And in order that we may know He simply changed worlds, He comes back and shows Himself alive; for He is not here in the world simply to assert truth, but to enact it. This week I will be preaching from John 1:14-18. Sermon John 1:1-18 What Child Is This? But it is meant to be like the great principle of gravitation which controls the planet and the pebble. "He has made us kings and priests unto God." One noble act suggests another: one great sacrifice for truth or duty prompts another. But as a moral teacher He stands at the head, unimpeachable in the minutest particular. Read another emphasis on that "you." and remain in His love. He stands steadily upon life, life endless by its own Divine nature. This life is communicated, not by anything that is outward, but entirely by the Holy Spirit of God. Jesus our Comforter is with us. The patronage of princes may make a rich or a renowned Church. Happy in prosperity — happy in adversity — happy in life — happy in death — happy forever!3. There is no room for any fear with regard to the great changes of the future. To the presence of God. "He has made us kings and priests unto God." 2. Wherever there is life, we find it has within itself the power of adaptation to varied temperature. It is noticeable also that the faith of natural evidence awakens no joyful enthusiasm in masses of mankind. "Ye shall live also." His life shows that He possesses all that is necessary to bestow life on His people. The spirit is conscious of and values its own existence. Most people before they become drunkards have had some sickness of mind or body preying upon them; but do not fly from your great trouble to drink. When our nearest and dearest are taken from us, how consoling to think the great God our Saviour lives! I was once asked to visit a man who was said to be dying. But the Saviour's unending life is full of terror to His enemies because He ever lives. And it is the Resurrection of Jesus Christ — which has in this, as in so many other ways, opened the kingdom of heaven to all believers. His treatment of this doctrine was not so much corrective as accretive. Spurgeon. They are set at rest by the statement, "And ye shall live a]so.". He feels no need of examining the evidences or balancing proofs. H. The longing was itself a sort of proof that its object was real; for how was its existence to be explained if all enterprise was to be abruptly broken off by the shock of death? He found a doctrine of sin and righteousness turning upon external conduct; He transferred it to the heart and spirit. PHYSICAL LIFE. T. Munger.1. He is still with us, the very Christ that He was. The life of faith is commensurate in duration with the life of Christ, with which it is inseparably connected. Life is sensible of pain. His life proves that He has done all that is necessary in order to secure life for them. Happy, surely, are the living disciples of the living Saviour! This life bears fruit on earth in righteousness and true holiness, and it is made perfect in the presence of God in heaven. Given the fact of God, and all other truth takes its place without question. III. It implies such conviction in the mind of the speaker that there is no need of proof.II. This was really the case, in spite of some appearances to the contrary. Hence He never uses any word corresponding to immortality (which is a mere negation — unmortal), but always speaks of life. THE RENEWED LIFE. When Christ manifested himself to his disciples, they never thought of orphanage and desolation afterwards. Is it probable that, true in all else, He was in fault in this one respect? If justification is the article of a standing or a falling Church, regeneration, or life by the Holy Spirit, is the article of a living or a dead Church.2. 4. And in Christ we have both — the human omen and the Divine promise turned into fact. His life shows that He possesses all that is necessary to bestow life on His people. Things are not always what they seem. 2. Life is progressive, and Spiritual life grows in likeness to Christ. H. IN HIS MIND THE INTENSE AND ABSOLUTE CONSCIOUSNESS OF GOD CARRIES WITH IT IMMORTALITY, AS IT DOES THE WHOLE BODY OF HIS TRUTH. What pain is to the body, sin is to the spiritual life; and just as our nervous system shrinks from the very touch or contact of pain, so the soul that is in unison with God shrinks from sin as its greatest evil, and the immediate source of all misery.4. 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. It holds the mind, but does not minister to the heart.2. We can but notice how grandly Christ reposed upon this fact of immortal life. 3. And thus we are brought to the fundamental fact that HE CONNECTED LIFE OR IMMORTALITY WITH CHARACTER. They saw him in every object around and above them in the gloom of earth and in the glory of heaven; saw him in all the circumstances and trials of life and in the sufferings of death, in nature, providence and redemption. IS HIS ABILITY TO HELP TO THE UTMOST. Only this it saw of Jesus; but even this was about to be withdrawn. (John 8:32) and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” (John 8:40) “But as it is, you are seeking to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God; this Abraham did not do. The Church chose for one of its ancient emblems of the Saviour the pelican, which fed its young, according to the fable, with the blood from its own breast. Physical life is dependent upon the life and will of God; and spiritual life by faith is entirely dependent on the life of Christ as its Divine Source, its efficient and meritorious Cause, its infinite Support and Guarantee. That His faith in immortality was but an in. Now it is so with spiritual life.2. (2) The fact that Jesus continues to live, is the assurance that all who believe in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. A Sermon on John 1:1-18 ” Ann Prentice, OSH says: December 30, 2013 at 12:51 pm. SERMON 3 JOHN 1:14-18 THE GLORY OF THE INCARNATE CHRIST And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, ) full of grace and truth. The Church is His bride. His resurrection and celestial life are undoubted proofs that the sentence adjudging us to death was repealed, and the influence that was necessary to make us live was sent forth. (2) It is far more clear. Its progress is illimitable, because the principle itself is infinite. If one tells me ninety-nine truths, I will trust him in the hundredth, especially if it is involved in those before. It began in Christ, when God wrought in Him by His mighty power, to raise Him from the dead. To the presence of God. The mind knows that each new effort, instead of exhausting its powers, enlarges them, and that if only the physical conditions necessary to continued exertion are not withdrawn, it will go on continuously making larger and nobler acquirements. He can "give power to the faint, and to them that have no power He increaseth strength." John 14 Sermon Outline No sooner had Judas left the room, when the whole atmosphere changed from the sense of sadness to Jesus motivating in sweet fellowship His ... John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the … 4:4). When life begins to be true, it announces itself as an eternal thing to the mind; as a caged bird when let loose into the sky might say, "Now I know that my wings are made to beat the air in flight;" and no logic could ever persuade the bird that it was not designed to fly; but when caged, it might have doubted at times, as it beat the bars of its prison with unavailing stroke, if its wings were made for flight. It implies such conviction in the mind of the speaker that there is no need of proof. The best opportunity the world ever had would soon be lost forever. Orphanism, so far as human parentage is concerned, is a calamity, but this is a crime. "Be not weary in well-doing" is the language of the Eternal Wisdom to the human will. Or would you ask for John Bunyan, or for Wesley or Whitefield? And in order that we may know He simply changed worlds, He comes back and shows Himself alive; for He is not here in the world simply to assert truth, but to enact it. "If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.". Everything is changed; nothing looks to us as it used to look in the sunshine, which seems as if it never would come back again. Luther answered, "Jesus lives; and if He did not live I would not care to live an hour." 2. Because He lives, we live, and our life is hid with Christ in God.III. T. Monopoly is a word banished from the religion of heaven. So too with the heart, the conscience, the sense of duty. He teaches us that all things work together for good. When the clearest eyes that ever looked on this world and into the heavens, and the keenest judgment that ever weighed human life, and the purest heart that ever throbbed with human sympathy, tells me that man is immortal, I repose on His teaching in perfect trust. We are called upon to live of ourselves, that would be death; but we have life and all things in union with Him.(C. His treatment of this doctrine was not so much corrective as accretive. 1. **I will not leave you orphaned** (John 14:18). Every child of God shall live. If one tells me ninety-nine truths, I will trust him in the hundredth, especially if it is involved in those before. 2. Monopoly is a word banished from the religion of heaven. We little dream what may be reserved for us; we may have to climb steeps of prosperity, slippery and dangerous, but we shall live; we may be called to sink in the dark waters of adversity, but we shall live. Only He who could say, "I will come to you" as none other comes, as He came to Martha and Mary at Bethany; only He can say, "I will not leave you comfortless.". But what assurance have we that this life of Christ will always continue to be imparted to His people? We see an ever-living Savior and an ever-loving Father in closest fellowship, and our life by faith in closest fellowship with both. That Divine and Personal force, whereby the mind and nature of the unseen Saviour is poured into the hearts and minds and characters of men, was to be the Lord and Giver of this life to the end of time. And what a solemn fact is this immortality of ours! Who was in the beginning with God, and was God - Jn 1:1-2 b. CONSISTS IN MORAL SEPARATION FROM GOD. 2. "But are not good works essential to the maintenance of the spiritual life?" )LinksJohn 14:18 NIVJohn 14:18 NLTJohn 14:18 ESVJohn 14:18 NASBJohn 14:18 KJVJohn 14:18 Bible AppsJohn 14:18 ParallelJohn 14:18 Biblia ParalelaJohn 14:18 Chinese BibleJohn 14:18 French BibleJohn 14:18 German BibleJohn 14:18 CommentariesBible Hub, (3)Incomplete now, but destined to be complete at the Resurrection. But an assumption is often the strongest kind of argument. If justification is the article of a standing or a falling Church, regeneration, or life by the Holy Spirit, is the article of a living or a dead Church.2. And in order that we may know He simply changed worlds, He comes back and shows Himself alive; for He is not here in the world simply to assert truth, but to enact it. "Because I live, ye shall live also." Michael, this is a wonder-ful follow-up to your Christmas Eve sermon! When He entered on His ministry He found certain imperfect or germinal truths existing in Jewish theology. John Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. It has changed its forms, varied its circumstances, altered its doctrines, but has maintained in every period of its history its inward life. "When Christ, who is our Life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory." The life of the Church of Christ is its most distinctive and glorious characteristic. The fact that there are millions of Christians who live by faith in Him under the dispensation of the Spirit, proves the reality of His life, of its continuance and power. WHAT OUR LORD'S WORDS DO NOT MEAN. The animal lives wholly in the present, practically it has no past, nor does it look forward. (Ray Palmer, D. D.)The living ChurchJ. © Copyrights 2021. We shall be satisfied with each draught of revelation, and look forward with serene confidence and ecstatic joy to the next and the next. FOR THESE FOUR WRETCHEDNESSES, CHRIST IS THE ONLY ANTIDOTE — "I will come to you." Within this universe, at its centre, is world around which all others revolve, the sun of suns, the centre of all systems, whose potency reaches to the uttermost verge, holding them steady to their courses. He inquired of Luther what he meant by "vivit?" The patronage of princes may make a rich or a renowned Church. But what assurance have we that this life of Christ will always continue to be imparted to His people? Of what value is the mere adding of days to days if they are full of sin? tense form of a prevailing superstition?" The source of all missionary effort.3. But the Saviour's unending life is full of terror to His enemies because He ever lives. The removal of the penalty which fell upon our race for Adam's sin. Browse Sermons on John 14:18. H a man eats a piece of bread, that bread is so assimilated that it is turned into the energy of his physical system. Still another distinction must be made; we do not accept immortality because Jesus, the wise young Jew, wove it into His precepts, but because the Christ, the Son of God and of man — Humanity revealing Deity — makes it a part of that order of human history best named as the reconciliation of the world to God.III. Home » Search/Library » Sermons on "God: dependability of", Sermon Week Sixth Sunday of Easter Cycle A, Many years ago, it was the custom in some Churches for the congregation to assemble shortly after Easter for a festival. It is easy to ascertain if a man be dead or living physically; and it is not difficult to ascertain if a man be living or dead spiritually.1. The Holy Spirit of God literally has gone "all out" to provide us with the answer to the question of what it means to be the kind of beautifully fulfilled person we have been created to become. How does He communicate His life when the creative stimulus of His visible Presence has been withdrawn? joy! THE LIFE OF CHRIST'S PEOPLE. "Because I live, you must perish forever." Their spiritual possessions were greater than knowledge. It is a life of favour; He is now very near and very dear to God forever. Now Jesus always lives. The mere fact that I shall live tomorrow does not sensibly move me. John 14:18. Build me a column perfect in base and body, and I will know if the capital is true. just as I have kept My Father's commandments This will be fully the case at the last day. They would not come to Him that they might have life.4. "Because I live, ye shall live also." 2. We have here: (1) The nature of their life. Eloquence and orthodoxy may make a convinced or an enlightened, but they cannot make a living Church.I. 4. III. Plato and Cicero discourse of immortality with a certain degree of warmth, but their countrymen get little comfort from it. (2) The same conviction you and I must have, if the world is not to be a desert and a dreary place for us. The life of faith is as certain and safe as that Divine life from which it emanates, and by which it is protected and supported. ", I. "Join thyself," says , "to the eternal God, and thou wilt be eternal.". "How shall I live on? Cumming, D. D.)Immortality as taught by the ChristT. Since the text and audio content provided by BLB represent a range of evangelical traditions, all of the ideas and principles conveyed in the resource materials are not necessarily affirmed, in total, by this ministry. And, in point of fact, He is the parent of a race of spiritual men who push human life to its highest capacities of excellence. A plane landed after a long flight. It is a sufficient reason, for —(1) Christ's life is a proof that His work has accomplished the redemption of His people. We are back in the Upper Room. Then there is in the soul a spring-tide of spiritual comfort and peace, and an ecstasy of inspired confidence. It is easy to ascertain if a man be dead or living physically; and it is not difficult to ascertain if a man be living or dead spiritually. Yet how much has been crowded into it. Luther answered, "Jesus lives; and if He did not live I would not care to live an hour." Given the fact of God, and all other truth takes its place without question. IN HIS MIND THE INTENSE AND ABSOLUTE CONSCIOUSNESS OF GOD CARRIES WITH IT IMMORTALITY, AS IT DOES THE WHOLE BODY OF HIS TRUTH. He ever comes in his Word, in his Spirit, in the dispensations of providence, in the shadows and sunshine of life, and especially in the gloom of death, and each coming is a source of comfort and joy; but his great coming at the last day will crown all, and swallow every other coming in itself, and will perfect the mutual fellowship for ever. Reflections:(1) Apart from Christ, the Christian can do nothing. He never makes a straight assertion of it except once, when the Sadducees pressed Him with a quibbling argument against the resurrection. "He that hath my commandments," etc. It filled their horizon with his presence and glory. Man's spirit lives more in the past and in the future than in the present, exactly in the degree in which it makes the most of itself. And if there be life in man's soul, that life will adjust itself; will not be conquered by, but will conquer its circumstances. 18 Outlines . His life proves that He has done all that is necessary in order to secure life for them. True, the believer's natural life is like that of all other men: one of sin, misery, without God, without hope under wrath, on the way to everlasting woe. HE ASSUMED THE RECEIVED DOCTRINE AND BUILT UPON IT. in spite of some appearances to the contrary, This was literally the case at his resurrection, This was specially the case on the Day of Pentecost, This will be fully the case at the last day, perfect certainty and safety of their life, It is possible to have an interest in Christ without fully knowing it at the time, Faith naturally presses forward to a fuller knowledge of Divine things, There are periods when Divine knowledge is specially attained and realized, This self-manifestation of Christ is inseparably connected with loving obedience to him, This self-manifestation of Christ is inseparably connected with a corresponding experience of Divine love, This self-manifestation of Christ is gradual and progressive, This self-manifestation of Christ will be ultimately complete, sympathy of Christ with his people is most tenderly considerate, His sympathy with his people is ever practical, us take care of the condition of our spiritual comfort and realization, The Continued Life of Christ the Ground of Our Hope, The continued life of Christ the ground of our hope. Human love to Christ is repaid with Divine interest. MEN VERY OFTEN SEEK ARTIFICIAL COMFORTERS. When the clearest eyes that ever looked on this world and into the heavens, and the keenest judgment that ever weighed human life, and the purest heart that ever throbbed with human sympathy, tells me that man is immortal, I repose on His teaching in perfect trust. Sense disturbs, faith alone beholds. The reason is evident. 2. He found a doctrine of immortality, held as mere future existence. Man lives at the Pole, as he lives below the Line. T. Munger.1. A happy life. It is all but a quotation of the name "Jehovah." There is no spiritual life on earth apart from Him. They are not orphans. That is, "Ye do constantly see Me." There can be no real and abiding faith in immortality until it becomes wedded to the spiritual nature. O. Thompson.Christ is the basis of —I. If the Head has life the members cannot see corruption. Plato and Cicero discourse of immortality with a certain degree of warmth, but their countrymen get little comfort from it. That vitality must be a reality since nothing has been ever able to extinguish or destroy it. His life shows that He possesses all that is necessary to bestow life on His people. In your homes, whether your tables be covered with all the luxuries, or merely with the necessaries of life, "ye are to do all to the glory of God."III. Come with me, and I will hold on to you until you are a better man," why, such language would be an inspiration! Now it is so with spiritual life. "I will that they would turn — I will that they would live."(J. The only relic I had was a little piece of her silk dress, and this I preserved as my dearest treasure. "Because I live, you must perish forever." )Living because Christ livesC. An immortal life. The depth and sweep of its meaning are given to us by this Apostle, "the living One," who lived whilst He died, and having died "is alive for evermore.". tense form of a prevailing superstition?" 4. All systems, hierarchies, and empires shall be dissolved; but the man that has the life of God in his heart has the immortality of God as his prerogative. Monopoly is a word banished from the religion of heaven. And the more we turn away from looking at the dazzling lies which befool and bewilder us, the more shall we see Him whom to see is to live forever. Let us confine our view to one kind of sorrow — BEREAVEMENT, This has in it —. And this spiritual life lays hold upon all the elements of nutriment, as these are laid up in Christ, found in the oracles of truth, and at the communion table.3. But when his life is made up of the world, it is not strange that it should seem to himself as liable to perish with the world. 2. A heart which bore the agony, shame, desertion of His disciples must be always warm towards those whose salvation He seeks.II. It is —. Men felt the contagion of a presence, the influence of which they could not measure, a presence from which there radiated a subtle, mysterious energy, which was gradually taking possession of them they knew not exactly how, and making them begin to live a new and higher life. (Ray Palmer, D. D.)The living ChurchJ. The disciples had much now of which they were not aware. It is not worthy of the name of life; it is properly death. TO DESTROY ALL POWER THAT IS OPPOSED TO MAN'S REDEMPTION. All this helps us to understand His mission, and especially to realize to ourselves His abiding spiritual presence. Yes, our life is bound up with that of Jesus. Life is progressive, and Spiritual life grows in likeness to Christ. 4. It is not worthy of the name of life; it is properly death. THE RISEN LIFE in glory, to all eternity. 3. But what sort of immortality is it to be? Within this universe, at its centre, is world around which all others revolve, the sun of suns, the centre of all systems, whose potency reaches to the uttermost verge, holding them steady to their courses. Something must be joined with existence before it gets power.3. For a few short hours still, the ungodly mass of men were to have that outward vision which they had used so badly, that "they seeing saw not." "Join thyself," says , "to the eternal God, and thou wilt be eternal."(T. He will indeed bow his head in obedience to the physical laws of the humanity He shares, but already He enters the gates of Paradise, not alone but leading a penitent child of humanity by the hand. Thus, in Christ, we have the light of two worlds thrown upon human destiny. Reflections:(1) Apart from Christ, the Christian can do nothing. Man's spirit either exists in its completeness, or it ceases to exist. He is still proclaiming, "As I live, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked." 1. What a comfort it is to believers to know that their pious dead are still living, and especially to know that their Redeemer liveth! Thanks Sr. Ann. The whole bearing of Christ towards death, and His treatment of it, was as one superior to it, and as having no lot nor part in it. Because He lives, we live, and our life is hid with Christ in God. The whole bearing of Christ towards death, and His treatment of it, was as one superior to it, and as having no lot nor part in it. In some of the cathedrals of Europe, on Christmas eve, two small lights, typifying the Divine and human nature, are gradually made to approach one another until they meet and blend, forming a bright flame. The birth of the first child was a prelude to the gospel. "I come unto you.". The birth of the first child was a prelude to the gospel. There may be an eclipse, but not total; and if total, it will not continue long enough to be specially noticed. How can we famish or die?IV. His resurrection and celestial life are undoubted proofs that the sentence adjudging us to death was repealed, and the influence that was necessary to make us live was sent forth. As time in the Divine mind is an eternal now, so it seems to have been with Christ. 4. (John Milne. That vitality must be a reality since nothing has been ever able to extinguish or destroy it. For 33 years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. "I am present with every single heart." All that we know is, that there is some principle within that looks through the. If we want an increase of knowledge, let us strive for an increase of faith. Human nature is crowded with hints and omens of it, but prophecy does not convince till it is fulfilled. It is a life of liberty; He has done with servile work, and now reigns on high. But as a moral teacher He stands at the head, unimpeachable in the minutest particular. (3) To keep up close communion with Christ. The soul of man knows itself to be capable of continuous development. "I will," etc. (4) When we are heavily burdened. HE ASSUMED THE RECEIVED DOCTRINE AND BUILT UPON IT. It is a life of glory; He has done with shame, and has a name that is above every name. )The continued life of Christ the ground of our hopeRay Palmer, D. D.Christ lives —I. May 19, 2019. As time in the Divine mind is an eternal now, so it seems to have been with Christ. 3. They would not come to Him that they might have life. At present this higher life is only in its infancy. He never slumbers nor sleeps; He has all power in heaven and on earth; He is Head over all things to the Church. But even this vision would be soon withdrawn. We are "a royal priesthood."4. ", III. The strength of Christ never ceases to be the soul's victory. Build me a column perfect in base and body, and I will know if the capital is true. If you knew none better you might. 2. Wherever there is life, we find it has within itself the power of adaptation to varied temperature. I will not leave you comfortless, I will come to you. It is easy to ascertain if a man be dead or living physically; and it is not difficult to ascertain if a man be living or dead spiritually.1. By the Christian sacraments, the guaranteed points of contact with our unseen Saviour; for in them we may certainly meet Him and be invigorated by Him as we toil along the road of our pilgrimage.Conclusion: 1. Still another distinction must be made; we do not accept immortality because Jesus, the wise young Jew, wove it into His precepts, but because the Christ, the Son of God and of man — Humanity revealing Deity — makes it a part of that order of human history best named as the reconciliation of the world to God.III. II. III. It is the same in the reason for which it is bestowed. Christians are, by faith, so identified with Jesus Christ as to be partakers with Him of that life on which He entered, when, being raised from the dead, He sat down forever on the right hand of the Majesty on high. 4. "It has pleased the Father, that in Him all fulness should dwell," that out of His fulness His people may receive, and grace for grace.Conclusion:1. The life of the believer is the same in nature as Christ's; the same in duration. 2. "He was a good Man, an original Teacher, But He offended the religion and society leaders of His day, and they secured His crucifixion." Whatever is meant by living shall be ours. One you loved, and with whom you were almost hourly in converse, has passed away. So were we not to live, the great end for which He died and rose would be frustrated.2. This life is —, (1)One of holy activity and enjoyment.(2)Immortal. We cannot even look upon the man Jesus issuing from the tomb, and draw from thence a faith that yields peace. "Because He died, we live; because He lives, we live; because He lives" — because He is the living One — "we shall live also!" Jesus once really seen by faith will never be permanently lost sight of, but the constancy and clearness of the vision depend upon the degree of faith and love in the soul. There is no spiritual life on earth apart from Him. Eloquence and orthodoxy may make a convinced or an enlightened, but they cannot make a living Church.I. It was to cease, and they who loved Him would not miss it when it did. "He has made us kings and priests unto God." Hence, when there is an overpowering, all-possessing sense of God as there was in Christ, truth takes on absolute forms; hence it was that He spoke with authority. 1. Life is an internal principle originating outward and visible characteristics. We will now consider the way in which Christ treated the subject. 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