There is a two-fold dealing with those who took the place of being branches of the true vine. Verse John 15:4. The Jew ought to have known better than Pilate, and Judas better than the Jew. 8) This is a sentence much to be pondered. Such a person was Judas Iscariot (John 15:6). Those that fall off from Christ presently fall in with sinners; and the sheep that wander from Christ's fold, the devil stands ready to seize them for himself. A witness is not only someone who knows that something is true; he is someone who is prepared to say that he knows that it is true. You know, there are people that can talk to you rationally on every subject in the world except Jesus. And that we might bring forth much fruit, and that the fruit should remain.And Jesus then said something quite interesting. These are my orders to you, that you love one another.". Matthew and Mark both give our Lord saying, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" For when once God had brought out Christ, He neither could nor would go back to anything less. All believers abide in Jesus in the first sense, but all do not abide in Him in the second sense (cf. Choose the options youd like for the order. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full ( John 15:10-11 ). From handmade pieces to vintage treasures ready to be loved again, Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. Christ is the true light. $2.34, $2.75 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. Don't I provide for the house? WebThe Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; The son. We should do this not because failure to do so will result in our losing the life of God that we possess. When you set your eyes on it, it is gone.For wealth certainly makes itself wingsLike an eagle that flies toward the heavens. WebAnswer (1 of 6): The Bible does not say I will send them without wings but it does say that some will entertain angels unaware. And surely it ought to be so, and we would not desire it to be otherwise. In the fourteenth chapter He said, "If you ask the Father anything in My name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son." One thing we must remember. Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the holy of holies, under the wings of the cherubim. And then he'd put his notches on his belt, going from table to table, "I led so many people to Jesus today." 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.read more.The cherubim appeared to have the form of a mans hand under their wings. Why should men limit their thoughts, so as to ignore that incomparable blessing to which even in this gospel Christ was ever pointing, as the fruit of His death and of the presence of the Comforter who would bring in "that day"? They talk about God; they speculate about the Deity, providence, fate, or chance. The Father, looking upon the Son as man walking here below, never found the slightest deflection; but, on the contrary, the perfect image of His own will in Him who, being the Son, made known and glorified the Father as He never was nor could be by any other. (Verses 8, 9) It was evidence; and there is no moral value in accepting on evidence. As for the form of their faces, each had the face of a man; all four had the face of a lion on the right and the face of a bull on the left, and all four had the face of an eagle. He is that true vine typified by Judah's vine, which enriched him with the blood of the grape (Genesis 49:11), by Joseph's vine, the branches of which ran over the wall (Genesis 49:22), by Israel's vine, under which he dwelt safely,1 Kings 4:25. (50% off), $2.00 I admit that, being such an One, there could be no failure. They'll be laughing and just screaming with gales of laughter, and then suddenly, they'll look real sober, their little lip will go out, and they'll begin to puddle-up and cry. 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. 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. Because that is an experience of the spirit, deeper than the level of the emotions. Apostates are twice dead (Jude 1:12), and when it is said, They are cast into the fire and are burned, it speaks as if they were twice damned. You are pruned. (Compare 2 Thessalonians 1:10). and for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the model of the chariot, even the cherubim that spread out their wings and covered the ark of the covenant of the Lord. The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits, and they stood on their feet facing the main room. Christ and his church are thus set forth. "Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. We cannot pray for things of which we know that Jesus would disapprove. 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 man who abides in me, and in whom I abide, bears much fruit, because without me you can do nothing. The Lord intimates a new character of drawing near to the Father, which they had not yet known. Now God is giving out the vineyard to others. The problem with this view is that Jesus had already committed Himself to abiding within His believing disciples (John 14:17). We read so much about keeping His commandments. And I think, "Oh, God doesn't listen to me when I pray. 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. When we pray we must first realize that we never know better than God. He said that, if two people agreed in asking anything in his name, it would be granted ( Matthew 18:19). To John it is, "Stand thou on that side, for on this am I.". There was a tradesman who had a little shop; in the back room he kept a photograph of Robertson, for he was his hero and his inspiration. That, to me, is such an exciting thing, that God chose me. I deny not that there will be faith, as there was faith required when Messiah was on earth. Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. The result in God's sight is bad fruit. The first ground is, that the only righteousness now is in Christ gone to be with the Father. "But go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God." And I just need to hang in there, just to abide in Christ, and the natural result of abiding in Christ is my life is going to bring forth fruit. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my sayings, they will keep yours also ( John 15:20 ). Each one went straight ahead. Witnessing as the disciples did of what they had known of Christ here, witnessing of what the Spirit taught them of Christ on high, the consequence would be, "They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service." He was singled out from the others, even while dead between the dying thieves. It means that no longer do we need to gaze longingly at God from afar off; we are not like slaves who have no right whatever to enter into the presence of the master; we are not like a crowd whose only glimpse of the king is in the passing on some state occasion. - Christianity, Islam & Judaism all agree Gods word to creation was free will. This means, per their religious dogma, they must provide a cite of A Christian, I repeat, is not absolved from loving his neighbour nobody means that, I trust; but what I affirm is, that a Christian is called to love his fellow Christian in a new and special manner, exemplified and formed by the love of Christ; and I cannot but think that he who confounds this with love to his neighbour has a great deal to learn about Christ, and Christianity too. 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. It has been called the Lord's Prayer. Sometimes we live as if we were sent into the world to compete with one another, or to dispute with one another, or even to quarrel with one another. But because you're not of the world, it hates you. Note, It is the great concern of all Christ's disciples constantly to keep up a dependence upon Christ and communion with him, habitually to adhere to him, and actually to derive supplies from him. They had this indeed already, and they must make up their minds to it from the world. So God, knowing those who would respond to His love and grace, chose them on the basis of His foreknowledge, that they should be in Christ. It is in fact dangerous to be good. The church, which is Christ mystical, is a vine (Psalms 80:8), so is Christ, who is the church seminal. "They will deliver you up to councils; and you will be beaten in synagogues and you will stand before governors and kings for my sake, to bear testimony before them. And brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death; and you will be hated by all for my name's sake" ( Mark 13:9-13; compare Matthew 10:17-22; Matthew 10:23-29; Luke 12:2-9; Luke 12:51-53). The grace of God.So, Jesus said to His disciples, "You have not chosen Me. 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. He promises joy. As they allow the Father to remove the hindrances of sin from their lives, they will bear even more fruit (John 15:1-5). "Thy Word have I hid in my heart, O Lord, that I might not sin against thee" ( Psalms 119:11 ). 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. It's like a punk, it just smolders and smokes, but it doesn't really burn well, and it's not good for any woodworking project. The hatred of the world and the love of Christ press them so much the more together. Oh, may the fruit of God's Spirit just really spring forth in our lives as we abide in Jesus and as He abides in us.Now Jesus tells them of the problems that they are going to experience in a world that is alien to Him. 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. Whenever those went, these went; and whenever those stood still, these stood still. It is dangerous to practise a higher standard than the standard of the world. The best of the world, therefore, the choicest and most divinely privileged of men, have turned out the most guilty. A man is held responsible for that which he knows. And therein is the big issue in this verse, and the thing that you want to take note of. Apply such language to life everlasting, or, still more, to union with Christ, and there is nothing but endless confusion. Nevertheless, He was to be pierced. What, indeed, can be more ruinous than putting aside that which condemns any state in which we find ourselves? The Bible does not say I will send them without wings but it does say that some will entertain angels unaware. Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to show The Christian owns Christ in heaven. On the concluding chapters of our gospel I cannot speak particularly now. Jesus is a prophet without honor in his own country. He seeks from the Father for His disciples a place of blessing in association with Himself suitable both to His person and work. WebClarke's Commentary. His answer is: "No man can show greater love than to lay down his life for his friends--and I did that." And they were touched with emotions. So our piety, if we should be separate from Christ, or if we cease to feel our union to him and dependence on him, withers and droops. Could this scene be suitably given by any other than John? Many a great man had counted it an honour to give gold to mould a new bunch of grapes or even a new grape on to that vine. It occurs 11 times in this chapter and 27 times in Johns epistles, where John expounded Jesus teaching on this subject further. Verse 24, as it were, takes up that position of glory with the Father before the world was, into which Christ has gone, with His heart's expression of desire that they should be with Him where He is, that they might behold His glory, which the Father gave Him; "for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world." Parlez-en ! And for you to try to manufacture this fruit, this love, is an impossibility, and you just can't do it. That immense change, then, let us accept on His authority who cannot deceive us, assured that our brethren, who fail to see how full association with the efficacy of His work and the acceptance of His person, made good in the presence of the Spirit, accounts for the difference between prayer before and prayer after, put no intentional slight on His words in this chapter, or on His work of atonement. They would call no man "Lord" except Jesus Christ. And the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings. Pretty smart! (Verse 17) Never had He put Himself and His disciples so together before. The basic demand on the Christian is the demand that he should have the courage to be different. Rome brought justice, and freed them from capricious kings. Their whole body, their backs, their hands, their wings and the wheels were full of eyes all around, the wheels belonging to all four of them. Had they only failed to meet the requirements of God, as man had done under the law, there was ample provision to meet him in mercy and power; but now, under this revelation of grace, man, and Israel most of all, the world (for in this they are all merged now) stood out in open hostility to, and implacable hatred of, the fullest display of divine goodness here below. The guy was very forceful.There was an interesting study made after Moody's campaigns. We can accept him as Master, and then, in face of the difficulties of the way or the desire to do as we like, abandon him. He lays a double ground before Him: one, the glory of His person; the other, the accomplishment of His work. ., p. And I say, "Of course I love you. Robertson of Brighton was one of the great preachers. What tremendous cleansing power there is in the Word of God! It's just a natural function. And this can become worthless expenditures of energy, unless God is behind it and God is guiding it and God is directing it. You are the ones who are to bear fruit now for God. You are my friends, if you do what I command you ( John 15:14 ). The reason why they cannot bear this farther truth is because it condemns them. "Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father." WebPsalms 34:7 - The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. First, he enriches his own life; his contact makes him a fruitful branch. And he was thinking of Christians who became apostates, who heard the message and accepted it and then fell away, becoming traitors to the Master they had once pledged themselves to serve. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org, Then he shall tear it by its wings, but shall not sever it. They are withered, as a branch broken off from the tree. He dealt with their relationships to Himself, one another, and the world around them in chapter 15. 15:18-21 "If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you. So luxuriant is it that the slips are set in the ground at least twelve feet apart, for it will creep over the ground at speed. 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. HalliesCollectibles. Now He brings up here the subject of prayer. Anyone who does not conform to the pattern will certainly meet trouble. Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you." Well, very little of the fruit was lasting fruit. And the more fruit we bring forth, the more we abound in that which is good, the more he is glorified. We must be fruitful. The consequence is, that wherever there is this ignorance of the Father and the Son, there is inveterate hostility against such as are joyful in the communion of the Father and the Son. And I knew then that there was no use! ", There's a vast difference between joy and happiness. How our communion with Christ is maintained--by prayer: You shall ask what you will, and it shall be done to you. "I am the true vine," He says. I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his master is doing. He hath planted, and watered, and gives the increase; for we are God's husbandry,1 Corinthians 3:9. 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. 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. The first sentence in this verse is capable of three different interpretations. They, too, were branches then, and more than that, they were clean through the word He had spoken to them. No external qualification can set a man right with God; only the friendship of Jesus Christ can do that. Jesus chose us, first to come in to him, and then to go out to the world. Shipping policies vary, but many of our sellers offer free shipping when you purchase from them. or that Mark and Luke never heard of it? The promise made to the fruitful: He purgeth them, that they may bring forth more fruit. Please. We then evidence that we are cleansed by the word when we bring forth fruit unto holiness. He will cover you with His pinions,And under His wings you may seek refuge;His faithfulness is a shield and bulwark. "Yet I planted you a choice vine" is God's message to Israel through Jeremiah ( Jeremiah 2:21). 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