[Note: Edersheim, 2:519.]. 1 John 4:7-8 - " He who does not love does You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you ( John 15:16 ). and in thy name done many wonderful works? We can draw some conclusions about pets, however, based on what the Bible says on other topics. When the Christians met each other in the early days they greeted each other with the kiss of peace. Prayer is consenting to God and to the will of God, for Him to do those things that He is wanting to do. Don't I provide for the house? Further fruitfulness is the blessed reward of forward fruitfulness. There is bound to be a cleavage between the man who regards God as the only reality in life and the man who regards God as totally irrelevant for life. But the disciples were to have the hatred of the world, of the Jew as much or more than of the Gentile. 2. Violation of law or wickedness. They, as "sons of the evil one," are both stumbling blocks to others ("the sons of the kingdom"), and also active workers of lawlessness (vide infra). The Word was made flesh. Their wings were spread out above; each had two touching another being, and two covering their bodies. 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. The fruit of the Spirit is love, and the characteristic of love is joy. "Now, you ought to be doing this for the Lord" And you're being pushed into all kinds of activities, not really directed by the Spirit. No external qualification can set a man right with God; only the friendship of Jesus Christ can do that. 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. When John wrote, this hatred had long since begun. For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim made a covering over the ark and its poles from above. Under Add your personalization, the text box will tell you what the seller needs to know. And certainly, Dwight Moody was one of the greatest evangelists that God has brought along in the American history. 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. Their horses are swifter than leopardsAnd keener than wolves in the evening.Their horsemen come galloping,Their horsemen come from afar;They fly like an eagle swooping down to devour. He that is constant in the exercise of faith in Christ and love to him, that lives upon his promises and is led by his Spirit, bringeth forth much fruit, he is very serviceable to God's glory, and his own account in the great day. "When he is come, he will convince the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: of sin, [not when they begin to believe in me, but] because they believe not in me." (iii) Jesus called us to be his friends. The word of Christ is a distinguishing word, and separates between the precious and the vile; it will purify the church of the first-born in the great dividing day. THE LIFE OF JESUS' CHOSEN PEOPLE ( John 15:11-17 continued). How perfectly the truth shines here on Christian as well as on Jewish hatred of all full testimony to Christ! Whenever the living beings moved, the wheels moved with them. (ii) The world acutely dislikes people whose lives are a condemnation of it. Turning off personalized advertising opts you out of these sales. Learn more in our Privacy Policy., Help Center, and Cookies & Similar Technologies Policy. The friends of the king were those who had the closest and the most intimate connection with him. You are like the wings of a dove covered with silver. He no longer has it under the authority of the priesthood or of the religious leaders. Chapter 17; spend a lot of time in that chapter in meditation this week. It was the emblem on the coins of the Maccabees. Still less do branches of the vine mean the same thing as members of Christ's body, but His followers, who might even abandon Him, as some in the earliest days walked no more with Him. and the stork, the heron in its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat. Here the Lord presents Himself as the only source, not of life, as elsewhere, but of fruit-bearing for disciples, or His professed followers. But Jesus said: "You are not my slaves; you are my partners. ., p. Now, with that as a background, the vineyard, the nation Israel having failed. He comes, not to display His own power and glory, but expressly to glorify Christ. . The fact remained they would not burn their pinch of incense and say, "Caesar is Lord," and so they were branded as dangerous and disloyal men. He did not present abiding and not abiding as white and black categories, as being either completely in or completely out of fellowship. The rejected Christ is accepted and glorified in the highest seat above, which condemns the world and proves there is no righteousness in it or man; but more than this, the world shall see Him no more. And so, I've given Him directions and He's not following my directions." While many of the items on Etsy are handmade, youll also find craft supplies, digital items, and more. And the more we love God, the easier it will be to do that. I'm going to lay down My life for you to prove My love. "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.". (ii) They were said to be cannibals. Now we, too, are placed upon the true ground as the disciples, strictly speaking, who were then there; but, of course, the same principle applies to all. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: Read full chapter. It was His commandment specially. 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 brings glory to God; the sight of his life turns men's thoughts to the God who made him like that. Your pinpoint crosses and freekicks have been greatly missed since you left EPL. And so, I begin to pray that the Lord will start working here and working there, and put this together, put this together; and I'm directing God on just how to work out my problems.Now, oftentimes as I am praying, I am not offering to God direct prayers. And so. For this reason he chose the twelve apostles and trained them to know Gods ways. John 15:10; 1 John 3:24). It likes a pattern; it likes to be able to label a person and to put him in a pigeon-hole. Wherever the spirit was about to go, they would go in that direction. He chose us to go out to bear fruit, and to bear fruit which will stand the test of time. (Verses 15-17), And truly they would need the love of one another, as Christ loved them. Their society was clean, now that Judas was expelled by that word of Christ, What thou doest, do quickly; and till they were got clear of him they were not all clean. Persecution came to the Christians because they put Christ first. He stressed the importance of believers abiding in Him by using the word meno ("abide") three times in this verse alone. The atonement would not have been what it is unless God had thus forsaken Him. 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. You know, because I've asked God to work it out like this and I've shown Him the way it shouldit would all come to pass real well if God would just do this and this and then I could work it all out. 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." 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. He did not speak of abiding as the inevitable condition of believers. It is as if Jesus said: "You think that because you belong to the nation of Israel you are a branch of the true vine of God. 8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. That we would have that kind of self-sacrificing, understanding, forgiving love for each other. 1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. And shouldn't God be fair? Your Father wants to bless you. (3.) They would call no man "Lord" except Jesus Christ. 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. 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. What will the Lord do? He was singled out from the others, even while dead between the dying thieves. What a return for these wondrous communications of Christ, just to slip over them perfunctorily, without making the light our own! Just so the Jew will acknowledge Jesus. First, he enriches his own life; his contact makes him a fruitful branch. In God's purposes for it, it did not bring forth the fruit that God was desiring. Shipping policies vary, but many of our sellers offer free shipping when you purchase from them. That's pretty heavy, and it should cause each of us to sort of examine the attitude that the world has towards me. Any service towards God not directed by the Spirit is worthless. 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. rule, or a realm. How can any man fail to be happy when he walks the ways of life with Jesus? Unconditionally, of pure grace, He loved them that were His. The cherubim appeared to have the form of a mans hand under their wings. There is that which never can make up for Christ on the earth; and certainly there is that revealed of Christ in heaven which no manifestation on the earth can supply. We have already seen the reason for that. "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." It was impossible to furnish a prayer which could reconcile the wants of souls before and after the work of the cross, and the new place consequent on it. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my sayings, they will keep yours also ( John 15:20 ). The branches then should make a deliberate effort (indicated by the imperative verb "abide") to maintain a close personal relationship to the true vine. "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in My name" And here, "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth,". Now therefore, behold, the Lord is about to bring on them the strong and abundant waters of the Euphrates. And she went walking away saying, "Thank you, Lord, for the persecution." Yet I must, in passing point out that even in these solemn closing scenes the glory of the Son's person is ever the prominent figure. "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). The fruitfulness of all Christians, in a lower or narrower sphere, is to the glory of God. (Verses 8, 9) It was evidence; and there is no moral value in accepting on evidence. And here again, the idea of fruit indicates to us the method of God. 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. When he sees and believes in the Son, there is for him a sure way through the wilderness, and also a bright way in the word of God. 'These things I command you, that ye love one another." We read so much about keeping His commandments. It is fixed beyond hope of change. The Bible says, "It would have been better for them to have never heard than to have heard and turned away." There is no reference even to the blessed Lord when on earth, or to what He did here. Somehow they want it verbalized. It is our privilege and our task to be witnesses for Christ in the world; and we cannot be witnesses without the personal intimacy, the inner conviction and the outward testimony to our faith. God made His choice on the basis of the fact that He knows everything. Anything that you endeavor to do for God apart from Jesus Christ is worthless. A man hardly starts to speak before we know whether or not he really believes what he is saying. In the fourteenth chapter He said, "If you ask the Father anything in My name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son." It is by the fact that you bear such fruit, and that you show yourselves to be my disciples, that my Father is glorified. But the wood of the vine must not be brought. Was not that the picture that prophet after prophet had drawn? Each one went straight ahead. as distinct from the witness of the disciples. He was a willing prisoner, and a willing victim. That bearing fruit that God desires is the most natural thing that can happen to you as you abide in Christ. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org, Then he shall tear it by its wings, but shall not sever it. There is no doubt that the Jews were at least to some extent responsible for these slanders. If we are like that, we must not blame ourselves. (Verse 24) There was a full testimony, as we have seen already, in John 8:1-59; John 9:1-41. And a person can go from great happiness to tears in just a hurry. The sea is continually used in contrast to the land in prophetic Scripture. Apparently a primary word; a 'son', used very widely of immediate, remote or figuratively, kinship. A violent end comes, though to God's glory. Their responsibilities were to abide, to love, and to testify respectively. [2.] As for the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces whose appearance I had seen by the river Chebar. but it is still true that the world will hate the Christian. [2.] ", The vine and the branches metaphor 15:1-8. Believing the Scriptures, therefore, has another character altogether from a judgment formed on a matter of fact. It is true that there is a mystical sense in which the Christian is in Christ and Christ is in the Christian. Jesus did two things. 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. "He shall testify of me, and ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning." The Jews did and do look for Him; but when He came, they would not have Him. Souls must be simple and distinct in it as truly as in believing in Christ Jesus. For the time has come when he will sit as judge. Under their wings on their four sides were human hands. Live a life of dependence on me, and obey my doctrines, imitate my example, and constantly exercise faith in me. Twice the Psalmist had said: "They hated me without a cause" ( Psalms 35:19; Psalms 69:4). They talk about God; they speculate about the Deity, providence, fate, or chance. To enable personalized advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. The guy was very forceful.There was an interesting study made after Moody's campaigns. If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you ( John 15:18 ). And my hand reached to the riches of the peoples like a nest,And as one gathers abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth;And there was not one that flapped its wing or opened its beak or chirped.. 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. Thus everywhere there is absolute opposition between the world and the Father, expressed morally when the Son was here, and proved now that the Spirit is come. 47Woe unto you! Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. There was an abandonment, not only for Himself, but for them, of all connection with nature, or the world, even in their religion. And so, they're just lying across the ground, only propped up by a rock on the one end. Thus the reality of God's work in the soul proves itself, so to speak, by continual looking and clinging to Christ. 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. Web24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images. 325.] And they are maybe six feet long, and you'll see them lying on the ground, propped up on one end by a rock. He promises joy. Out of this passage we can compile a list of things for which we are chosen and to which we are called. Jesus, as so often, is working in this passage with pictures and ideas which were part of the religious heritage of the Jewish nation. and as lovely as the vine covered with fruitful branches is at once useful and enticing. 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. Persecution always comes to the man who does that. 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