Now, when you can feel that, and can feel that Christ puts his seal on what you have asked, then, you ask in his name. information on many facets of Greek society, such as theatre and the arts, We have here our Lords homely talk to his disciples; it is full of sublimity, yet it is blessedly simple. He is a bridegroom that cannot be satisfied unless his bride be a partaker of all his joy. Or, Come and break your fast after your long nights toil. How they must have opened their eyes to see the fish ready cooked for them to eat! Yet here is a child of God apparently forgetful of that fact. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: The Church will never know her true glory till she knows her perfect oneness; the One Church will be the glorious Church. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; As I have already reminded you, it is only an abiding faith that is a real faith, the faith that remains fixed in Christ the vital union with Christ maintained day by day. John 19:3. He will not be in glory, and leave me behind him. May each believing soul among you have a deep peace! In order to have the renewal cancelled, please reach out to, If you have an active Premium subscription (with or without automatic renewal), we will refund you. There is the root of the whole business, to be still one with Jesus by vital union, deriving the sap of our life entirely from him. Ah, no! Choose Book of Bible to Study Let not your heart be troubled. Then there is another love that grows in his heart because of our love to his Son. But for them also which shall believe on me through their word; that they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 1 Kings This is now the third time that Jesus shewed himself to his disciples after that he was risen from the dead. The website also contains information of Greek philosophy, art, sports, history, When you preach my gospel, I will remit the sins of all who believe it; and when you pronounce sentence of condemnation on such as remain in unbelief, I will confirm your declaration!, John 20:24. And greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. The Jews answered him, We have a law it may not be your law and by our law he ought to die because he made himself the son of God. This is a reviving of the charge of blasphemy which they had brought against him in the palace of the high priest. You feel as if you could not die at peace just now. But 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. Jesus saith unto them, I am; as though appropriating to himself the name of Jehovah, and they went backward, and fell to the ground, astounded and confounded. Philip saith unto him, Lord shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. As John was the writer of this record, he did not put his own name there, but merely mentioned the sons of Zebedee.. Jesus warned his disciples of all that was to happen in his death and in his departure. We cannot tell what he saith. But do not give up reading the Bible because you cannot understand it. Even where Christ himself is at the head of the table, Judas may be sitting at that same table, and Satan may then and there put into his heart the horrible purpose of betraying his Master. John 20:7. Be scrupulous, brethren, lest, through the neglect of what some regard as scruples, you should bring upon yourselves great sorrows. John 12:20-21. Oftentimes your love to Christ will make you sorrowful when you for a while lose his presence; it will be a great sorrow to you if your Lord should seem to have hidden himself from you. information relevant were the basic purposes of the oracles. I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.. John 21:1-3. That expression, I will not leave you comfortless, might be rendered, I will not leave you orphans.. As Jews, they had already known and seen the power of God. I sometimes feel staggered when I meet with good people, undoubtedly good people, who still look upon it as a new thing that we should believe that God hears our prayers. The Gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are the best life of Christ out of sight. No, this is the condition of power in prayer, If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. John 16:15-16. Amen. It is not every man who chooses to pray, who shall have whatever he asks of God; but the successful pleader is the man who abides in Christ, and in whom Christs words abide. Bear and forbear, on and on and on to the end of the chapter. Father, glorify thy name, just as he afterwards said in the garden, Nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.. Do not take that verse as a promise of unlimited answers to prayer, for it is nothing of the kind. John 17:23-26. John 18:19-21. If you really do bring forth fruit to God, you must expect to have trial, trouble, affliction, and that full often. Blessed be God, we are going away from the land of these changing little whiles up to the place where the sun shineth in its strength for ever and ever. I pray far them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. They were to be tried as they had never been tried before. A man must die, and enter heaven, before he can fully realize all that Christ meant when he said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee., Notice the doctrine of this verse. John 16:13. Do not let the world so besmear and defile them as to do them mischief. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you. He alluded to his crucifixion, which is the great attractive center of mankind. You shall understand things when you have come unto the right standpoint, when you have gotten to believe in Christ. which does not glorify Christ, it is not the Holy Spirit; it is not the Comforter. 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; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. John 12:44. John 15:12. It was pretty intense! how emphatically true this is! Suppose a person calls at any door and asks me to relieve him, out of love to some friend of mine. Ah! For the Father himself loveth you, What a delightful little sentence! I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. John 14:27-28. Do we not cry to him to come and breathe peace upon us? John 13:5-6. Let us read on: . This exposition consisted of readings from Psalms 32; John 17. awaiting miracles were recorded to have gone into a hallucinogenic trance during I hear people say, sometimes, Oh, but that is not essential! There is a great deal of mischief hatched out of that egg. Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me but for your sakes. At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. Do we know Jesus Christ as the Messiah the Sent One? For the third time he doth acquit him. He said that the things which he had taught to his disciples were not his own, they were the Fathers. And it was the preparation of the Passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King! I am not the biggest fan of riddles.. and this one makes absolutely no sense to me. John 15:7. John 12:22-23. I now paint minis on the side. It is the Fathers province, by the Holy Spirit and by the works of Providence, to see to the prosperity of the Church. The Father gives Christ the souls which Jesus keeps until the day of his power. 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. John 16:24. These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended, or ashamed, or scandalized, or caused to stumble, when they come to pass.. That he might joy in us, feel a sacred delight in thinking of us as he does when he sees us keeping his commandments, and treasuring up his words, and so living in his love, and being mighty in prayer. John 20:17. Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. Even apostles may fish and catch nothing. Faith is the double cure of trouble, for it delivers us altogether from the trouble, and, at the same time, it helps us to find sweetness in it as long as we have to endure it. Hebrews The mercy is that, although God will purge and prune his vine-branches, he will not destroy them. What more has he that he can lay down when, having given up all else, he gives life itself for them? If we are not perfect, if we fail in some respects, yet may the Master be able to say of us to God, They have kept thy word! Yea, and since Christ has gone, and he has endowed us with the Holy Spirit, we are to do yet greater works than he did. Practical service is better than personal rapture. This prayer is still needed for all Christs disciples, Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.. For he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. Are you fearful about the trials of the week? The most famous of the oracles was the oracle of Apollo, the god of the sun, You never hear from him any boast about being the originator of profound thoughts. Oh, no, blessed Master, stay where thou art! Oh! They wanted to know what had really happened, so they resolved that they would go and see. It's also a great ice breaker meeting new couples. That your joy may be full, a ripe joy, a joy that fills your being, that sparkles in your eye, dances in your feet, leaps in your heart, an unutterable, inexpressible joy: That your joy may be full.. Happy are they who have it. It also discusses other civilizations such as Assyria, Mesopotamia, and Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. He foresaw that he would pass through his passion, that all the work of his peoples redemption would be fully accomplished, and in this his final prayer on earth to the Father he could truly say, I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. May you and I be able to say the same when we depart out of this world! Do you know any of Gods very poor people? Christs death was certainly a more trying one than ours will be, so that this description may apply to ours as well as to his. As Jesus Christ said that he did not bear witness to himself, but spoke the words which his Father had given him, so the Spirit of God does not speak of himself, but he bears witness to the truth which Christ has revealed, and also makes known things to come. But he will never reveal anything contrary to that which Christ has revealed in his Word. Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. We know more of God from the life of Christ than we can learn from any other source. John 17:12-13. It is the grief of the Church, it is the sorrow of Gods ministers, it ought to call for great self-examination in our own hearts that mere professors, those who apostatize after having made a profession of religion, do not seem to have been thought by the Saviour to be here and there one, but to be so many that men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned., Power in prayer is dependent upon full enjoyment of union and communion with Christ. It almost looks as though our Lord anticipated that question of Pilate, What is truth? Here is his answer: thy word is truth.. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they way be one, as we are. As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. I know that he will complete in my soul the work which he has undertaken, for he fulfilled on the feet of his disciples the office he had undertaken: He began to wash the disciples feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.. Then Simon Peter, Always ready to boil over, ever full of zeal and rash impetuosity, Peter . If men can see, and yet will not see, God is at last so provoked by their wickedness that he takes away the light altogether, and removes from them the very faculty of sight. You will be troubled; that cannot be helped. We know that these do not truly belong to Christ, for fruit must come from vital union to him but it is a trial to the Church to have non-fruit-bearing branches. John 17:9. Verily, verily, . The silence of the Christ of God is very terrible. Oh, that it may be to us a savor of life unto life, that we may be kept by it, and not a savor of death unto death, as it was to Judas, who was blinded by the very light that shone upon him! I am going first in order that you may follow afterwards, I am going as the Pioneer into that blessed state where you shall dwell with me for ever; so do not be troubled at my departure. How tenderly and lovingly this is all put! He says to these men that had been with him, who really do not seem as if they had loved him very much, and certainly were not very strong in faith, but were often in such a state of unbelief that he had to say, Where is your faith? Yet he says, The Father himself loveth you because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.. When you see him on the cross, is there anything you can deny him? By his gracious spirit, he has come again, by his divine presence in the means of grace, he often comes again. We ought to be very careful that we do not deliver our own thoughts, or suggestions, excogitations and philosophies. One does not see any reason why they should have been made so strong in faith just then. Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing. In the ninth verse we read, I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.. They must be original; they must be great thinkers. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. This chapter contains some of the most precious words that the Lord Jesus uttered before he died upon the cross. Your past troubles have been endured by faith; now endure the present in the same way. He saith, I am not. Me and the wife also completed the entire campaign during this lock down with just two. And whether Thomas did put his finger into the print of his nails or not, we cannot tell. Partly because their sorrow incapacitated them for hearing any more; partly because their spiritual infancy did not permit them as yet to learn the deeper doctrines which are rather meat for men than milk for babes. I do not expect to see the people of God in visible oneness; but as there was a secret, invisible union, most real and most true, between the Father and the Son, so there is, at this time, a secret union in the hearts of all believers, most deep, most real, most true. Her love for her Lord made her rise early, and helped her to overcome the fear which would have prevented many from going out when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher. There are fears which some cannot shake off in the dark, and those fears would be apt to become intensified in going to a sepulcher in the dark; but love wakes early to try to find Christ, and love can see in the dark when looking for Jesus. Lest we should be led astray, let us pray that we may not enter into temptation, and especially ask that we may be preserved from betraying our Lord, as Judas did. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. It is even so, Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight.. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin. This was the language of ignorance and unbelief. John 16:13. At first, the Jews persecuted the Christians; then the Romans took up the cruel work, and others have continued it, in some form or other, even to this day, for the persecution of the saints has not yet ceased. Shall I ask that I may not endure the troubles, which are the common lot of men? what power there is in prayer at that time! These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: as thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. Turn it over and you will see that it will grow, and grow, and grow, and grow, till it fills the whole earth: It is finished.. Ye know where Christ is gone. Some, out of supposed love to Christ, have attempted or committed acts of fanaticism; they have been enthusiastic, and, in many cases, doubtless, very sincere; but they have also been very unwise. And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home. All his prayers are for them, that they may be made holy, and that so God may be glorified in them. Simply browse for your screenshot using the form below. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. God grant to all of us to know by happy experience the meaning of this wondrous expression! John 14:15-17. Sanctify them through thy truth: How wondrously our Saviours prayer advances! And men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If you are his, it is true of you, I am glorified in them, not only by them, but in them, their suffering with patience, in their labouring with diligence, in their faith, in their trustfulness in me, I am glorified in them., John 17:11. For he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you. 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. John 17:22-23. O God, call out many such through our word I pray. If you are conformed to his will, he will grant you your will. They were thinking more of their loss by his going away from them than of his gain in going back to his Father. The gorgeous language, in which some orators indulge, is, when the meaning of it is condensed, like great clouds of steam which produce but a few drops of water. That terrible time did come very soon, and the Jewish and other persecutors hunted down the Christians in almost every place where they could be found. But all these things will they do unto you for my names sale, because they know not him that sent me. Press J to jump to the feed. The eternal authority of God is at the back of the testimony of Christ. 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. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name. If ye love me, keep my commandments. John 18:16-18. Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priests servant, and cut off his right ear. Gods people belong to him, he gives them to his Son, Christ gives them his word, and they keep it: They have kept thy word. Do we keep Gods word? If we dare ask in the name of Christ, and it is not everything that we could ask for in his name if our petition is such that we honestly judge that we may put Christs name to it; if it is a thing that Christ would have asked; if it is a thing that Christ could have asked, let us ask in Christs name, and the Father will give it. Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. John 17:24-26. They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled,, They knew nothing about that ancient prophecy, yet God ordained that they should act thus that the Scripture might be fulfilled, . If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. The people answered him. Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest. Our Lord Jesus did not so overburden his disciples: I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.. Travelers would ask her questions, many quite It will be used upon all who are really in Christ, and who are abiding in Christ. These chosen men had been poor creatures at the very best; very forgetful and very erring; yet their Lord brings no charges against them but be says to his Father, They have kept thy word.. There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples. If persecution were to arise in our day, I wonder how many of us would be found true men. It was his object, through the salvation of myriads of the sons of men, to glorify the Father. 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