I seem speaking to them because they are holding the very same converse within the veil. His treatment of this doctrine was not so much corrective as accretive. It implies such conviction in the mind of the speaker that there is no need of proof.II. THE DISCIPLES' VISION. When you transact business you are bound to do it to the glory of God. Now it is so with spiritual life.2. 2. The life of the Church of Christ is its most distinctive and glorious characteristic. (3) To keep up close communion with Christ. The reason is evident. When He entered on His ministry He found certain imperfect or germinal truths existing in Jewish theology. "I," Jesus seems to say, "I was left comfortless, but I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. Can you feel how personal He gets with His followers in the opening verses? At present this higher life is only in its infancy. Sidetracked by Trivia. It is reason to see with the wise, and to feel with the good. In My Father's house are many rooms. THERE ARE CERTAIN POINTS TO WHICH THIS LIFE SPECIALLY REFERS. His treatment of this doctrine was not so much corrective as accretive. But as a moral teacher He stands at the head, unimpeachable in the minutest particular. But the Saviour's unending life is full of terror to His enemies because He ever lives. )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, III. A dead man does not feel. Its vital force is exhausted; it can do no more. "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. 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." 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. It’s going to be like His body. It is not worthy of the name of life; it is properly death. But what assurance have we that this life of Christ will always continue to be imparted to His people? 1. 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. He is their Surety, Representative, Covenant Head. It is proper to ask here, "Is it probable that Christ was mistaken? It is the same as Christ's own life, of which we have been speaking. This is the sole reason. IN ALL THE STRENGTH AND TENDERNESS OF HIS AFFECTIONS. "Because I live, ye shall live also." Its progress is illimitable, because the principle itself is infinite. Given the fact of God, and all other truth takes its place without question. . Man lives at the Pole, as he lives below the Line. 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. What were the head without the body? Senses may deceive; my faith, built upon His Word, cannot deceive. That a body of truth all interwoven and suffused with life is based upon an illusion of life? That vitality must be a reality since nothing has been ever able to extinguish or destroy it. He stands steadily upon life, life endless by its own Divine nature. His treatment of this doctrine was not so much corrective as accretive. And mark, it is His presence, not His work, His Cross, His final Advent, but His living presence now. It holds the mind, but does not minister to the heart.2. Loneliness. Cumming, D. D.)Immortality as taught by the ChristT. (3) How great will appear at last the guilt of those who reject Christ, when they shall learn that even their bodily life has depended upon Him, and that, being destitute of His Spirit, they are none of His.(L. And in Christ we have both — the human omen and the Divine promise turned into fact. H. By His Spirit. "Who will show us any good?" Monopoly is a word banished from the religion of heaven. See how it overturns all the hopes of the adversary. "Thou God seest me" is the constant feeling of the Christian.2. He stands steadily upon life, life endless by its own Divine nature. Christ got it, because He wrought out the perfect, everlasting righteousness; we get it, because by faith we have received that righteousness. The reason is evident. Form is being submitted, please wait a bit. 3. But the Saviour's unending life is full of terror to His enemies because He ever lives. If one tells me ninety-nine truths, I will trust him in the hundredth, especially if it is involved in those before. It is the same in its origin. I ask the philosophers if they would ask for Socrates above all others? Given the fact of God, and all other truth takes its place without question. Or would you ask for John Bunyan, or for Wesley or Whitefield? That His faith in immortality was but an in. The reason why the hands of the clock move may be found first in a certain wheel which operates upon them, but if you go to the primary cause of all, you reach the mainspring, or the weight, which is the source of all the motion. THE RENEWED LIFE. The true secret and source of ministerial success.2. 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. If you want the eye of the soul to be opened, you must shut the eye of sense. That’s pretty neat. To the glory of God. IS HIS ABILITY TO HELP TO THE UTMOST. He found a doctrine of sin and righteousness turning upon external conduct; He transferred it to the heart and spirit. But as a moral teacher He stands at the head, unimpeachable in the minutest particular. Unless a spiritual being is immortal, such a being counts for less in the universe than mere inert matter. 2. And just so it must be in the anticipations of a future state. (Ray Palmer, D. D.)The living ChurchJ. The life of the believer is the same in nature as Christ's; the same in duration. Life has the power of assimilation. 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. 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. It is everlasting life; He has done with death. 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. We are prone to think that Christianity is a thing for the Bible, for the Sunday, for the Church merely. It is —1. But an assumption is often the strongest kind of argument. 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. Not even, in part, shall the new man die. Eloquence and orthodoxy may make a convinced or an enlightened, but they cannot make a living Church. When he puts his life into harmony with God's laws; when he begins to pray; when he clothes himself with the graces of Christian faith and conduct, when he begins to live unto his spiritual nature, he begins to realize what life is — a reality that death and time cannot touch. Conclusion: A true and satisfying sense of immortality cannot be taken second hand. Luther answered, "Jesus lives; and if He did not live I would not care to live an hour." 3. Poor, miserable, drunkard! Hence He never uses any word corresponding to immortality (which is a mere negation — unmortal), but always speaks of life. It implies such conviction in the mind of the speaker that there is no need of proof. 2:16; 2 Kings 20:5; Micah 4, esp. Challenges of the First Christmas – Pressing on in Obedience. But at last He died, and arose and disappeared from sight. Life is an internal principle originating outward and visible characteristics. 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. IS HIS ABILITY TO HELP TO THE UTMOST. "Be not weary in well-doing" is the language of the Eternal Wisdom to the human will. Practically such life is death, and so He names it. Every reference to God's house in Scripture is to His house on the earth. Jan 11, 2009. "He has made us kings and priests unto God." Now Jesus always lives. However vigorous a tree or an animal may be, it soon reaches a point at which it can grow no longer. And this Christ is Lifegiver to all that love Him and trust Him. THE RENEWED LIFE. He inquired of Luther what he meant by "vivit?" He was kept at home and cared for throughout his life by his parents. is the question with the worldling; but the Christian says, "Lift Thou upon us the light of Thy countenance."3. And in Christ we have both — the human omen and the Divine promise turned into fact. "The Father hath given to Him to have life in Himself; so that He quickeneth whom He will." Yet a little while, and the world seeth Me no more, but ye see Me. 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. As Paul puts it, "Absent from the body, present with the Lord.". PHYSICAL LIFE. 2. The “ jasper ” stone is what we … 3. 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. 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. I. 2. 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? He stands steadily upon life, life endless by its own Divine nature. "But are not good works essential to the maintenance of the spiritual life?" 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? It is not worthy of the name of life; it is properly death. A present Christ is the Strength, the Righteousness, the Peace, the Joy, the Life of every Christian soul. Joy is one of the fruits it bears. It is a life of glory; He has done with shame, and has a name that is above every name. Others may exist, but existence is not life. When he puts his life into harmony with God's laws; when he begins to pray; when he clothes himself with the graces of Christian faith and conduct, when he begins to live unto his spiritual nature, he begins to realize what life is — a reality that death and time cannot touch. )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, (3)Incomplete now, but destined to be complete at the Resurrection. John 14:1-3 etc. Its universality. "He ever liveth to make intercession."III. If there be God's life in man's heart, there must be God's holiness in man's conduct.2. 4. "All power is given unto Me" (Ephesians 1:20-22). Why was it that they did not follow the example of John's disciples, and dissolve and disappear, and say, "The game is up." That His faith in immortality was but an in. 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. T. Is not this evidence of a Divine presence — of a Divine power? 4. 3. Orphanism in the one case may have its loss supplied, but not in the other. Spurgeon. Scripture: John 2:23–25. There are many dwelling places in my Father’s house. is the question with the worldling; but the Christian says, "Lift Thou upon us the light of Thy countenance. "He ever liveth to make intercession.". O. Thompson.Christ is the basis of —I. This enrichment and elevation of being is derived from our Lord. It is reason to see with the wise, and to feel with the good. John 14:2-7. 1. And is not life a desolation without Him? That it will go on forever is a matter of course, but it is not the important feature of the truth.IV. 1. His life is royal life — the life of "the King of kings and Lord of lords" (Psalm 21:1-7; Isaiah 53:10). It is a life of glory; He has done with shame, and has a name that is above every name. THE EVIDENCES OF THIS LIFE. 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. Is not this evidence of a Divine presence — of a Divine power? Happy, surely, are the living disciples of the living Saviour! We can but notice how grandly Christ reposed upon this fact of immortal life. It begins in us by the working of the same mighty power. Is this to be taken as a real preparation, or is it only a way of speaking, to impress the promise of reunion more deeply? It is different from all other life, higher and better than any life with which we are acquainted. IN HIS MIND THE INTENSE AND ABSOLUTE CONSCIOUSNESS OF GOD CARRIES WITH IT IMMORTALITY, AS IT DOES THE WHOLE BODY OF HIS TRUTH. Life is an internal principle originating outward and visible characteristics. Just one word gives the suggestion that these were in the mind of Jesus as he spoke, and that is the word "mansions." The Advantage of Jesus' Departure 14:1-25. by Chester McCalley. They would not come to Him that they might have life.4. Conclusion: The history of the Church that has possessed this vital principle has been throughout a very painful but a very triumphant one. A happy life. Christ rose as "the first fruits of them that sleep in Him," the first born of the chosen family, their representative and forerunner. Eloquence and orthodoxy may make a convinced or an enlightened, but they cannot make a living Church.I. A Christian is alive —1. And still further to show us how phantasmal death is, He finally departs in all the fullness of life, simply drawing about Himself the thin drapery of a cloud. 2. Conclusion: The history of the Church that has possessed this vital principle has been throughout a very painful but a very triumphant one. 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. A holy life. He feels no need of examining the evidences or balancing proofs. It is —1. Practically such life is death, and so He names it. "Because I live, ye shall live also." He found a doctrine of immortality, held as mere future existence. A holy life. If there be God's life in man's heart, there must be God's holiness in man's conduct. If they perish, they perish altogether. 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. immutable, eternal life; that is, capacity of action and enjoyment. 1. 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. II. We are prone to think that Christianity is a thing for the Bible, for the Sunday, for the Church merely. THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE TWO. Now it is so with spiritual life.2. )The continued life of Christ the ground of our hopeRay Palmer, D. D.Christ lives —I. 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. As time in the Divine mind is an eternal now, so it seems to have been with Christ. (4) When we are heavily burdened. When he puts his life into harmony with God's laws; when he begins to pray; when he clothes himself with the graces of Christian faith and conduct, when he begins to live unto his spiritual nature, he begins to realize what life is — a reality that death and time cannot touch. It is different from all other life, higher and better than any life with which we are acquainted. The great want of the Church today.(J. We cannot even look upon the man Jesus issuing from the tomb, and draw from thence a faith that yields peace. – Paradise (Luke 23:43). CONSIDER THE OCCUPATIONS OF THOSE WHO WERE LEFT. He can "give power to the faint, and to them that have no power He increaseth strength." Hence He never uses any word corresponding to immortality (which is a mere negation — unmortal), but always speaks of 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. Practically such life is death, and so He names it. Doing the Works of Jesus and Greater Works . What shall I do without that love, that counsel?". 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. Come with me, and I will hold on to you until you are a better man," why, such language would be an inspiration! But an assumption is often the strongest kind of argument. Each man is himself: he can become no other. IN A SPECIAL MANNER WITH THE BELIEVER. Why Because, and in the measure, in which you have "turned away your eyes from seeing vanity." 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. WHAT OUR LORD'S WORDS DO NOT MEAN. He feels no need of examining the evidences or balancing proofs. He is the Author of our new life, just as our first parent is the source of our first and natural existence. Happy, surely, are the living disciples of the living Saviour! The great want of the Church today.(J. "Who will show us any good?" He is their Surety, Representative, Covenant Head. That is a life in which none can participate beyond the sacred circle of Deity. III. Let me make one or two inferences.This life is —1. 2. HE DOES NOT THINK OF IT AS A FUTURE, BUT AS A PRESENT FACT. "Thou God seest me" is the constant feeling of the Christian.2. So Christ vitalizes us. Whatever is meant by living shall be ours. A holy life. He never slumbers nor sleeps; He has all power in heaven and on earth; He is Head over all things to the Church. John Piper Apr 21, 2012 661 Shares Sermon. "He has made us kings and priests unto God." It received its death-blow on the cross. T. A Christian is alive —. His advent postulated the continuance of the race. His life shows that He possesses all that is necessary to bestow life on His people. Plato and Cicero discourse of immortality with a certain degree of warmth, but their countrymen get little comfort from it. 4. He never makes a straight assertion of it except once, when the Sadducees pressed Him with a quibbling argument against the resurrection. The strength of Christ never ceases to be the soul's victory. When Christ speaks of eternal life, He does not mean future endless existence; but fullness or perfection of life. He teaches us that all things work together for good. 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." Scripture: John 14:15–17, John 14:25–26. )The believer's lifeJohn Milne. Because He lives, we live, and our life is hid with Christ in God.III. How can we famish or die?IV. 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. We can but notice how grandly Christ reposed upon this fact of immortal life. In my Father’s house — From whence I came, whither I am going, and to which place I am conducting you; are many mansions — or apartments (he alludes to the palaces of kings) sufficient to receive the holy angels, your predecessors in the faith, and all that now believe, or shall hereafter believe, even a great multitude, which no man can number. 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.5. And the more the spirit makes of its powers and resources, the more earnestly does it desire prolonged existence. III. 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. Its fulness. But what assurance have we that this life of Christ will always continue to be imparted to His people? THE RENEWED LIFE. John 14:2 "In my father's house are many mansions . "Because" —1. Mark the majestic "I live" — the timeless present tense, which expresses unbroken, undying and Divine life. A dead man does not feel. His life proves that He has done all that is necessary in order to secure life for them. Spurgeon. O. Thompson.Christ is the basis of —I. Systems that chime in with the fallen propensities of man have sunk before rival systems; but Christianity, which rebukes man's pride, which bridles man's lusts, which rebukes man's sins, has outlived all persecution, survived all curse, and seems to commence in the nineteenth century, a career that shall be bounded only by the limits of the population of the globe itself. TO DESTROY ALL POWER THAT IS OPPOSED TO MAN'S REDEMPTION. "I am come," saith Christ, "that ye might have life, and have it more abundantly.". Jesus in Spirit is with you. Conclusion: The history of the Church that has possessed this vital principle has been throughout a very painful but a very triumphant one. The great want of the Church today.(J. A happy life. Note the manifest implication of absolute Divinity. And the awful change which has passed over everything else only makes it stand out more comfortingly — His impossibility of change. It is a great thing for us that this truth has been put into actual fact. Is it probable that, true in all else, He was in fault in this one respect? THE RISEN LIFE in glory, to all eternity. Reflections:(1) Apart from Christ, the Christian can do nothing. Munger. Jesus is the friend who does this to the despairing souls of men. Plato and Cicero discourse of immortality with a certain degree of warmth, but their countrymen get little comfort from it. So were we not to live, the great end for which He died and rose would be frustrated.2. )Living because Christ livesC. 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. It is noticeable also that the faith of natural evidence awakens no joyful enthusiasm in masses of mankind. John 14:2 is a great Bible verse to memorize to help you think of how wonderful Heaven will be one day. He is still proclaiming, "As I live, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked." 2. 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. (3) He is the surety for His people, under bonds and pledges to bring His redeemed safely home. It is a great thing for us that this truth has been put into actual fact. 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. All this helps us to understand His mission, and especially to realize to ourselves His abiding spiritual presence. 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. Life has the power of assimilation. To the presence of God. But what is the believer's life of which Christ speaks, when He says, "Ye shall live also." "He has made us kings and priests unto God." THIS LIFE HAS CERTAIN SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS. Study John 14 with ... Chester McCalley . 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. The removal of the penalty which fell upon our race for Adam's sin. That man is an orphan indeed. "Who will show us any good?" If the cup of life is full, there is little sense of past or future; the present is enough. Human nature is crowded with hints and omens of it, but prophecy does not convince till it is fulfilled. "Thou God seest me" is the constant feeling of the Christian.2. That vitality must be a reality since nothing has been ever able to extinguish or destroy it. He found a doctrine of sin and righteousness turning upon external conduct; He transferred it to the heart and spirit. 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