As the Lord had told them at an earlier moment, had they believed Moses, they would have believed Christ. And God knew the end results of this man's life, as God knows us. It is a matter of communion, not of salvation. 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. The wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits; the wing of one, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and its other wing, of five cubits, touched the wing of the other cherub. That is what the Jews had done. He no longer has it under the authority of the priesthood or of the religious leaders. And what is that which God uses to cleanse the church? [Note: Morris, p. How do you come to a problem when you know everything from the beginning? 2 Thessalonians 2:11 in The Lord evidently introduces it as a new thing. Abide in me, and I in you. He is the true vine, as truth is opposed to pretence and counterfeit; he is really a fruitful plant, a plant of renown. 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." If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. Each one had four faces and each one four wings, and beneath their wings was the form of human hands. Moses was the doulos ( G1401) of God ( Deuteronomy 34:5); so was Joshua ( Joshua 24:29); so was David ( Psalms 89:20). $14.40, $18.00 Ye are the branches." He never did settle down as a citizen of the world community, but was an alien. I wonder, "When will that truth really sink into my heart?" (ii) To put it at its widest--the world always suspects nonconformity. Hence we have no notice of His agony in the garden, nor of God's forsaking Him on the tree. I would never botch things up. THE LIFE OF JESUS' CHOSEN PEOPLE ( John 15:11-17 ), 15:11-17 "I have spoken these things to you that my joy might be in you, and that your joy might be complete. To collect, gather. Hence they were called to bear witness of Him "because ye have been with me from the beginning." Again, we have our Lord's calm rebuke to Peter, who had cut off the ear of Malchus. Now, with that as a background, the vineyard, the nation Israel having failed. The wing of the other cherub, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house; and its other wing of five cubits was attached to the wing of the first cherub. Jesus is a prophet without honor in his own country. I have never read this in the Bible. There is no mention in any translation I have ever read about angels having wings at all. I just did a search Of course, loving one's neighbour abides always, but this, no matter how accomplished, ought not to be enough for a disciple of Christ. Under the law there was, comparatively speaking, little or no acquaintance with His work as a distinct thing, nor could there be, perhaps (at any rate there was not), even after He came, till the work was done. and in thy name done many wonderful works? 2. . Now therefore, behold, the Lord is about to bring on them the strong and abundant waters of the Euphrates. 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.. When prayer is hopeless it cannot be effective. Our Lord here, at the end of His earthly course, informs the disciples that hitherto they had demanded nothing in His name. All, the whole, every kind of. Here, however, the Holy Ghost is not spoken of as dealing with individuals when He regenerates them and they believe, but as bringing conviction to the world of sin because of unbelief There is no real conviction of sin unless there be faith. In the close ofJohn 16:25-33; John 16:25-33, the Lord puts, with perfect plainness, both their coming position in His name, and as immediate objects of the Father's affection, and His own place as coming from and going to the Father, above all promise and dispensation. 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. We've sent you an email to confirm your subscription. Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken to you ( John 15:3 ). There is only one way in which he can retain his reformation and keep himself on the right way. Prayer is consenting to God and to the will of God, for Him to do those things that He is wanting to do. And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within; and day and night they do not cease to say. 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." Even the king of Assyria and all his glory; And it will rise up over all its channels and go over all its banks. Was not that the picture that prophet after prophet had drawn? And each one had four faces. 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. WebClarke's Commentary. He who hates me hates the Father too. 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.. The Holy Spirit being sent from the Father by the request of Jesus, coming and bearing witness then of Jesus Christ, "testifying of me.". The prayer of Christians is often far from this. Moreover the verb "abide" (Gr. You are like the wings of a dove covered with silver. Don't I provide for the house? He that is the Sun of righteousness, and the bright and morning Star, compares himself to a vine. The disciples are his witnesses because they have been with him from the beginning. From sun and lego in its original sense; to collect. God made His choice on the basis of the fact that He knows everything. I do not believe that silence is evidence or proof of anything. The Lord would have us bear much fruit, and the only way in which fruit is to be borne is by abiding in Him in whom we believe. , Luke 13:26,27 Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets, Romans 2:8,9,16 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, . It is a great mistake to think that the subject peoples resented Roman government; for the most part they were profoundly grateful for it. a man now in glory, at the right hand of God, above all angels, principalities, and powers. There is no preservative energy in knowledge ever so full. Thus, if the central portion gave us the disciples on the earth in relation with the Father on the one hand, and in total separation from the world on the other, with subsequent believers brought into one, both in testimony and in glory by-and-by before the world, the closing verses take up Christians, as it were, with the Father in an unearthly, heavenly glory, and His desire that they should be with Him there. . It is now God's Spirit dealing according to the gospel with individual souls, which is perfectly true and most important. No such outward circumstance is here as in Matthew, no soldiers trembling, no walk with disciples, but as ever the person of God's Son, though disciples prove how little they entered into the truth. For Christianity is the revelation, not of a dogma, but of a person who has wrought redemption; doubtless, also, of a person in whom is life, and who gives it. Your pinpoint crosses and freekicks have been greatly missed since you left EPL. In Matthew the other women even retain Him by the feet. We are not to take that with a crude literalism, because it would simply mean that if you can mobilize enough people to pray for anything you will get it. 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. But it isn't something I can do in my own struggle or effort; it is something that is the natural result of just abiding in Jesus. Such might allow stumbling-blocks, disappointments, etc., to hinder their following Christ, and so practically abandon what they know, the result of which would be the surest and most disastrous ruin. Earlier Jesus had presented abiding in (in contrast to departing from) Him as a real possibility for His believing disciples (cf. Cut off from the vine, withered. "Apart from me, you can do nothing." You are pruned. Now He brings up here the subject of prayer. But because you're not of the world, it hates you. Because if you were of the world, then the world would love you. Wherever the spirit was about to go, they would go in that direction. Don't be surprised at the reaction of the worldly person, if they hate you because of your love for Jesus Christ, because of your relationship to Him. I know not a more sweet and wonderful proof of how completely He was divinely superior to all circumstances. 2 Timothy 2:12-13). Jesus promised that He would never withdraw that from us (John 6:37-40; John 10:28-29). "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." The law of Moses, divine as it was, would not suffice: it was negative; but Christ's word is positive. We must keep contact with Jesus. 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