Had they gone a step farther, and asked whither He was going, it would have been all right, they would have felt glad for Him; for though it were their loss, it was most surely His gain and joy the joy that was set before Him, the joy of being with His Father, with the comfort for His own of an accomplished redemption (attested by His thus going on high). Snare. Prayer is consenting to God and to the will of God, for Him to do those things that He is wanting to do. When Jesus drew his picture of the vine he knew what he was talking about. 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. Let me take refuge in the shelter of Your wings. It is not merely that He could not own anything short of Christ as a means of salvation, because this is always true; and never was any one brought to God at any time since the world began save by Christ, however scanty the testimony or partial the knowledge of Him. And this is the fruit that God is seeking from His garden, from the church. 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. As the Lord had told them at an earlier moment, had they believed Moses, they would have believed Christ. I said, Oh, that I had wings like a dove! Behold, He will mount up and swoop like an eagle and spread out His wings against Bozrah; and the hearts of the mighty men of Edom in that day will be like the heart of a woman in labor. If they persecuted Him, they're going to persecute you. A man gives up himself to confide in God. Suffice it to say, that the one point which meets us here, as distinct from the other gospels, is His person. King James Version (KJV). Thomas, then, represents the slow mind of unbelieving Israel, seeing the Lord after the present cycle of time is completely over. He is God. 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. Under the expanse their wings were stretched out straight, one toward the other; each one also had two wings covering its body on the one side and on the other. So I'm thankful that God chose me. and there were in it all kinds of four-footed animals and crawling creatures of the earth and birds of the air. He chose us so that whatever we ask in his name the Father will give to us. The intermediate ministry of Paul is, of course, not here noticed; for he was the witness of Christ glorified in heaven Head of the Church His body, wherein is neither Jew nor Gentile. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished." Apparently a primary word; a 'son', used very widely of immediate, remote or figuratively, kinship. Thus everywhere there is absolute opposition between the world and the Father, expressed morally when the Son was here, and proved now that the Spirit is come. In a way that was true. The word of Christ is a distinguishing word, and separates between the precious and the vile; it will purify the church of the first-born in the great dividing day. So Jude speaks of men twice dead; and, in fact, experience proves that men who have no life in Christ, after having professed awhile, become fiercer adversaries, if not grosser sinners, against the Lord than before any such profession was made. Indeed, the apostle Paul is the chronicler of the fact to us, that his prayers were not always in this communion. Under their wings on their four sides were human hands. $49.45, $54.95 For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org, Then he shall tear it by its wings, but shall not sever it. The secret of the life of Jesus was his contact with God; again and again he withdrew into a solitary place to meet him. A voice came to him, Get up, Peter, kill and eat!, But Peter said, By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything unholy and unclean., Again a voice came to him a second time, What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy., Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the. Shipping policies vary, but many of our sellers offer free shipping when you purchase from them. That I might realize that apart from Jesus, I can do nothing. 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. 7) It is the Comforter coming. 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. The promise made to the fruitful: He purgeth them, that they may bring forth more fruit. Because of this, God in his wisdom said, I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and They were His friends, if they did whatever He commanded them. And what is that which God uses to cleanse the church? They had not chosen Him, but He them, and set them to go and bear fruit, abiding fruit, that He might give them whatsoever they asked the Father in His name. But Israel was empty, fruitless, false: Christ was the only true vine. He did not present abiding and not abiding as white and black categories, as being either completely in or completely out of fellowship. The atonement would not have been what it is unless God had thus forsaken Him. Now I say that there is a love looked for, such as could only be since Christ manifested it, and that His love fills and fashions after its own nature and direction. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you ( John 15:7 ). They had, no doubt, been using the Lord's prayer for some time; nevertheless they had asked nothing in His name. Again, we have our Lord's calm rebuke to Peter, who had cut off the ear of Malchus. In the close ofJohn 16:25-33; John 16:25-33, the Lord puts, with perfect plainness, both their coming position in His name, and as immediate objects of the Father's affection, and His own place as coming from and going to the Father, above all promise and dispensation. Do you suppose Matthew let it slip? Who would desire an unreal thing the keeping up an appearance, the parade of words and sentiments beyond the heart's state? "These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.". Though the earth is the Lord's, it yields him no fruit unless he work it. And in the shadow of Your wings I sing for joy. (Verses 15-17), And truly they would need the love of one another, as Christ loved them. I'm going to lay down My life for you to prove My love. He was thinking of himself, of his brethren, and of the work; but God graciously brought him to Christ, as the One sustained and sustaining object to abide in Him, as it is said here, and to have Christ's words abiding in himself, and then all the resources of God were at his command. HalliesCollectibles. , Luke 13:26,27 Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets, Romans 2:8,9,16 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, . Hi Timothy. Before answering let me clarify something. * You mention the NWT in your question, so I guess this question is addressed to Jehovahs W Lgende: Administrateurs, Les Brigades du Tigre, Les retraits de la Brigade, 726829 message(s) 35337 sujet(s) 30093 membre(s) Lutilisateur enregistr le plus rcent est jocer, Quand on a un tlviseur avec TNT intgre, Quand on a un tlviseur et un adaptateur TNT, Technique et technologie de la tlvision par cble, Rglement du forum et conseils d'utilisation. He comes, not to display His own power and glory, but expressly to glorify Christ. (Verse 5) It is not here believing, but "doing," though faith be the spring, of course. All it has to do is just hang in there and it's going to ripen. And I would suggest that you spend a lot of time this week meditating on the Lord's prayer in the seventeenth chapter here in John's gospel. The Lord applies this truth particularly: "Already ye are clean through the word that I have spoken to you. He used it as a synonym for saving faith (John 6:56). Jesus gave us this intimacy with God, so that he is no longer a distant stranger, but our close friend. It makes the Lord a mere petitioner, lowering the glory of His person, and obscuring, if not denying, the intimacy of His relationship with the Father. Let's kill him and then the vineyard can be ours." 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. They shall look on Him whom they pierced, and own Jesus of Nazareth to be their Lord and their God. I think that Jesus established this pattern for us. I admit that, being such an One, there could be no failure. When redemption was accomplished, and Christ was raised from the dead, and the Holy Ghost was given, then they were competent to enter into all the truth, not before. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out. No doubt Christ sends; and there lies the connection with the end of John 15:1-27. as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine, no more can ye, except ye abide in me; which strongly expresses the necessity of abiding in Christ by fresh repeated acts of faith: and it is easy to observe, that when believers depart from Christ, though it be but partially, and for a time, for they cannot finally and totally depart from him, in what a poor, withered, fruitless condition they are, both in their frames and duties. To persuade them to this, he urges. The essence of prayer is not that we say to God: "Thy will be changed," but that we say to him: "Thy will be done." If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have picked you out of the world. He tells his men that he does not call them slaves any more; he calls them friends. 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