In all the work these disciples had hitherto been doing, they were thinking of themselves rather than of Jesus and others. "All that My Father hath given Me have I made known to you." (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. II. John 15:17. There are three angels around a table. And so, on no subject is the gospel a full rule, except as to principles. 3. It is a further proof of friendship, that the faithful friend will rebuke as well as commend, It is a rare quality, even in Christian friendship; in the friendship of the world, it is hardly known. (2:15-17) INTRODUCTION 1. 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. "I can do all things through Christ.". "They that know Thy name will put their trust in Thee.". This is the true way to treat men — trust them. 2. If the contracted work is to be done he is to be kept up to it by force. Jesus warned that God the farmer will cut off any fruitless branches. No longer do I call you servants, because the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth; but I have called you friends, because all things that I heard from my Father I made known unto you. RUSSELL B. SMITH. The future is unclear. Our interest in the Saviour's work is when made perfect that of friendship. How many have found that higher and nobler development of confidence between their souls and their Saviour? Then it has the flush of early love and joy. III. New International Version (NIV) But Jesus needs all the servants he can get. Sermons; Children’s Sermons; Hymns; John 15:9-17 SW-Admin 2019-08-10T12:28:27-07:00. Many organizations plateaued or lost momentum this year, budgets are tight. Christ spoke in the light of the perpetuity of our relationship. When He spoke to them of the vast designs He came to accomplish, they were like men that dreamed. Here servitude is the sign of friendship. 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." He used them as the builder uses a scaffold or a tool, then to be cast aside as useful no more. Being reconciled, we receive "not the spirit of bondage again to fear, but the spirit of adoption." (with 1 Peter 2:17; Hebrews 13:1) I. 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. 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.". "His ways are not their ways, neither are His thoughts their thoughts." BY REV. The Paperback Bible presents the Bible by the Book and is designed to be portable, readable, and truly personal with ample margins for notations. 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. THOSE WHOM JESUS CALLS FRIENDS HE REALLY TREATS AS FRIENDS. And the soul could have without this a little of what we call gratitude, but gratitude is not friendship. as my Friend, if I have the universe for my foes, I smile at them all. Time is His servant, and the ambition of princes; but it is all unconscious servitude. Partly such words were best with a farewell flavor in them. Servants have a divided interest from their masters. The connection is slight and fragile, born in interest. No one can look at the gospel and not perceive that it deals with all that believe in the way of the greatest bountifulness. But the reality of friendship is further evidenced by the sympathy that it is manifest, in the hour of trial and affliction. 1. 1. The love of Christ constrains them; they welcome the slightest intimation of duty from their Lord. He is precious to their soul, because He is even now their soul's satisfaction and rest. Not a way among many, but theway. "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.". John 15:16 : S Mt 7:7. But where Jesus loves, He loves forever. So all his life long he is thinking: "What does she want?" (1) "I know My sheep, and am known of Mine." Servants have but a passing and transient relationship. 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. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you. CONSOLATION FOR CHRISTIANS UNDER THE WORLD'S HATRED. What is more sure and steadfast than the heavens in their daily march, or in their midnight pomp (Jeremiah 33:20, 21)? It is thus that God moves the heart. 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. Look at His treatment of Simon Peter. Most people in the world have no experience of lasting joy in their lives. 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." Or, think of the seasons in their annual round (Jeremiah 33:25, 26). They are headed to the Garden of Gethsemane where Jesus will pray His great High Priestly prayer and will later be arrested by the mob led by Judas. In the thrall of poverty and neglect some beneficent heart, meeting with a maiden, sees in her some moral quality that indicates a higher place in life; and it turns out at last that she came of good parents, that they were swept away, that the child went through various hands down to the bottom of society, but that being caught up by this philanthropic missionary, she had responded quickly to moral appeals. And where is friendship so real as Christ's? It is not by mortification; it is by the power of love, and soul ripening that it is attained. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit--fruit that will remain--so that whatever you ask the Father in … The principle that animates true Christian service is that of the truest love. He crowds all imaginable and all imageable mercies upon their souls, to assure them of His love (Isaiah 63:9). Talk with them, and they will tell you that all things about them Jesus knows. She ought; but she never touches bottom on ought. 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 is His true disciples only who are admitted to His friendship. (2) This is, in a sense, the dignity and privilege of all believers. So God speaks to His people with an accent. But still the eternal distinction remains. 1. All these may be comprehended in one word — grace; yet we may trace it still to intermediate things, themselves the fruits of this grace. Scriptures: John 15:1-8. Friendship rests. But there is also the fear that if a duty be neglected it will bring chastisement; and this fear takes a very low range. He shares His counsels with us, not as being His servants only, but as being His friends. All must serve Him, either against their will or by their will. Their friendship must not degenerate into licence or presumption: it must be the FRIENDSHIP OF SERVICE. John 15:13-15 presents us with an interesting and exciting expansion of our place within our relationship with Christ. John 13:16 and Jam 1:1, Php 1:1, etc. 2. It involves a prayerful study of the Word of God, II. You never can pray it into yourself, although prayer is an excellent thing. A friend is one who loves my soul, loves me for myself, and would love me forever! 14). "The servant," He says, "knoweth not what his Lord doeth...but all things that I do I have made known unto you." But these few were wanted for special service; not that a few were enough, but Jesus began with a few that there might be all the more afterward. Why should we not therefore tell Him our perplexities, trials, gladness? Thus the state and the temper of slavery are both abolished. - Y. I. (1) These disciples before that "henceforth" had done their Master's will from a lower impulse: sometimes from fear, ambition, or reward. I. JESUS CALLS HIS DISCIPLES FRIENDS, BUT NONE THE LESS WERE THEY SERVANTS. There are also associated actions with each branch. Redemption, at first glance, elevates us from being a slave of unrighteousness and Satan to being a slave of righteousness and Jesus Christ.Yet, here Christ elevates our calling to an almost unimaginable height—intimate friendship with Him and the Father. Two types of branches. We must learn to act as Jesus himself would act if he were one of his own servants; and that can only be done when we give Jesus full opportunity of opening himself' to us as a man opens himself to a friend. As a result, we draw our life from Christ. John 15:2. Servants are unable to enter into the meaning of the Master's will. The disciples in John 15 … 1. Look at the Book. Both slavery and friendship represent our relations to our Lord and Saviour. In thought of a will made one with His, Christ said, "Henceforth I call you not servants," etc. "Without Me ye can do nothing." There is no friend so faithful as Christ. 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. Let it be your method in your treatment of your friends, in the education of children, in the Church. Friendship cannot live in an atmosphere of distrust and suspicion. The one is WATCHED, the other is TRUSTED. He trusts to their love, knowing that if they love Him they will keep His commandments. Hence the profound reverence which is stamped on their every allusion to His person. Without disinterestedness, friendship is a mockery. If the heart be not right, such a rule would be useless; if it be right, such a rule is unnecessary. 2. Then comes, next higher in order, the sense of duty — conscience. Jesus shared with His disciples what He had heard from the Father (cf. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. I. I. But we have a more glorious revelation than this. A SERMON ON JOHN 15:1-17. A service of fear never works the higher moral qualities. The slave is not free in his work; he would not serve his master if he could help it. He has made a great sacrifice for His people (ver. Are we not treated as friends? This is the right way, the way most in accordance with human nature. But when the Son of God is revealed in us, then, "Whether we live we live unto the Lord," etc. ‘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. Winds, and vapours, and storms fulfilling His word. But the averages of society are always and everywhere very low. "The servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth," etc. 3. Branches that do not bear fruit, and branches that do bear fruit. "He that hath friends must show himself friendly"; and if Christ confides in us, we must confide in Him. The love of God is "then" shed abroad in our hearts. Let us be worthy of it. The master uses his slave, uses him as he does a piece of machinery; he has no tender interest in him. (1) Before the "henceforth" the disciples' thought of His work was that of servants who know not what their Lord doeth. The one is USED, the other USES. 2. Although, alas! All his services, as a true friend, answer his own purpose, conduce to his own happiness of soul. 4. LOOK AT THE DOCTRINE TO WHICH THE TEXT POINTS. 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. 2. Matt. THE AARONIC BLESSING. There is a fear that runs with the highest feelings, that purity itself has lest it should be sullied. In the position which Christ assigns us, and the spirit which He excites within us. 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. He acts from love, and love, like the philosopher's stone, turns the commonest things into moral gold, to enrich his own heart. It is not by prayer. Jesus’ lengthy discourse began in chapter 14 and will run through chapter 16. 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. Answer His trust with fidelity; His love with obedience. 3. 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 … It begins with Christ; but it does not terminate with Him. Without it Christ might love the soul with a love of compassion, but not with a love of complacency. The elements are the servants of God. He could not so have spoken before. Duty is not less noble because it is inferior to love, but it is inferior to love. 4. This friendship does not set aside the relation of Master and servant existing between our Lord and His people (ver 14). what keeping out of her prejudices! 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. 1. Many true and loving friends he must have had besides them - men like that Lazarus whom Jesus once described as "our friend." Our text speaks of the Holy Spirit as a Person. 1. It was 6-8 inches in diameter. The exercise of the Divine love, and with it the exercise and enjoyment of the other Divine perfections. Now, the first rejoicing that the soul has comes when it just begins the Christian life. Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do?" (2) And if this confidence is seen in what He communicates, it is seen also in what He withholds. On our side we should obey His commands (ver. That is the way of service according to a worldly spirit. If this is Christ's friendship —. 1. John 15:16 New International Version (NIV) 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. Faithfulness is the crown of friendship. (1) These disciples had hitherto been servants, whose awful sense of their Lord's dignity had never yet been quickened into the ardour of personal devotion that He desired. In my last message, we learned of the promise of the presence of the Holy Spirit, so … The doctrine suffers no defect, and does not recoil from the fact of the infinite superiority on one hand, and the infinite inferiority on the other. 4. (John 15:12) This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Read John 15:2-3 (A) Jesus likened the disciples to branches. JESUS CALLS HIS DISCIPLES FRIENDS THAT THEY MAY BE BETTER SERVANTS, The work needs the best qualities in the highest degree. Conclusion: What is our relationship to Christ — that of servitude or friendship? II. The subject, the friend of the prince, repays the prince in counsel, and in sympathy, more than he receives in honour. The same number of letters, but the accent is all. Now the Lord Jesus contributes to the happiness of His people. Then we come, a little more interiorly, to the condition of those who are seeking to conform their lives to canons of morality, to rules of Church life, to religion as a personal experience; and we find that fear is usually the very first incitement, as it is the lowest motive. Christ makes His appeal to your honour. He does not love me for what I have, but for what I am. 2. There is a fear of love — filial fear. She does, because spontaneous love urges it upon her. We must enter into their feelings of reverence, while cherishing the warmest personal love towards Him. The counterpart of this truth. (John 15:17) These things I command you, that ye love one another. 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. Fruit of the Vine. Servants they termed themselves to the end; but from that time one spoke for the rest the common sentiment, "We love Him, for He first loved us. In the manner in which Christ employs us. Branches that do not bear fruit He takes away, and branches that do bear … In the extent to which Christ blesses us. In the light of God's love to his friends, even nature acquires new majesty. John 15:5. So, largely, is it in Christian life. No claims of absolute originality are made for this material. It is not his duty; it is his desire and wish. But still His kindness, great and tender as it is, is not His friendship. While Jesus was in the limitations of the flesh he could only have companionship with a few. THE GROUNDS OF IT. Spiritual privileges, however high, never alter our obligations. Paul, beginning his Epistle to the Romans, does not say, "Paul, the friend of Jesus Christ," but "Paul, the servant of Jesus Christ." This Week ... (John 15: 15). The appeal to honour they would respond to, though to all other appeals they would be deaf. Though in His union with our humanity, He is one with our race. "(1) It is true of us as of them. "Henceforth" — after they had received into their inmost souls the self-sacrifice of Christ in laying down His life for them — they added perfect love to perfect homage. In the text Christ means the whole counsel of God's will. Whatever names we have the right to bear, whatever privileges we enter into, never let us forget that we are here for service. Yet our desire is still to be successful ministry and fulfill God’s call on our lives. 2. This is seen very striking in the constitution of His Church. THE HOLY SPIRIT. John 15:15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. This friendship is in truth a friendship between us and God. This is seen —. 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. John 15:13-15. The world is learning this. (Isaiah 44:28). 2. SermonAudio.com - John 15 Sermons. How many names are recorded in Scripture of men who were His enemies at last? He had opened to them His mind and heart; and, if they saw but little, the fault was in the eye, not the object. 13). We are indeed servants still; but the commanding energy of duty is always and only love. Confidence is the sign of Christ's friendship. The soldier is not one of the council of war; but the mind and heart are revealed to the friend. 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. 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. John 3:32; 8:26,40; 12:49; 15:15); they were to pass this on to others (cf. But there is one sense in which we are not to have love at all! 5. Introduction. Multitudes of persons are afraid not to say their prayers. III. John 15:13-16. On earth, indeed, real friendship always receives; it is impossible but there must be some benefit on either side. He used them, while they sought, as Balsam did, to circumvent the Divine purposes. There is a process constantly going on; and the evidence that there is this tendency toward ripeness is one of the things that should stimulate the hope of our soul. In the nature of Christ's communications to us. 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. There are but two essentially different ways of treating men as friends, or as slaves. Library • Free Downloads • eBibles ◄ John 15:16 ► You did not choose Me, but I chose you. It is the clearest evidence of friendship, that it will make the greatest sacrifices for a friend. I. In like manner God spake of Abraham, His "friend:" "Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do? 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? But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I … ываю вас рабами. They live not only in different apartments, but in different mental worlds, Not so with the friend — the friend is near to the heart. So Jesus loves us. But the reality of friendship is also tested by the confidence and the communion which it extends to the friend. But what friendship gives proof of faithfulness, in comparison with that of Christ? In early July the apple and the pear have set their germs, they are beginning to grow, and are utterly unfit to eat. 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. (C) Fruitful branches are pruned that they will be more fruitful. There are few such, however, to be found. Am I being successful or just spinning my wheels? That is a very low motive. Most people are familiar with Jesus’ teaching that He is the way, the truth and the life. 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. John 15:15. He demonstrates His power so that the disciples will grow in faith and trust. That process differs with different people and in different circumstances. He had the parabolical and the real (Luke 10:23; Luke 9:10; Matthew 13:16). John 15:15. And where does God so exercise His love, so call into action and display His perfections, as in His people? "What shall we have?" Let us realize and rejoice in it. Scripture Reading: John 15:1-8. 3. V. The one is COERCED, the other is FREE. Sermons on John 15:15. It takes in His Divine nature as well. 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. words lovingly pronounced, how dear! Interactive Bible study with John Piper . 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. He has compassion and kindness for all. The hearts of Christ and His people are "knit together in love. Believers as God’s branches are vitally connected to Christ. I am glad of that; but it is a very low motive. The lower province begins, with conscientious morality; that is, so much of rectitude recognized and mildly sought as is embodied in public law and in public sentiment. July 21, 2019; Rev. 3. John 15:15 NIV84. 5. "He shall testify;" "and ye also" (see also John 16:7, 8, 13, 14, 15).In the first of these places He is spoken of as a Person acting with other persons, of whose personality there can be no doubt, viz., the apostles. 3. It is the fulfilment of a duty that has been laid upon them. — poor, scrawny, mean! "Faithful are the wounds of a friend." No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father’s side, has made him known. The one is DISTANT, the other is NEAR. On the eve of His departure, Christ said to men who had been living in this lower relation, doing right things, avoiding evil things — doing this from various motives, more or less in bondage, more or less exhorted by duty: "Henceforth I call you not servants; I CALL YOU FRIENDS. (2) And there is a knowledge too of Him on their side: "Whom having not seen ye love." 1. If that were deficient she would fall down upon another, but inferior, faculty of conscience — "It is my duty." We have seen that fellowship with God requires that there is no room for hatred in our heart toward our brother: "He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness until now. 3. I said to a young mother once, congratulating her on her newborn child. And what politeness! He who would do the best work for Christ must be likest him. Now it is clear that all along throughout Scripture, its language points to a state of hallowed seclusiveness, in which the soul sees more and feels more, knows more and has more, in highest communion with Christ (1 John 1:3; John 14:22, 28; 1 Corinthians 2:16; 1 John 5:10). It is really friendship, consisting, not of kindly feelings only, such as we bear towards our ordinary acquaintance, but of a cordial heart-warm love, like that which we have felt towards a few select individals only. Sin in you is not mere transgression; it is ingratitude, it is sacrilege, it is treachery. Please use these sermons as the Lord leads, but nothing on this site may be used for profit without my expressed, written permission! "Ye call Me Master and Lord, and ye say well:" which reminds us that we say well when we keep our language free from endearing epithets. Step by step, the fruit from greenness goes on to size, and from size to quality, and from quality to perfect ripeness and harmony. But if a man with a great heart, and blessed with large inheritance, looks out on society, and pities the orphans, and builds a home for them, that springs out of his own heart. 2. 2. He admits His people to His confidence. This is near the end of Jesus’ life. In the thought of this deep intercourse, Christ said, "I have called you not servants," etc. Jesus puts His Spirit into us, and He unites us to Himself. John 15:15 No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. Will you abuse His confidence, and answer His grace with gracelessness? There is also a religion which is too full of a baseless confidence in Christ. "All things are yours, life, death," etc. I. 3. Christian Churches are societies of friends. 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