A gloomy Christian is a contradiction in terms, and nothing in all religious history has done Christianity more harm than its connection with black clothes and long faces. 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 have told you everything; I have told you what I am trying to do, and why I am trying to do it. That I just tell them that if they want to be saved, they can go through that door and talk and pray with a pastor. And therein is the big issue in this verse, and the thing that you want to take note of. This type of data sharing may be considered a sale of information under California privacy laws. And it will hatch and gather them under its protection. and the ostrich and the owl and the sea gull and the hawk in its kind. And the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings. Some of them are lovely fruit-bearing branches of himself; others are useless because they bear no fruit. It so happened that they had the ear of the government. Matthew 18:7 Woe unto the world because of offences! Violation of law or wickedness. The Lord evidently introduces it as a new thing. That apple hanging on the tree is not out there struggling and striving and pushing and doing its best to get ripe. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole. I don't accept that!Jesus said, "Your Father knows what you have need of before you ever ask Him." You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you ( John 15:16 ). When Jesus drew his picture of the vine he knew what he was talking about. That we continually receive from him the power to do good; for as the branch, however good in itself, cannot bear fruit from itself, through its own juice, which it has already derived from the tree, and can be no longer supported than it continues in union with the parent stock, neither can ye, unless ye abide in me. But all other winged insects which are four-footed are detestable to you. As they produce the fruit, the fruit actually is lying right there on the stony ground of the vineyard. I deny not that there will be faith, as there was faith required when Messiah was on earth. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask what you will, and it will be given to you. $14.99, $24.99 This he proceeds to illustrate by a reference to the vine. 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. which proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me ( John 15:26 ): Look how it's just intertwined. Jesus teaching and work showed clearly that he came from God. Hence, Christianity awaits not only Christ's coming, but the accomplishment of His work, and also the mission and personal presence of the Holy Ghost, the Comforter, consequent on that work. Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so persecuted they the prophets that were before you" ( Matthew 5:11-12 ). And for too many years there was that kind of a unwritten code in the church that the more sorrowful you looked, the more holy you were. But the Christian is to live in such a way that he shows what is meant by loving his fellow men. I said, Oh, that I had wings like a dove!I would fly away and be at rest. As it is said, "He will teach you all things" what they never knew, besides bringing to remembrance things that they had known. 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 But there are many--maybe they are in the majority--who never have this mystical experience. Each one went straight ahead. Suetonius gad spoken of "a race of men who belong to a new and evil superstition." The classic instance is the fate which befell Aristides in Athens. If we are like that, we must not blame ourselves. But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall. Isaiah 6:2 - Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. Jesus promised that He would never withdraw that from us (John 6:37-40; John 10:28-29). If they do, I'd better go in my closet and repent and ask God to forgive me! And certainly, Dwight Moody was one of the greatest evangelists that God has brought along in the American history. 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. Not because you're just an obnoxious person. 21, 22) What can be plainer than the enormous change that was coming in now? Whenever they moved, they moved in any of their four directions without turning as they moved. Loyalty to Jesus will bring persecution (John 15:18-20). 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. But this dreadful hopeless hatred, evil as it was, ought not to surprise one who believes the word of God; it was, "that the word might be fulfilled which was written in their law, They hated me without a cause." If God's Spirit is working in a person's life, they will respond. tired of carrying on the profession of Christ along with indulged evil; nor would God allow it to go beyond a certain point as an ordinary rule. (ii) To put it at its widest--the world always suspects nonconformity. 2 Timothy 2:12-13). Men gather them. 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. Behold, one will fly swiftly like an eagle. You are like the wings of a dove covered with silver. Verb - Present Participle Active - Accusative Masculine Plural. [Note: E.g., Blum, p. The appearance of the wheels and their workmanship was like sparkling beryl, and all four of them had the same form, their appearance and workmanship being as if one wheel were within another. Jesus was laying it down that not Jewish blood but faith in him was the way to God's salvation. 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. I can't do anything to enhance that. I start out as I receive Jesus Christ. . There is that pruning process that goes on within the church, as the Father cuts off the unfruitful branches. His judgment is sealed. There can be no witness without personal experience. Jesus here speaks of His joy, but it is interesting that He speaks of His joy just before He's coming to the cross. (c) Prayer must say: "Thy will be done." (3.) Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch in me that beareth fruit, he purges it, that it may bring forth more fruit ( John 15:2 ). Lawlessness, iniquity, disobedience, sin.   United States   |   English (US)   |   $ (USD). Just one commandment: that I love you as He loved me.Now this love, as I said, is the fruit that God is looking for, and Jesus said, "Apart from Me, you can do nothing." And he came in, and he started going from table to table loudly witnessing to everybody about the Lord. remembering account, browser, and regional preferences, remembering privacy and security settings, personalized search, content, and recommendations, helping sellers understand their audience, showing relevant, targeted ads on and off Etsy. 2 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 consequence is, that it will see Christ no more till He comes in judgment, and this will be to put down its pride for ever. But, "In His presence," the Bible says, "is fullness of joy, and at His right hand there are pleasures forevermore" ( Psalms 16:11 ). It is not the destruction of this place or that. kago, from kai ego) is unusual. I am the vine, ye are the branches. The Christian that really prizes the word of God in the Old Testament would still more set his heart on that in the New. And there came a voice from above the expanse that was over their heads; whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings. But as it is there cannot be a more painful proof of their own state. The Jew ought to have known better than Pilate, and Judas better than the Jew. This word indicates a new character of plea: "I desire that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am." 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.". Here He was the one spring of whatever fruit was borne, and He is gone on high, but is the same there; and so not merely asks the Father to send, but Himself sends them from the Father the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from with the Father, if so literal a turn may be allowed. A young vine is not allowed to fruit for the first three years and each year is cut drastically back to develop and conserve its life and energy. What joy, what full joy it brings to us to see God's answers to prayer! You are my friends, if you do what I command you. Many a time a down-and-out has been taken to live with someone fine. However, He also used it to describe the intimate relationship that those who have exercised saving faith need to cultivate with God (John 8:31). My asking only opened the door that God might do what He was wanting to do the whole time. To leave out either is to strip Christianity of half its value. Whenever the living beings moved, the wheels moved with them. We are told, "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world, for he who has the love of the world in his heart has not the love of the Father" ( 1 John 2:15 ). And they gather such branches and throw them into the fire and they are burned. Believers, like the branches of the vine, are weak, and insufficient to stand of themselves, but as they are borne up. Each one had four faces and each one four wings, and beneath their wings was the form of human hands. Does it upset you that God chooses people? If it is, Jesus meant that the disciples and He should commit themselves to abiding in one another. 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. I do not mean that we have no allusion to His ascent or presence there; for we have seen that there is here some such allusion, especially when the Holy Ghost replaces Him here, and we shall have it repeatedly in what follows. These are the living beings that I saw beneath the God of Israel by the river Chebar; so I knew that they were cherubim. He plucked off the topmost of its young twigs and brought it to a land of merchants; he set it in a city of traders. 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 the more we love God, the easier it will be to do that. And so, we are told not to love the world, but we are also being told here that the world isn't going to love us. It was futile for the Christians to point out that in fact they were the best citizens in the country. 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