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 Because if you were of the world, then the world would love you. He had before Him with perfect distinctness all the truth of God. The problem is, I want to know one year from now, how many of those same people are going on with the Lord? Abide in me Hold fast faith and a good conscience; and let no trials turn you aside from the truth. But I beseech them to consider whether they are not allowing habits and prejudices to blind them to what seems to me the mind of Christ in this grave question. Even the king of Assyria and all his glory; And it will rise up over all its channels and go over all its banks. Souls receive it in a general way; and too often one reason why it is received so easily is, because they do not face the truth, and their conscience is not exercised by it. If I had not done deeds among them, which no one else had ever done, they would not be guilty of sin. Why? It is a picture of the assembly that was about to be formed at Pentecost and this is the assembly's function. And every right thing I have ever prayed for, God had determined to give it to me before I ever asked. 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. So perfectly did Christ glorify God in death, as He always did in life the things that pleased His Father, that nothing short of putting Him as man at His own right hand could meet the case. [2.] Jesus, on the other hand, would always abide in the believer by His Spirit even if the believer did not abide in Him (John 14:17; cf. (Verse 20). Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole. Mark 13:27 And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven. Each of them had four faces and four wings. 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. He is God. I mean, she was just loud.And so, one day I was embolden to take her the scripture, "Let the women keep silence in the church, and learn in silence and subjection." The cherubim shall have their wings spread upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings and facing one another; the faces of the cherubim are to be turned toward the mercy seat. The Jews whispered their slanders to the government, slanders which they must have well known to be untrue, and four slanderous reports were spread about the Christians. Shall I be told that any man ever loved, before Christ came into the world, as He loved? Because they have broken the law? marg. The vine can not produce the crop of which it is capable without drastic pruning--and Jesus knew that. On the basis of these words, it was not difficult to disseminate amongst ignorant people, prepared to believe the worst, the story that the Christians' private meal was based on cannibalism. 7) It is the Comforter coming. which proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me ( John 15:26 ): Look how it's just intertwined. He hath planted, and watered, and gives the increase; for we are God's husbandry,1 Corinthians 3:9. It came about when He commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim, he entered and stood beside a wheel. You know how it's all going to work out, you know what the end result is. 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. "That your Father may," not shall, "your Father may give it to you." This is His prayer that He is offering to the Father. John 15:9-10). And when the time came for fruit, he sent his servants that he might receive from his vineyard. Thus they really return, in some shape or degree, to the false vine, instead of cleaving to the true. and the red kite, the falcon, and the kite in their kinds. Lawlessness, iniquity, disobedience, sin. That I might realize that apart from Jesus, I can do nothing. He will take the vineyard and He will give it unto others. As for their rims they were lofty and awesome, and the rims of all four of them were full of eyes round about. Now over the heads of the living beings there was something like an expanse, like the awesome gleam of crystal, spread out over their heads. 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. But Jesus said: "You are not my slaves; you are my partners. From handmade pieces to vintage treasures ready to be loved again, Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. If you're bearing fruit, you're purged, that you might bring forth more fruit. Too many people think that prayer is an information time, where I'm going to inform God of all of my difficulties that He doesn't know about. And then, I'm going to present to Him my solutions that I want Him to work out for me. Second, the sentence may be a comparative statement. And I knew then that there was no use! (Verses 1-4). Nevertheless, He was to be pierced. 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. It might be read, Every branch that beareth not fruit in me, and it comes much to one; for those that do not bear fruit in Christ, and in his Spirit and grace, are as if they bore no fruit at all, Hosea 10:1. Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the. The Lord, lifting up His eyes to heaven, no longer speaks to the disciples, but turns to His Father. Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with tongs. And then he'd put his notches on his belt, going from table to table, "I led so many people to Jesus today." And though the outward circumstances of my life may change drastically, because it's joy, it doesn't vary with my outward circumstances. "He shall not speak from himself; but whatever he shall hear, he shall speak: and he will report (or announce) to you things to come. Nor was it simply that He could ask His Father for twelve legions of angels, as He says in Matthew; but, in John, did He want angels? Such were their faces. If their service is based on a true knowledge of God and the true exercise of self-sacrificing love, they can expect it to result in lasting fruit (John 15:12-17). He stressed the importance of believers abiding in Him by using the word meno ("abide") three times in this verse alone. As John saw it, they had only done what it was foretold they would do. When he sees and believes in the Son, there is for him a sure way through the wilderness, and also a bright way in the word of God. The friends of the king were those who had the closest and the most intimate connection with him. And I might sit down and write you out a check for ten thousand dollars and hand it you and say, "Here!" But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake, because they do not know him that sent me ( John 15:21 ). 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. Unconditionally, of pure grace, He loved them that were His. And if she would spy me in the back of the car, with this loud operatic voice, she would say, "Praise the Lord, brother!" (Ver. Now that is a saying which would be even greater to those who heard it for the first time than it is to us. Normal rational people; but yet, they have such a hatred. Abide in me, and I in you. Abide see note on John 14:2; = remain, continue to reside, cf Colossians 2:6. Dont see this option? 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. And everybody would turn to see who she was talking to, including myself. It was an enemy of the Father and of them, but an enemy overcome of Him. I do not deny His power in the testimony of the gospel to souls. Speaking of His commandment to love one another, may God enable us this week to show that love, one to another. Whereas, if man's responsibility is before us, it is evident that there can be no necessary permanence here: all turns on dependence on Him who always abides the same yesterday, today, and for ever. But as for the world, it has rejected and crucified Christ. A man is not held responsible for that which he does not know. Sale Price $49.45 the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant. (Verse 8) "Disciples," be it noted; for we must carefully bear in mind that we have not the Church as such here, and, indeed, we have never the Church, strictly speaking, in John. You are my friends, if you do what I command you. 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. "I am the true vine," He says. Such were the causes of hatred in the early days. But no man can know life in this world or in the world to come if he disregards the Lord of all good life. By so doing, he showed that he was a loyal citizen of Rome. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! Let me take refuge in the shelter of Your wings. They were now entering on the path of testimony, that always involves suffering We have seen what should befall them in bearing fruit as Christ's disciples and friends. Parallel Commentaries his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom, all things that offend, and them which do iniquity. They, as "sons of the evil one," are both stumbling blocks to others ("the sons of the kingdom"), and also active workers of lawlessness (vide infra). From aggello; a messenger; especially an 'angel'; by implication, a pastor. One of the glories of the Temple was the great golden vine upon the front of the Holy Place. None would stand by baptism, or by any other ordinance, but by abiding in Christ. I hate to tell you this, but you're good for only one purpose, and that's to bear fruit to God. Now, if you are persecuted by the world, or ridiculed by the world, make certain that that persecution is coming for Christ's sake. It was a word in Psalms 69:1-36. 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. Genesis 19 KJV.I don`t think it says that anywhere.Here Men of Sodom want to know where the men are that came into Lot`s HOuse.They wanted to know And for you to try to manufacture this fruit, this love, is an impossibility, and you just can't do it. He that is constant in the exercise of faith in Christ and love to him, that lives upon his promises and is led by his Spirit, bringeth forth much fruit, he is very serviceable to God's glory, and his own account in the great day. Apply it to all believers. But then, there is also that cultivating of those branches that are bearing fruit. I repeat, that he who values the Master will not despise the servant; but there are many who do acknowledge their responsibility to the law of Moses without appreciating and obeying the words of Christ. But these are the ones which you shall not eat: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard. That, to me, is such an exciting thing, that God chose me. Each one went straight ahead. Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. Each of them had four faces and four wings. And ye also shall bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning ( John 15:27 ). That God would erase all of the bitterness or animosities or hard feelings or whatever we might feel towards our brethren in the Lord, and that we would be obedient tonight to the commandment of Jesus Christ, and truly love one another even as He loved us. I have told you everything; I have told you what I am trying to do, and why I am trying to do it. Luke gives us, "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit," because there the perfect man never abandons His perfect reliance on God. That comes out in the simplest ways. Then the cherubim lifted up their wings with the wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel hovered over them. (Matthew 13:1-58) This I conceive to be a gathering in from the Gentiles. The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits, and they stood on their feet facing the main room. From basileus; properly, royalty, i.e. 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. The wheels were called in my hearing, the whirling wheels. 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. In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Master sitting on a thronehigh, exalted!and the train of his robes filled the Temple. We can and must take everything to God in prayer; but when we have done so we must accept the answer which God in his perfect wisdom and perfect love sends to us. But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth ( John 15:26 ), Again, notice that how often Jesus in these last words with His disciples is tying together the relationship with the Father, the Son and the Spirit, and is making reference to the three. But they know not the Father nor the Son. Moses was the doulos ( G1401) of God ( Deuteronomy 34:5); so was Joshua ( Joshua 24:29); so was David ( Psalms 89:20). Let us take a human analogy. Many a time a down-and-out has been taken to live with someone fine. But they saw that they could not stop this movement. The Church again, by restoring a soul put outside, puts its seal, as it were, to the truth of what God has done, acts upon it, and thus remits the sin. 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. They are cast forth as dry and withered branches, which are plucked off because they cumber the tree. ], THE VINE AND THE BRANCHES ( John 15:1-10 ), 15:1-10 "I am the real vine and my Father is the vine-dresser. From verse 15 to the end is the deep personal dealing of our Lord with Peter; also John's place. For the choir director; set to Al-tashheth. "Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father." It is true that the Christian is a sinner, but he is a redeemed sinner; and therein lies his joy. 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. 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