We cannot tell what he saith. But do not give up reading the Bible because you cannot understand it. But all these things will they do unto you for my names sake, because they know not him that sent me. Yes, we have visited all the Waypoints and completed all our Contracts and were sure were missing a path to a Shrine. All Christians are one family in Christ. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. It was pretty intense! Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: There are many such branches, in Christs visible Church, which are not fruit-bearing branches, and consequently are not partakers of the sap of life and grace which flows into the branches that are vitally joined to the central stem. This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. John 12:50. Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. For Christ is not merely a fruit-bearer, but a bearer of much fruit. This is the process by which he manifests himself unto his people, and not unto the world: . Or, My Master! The word Rabboni means something more than Master. Mary seems to say, Greatest and best of all teachers, I know thy voice; now that thou hast called me by my name, I recognize thee, and I wait to listen to the instruction thou art ready to impart to me.. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep. We are bound to look for evidence concerning Christ; but when the evidence is sufficient, we ought not out of curiosity to crave for more. Count the visits of Christ. Keep you to what is here found, and pray the Holy Spirit to lead you into the clear understanding of it. I am going to the Father, that is where I am going, Thomas, and you can only come to the Father by me; do you not know that?. Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: I am going away from you, and while I am gone, it will be all weeping and lamenting with you; but while I am gone, the world shall have its hour of triumph, it shall think that I am slain, and that my cause is defeated.. The church on earth would not miss me if I were taken away; and the choirs of heaven cannot need me. Oh, but your Lord is glorified in you! Is the disciple to be above his Master, or the servant to be treated better than his Lord? And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. Thinking of it, he enters so fully into it, by a sort of foretaste, that he feels something of the same shiver and throe of anguish which came upon him in Gethsemane. The words of the prayer are amongst the most simple that could have been selected, but oh, the depths that lie hidden beneath them! Not as the world giveth, give I unto you. John 18:3. But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: Notice that blessed truth,that even that Divine Person, the Holy Ghost, when he comes to visit us, has nothing better to speak of than our Lord Jesus Christ: He shall testify of me. Even the Holy Spirit, when he exercises the function of the Comforter, testifies of Christ. This book was very easy to King David had crossed that brook long before when he had been driven from his home by Absaloms rebellion, and now the greater David went over the brook Cedron, where was a garden. He specially wanted solitude just then, for one of the best preparations for suffering is to get alone with God. 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. It was a new saying, not then written, yet it had all the life and power of God in it; so it must live, and must be fulfilled. The path out of our HQ takes 3 Boots! This source dealt with the scientific explanations of the Pythia's trance like Yet he will give them necessaries, as you give even to your naughty and disobedient children; but he will not give them the luxury of prevailing prayer, and that full fellowship with him which comes through abiding in him. Are we justifying the commission which Christ has laid upon us? John 17:1. It does not do for us to presume to judge the Word of God; we should rather let the Word of God judge us. There can be no harm in it, and it must work you some real good; so put up your sword, and lift the cup to your lips, and drink it to the dregs. By this crown of thorns our blessed Lord was crowned King of the curse, for the earth was cursed through Adams sin, and part of the sentence pronounced by God in the garden of Eden was, Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee. So Christ wore the mark of the curse which mans sin had brought upon the world. Oh, no, blessed Master, stay where thou art! John 14:10-12. Dear child of God, you sometimes sit in the corner, and think to yourself, How insignificant I am! May the Lord fulfill it in all of us as well as in them, for his dear names sake! Whatever he seemeth to be, and seemeth to have, he is taken away. John 15:3. Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. John 16:2. We genuinely apologize for the inconvenience this will cause all of those who reside within your region. John 21:17-19. But there is not one among us that has any faith to spare. So, believer, what thou knowest not now thou shalt know hereafter. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. He must always have felt sorry that he took Peter into a place where he was so strongly tried. They might have inquired a long while among themselves, and all in vain; but to go to their Lord was the short way out of the difficulty, for he could explain it. Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? Grief has not many words. He had declared it before; in the 38th verse of the previous chapter we read, I find in him no fault at all. And now again, That ye may know that I find no fault in him. Then came Jesus forth you can see him going down the steps out of Pilates hall into that same courtyard wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Their Leader and Friend was about to be taken away from them by a cruel death. 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. For he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. If any man says that he speaks by the Spirit, you can test him in this way, does what he says glorify Christ? When shall the world ever know this till the unity of the Church is more clearly seen? Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away and every branch that beareth fruit , What of that? Then there is another love that grows in his heart because of our love to his Son. Our Saviour did not sit still; but, as the hour approached for his betrayal and death, he went forth with his disciples. The passing over the black brook of Cedron, through which flowed the filth of the temple, was very significant. Ah, myself! Crucifixion was a Roman, not a Jewish method of capital punishment, so God overruled the wanton wickedness of the worst of men for the accomplishment of his own eternal purposes, without, however, diminishing their responsibility and guilt in the least degree. He denied it, and said, I am not. Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! It is very wonderful that the rest should have been kept, and that this son of perdition should have been left to perish. Expect not honour among men because thou hast begun the work so earnestly; plod on until it is finished, then shall the glory come. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. Christ wants his disciples to have peace. John 18:2. Turns played faster and it was more competitive going head to head. Their accusation was transparently false, and Pilate made them see that it was so. It was generally made of the sinews of oxen, intertwined with the knuckle bones of sheep, and small slivers of bone. This site was easy to read and highly recommended. And he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. Therein uttering a prophecy which he did not himself fully understand, speaking like another Balaam, through whom God spoke the truth, as once he did through the ass that Balaam rode. How that fire must have reminded Peter of his denial of his Lord! It would be a dreadful thing indeed if the chosen people of God were to be overcome by the world; so Christ prayed that his Father would keep them from the evil, for he well knew that they could not be kept from it by any power that was not divine. Like them, how little do we retain of that which he teaches us! Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. John 14:3. Many a time have we asked that question with great admiration of the special sovereign grace of God, that he should manifest himself to us, and not to the world. Why, that is a stronger plea altogether. You will find it in the Gospel according to Matthew, chapter twenty-six. Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. John 14:6. We have received the words which the Father has given the Son, and we believe of a surety that the Father has sent Jesus Christ into the world. John 19:35-37. John 14:19-20. They had asked so little that it came to nothing, and they had not yet learned the art of using his name in prayer; and a great many Christians have not learned it yet. 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. It is even so. how marred it was before it came near to finishing! That is what you have reason to expect, and you may feel honoured if they treat you as they have treated your Lord. Because I live, ye shall live also. As surely as Christ lives, so must his people. John 14:17. and lifestyle. John 20:26. Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled, but that they might eat the passover. While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. But when you are authorized to use the name of Christ as it were, to write his signature to your cheques oh! And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue; For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God. O Lord, help us to obey it! He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? These few Greeks were the advance guard of the great Gentile army of the Lord; he regarded their coming in that sense. This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. Take particular care if you stop to apply a sticker or to fetch a card from the Cardporium these are the most likely moments you might forget to go back and finish. and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? It is a wonderfully suggestive thought that Jesus knew everything that would happen to him. How particular some men are about some merely human rubric, yet the divine precepts of the law they violate with impunity. When Christ cannot rejoice in us, you may rest assured that we cannot rejoice in ourselves; but when his grace so operates upon us that he sees that in us which gives him content, then it is that we shall feel a blessed content ourselves. Just need to know the mechanic to understand the game. If anyone is trusting in himself, he may soon utter a falsehood concerning his Lord, as Peter did. which does not glorify Christ, it is not the Holy Spirit; it is not the Comforter. And Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples. who is this Son of man? John 17:24. Take care of them, and do not think the charge a burden; but do it for the sake of him who loves you so much that he entrusts his poor ones to you. Galatians He does not come as yet to judge you; there is a second coming, when he will be both judge and witness, and condemner, of those who have rejected him; but at present it is a dispensation of pure mercy. This is a chapter which I suppose most of us know by heart, full of comfort, a very river of delight. They may be directed to heaven, but the Lord will not listen to them so as to have regard unto them. 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. The only I am coming again, so be not troubled as though you had said Good-bye to me forever. We are in a land which is not our rest; and however happy our portion may be an Christ the world takes care that we should understand that we are aliens and foreigners in it; hurrying through it towards our abiding home. John 12:27-29. These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. We shall not dread suffering if that be our one desire, became we shall see that suffering often gives opportunities to God for manifesting his own glory in the patience of his people. I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. John 17:1. And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them. He has washed our feet, and he often repeats the gracious act. And whether Thomas did put his finger into the print of his nails or not, we cannot tell. You are living in direct violation of a plain command that is most dear to his heart. This is the description of Christs people; does it describe you? Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe? May the Holy Spirit graciously grant us a glimpse of the glorious truths that are here revealed! For the Father himself loveth you,-, The Father, whom you are so apt to think of as sterner than myself, and farther off than I, the Son of man am, the Father himself loveth you,. I'll tell you some changes introduced in legacy (as spoiler free as I can) and I'll let you decide. If the men of the world in our Saviours day did not understand the Fathers voice to the Only Begotten, do not expect that the men of the world today will understand the divine voice in your heart. The simple utterance of his name drove them from him, and smote them to the earth; what would have happened if he had put forth his almighty power? Have you, dear friends, love to Christ? Then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you. 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. John 18:27. John 15:10. John 15:16. Do not be discouraged, you who, when you are endeavoring to fish for souls, for many a day catch nothing. It was because he could not allow his Lord to stoop so low; he thought it ill manners to permit such an one as Christ to wash the feet of such an one as the poor fisherman, Peter. John 17:12-13. Luke John 16:1-3. That is the cure for heart trouble, and all other trouble, too, believing in God, and believing in his Son, Jesus Christ. John 14:6. The Holy Spirit does not reveal anything fresh to us. The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine. The way we know. Listen again to these words of our Lord: The Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive. The world is always receiving one form of falsehood or another; tossed to and fro, and never abiding long in one stay, it cries, This is the truth, or That is the truth, or Now we have it; this is the truth. But Christ says, The Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you., Or, orphans, for that is the meaning of the original: I will not leave you orphans.. John 19:7-8. And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: That is better. The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine. They will be ready to invent all kinds of stories of angels, and I know not what, so as to get rid of the voice of God to you. So my synopsis is.. pulling is brutal at first but it gets better. 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. In this verse you get the doctrines of general and particular redemption blended. This is a wonderful trinity of unities, each one a mystery, but each one to be known by the believer when he is instructed of the Spirit of God: Christ in the Father, the saints in Christ, and Christ in them. He knew that he had come forth from God, and that he was going back to God, and he performed this action on the way home 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. Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. We say, Forewarned, forearmed. So the disciples were; and so are you. Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Find ye them where ye may, if they are one with Christ, they are his they are parts of the divine vine; they are belonging to his Church. John 19:27. There is a hatred of God in all hatred of the Mediator. You dread death. Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet? The apostles blundered, and lost themselves in the words of their Master, instead of entering into the spirit of what he said; so we must not wonder if we often do the same. 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. What mockery there was in Pilates use of this title, and yet how true it was! I will communicate with you spiritually; but, for that, you must wait a little: I am not yet ascended to my Father., He had never called them that before. Let not your heart be troubled. Every step we can follow. 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. He perishes that sins against the law, he dieth without mercy at the mouth of one or two witnesses. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them. 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