DISCOURSE: 1682 FAITH IN CHRIST AN ANTIDOTE TO ALL TROUBLE John 14:1. _Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me_. AS God is eminently distinguished by that character, “The Comforter of all them that are cast down,” so did Jesus evince his title to it during the whole ti... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1683 THE COMFORT TO BE DERIVED FROM CHRIST’S ASCENSION John 14:2. _In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am,... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1684 NO WAY TO GOD BUT THROUGH CHRIST John 14:6. _Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me_. THERE is in the Christian church a great diversity of character: some, like Nebuchadnezzar’s image, have heads of gold, while their fe... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1685 CHRIST ONE WITH THE FATHER John 14:8. _Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1686 CHRIST ENGAGES TO ANSWER PRAYER John 14:13. _Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it_. THE Gospel is properly termed “glad tidings of great joy:” it finds men guilty; and reve... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1687 THE GIFT OF THE SPIRIT AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO OBEDIENCE John 14:15. _If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1688 OUR LIFE DEPENDENT ON THE LIFE OF CHRIST John 14:19. _Because I live, ye shall live also_. AMONGST the various sources of consolation which our Lord opened to his Disciples, to support them under the disappointment that would be occasioned by his death, a very principal one seems t... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1689 OBEDIENCE THE TEST OF OUR LOVE TO CHRIST John 14:21. _He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father; and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him_. IT is supposed by many, that to profess an assuran... [ Continue Reading ]