And He rode on a cherub and flew;And He appeared on the wings of the wind. Abiding in Christ means something like that. We've sent you an email to confirm your subscription. He was thinking of Christians whose Christianity consisted of profession without practice, words without deeds; he was thinking of Christians who were useless branches, all leaves and no fruit. 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. It also agrees with the personal use of in Matthew 16:23, and the use of alone in the next clause. The meaning would then be that the disciples should abide in Jesus as He abode in them. The 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; Matthew 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. There is always a joy in doing the right thing. The gospel which most of all shows Him to be God is careful to prove Him man. and I ordained you, that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain ( John 15:16 ); This is something that concerns me greatly. 4.5 out of 5 stars This is what God is seeking from His church: love--the expressions of love. 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. The law of Moses, divine as it was, would not suffice: it was negative; but Christ's word is positive. for Moses wrote of Christ: in truth, there was no divine persuasion as to either. What a return for these wondrous communications of Christ, just to slip over them perfunctorily, without making the light our own! It is incalculable the quantity of scripture that is passed over without distinct exercise of faith. (40% off), Sale Price $1.50 Evidently this is a capital truth, bearing powerfully on the nature of the Christian's prayers, as well as on his worship. He that is the Sun of righteousness, and the bright and morning Star, compares himself to a vine. 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. But the disciples were to have the hatred of the world, of the Jew as much or more than of the Gentile. You know, because I've asked God to work it out like this and I've shown Him the way it shouldit would all come to pass real well if God would just do this and this and then I could work it all out. Original Price $18.00 14) He called them friends, not slaves; for the slave knows not what his master does; but He called them friends, for He made them His confidants in all He had heard of His Father. 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. And the living beings ran to and fro like bolts of lightning. If you were of the world, if you were a part of its system, then they would love you because they love their own. 43 You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you have slain without pity. 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. Again, He said, "Now, I've ordained that whatsoever ye should ask the Father in My name, He may give it to you." But as it is there cannot be a more painful proof of their own state. Mat Mt). This is a description of the fearful state of hypocrites that are not in Christ, and of apostates that abide not in Christ. It is here that Jesus makes another of his great claims. And the Lord said, "You didn't tell me what kind you wanted. The disciples here must be fruitful, as Christians, in all the fruits of righteousness, and as apostles, in diffusing the savour of the knowledge of Christ. 49Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute: 50That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; 51From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation. Anything that you endeavor to do for God apart from Jesus Christ is worthless. To suppose I will not say the fact, but the possibility even, of a flaw in Christ, either as God or as man, proves that he who admits the thought has no faith in His person. All believers abide in Jesus in the first sense, but all do not abide in Him in the second sense (cf. "Thou didst bring a vine out of Egypt," sang the Psalmist, thinking of God's deliverance of his people from bondage ( Psalms 80:8). But for a saint, true-hearted in the main, nothing is more certain than that Christ would deal with him, and that he would lose meanwhile all sense of the love of Christ as a present practical thing. 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." (v) There was actually another charge brought and for this fifth charge there were understandable grounds. Put the trumpet to your lips!Like an eagle the enemy comes against the house of the Lord,Because they have transgressed My covenantAnd rebelled against My law. "In that day," He says, "ye shall ask me nothing." It's good for only one purpose, and that's to produce fruit. All things that offend.--Literally, all stumbling-blocks; the word being explained by the clause that follows as including all that work iniquity. There are things which are allowable in a child which are not allowable in an adult, because the child does not know any better. But, if it is truly for Christ's sake, then know that you are bearing His suffering. On the other hand, supposing a person is refused fellowship, or is put away after being received, there is the retaining of sins. Still there is the special form of presenting Him as one that comes, which is confirmed in the next verse. But the Christian is to live in such a way that he shows what is meant by loving his fellow men. (i) The world suspects people who are different. 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 was enough. This alone explains our chapter, without forcing it. Now, my mind immediately begins to take this truth and race with it and say, "Wait a minute! And so, we are told not to love the world, but we are also being told here that the world isn't going to love us. In the book of Acts we read, "And as many as were ordained to eternal life believed" ( Acts 13:48 ). Those that abide not in Christ shall be abandoned by him; they are left to themselves, to fall into scandalous sin, and then are justly cast out of the communion of the faithful. 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." We can understand this: nothing is more natural; but, for that very reason, it was not all in the power of the Spirit of God, with Christ as the first object. It included all kinds of peoples and all kinds of countries within it. 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"? When Christ returns, He will gather His own to Himself, as inJohn 14:1-31; John 14:1-31. Take the early part of the gospel, where the gift of Jesus in divine love, the sending Him into the world not to judge, but to save, makes known what God is to a lost world. 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." 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. So, Jesus said, "What will the lord of the vineyard do when he comes? And you could see the people getting embarrassed and all. 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. But it wasn't very deep. 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. Who but John could mention that He delivered up ( ) His spirit? I said, Oh, that I had wings like a dove! 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. OM double G. The hatred of the world and the love of Christ press them so much the more together. [Note: Carson, The Gospel . Not many are actively hostile to Christ, but many live their lives as if Christ had never come and simply disregard him. Have you ever noticed how akin our emotions are? "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in My name" And here, "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth,". By the eminent good works of Christians many are brought to glorify our Father who is in heaven. When it is a formality, merely the routine and conventional repetition of a form of words, it cannot be answered. You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and I have appointed you to go out and to bear fruit, of such a kind that it will remain. And so, "Come forward if you want to see your child in heaven." If any have Him now, it can only be a rejected and heavenly Christ. Such were their faces. But the fact is clear, that the Holy Ghost is sent down; as it is also clear, that the Holy Ghost, being here, convicts the world i.e., what is outside where He is. 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 not only a means of cultivating ad increasing what good there is already in us, but it is the root and spring of all good: "Without me you can do nothing: not only no great thing, heal the sick, or raise the dead, but nothing." And you wonder, "Well, what happened?" or any other man? I am the vine; you are the branches. In the early days of the Boys' Brigade, the boys who marched down the street in uniform often received similar treatment. As the apostle says, even if we had known Christ after the flesh, "henceforth know we him no more." But the wood of the vine must not be brought. I've got that underlined with a bold underline in my Bible. I admit that, being such an One, there could be no failure. That's alright, Lord! And certainly, Dwight Moody was one of the greatest evangelists that God has brought along in the American history. We all know that Israel of old is called the vine the vine that the Lord had brought out of Egypt. But the soul that would make light of the words of Christ, or do without them, after they were communicated, would evince its own faithlessness. That is a tremendous offer. 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 Lords house, and the glory of the God of Israel hovered over them. 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. 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. Henceforth I do not call you bondslaves; for the bondslave does not know what his lord is doing: but I have called you friends; for all things have I heard of my Father I have made known unto you ( John 15:15 ). And in this parable, He speaks of the lord who had a vineyard. 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. HalliesCollectibles. The Holy Ghost, "when he is come," (not "whom the Father will send," but) "whom I will send from the Father." And if you suffer with Him, you will also reign with Him.So, Jesus said, "If they've persecuted me, they will also persecute you. Here was a scripture which He remembers as unaccomplished. Because they have broken the law? "And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. It is dangerous to practise a higher standard than the standard of the world. With knowledge comes responsibilities to act upon that knowledge. Here the Lord presents Himself as the only source, not of life, as elsewhere, but of fruit-bearing for disciples, or His professed followers. Of those that were disciples He named twelve of them apostles, but there were many others that were following Him. How our union with Christ is maintained--by the word: If you abide in me; he had said before, and I in you; here he explains himself, and my words abide in you; for it is in the word that Christ is set before us, and offered to us, Romans 10:6-8. [2.] It was not only that the government persecuted the Christians; the mob hated them. His faithfulness is a shield and bulwark. The Lord applies this truth particularly: "Already ye are clean through the word that I have spoken to you. Third, this may be an imperative statement. But the Holy Ghost has another work. Rome brought peace and prosperity. What is His commandment? The greatest men in the past had been proud to be called the douloi ( G1401) , the slaves of God. As it is, they have seen and they have heard both me and my Father. The guy was very forceful.There was an interesting study made after Moody's campaigns. (Ver. Because that is an experience of the spirit, deeper than the level of the emotions. To persuade them to this, he urges. Like an eagle that stirs up its nest,That hovers over its young,He spread His wings and caught them,He carried them on His pinions. Revelation 14:6-8 And I saw another angel flying through the sky, carrying the eternal Good News to proclaim to the people who belong to this worldto every nation, tribe, language, and people. So the millennium will differ from what is now. 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. #Mt 23:34|. He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters; They will mount up with wings like eagles. You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you ( John 15:16 ). He has shared his mind with us, and opened his heart to us. To collect, gather. (10% off), Sale Price $100.04 The Father, the Son and the Spirit. And they gather such branches and throw them into the fire and they are burned. 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. Hence, it would be putting them, not merely into prisons, but out of the synagogues; and this under the notion of doing God service. 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. It was the national symbol of Israel. As for their appearance, all four of them had the same likeness, as if one wheel were within another wheel. His salvation lies in continual contact with the strength of his friend. That's your problem, not mine. When we pray, we must ask, not only: "Is this for my good?" Abide in me even as I abide in you. From handmade pieces to vintage treasures ready to be loved again, Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. 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. for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers. What joy, what full joy it brings to us to see God's answers to prayer! They are clinging to the empty vine; and so all their religious profession is as empty before God. There are two answers. The vine was grown all over Palestine as it still is. Abide in me - Remain united to me by a living faith. If the branch should be cut off an instant, it would die and be fruitless. All this was found in its fulness and apparent perfection in Israel; but it was now discovering its utter hopeless hollowness and antagonism to the mind of God; and this was manifested, as we shall find later on in this chapter, in their causeless hatred of the Father and the Son. The duty taught us by this similitude, which is to bring forth fruit, and, in order to this, to abide in Christ. "In that day" does not mean in a future day, but in one that is come, Instead of using Christ's intervention as Martha proposed, instead of begging Christ to ask* the Father, demanding each thing they needed of Christ Himself, they might reckon on the Father's giving them whatsoever they should ask Him in Christ's name. That, I'm sure, he said in jest, because when God chose him before he was born, God knew him completely then. But that is precisely what the Christians would not do. It may be but the first working of God's grace in the soul that produces it. It's futile for me to even try. And knowing everything about us, He chose us anyhow. Jesus chose us, first to come in to him, and then to go out to the world. It bears two kinds of branches, one that bears fruit and one that does not; and the branches that do not bear fruit are drastically pruned back, so that they will drain away none of the plant's strength. But all other winged insects which are four-footed are detestable to you. Prayer is consenting to God and to the will of God, for Him to do those things that He is wanting to do. Herein our Father will be glorified. There would be the testimony of the Holy Ghost sent from the Son, and bearing witness of Him according to the place whence He came to replace Him here. The land was cleared of brigands and the sea of pirates. The only thing that can save you is to have an intimate living fellowship with me, for I am the vine of God and you must be branches joined to 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. 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. (Ver. Their responsibilities were to abide, to love, and to testify respectively. A man, one of the human race. One thing is certain--no Christian who was involved in persecution could say that he had not been warned. What is His commandment? I know I will. The New Testament lays down certain definite laws about prayer. It may be a conditional statement. 41 Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven, and say: 42 We have sinned and rebelled and you have not forgiven. And yet, you ask them, "Why do hate Jesus so much?" At the same time, the main testimony of John is not so much Christ as man in heaven, but God in Him manifest on the earth. And I watched him one morning when I was sitting in a restaurant. 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. What is the conviction of judgment? WebYou yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles wings, and brought you to Myself. This is the proof of righteousness. It is by the fact that you bear such fruit, and that you show yourselves to be my disciples, that my Father is glorified. Thus a double scripture is fulfilled. You are my friends, if you do what I command you ( John 15:14 ). For some few of us, abiding in Christ will be a mystical experience which is beyond words to express. They had breastplates like breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to battle. 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. Further fruitfulness is the blessed reward of forward fruitfulness. You say, "Well, then it would be better if I had never heard." Thus, if the central portion gave us the disciples on the earth in relation with the Father on the one hand, and in total separation from the world on the other, with subsequent believers brought into one, both in testimony and in glory by-and-by before the world, the closing verses take up Christians, as it were, with the Father in an unearthly, heavenly glory, and His desire that they should be with Him there. The best have that in them which is peccant, aliquid amputandum--something which should be taken away; some notions, passions, or humours, that want to be purged away, which Christ has promised to do by his word, and Spirit, and providence; and these shall be taken off by degrees in the proper season. From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. 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. He takes the place of that which most put itself forward as being according to God here below. The fact is, that the Authorised Version gives rather obsolete English. Oh, the joy of being able to spend time in prayer with the Father! The tree snake will make its nest and lay eggs there. "I have chosen you," he said, "to send you out." (Ver. Chapter 17; spend a lot of time in that chapter in meditation this week. 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