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. I think that Jesus established this pattern for us. He hath planted, and watered, and gives the increase; for we are God's husbandry,1 Corinthians 3:9. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! of His manifestation here). The duty enjoined (John 15:4; John 15:4): Abide in me, and I in you. 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. And so. It has been called the Lord's Prayer. On the basis of these words, it was not difficult to disseminate amongst ignorant people, prepared to believe the worst, the story that the Christians' private meal was based on cannibalism. 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. So shall we be owned by our Master in the great day, and have the reward of disciples, a share in the joy of our Lord. Turning off personalized advertising opts you out of these sales. Learn more in our Privacy Policy., Help Center, and Cookies & Similar Technologies Policy. Was it merely Paul? In any event the world has certain characteristics, which are always part of the human situation. The first ground is, that the only righteousness now is in Christ gone to be with the Father. It was now proved to be neither a blessing nor even safety for a soul on earth. to the fathers and the children of Israel; but it was His Father, as such, to whose care He commends them now. And as soon as I did, He said to me, "You didn't choose Me, I chose you,". To it they had attached all the Old Testament pictures of the Day of the Lord, which foretold of the flaming disintegration and destruction of the world. "But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart. So I'm thankful that God chose me. On the concluding chapters of our gospel I cannot speak particularly now. 8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. 15:18-21 "If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you. While many of the items on Etsy are handmade, youll also find craft supplies, digital items, and more. A voice came to him, Get up, Peter, kill and eat! But Peter said, By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything unholy and unclean.read more.Again a voice came to him a second time, What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy.. It gives us confidence in prayer. We cannot pray for things of which we know that Jesus would disapprove. So their wings were touching each other in the center of the house. The Holy Spirit being sent from the Father by the request of Jesus, coming and bearing witness then of Jesus Christ, "testifying of me.". But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth ( John 15:26 ), Again, notice that how often Jesus in these last words with His disciples is tying together the relationship with the Father, the Son and the Spirit, and is making reference to the three. If they persecuted Him, they're going to persecute you. Lasting fruit, that your fruit should remain.There was a little fellow that used to be here in the Costa Mesa area who used to do a tremendous amounthe spent his whole life witnessing. That God would just bind our hearts together tonight in the glorious love of Jesus Christ. And each one had four faces. They refused to conform, and therefore the Roman government regarded them as dangerous and disloyal. As He says here: "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. Don't judge God too quickly. He seeks from the Father for His disciples a place of blessing in association with Himself suitable both to His person and work. Then it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass through. $16.19, $17.99 Matthew 18:7 Woe unto the world because of offences! To take but two examples, Nero's favourite actor Aliturus, and his harlot empress Poppaea, were both adherents of the Jewish faith. And she went walking away saying, "Thank you, Lord, for the persecution." How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! The next scene (verses 19-23) is the disciples gathered together. If he is likened to a vine, they are likened to the branches, which means that they can bear spiritual fruit only as they are united in him. Then the cherubim lifted up their wings with the wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel hovered over them. He takes the place of that which most put itself forward as being according to God here below. "This is my body which is for you." 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. These were the privileges and the knowledge which he brought to men. Apply it to all believers. 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. Here was a scripture which He remembers as unaccomplished. Abiding in Christ means something like that. And to see God working in answer to prayer. He spoke, that in Him they might have peace, as in the world they should have tribulation. that whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you ( John 15:16 ). 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. Some interpreters have imported that meaning into this verse. But the revelation of Christ forced everything to a point, sounded the condition of man as nothing else could, and proved that, bad as Israel might be, when measured by a law a holy, just, good law of God, yet, measured now by the Son of God, all sin previously was as nothing compared with the still deeper sin of rejecting the Son of God. But no man can know life in this world or in the world to come if he disregards the Lord of all good life. Jesus chose us to be privileged members of the family of God. 150. One of the glories of the Temple was the great golden vine upon the front of the Holy Place. And so, now God is giving to you that privilege, the church, that it might become now God's vineyard and bring forth fruit unto Him. No external qualification can set a man right with God; only the friendship of Jesus Christ can do that. as distinct from the witness of the disciples. Suffice it to say, that the one point which meets us here, as distinct from the other gospels, is His person. That immense change, then, let us accept on His authority who cannot deceive us, assured that our brethren, who fail to see how full association with the efficacy of His work and the acceptance of His person, made good in the presence of the Spirit, accounts for the difference between prayer before and prayer after, put no intentional slight on His words in this chapter, or on His work of atonement. Typically, orders of $35 USD or more (within the same shop) qualify for free standard shipping from participating Etsy sellers. This alone explains our chapter, without forcing it. Canvas and Poster are much suitable for those who like to decorate their homes or to collect. The Bible says, "It would have been better for them to have never heard than to have heard and turned away." As John saw it, they had only done what it was foretold they would do. There is a much simpler way of looking at this and of experiencing it, a way open to anyone. #Mt 23:34|. That Jesus Christ is the vine, the true vine. If God's Spirit is working in a person's life, they will respond. "He shall not speak from himself; but whatever he shall hear, he shall speak: and he will report (or announce) to you things to come. 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. (Ver. 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." and the ostrich, the owl, the sea gull, and the hawk in their kinds. In John 21:1-25, the appended scene is the fishing. "And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. He comes, not to display His own power and glory, but expressly to glorify Christ. Because I have no intention of ever doing anything but abiding in Jesus Christ, and as long as I abide in Him, I am eternally secure. The Jews whispered their slanders to the government, slanders which they must have well known to be untrue, and four slanderous reports were spread about the Christians. Thus, if we suppose that the subject of the chapter is, e.g., life or union with Christ, just see into what difficulties this false start plunges one at once: all would be made conditional, and those united to Christ might be lost. The essence of prayer is not that we say to God: "Thy will be changed," but that we say to him: "Thy will be done." But because God has chosen us, then all of the rest of the benefits follow, having been chosen of God. Almost in the passing Jesus said a very illuminating thing. That's too bad, because I am eternally secure as long as I abide in Him. A Christian witness is a man who not only knows Christ but wants others to know him too. But when we speak of the persons in the Godhead distinctively, and with knowledge of what God has done and is doing, we do well to remind ourselves and one another, that the Spirit has come down and taken a special place among and in the disciples now; the consequence of which is, that He is pleased administratively (without renouncing His personal rights) to direct our hearts thus towards God the Father and the Lord Jesus. ", The vine and the branches metaphor 15:1-8. We shall have occasion to think of this again very soon, but for the moment think of it this way. Therefore also said the wisedome of God, I wil send them Prophets and Apostles, and some of them they shal slay and persecute:- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan"For this reason also the wisdom of God said, 'I will send to them prophets and apostles, and {some} of them they will kill and {some} they will persecute,- New American Standard Version (1995)Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send unto them prophets and apostles; and `some' of them they shall kill and persecute;- American Standard Version (1901)For this reason the wisdom of God has said, I will send them prophets and teachers, and to some of them they will give death and cruel pains;- Basic English BibleFor this reason also the wisdom of God has said, I will send to them prophets and apostles, and of these shall they kill and drive out by persecution,- Darby BibleTherefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will slay and persecute: - Webster's BibleFor this reason also the Wisdom of God has said, `I will send Prophets and Apostles to them, of whom they will kill some and persecute others,'- Weymouth BibleTherefore also the wisdom of God said, 'I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,- World English BibleTherfor the wisdom of God seide, Y schal sende to hem profetis and apostlis, and of hem thei schulen sle and pursue,- Wycliffe Biblebecause of this also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets, and apostles, and some of them they shall kill and persecute,- Youngs Literal Bible. Jesus sends us out, not to argue men into Christianity, still less to threaten them into it, but to attract them into it; so to live that its fruits may be so wonderful that others will desire them for themselves. Matthew depicts Him as the suffering Messiah, according to psalms and prophets; Mark, as the rejected Servant and Prophet of God; Luke, as the perfect and obedient Son of man, who shrank from no trial either for soul or body, but even on the cross prayed for His enemies, filling a poor sinner's heart with the good news of salvation, and committing His spirit with unwavering confidence to His Father. But if the full heavenly testimony is left for its own due place in Paul's completing the word of God that hidden mystery, John is seen witnessing in principle to the end. (Verses 15-17), And truly they would need the love of one another, as Christ loved them. Good news! But there is another though negative, as that was the positive, proof of righteousness that the world has lost Christ, "and ye see me no more." Thereby they flatter themselves perhaps that they may do God service; but the Father's love is unknown never in such a condition can He be fully known. His master never opened his mind to him; the slave simply had to do what he was told without reason and without explanation. "When the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: and ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning." 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. What tremendous cleansing power there is in the Word of God! In this case Jesus meant that if His clean (i.e., saved) disciples abode in Him He would abide in them. What it does mean is this--no man when he prays should think entirely of his own needs. There was an abandonment, not only for Himself, but for them, of all connection with nature, or the world, even in their religion. In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Master sitting on a thronehigh, exalted!and the train of his robes filled the Temple. Is it possible for a man not to abide in Jesus Christ? Here it is the Jews insist He ought by their law to die, because He made Himself the Son of God. It was the emblem on the coins of the Maccabees. He said that, if two people agreed in asking anything in his name, it would be granted ( Matthew 18:19). Who can honestly, or at least intelligently, deny it? 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. The only lasting fruit is that which is produced as the result of the relationship with Jesus Christ. 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. (Ver. 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). And whether or not they went through the temple courts or whatever, we don't know. I am the vine, ye are the branches. "Wherewithal shall a young man take heed of his ways? In that day they were to ask the Father in His name. In every way possible Christ gives us now His own portion, from the world as well as from the Father. Piety then, manifested in good works, in love, and self-denial, is as natural, as easy, as unconstrained. 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. But these are the ones which you shall not eat: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard, and the red kite, the falcon, and the kite in their kinds,read more.and every raven in its kind, and the ostrich, the owl, the sea gull, and the hawk in their kinds, the little owl, the great owl, the white owl, the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant, the stork, and the heron in their kinds, and the hoopoe and the bat. It's futile for me to even try. He was a lawyer before he became a minister, and he was able to set forth the scriptures in a very logical order and sequence. How can God be fair when He has chosen those that are to be saved?" If I take the wings of the dawn,If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea. A man gives up himself to confide in God. (a) The two phrases bring out different aspects under which the persons are regarded. It is incalculable the quantity of scripture that is passed over without distinct exercise of faith. It is grown commonly on terraces. for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. It is clearly religious rancour created by this full testimony, not the world's general ill-feeling, but special hatred to their testimony. 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. Try using a different browser or disabling ad blockers. It was His commandment specially.   United States   |   English (US)   |   $ (USD). His salvation lies in continual contact with the strength of his friend. "And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee; for my strength is made perfect in weakness. 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?" A magistrate needed only to ask whether or not a man was a Christian, and, if he was, no matter what he had done or had not done, he was liable to punishment by death. It is not what God is in grace towards those that are outside Him and lost, but the appraisal of the ways of those associated with Christ, the dealings of God, or more strictly of His Father, with those who professed to belong to the Lord. On this matter Jesus was quite explicit. Who could say, "It is finished," except Jesus in John? If it were not possible, why would Jesus even bring up then the prospect? With the enjoyment of Christ's love, then, goes obedience; and where the disciple fails in obedience, there cannot be a real abiding in His love. This word indicates a new character of plea: "I desire that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am." 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