Mere head knowledge is all in vain, and all in vain our fears, unless we render a practical obedience to the commandments of Christ. Be ye imitators; of Christ as good soldiers, who cannot have a better model for their soldierly life than their Captain and Lord. There was the hiding of his power. Life and Immortality - Basil Atkinson, M.A., PhD. 1 And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: 2 And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage. That which is the subject of promise is also the subject of precept; and the precepts of the gospel are given to Christians because, in this way, God keeps his own promise, and so leads me to obey his precepts. From the time when Christ first began to preach, or when the gospel was first preached in your ears.. Articles Messages Books Podcasts Filter Resources By . I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, (Hebrew/Greek Search by English Definition), * 'Number Delimiters' only apply to 'Paragraph Order', Search verses, phrases, and topics (e.g. The glory of Jesus is found in His compassion, and this was a miracle full of compassion. Love's Climax "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins." 1 John iv. Hear me!" There is a will-worship which is practised in the Church of Rome of self-denials which are absurd, and must, I think, be hateful in the sight of God rather than pleasing to him. He that saith he abideth in him: " that is exactly what every Christian does say. So one man copies Christ, perhaps; a friend who hears him preach copies him, and his wife at home copies the hearer, and somebody copies her; and so it goes on all down the line, till we all miss that glorious hand-writing which Jesus has come to teach us. Does this strike you as an easy thing? The love of the world is essentially idolatry, and God will not be worshipped side . Poetical Books Far from it: If any man sin, . Many a sweet night he spent in those prayer-times of his in fellowship with the Father. of the Traditional "Sermon" Concept, A Biblical Defense of Conditional Immortality, Biblically Dispelling the Myth of Eternal Torture. You have accepted Jesus as the Christ the anointed of God, so the apostle affirms that you are "born of God.". John Piper Jul 20 . We recommend Pilgrim Publications, where the Ages disk may be purchased at a discount. We must go a little into detail; so I say, next, one main point in which we ought to walk according to the walk of our great Exemplar is obedience. Is not this the thing that weakens the preaching, of the gospel the want of living the gospel? I should think not. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. They went out from us, but they were not of us: for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. For John, the basics of Christianity are summarized by adherence to the truth (v. 4), love (v. 5), and obedience (v.6). And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. How much more emphatically John might write this verse if he were writing today! conservative Christian faith, which includes a firm belief in the inerrancy - Bullinger, Rise Of The Theory Of Universal Restoration - Henry Constable, Universal Restoration Substituted for Eternal Torment, Absent From The BodyPresent With The Lord, Cross Purposes: Atonement, Death and the Fate of the Wicked. In this thing let us walk even as he walked. Point me to a single mortification of a needless kind. That, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. Did he not set us an example of bearing and forbearing? The Father anointed Christ of old with the same anointing, which rests on us in our measure. These two things are such deadly opposites that they cannot live together where the love of the father is, there cannot be the love of the world. And Christ persevered in such living; he never turned aside from it at all; but as he lived so he died, still serving his God, obedient to his Father's will, even unto death. Daily devotional with John Piper. A quaint collection of lectures about great preachers with unusual characteristics. Amen. The Wisdom We Speak. "Be ye imitators of God, as dear children." Are not actions far more forcible than words? Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. Historical Books The Lord's Supper - A Historical Overview, Ten Indictments Against the Modern Church - Paul Washer - Video, The Bible Without Comment - William E. 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As the branch receives all its sap from the stem, so all the sap of spiritual life flows from Christ into us. Spurgeon left this earth for his heavenly hope in 1892. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 2:6-13. When we try to be, in every respect, what Gods Word tells us we ought to be, then may we know that we are in God; but if we walk carelessly, if we take no account of our actions, but do, after a random fashion, whatever comes into our foolish hearts, then have we no evidence at all that we are in God. Jul 20, 1980. We have an Advocate: God's desire is that you may not sin. What a heart-searching test this is! Oh, no, far from it; it is a sad case, but there is a remedy for it: and if any man sin,-. General Epistles That is the drift of the plan of grace, the aim of the covenant. A strong emphasis in Spurgeon's preaching was God's grace and sovereignty over man's helpless state. May our lives be a mosaic of perfect obedience, and our deaths the completion of the fair design. Take care, take care, you that say that you are in Christ; you ought also to walk in all the lowliness and in all the tenderness of Christ, or else at the end you will be discovered to be none of his. ", You must enable JavaScript to view all available content on this page, Counterfeit Cross updated - We Walk by Faith Pt II - Taking Up Our Cross. Consolation Proportionate to Spiritual Sufferings, The Desire of the Soul in Spiritual Darkness, The Question of Fear and the Answer of Faith, Confession of SinA Sermon with Seven Texts, The Desolations of the Lord, the Consolation of His Saints, Christ Glorified as the Builder of His Church, The Wicked Man's Life, Funeral, and Epitaph, The Ceremony of Laying the First Stone of the New Tabernacle, A Blast of the Trumpet Against False Peace, The Beginning, Increase, and End of the Divine Life, The High Priest Standing Between the Dead and the Living. C.H. The overall theme of 2 John closely parallels 1 John's theme of a "recall to the fundamentals of the faith" or "back to the basics of Christianity" (vv. II. There was the hiding of his power. Now he has broken through the obscurity, and he begins his public ministry by working a miracle. For this we ought to watch and strive, that we sin not. Look to Jesus, and to him alone. Scriptural Evidence for the Necessity of Obedience in Salvation, The Doctrine of Immortality in the Early Church - John H. Roller, Luther's views on soul sleep and the after life, Make Good Use of Your Servitude - Observations on Biblical Slavery, The Consensus of Current Scholarship: The Soul is Not Immortal, Killing the Canaanites - A Response to the New Atheism's "Divine Genocide" Claims. First, it is the design of God that those who are in Christ should walk as Christ walked. Amen and Amen. Individual instructors or editors may still require the use of URLs. Oh, brethren, let us find our pleasure, our treasure, our heaven, our all, in the Lord our God, even as our Lord Jesus did. We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: and he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. He hath given his own Son to die for us, that we may die to sin; he has given him to live that we may live like him. It is said to have been the distinguishing mark of Caesar as a soldier that he never said to his followers "Go!" In every one of us the Father desires to see Christ, that so Christ may be glorified in every one of us. 1 John 2:16. I can only just point out the direction in which you should sail if you would make a prosperous voyage. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. It does not need a strong imagination to picture Mary, probably at that time the widowed mother of our Lord. These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. For this sinful world is directly opposed to the Father. May the Holy Spirit graciously lead us all to this extraordinary walk of grace, for our Lord Jesus Christs sake! John 2:1-11. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. (16-21) The advantage of faith, love, and obedience. "Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again." I desire to propagate nothing but his truth, and not my own ideas": then will you have exhibited the self-denial of Jesus. 1. Pentateuch He always did what was right, so he is able to defend us before God the Father. By his person and personal names. O child of God, as thou wouldst fear to drink poison, as thou wouldst flee from a serpent, dread sin! Lord, I desire to live as one Who bears a blood-bought name. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. Clinging to a Counterfeit Cross - James P. Shelly w/ audio, A Treatise of Earthly-Mindedness - Jeremiah Burroughs. 4-6). But I stop a minute. Listen to this text, "Delight thyself also in the Lord, and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart." Here again John repeats his former statement concerning the young men, but he adds to it because ye are strong and the word of God abideth in you. There is a purpose in the repetition of each case, it is to emphasize the importance of the apostolic declarations. Pride goeth not before salvation, but before destruction; and a haughty spirit is no prophecy of elevation, but the herald of a fall. The most persuasive sermon is the example which leads the way. Saint Bernard was a man whom I admire to the last degree, and I count him to be one of the Lord's choice ones; yet in the early part of his life there is no doubt that he lessened his powers of usefulness to a large extent by the emaciation which he endured, and the way in which he brought himself to death's door. But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.. In the gospel these two are disjoined, and he is called first the Word, Jn. Is Hell eternal torment or eternal death. The New Testament He cannot be a Christian unless this be true of him, and . He that saith he abideth in him: " that is exactly what every Christian does say. And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. We each one sing, and our heart goes with the words, "Rock of ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in thee. _My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not._ He is anxious that they should not sin, he knows they do, and that if they say they do not, they lie. He would have us wash one another's feet; and this is the argument "Ye call me Master and Lord, and ye say well; for so I am. The beginning of Genesis 1:1 is simple: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 1:1, and afterwards Life, intimating, withal, that he is intellectual life. If we shall, each one, take his time from the sun, we shall all be right. Our schoolmasters were not quite so wise then as schoolmasters are now. and who, though he was rich, brought himself down to poverty for our sakes, that we might be rich unto God. 1. 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This is the aim of election; this is the object of redemption; this is the fruit of calling; this is the concomitant of justification; this is the evidence of adoption; this is the earnest of glory; that we should be holy, even as Christ is holy, and in this respect should wear the lineaments of the Son of God. The Blue Letter Bible ministry and the BLB Institute hold to the historical, But they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. . The Spirit of God will teach you as you need to know. And now, little children, abide in him; . Do you blame them that it is so? Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. This volume is the ULTIMATE COMMENTARY ON 2 JOHN . The Whole Bible Scriptures Relating to the Second Coming, Apocalypse of the Gospels - Milton S. Terry, Commentary on Matthew 24 - J. Hell Under Fire - CIANZ Annual Conference Address, Jesus' Teaching on Hell - Samuel G. Dawson, The Nature of Hell - Evangelical Alliance, The Origin of Hell-Fire in Christian Teaching, The Bible Verses the Traditional View of Hell - Babu G. Ranganathan, Applying the Resurrection You certainly have not had the purpose of God fulfilled in you, dear friend, unless you have been conformed to the image of his dear Son. The Old Testament Not, he that doeth some great thing to be seen of men, not, he that builds a row of almshouses, or leaves a great mass of money to charity when he dies, because he could not possibly carry it away with him, not, he that sounds a trumpet before him to let everybody know what a good man he is; not, he that must needs outdistance everybody else; but, he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honour and everlasting joy. Obedience is the test of discipleship. Next, we ought to walk as Christ did in the matter of self-denial. I can never think of his life as an unhappy one. Luke-Acts You must get to commune with Jesus. The fruit of the Spirit is everything that is delightful, right, and good towards God, and generous towards man. "THE FIRST EPISTLE OF JOHN" Chapter Two We have an Advocate who is also the propitiation for our sins and to truly know Him we must keep His commandments ( 1-6 ), especially to love one another ( 7-11 ). Now he has broken through the obscurity, and he begins his public ministry by working a miracle. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.. In him was life, and that life was (efficiently and objectively) the light of men, Jn. Again I remind you that obedience is essential to Christian discipleship. 10. When did the Saviour thus behave himself? The Whole Bible And how was this? From our Bethlehem to our Gethsemane may our walk run parallel with the pathway of the Well-beloved! Those love-visits, those near and dear communings which his holy heart had with the Father were his secret meat and drink. Let those that want them have these novelties, these constant changes we who believe in Jesus have something far better, even the promise of eternal life.

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