To read the complete sermon, enter a subscription. "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. "I will manifest," etc. is the question with the worldling; but the Christian says, "Lift Thou upon us the light of Thy countenance."3. Is not this evidence of a Divine presence — of a Divine power? This was a mistake, and Christ is very careful to correct it. The topic [...]. 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. Jesus in Spirit is with you. When I first come to Christ, I know I must find all in Him, for I feel I have nothing of my own; but all my life long I am to acknowledge the same absolute dependence. When He entered on His ministry He found certain imperfect or germinal truths existing in Jewish theology. It is a life of favour; He is now very near and very dear to God forever. 1. Given the fact of God, and all other truth takes its place without question. Yet how much has been crowded into it. And it is so in the experience of believers ever since. IN HIS MIND THE INTENSE AND ABSOLUTE CONSCIOUSNESS OF GOD CARRIES WITH IT IMMORTALITY, AS IT DOES THE WHOLE BODY OF HIS TRUTH. III. Mark the majestic "I live" — the timeless present tense, which expresses unbroken, undying and Divine life. "Ye in me," etc. It is a life of liberty; He has done with servile work, and now reigns on high. Others may continue to exist, but continuance is not immortality. 3. He never makes a straight assertion of it except once, when the Sadducees pressed Him with a quibbling argument against the resurrection. Cumming, D. D.)Immortality as taught by the ChristT. This life bears fruit on earth in righteousness and true holiness, and it is made perfect in the presence of God in heaven. With Him there is no shadow of a turning. Sermon Topic God: dependability of. And in Christ we have both — the human omen and the Divine promise turned into fact. This springs from the relation which He holds to them. "I am the Bread of Life;" "I am the Vine, ye are the branches." He can "give power to the faint, and to them that have no power He increaseth strength." eye, that hears through the ear, that feels through the touch, that enables me to walk, to speak, and to hold converse with society around me. He had lived the life of a man in union with God while He was on the earth — of the God-man, commissioned to give life — and many and striking were the demonstrations that He gave of His possession of this life. 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. He is the Creator, and the life of Adam and Eve after the fall depended entirely on the promise of the Redeemer. Life is communicative. Now it was about to be tried, and he had no doubt of the ultimate success. The reason is evident. No wonder that the silence is oppressive. Loneliness. Yes, our life is bound up with that of Jesus. Thompson. Therefore He cheers them with this assurance. 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. His treatment of this doctrine was not so much corrective as accretive. The vision, which is the consequence of the coming, is as continuous and permanent as the coming. THE REASON FOR THE SECURITY OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE. 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, morally, the unregenerate are ever distant from Him — alienated in sympathy, purpose and … It is a great thing for us that this truth has been put into actual fact. The true distinction between the Church and the world. After the terrible but brief gloom, "the Sun of Righteousness" appeared to faith brighter than ever. The source of all missionary effort.3. Let me make one or two inferences.This life is —1. In the last few verses of the prologue to his gospel, John identifies the Word... a. If there be God's life in man's heart, there must be God's holiness in man's conduct. 4. T. Munger.1. Christ's life was continuous. 2. He assures them not merely that he would continue to come unto them, but that they would continue to see him - see him even after his departure; and if not, it would be their own fault. 3. The mere fact that I shall live tomorrow does not sensibly move me. 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. Its breadth. It is everlasting life; He has done with death. is the question with the worldling; but the Christian says, "Lift Thou upon us the light of Thy countenance."3. 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. It is the same in the reason for which it is bestowed. "Because I live, ye shall live also." )The believer's lifeJohn Milne. Not physical; for in God we live and move, etc. To the favour of God. 2. 2. "I am present with every single heart." Thank God, society in this age has loving hearts, and good homes for orphans. © Copyrights 2021. Spurgeon. 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. Now it is so with spiritual life.2. To the favour of God. Keywords. ◄ John 14:18 ► I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. But it is meant to be like the great principle of gravitation which controls the planet and the pebble. 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. If the cup of life is full, there is little sense of past or future; the present is enough. He brings the soul into a loving, blessed fellowship with God. **I will not leave you orphaned** (John 14:18). This vision is granted to the disciples. 1. But even this vision would be soon withdrawn. The proof that a man is no Christian is, that he is no missionary. That vitality must be a reality since nothing has been ever able to extinguish or destroy it. The disciples had much now of which they were not aware. "We shall be like Him."III. 1. )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, III. His treatment of this doctrine was not so much corrective as accretive. 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. We are "a royal priesthood. The sympathy of Christ with his people is most tenderly considerate. The world testifies that He was dead and buried; but the world resists the bare ideas of His Resurrection or spiritual life. It implies such conviction in the mind of the speaker that there is no need of proof.II. Thompson. THE RENEWED LIFE. "The Father hath given to Him to have life in Himself; so that He quickeneth whom He will." "The Father hath given to Him to have life in Himself; so that He quickeneth whom He will." (2) Faith naturally presses forward to a fuller knowledge of Divine things. And therefore it is a reasonable and very strong presumption that spirit is not, in fact, placed at such disadvantage, and that, if matter survives the dissolution of organic forms, much more must spirit survive the dissolution of the material forms with which it has been associated. Life has the power of assimilation. That vitality must be a reality since nothing has been ever able to extinguish or destroy it. IS HIS ABILITY TO HELP TO THE UTMOST. Had He not succeeded in doing this He Himself would not thus have lived. It is a life of glory; He has done with shame, and has a name that is above every name. (John 16:14; Romans 8:9; 2 Corinthians 5:17). "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 world cannot see the spiritual and eternal; only the material and outward. "I am the Bread of Life;" "I am the Vine, ye are the branches." We cannot even look upon the man Jesus issuing from the tomb, and draw from thence a faith that yields peace. "Thou God seest me" is the constant feeling of the Christian.2. Yes, our life is bound up with that of Jesus. He can "strengthen the things that remain, and are ready to die."2. The source of all missionary effort.3. 4. 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. 3. He found a doctrine of immortality, held as mere future existence. 3. "He ever liveth to make intercession.". THE EVIDENCES OF THIS LIFE. This as yet was but imperfectly known - a source of perplexity to them. 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. Let me make one or two inferences.This life is —1. My eye does not touch what I look at. Others may continue to exist, but continuance is not immortality. 2. Joy is one of the fruits it bears.3. He found a doctrine of God, partial in conception; He perfected it by revealing the Divine Fatherhood. Then a gulf opens, which, however persons may talk about it, is then very wide. He feels no need of examining the evidences or balancing proofs. There can be no real and abiding faith in immortality until it becomes wedded to the spiritual nature. 2. There is an undertone of sadness in his announcement of this. God Almighty, the Creator and Sustainer of all that is, the Creator and Sustainer of all of life, will never abandon us! But this natural life loses its power and dominion when we believe on Christ. John 14:18 I will not leave you comfortless Gr. And what a solemn fact is this immortality of ours! 3. "Christ in you, the Hope of glory.". He found a doctrine of immortality, held as mere future existence. 2. Life has the power of assimilation. Of all the bereaved in the whole world, there is none so bereft as that man of whatever happy circle he may be, who cannot look up to heaven, and say, "My Father." He was the Prisoner of death, but only for a short time, and that by his own permission. Practically such life is death, and so He names it. Let me make one or two inferences.This life is —. It may be that Eve saw in the birth of Cain the fulfilment of the promise, for she said, "I have borne the seed, a man, the Lord."II. A happy life. Pastor Vince Gerhardy. If we could find any weakness elsewhere in His teachings, there would be ground for such questions. We are called upon to live of ourselves, that would be death; but we have life and all things in union with Him.(C. When our Lord was upon earth He communicated His Life to men, by coming in contact with them. I encourage you to read verses 14-18 several times and … 1. There is no spiritual life on earth apart from Him. 4. Practically such life is death, and so He names it. (2) The fact that Jesus continues to live, is the assurance that all who believe in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. 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. At present this higher life is only in its infancy. 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." His advent postulated the continuance of the race. )The continued life of Christ the ground of our hopeRay Palmer, D. D.Christ lives —I. I come to you - What was certainly and speedily to … 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? T. Munger.1. That a body of truth all interwoven and suffused with life is based upon an illusion of life? It is noticeable also that the faith of natural evidence awakens no joyful enthusiasm in masses of mankind. He came unto them, and they embraced their risen Lord. We are prone to think that Christianity is a thing for the Bible, for the Sunday, for the Church merely. It is a manifestation of him in itself. They would not come to Him that they might have life.4. This teaching of nature is presupposed by Christianity, and it is no true service to our Master to make light of it. THIS LIFE HAS CERTAIN SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS. I. It is not otherwise in morals. So clear and full was the vision to the disciples that they could see nothing else. And in the awful future, when the judgment comes, the begotten of God shall live. 14:18 I will not leave you orphans - A word that is elegantly applied to those who have lost any dear friend. "Join thyself," says , "to the eternal God, and thou wilt be eternal.". Read a particular emphasis on the "I," that great word which God is so fond of. And I owe the success of my boyhood to the consciousness of her beloved presence. John Piper Jan 17, 2021 1.4K Shares Sermon. Where then is loneliness? 2. (4) We who have spiritual life are one with Christ Jesus. 3. 18 Outlines . John 14:23-29 Peace I Leave with You. (2) The same conviction you and I must have, if the world is not to be a desert and a dreary place for us. It is the same as Christ's own life, of which we have been speaking. Life is communicative. Their life as united with his. A holy life. An immortal life. Something must be joined with existence before it gets power.3. "He that hath my commandments," etc. 1. Hollow joys, roses whose thorns last long after the petals have dropped, real sorrow, shows and shams, bitternesses and disappointments — are not these our life, in so far as Christ has been driven out of it? 3. As time in the Divine mind is an eternal now, so it seems to have been with Christ. II. Luther answered, "Jesus lives; and if He did not live I would not care to live an hour." and remain in His love. Within the range of our experience, no matter ceases to exist; it only takes new shapes, first in one being, and then in another. Michael, this is a wonder-ful follow-up to your Christmas Eve sermon! "He that hath my commandments," etc. Christ got it, because He wrought out the perfect, everlasting righteousness; we get it, because by faith we have received that righteousness. 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. One of the festival highlights would occur inside the Church, where the people got together for telling jokes and sharing humorous stories. They thought that he would leave entirely and for ever by death. The life of Jesus. "I will that they would turn — I will that they would live."(J. Death as to the body consists in its separation from the soul; the death of the soul lies mainly in the soul's being separated from its God. We know not what life is. But the Saviour's unending life is full of terror to His enemies because He ever lives. That a body of truth all interwoven and suffused with life is based upon an illusion of life? It is a life of favour; He is now very near and very dear to God forever. "Because" —1. We have here: (1) The nature of their life. He can "strengthen the things that remain, and are ready to die."2. A Christian is alive —. Elsewhere He simply assumes it. 1. When Christ manifested himself to his disciples, they never thought of orphanage and desolation afterwards. 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. There is no spiritual life on earth apart from Him. A happy life. An immortal life. Things are not always what they seem. All that we know is, that there is some principle within that looks through the. The soul has broken away from its Father, not its Father from it. HE ASSUMED THE RECEIVED DOCTRINE AND BUILT UPON IT. When the sun appears in the sky, all the landscape around is in full view. 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.". IN A SPECIAL MANNER WITH THE BELIEVER. It is everlasting life; He has done with death. The best opportunity the world ever had would soon be lost forever. Scripture: John 1:14–18. If one tells me ninety-nine truths, I will trust him in the hundredth, especially if it is involved in those before. We can but notice how grandly Christ reposed upon this fact of immortal life. "Tri Unity" Sermon: John 14:18-24 “Tri Unity” [John 14:18-24] February 5, 2017 Second Reformed Church. Man lives at the Pole, as he lives below the Line. (3) "The world seeth Me no more." 4. It has changed its forms, varied its circumstances, altered its doctrines, but has maintained in every period of its history its inward life. If you knew none better you might. It is the same as Christ's own life, of which we have been speaking. Separation. THE LIFE OF CHRIST'S PEOPLE. 2. So were we not to live, the great end for which He died and rose would be frustrated.2. He is the Creator, and the life of Adam and Eve after the fall depended entirely on the promise of the Redeemer. THE RENEWED LIFE. John 14:18 New International Version (NIV) 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Each devotional consists of a scripture passage and a reflection and a prayer which open up the day's scripture and show how it challenges you to live for Jesus. They would not come to Him that they might have life.4. 1. Find Top Church Sermons, Illustrations, and Preaching Slides on John 14:18. THE RISEN LIFE in glory, to all eternity. 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. How can we famish or die?IV. His life shows that He possesses all that is necessary to bestow life on His people. This is an inevitable consequence of their fellowship with Christ. Happy, surely, are the living disciples of the living Saviour! "I will that they would turn — I will that they would live."(J. To lift men out of existence into life was Christ's mission.V. Blessings and peace to you in the New Year. THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE TWO. Christ got it, because He wrought out the perfect, everlasting righteousness; we get it, because by faith we have received that righteousness. There is no sense of being alone when we realize that we are alone with Jesus. But what assurance have we that this life of Christ will always continue to be imparted to His people? The proof that a man is no Christian is, that he is no missionary. In the former it refers only to bodily, in the latter to spiritual perception. A holy life. It returns in living streams of love to the experience from the Father and the Son. The true distinction between the Church and the world.4. And thus we are brought to the fundamental fact that HE CONNECTED LIFE OR IMMORTALITY WITH CHARACTER. Death was no leap in the dark to Him; it was simply a door leading into another mansion of God's great house. 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. joy! And mark, it is His presence, not His work, His Cross, His final Advent, but His living presence now. As time in the Divine mind is an eternal now, so it seems to have been with Christ. "Because I live, you must perish forever." There may be an eclipse, but not total; and if total, it will not continue long enough to be specially noticed. (3)Incomplete now, but destined to be complete at the Resurrection. 2. But my faith is not only eye, but hand, and not only beholds but grasps. If the cup of life is full, there is little sense of past or future; the present is enough. When Christ speaks of eternal life, He does not mean future endless existence; but fullness or perfection of life. All this helps us to understand His mission, and especially to realize to ourselves His abiding spiritual presence. The true safety of the Church.5. PHYSICAL LIFE. A holy life. We are "a royal priesthood."4. V. He not only gave us the true law, BUT WAS HIMSELF A PERFECT ILLUSTRATION OF IMMORTALITY, and even named Himself by it — the Life. That death in the flesh, which was the bearing away of the sins of men, was the procuring cause of that "quickening in the Spirit" which followed. An animal feels pleasure and pain, but it feels each sensation as it comes; it never puts them together, or takes the measure of its own life, and looks on it as a whole. 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. o that My own joy may be in you Does not the Christian's life depend upon his prayerfulness? And this Christ is Lifegiver to all that love Him and trust Him. "He has made us kings and priests unto God." Cumming, D. D.1. The only relic I had was a little piece of her silk dress, and this I preserved as my dearest treasure. H. Spurgeon.When Luther was in his worst troubles a friend came in to see him, and he noticed that he had written upon the wall in big letters the word "Vivit!" "Join thyself," says , "to the eternal God, and thou wilt be eternal."(T. If you keep My commandments It is the life which He now has in heaven, and which began at the Resurrection. When a man is cast out of society, and swears in is despair, "I will now do all the evil I can and spite them," if a friend tap him on the shoulder, saying, "Brother, why despair of yourself? "I," Jesus seems to say, "I was left comfortless, but I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. Elsewhere He simply assumes it. Example; teaching; miracle; suffering. 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. Of what value is the mere adding of days to days if they are full of sin? It is different from all other life, higher and better than any life with which we are acquainted. There must be fellowship with the Christ of the Resurrection before we can feel its power; in other words, we must get over upon the Divine side of life before we can be assured of eternal life. They are directed to the spiritual nature of their life as a source of consolation. Build me a column perfect in base and body, and I will know if the capital is true. 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. Life is progressive, and Spiritual life grows in likeness to Christ. I seem speaking to them because they are holding the very same converse within the veil. Reflections:(1) Apart from Christ, the Christian can do nothing. It is not worthy of the name of life; it is properly death. IS HIS ABILITY TO HELP TO THE UTMOST. Hence He never uses any word corresponding to immortality (which is a mere negation — unmortal), but always speaks of life. 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