Monopoly is a word banished from the religion of heaven. Spurgeon. 1. It is a great thing for us that this truth has been put into actual fact. The true safety of the Church.5. Sermon Text: [Jhn 1:14-18 ESV] 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. The plan of redemption depends upon His incarnation and atonement. Life is sensible of pain. Given the fact of God, and all other truth takes its place without question. Build me a column perfect in base and body, and I will know if the capital is true. 4. Practically such life is death, and so He names it. My mother died in giving me life, and, of course, I have not the slightest remembrance of her. There is sufficient answer in the statement of Jesus, "Because I live," etc. H. Spurgeon.When Luther was in his worst troubles a friend came in to see him, and he noticed that he had written upon the wall in big letters the word "Vivit!" And the more we turn away from looking at the dazzling lies which befool and bewilder us, the more shall we see Him whom to see is to live forever. That a body of truth all interwoven and suffused with life is based upon an illusion of life? But the rich man is no happier than the poor one. )The continued life of Christ the ground of our hopeRay Palmer, D. D.Christ lives —I. We cannot even look upon the man Jesus issuing from the tomb, and draw from thence a faith that yields peace. Practically such life is death, and so He names it. We cannot even look upon the man Jesus issuing from the tomb, and draw from thence a faith that yields peace. The true distinction between the Church and the world.4. Still another distinction must be made; we do not accept immortality because Jesus, the wise young Jew, wove it into His precepts, but because the Christ, the Son of God and of man — Humanity revealing Deity — makes it a part of that order of human history best named as the reconciliation of the world to God.III. Sermon Notes for John 14:18 Next Section ... which includes a firm belief in the inerrancy of Scripture. There is no spiritual life on earth apart from Him. It received its death-blow on the cross. 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. He is the Creator, and the life of Adam and Eve after the fall depended entirely on the promise of the Redeemer. And therefore it is a reasonable and very strong presumption that spirit is not, in fact, placed at such disadvantage, and that, if matter survives the dissolution of organic forms, much more must spirit survive the dissolution of the material forms with which it has been associated. A royal life. Find Top Church Sermons, Illustrations, and Preaching Slides on John 14:18. Eloquence and orthodoxy may make a convinced or an enlightened, but they cannot make a living Church.I. "Because I live, you must perish forever." (4) We who have spiritual life are one with Christ Jesus. It was Christ's realization of the living God that rendered His conviction of eternal life so absolute. Physical life is dependent upon the life and will of God; and spiritual life by faith is entirely dependent on the life of Christ as its Divine Source, its efficient and meritorious Cause, its infinite Support and Guarantee. Spiritual life. It is "hid with Christ in God.". He is still their life, still our life. It is everlasting life; He has done with death. Things will then be better! "Because He died, we live; because He lives, we live; because He lives" — because He is the living One — "we shall live also!" But what assurance have we that this life of Christ will always continue to be imparted to His people? By reason of the fullness of life in him, he could well afford to ignore death. Is it probable that, true in all else, He was in fault in this one respect? T. Munger.1. 3. (3) By inspiring us with hope. Nov 2, 2008. 1. "I am the Bread of Life;" "I am the Vine, ye are the branches." (3)Incomplete now, but destined to be complete at the Resurrection. "Join thyself," says , "to the eternal God, and thou wilt be eternal."(T. "And ye shall live also." That vitality must be a reality since nothing has been ever able to extinguish or destroy it. "Thou God seest me" is the constant feeling of the Christian.2. These are the kind of considerations by which thoughtful men, living without the light of revelation, might be led to see the reasonableness, the very high probability of a future life. Plato and Cicero discourse of immortality with a certain degree of warmth, but their countrymen get little comfort from it. Faith is the sight of the soul, and it is far better than the sight of the senses. (Ray Palmer, D. D.)The living ChurchJ. How can we famish or die? FOR THESE FOUR WRETCHEDNESSES, CHRIST IS THE ONLY ANTIDOTE — "I will come to you." The fact that there are millions of Christians who live by faith in Him under the dispensation of the Spirit, proves the reality of His life, of its continuance and power. If there be God's life in man's heart, there must be God's holiness in man's conduct. That vitality must be a reality since nothing has been ever able to extinguish or destroy it. This teaching of nature is presupposed by Christianity, and it is no true service to our Master to make light of it. Its progress is illimitable, because the principle itself is infinite.6. (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. Look to the Cross of Jesus, and see the remedy which shall in time save all the world. 1. John tells us that Jesus is the eternal Word, the almighty Creator, and the Word made flesh. They saw him in every object around and above them in the gloom of earth and in the glory of heaven; saw him in all the circumstances and trials of life and in the sufferings of death, in nature, providence and redemption. They would not come to Him that they might have life.4. This was literally the case at his resurrection. Yes, our life is bound up with that of Jesus. His life proves that He has done all that is necessary in order to secure life for them. Now it is so with spiritual life.2. He never makes a straight assertion of it except once, when the Sadducees pressed Him with a quibbling argument against the resurrection. We can but notice how grandly Christ reposed upon this fact of immortal life. He found a doctrine of immortality, held as mere future existence. Certainly, if there be no good works, we have no evidence of spiritual life. not leave you orphaned. And that presence is the pledge of a reunion. THE COMFORT OF A FULLER REALIZATION OF DIVINE FELLOWSHIP. Why Because, and in the measure, in which you have "turned away your eyes from seeing vanity." THIS LIFE HAS CERTAIN SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS. Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for John 14:18 ← Back to Chuck Smith's Bio & Resources. Munger. Safe in all the trials and dangers of life, and even in death itself. IN HIS MIND THE INTENSE AND ABSOLUTE CONSCIOUSNESS OF GOD CARRIES WITH IT IMMORTALITY, AS IT DOES THE WHOLE BODY OF HIS TRUTH. But an assumption is often the strongest kind of argument. A holy life. Still another distinction must be made; we do not accept immortality because Jesus, the wise young Jew, wove it into His precepts, but because the Christ, the Son of God and of man — Humanity revealing Deity — makes it a part of that order of human history best named as the reconciliation of the world to God.III. It has changed its forms, varied its circumstances, altered its doctrines, but has maintained in every period of its history its inward life. They are directed to the spiritual nature of their life as a source of consolation. 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. Is not this evidence of a Divine presence — of a Divine power? "Because He died, we live; because He lives, we live; because He lives" — because He is the living One — "we shall live also!" The proof that a man is no Christian is, that he is no missionary. 4. The plan of redemption depends upon His incarnation and atonement. Had He not succeeded in doing this He Himself would not thus have lived. Christ never ceases to be the disciple's Ruler and Referee. It is noticeable also that the faith of natural evidence awakens no joyful enthusiasm in masses of mankind. IV. (4) The endless continuance of their life. It is a life of favour; He is now very near and very dear to God forever. IS HIS ABILITY TO HELP TO THE UTMOST. The fellowship of Christ with the Father. To the presence of God. I. He is their Surety, Representative, Covenant Head. An immortal life. PHYSICAL LIFE. 1. Its progress is illimitable, because the principle itself is infinite.6. It is a life of liberty; He has done with servile work, and now reigns on high. Hence He never uses any word corresponding to immortality (which is a mere negation — unmortal), but always speaks of life. He not only gave us the true law, BUT WAS HIMSELF A PERFECT ILLUSTRATION OF IMMORTALITY, and even named Himself by it — the Life. IN ALL THE STRENGTH AND TENDERNESS OF HIS AFFECTIONS. 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. If we could find any weakness elsewhere in His teachings, there would be ground for such questions. The animal lives wholly in the present, practically it has no past, nor does it look forward. It is true that he really died, but it was the act of his own will. John 14:23-29 Peace I Leave with You. John 1:14–18 (ESV) 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. )Living because Christ livesC. Christ rose as "the first fruits of them that sleep in Him," the first born of the chosen family, their representative and forerunner. So, when the Sun of Righteousness arises in the soul, the spiritual universe is all ablaze. Happy, surely, are the living disciples of the living Saviour! What life is it that Christ speaks of when He here says, "I live?" I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Pastor Vince Gerhardy. Its continuance. He stands steadily upon life, life endless by its own Divine nature. Life has the power of assimilation. Man is an immortal being, just as he is a thinking and feeling being by the original terms of his nature. I. Within this universe, at its centre, is world around which all others revolve, the sun of suns, the centre of all systems, whose potency reaches to the uttermost verge, holding them steady to their courses. 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. I will A royal life. "Who will show us any good?" The longing was itself a sort of proof that its object was real; for how was its existence to be explained if all enterprise was to be abruptly broken off by the shock of death? Human nature is crowded with hints and omens of it, but prophecy does not convince till it is fulfilled. John *testified about Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has a higher rank than I, for He existed before me.’ To the presence of God. "Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more." IS HIS ABILITY TO HELP TO THE UTMOST. IN A SPECIAL MANNER WITH THE BELIEVER. This life is —, (1)One of holy activity and enjoyment.(2)Immortal. The life of faith is as certain and safe as that Divine life from which it emanates, and by which it is protected and supported. Then they would not consider themselves orphans, but happy and rich children in the warm embrace of an almighty and infinitely kind Father. "I," Jesus seems to say, "I was left comfortless, but I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. In Him — was, is, and ever will be, "the fountain of life" (John 1:4; 1 John 1:2; Psalm 36:9). But at last He died, and arose and disappeared from sight. (3) The perfect certainty and safety of their life. 4. (John 16:14; Romans 8:9; 2 Corinthians 5:17). Man lives at the Pole, as he lives below the Line. Eloquence and orthodoxy may make a convinced or an enlightened, but they cannot make a living Church. THE WORLD'S BLINDNESS. joy! But what is the believer's life of which Christ speaks, when He says, "Ye shall live also." "All power is given unto Me" (Ephesians 1:20-22). His visible appearance on earth was only for a "little while." Of what value is the mere adding of days to days if they are full of sin? Because He comes, His life passes into the hearts of the men to whom He comes, and who gaze upon Him. 17 For … Because He lives, we live, and our life is hid with Christ in God.III. It is reason to see with the wise, and to feel with the good. Many of our troubles and sorrows arise from our mistaken notions of things. I encourage you to read verses 14-18 several times and … 2. When our nearest and dearest are taken from us, how consoling to think the great God our Saviour lives! So it is not until a man begins to use his soul aright that he knows for what it is made. We are prone to think that Christianity is a thing for the Bible, for the Sunday, for the Church merely. Christ's life was continuous. Spurgeon. "We shall be like Him."III. So were we not to live, the great end for which He died and rose would be frustrated.2. We cannot read it in the pages of a book, whether of nature or inspiration. It is a life of glory; He has done with shame, and has a name that is above every name. (4) When we are heavily burdened. The Holy Spirit of God literally has gone "all out" to provide us with the answer to the question of what it means to be the kind of beautifully fulfilled person we have been created to become. Hence the apostle says, "Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God;" and the believer answers, "I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live." Of what value is the mere adding of days to days if they are full of sin? It is the same in its origin. Reflections:(1) Apart from Christ, the Christian can do nothing. What pain is to the body, sin is to the spiritual life; and just as our nervous system shrinks from the very touch or contact of pain, so the soul that is in unison with God shrinks from sin as its greatest evil, and the immediate source of all misery.4. We are prone to think that Christianity is a thing for the Bible, for the Sunday, for the Church merely. But if the imagination can take in these vast tracts of time, ten millions years hence we shall still exist, each one with his memory, will, and conscious contact, separate from all other beings in our eternal resting place. "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. All your new nature shall thoroughly, eternally live. To the glory of God. "I will that they would turn — I will that they would live. This truth is calculated to sustain and comfort Christians amid all the sufferings, and anxieties, and sorrows of life and death. The world had seen him outwardly. Taking his hand from mine he pushed it under the pillow and bringing out a bottle of brandy he held it with his trembling hand, saying, "This is my joy." We Beheld His Glory, Full of Grace and Truth. Every child of God shall live. Therefore He cheers them with this assurance. The Christian cannot see pain he does not wish to alleviate; ignorance he does not wish to enlighten; death in trespasses and sins to which he would not communicate a portion of his own spiritual life.II. And in the awful future, when the judgment comes, the begotten of God shall live. Christians are, by faith, so identified with Jesus Christ as to be partakers with Him of that life on which He entered, when, being raised from the dead, He sat down forever on the right hand of the Majesty on high. The removal of the penalty which fell upon our race for Adam's sin. Plato and Cicero discourse of immortality with a certain degree of warmth, but their countrymen get little comfort from it. )Living because Christ livesC. Practically such life is death, and so He names it. And I owe the success of my boyhood to the consciousness of her beloved presence. Its progress is illimitable, because the principle itself is infinite. "I want you to be happy, always happy in the Lord. Browse Sermons on John 1:14-18. We English use "life" in the sense of an existence which has a purpose and makes the most of itself. 2. Thank God, society in this age has loving hearts, and good homes for orphans. Michael, this is a wonder-ful follow-up to your Christmas Eve sermon! 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. Cumming, D. D.1. The true distinction between the Church and the world.4. 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