Now, if you were of the world, the world would love you; but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you ( John 15:19 ). 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. [1.] No power can wrest me from his hand. He just didn't follow my directions. "And when he is come, he will reprove [or convince] the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment." (d) Prayer must never be selfish. Its also home to a whole host of one-of-a-kind items made with love and extraordinary care. If God's Spirit is working in a person's life, they will respond. And whenever those rose from the earth, the wheels rose close beside them; for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels. and there were in it all kinds of four-footed animals and crawling creatures of the earth and birds of the air. His answer is: "No man can show greater love than to lay down his life for his friends--and I did that." This hatred every true witness, without compromise, and separate from the world, must more or less experience. But the day is coming when there will be the knowledge and the sight of glory in the earth. There could be none. Believing the word of God has moral value, because it gives God credit for truth. (15% off), Sale Price $14.40 1. I personally am convinced that Jesus laughed a lot. Fill out the requested information. The only lasting fruit is that which is produced as the result of the relationship with Jesus Christ. We must be fruitful. "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." Fruit-bearing is the great point throughout John 15:1-27, as the end of it and John 16:1-33 bring before us testimony. Abide in me, says he; for I am ready to abide in you And again, He who abideth in me beareth much fruit. 'These things I command you, that ye love one another." Jesus often used a grapevine to describe the nation of Israel (cf. They had not chosen Him, but He them, and set them to go and bear fruit, abiding fruit, that He might give them whatsoever they asked the Father in His name. But as it is there cannot be a more painful proof of their own state. 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.". Shall I be told that any man ever loved, before Christ came into the world, as He loved? And they'll cleanse them in order that the fruit might ripen to perfection. For greater love has no man than this, than a man will lay down his life for his friends ( John 15:13 ). There is no real difficulty, if men did not pervert Scripture into a means of self-exaltation, or cast away truth, on the other side, revolting from the frightful misuse known in popery. What does he mean by this? And so. He says that his followers are like that. Then the cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire which was between the cherubim, took some and put it into the hands of the one clothed in linen, who took it and went out. 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. Don't judge God too quickly. Acts 4:8-12; Acts 5:32). From aggello; a messenger; especially an 'angel'; by implication, a pastor. And so, he had to wait for the fellow to tell him, "I want a ten speed Schwinn, green with silver stripes." The tree snake will make its nest and lay eggs there,And it will hatch and gather them under its protection.Yes, the hawks will be gathered there,Every one with its kind. Set where you live, what language you speak, and the currency you use. 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." "If a man abides not in me,". All such suppositions are preposterous. That you love one another, as [He said,] I have loved you ( John 15:12 ). And this explains why, although the Holy Ghost is worthy of supreme worship, and of being, equally with the Father and the Son, personally addressed in prayer, yet, having come down for the purpose of animating, directing, and effectuating the work and worship of God's children here, He is never presented in the epistles as directly the object, but rather as the power, of Christian prayer. That is what the Jews had done. Be assured this is no secondary matter, and that traditional views slight unwittingly the infinite efficacy and value of what Christ has wrought, the results of which the Holy Ghost was sent down to apply to our souls. As it is, they have no excuse for their sins. Here it is the disciples put to the proof. And shouldn't God be fair? But, "In His presence," the Bible says, "is fullness of joy, and at His right hand there are pleasures forevermore" ( Psalms 16:11 ). When they moved, they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went; but they followed in the direction which they faced, without turning as they went. (Compare 2 Thessalonians 1:10). 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. 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 Nowadays a man can be persecuted even for working too hard or too long. Divine life depends on connection with the true vine by exercising saving faith in Him, but fruitfulness depends on abiding in the vine by exercising loving obedience toward Him. For this reason he chose the twelve apostles and trained them to know Gods ways. 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. 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. Do you suppose Matthew let it slip? You see, if it weren't possible for a man not to abide in Jesus, He would not have even brought up the prospect. You are like the wings of a dove covered with silver. I know I will. And persecution that comes for being a bore or brash, or whatever, there's no reward or special benefits for that. Why should men limit their thoughts, so as to ignore that incomparable blessing to which even in this gospel Christ was ever pointing, as the fruit of His death and of the presence of the Comforter who would bring in "that day"? (1.) But these are the ones which you shall not eat: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard. I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his master is doing. Each of them had four faces and four wings. And the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you." They might be disliked of the Gentiles. His Word. for Moses wrote of Christ: in truth, there was no divine persuasion as to either. Alas! I do not stand and cry and plead with people to receive Jesus Christ. Thus, to this day, the Jews are themselves the great witness of the truth of our Lord's warning. The church becomes the instrument of God to bear God's fruit in the world today. Then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and there two women were coming out with the wind in their wings; and they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heavens. but it is still true that the world will hate the Christian. Clearly so. The first sentence in this verse is capable of three different interpretations. A man hardly starts to speak before we know whether or not he really believes what he is saying. The seller might still be able to personalize your item. (Verse 17) Never had He put Himself and His disciples so together before. There is no word more characteristic of John than the very word "abiding," and this in the way both of grace and of government. WebPsalms 34:7 - The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org. Well, it's too late for you. and the stork, the heron in its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat. (15% off), Sale Price $28.54 The glory of the Son was too bright for their eyes. Eight days after we have another scene. 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. "And if God spared not the natural branches, but cut them off, take heed, lest He not spare us" ( Romans 11:21 ). Where he would talk about this little boy dying in his daddy's arms and the last words were, "Daddy, will I see you in heaven?" Jeremiah complains that the nation has turned into "degenerate and become a wild vine." We have already seen the reason for that. And they can't tell you. That God would just bind our hearts together tonight in the glorious love of Jesus Christ. And, in fact, the Lord has done the contrary; for He gave the disciples a prayer on principles of everlasting truth, but not anticipating that which His death and resurrection brought to view. But because God has chosen us, then all of the rest of the benefits follow, having been chosen of God. Nothing is too hard. But the disciples were to have the hatred of the world, of the Jew as much or more than of the Gentile. 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). 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 the living beings moved, the wheels moved with them. If you're bearing fruit, you're purged, that you might bring forth more fruit. (Verse 7). We depend upon Christ, not only as the vine upon the wall, for support; but, as the branch on the root, for sap. Spurgeon made an interesting statement on this. Anything that you endeavor to do for God apart from Jesus Christ is worthless. 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. Verb - Present Participle Active - Accusative Masculine Plural. Christianity was illegal. 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. It is very possible that some who have accurate knowledge might give it, or plunge into all; and this is what Peter speaks of in his second epistle. All this was found in its fulness and apparent perfection in Israel; but it was now discovering its utter hopeless hollowness and antagonism to the mind of God; and this was manifested, as we shall find later on in this chapter, in their causeless hatred of the Father and the Son. I'm not praying directly for the need. All things that offend.--Literally, all stumbling-blocks; the word being explained by the clause that follows as including all that work iniquity. It was enough. 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. 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 religious leaders at that time were the husbandmen who were overseeing the vineyard, and when Jesus came, they said, "Look, He is a threat to us and to our positions. WebThe 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; The son. There is that pruning process that goes on within the church, as the Father cuts off the unfruitful branches. 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? There we have grace without a single thought of any thing on man's part, save the depth of need. Then he shall tear it by its wings, but shall not sever it. Or if even men (not to speak of the Spirit's power) would forget such a thing, did the rest think it too slight for their mention? 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. In this case, however, it is the larger subject the all-importance of Christ's words abiding in us: "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you." O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those sent to her! 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. (b) Prayer must be in the name of Christ. The charge stuck, and it is little wonder that the mob looked on the Christians with loathing. So every branch that doesn't bear fruit, He takes away. So often real prayer must be, not that God would send us the things we wish, but that he would make us able to accept the things he wills. Here He always puts man's part first, because it is a question, as we have seen, of responsibility; where it is the grace of God, His part is first necessarily, and, further, it necessarily abides. Through Him, I can do anything. or any other man? It is always John's way to see things in terms of black and white. And they are maybe six feet long, and you'll see them lying on the ground, propped up on one end by a rock. Just so the Jew will acknowledge Jesus. And they become irrational. It is in this second sense that Jesus spoke of abiding here (cf. Conviction of sin is wrought in all who are born of God. He spoke, that in Him they might have peace, as in the world they should have tribulation. Each of them had four faces and four wings. And for you to try to manufacture this fruit, this love, is an impossibility, and you just can't do it. It is evident that, He being the Son, the special place of privilege found in the gospel of John is that of children not members of Christ's body, but sons of God, as receiving and associated with the Son, the only-begotten Son of the Father. (Verse 24) There was a full testimony, as we have seen already, in John 8:1-59; John 9:1-41. And though, you say, "Well, what is the difference? The law of Moses, divine as it was, would not suffice: it was negative; but Christ's word is positive. 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.'. He did not speak of abiding as the inevitable condition of believers. 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