This is a wonderful expression. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. Let us believe both truths. Some links contain affiliate codes which support Board Game Oracle financially. Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother, and his mothers sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. The lapidary does not chase upon the wheel the stone that is not precious, but that which is, and so real affliction is no mark, therefore, of your want of grace, but of your having it. Zephaniah Like them, how little do we retain of that which he teaches us! Because I am crucified? No; but, because I go to the Father. Beloved, always think of your departure out of the world in the same light: I go to the Father. Do not say, I die; I languish upon the bed of pain; I expire. No; but, I go to the Father.. Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth. If Christ is not pleased with us, we cannot be glad; and if he has no joy in us, we cannot have joy in him. Colossians We are of the same flesh and blood as Judas; and although we might not be tempted by a sum of money, we may be tempted by a sinful pleasure or by a sinful shame. John 14:3. That was a very gracious saying of Christs, If therefore ye seek me, let these go their way. This is what Christ says on his peoples behalf to death, and to the law and the justice of God, and though this saying does not excuse the disciples flight, it does make some sort of apology for their going away every man to his own home. Christ has already judged the prince of the powers of evil, so you may depend upon it that he will also judge all those who are under the dominion of the traitor prince who has usurped his Masters position and authority. He purgeth it (pruneth it) that it may bring forth more fruit. I cannot understand, said one to me the other day, why I am so very sorely afflicted. John 18 Titus The friendship it's built. The inner life is one, the source of that life is one, the nourishment of that life is one, and the end of that life is one, so that all who possess it must be one, one in Christ, and one with one another, even as Christ is one with the Father. He did not merely pray for the little handful of disciples who were with him there, but he preyed for all who, in after years, should believe on him. for such a sight! They that hate Christ very soon hate God. To ask in the name of Christ, to plead under his authority, this is to pray indeed. John 16:13-16. Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. Jesus said to Peter, What I do thou knowest, not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.. They were thine, my Father, under thy direct government, but thou hast transferred them to my mediatorial sovereignty, and thou hast given them up to be mine, in a very special sense, beyond all the rest of mankind and this is one of their distinguishing characteristics, that they have kept thy word., John 17:7-8. 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. If you are Christs disciples now, you are to keep on being his disciples. John 16:13-14. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. 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. It employs someone as wonderful as you, after all.). For if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him, unto you. If Christ prayed thus for us, how ought we to pray for one another! John 17:2. John 16:17-18. Still, Mary was a brave woman, for she said to the gardener, Tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.. It is not always the man who lives in the sunlight who sees the most. We shall not speak without our Master making the utterance of his word to be readier of fact. John 12:27. John 18:19-21. John 19:23. Greek Religion and Society. There was more than a little impertinence about that utterance, and something more even than an ordinary unbelief; and when we ask for signs and wonders from God, and say that we will not believe except we have them, we are guilty of very presumptuous conduct. This book is good when looking for political or economic John 17:19-20. What was it that hindered them that they should not obey the truth? Disobedient children, when they pray, may expect to get the rod for an answer. If any man serve me, him will my Father honour. To prevent a ceremonial error, they are willing to commit brutal cruelty; indeed, they had already committed the more brutal cruelty of putting Christ to death. John 20:26. John 13:3-4. and to grow more and more so as the years advance. 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 19:31. It was not addressed to the general public. The very brook would remind him of his approaching sacrifice, for through it flowed the blood and refuse from the temple. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. There is a blessed word of good cheer for us, everyone! At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. May Spirit make you pure in life, for then shall you be successful at the mercy-seat! They proceeded courteously; they went to one of Christs disciples who, coming from Galilee of the Gentiles, would be likely to sympathize with them, and they sought an introduction to Jesus. John 18:11. The word Comforter has lost its old meaning; you get it in certain old writings, when you read of such-and-such a man that he gave to someone else succor and comfort. And if that mercy-seat be nothing but a vain show, and prayer be only a pious but useless exercise, what is there in the Christian religion at all? And the servants and officers stood there, who had made a fire of coals; for it was cold: and they warmed themselves: and Peter stood with them, and warmed himself. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. Are you fretting tonight? Shall I ask to be delivered from sickness? medical advice, and many of the pilgrims hoped to be cured miraculously. Id say if she likes deck builders shes golden. What strange delusions, what singular chimeras of monstrous shape will pass through the heart of grief! It looks as if that were a reason why we should not see him; but we see him better by faith, now that he has gone to the Father, than we could have seen him while he was here below covered with the veil of his humiliation. Ye shall not need to make anymore inquiries of me, for everything shall then be explained to you by the Spirit.. He wants you, beloved, to be joy-full full of joy; not merely to have a little joy hidden away in a corner somewhere, but that your joy may be full.. The rest of the disciples had never put that interpretation upon our Lords words which was the clear and simple meaning of them, namely, that he would rise from the dead. He has not risen from the tomb many hours before we find him thus coming to his disciples. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them: that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and them in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. Dogged, obstinate unbelief. It cannot discern them. Do we know the Father? at the utmost, ye are the branches.. I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father. John 14:1. Tell me now, what is thy character, thine origin, thy rank? As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. Now we know where to find the true Church. And in that overcoming he has conquered for you also, and he guarantees to you the victory in his name. All who come to him by faith, even as he said, All that the Father giveth me shall come to me. To all of these Jesus gives eternal life. John 12:22. John 14:24-28. John 19:15-17. Possibly, Peter had scarcely believed, but John had. Then saith Pilate unto him, with all the pride of a Roman in his face, Speakest thou not unto me Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and power to release thee?. Then went out that other disciple, which was known unto the high priest, and spake unto her that kept the door, and brought in Peter. Was thinking of starting this game with 3 players. It is indeed marvellous that God should have loved his people even as he loved Christ his Son, yet that is what the Lord Jesus here says: Thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.. Yet it is so, for he says, I know whom I have chosen.. We can hardly imagine what she did think; but when people are in great grief, they often think a great many things which they would not think if they were quite in their right minds. And now, what a descent it is as we pass on to the next scene in his life! Bear and forbear, on and on and on to the end of the chapter. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth, give I unto you. As, Peter! As Christ had carried out his Fathers will, and done the work he had been sent to do, he was but right that he should go back to the glory which he had for a season voluntarily laid aside. Mark And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe. Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am king of the Jews. When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith into his mother, Woman, behold thy son! These are taken away, sometimes by death, sometimes by judgment, sometimes by the open discovery of their secret sin, the culmination of their backslides in overt acts of transgression. 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