He will take the vineyard and He will give it unto others. The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle swoops down, a nation whose language you shall not understand. When you set your eyes on it, it is gone.For wealth certainly makes itself wingsLike an eagle that flies toward the heavens. (Verse 24) There was a full testimony, as we have seen already, in John 8:1-59; John 9:1-41. Hence they were called to bear witness of Him "because ye have been with me from the beginning." God made His choice on the basis of the fact that He knows everything. That is a model prayer for the believers. He said that, if two people agreed in asking anything in his name, it would be granted ( Matthew 18:19). "Now, of thoseand how many there were that were disciples following Jesus, we do not know. Here was a scripture which He remembers as unaccomplished. It is necessary to our doing any good. The seller might still be able to personalize your item. It's just a natural function. I do not deny His power in the testimony of the gospel to souls. Tacitus spoke of the people "hated for their crimes, whom the mob call Christians." If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask what you will, and it will be given to you. "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." He no longer has it under the authority of the priesthood or of the religious leaders. "Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth. King James Version (KJV). [2.] Note, We have as necessary and constant a dependence upon the grace of the Mediator for all the actions of the spiritual and divine life as we have upon the providence of the Creator for all the actions of the natural life; for, as to both, it is in the divine power that we live, move, and have our being. All depends upon one's being "in Christ," and abiding "in him" until probation has ended. As in the beginning of John 13:1-38, He had risen up anticipatively as a sign of His work for them on high; so here He calls them to quit all their earthly belongings with Himself; they were now definitively done with. Prayer is consenting for God to do what He is wanting to do, that God may give to me those things that He desires.Now again, Jesus emphasizes the importance of love. Now therefore, behold, the Lord is about to bring on them the strong and abundant waters of the Euphrates. When the Christians met each other in the early days they greeted each other with the kiss of peace. Original Price $51.90 It was not we who chose God, but God who, in his grace, approached us with a call and an offer made out of his love. Thus the reality of God's work in the soul proves itself, so to speak, by continual looking and clinging to Christ. When you lie down among the sheepfolds,You are like the wings of a dove covered with silver,And its pinions with glistening gold. We'd better get rid of Him." There is nothing more calamitous for a soul than to be going on badly, and withal keeping up a vain, exaggerated semblance of feeling, where there is a scanty answer to it within. He did not choose us to live a life retired from the world, but to represent him in the world. He washes them.Now, in Israel many of the grapes that are grown are grown actually on the ground. 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. 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. WebAnd I said, Lord, Ill go! Then it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass through,It will reach even to the neck;And the spread of its wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel. But He has given to you that capacity of choice and He will not violate your choice, and He will not work against your will. Again, there was love, in a broad sense even for those that were not His, as we have seen more than once. If I knew everything, then I could always make the right decision. (ii) They were said to be cannibals. And if you don't do that, you're just as worthless as a punk. 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. Doulos ( G1401) , the slave, the servant of God was no title of shame; it was a title of the highest honour. 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. The way to bring others into the Christian faith is to show them the fruit of the Christian life. or any other man? But I beseech them to consider whether they are not allowing habits and prejudices to blind them to what seems to me the mind of Christ in this grave question. After he had burned his pinch of incense and said, "Caesar is Lord," a man could go away and worship any god he liked, so long as the worship did not affect public decency and public order. The true explanation is, that the gospels are written with divine design, and that here, as everywhere, John records a fact which falls in with the Spirit's object in his gospel. And a person can go from great happiness to tears in just a hurry. We must discriminate in the love of Christ. Wow! The first face was the face of a cherub, the second face was the face of a man, the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle. Of those that were disciples He named twelve of them apostles, but there were many others that were following Him. Second, he provided the remedy for sin; and he did that in a double sense. This is a description of the fearful state of hypocrites that are not in Christ, and of apostates that abide not in Christ. This charge came from the words of the sacrament. 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. It is as wood, hay, and stubble that will burn when the day of judgment comes. Of course, loving one's neighbour abides always, but this, no matter how accomplished, ought not to be enough for a disciple of Christ. They are the living beings that I saw by the river Chebar. In fact, their clearer knowledge increased their guilt. And you could see the people getting embarrassed and all. Do you go after some other thing or person in order to bear fruit? Under Add your personalization, the text box will tell you what the seller needs to know. [2.] The purging of fruitful branches, in order to their greater fruitfulness, is the care and work of the great husbandman, for his own glory. It is the Holy Spirit within us who moves us to respond to Jesus Christ. Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me, And in the shadow of Your wings I will take refuge. 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. 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. Original Price $3.00 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. He puts Himself in the place of all to which they had been attached and belonged here below, and the Father in lieu of Almighty God, or the Jehovah of Israel. And He really answered the real prayer. Do they hail me as a great fellow? 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. (iv) They were said to be incendiaries. $16.19, $17.99 We also created 2.6 million jobs in the U.S.enough to employ the entire city of Houston, TX! I am at total disagreement with those persons who say that you've got to give detailed instructions for God or He doesn't know how to answer your prayer.One minister has written in a book that he was praying for God to give him a bicycle. 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. 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 ). Here He always puts man's part first, because it is a question, as we have seen, of responsibility; where it is the grace of God, His part is first necessarily, and, further, it necessarily abides. Jesus was laying it down that not Jewish blood but faith in him was the way to God's salvation. It is little wonder that the name of Christian was hated. In the midst of the living beings there was something that looked like burning coals of fire, like torches darting back and forth among the living beings. The sea is continually used in contrast to the land in prophetic Scripture. And so the ministers used to try and look as mournful and sad and sober, never cracking a smile, because that would be a sign of getting in the flesh and carnality, you know. If a man will be ignorant, let him be ignorant, and show his unbelief by such an assertion, if he will. By these, moreover, you will be made unclean: whoever touches their carcasses becomes unclean until evening. In that way, therefore, every intelligent believer knows that he includes the Spirit and the Son with the Father, when he addresses God; because the name "God" does not belong to one person in the Trinity more than to another. We must honour God, and do good, and exemplify the purity and power of the religion we profess; and this is bearing fruit. He stressed the importance of believers abiding in Him by using the word meno ("abide") three times in this verse alone. If we fail in the purposes of God to bring forth fruit, then God will raise up others to bring forth fruit unto Him. Why? His faithfulness is a shield and bulwark. I admit that, being such an One, there could be no failure. I know not a more sweet and wonderful proof of how completely He was divinely superior to all circumstances. Christ and his church are thus set forth. And so, he had to wait for the fellow to tell him, "I want a ten speed Schwinn, green with silver stripes." But Isaiah the prophet, in chapter 5, speaks of the nation as a vine, and how God planted it, hedged it, put it about, put in a winepress. Moreover, the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty when He speaks. ", Now, on what basis did God make His choice? When prayer is hopeless it cannot be effective. But according to what measure? 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. The vine as a symbol of Israel appears on coins of the Maccabees. See here, [1.] 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). I can do all things through Christ, but apart from Him I can do nothing. The Holy Spirit being sent from the Father by the request of Jesus, coming and bearing witness then of Jesus Christ, "testifying of me.". Mat Mt). 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. (Ver. Some of them are lovely fruit-bearing branches of himself; others are useless because they bear no fruit. (ii) The world acutely dislikes people whose lives are a condemnation of it. As John saw it, they had only done what it was foretold they would do. And Jesus says: "I have something greater for you yet, you are no longer slaves; you are friends." Again, the conviction of righteousness is equally remarkable. (Ver. but: "Is this for the good of all men?" 4.5 out of 5 stars It is a curious fact that the symbol of the vine is never used in the Old Testament apart from the idea of degeneration. Christ is ever the test, and this the close declares, as much as the beginning sets Him forth as the only power of preparing for, and producing fruit. Youll see ad results based on factors like relevancy, and the amount sellers pay per click. Therefore, as long as Christ is not the One in and through whose light the Scriptures, whether old or new, are read, a man is but groping his way in the dark. Jesus calls himself the true vine. Each of them had four faces and four wings. Of course it is right and of God to hold fast all He gave at any time; but if there be real faith, it will be found out ere long that the Holy Ghost has before Him the present need for the Lord's glory in the Church; and those that have real confidence in His power will not merely hold fast the old but accept the new, in order so much the more to walk in communion with Him who ever watches and works for the name of Christ and the blessing of His saints. This is the general statement. Found something you love but want to make it even more uniquely you? His love begins to flow forth from my life to others, and that really is the sign and the evidence that Christ is truly indwelling me, that I am really one of His disciples, that we have this love. Thomas, then, represents the slow mind of unbelieving Israel, seeing the Lord after the present cycle of time is completely over. And so, This brings up an interesting consideration. marg. The only blessing for a soul now was found in Christ Himself; and so He opens the discourse (or, as we saw, closes what went before) with "Rise up: let us go hence." One of the glories of the Temple was the great golden vine upon the front of the Holy Place. A man is held responsible for that which he knows. THE WORLD'S HATRED ( John 15:18-21 continued). With powerful tools and services, along with expert support and education, we help creative entrepreneurs start, manage, and scale their businesses. 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. But when One who is more than man comes into the world, the dignity of the person sinned against, the love and light revealed in His person, all bear on the estimate of sin; and the consequence is, there could be no such character of sin till Christ was manifested, though, of course, heart and nature are the same. The world today is in a mad pursuit for happiness, but happiness is an experience of the emotions, where joy is an experience of the spirit. The very contrary. I do not believe that silence is evidence or proof of anything. Even the king of Assyria and all his glory; And it will rise up over all its channels and go over all its banks. The cherubim shall have their wings spread upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings and facing one another; the faces of the cherubim are to be turned toward the mercy seat. Wherever the spirit was about to go, they would go in that direction. "For God," He says, "so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. The fact remained they would not burn their pinch of incense and say, "Caesar is Lord," and so they were branded as dangerous and disloyal men. 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. I have told you everything; I have told you what I am trying to do, and why I am trying to do it. Who was Jesus thinking of when he spoke of the fruitless branches? And we don't make big emotional appeals, and some people fault us for this. Now when the cherubim moved, the wheels would go beside them; also when the cherubim lifted up their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels would not turn from beside them. 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. A man hardly starts to speak before we know whether or not he really believes what he is saying. Dont see this option? The Church again, by restoring a soul put outside, puts its seal, as it were, to the truth of what God has done, acts upon it, and thus remits the sin. It is not outward corporeal presence on earth, but a greater nearness, though He is ascended to heaven, because of the power of the Holy Ghost. But God's revelation in Christ makes an immense accession of blessing; and the consequence is, that this brings out the mind of God in a way that was not and could not have been before, just because there was no manifestation of Christ, and nobody but Christ could bring it adequately out. Note, Union with Christ is a noble principle, productive of all good. A Mikhtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave.Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me,For my soul takes refuge in You;And in the shadow of Your wings I will take refugeUntil destruction passes by. But "none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?" And the priest shall offer it up in smoke on the altar on the wood which is on the fire; it is a burnt offering, an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the Lord. "That my joy might remain in you and that your joy may be full. It was His commandment specially. Souls receive it in a general way; and too often one reason why it is received so easily is, because they do not face the truth, and their conscience is not exercised by it. It is incalculable the quantity of scripture that is passed over without distinct exercise of faith. At the same time there is also the conviction of which the Lord speaks: the Holy Ghost, when He is come, will convince the world of sin. At first the Emperors discouraged and deprecated this worship; they insisted that they were men and must not be worshipped as gods. The fact we have noticed, the administrative position of the Spirit, is thus owing to the work He has voluntarily undertaken for the Father and the Son, though, of course, as a question of His own glory, He is equally to be adored with the Father and the Son, and is always comprehended in God as such. John shows us, in Mary Magdalene contrasted with the woman of Galilee, the difference between the Christian and the Jew. Absolutely! 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