I believe that I am eternally secure, as long as I abide in Jesus Christ. I can't even think of how it would be to be able to think that way. So perfectly did Christ glorify God in death, as He always did in life the things that pleased His Father, that nothing short of putting Him as man at His own right hand could meet the case. (a) Prayer must be the prayer of faith ( James 5:15). Now He brings up here the subject of prayer. With this revelation the hatred of the world is commensurate; and the Lord puts it in the strongest possible way. It is in this second sense that Jesus spoke of abiding here (cf. Abiding in Christ is necessary in order to our doing much good. Their legs were straight and their feet were like a calfs hoof, and they gleamed like burnished bronze. And so, "Come forward if you want to see your child in heaven." Again, He said, "Now, I've ordained that whatsoever ye should ask the Father in My name, He may give it to you." Jesus calls himself the true vine. Have you ever noticed how akin our emotions are? The benefits which believers have by the doctrine of Christ, the power of which they should labour to exemplify in a fruitful conversation: Now you are clean,John 15:3; John 15:3. We can listen to him, and then render him a lip service unsupported by any deeds. Evidently god sent them without wings so we wouldnt know they are angels. (Verses 13, 14). You know, there are people that can talk to you rationally on every subject in the world except Jesus. He was defined in Greek law as a living tool. (4.) It is more of an extended metaphor similar to the shepherd and sheepfold metaphors in chapter 10. They fly like an eagle swooping down to devour. 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. I need not enter into all the details of our chapter, though I have rather minutely gone over it thus far, believing it to be of special importance, because it is so much and generally misunderstood. Mat Mt). Sale Price $49.45 The man who abides in me, and in whom I abide, bears much fruit, because without me you can do nothing. 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. To John it is, "Stand thou on that side, for on this am I.". The disciples accordingly, having received this grace in Christ, were called into a like path with Him, the epistle here below of Christ who is above. Clearly not; yet there is a meaning, and a most weighty meaning for those that belong to Christ, in these words. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. Abide in me even as I abide in you. Whatever excellency there is in any creature, serviceable to man, it is but a shadow of that grace which is in Christ for his people's good. Not so. The wheels were called in my hearing, the whirling wheels. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. I admit that, being such an One, there could be no failure. No power can wrest me from his hand. I kept looking until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man; a human mind also was given to it. This he proceeds to illustrate by a reference to the vine. [4.] The cherubim had their wings spread upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward each other; the faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat. These are the living beings that I saw beneath the God of Israel by the river Chebar; so I knew that they were cherubim. or John? Observe here. And ye also shall bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning ( John 15:27 ). Rather than having a lot of people respond on an emotional appeal so that I can put a bunch of notches in my belt and say, "I had twenty people accept Jesus last night, because I pled with them and begged them and continued." The Spirit of grace by the word refined them from the dross of the world and the flesh, and purged out of them the leaven of the scribes and Pharisees, from which, when they saw their inveterate rage and enmity against their Master, they were now pretty well cleansed. Christian faith is essentially believing on Him that we have not seen: believing, "we walk by faith, not by sight." It also agrees with the personal use of in Matthew 16:23, and the use of alone in the next clause. The classic instance is the fate which befell Aristides in Athens. 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. And I believe that God had Moody reach people that Finney could not reach, and Finney reach people that Moody could not reach. They are withered, as a branch broken off from the tree. 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." The idea of being the friend of God has also a background. The doctrine of this similitude; what notion we ought to have of it. 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. I am the vine; you are the branches. What is His commandment? But who is He addressing this broad promise to? 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. And they are maybe six feet long, and you'll see them lying on the ground, propped up on one end by a rock. As for the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces whose appearance I had seen by the river Chebar. But, "In His presence," the Bible says, "is fullness of joy, and at His right hand there are pleasures forevermore" ( Psalms 16:11 ). 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. That's the fruit that God is looking for from His vineyard, that love flowing in and through our lives from Him to each other. The fact is, that the Authorised Version gives rather obsolete English. Chapter 17; spend a lot of time in that chapter in meditation this week. 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. Jesus here speaks of His joy, but it is interesting that He speaks of His joy just before He's coming to the cross. If our emotions really get to working, and I'm really getting emotional and laughing hard, it's just a little tilt and you can be crying. There is only one way in which he can retain his reformation and keep himself on the right way. (v) Jesus chose to be ambassadors. The central words of this passage are those in which Jesus says that his disciples have not chosen him, but he has chosen them. He comes, not to display His own power and glory, but expressly to glorify Christ. How often I wanted to gather your children together, just as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not have it! Original Price $150.00 It is as wood, hay, and stubble that will burn when the day of judgment comes. 593.] 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. Abide see note on John 14:2; = remain, continue to reside, cf Colossians 2:6. They talk about God; they speculate about the Deity, providence, fate, or chance. The friends of the king were those who had the closest and the most intimate connection with him. Like flying birds so the Lord of hosts will protect Jerusalem.He will protect and deliver it;He will pass over and rescue it. 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. Second, he provided the remedy for sin; and he did that in a double sense. The cherubim had their wings spread upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward each other; the faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat. Moreover the verb "abide" (Gr. That's too bad, because I am eternally secure as long as I abide in Him. Don't I bring the food home for dinner? Those that abide not in Christ, though they may flourish awhile in a plausible, at least a passable profession, yet in a little time wither and come to nothing. Apply them, not to grace but to government, and all is plain and sure and consistent. Persecution came to the Christians because they put Christ first. I do not believe that silence is evidence or proof of anything. On John 17:1-26 I must be brief, though its treasures might well invite one to devote ample space to weigh them. He will take the vineyard and He will give it unto others. Abiding in Christ means something like that. 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. He stressed the importance of believers abiding in Him by using the word meno ("abide") three times in this verse alone. WebWhen they had approached Jerusalem and had come to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, Luke 22:35 Verse Concepts And He said to them, When I sent you out without money belt and bag and sandals, you did not lack anything, did you? They said, No, nothing. Acts 9:17 Verse Concepts It is possible that they went on in through the temple gates, because they were left open all night during the Passover season, so that anyone who wanted to come and pray could come and pray at any time. (Verses 8-10). The Lord applies this truth particularly: "Already ye are clean through the word that I have spoken to you. This is the best way. 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. Rome brought peace and prosperity. For some few of us, abiding in Christ will be a mystical experience which is beyond words to express. Of these new privileges the Holy Ghost sent down was to be the power. Rome brought justice, and freed them from capricious kings. As the Lord had told them at an earlier moment, had they believed Moses, they would have believed Christ. It is what God the Father owed to Christ, who had so perfectly pleased and so morally glorified Him, even in respect of sin. Nor is there, to my thinking, a single petition of that prayer which is not a model for the prayers of His followers ever since; but all remains true and applicable at all times at least, till our Father's kingdom come. 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