And I might sit down and write you out a check for ten thousand dollars and hand it you and say, "Here!" 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., Again a voice came to him a second time, What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy., Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the. 2Cor 12:9 But he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christs power may rest on me. 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 How blessed to know the Father thus hearkening to the children asking in the Son's name! And in this parable, He speaks of the lord who had a vineyard. The central words of this passage are those in which Jesus says that his disciples have not chosen him, but he has chosen them. Your pinpoint crosses and freekicks have been greatly missed since you left EPL. our business is to submit; our duty is to seek to understand them; our wisdom is to correct and challenge ourselves, if peradventure we find insubjection within us to anything that concerns Him and our own souls. And this woman was guilty of disrupting more classes. I am the vine; you are the branches. I pray the Lord that even these suggestions may be blessed of God in stirring up fresh desire to study, and weigh, and pray over these precious gospels. The purging of fruitful branches, in order to their greater fruitfulness, is the care and work of the great husbandman, for his own glory. Second, he was thinking of something more general. Psalm 147:9 tells us that God is concerned for all His creation, including the animals He created: He provides food for the cattle and for the young ravens when they call.. He says that his followers are like that.   United States   |   English (US)   |   $ (USD). (Verses 29, 30) Where could such a word as this be but in John? He called us to be his partners. What an indictment He is making against those people who are now sinning against the light that God has given to them! The vine can not produce the crop of which it is capable without drastic pruning--and Jesus knew that. What does he mean by this? Jesus said, "I've chosen you and ordained you that you should be My disciples." And then you would become very sad when they say, "He doesn't have enough money in his account to cover that thing!" Thus a double scripture is fulfilled. Such were the causes of hatred in the early days. You say, "Well, then it would be better if I had never heard." This way be true, not merely of poor failing souls, such as any of us here; but even an apostle might find the same thing in his course, and God Himself be the witness of it. As we have already said, by the world John meant human society organizing itself without God. By the eminent good works of Christians many are brought to glorify our Father who is in heaven. 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. Each of them had four faces and four wings. 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. It is I who am the true vine. It was futile for the Christians to point out that in fact they were the best citizens in the country. They still continued at a comparative distance from their Father; but this is not the Christian state. The fruitfulness of the apostles, as such, in the diligent discharge of their office, would be to the glory of God in the conversion of souls, and the offering of them up to him, Romans 15:9; Romans 15:16. He wants verbal expressions, but He also desires deeds that express. Such a demand was right and seasonable for a man in the flesh for a Jew especially; but it could not suffice for the heart of a Christian, and, in fact, he who denies this, quarrels with the Lord's own words. But when the husbandmen saw the son coming, they said, "Look, this is the son and the heir. And the wheels rose close beside them; for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels. $14.40, $18.00 The government persecuted the Christians because they insisted they had no king but Christ. He stressed the importance of believers abiding in Him by using the word meno ("abide") three times in this verse alone. Jesus is a prophet without honor in his own country. Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to show Clearly not; yet there is a meaning, and a most weighty meaning for those that belong to Christ, in these words. (45% off). However hard the Christian way is, it is, both in the travelling and in the goal, the way of joy. (4.) When the story of Jesus is told us and his picture is set before us, what makes us feel that this is none other than the picture of the Son of God? Behold, He will mount up and swoop like an eagle and spread out His wings against Bozrah; and the hearts of the mighty men of Edom in that day will be like the heart of a woman in labor. And they are maybe six feet long, and you'll see them lying on the ground, propped up on one end by a rock. In the end ofJohn 15:1-27; John 15:1-27 there is a good deal more. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. WebAnd I said, Lord, Ill go! I have told you everything which God told me." Somehow they want it verbalized. What, indeed, can be more ruinous than putting aside that which condemns any state in which we find ourselves? The fruit of the vine honours God and cheers man (Judges 9:13), so does the fruit of Christ's mediation; it is better than gold,Proverbs 8:19. But these are the ones which you shall not eat: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard. We must keep contact with Jesus. This is the proof of righteousness. [2.] Now over the heads of the living beings there was something like an expanse, like the awesome gleam of crystal, spread out over their heads. One of the problems in the church today is this endeavor of forced fruit. I am the true vine, and my Father is now the husbandman ( John 15:1 ). One of the glories of the Temple was the great golden vine upon the front of the Holy Place. It is by the fact that you bear such fruit, and that you show yourselves to be my disciples, that my Father is glorified. It was Ezekiel that tells us the worthlessness of a grape branch. When the cherubim departed, they lifted their wings and rose up from the earth in my sight with the wheels beside them; and they stood still at the entrance of the east gate of the Lords house, and the glory of the God of Israel hovered over them. Well, very little of the fruit was lasting fruit. The fruitfulness of all Christians, in a lower or narrower sphere, is to the glory of God. In John 14:1-31 it is evidently the Father giving another Comforter to the disciples, and sending Him in Christ's name: Christ is looked at there as One who prays, and whose value acts for the disciples. 1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. It is not only a means of cultivating ad increasing what good there is already in us, but it is the root and spring of all good: "Without me you can do nothing: not only no great thing, heal the sick, or raise the dead, but nothing." It sounds the same to me," there is, I feel, a subtle difference here. And surely it ought to be so, and we would not desire it to be otherwise. 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. Do they hail me as a great fellow? How can any man fail to be happy when he walks the ways of life with Jesus? This was not simply as God, but rather as the Man Christ Jesus here below. 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 so, I'm not so much interested in the quantity of the fruit as I am the quality of the fruit that is developed through my ministry. Still, in the one case it is the Father who sends; in the other, the Son; and this last, where the point is to show the new glory of Christ above. So necessary is it to our comfort and happiness that we be fruitful, that the best argument to engage us to abide in Christ is, that otherwise we cannot be fruitful. I am the vine, the true, and My Father is now the husbandman." 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. He said that, if two people agreed in asking anything in his name, it would be granted ( Matthew 18:19). And that must be the daily pattern and rhythm of our lives. 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.'. Don't I bring the food home for dinner? The greatest temptation of all in prayer is to pray as if nobody but ourselves mattered. (Ver. Thomas, then, represents the slow mind of unbelieving Israel, seeing the Lord after the present cycle of time is completely over. What can be a weightier consideration for us, after receiving Christ! God has chosen us in Christ before the foundations of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him in love, bringing Him forth this fruit that He desires. Could he leave it out who presents his Master as the Son and the Word who was God? It is as wood, hay, and stubble that will burn when the day of judgment comes. There are three elements in Christian witness. Now He brings up here the subject of prayer. 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. The apostle John does not quote many scriptures; but when he does, the person of the Son is the great point. And yet, you ask them, "Why do hate Jesus so much?" 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. One can hardly escape the inference that Jesus viewed Himself as the fulfillment of Israel. It was an enemy of the Father and of them, but an enemy overcome of Him. As the Lord had told them at an earlier moment, had they believed Moses, they would have believed Christ. Spite of the liberalism of the day, this peeps out where it dares. 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 for the faces and wings of the four of them, their wings touched one another; their faces did not turn when they moved, each went straight forward. Dealing differently, no doubt, according to that which was before Him; still it was in Christ ever the value of what came, not what He found, which was the great point. All such suppositions are preposterous. There are two answers. The former of the two answers seems preferable, as keeping closer to the parable. "If ye keep my commandments" what has that to do with life eternal in Christ? 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. Just one commandment, but it isn't simple. Take full advantage of our site features by enabling JavaScript. Of Christian faith,? $1.50, $3.00 Further, we must remember that by this time the Church was living under the constant threat of persecution. (b) Prayer must be in the name of Christ. (Verse 5) It is not here believing, but "doing," though faith be the spring, of course. (v) Jesus chose to be ambassadors. What is meant by that? It might be read, Every branch that beareth not fruit in me, and it comes much to one; for those that do not bear fruit in Christ, and in his Spirit and grace, are as if they bore no fruit at all, Hosea 10:1. Because happiness is in the realm of emotions, it's a variable. Who could say, "It is finished," except Jesus in John? And so, "Abide in me. They talk about God; they speculate about the Deity, providence, fate, or chance. And here again, the idea of fruit indicates to us the method of God. This is precisely what Christ here urges. Those that are come to Christ must abide in him: "Abide in me, by faith; and I in you, by my Spirit; abide in me, and then fear not but I will abide in you;" for the communion between Christ and believers never fails on his side. (10% off), Sale Price $100.04 I. And God knew the end results of this man's life, as God knows us. [1.] He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters; They will mount up with wings like eagles. This is a description of the fearful state of hypocrites that are not in Christ, and of apostates that abide not in Christ. Now, with that as a background, the vineyard, the nation Israel having failed. 48Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres. And the spread of its wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel. It is incalculable the quantity of scripture that is passed over without distinct exercise of faith. Jesus meets her in her sorrow, dries her tears, and sends her to the disciples with a message of His resurrection. 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. Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with tongs. It had been used of God when there was nothing more. He chose us so that whatever we ask in his name the Father will give to us. The classic instance is the fate which befell Aristides in Athens. If we have Christ, we shall want nothing that is good for us. But He would take no independent place, any more than the Son had. See under John 14:20. The point of Isaiah's picture is that the vineyard has run wild. Jesus called us to be his friends and the friends of God. But the disciples were to have the hatred of the world, of the Jew as much or more than of the Gentile. 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. Christ and his church are thus set forth. As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue in my love ( John 15:9 ). Put the trumpet to your lips!Like an eagle the enemy comes against the house of the Lord,Because they have transgressed My covenantAnd rebelled against My law. (b) The first term regards not so much them as their actions - their scandalous acts (Goebel); the second, the persons themselves. 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. Here Christ discourses concerning the fruit, the fruits of the Spirit, which his disciples were to bring forth, under the similitude of a vine. "But go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God." The object is to show how God the Father answers and acts in accordance with those who are thus practically associated in heart with Christ. And those gates had upon them the carved clusters of grapes, by which God declared His purpose for the nation Israel, that it be a fruitful vine and bear fruit for God. And so, He is the one that is overseeing the vineyard directly. And it will hatch and gather them under its protection. The promise made to the fruitful: He purgeth them, that they may bring forth more fruit. 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. (Verses 24-29) One of the disciples, Thomas, had not been with the others when Jesus had thus appeared. The verbal assurance doesn't mean much unless there are deeds, and the deeds don't mean much unless there are words. The first blessing was, Be fruitful; and it is still a great blessing. He was singled out from the others, even while dead between the dying thieves. And I have no intention of doing anything else.Jesus said. You could not have faith without a new nature, nor this again without the exercise practically of that which was according to God's will. Again, there was love, in a broad sense even for those that were not His, as we have seen more than once. In every point of difference the fullest possible proof of divine glory and wisdom appears in these gospels. And knowledge brings responsibility, always. The land was cleared of brigands and the sea of pirates. The greatest glory of the Christian life is that by our life and conduct we can bring glory to God. They looked to the Second Coming of Christ. Apply it to all believers. Christianity was illegal. (ii) To put it at its widest--the world always suspects nonconformity. [1.] Cut off from the vine, withered. 43 You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you have slain without pity. The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits, and they stood on their feet facing the main room. 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. Christians were indeed persecuted because of the name of Christ. It came about when He commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim, he entered and stood beside a wheel. He destroys every branch in me which does not bear fruit; and he cleanses every branch which does bear fruit, so that it may bear more fruit. 1. Normal rational people; but yet, they have such a hatred. As he saw it, a man is either of the world or of Christ, and there is no stage between. Matthew 13:49 So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just. It's a constant.You see, you might come to me and say, "Oh, Chuck, I'm really desperate; I need ten thousand dollars right away to pay off these bills, because they're going to foreclose on me." 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. Through Him, I can do anything. It is more the Holy Ghost coming than sent here; that is, the Holy Ghost is looked at not certainly as acting independently, but yet as a distinct person. His master never opened his mind to him; the slave simply had to do what he was told without reason and without explanation. If God has chosen some, then that isn't fair to the others. But because God has chosen us, then all of the rest of the benefits follow, having been chosen of God. When mature, it is pruned in December and January. And I watched him one morning when I was sitting in a restaurant. The meaning is, that He shall not speak of His own authority, as if He had nothing to do with the Father and the Son. So their wings were touching each other in the center of the house. He convinces the world of the truth they do not know, by the very fact that He is outside the world, and has nothing to do with it. And he came in, and he started going from table to table loudly witnessing to everybody about the Lord. And then He declared. Suffice it to say, that the one point which meets us here, as distinct from the other gospels, is His person. 3. The next scene (verses 19-23) is the disciples gathered together. Parallel Commentaries his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom, all things that offend, and them which do iniquity. And he that saw it bare record.". What absorption in His Father's will! Then, in verse 25, the breach between the world and the Father and the Son being complete, He says, "O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee; but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me." At the same time, He is looked at in more distinct personality than in John 14:1-31; John 15:1-27. Jesus calls himself the true vine. Souls must be simple and distinct in it as truly as in believing in Christ Jesus. He has shared his mind with us, and opened his heart to us. [4.] Prayer is consenting to God and to the will of God, for Him to do those things that He is wanting to do. 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. 9) It is all a question of the Father's government and the disciples' responsibility; not of a people having to do with a governor nationally, as Jehovah was to Israel, but of Christ's disciples in relation with the Father, according to the revelation of Himself in Christ. John shows us, in Mary Magdalene contrasted with the woman of Galilee, the difference between the Christian and the Jew. (Verses 8-10). The contact with loveliness made him lovely. And, indeed, Christ has no other object in view than to keep us, as a hen keepeth her chickens under her wings, (Matthew 23:37), lest our indifference should carry us away, and make us fly to our destruction. This the disciples thought they saw distinctly; but they were mistaken: their words do not rise higher than "We believe that thou camest forth from God." The Jew ought to have known better than Pilate, and Judas better than the Jew. If you're bearing fruit, you're purged, that you might bring forth more fruit. (3.) In Matthew the other women even retain Him by the feet. Anyone who is different, who wears different clothes, who has different ideas, is automatically suspect. What is His commandment? These two things unite the disciples. So had He been known. This is the general statement. To be different will be dangerous, but no man can be a Christian unless he accepts that risk, for there must be a difference between the man of the world and the man of Christ. We must keep contact with the fine thing in order to defeat the evil thing. 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. Thus, if the last was the Jewish scene when the Church state closed, this is the figure of the Gentiles in the great day of the earth's jubilee, the age to come contrasted with this age. 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." Apply them, not to grace but to government, and all is plain and sure and consistent. Then follows the notice of Peter's sad history with that other disciple which was known to the high priest. 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. 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. We'd better get rid of Him." (Verses 15-17), And truly they would need the love of one another, as Christ loved them. Vous avez des problmes de TNT ? You are like the wings of a dove covered with silver. I mean, there's no value to you. As they allow the Father to remove the hindrances of sin from their lives, they will bear even more fruit (John 15:1-5). The prayer of Christians is often far from this. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: Read full chapter. He did not present abiding and not abiding as white and black categories, as being either completely in or completely out of fellowship. their wings touched one another; their faces did not turn when they moved, each went straight forward. (Ver. Sure I love you." So the Lord says, "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love." The duty enjoined (John 15:4; John 15:4): Abide in me, and I in you. ", Now, on what basis did God make His choice? When a knight came to the court of King Arthur, he did not come to spend the rest of his days in knightly feasting and in knightly fellowship there. I refer to this for the purpose of showing, that the revelation of Christ has brought in not merely a total change in the consciousness of eternal life and salvation when the work was done, as well as the overthrow of all distinctions between Jew and Gentile, which we find, of course, in the epistles but, besides that practically, has 'brought in a power of producing fruit that could not be before, a mutual love peculiar to Christians, and a rejection and hatred from the world beyond all that had been. $127.50, $150.00 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." Do you go after some other thing or person in order to bear fruit? $2.51, $5.01 When we pray we must first realize that we never know better than God. Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions. They are clinging to the empty vine; and so all their religious profession is as empty before God. It is not prayer first (for this should not take the place either of Christ or of intelligence in His mind), but Christ Himself, the prime object; then His words, as forming fully the heart, according to His thoughts and will; and, lastly, the going out of the heart to the Father, on the ground both of Christ and of His revealed mind, with the annexed assurance that so it should come to pass for them. Thus Christ is not only everlasting life to the soul that believes in Him, but He is the only source of fruit-bearing, all the course through, for those that have received Him. Au total il y a 106 utilisateurs en ligne :: 2 enregistrs, 0 invisible et 104 invits (daprs le nombre dutilisateurs actifs ces 3 dernires minutes)Le record du nombre dutilisateurs en ligne est de 850, le 05 Avr 2016 19:55 Utilisateurs enregistrs: bernard7715, Google [Bot] 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.. He is the vine, planted in the vineyard, and not a spontaneous product; planted in the earth, for his is the Word made flesh. No doubt Christ sends; and there lies the connection with the end of John 15:1-27. "But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me. But there was another great eagle with great wings and much plumage; and behold, this vine bent its roots toward him and sent out its branches toward him from the beds where it was planted, that he might water it. 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