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.'. Jesus here speaks of His joy, but it is interesting that He speaks of His joy just before He's coming to the cross. The wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits; the wing of one, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and its other wing, of five cubits, touched the wing of the other cherub. The government persecuted the Christians because they insisted they had no king but Christ. But He would take no independent place, any more than the Son had. Peter "saw, and believed. The importance of abiding in Jesus 15:1-16. The fruit of the Spirit is love, and the characteristic of love is joy. It is a great mistake to think that the subject peoples resented Roman government; for the most part they were profoundly grateful for it. to send out literally or figuratively. Matthew 20:1-16; Matthew 21:23-41; Mark 12:1-9; Luke 13:6-9; Luke 20:9-16). Where he would talk about this little boy dying in his daddy's arms and the last words were, "Daddy, will I see you in heaven?" Christianity was illegal. But in Luke it is the sign of absolute trust in His Father, and not God's abandonment. All the winged insects that walk on all fours are detestable to you. Thus there is a twofold conviction of righteousness. And shouldn't God be fair? A lot of people fault me because I do not make strong appeals for salvation at the end of the sermons. The knot of the branch abides in the vine, and the sap of the vine abides in the branch, and so there is a constant communication between them. This charge came from the words of the sacrament. The wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits; the wing of one, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and its other wing, of five cubits, touched the wing of the other cherub. To Peter, the Lord, thoroughly restoring his soul after proving him to the core, commits His sheep and lambs (His Jewish flock, as we know from elsewhere). And each one had four faces. 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. They are the living beings that I saw by the river Chebar. When you set your eyes on it, it is gone. 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. And so, I've given Him directions and He's not following my directions." LOL. And when God judges, people will be judged according to the knowledge that they have received. Abide in me, and I in you. The idea would be, Let us commit to abide in one another. The love of Christ was on them, and, working in them and by them, would make them the objects of the world's hatred, and after that sort which He had Himself known. 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. And our Lord had the wisest reason for making known to the disciples what they had to expect. Wow! The point of that word alethinos ( G228) , true, real, genuine, is this. Christianity did bring not peace but a sword ( Matthew 10:34). 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. In this passage there is much about abiding in Christ. He that hates me will hate my Father also. 7 Fear God, he shouted. He hath planted, and watered, and gives the increase; for we are God's husbandry,1 Corinthians 3:9. Because I've dealt with these problems so long, I've got it all figured out how it could come to pass. You have the words of life." The fact that God chose him! 40 Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD. Don't be surprised at the reaction of the worldly person, if they hate you because of your love for Jesus Christ, because of your relationship to Him. 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. (a) The two phrases bring out different aspects under which the persons are regarded. There can be no effective Christian witness without this inner conviction which comes from personal intimacy with Christ. As it is, they have seen and they have heard both me and my Father. 7) It is the Comforter coming. And so, Jesus is saying. Alas, oh land of whirring wingsWhich lies beyond the rivers of Cush. 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. 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. King James Version (KJV). No standard less than this could be entertained, now that Christ was revealed. Next week, we'll take sixteen and seventeen. 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. Seven days had run their course before Thomas was with the disciples, when the Lord Jesus Christ meets his unbelief, pronouncing those more blessed who saw not, and yet believed. It had been used of God when there was nothing more. he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gathered them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned ( John 15:6 ). All the world, yea, all worlds, would be too little to mark His sense of value for Christ and His work nothing less than setting Him as man at His right hand in heaven. There may not be faith so as to have peace with God, but assuredly enough to judge of one's own ways and condition before God; and this is precisely the way in which He does ordinarily work. It is the result of that relationship with Him. When mature, it is pruned in December and January. And herein is my Father glorified; this is what my Father wants, that my life bear much fruit for Him. But there is also the hatred which befalls them in testifying, not as disciples so much as witnesses. These are the living beings that I saw beneath the God of Israel by the river Chebar; so I knew that they were cherubim. It is incalculable the quantity of scripture that is passed over without distinct exercise of faith. You're not greater than the Lord; if they hated Him, they're going to hate you. Our Lord then clearly shows that He, as man here below, had Himself walked under the government of His Father. But then, there is also that cultivating of those branches that are bearing fruit. That is what the Jews had done. 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,Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.. "And when he is come, he will reprove [or convince] the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment." Here Jesus used the vine metaphorically of Himself. $127.50, $150.00 for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. Such a person was Judas Iscariot (John 15:6). Secondly, That if we abide in Christ and his word we shall have such an interest in God's favour and Christ's mediation that we shall have an answer of peace to all our prayers. Among those fruits are obedience, love, joy and effective prayer (John 15:7-11). And you will be witness about me because you have been with me from the beginning.". He came to the king saying: "Send me out on some great task which I can do for chivalry and for you." John 15:9-10). And I have no intention of doing anything else.Jesus said. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished." 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. And may we love each other even as He loved us, so much that He gave Himself for us. There is no word more characteristic of John than the very word "abiding," and this in the way both of grace and of government. Verb - Future Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular. "Abide in me, and I in you. Now again, He comes back to the subject of prayer and prayer to the Father in His name. Wherever the spirit was about to go, they would go in that direction. At the same time, He is looked at in more distinct personality than in John 14:1-31; John 15:1-27. 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. The wheels were called in my hearing, the whirling wheels. Such was the way in which God manifested His judgment of old; but the Holy Ghost bears witness now, that the prince of this world is judged. It is speaking as still tied and bound with the chain of their sins, instead of standing in known reconciliation, and, with the Spirit of adoption, drawing near to the Father in the name of Christ. They could scarcely be blamed for being such as they were. 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. And this . He is the true vine, as truth is opposed to pretence and counterfeit; he is really a fruitful plant, a plant of renown. Here the Lord presents Himself as the only source, not of life, as elsewhere, but of fruit-bearing for disciples, or His professed followers. The moment He said, "I am he," without lifting a finger, or even audibly expressing a desire, they fell to the ground. That sure takes the pressure off, doesn't it? The central words of this passage are those in which Jesus says that his disciples have not chosen him, but he has chosen them. In John 14:26, it was said, "The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." and the stork, the heron in its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat. When did God choose me? How can any man fail to be happy when he walks the ways of life with Jesus? It was Ezekiel that tells us the worthlessness of a grape branch. "It is possible that if the text of this discourse was spoken as they walked from the upper room in Jerusalem down into the Kidron Valley and across to the Mount of Olives, they could have seen the great golden vine, the national emblem of Israel, on the front of the temple." And they can't tell you. The necessity of our abiding in Christ, in order to our fruitfulness (John 15:4; John 15:5): "You cannot bring forth fruit, except you abide in me; but, if you do, you bring forth much fruit; for, in short, without me, or separate from me, you can do nothing." 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. [1.] We can refuse to listen to Jesus Christ at all. The glory of the Son was too bright for their eyes. There is no reference even to the blessed Lord when on earth, or to what He did here. Their wings were spread out above; each had two touching another being, and two covering their bodies. They, too, were branches then, and more than that, they were clean through the word He had spoken to them. And God knew the end results of this man's life, as God knows us. (Verses 8-10). The vine can not produce the crop of which it is capable without drastic pruning--and Jesus knew that. 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. The purging of fruitful branches, in order to their greater fruitfulness, is the care and work of the great husbandman, for his own glory. What I gather from this is, that those who had even used the Lord's prayer, as the disciples had done up to this time, did not know what it was to ask the Father in the Lord's name. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org, Then he shall tear it by its wings, but shall not sever it. And just to get rid of him, they'd say, "Yes," you know, and they'd go through it. That bearing fruit that God desires is the most natural thing that can happen to you as you abide in Christ. And those people and thousands of people came forward in the Finney services and in the Finney revivals. 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. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. We must abide in Christ's word by a regard to it, and it in us as a light to our feet. Indeed, He died for them when they were enemies; but this is out of sight here. But, all of these things will they do to you for My name's sake because they have not known the One who sent Me.". Not only is the heart occupied with Christ, but also His words weigh there. If we bear much fruit, [1.] Why? And you go away just so happy, saying, "Oh, oh, oh, great," laughing all the way to the bank, until you try to cash the check. "Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. She was a very loud-mouthed woman. The apostle John does not quote many scriptures; but when he does, the person of the Son is the great point. Salvation is God's work; I recognize that. How soon is that fig-tree withered away which Christ has cursed! Twice the Psalmist had said: "They hated me without a cause" ( Psalms 35:19; Psalms 69:4). And whenever the living beings rose from the earth, the wheels rose also. One can hardly escape the inference that Jesus viewed Himself as the fulfillment of Israel. Then I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like the gleam of a Tarshish stone. (Compare 2 Thessalonians 1:10). Their responsibilities were to abide, to love, and to testify respectively. So their wings were touching each other in the center of the house. Are we not to believe that, whatever there was before, the revelation of Christ brought sin to such a head, that what had been before was, comparatively speaking, a little thing when put beside the evil that was done against, and measured by, the glory of Christ the Son, the rejection of the Father's love; in short, the hatred shown to grace and truth yea, the Father and the Son fully revealed in the Lord Jesus? I believe that I am eternally secure, as long as I abide in Jesus Christ. . (2.) There are things which are allowable in a child which are not allowable in an adult, because the child does not know any better. I have no doubts or qualms at all about my eternal security and my salvation. Evidently this is a capital truth, bearing powerfully on the nature of the Christian's prayers, as well as on his worship. (1.) The prayer of Christians is often far from this. That we continue closely united to Christ by faith and love, and live in and to him. THE LIFE OF JESUS' CHOSEN PEOPLE ( John 15:11-17 ), 15:11-17 "I have spoken these things to you that my joy might be in you, and that your joy might be complete. For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim made a covering over the ark and its poles. Therefore also said the wisedome of God, I wil send them Prophets and Apostles, and some of them they shal slay and persecute:- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan"For this reason also the wisdom of God said, 'I will send to them prophets and apostles, and {some} of them they will kill and {some} they will persecute,- New American Standard Version (1995)Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send unto them prophets and apostles; and `some' of them they shall kill and persecute;- American Standard Version (1901)For this reason the wisdom of God has said, I will send them prophets and teachers, and to some of them they will give death and cruel pains;- Basic English BibleFor this reason also the wisdom of God has said, I will send to them prophets and apostles, and of these shall they kill and drive out by persecution,- Darby BibleTherefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will slay and persecute: - Webster's BibleFor this reason also the Wisdom of God has said, `I will send Prophets and Apostles to them, of whom they will kill some and persecute others,'- Weymouth BibleTherefore also the wisdom of God said, 'I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,- World English BibleTherfor the wisdom of God seide, Y schal sende to hem profetis and apostlis, and of hem thei schulen sle and pursue,- Wycliffe Biblebecause of this also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets, and apostles, and some of them they shall kill and persecute,- Youngs Literal Bible. When in reality, Jesus said, "You haven't chosen me, I have chosen you." We should do this not because failure to do so will result in our losing the life of God that we possess. From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. If, indeed, everything be secondary to the supply of man's need, if the unfolding of God's glory and ways in Christ be comparatively a cipher, I understand as much as I hate a principle so base and unbelieving. 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. "I have chosen you," he said, "to send you out." He was a lawyer before he became a minister, and he was able to set forth the scriptures in a very logical order and sequence. He was going to be a prisoner, and to die; in the one case, as much as in the other, He would prove it was not of man's constraint, but of His own will and in obedience to His Father's. We know that there had been sin all along, in the dealings of God with His ancient people; but what does the Lord here mean? Why was this hatred so virulent? He again exhorts them to be earnest and careful in keeping the grace which they had received, for the carelessness of the flesh can never be sufficiently aroused. For when once God had brought out Christ, He neither could nor would go back to anything less. Does union with Christ, does life eternal, depend on keeping His commandments? And knowing everything about us, He chose us anyhow. And this is my plan by which I intend to fulfill this goal." #Mt 23:34|. The vine as a symbol of Israel appears on coins of the Maccabees. The Lord necessarily gave them that which was suited to their then condition. 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." 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. They have, both of them, a divine place and power for the children of God. And he said, "Wouldn't you like to go through the sinners prayer?" It is still possible for us to do the same. The very contrary. The Lord evidently introduces it as a new thing. The reason is manifest, because the object of this gospel is not to point out Christ in heaven, but God manifesting Himself in Christ on the earth. 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. 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. You are now responsible, having heard. And, I'll tell you, the grapes that are grown there are truly delicious grapes, table grapes, that are grown through that valley.Now, Jesus is taking a picture that is very familiar with the people, as they had seen the people out there washing the branches and washing these bunches of grapes that they might produce more fruit. Still less do branches of the vine mean the same thing as members of Christ's body, but His followers, who might even abandon Him, as some in the earliest days walked no more with Him. It is not a message individually, but they are assembled on the same first day at evening, and Jesus stands, spite of closed doors, in the midst of them, and showed them His hands and His side. The vine had actually become the symbol of the nation of Israel. John was speaking of a situation which existed in the most clear-cut and agonizing way. 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. Abiding in Christ means something like that. A witness is a man who says of something: "This is true, and I know it." Evidently god sent them without wings so we wouldnt know they are angels. But when the time came to gather fruit, there was nothing but wild grapes. (See Zechariah 12:1-14) It is not association with Christ, and He not ashamed to call us brethren, according to the position He has taken as man before His and our God and Father, but the recognition forced on Him by the marks of the cross, which drew out the confession of Christ's divine glory and Lordship. Where habitual obedience is found, there is habitual enjoyment of Christ's love. As the eternal Son of the Father, of course He was ever loved of the Father; as laying down His life (John 10:1-42), He was therefore loved of His Father; but, besides, in all His earthly path, He kept His Father's commandments, and abode in His love. It is even said that if a hen with different markings is put among hens that are all alike, the others will peck her to death. It is irreverence to draw near and cry, Abba, Father! 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. 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. tired of carrying on the profession of Christ along with indulged evil; nor would God allow it to go beyond a certain point as an ordinary rule. The glory that will redound to God by our fruitfulness, with the comfort and honour that will come to ourselves by it, John 15:8; John 15:8. It was a forced kind of a thing. It is not a question of a Messianic link to get what they wanted, but they would be able to ask the Father in His name themselves. However hard the Christian way is, it is, both in the travelling and in the goal, the way of joy. Salvation is of the Lord. In John 15:1-27 our Lord substitutes Himself for Israel, as the plant of God, responsible to bear fruit for Him on earth (not merely for man, as such, openly sinful and lost). There is no doubt that the Jews were at least to some extent responsible for these slanders. It is only a question of the moment in God's hands, and the world with its prince will be treated according to the judgment already pronounced. "If in the Discourse recorded in the fourteenth chapter of St. Johns Gospel the Godward aspect of Christs impending departure was explained, in that of the fifteenth chapter the new relation is set forth which was to subsist between Him and His Church. 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." He may be regarded as an eccentric or a madman or a danger; but life is likely to be made uncomfortable for him. Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with tongs. When you set your eyes on it, it is gone.For wealth certainly makes itself wingsLike an eagle that flies toward the heavens. His Word. In the book of Acts we read, "And as many as were ordained to eternal life believed" ( Acts 13:48 ). God must, in the judgment of our sins, forsake Him, but He would never forsake God. Like an eagle the enemy comes against the house of the, Because they have transgressed My covenant. (Verses 15-17), And truly they would need the love of one another, as Christ loved them. 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. The best of the world, therefore, the choicest and most divinely privileged of men, have turned out the most guilty. 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. (50% off), Sale Price $2.34 "As I have loved you. Is the word marriage mentioned in the Bible? Yes. Roughly 2025 times, depending on which translation and not counting related words such as mar He stood for Rome; he embodied Rome; the spirit of Rome found its home in him. These two things are absolutely necessary to our salvation: 1. His judgment is sealed. It was enough. It is I who am the true vine. 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