Jesus answered and said unto him, if a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. He seems to pray here as if he stood already within the veil; not pleading in agony as he did in the garden of Gethsemane, but speaking with that authority with which he is clothed now that his work on earth is done. But for them also which shall believe on me through their word; Thank God that he will bless our word as well as his own Word! John 19:15. That is just like Peter. These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. The usual form of the Roman judgment-place, in the open air, with a stone pavement, and a raised throne. Yet he was their old familiar friend. This exposition consisted of readings from Luk 23:33-46; John 19:25-30. John 17:7. It is no business of mine, I know, ever to come to you merely with a message of my own; for if the Lord Jesus Christ did not do so, what a feel his servant must be if he pretends to do it! Hence they addressed one of his disciples, whose purely Greek name may lead us to suppose that he had some Greek relatives. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. And made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. Matthew She had predicted defeat for the Greek army. Our Lord Jesus Christ had a very vivid realization that he had come from God, and was going back to God, and that all things had been given into his hand; yet, while he knew that, and had a more than ordinary consciousness of his own dignified nature and position, he condescended to wash his disciples feet. John 14:7. And are there sufficient of them for that? That is to say, As you proclaim my gospel, I will back up your message; when you preach of pardoning blood, I will make it efficacious. Some men tell us that the truth is in the Word, but that the Word is not the truth. My Father is the husbandman. All preachers, all teachers, are but, so to speak, the pruning tool in the hand of the great vine-dresser. This was supposedly the sign that a miraculous healing was taking See how the Lord Jesus himself takes all his teaching from the Father. John, take her home, and treat her as a mother should be treated.. Here we learn that it is eternal life to know God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent. John 14:10-12. Come, journey with us to a world of divine beauty and eternal wonder, where gods walk among mortals, and destinies are carved with the finest of blades. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; You know how men talk against verbal inspiration. Yet Christ says, I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me. Many are trifling with the teaching of Gods Word, as if it were of no importance at all Not so did Christ: I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me.. He asks not only that they may be kept and so unharmed, but that they may be comforted, and so made glad. And they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover. 2 Corinthians No, there arent currently plans for solo support. Ask for a sip from his cup of joy at this moment, one drop of his joy will make the dullest to be bright, and the saddest to be glad. Judgment will assuredly come to the common soldiers of the prince of darkness since their captain himself has been judged and condemned. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar. John 16:13. But you know it; if you are Gods children, you know his voice, and you also know what he means when he speaks. It has been their treasure. follow thou me.. Amen. One of the servants of the high priest being his kinsman whose ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in the garden with him? Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulcher, wherein was never man yet laid. What decides the winner? This was a great website. The persecuting Jews professed to be worshippers of Jehovah; but they did not know the Christ, whom he sent, and, therefore, in very truth they did not know the Father either. John 15:10. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man! You shall have dying grace in dying moments. Yes, it is so, but may you and I never be guilty of that terrible crime! John 18:15-16. And they said, Jesus of Nazareth. It is the biggest it that ever was. Here is another helpful lesson for any of you who have a trial before you. John 21:12. It is so easy to grow cold in this cold world, and it is so hard to maintain the holy spiritual fervent, without which there is no spiritual health. John 19:11. And so he went to the garden of Gethsemane, a brave, gentle, confident, victorious spirit, straitened till he had accomplished the great work of our redemption. The best of men are but men at the best, and they are very apt to fail when they find persecution hot against them, especially when even religious men, of a certain kind, count it to be a religious duty to persecute the people of God. Go to Store. The Lords true servant is to repeat Gods thoughts, not his own, to borrow from the Scriptures, to borrow from the teaching of the Holy Ghost, even as the Lord Jesus Christ did. It cannot discern them. The way we know. Oh, that none of us may imitate their evil example by negligence and contempt of the revelation of God, lest after playing with Scripture, and trifling with the Christ of God, the Lord should at last in anger declare that we should see, but should not perceive, that we should hear, but should not understand. Peradventure, it will be said of us then, These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him. That first glory of his ascension to heaven shed a flood of light upon the life of Christ, as doubtless the greater glory of his second advent will shed a yet brighter light upon our understanding of the things of Christ which quite surpass our comprehension now. In consequence of Christs going to the Father, and the Spirit of God descending upon Christs disciples, they are enabled to outdo their Master in some forms of holy service. John 20:24. What a glorious assurance is that! Ye know where Christ is gone. Strange treatment this for him who came to save and bless! Only he who was equal with the Father could venture to plead thus, claiming power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as the Father had given him. So let it always be with his people. John 19:17. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. John 17:4-5. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. Christ does pray that we may be kept from the evil that is in the world; and we also may and must pray that the Lord will keep us from the evil by which we are surrounded, and especially from the evil one who seeks our destruction. He wants Christ to manifest himself to all the world; he seems to have been a man of very broad views. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. First, our Lord shows his love by praying for us, and then by dying for us. He was about to die, yet he speaks of his death as being glorified. This is a wonderful truth, that the Father loves the Church even as he loves Jesus Christ his Son. He cares for the Church with infinite wisdom and love. Looking away from your dear ones whom you must leave as Jesus left his disciples, may you each one be able to say, And now come I to thee! Your Master foretold that it would be so. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee, but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. Our Lords teaching was never deceptive, he did not say one thing and mean another. Love makes us rejoice in the prosperity of the one we love. Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an asss colt. She told leaders to invade certain The glory which thou gavest me I have given them: . If you die, I will come for you in that way; but if you live on until my Second Advent, I will come again, and receive you unto myself.. John 12:30-31. They said this among themselves. This was not a wise course, for what can ignorance learn of ignorance? And they said, Jesus of Nazareth. I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father. John 17:11. It was the Lord, the Lord who had asked them if they had any food, the Lord who had filled the net which had previously been empty, the Lord who had given them his own fish from his own fire, that they might have breakfast with him. Having a sword drew it, and smote the high priests servant, and cut off his right ear. If we have declared it, we should say, And will declare it. That the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them. Thus the glorious union stands. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. It is a grand thing to have this Inspired Book, and it is a grander thing still to have the Spirit of God, who inspired it, abiding with his people for ever; but we fail to learn many a secret from the Word because we do not pray our way into it. Not ye will do less, or ye will do least, but ye can do nothing nothing good, nothing spiritual, nothing acceptable, if severed from Jesus. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: Let us more and more lay aside everything that divides, especially that evil heart of unbelief, and pride, and self-seeking, which is the great sect making faculty. John 15:2. That is the cure for heart trouble, and all other trouble, too, believing in God, and believing in his Son, Jesus Christ. But though he had done so many miracles before then, yet they believed not on him. I can see a few things that would have been different with 4. Our Lord here prescribes faith as the only remedy for heart trouble. It would make no sense to a newbie. Nothing would satisfy their cruel foes but the blood of multitudes of martyrs, and many of the persecutors actually thought that they were doing God service while they were putting his children to torture and death. carbon dioxide was due to volcanic faults that ran underneath the temple at I am a shepherd; you must be a shepherd too; and as the sheep follow you, so do you follow me. saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesars friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar. John 15:22-23. Never was there a human being so much alone as was the man Christ Jesus in that dread hour; and yet he says, I am not alone, because the Father is with me. O brave Master, make us also brave! Until Christ himself perishes, no child of his can ever be lost. These things I command you, that ye love one another.. Do you recognize your mission, dear friends? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? Abide in me, and I in you. He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. Though many years elapsed between the event and the time when John recorded it, all the details seem to have been still present in his memory so that he distinctly mentions each separate act: he riseth from supper, and layeth aside his upper garment, and taketh a towel, and girdeth himself.. The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, an angel spake to him. Be scrupulous, brethren, lest, through the neglect of what some regard as scruples, you should bring upon yourselves great sorrows. Yet they did not understand it, even then, clear as it now appears to us that he spake concerning his lifting up upon the cross. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. All his prayers are for them, that they may be made holy, and that so God may be glorified in them. What! Are you afraid of Monday? He saw his Master by the light of the charcoal fire, and that is how he saw him on the night when he denied him. The site offered good information. Happy is he who endureth trial, since his trial is to be turned into happiness. Everybody was speaking of the wonderful miracle which he had wrought. John 17:10. After a while, that dear, loving, affectionate child has won a farther place in your affection, and you love him because of his choice and special love to you. Its mouth is full of laughter while the child of God cannot speak for sorrow. John 21:20-25. His humanity was perfect, yet he abounded in prayer; and the nearer we grow to Christian perfection the more shall we pray. John 17:2. And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. place. I will not leave you comfortless: He does this by his Spirit, but still he means more than that. It had often been a place of retirement and of prayer for the Master. The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulcher. John 17:9. ye that miss success in your life and work, may you not trace your failure to your forgetfulness of God. Glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee. Beloved, when our hour comes and we shall have hours of darkness may we have nothing on our mind but that, that God would help us to glorify his name. By his gracious spirit, he has come again, by his divine presence in the means of grace, he often comes again. 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