1. In one sense, it is true, even as regards the wicked, that all things which the Father hath, He hath given unto the Son. It is not Church instruction, but heart-work — interior regeneration. In John 14:16, Jesus referred to the Spirit as "another Comforter." The whole historic development of man, looked at in the line of the plan of redemption, is clearly enough in this upward direction. But if he shall set up his darkness and sin as being Christian experience, we say, "No; you may be a Christian and know all this, but we cannot allow you to decide our spiritual state according to your peculiar method of feeling." And we may say that these feelings and convictions of Christ's disciples are altogether reasonable - that is to say, they are entirely in accordance with the supernatural fact that Jesus is the Son of God. Under the Spirit’s guidance they lived wholly for Christ: the dispensation of the Spirit was the Christian dispensation. What of venerable authority and benignant complacency in God His Father? By illumination — by the Holy Ghost. Faith. They knew all the facts of our Lord's history already - his birth of a virgin, his death on the cross, and his resurrection and ascension into glory. If saved, the tenor of thy life is to glorify Christ. Is not that glorious? Thus our Lord sums up the work of the Holy Spirit within the Church. THE HOLY GHOST IS THE ONLY REVEALER OF CHRIST. He alone makes Christ glorious. 19:10). In what is perhaps the most significant Christian book of this decade, J. I. Packer speaks to a certain type of evangelical ministry which is well-intentioned, but cruel.149 It is a ministry which means to offer men hope and encouragement by portraying the Christian life as a kind of utopian desert island, free from the trials and cares of life.150 In actuality it creates great upset in the lives of untaught Christians. What should we think of a man to whom it were optional to be just, or to be unjust? Thou hast ten talents, but those ten talents shall make thee ten times a worse defaulter to thy Master unless the Holy Ghost help thee. John 16:14. So far from this, it has ever been by the Spirit of truth that the voice of Christ, even in the Scriptures, has continued to be audible and mighty, and that his presence in any of the means of grace has been realized. If any person should mount the platform and inform us that he had been five times tried at the Old Bailey, you would say, "Well, you may have experienced that disgrace, but it is not fair to call it human experience." Much of the experience of a Christian is not Christian experience. And if the very Spirit that dwelt in Christ, and was intimately cognisant of all that passed through His soul in all His life of sorrows, and His death of shame, and His resurrection to glory, dwell in you; have you not here a connecting link which will give you a quick understanding and discernment of all that is Christ's, and cause you to realize it as your own?Conclusion: 1. Joy.Men are honoured by these affections; but we can only exercise them in part because of the defectiveness oft he worthiest objects. Not by taking the Church beyond Christ, but by more fully exhibiting the fulness of Christ, does He fulfil His mission. And not angels only are ascending and descending on this ladder, which is none other than the mediation of the Son of Man — but the Lord Himself — the Spirit-As moving to and fro, communicating the fulness of the Father, through the Son. 5. In childhood he may chiefly appear as a gentle Shepherd, in youth as an earnest Counselor, in manhood as a mighty King, and in the evening of life, when its battles are well-nigh over, and its companions scattered, as a faithful, never-dying Friend. To ministries. INTRODUCTION Conclusion: The Father entrusts His all to Christ, and so surely we might venture to entrust our all to Him. III. 1. Fo… But it is the Master's work, and here is the promise which he has given for the encouragement of all his servants. This is further explained in ’ “because He shall take of that which is mine, and declare it unto you”. That was the lesson taught to the prophet. Hence the blessedness of His assurance, that "as the Son of Man He has power on earth to forgive sins." We throw thousands of opportunities away. He can make us know "the things which are freely given to us of God;" past, present, and future; "opening our eyes to behold wondrous things out of God's law.". Conscience, in every man, says: "You are guilty! CONCLUSION The Holy Ghost is the only revealer of Jesus. He shall glorify me, because of that which is mine will he receive and will declare it unto you. It is always “out of that which is Christ’s” He furnishes the Church. John 16:14. , “He will glorify me”. How honourable to Christ the lives of saintly men! They belong to Him by necessity of nature. Look at Africa. Check out our free church library, church online resources, and family resources. This error is followed by another equally intolerable, that, having bid adieu to Christ, as if his reign were terminated, and he were now nothing at all, they substitute the Spirit in his place. The fulfilment of this promise is found in every action and word of the Apostles. On this earth, where he was despised and rejected, he is yet to be crowned with glory and honor from the rising to the setting sun. Grandly and powerfully does the Apostle Paul describe the ultimate effect of the Spirit's teaching: "We all, with open face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are changed," etc. No doubt that was his experience; but do you want to experience every piece of devilry that a good man has known? The disciples will witness Jesus death, which will seem to extinguish the words of eternal life. Apply this test —. 3. BY THE AFFECTIONS WHICH HE CAUSES HIS PEOPLE TO CHERISH TOWARDS HIM, which are highly honourable to Him. And whence came the Bible? John 16:14 New King James Version (NKJV) 14 He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you." In truth, for any other than a Divine Person to take part in this transaction were a liberty not to be tolerated. For what does he bestow on us? It is not simply knowledge, but it is the light of the knowledge. Conscience, whatever modern thought may say, cries — "Eternal Justice is Eternal Fact, and God is just; and How can justice clear the guilty?" For many foolishly imagine that Christ taught only so as to lay down the first lessons, and then to send the disciples to a higher school. By these words he means that we receive the Spirit in order that we may enjoy Christ’s blessings. Paramount Church: Jacksonville, FL > Sermons from John. 4. God hath "shined in" — not into the world only, that is not enough — could not be, for "the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehendeth it not." - G.B. A similar method of deceiving has been attempted, in the present age, by many fanatics. Notice: He does not create Christ; He shows Him. Socinianism must be utterly abhorred of us, for it strikes at once at the Deity of our blessed Lord and Master. Study 1 Corinthians 16 with ... J. Vernon McGee . The moral grandeur of God is His balance, His poise, that He rights Himself. The written doctrine appeared to them to be literal, and, therefore, they chose to contrive a new theology that would consist of revelations. AS A TEST. He is One whom Christ is, altogether willing to have taking of His. The teaching of the Holy Spirit within certain limits develops, reinterprets, readjusts for each successive generation the teaching which Jesus gave while He was on earth, III. Ezekiel was transformed at Chebar. What, are you to make yourself fit to come to Christ? Used 24 times in the Gospel of John b. So it was with our Saviour on the cross. The child leaves his playthings behind, and comes to despise them. On the glorifying of Jesus here spoken of, see on chap. A third way light shines in is by consciousness. Nothing, therefore, is bestowed on us by the Spirit apart from Christ, but he takes it from Christ, that he may communicate it to us. The work of God is from matter toward spirit. THE ONE ESSENTIAL TO SALVATION IS THE REVELATION OF CHRIST. This glory hath in-shined — that is the third point. True religion is more widely disseminated in this than it has been in any preceding dispensation. Nor is the case altered now. It is not a stranger who disposes of another's property, or builds on another's foundation. Conscience affirms the same truth. The prophecies of the destruction of Jerusalem were not such; for the Son of man had already, before the Spirit's revelations, preoccupied that theme. Get your church set-up with online giving, sermon streaming, and more in under 24 hours. 1: The Nature and Purpose of John’s Gospel ( John 20:30-31) There is but one explanation, and we find it in the promise before us: "The Spirit of truth shall receive of mine," etc. 1. How, in this confusion, can a man know what part of his conviction is of God, and what part of the devil? Close. 2. God, the Holy Ghost. What kind of showing is it that we need? Clayton TV- Excellent Bible Teaching for Christians 1,416 views It is important to observe the order, so to say, of the Spirit's revelations concerning Christ. This is the test of the Spirit, “Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that confesseth not Jesus is not of God.” (Comp. I. Christ Manifested in Remembrance . According to John 16:13-14 and John 15:26, the Holy Spirit will never promote Himself. All the sailors on the ocean cannot make a capful of wind; but when the wind does blow they can crowd on every yard of canvas. Teach us entire dependence upon the Holy Spirit. But how can I be a man and have no backbone?" He is the Spirit of Christ — the Spirit that dwelt in Him. Who inspired it? If Scripture is quoted against the Pope, he maintains that we ought not to confine ourselves to it, because the Spirit is come, and has carried us above Scripture by many additions. You have come down in the world; but suppose you can glorify God more. Furnishing additional proof of the great facts which form the substance of Christianity. For it is impossible to explain away this claim of a right of property in all that is the Father's, or to justify it if made by a creature. If God be God, He is glorious, for glory is manifested excellence, and God is most excellent, and cannot be hid. In a word, the Spirit enriches us with no other than the riches of Christ, that he may display his glory in all things. Jesus said, Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I dont go away, the Counselor wont come to you. Appearances — like that of the angels to Abraham. Let the Word of Christ then dwell in you richly. The Holy Spirit receives His disclosures from Christ (comp. 15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. John 16:14. In the written Word, in the preaching of the gospel, in all the means and ordinances by which Christ and His salvation are brought before the minds of men and pressed upon their regard, the Holy Ghost is "taking of what is Christ's and showing it," and every time you open the Bible, or wait on the preaching of Christ crucified, if you continue unaffected and unmoved, you are resisting the Spirit. It is important to put emphasis upon the fact before us, because the effort of to-day is to destroy the balance of the attributes of God — to posit in that justice, for example — and in measurement and in adjustment everything comes back to the straight line — that justice in God is a merely optional attribute. II. Scripture: John 16:22. Then —. Consciousness of breathing goes with breathing. Outside the covers of this Book there is not a hint of a Christ. John Piper Mar 26, 1989 3.4K Shares Sermon. Against a sound creed we have not a word to say; but still we must exalt Christ rather than Calvinism, or any other system of theology. Self can no longer be their idol, for they have become conscious of a Presence which raises them above themselves. 3. We know that men shall be blessed in Christ, and all nations shall call him blessed. How do we know that there is such a thing as a Saviour? These words provide essential background to this Sundays Gospel lesson. 4. Faith is the great opened eye of the soul. What did the Spirit show to you of Christ's then? George Brown. Let our text, then —. Whether ye work at a lapstone, or drive a plough, or lay the stones in a building, or are diligent with the pen, or buy and sell, do all, even to your eating or your drinking, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and so, like the Holy Spirit, let it be said of you, "He shall glorify Me.". They themselves belong to the Father. From the Bible. It is in the Word that Christ is set forth. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary, Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. Will it suffice to set before our eyes what is to be shown? Consciousness of life and vigour goes with power. This sermon focuses on the Holy Spirit as our Teacher Scripture: Nehemiah 9:20; John 14:12-17 Theme: Holy Spirit - Master Teacher This sermon is dedicated to looking at the Holy Spirit as our Teacher – a. If we do not take this book into the account, it is hard to indicate how the promise was fulfilled. What is that witness if not a supernatural spiritual emphasis put on the assurances and promises of God, which makes them true to us without a question? Sermons.com provides sermon illustrations, sermons, powerpoint and worship resources, and children's sermons ... All things that the Father has are Mine. "That which doth make manifest is light." Oct 23, 1983. Over other worlds.This supremacy will, under the guidance of the Spirit, be eventually acknowledged. Now, in respect of His original Godhead, these things cannot be said to be given to Him. Can He not manifest Himself to the eye of interior consciousness with a distinctness of spiritual presence as satisfying as that which His bodily form gave to the external vision of His disciples? It was necessary that that sort of thing should be broken — that there should come an experience, which, permit me to say it, should emancipate Christ — should burst the tomb and the grave-clothes, and set Him Infinite, Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Heavenly — working above, as ever in, and through His Church — an experience like that of St. Paul when he says: "Yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we Him no more." They feel a present peace in the blood of his cross. The world cannot be to them what it was before, for their horizon widens out far beyond its frontiers. Alas! But we are not left to gather up an inference from observation, nor speculation, nor from logic. 1. May we not say that these correspond to his own words, "Behold, I am alive for evermore;" "Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world"? If the Lord brings thee to put thy soul just as it is into the hands of the Redeemer, honouring him by a childlike trust, thou hast an experience infinitely more precious than the ravings of thy proud heart could ever yield thee. Related Sermons Select one: Jesus, the Only Way (John 14:1-6) How Can We Know the Way? 3. "Through the eternal Spirit He offered Himself, without spot, to God;" and He was "declared to be the Son of God with power, by His resurrection from the dead, according to the Spirit of holiness." Now the Bible affirms. The same fact is clear from the structure of Scripture. I have w guarded them, and x not one of them has been lost except y the son of destruction, z that the Scripture might be fulfilled. Each sermon is the equivalent of a 10 page Pdf which means that these sermons represent over 1000 pages of Biblically sound doctrine to aid your study, teaching and preaching of the Gospel of John! III. However, there is no childcare. He cannot acquit!" IV. Here are we saved, and yet such weak things that we cannot glorify Christ without the Holy Ghost. III. No, but by God speaking out of the midst of the bush. Lk 16:14 The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things, and they ridiculed him. "He shall glorify Me," says Christ Himself. The passage we just read is preceded by the familiar story of Christ feeding the 5000. Satan is great, i.e., in faculties, but he is in no wise glorious, but infamous, because of the defect of his character. Such is the glory of His person, as combining the Divine nature with the human; and such the value of His work that whatsoever is comprehended in the fulness of the Godhead is centred in "the Man Christ Jesus," considered as obedient to the Father, "even unto death." Whence their depth and their permanence and their power? III. 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