapter here in John's gospel. Further fruitfulness is the blessed reward of forward fruitfulness. Who can honestly, or at least intelligently, deny it? Here was the practice and the custom which made all men feel that they were part of Rome, and which guaranteed their loyalty to her. If anyone does not abide in me he will be cast out like a withered branch. Still, the trial was made under the most adverse circumstances; and He who, though God Himself, was at the same time man, walked as man perfectly, as truly as He was perfect man; and thus the Father's love rested governmentally upon Him fully, unwaveringly, absolutely in all His ways. The secret of the life of Jesus was his contact with God; again and again he withdrew into a solitary place to meet him. As Paul begins to list the spiritual blessings that he has in Ephesians, chapter 1, "Thanks be unto God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in Christ in heavenly places." Nor is it here His grace delivering souls, but, what is true along with that, the full maintenance of individual responsibility, according to the manifestation of His nature and relationship in Christ here below. Now this is the first time the gospels mention anything about the joy of Jesus Christ. There is no word more characteristic of John than the very word "abiding," and this in the way both of grace and of government. That we continue closely united to Christ by faith and love, and live in and to him. If I take the wings of the dawn,If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea. It is in fact dangerous to be good. It was a forced kind of a thing. 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 hate to tell you this, but you're good for only one purpose, and that's to bear fruit to God. He used it as a synonym for saving faith (John 6:56). Where no fruit was borne, there was judgment in excision; where fruit appeared, purging followed, that there might be more. And this is my plan by which I intend to fulfill this goal." It is not only a means of cultivating ad increasing what good there is already in us, but it is the root and spring of all good: "Without me you can do nothing: not only no great thing, heal the sick, or raise the dead, but nothing." These of them you may eat: the locust in its kinds, and the devastating locust in its kinds, and the cricket in its kinds, and the grasshopper in its kinds. - Reusable Coffee Cup can be used for He is not like that wild vine which deceived those who gathered of it (2 Kings 4:39), but a true vine. It's an abiding joy. It came about when He commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim, he entered and stood beside a wheel. 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. As He says here: "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. (ii) The world acutely dislikes people whose lives are a condemnation of it. Often a wife became a Christian and a husband did not. It was a word in Psalms 69:1-36. This was not simply as God, but rather as the Man Christ Jesus here below. 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. We all know that Israel of old is called the vine the vine that the Lord had brought out of Egypt. (Verses 23-26) Hitherto they had asked nothing in His name. No standard less than this could be entertained, now that Christ was revealed. And when the time came for fruit, he sent his servants that he might receive from his vineyard. Verb - Future Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular. From anomos; illegality, i.e. These, moreover, you shall detest among the birds; they are abhorrent, not to be eaten: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard. And there came a voice from above the expanse that was over their heads; whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me ( John 15:4 ). These were the privileges and the knowledge which he brought to men. I'm blessed that God chose me! (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 secret is the heart occupied with Him, the soul dependent on Him, Himself the object in all trials, difficulties, and duties even; so that, though a given thing be a duty, it be not done now barely as such, but with Christ before the eye of faith. So our piety, if we should be separate from Christ, or if we cease to feel our union to him and dependence on him, withers and droops. Whenever we try to turn prayer into something to enable us to realize our own ambitions and to satisfy our own desires, it must be ineffective, for it is not real prayer at all. (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. It will keep you from sin. Anyone who does not conform to the pattern will certainly meet trouble. The wheels were called in my hearing, the whirling wheels. And shouldn't God be fair? He set the true way before men. Our global marketplace is a vibrant community of real people connecting over special goods. It so happened that they had the ear of the government. for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. The branches of the vine are many, some on one side of the house or wall, others on the other side; yet, meeting in the root, are all but one vine; thus all good Christians, though in place and opinion distant from each other, yet meet in Christ, the centre of their unity. Until Jesus came men never had the opportunity really to know God; they had never fully heard his voice, and they had never seen perfectly demonstrated the kind of life he wished them to live. Suppose a man to be ill; suppose he consults a doctor, and the doctor diagnoses what is wrong and prescribes a cure. I also heard the sound of their wings like the sound of abundant waters as they went, like the voice of the Almighty, a sound of tumult like the sound of an army camp; whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings. The man who abides in me, and in whom I abide, bears much fruit, because without me you can do nothing. The love of Christ was on them, and, working in them and by them, would make them the objects of the world's hatred, and after that sort which He had Himself known. Abide in Me, and I in you. Live a life of dependence on me, and obey my doctrines, imitate my example, and constantly exercise faith in me. Captcha failed to load. For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim made a covering over the ark and its poles. They then (for Judas was gone) were already clean through the word Christ had spoken to them. Those that abide not in Christ shall be abandoned by him; they are left to themselves, to fall into scandalous sin, and then are justly cast out of the communion of the faithful. Have you ever noticed how akin our emotions are? Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, under the wings of the cherubim. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; Matthew 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. This alone explains our chapter, without forcing it. Why? There is no reference even to the blessed Lord when on earth, or to what He did here. A violent end comes, though to God's glory. It is clearly religious rancour created by this full testimony, not the world's general ill-feeling, but special hatred to their testimony. The cherubim appeared to have the form of a mans hand under their wings. Exhortation follows in verses 4, 5; the results distinctively for "a man," for any one ( ) who does not abide, and for the disciples who do, are found respectively in verse 6, and in verses 7, 8. (1.) Then, in verse 25, the breach between the world and the Father and the Son being complete, He says, "O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee; but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me." See under John 14:20. "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. We'd better get rid of Him." For when once God had brought out Christ, He neither could nor would go back to anything less. 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. They are worse even than before. And therein is the big issue in this verse, and the thing that you want to take note of. It makes the Lord a mere petitioner, lowering the glory of His person, and obscuring, if not denying, the intimacy of His relationship with the Father. The true explanation is, that the gospels are written with divine design, and that here, as everywhere, John records a fact which falls in with the Spirit's object in his gospel. And so, I'm not so much interested in the quantity of the fruit as I am the quality of the fruit that is developed through my ministry. 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. and I ordained you, that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain ( John 15:16 ); This is something that concerns me greatly. He has shared his mind with us, and opened his heart to us. They were a peculiar people, no doubt, and the nations could ill brook a small nation raised to such a conspicuous place, whose law condemned them and their gods. Who was Jesus thinking of when he spoke of the fruitless branches? Jesus continued to prepare His disciples for His departure. Oh, that we might express our love to God more fully, more completely. I know I will. (Verses 8-10). Here it is the Jews insist He ought by their law to die, because He made Himself the Son of God. It cleanses as fire cleanses the gold from its dross, and as physic cleanses the body from its disease. The great mark of the world is that the Father is unknown. Some apply men's gathering them to the ministry of the angels in the great day, when they shall gather out of Christ's kingdom all things that offend, and shall bundle the tares for the fire. 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. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary, Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. WebAnd probably cussing up a storm! (Verses 29, 30) Where could such a word as this be but in John? [1.] The doctrine of this similitude; what notion we ought to have of it. The New Testament lays down certain definite laws about prayer. Where habitual obedience is found, there is habitual enjoyment of Christ's love. The friends of the king were those who had the closest and the most intimate connection with him. He just didn't follow my directions. But because God has chosen us, then all of the rest of the benefits follow, having been chosen of God. Is it conceivable that a fact so notorious the very world being the objects of the divine power that cast them prostrate to the ground could be hidden from, or forgotten by, friends or foes? His Word. He was going to be a prisoner, and to die; in the one case, as much as in the other, He would prove it was not of man's constraint, but of His own will and in obedience to His Father's. Abide in me Hold fast faith and a good conscience; and let no trials turn you aside from the truth.And I will abide in you-ye shall receive every help and influence from me that your souls can require, in order to preserve and save them to eternal life.. You have the words of life." At first the Emperors discouraged and deprecated this worship; they insisted that they were men and must not be worshipped as gods. 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. But somehow you know that everybody knows it's you. Here Jesus has returned to a thought which in the Fourth Gospel is never far from his mind, the conviction that knowledge and privilege bring with them responsibility. The vine is a spreading plant, and Christ will be known as salvation to the ends of the earth. They must expect special and increasing, and, worst of all, religious hatred. 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. Both are true, especially when we bear in mind that He would testify of the heavenly side of truth. I admit that, being such an One, there could be no failure. "And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. First, he exposed sin. 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