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Given the fact of God, and all other truth takes its place without question. We have here a coming which is but the reverse side of His bodily absence. "He has made us kings and priests unto God." The joy of Christian life depends on the clearness of our vision of this ever-present Christ. Given the fact of God, and all other truth takes its place without question. Monopoly is a word banished from the religion of heaven. Acts 25 April 23, 2017 He can "give power to the faint, and to them that have no power He increaseth strength." It is the same as Christ's own life, of which we have been speaking. Cumming, D. D.)Immortality as taught by the ChristT. But what assurance have we that this life of Christ will always continue to be imparted to His people? When a man of science has made a great discovery, or a man of letters has written a great book, or a statesman has carried a series of great measures we cannot say — "He has done his all." is the question with the worldling; but the Christian says, "Lift Thou upon us the light of Thy countenance."3. Reflections:(1) Apart from Christ, the Christian can do nothing. IS HIS ABILITY TO HELP TO THE UTMOST. III. 1. He feels no need of examining the evidences or balancing proofs. If we could find any weakness elsewhere in His teachings, there would be ground for such questions. Had He softened down any harsh conditions, that He might parade among His followers as One whom it was policy to conciliate? The plan of redemption depends upon His incarnation and atonement. O. His treatment of this doctrine was not so much corrective as accretive. Read full chapter 2. Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright ©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Separation. But the Saviour's unending life is full of terror to His enemies because He ever lives. Had He kept back any hard terms? Death was no leap in the dark to Him; it was simply a door leading into another mansion of God's great house. (2) The same conviction you and I must have, if the world is not to be a desert and a dreary place for us. A holy life. IV. Place the Christian in the palace with Pharaoh, or in the dungeon with Joseph, and he can breathe the atmosphere of the one just as he can the other. We know not what life is. Life, as mere continuance of being, is not worth thinking about. 3. THE RISEN LIFE in glory, to all eternity. It was to cease, and they who loved Him would not miss it when it did. But the soul constantly resists, asserting its own separate and vigorous existence. Jesus is the friend who does this to the despairing souls of men. Because He continues to live, His disciples shall continue to live also. When He entered on His ministry He found certain imperfect or germinal truths existing in Jewish theology. "I will that they would turn — I will that they would live."(J. Jesus needed not to have a place in glory prepared for him; he had but to resume his old station, and be with his Father as he had been before. PHYSICAL LIFE. Thus, the best of the heathens longed to exist after death, that they might continue to make progress in all such good as they had begun in this life, in high thoughts and in excellent resolves. The solitude of the soul, where He is, becomes peopled with the whole host of heaven. In all senses the life of man is derived from the Christ who is the Agent of creation, and is also the one means by whom any of us can ever hope to live the better life that consists in union to God. So it is not until a man begins to use his soul aright that he knows for what it is made. A royal life. We can but notice how grandly Christ reposed upon this fact of immortal life. 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. "Because I live.". But what is the believer's life of which Christ speaks, when He says, "Ye shall live also." He not only gave us the true law, BUT WAS HIMSELF A PERFECT ILLUSTRATION OF IMMORTALITY, and even named Himself by it — the Life. Is there now some actual work of the glorified Jesus going on which amounts to a necessary preparation for his glorified people? What were the head without the body? He was kept at home and cared for throughout his life by his parents. And from the Divine side also we get assurances of endless life; but in so hard a matter we are like Thomas, who needed the sight and touch to assure him. 3. Undoubtedly, as the body moves towards decay it inflicts something of its weakness upon its spiritual companion. And in these days men are building towers which they hope will save them from the deluge of trouble. "Because I live, ye shall live also." So too with the heart, the conscience, the sense of duty. But nothing on earth can take the place of God in relation to a soul: such a soul is benighted, perishing, lost. 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 comforts —(1) By showing that our Father loves us. 1. So it is not until a man begins to use his soul aright that he knows for what it is made. Paul was burdened. TO DESTROY ALL POWER THAT IS OPPOSED TO MAN'S REDEMPTION. Joy is one of the fruits it bears.3. It is hindered by its connection with the old life, by the circumstances in which it is placed by its absence from Christ its Fountain. "Ye see Me." And in Christ we have both — the human omen and the Divine promise turned into fact. Why? It is the same in its origin. Life is communicative. For what Christ is now, He will be always. But this natural life loses its power and dominion when we believe on Christ. IN HIS MIND THE INTENSE AND ABSOLUTE CONSCIOUSNESS OF GOD CARRIES WITH IT IMMORTALITY, AS IT DOES THE WHOLE BODY OF HIS TRUTH. 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. 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. The great want of the Church today.(J. It is noticeable also that the faith of natural evidence awakens no joyful enthusiasm in masses of mankind. Where then is loneliness? See Jn. The Christian cannot see pain he does not wish to alleviate; ignorance he does not wish to enlighten; death in trespasses and sins to which he would not communicate a portion of his own spiritual life.II. A happy life. Wherever there is life, we find it has within itself the power of adaptation to varied temperature. PHYSICAL LIFE. The life of the Church of Christ is its most distinctive and glorious characteristic. 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. Jesus’ Parting Words to His Disciples "Do not let your hearts be distressed. It was Christ's realization of the living God that rendered His conviction of eternal life so absolute. "When Christ, who is our Life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory." I will not leave you comfortless, I will come to you. Because He continues to live, His disciples shall continue to live also. THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE TWO. "Because I live, you must perish forever." Or would you ask for John Bunyan, or for Wesley or Whitefield? A happy life. He can "strengthen the things that remain, and are ready to die."2. It is reason to see with the wise, and to feel with the good. It springs out of His life, and is fed and maintained by it. We know not what life is. It is a great thing for us that this truth has been put into actual fact. As time in the Divine mind is an eternal now, so it seems to have been with Christ. St. John's Lutheran Church: Alexandria, VA > Sermons ... Sermon Audio; St. John's 1959 Confirmation Class; Sermon Text 20190505 Going Fishing and Tending Sheep ; ... 14–2:18. Senses may deceive; my faith, built upon His Word, cannot deceive. 2. When our nearest and dearest are taken from us, how consoling to think the great God our Saviour lives! He stands steadily upon life, life endless by its own Divine nature. Plato and Cicero discourse of immortality with a certain degree of warmth, but their countrymen get little comfort from it. It is wonderful how one face gone, one voice silent, alters the whole world. Jan 11, 2009. He died after only a very short illness.) "He was a good Man, an original Teacher, But He offended the religion and society leaders of His day, and they secured His crucifixion." Thus, in Christ, we have the light of two worlds thrown upon human destiny. 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. To the presence of God. It is the same in the reason for which it is bestowed. We are "a royal priesthood. "Join thyself," says , "to the eternal God, and thou wilt be eternal."(T. We are not to go into another state, as pioneers, to cut our own way. 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. Happy in prosperity — happy in adversity — happy in life — happy in death — happy forever!3. Find Top Church Sermons, Illustrations, and Preaching Slides on John 14:2. 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. We are prone to think that Christianity is a thing for the Bible, for the Sunday, for the Church merely. THE LIFE OF CHRIST'S PEOPLE. The ungodly world is a world of orphans, without a father's fellowship and guidance. But the Saviour's unending life is full of terror to His enemies because He ever lives. Something must be joined with existence before it gets power.3. The Christian cannot see pain he does not wish to alleviate; ignorance he does not wish to enlighten; death in trespasses and sins to which he would not communicate a portion of his own spiritual life. And the more the spirit makes of its powers and resources, the more earnestly does it desire prolonged existence. 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." But it is meant to be like the great principle of gravitation which controls the planet and the pebble. The life is the life which belongs to the Son, as God-man, Mediator; and it refers to this life in its state of full development, after His resurrection. Joy is one of the fruits it bears.3. A Christian is alive —. If the cup of life is full, there is little sense of past or future; the present is enough. "Thou God seest me" is the constant feeling of the Christian.2. 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. It is a sufficient reason, for —(1) Christ's life is a proof that His work has accomplished the redemption of His people. 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. The mere fact that I shall live tomorrow does not sensibly move me. Most of us have heard that heaven is a place where the streets are paved with gold, the gates are made of pearl, and the walls made of precious jewels. 3. Life is an internal principle originating outward and visible characteristics. THE EVIDENCES OF THIS LIFE. If we could find any weakness elsewhere in His teachings, there would be ground for such questions. 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. 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. In great calamity men always cry to God. THIS LIFE HAS CERTAIN SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS. You would very likely not have known Him if you had. The true secret and source of ministerial success.2. Build me a column perfect in base and body, and I will know if the capital is true. MEN VERY OFTEN SEEK ARTIFICIAL COMFORTERS. And thus we are brought to the fundamental fact that HE CONNECTED LIFE OR IMMORTALITY WITH CHARACTER. If there be God's life in man's heart, there must be God's holiness in man's conduct.2. 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. Life is sensible of pain. Reflections:(1) Apart from Christ, the Christian can do nothing. "But are not good works essential to the maintenance of the spiritual life?" A happy life. A present Christ is the Strength, the Righteousness, the Peace, the Joy, the Life of every Christian soul. It is this new life which makes it a blessing to have the prospect before us that we shall individually exist forever. Because He lives, we live, and our life is hid with Christ in God.III. John 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions This he says to draw off their minds from an earthly kingdom to an heavenly one; to point out the place to them whither he was going, and to support them with the views and hopes of glory under all their troubles. But if the imagination can take in these vast tracts of time, ten millions years hence we shall still exist, each one with his memory, will, and conscious contact, separate from all other beings in our eternal resting place. Of what value is the mere adding of days to days if they are full of sin? It is not worthy of the name of life; it is properly death. 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. We have therefore created a library of almost one thousand (and growing) inductive Bible studies, which are available for free. HE DOES NOT THINK OF IT AS A FUTURE, BUT AS A PRESENT FACT. It is not worthy of the name of life; it is properly death. The true distinction between the Church and the world.4. ◄John 14:2 ► In My Father's house are many rooms. )LinksJohn 14:2 NIVJohn 14:2 NLTJohn 14:2 ESVJohn 14:2 NASBJohn 14:2 KJVJohn 14:2 Bible AppsJohn 14:2 ParallelJohn 14:2 Biblia ParalelaJohn 14:2 Chinese BibleJohn 14:2 French BibleJohn 14:2 German BibleJohn 14:2 CommentariesBible Hub, (2)Immortal. The proof that a man is no Christian is, that he is no missionary. HE ASSUMED THE RECEIVED DOCTRINE AND BUILT UPON IT. Elsewhere He simply assumes it. THE DISCIPLES' VISION. Intro: Rejections, defeats, and failures that all of us have experienced can create enough negative feelings to destroy us. It is —1. If it had not been that He came to them, Christianity would have been one more of the abortive sects forgotten in Judaism. Happy, surely, are the living disciples of the living Saviour! H. 3. Others may exist, but existence is not life. 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. They would not come to Him that they might have life.4. His advent postulated the continuance of the race. II. Because He continues to live, His disciples shall continue to live also. Is it probable that, true in all else, He was in fault in this one respect? We are "a royal priesthood."4. An immortal life. If one tells me ninety-nine truths, I will trust him in the hundredth, especially if it is involved in those before. Anything is possible, rather than that a soul which has drawn a spiritual life from Christ should ever be rent apart from Him by such a miserable and external trifle as the mere dissolution of the bodily frame. "All power is given unto Me" (Ephesians 1:20-22). The life of the Church of Christ is its most distinctive and glorious characteristic. 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. OUR FATHER HAS PROVIDED A COMFORTER FOR EVERY MAN. "Because I live, you must perish forever." 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. 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. See how it overturns all the hopes of the adversary. When you transact business you are bound to do it to the glory of God. He can "strengthen the things that remain, and are ready to die."2. "I," Jesus seems to say, "I was left comfortless, but I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. 4. It is hindered by its connection with the old life, by the circumstances in which it is placed by its absence from Christ its Fountain. He is a Brother by me, to whom I can tell everything, and He will answer me. We’re going to get a body like Jesus’! JOHN 14:1-3. That thought was brought to my attention as I read these observations by an unknown writer: Man's spirit either exists in its completeness, or it ceases to exist. "Because He died, we live; because He lives, we live; because He lives" — because He is the living One — "we shall live also!" (1) It is more direct. If there be God's life in man's heart, there must be God's holiness in man's conduct. Tom Stegall . Life Everlasting. After the great deluge, men built the tower of Babel, hoping by that means to receive comfort in any similar calamity. No matter how many you may have around you, or how kind, you are thrown hack into your own thoughts which circle about one, and that one is gone, and it is a perfect solitude. 21, he wrote about a city so grand that it defies description. 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.". 3. It is not otherwise in morals. You may call it an insane fancy, but to me it was real and powerful and comforting. Conclusion: A true and satisfying sense of immortality cannot be taken second hand. All your new nature shall thoroughly, eternally live. T. Munger.1. Spurgeon. 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. PHYSICAL LIFE. 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. – The Father’s house (John 14:2). "I will never leave you." A most instructive reason. IN A SPECIAL MANNER WITH THE BELIEVER. The mere fact that I shall live tomorrow does not sensibly move me. The reason is evident. That it will go on forever is a matter of course, but it is not the important feature of the truth.IV. At this point, have the children recite John 14:2 several times before playing. 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. tense form of a prevailing superstition?" The “ jasper ” stone is what we … We cannot even look upon the man Jesus issuing from the tomb, and draw from thence a faith that yields peace. The world testifies that He was dead and buried; but the world resists the bare ideas of His Resurrection or spiritual life. What life is it that Christ speaks of when He here says, "I live?" The truthfulness of Jesus Christ . Thus, in Christ, we have the light of two worlds thrown upon human destiny. THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE TWO. John 14:2-3: “In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. Hence He never uses any word corresponding to immortality (which is a mere negation — unmortal), but always speaks of life. "I will that they would turn — I will that they would live."(J. 1. It is —. IN ALL THE STRENGTH AND TENDERNESS OF HIS AFFECTIONS. It is everlasting life; He has done with death. He is still with us, the very Christ that He was. Man lives at the Pole, as he lives below the Line. 2:16; 2 Kings 20:5; Micah 4, esp. In the same way, Jesus communes with us. 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.". He is the Creator, and the life of Adam and Eve after the fall depended entirely on the promise of the Redeemer. The reason is evident. Loneliness. It is the life which He now has in heaven, and which began at the Resurrection. Those whom today you are most fondly cherishing, and the thought of whose death you dare not admit to your own heart — if you have none but them, and no Christ in them, you will wake up some morning to such a cold vacancy, for that one will have gone, and will have left you "comfortless." Munger. These free inductive notes are intended as supplement to your own study, not … Scripture: John 14:15–17, John 14:25–26. JESUS IS COMING! )Living because Christ livesC. 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. "Ye shall live also.". THE FUTURE COMPANIONSHIP OF JESUS AND HIS PEOPLE. Deep down in every human heart there is the instinct that God loves men. One noble act suggests another: one great sacrifice for truth or duty prompts another. 2. Of what value is the mere adding of days to days if they are full of sin? If you knew none better you might. II. 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. The Holy Spirit: He Is God! "All power is given unto Me" (Ephesians 1:20-22). Wesley's John 14:2 Bible Commentary 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions — Enough to receive both the holy angels, and your predecessors in the faith, and all that now believe, and a great multitude, which no man can number. Had He not succeeded in doing this He Himself would not thus have lived. Christ got it, because He wrought out the perfect, everlasting righteousness; we get it, because by faith we have received that righteousness. The honour of Christ never ceases to be the disciple's sole aim. 4. Thus, in Christ, we have the light of two worlds thrown upon human destiny. That His faith in immortality was but an in. III. (A)I go to prepare a place for you. There is no spiritual life on earth apart from Him. If you take away Christ the elder Brother, who alone reveals the Father, we are all orphans, who look up into an empty heaven and see nothing there. But as a moral teacher He stands at the head, unimpeachable in the minutest particular. Taking his hand from mine he pushed it under the pillow and bringing out a bottle of brandy he held it with his trembling hand, saying, "This is my joy." It is possible that the destruction of the world at the Last Day will be only a re-arrangement of the sum total of matter which now makes up the visible universe. Spurgeon. The birth of the first child was a prelude to the gospel. And it is of this after time that He says, "Because I live, ye shall live also." A royal life. This coming of our Lord is identified with that of His Divine Spirit. Had He ever painted His discipleship in false colours? In Him — was, is, and ever will be, "the fountain of life" (John 1:4; 1 John 1:2; Psalm 36:9). Hence He never uses any word corresponding to immortality (which is a mere negation — unmortal), but always speaks of life. Death was no leap in the dark to Him; it was simply a door leading into another mansion of God's great house. That it will go on forever is a matter of course, but it is not the important feature of the truth.IV. But it is meant to be like the great principle of gravitation which controls the planet and the pebble. It received its death-blow on the cross. "Who will show us any good?" Jesus is Coming Again Sermon - John 14:2-3 The below sermon on Jesus’ return takes an overview at the what the Bible has to say about Jesus’ second coming and the rapture of the church. Life is progressive, and Spiritual life grows in likeness to Christ. But these also help us to realize the spiritual presence of Christ, as we can know it; especially do we get suggestions from the Resurrection time. Christ got it, because He wrought out the perfect, everlasting righteousness; we get it, because by faith we have received that righteousness. II. 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. He never slumbers nor sleeps; He has all power in heaven and on earth; He is Head over all things to the Church. "Who will show us any good?" THE PRESENT AND SEEN CHRIST IS LIFE AND LIFE GIVING. 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. Life is communicative. is written by Phil Ware. Hence He never uses any word corresponding to immortality (which is a mere negation — unmortal), but always speaks of life. - BE COMFORTED - John 14:1-3 . We cannot even look upon the man Jesus issuing from the tomb, and draw from thence a faith that yields peace. I. 18 Outlines . TO DESTROY ALL POWER THAT IS OPPOSED TO MAN'S REDEMPTION. Christ got it, because He wrought out the perfect, everlasting righteousness; we get it, because by faith we have received that righteousness. H. "I will that they would turn — I will that they would live. It is reason to see with the wise, and to feel with the good. He inquired of Luther what he meant by "vivit?" Christ never ceases to be the disciple's Ruler and Referee. How can we famish or die?IV. … This is the word employed by our Lord and by St. Paul. But it is meant to be like the great principle of gravitation which controls the planet and the pebble. His life proves that He has done all that is necessary in order to secure life for them. 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. Help us continue to create Bible study resources by supporting Study and Obey for as little as $1. It received its death-blow on the cross. (4) When we are heavily burdened. 3. Why was it that they did not follow the example of John's disciples, and dissolve and disappear, and say, "The game is up." "Because" —1. Man is an immortal being, just as he is a thinking and feeling being by the original terms of his nature. Others may exist, but existence is not life. mute. 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. The ability to speak even a few words days if they build up tower. 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