John 15:9-17. July 21, 2019; Rev. It involves comfort in the manifold trials and circumstances of life, III. Without it Christ might love the soul with a love of compassion, but not with a love of complacency. In the thought of this deep intercourse, Christ said, "I have called you not servants," etc. It is the fulfilment of a duty that has been laid upon them. He is more deeply interested in us than we are in ourselves: He wishes our welfare as we have never wished it. Christian Churches are societies of friends. Browse Sermons on John 15:15. JESUS CALLS HIS DISCIPLES FRIENDS THAT THEY MAY BE BETTER SERVANTS, The work needs the best qualities in the highest degree. 2. So Jesus loves us. There are three angels around a table. Sermons on John 15:15. If this is Christ's friendship —. Christ makes His appeal to your honour. LOOK AT THE EXPRESSIONS EMPLOYED AND THE GENERAL SENTIMENT WHICH THEY EMBODY. What friend can we find so disinterested as Christ? II. The future is unclear. Servants are unable to enter into the meaning of the Master's will. (1) These disciples before that "henceforth" had done their Master's will from a lower impulse: sometimes from fear, ambition, or reward. "The servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth," etc. Church Sermons, Illustrations, and PowerPoints for Preaching on John 15:15-15 (John 15:12) This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. I. This is seen —. And so, on no subject is the gospel a full rule, except as to principles. So all his life long he is thinking: "What does she want?" But the friend is using. In the center of the table there is a chalice and in the chalice a calf’s head. Congeniality. On our side we should obey His commands (ver. The soldier is not one of the council of war; but the mind and heart are revealed to the friend. The servant works by rule, and the master treats him accordingly; the slave lives and works in the letter of the contract. 1. in their salvation pardon, sanctification, and final blessedness? Let us realize and rejoice in it. The world is learning this. Step by step, the fruit from greenness goes on to size, and from size to quality, and from quality to perfect ripeness and harmony. I. Solid Joys. What constitutes the Divine happiness? what keeping out of her prejudices! When shall we find a friend so able as Christ? 1. The one is WATCHED, the other is TRUSTED. The hearts of Christ and His people are "knit together in love. The exercise of the Divine love, and with it the exercise and enjoyment of the other Divine perfections. In June the orchard blossoms; but nobody wants to eat blossoms. John 15:16 : ver 5. Human friends are mutually serviceable; but in this heavenly relation we have nothing that we did not receive. In my last message, we learned of the promise of the presence of the Holy Spirit, so … He is placed under considerations that force him to do his work. She does, because spontaneous love urges it upon her. Dr. Victor Shepherd; 2nd Corinthians 4:4-6, John 15:15, Mark 10:13-16, Numbers 6:22-27, Psalm 73:25, Revelation 1:6; I: — Customarily we say it or sing it at a service of baptism. Learn the things he said so well that they will come back to you when something in your life seems to call for them. I. The counterpart of this truth. The one is LEGAL, the other is LOVING. "His ways are not their ways, neither are His thoughts their thoughts." And this joy, strange as it may seem to us, can be partly explained. "How proud you will be to take his arm twenty years hence." For the gospel idea of saints is that they are not merely to do His commandments, but to engage in His work, and He attaches the greatest importance to their service. "Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His life for us. The principle that animates true Christian service is that of the truest love. Sermons; Children’s Sermons; Hymns; John 15:9-17 SW-Admin 2019-08-10T12:28:27-07:00. New International Version (NIV) So wherever there is friendship between the soul and Christ, a conformity to Christ has been wrought in that soul. He demonstrates His power so that the disciples will grow in faith and trust. At chap. ", 2. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit--fruit that will remain--so that whatever you ask the Father in … As on the one hand our interest in Christ's work must be that of friends, so on the other we must remember that we are entirely dependent on Him for the best ability in His service. In November they begin to have sugar in themselves, and they exhale fragrance. 2. How suspicious of him and of their fellows! But when they went forth to their duty after the baptism of Pentecost, we trace no other constraint but that of love. What people need is a friend that will love them…and show them what real love is all about! There are thousands whose religion rises in its motives no higher than this: "We must prepare for death; it may come in an untold hour." Not a way among many, but theway. Not so with the friend; he is thrown upon his love, honour, sense of gratitude and justice. What is more sure and steadfast than the heavens in their daily march, or in their midnight pomp (Jeremiah 33:20, 21)? Now the Lord Jesus contributes to the happiness of His people. The love of an earthly friend, however sincere, is often impotent; but there is a Friend sticking closer than a brother," who knows no perplexity of ours which He cannot resolve — no conflict which He cannot comprehend and sustain under — no tempestuous surges to which He cannot speak the word — "Peace be still" — no extremity of poverty, or desolation, or bereavement, to which He cannot say, "Weep not," and the tear shall be staunched. But the averages of society are always and everywhere very low. Christ made my relationship to Him a consciousness. Check out these helpful resources Biblical Commentary Sermons Childern’s Sermons Hymn Lists. The same number of letters, but the accent is all. This is the true way to treat men — trust them. Jean 15:15 Interlinéaire • Jean 15:15 Multilingue • Juan 15:15 Espagnol • Jean 15:15 Français • Johannes 15:15 Allemand • Jean 15:15 Chinois • John 15:15 Anglais • Bible Apps • Bible Hub Version Louis Segond 1910 La Bible David Martin 1744 Darby Bible courtesy of CCEL.org. as my Friend, if I have the universe for my foes, I smile at them all. "I can do all things through Christ.". (2) In this they are examples to us. There is an everlasting distinction between the Redeemer and His people in their mutual friendship. John 15:17. A sermon preached on March 10, 2013 at Hebron Baptist Church, Denham Springs, Louisiana by Pastor Joe Alain. "He that hath friends must show himself friendly"; and if Christ confides in us, we must confide in Him. And where does God so exercise His love, so call into action and display His perfections, as in His people? He came to demonstrate His friendship towards us when we were enemies. Browse Sermons on John 15:15. Matt. And where is friendship so real as Christ's? A mutual power of conferring pleasure. To constitute friendship there must be reciprocity. The one is USED, the other USES. Daily devotional with John Piper. When John, king of France, lost the battle of Poictiers, though he had been beaten by a force one eighth only of his own, though he himself was taken prisioner, he was overpowered by the courtesy and chivalrous kindness of the Black Prince, his foe, "the tears burst from his eyes, and mingled with the marks of blood upon his cheeks." 3. When Christ says, "All things that I have heard of My Father I have made known unto you," He can mean only all things intended for them, for in the next chapter He remarks, "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot hear them now." It was 6-8 inches in diameter. Though He came down from heaven to make us His friends He is still the Son of Man which is in heaven. III. Introduction. Jesus’ lengthy discourse began in chapter 14 and will run through chapter 16. Faithfulness is the crown of friendship. This is seen very striking in the constitution of His Church. And I do not know how the heart of man is to be reached in any other way, how its enmity is to be slain and its love drawn out. They never put us out of our proper places, nor remove the exalted Jesus from His. No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father’s side, has made him known. Sin in you is not mere transgression; it is ingratitude, it is sacrilege, it is treachery. Jesus' teaching on the vine and the branches isn't like most of the parables in the Synoptic Gospels, which are usually stories with one or more spiritual points. This friendship is in truth a friendship between us and God. 2. That man is not worthy to be my friend, who can be unaffected in my grief, a friend's heart should throb with every throb of my heart, and thrill at whatever thrills mine. John 15:15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do?" The one is DISTANT, the other is NEAR. This Week ... (John 15: 15). He never ceases to be God. Yet our desire is still to be successful ministry and fulfill God’s call on our lives. Apostles and prophets lay the foundation-stone. Servants may be quite unconscious of their servitude. But there is one sense in which we are not to have love at all! John 13:16 and Jam 1:1, Php 1:1, etc. 3. 1. Our text speaks of the Holy Spirit as a Person. Who knows not that, even among children, not to believe is to excite to falsehood, to be always watching to be sure to prompt to go astray, and want of trust to beget unworthiness? We must enter into their feelings of reverence, while cherishing the warmest personal love towards Him. III. In October they begin to get colour on their cheeks, but they are hard yet. words lovingly pronounced, how dear! In the light of God's love to his friends, even nature acquires new majesty. Every point in her is susceptible of development; and at every step, coming up, and ministered to little by little, at last there comes a day when the benefactor says: "Hitherto I have called you my ward; I have been your benefactor; now I love you, and I take you for my own." The second is to learn the things Jesus did. 3. The REALITY of the friendship of Christ. Men may be perfect opposites; but let there be a real friendship between them, and we know that there is much that is common between them. Then it has the flush of early love and joy. 2. What hallowed rest is here! Partly the disciples had to grow into fitness for hearing them. He who knew what was in man knew what would be the danger of His friends; and with exquisite tenderness shows what their peril would be and how they should effectually guard against it. Servants may be absolute enemies. Conclusion: What is our relationship to Christ — that of servitude or friendship? A friend is one who loves my soul, loves me for myself, and would love me forever! THE AARONIC BLESSING. A SERMON ON JOHN 15:1-17. THE HOLY SPIRIT. "In all the afflictions of His people, He is afflicted;" "He is touched with the feeling of their infirmities;" "Let not your heart be troubled.". He does not love me for what I have, but for what I am. 15:15 Jesus informs the disciples of (1) truths about God and (2) future events. The love of God is "then" shed abroad in our hearts. The man who loves me for some selfish end is not my friend — he is his own. He acts from love, and love, like the philosopher's stone, turns the commonest things into moral gold, to enrich his own heart. "The servant," He says, "knoweth not what his Lord doeth...but all things that I do I have made known unto you." "They that know Thy name will put their trust in Thee.". I am glad of that; but it is a very low motive. In all the work these disciples had hitherto been doing, they were thinking of themselves rather than of Jesus and others. 3. John 15:1-8 deals with the intimate and living relationship that believers share with Christ. Some, perhaps many, may prove themselves unworthy of it — there was a traitor among Christ's friends — but many also will respond to it; or, if they do not, they will not respond to anything. They live not only in different apartments, but in different mental worlds, Not so with the friend — the friend is near to the heart. "For he that is called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's slave." The Lord guards our sentiments of love and delight in His service by the solemn intimation that His disciples are under probation for the blessedness of His present and final friendship (ver. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. He works out His gracious will on earth by the instrumentality of redeemed men; He puts His Spirit into men, and draws out their powers in grateful, cheerful labour. John 15:1-11 JESUS: THE TRUE VINE. It involves a prayerful study of the Word of God, II. A friend is not bound by a clear and particular direction in respect of everything; trust is reposed in him, he has to exercise his own skill and feel his own responsibility. An old philosopher defined friendship as the existence of two souls in one body. (2) And so it is with us if our devotion is made perfect. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. Sometimes it is the misery of an heir to know that a decrepit aunt is going to bequeath her property to him, provided his conduct is in all respects suitable to her wishes. The slave is not free in his work; he would not serve his master if he could help it. Thus it is with Christ's disciples: all their efforts to serve Him serve themselves. John 15:20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. Will you abuse His confidence, and answer His grace with gracelessness? And so all his life long he has a certain sort of respectable morality; but the whole way through it is carnal and mean, and it is to get the property, not because he loves politeness, not because he loves her at all — he loves her Will. Very beautiful is the friendship between a master and a disciple, when the disciple looks reverently up to the teacher for instruction, and the master looks lovingly down and beholds himself growing anew in his young friend. Paul, beginning his Epistle to the Romans, does not say, "Paul, the friend of Jesus Christ," but "Paul, the servant of Jesus Christ." So, largely, is it in Christian life. Remember how he committed himself completely to the purpose of God. Look at the words in which the message is delivered: "That ye love one another," that ye "love the brotherhood," that this "brotherly love continue." "Without Me ye can do nothing." It is an undertone that should run through life. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. He whom no slight occasion of offence can alienate, whom no infirmities can revolt, whom no outward circumstances can wean, who loves me in poverty as in wealth, in reproach as in renown, in sickness as in health, in death as in life; He is a friend indeed. He had opened to them His mind and heart; and, if they saw but little, the fault was in the eye, not the object. Who can doubt the infinite reality of the friendship of Christ, that traces Him from the throne of heaven to the manger in Bethlehem, from the manger to the cross. 3. Everything turns to the real use of those who are the friends of Christ. Note that those who are called friends do not therefore feel at liberty to speak of themselves as such. "He that is joined to the Lord is one Spirit." 4. Christ has given us information as to what He intends to do, and "the wise shall understand"; He has given us notices of His general purposes respecting the world and the Church: not a minute prophetic history, but a grand idea of the destiny of systems and of men. But still His kindness, great and tender as it is, is not His friendship. 4. Then comes, next higher in order, the sense of duty — conscience. A FEW OBVIOUS THOUGHTS BY WAY OF APPLICATION. This is the relation that completes the Divine life; this is the highest object of ambition of the friends of God. Jesus had just washed the feet of his disciples, led them through a final meal, instituted the Lord's Supper, and now walked with them to the Garden of Gethsemane, where he will soon pray, and later be arrested. A man has certainly risen very much higher than the ordinary morality which is contained in the Ten Commandments — he has risen a great deal when he begins to be a worshipper. The connection is slight and fragile, born in interest. Most people in the world have no experience of lasting joy in their lives. Here, as in Jesus' discourse on the Good Shepherd (10:1-18), we see an extended metaphor. Why should we not pass our life in free and familiar intercourse with Him? II. This friendship does not set aside the relation of Master and servant existing between our Lord and His people (ver 14). That process differs with different people and in different circumstances. The soul must begin to love what Christ loves, to have the same mind that is in Christ and the same heart — then the soul lays hold with its affections on the Saviour and true friendship between them begins. In seeking His high ends, He does not beget a crouching spirit, but treats us generously. II. I. 1. 2. John 15:13-15 presents us with an interesting and exciting expansion of our place within our relationship with Christ. There is no friend so faithful as Christ. 2. "(2) In every Christian there is the same "henceforth." He has entered into frank and friendly communication with us, opened His counsels, explained His objects and His methods, told us His desires and designs, and has thus given us an interest not only in what we do, but in what He does. Browse Sermons on scripture John 15:15-15. Answer His trust with fidelity; His love with obedience. Look at His treatment of Simon Peter. The work has begun. But Jesus needs all the servants he can get. But still the eternal distinction remains. This ripening does not come because we are joined to God's people, and because we are striving, according to the measure of our knowledge in ordinary things, to live about right and fulfil our duties. It is not by prayer. (Isaiah 44:28). It is not his duty; it is his desire and wish. Let it be your method in your treatment of your friends, in the education of children, in the Church. 2. Let us be worthy of it. But the service of the friend is free, he would not but do what he does, and his desires to render service transcend his abilities. Remember the when of this passage. Find Top Church Sermons, Illustrations, and Preaching Slides on John 15:15. Whatever names we have the right to bear, whatever privileges we enter into, never let us forget that we are here for service. Partly such words were best with a farewell flavor in them. Not absolutely. RUSSELL B. SMITH. Questions and answers with John Piper. It begins with Christ; but it does not terminate with Him. Ones that are fruitful and fruitless, (Fruit: Christian character that brings glory to God through life and witness as it’s in Ephesians 5:9). In September they have got size that they had not, but are very sour. "Truly our fellowship is with the Father," etc. 1. All his services, as a true friend, answer his own purpose, conduce to his own happiness of soul. The subject, the friend of the prince, repays the prince in counsel, and in sympathy, more than he receives in honour. No one can look at the gospel and not perceive that it deals with all that believe in the way of the greatest bountifulness. 1. "I will guide thee with Mine eye," says God to His people: that look of God will speak volumes to a friendly heart, and supply its own best motive to obedience. Jesus draws our attention to a fruitful vine and then provides two primary applications for us to learn from -- pruning the branches and abiding in the vine. ", 3. They are not troubled as we are who are only servants. "(1) It is true of us as of them. He has made a great sacrifice for His people (ver. Jesus warned that God the farmer will cut off any fruitless branches. Doubts vanish from the full assurance of love. Higher than this is a more active recognition of what may technically be called religious life: that is, the recognition of an invisible God, of a moral order, and of a providence which unfolds the thought and the will of God among men. It takes in His Divine nature as well. He is the tool of an arbitrary authority. Thus the state and the temper of slavery are both abolished. Please use these sermons as the Lord leads, but nothing on this site may be used for profit without my expressed, written permission! Here servitude is the sign of friendship. (with 1 Peter 2:17; Hebrews 13:1) I. How many have found that higher and nobler development of confidence between their souls and their Saviour? 1. ILLUSTRATE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SLAVERY AND FRIENDSHIP, AND SHOW THAT CHRIST TREATS US NOT AS SLAVES BUT AS FRIENDS. John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, John Lightfoot's Commentary on the Gospels, Robertson's Word Pictures in the New Testament, Frédéric Louis Godet - Commentary on Selected Books, Expository Notes with Practical Observations on the New Testament, Heinrich Meyer's Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament, Johann Albrecht Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament, Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible, Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament, Schaff's Popular Commentary on the New Testament, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Ernst Hengstenberg on John, Revelation, Ecclesiastes, Ezekiel & Psalms. The master keeps his eye upon the slave; he knows that he is not the character to be trusted, here is a mere eye servant. SermonAudio.com - John 15 Sermons. All the love of the Father dwells in Him and embraces us as soon as Christ's love embraces us, and soon too we discover this and joyfully embrace the Father in our love. A service of fear never works the higher moral qualities. 2. And love ever finds new words and new meanings. THERE IS, THEN, A DISCIPLESHIP THAT IS SERVITUDE, HAVING IN IT A GOOD MANY EXCELLENT QUALITIES but as soon as possible to be left behind. Duty is not less noble because it is inferior to love, but it is inferior to love. (2) And if this confidence is seen in what He communicates, it is seen also in what He withholds. THOSE WHOM JESUS CALLS FRIENDS HE REALLY TREATS AS FRIENDS. Thus Dr. Arnold treated his boys at Rugby, and thus all whom Providence has put in authority over men should treat their subordinates, in order to get from them the highest service they can render. ываю вас рабами. 3. They enter into the fellowship, not only of the Saviour's death and resurrection, but of His government also. But we have a more glorious revelation than this. In combination with higher qualities conscience gives strength and great power. There is also a religion which is too full of a baseless confidence in Christ. Their friendship must not degenerate into licence or presumption: it must be the FRIENDSHIP OF SERVICE. We must be ruled either by force or by reason; we must be watched or trusted. V. The one is COERCED, the other is FREE. And if it is so with children, it is still more so with men. The things that every mother does for her child, are they things that are done from a sense of duty? I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. The former is the condition of devils, the latter that of holy saints and blessed angels. Thus near are Christ's disciples to Him. The relation between the Lord and His people is that of Master and servants; but the perfect bond of that relation is love to His person. Winds, and vapours, and storms fulfilling His word. There are also associated actions with each branch. (C) Fruitful branches are pruned that they will be more fruitful. but all within the limits of their apostolate. Selfishness, ignorance, prejudice, fear, tyranny may say, "Treat him as a slave"; but reason, love, justice, hope, and all in Christ Jesus, say, "Treat Him as a friend." (B) We were connected to the true vine the moment we received Christ as savior, (…clean because of the word…) Believers are responsible for bearing fruit. She ought; but she never touches bottom on ought. I. All he cares for is what benefits he can extract from his service, the slave is used — used as a beast of burden. Now, the first rejoicing that the soul has comes when it just begins the Christian life. If a man's religion is very largely compounded of the element of fear he may save his soul; but is it worth saving? 1. 1. ", 3. The ripening of men is not a mechanical system, by which we have been awakened, and convicted of sin, and have changed our will and purpose. We are "joined unto the Lord" and are "one spirit" with Him. And the soul could have without this a little of what we call gratitude, but gratitude is not friendship. But there is also the fear that if a duty be neglected it will bring chastisement; and this fear takes a very low range. And even when they did hear, much was appreciated in a very imperfect way. CONSOLATION FOR CHRISTIANS UNDER THE WORLD'S HATRED. Time is His servant, and the ambition of princes; but it is all unconscious servitude. We attain to this state of experience, not as the direct result of effort. "(1Jn 2:9) 2. Friendship would make common cause with the master, and identify both interests in one. It indicates no great love for moral quality, no worship of good because it is good, no spontaneity, but a dark shadow of dread for neglect or violation. He shares His counsels with us, not as being His servants only, but as being His friends. John 15:15 NIV84. When, however, He had died, and the Holy Spirit shed His light upon the Redeemer's passion, their minds entered into the infinite Secret and made it their own. It is not meant to meet a mere necessity, but to gratify our utmost desires and hopes. 1. Jesus wanted these very men for special service. ‘He that hath friends must show himself friendly’, All things that I have heard of my Father, I have made known unto you, Henceforth I call you not servants, but friends, All things that I have heard of the Father, I have made known unto you, obeys without question the command he understands not. The Holy Spirit opens the sinner's eyes to behold Christ, discovers to Him the glory of His character and the amiableness of it, and enables him to see and feel how worthy Christ is in Himself of His love. In John 15:2 Jesus continues the picture with two kinds of branches. Until the hour of the manifestation of the personal Saviour comes, we can neither perfectly love nor serve Him. Without disinterestedness, friendship is a mockery. All over the world, we see in progress this primary state of discipleship — that of servitude and inferiority. We have simply ripened so that we have begun to be susceptible; and Christ says: "Henceforth I call you My love," and we respond, "I am my Lord's; He is mine.". If the contracted work is to be done he is to be kept up to it by force. Two types of branches. In early July the apple and the pear have set their germs, they are beginning to grow, and are utterly unfit to eat. All true comfort comes from that personal relation to the Lord Jesus upon which such stress is laid in these discourses recorded by St. John, and which is exhibited as the inspiration not only of … That is the way of service according to a worldly spirit. There is a fear that runs with the highest feelings, that purity itself has lest it should be sullied. The title of the icon is The Holy Trinity and it was painted to illustrate the doctrine we celebrate today. Servants of God, here is a higher ambition for you. The growing comes afterward. 4. II. Few joys, to which we can look forward, can equal the hope we have that one day we shall call our boy our friend. There is a religion which is a service without love, which regards the Lord as only an austere man. We know words lovelessly pronounced, how cold! He serves Jesus best who serves the neediest of men in their greatest need, and this can only be done when the heart is purged of self-seeking in all its forms. 13). Spiritual privileges, however high, never alter our obligations. It is not by mortification; it is by the power of love, and soul ripening that it is attained. Wrought john 15:15 sermon that soul partly such words were best with a love of,! 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