Address—C.E. Lunden
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We turn to the 15th chapter of John John's Gospel.
I am the true vine and my father is the husband then.
Every branch in me.
That beareth not fruit or not bearing fruit. He taketh away every branch bearing fruit. He purges it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now you're clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you, as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself.
Except to abide in the vine, no more can ye except she abide in the vine.
Abide in me, I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him the same bringeth forth much fruit, for without me you can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered. And men gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
If you abide in me and my words abide in you.
You shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you.
Herein is my Father glorified that you bear much fruit, so shall ye be my disciples.
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you. Continue or abide ye in My love. If you keep My commandments, you shall abide in My love, even as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.
These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Here my friends, if you do or practice whatsoever I command you.
Henceforth I call you not servants, for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth. But I've called you friends, for all things that I've heard of. My father I have made known unto you. You have not chosen me, but I've chosen you, and ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain.
That whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father, in my name, he may giveth you.
These things I command you, that you love one another. If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you.
If he were of the world, the world would love his own. But because you're not of the world, but I've chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his Lord.
If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they have kept my sayings, they will keep yours also.
But all these things will they do unto you for my namesake, because they know not him that sent me. If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin. But now they have no cloak for their sin.
He that hateth me, hateth my father also, if I had not done among them the works which none other man did.
They had not had sin, but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law. They hated me without a cause. But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me.
And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning, if you'll turn with me to Isaiah the chapter 5, Isaiah chapter 5, and.
Starting with the first verse, now will I sing to my well beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard, my beloved at the vineyard in a very fruitful hill.
And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and build a tower in the midst of it. Also made a wine press therein. And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. And now inhabitant of Jerusalem and men of Judah, Judge, I pray you betwixt me in my vineyard, what could have been done more to my vineyard than I have not done in it?
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Wherefore when I looked that it should bear forth grapes.
Brought it forth wild grapes, and now go to I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard.
I will take away the heads thereof. It shall be eaten up.
And breakdown the wall thereof, and it should be trodden down.
And I will lay it waste. It shall not be pruned nor digged, but there shall come up briars and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain. No rain upon it. For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the House of Israel.
And the men of Judah, his pleasant plant, And he looked for judgment, and behold oppression, for righteousness, behold a cry.
Now in this passage we've read in Isaiah.
We have a vineyard.
That vineyard was the House of Israel, and it bore nothing but wild grapes.
It had every advantage. It had culture, it had care. It was enclosed.
And everything was there except one thing. It didn't have a nature that could bear good fruit.
But beside that, everything that was connected with it was fear.
Because this vineyard was under law.
So that this do, and thou shalt live.
But now in our chapter, we have an entirely different line of things.
We have a vine.
And it's spoken of as the true vine. The first one could not have been.
It was there by profession, but it was not a true Vine.
But we have something connected with this vine in our chapter which is just contrary to the other, and the other was law and fear connected with it.
But as we've noticed in the previous chapters, we have something introduced that was not known in the Old Testament in this way.
And that's love.
Now, if you'll turn with me to one more verse before we speak of the chapter, and that's in the Epistle of John.
This 4th chapter of the First Epistle of John and the 18 first.
There is No Fear in love.
But perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath torment.
He that feareth is not made perfect in love. We love him. That's God, because he first loved us. Now this is what's connected with what we're Speaking of tonight. I have no doubt that most Christians.
I'm not saying most in this room, but I'm saying most Christians worldwide do not realize that they're in a position.
Where perfect love has cast out all fear.
Because fear has torment. As long as you and I expect something from this first man, there will always be fear because the 1St man cannot produce.
But what we have in our chapter tonight is the true vine that bears fruit.
And the branches that abide in him bear fruit.
But it's on the new principle of love.
And it's love that has drawn the believer to Christ, who is the true vine now as long as you and I have, hiding within our bosom something that makes us fear, that cannot be much fruit.
Because we haven't yet seen ourselves as completely dead and raised again in Christ.
We've been raised with the new life that there's No Fear attached to it whatsoever.
The judgment.
Is gone as far as the believer is concerned. It's true all of our works will pass in review for reward. But fear?
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Has no place in the new order.
If it's there, it's because we have salvage it from the old order.
Man in the flesh.
And you'll notice in.
The third verse of our chapter. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
Ye are clean.
I know some are older ones here may think that this is being overemphasized.
But.
These natural hearts of ours have allowed to act, will always revert to expect something from the flesh.
And immediately there is fear introduced.
We can't go on in perfect liberty in our souls as long as we're expecting something from self.
The emphasis in this chapter is abiding in the vine.
There can be no nourishment flow out to bear fruit unless we abide in the vine.
And we are told that the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, and that that settles it once and for all.
The branch cannot bear fruit of itself.
And now this is what puts away all fear, and we know that if there's to be any fruit for God at all, it has to come by abiding in the vine.
We were noticing some of us the other day how the Lord could speak of himself, or the Prophet could speak in that way. Thou art my servant, O Israel.
Two things. The true servant was Jesus, but he had taken the place of Israel who had failed.
Before God.
We find the same with the prophets. Every prophet was used no doubt as a type, but still they failed.
And the last prophet spoken of in the Old Testament.
Speaks of.
God would send Elijah before that great and notable day of the Lord.
And he would restore the hearts of the fathers to the children, the children to their fathers.
Lest gods might fear Earth with a curse.
But Elijah is long gone.
And God will never bring Elijah back as a person.
And so in the Gospels we read of John the Baptist. This is Elias, which was for to come.
Why? Because he was just a continuation of the type.
It was moral.
The answer comes in the third chapter of Acts. If you'll read it carefully, we won't go into it tonight.
But at the end of the chapter we find that it was Jesus and no one else who would restore the hearts.
Of the children to their fathers, and the hearts of the fathers to their children.
And this he will do when he comes again after all the prophets have passed out of the scene.
Jesus comes and he does everything that the others could not accomplish, yet they're going to be rewarded for the place they took that God gave them in that line of faith as types and shadows.
But now we have the Lord Jesus as the true vine.
God has not only given us a new life.
But he has given us an object in that life, and that's Jesus.
The chapter we have tonight does not have to do with salvation. It supposes that it has to do with fruit bearing on the part of those who are saved.
Fruit bearing on the part of those in whom there is No Fear now.
Because perfect love has cast out all fear.
Is that not the proper atmosphere for fruit bearing?
So we have.
Every branch in me that are not bearing fruit, he taketh away.
Now some have applied this to Judas, and perhaps it is Judas we have Judas referred to in the sixth verse.
But there could be an application also to a believer not bearing fruit.
And being taken away as we have in the.
11Th chapter of First Corinthians. Now this is a very solemn thing, because the believers here in this world not to live for himself.
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And if he doesn't abide in the vine, he will live for himself. And there is such a thing as, as it says in First Corinthians 11, for this cause, some are sickly among you, and others sleep. That is, they're, they're taken out of this world, very solemn.
What cost? Not discerning the Lord's body?
Not discerning that present testimony that rests upon the death and resurrection of Christ.
However, I say that may be an application of this verse.
And every branch bearing fruit.
Every branch bearing fruit.
He purchased it that it may bring forth more fruit.
Now what is fruit?
A vine bears grapes, and grapes in Scripture are more or less of a universal type of joy. Joy.
It is also the spirit, but it's the Spirit who brings that joy.
So we find that.
The fruit of the vine.
The Lord says he would drink no more the fruit of the vine until he drank it anew in the Kingdom of God.
Well, that's the that's the joy that belongs to Christianity.
Now, the character of joy that he speaks of in this chapter is a little different from the joy that we speak of or he spoke of in connection with the Kingdom of God.
When we go into the heavens.
And we'll notice that in a moment, the kind of joy that he speaks of in connection with the pathway down here.
And then we have commented on verse three. You're clean through the word which I've spoken unto you.
That is.
The word is preached, faith believes it, and the person is clean.
If the word is mixed with faith, there's an immediate and eternal.
Connection with God.
It isn't a question of how much a person knows. It's whether there's faith, whether the word of God is mixed with faith. If it is, then he which hath begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
Now he says, abide in me.
And I in you.
Abide in me.
And I in you two things, this must be meditated upon.
Abide in me.
And I in you.
The person is before us in each case.
But in one sense we realize that we're in Christ, and the other that He's in US.
And that's why it says the Spirit of Christ in the eighth of Romans. It means the character of Christ.
And the 8th of Romans.
The Spirit of Christ. The character of Christ.
Perhaps you speak of a person and you say what a lovely spirit that person has.
Well, it's in that sense, it's the character of Christ that the believer has.
And dear ones, you and I will never get anymore. Never.
Than we have now.
Oil will be brought into the realization of it more.
And we'll know as we're known, as soon as we're taken home.
But everything that the believer has was provided for us at Calvary.
That was the basis of all our blessings.
We'll never get anymore, and we'll never need anymore.
Because the Lord Jesus.
Fills all things.
Is there anything fuller than that?
And he, we are his. He's ours.
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Now inviting in him there's fruit.
The branch can't bear fruit of itself, that's clear.
So this just turns all fear away, as though there was something required of the flesh. It's not nothing required except abiding in Him, and then the fruit will take care of itself.
Supposing I take a branch off an apple tree and lay it on the ground, will it bear fruit?
No.
But supposing that branch is left on the tree, why does the branch bear fruit? Because it's attached to the to the trunk of the tree, and so with the vine.
The branch bears fruit because it's abiding in the vine.
Now I know that Scripture uses many illustrations that you can't say, well, this fits every point and that's not the intention. The intention is to give us the thought that's all abiding in the vine bearing fruit. Now he definitely states in the fifth verse, I am the vine, ye are the branches.
He's not talking about certain Christians who are more faithful than others. He's talking about all of his people.
There's no partiality with God.
He that abideth in me, and I in him the same, bringeth forth much fruit.
Now we've had fruit.
But we've come now to much fruit.
We've had more fruit also in the second verse. Fruit.
More fruit and much fruit.
But you notice how it's connected. He that abideth in me and I in him, I in him.
The same bringeth forth much fruit, for without me you can do nothing.
The sixth verse no doubt applies to Judas or one like Judas.
If a man, he doesn't say you, he says. If a man, if a man.
Separating him from the disciples Couldn't be a disciple, a true disciple. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch and is withered. And men gather them and cast them into the fire. That is, they're tested by God's own character, and they are burned. That's the end.
As far as this life is concerned and fruit bearing, they couldn't bear fruit because they didn't have life.
They didn't abide in the vine.
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you.
And one who abides in him will ask a right because.
Holy Spirit makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered, and He knows the mind of the Spirit.
Which is according to God, as we have in the eighth of Romans.
Here it is, my father glorified, that she bear much fruit.
So shall ye be my disciples.
Our disciples are seen in Scripture in more ways than one.
There were many who took the place of disciples, but with some He, he would not.
Attach himself because he knew all men, and he knew what was in man.
One can be a disciple and not be saved.
But one can be the Lords and not be a disciple that is not walking as a disciple.
Solemn, isn't it?
So are you my disciples?
So are you my disciples?
As the Father hath loved me, now all this is connected with the Father.
You will find that.
The vines have to be pruned.
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Anyone who grows grapes knows that heavy pruning will bring forth more fruit. In other words, discipline.
Now chastening discipline is done by the hand of the Father. This you get in the first chapter of Peter.
Peter.
On the on the Lord loves, he chases. We get in Hebrews as well.
And so the fathers connected with this.
Now it says.
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you, continued ye in my love.
Or a baiji in my love it's the same word. Abide.
And how do we know then that we are abiding in His love?
Is this something that we can tell by looking inward? No, no, it shows here exactly how we can tell.
If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love, even as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in His love.
Now we noticed a previous evening that commandments and his word were were just a little different.
Commandments were the immediate things that he had asked them to do.
I believe we have the expression in this chapter, however.
There were certain things he commanded them.
But His word includes the whole mind of God from the very beginning of Scripture to the end. That's His Word.
Commandment with certain things that he specially spoke to them up.
As we noticed the other evening, like if a mother were asked the child to go to the store to buy something, that would be a commandment, but the child also would know all that was expected of that child in that household. The commandments were something specific for that moment.
No doubt connected with this Upper Room ministry of these chapters, we have here in a special way.
If you keep my commandments, you shall abide where?
In my love, not under law. In my love.
I'd like to turn to a verse in the Epistle of John again.
First Epistle of John in the third chapter.
19 first.
3rd chapter of the First Epistle of John in the 19 verse.
In this book of the Epistle of John we have.
Things that test our own hearts.
Not something that tests somebody else's heart that we use, but as we read it, it tests our heart. That's the way we read the Epistle of John.
1819 Verse And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God, and whatever we ask we receive of him, and so on.
Now that's connected in principle, although there is Speaking of the truth.
With what we have in this verse.
Abide in His love.
Connected with our conduct down here.
This is the way we know it.
These things, now you'll notice this expression that we have pointed out already. These things have to do with a special commandments or instructions in these chapters. You get it repeated over and over again in the 16th chapter, the first verse, these things.
Third Verse. Fourth Verse.
And so on down through the chapter that we have several in this chapter and some in the previous these things.
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You know, just to know the mind of the one you love, to know of something they want becomes a commandment to you.
Because you want to please the one you love.
It's not the law.
These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
Now we were speaking about joy moment ago.
And in His presence, this fullness of joy, but His right hand there are pleasures forevermore.
When we get home to glory, there will be nothing but joy. We experience sorrow here, but it's not our portion.
Sorrow is something passing.
It has to do with child training. It has to do with preparation for that coming day of glory. But it's not our portion. It's something we pass through. Like the psalmist speaks of passing through the valley of the shadow of death, He passes through it.
That's not his portion.
So he says these things. Have I spoken unto you that my joy?
Now he's talking about the joy he has down here in this world.
As he's doing the will of the father.
In the midst of all the trials and sorrows of the way, the Lord Jesus had a special joy.
He was down here under trial and testing and his spirit was up there.
His spirit was up there. That's the kind of joy he speaks of. And beloved, you will never experience this in heaven.
Because you won't have any trials in heaven.
You'll never learn the love of God in heaven the way you learn it here.
Because you learn it here under need.
And his love and the joy that goes with it.
My joy might remain in you, not just with you, but in you.
It's really an indirect reference to the Spirit of God who dwells in the believer.
And that your joy might be full. It's the practical.
Experience of the believer down here under trial, whose spirit rises into the heavenlies, as it were, because that's where his home is.
It was, it was said of a little boy. He was on a on a vehicle traveling home and.
With others, whether it was a bust or what it was, I don't know. It was a very rough Rd.
And someone when the pastor said the little boy, my this is a rough Rd. Oh no, it doesn't see that light over there. That's my home.
It's my home. That's what's meant here, I believe.
My joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full abiding in Him.
This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
Now the Lord Jesus loved all of his disciples without partiality.
There's a tendency on the part of.
Ourselves.
To be partial.
Love is seen in Scripture in more than one way.
We find in the Epistle of Peter.
Love mentioned.
And then love again mentioned in the same verse. What was the difference between the two?
Well, one was.
Brotherly love which has a motive.
The others divine love, which has no motive, is just its nature, that's all.
Divine Love loved us when we were unlovable.
But brotherly love is attached to a brother because of some kindness he has done to him.
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He may have helped him financially when he was in distress. He may have visited him when he was sick.
He may have done any number of things for him and there was a special affection went out to that brother and it should be so. And that's why it says let brotherly love continue.
But Divine Love loves when there's no reason to love at all.
It's just its nature and it can't do anything different.
Now that's the kind of love that's in the heart of every believer.
And this is the kind of love the Lord speaks of in connection with.
The joy that he had.
And the love that went with it, in which he gives now as a commandment. A commandment.
That she loved all the Saints now that she loved one.
Another as I have loved you.
John was one who appreciated this in a special way, and he speaks, he being the writer of this gospel, he speaks of himself as the disciple whom Jesus loved.
Now, he didn't say that Jesus didn't love the others.
But he appreciated the love of the Lord Jesus for him.
And I believe it is surreal with John that he was used as a special vessel to manifest and to write about that love as we have here and in his epistles.
But something else about John?
Having such a deep sense of the love of God for him.
God could place in his hands those revelations, those awful revelations in that Book of Revelation.
Of things that will yet come upon this earth.
Because he had a sense of that love in his heart.
So the Lord puts before them his own love.
In the 13th 1St Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. If you're my friend, you're my friends. If you practice, it should read whatsoever I command you.
Dear my friends.
Now what is he talking about? A branch bearing fruit? No, he's talking about friends now.
I've heard it said by some. You know that there are different grades of Christians.
Some are his friends and some are disciples, and some are this and some of that.
But I warn you, that kind of doctrine is bordering on the same doctrine that says there will be several raptures.
No, my friends will be just one rapture.
And all the Saints will be taken up.
All the Saints, there's no partiality with the Lord Jesus.
Man likes to use his reasoning powers.
And introduce things that he never finds in the Word of God. There's no partiality on the part of Jesus with his disciples and even Judas. The very moment when Judas leaned forward to kiss to cover Jesus with kisses. It literally reads.
The Lord Jesus says, Friend, wherefore art thou come?
Was there any partiality with Jesus, even to the end?
Judas was his own familiar friend, and he did not divulge what was in Judas's heart.
Until the moment had come.
When Judas had to leave.
No, there was no partiality with the Lord Jesus on the part of his disciples.
Henceforth I call you not servants, for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth. But I've called you. That's all of his people.
Friends.
For all things that I have heard of my Father, I have made known unto you.
Now the Lord Jesus, when he was here, had not yet made known what he would make known later.
But the Lord Jesus never made anything known until he received it from His Father. As a man, He walked in perfect dependence each day, and all that He had received up of His Father up to this point He revealed to his disciples.
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That's perfection in manhood.
Later on he revealed through the Apostle Paul the full truth, as we have in Colossians, but that was when he went on high. Still a dependent man on high.
Now he's made known his counsels far beyond what Israel knew, but yet not what the full councils would be when he went on high.
Now this refers to all of his own. There's no dividing up of Christians.
There is a dividing up, of course, in the sense that there are various families in heaven and earth, but that's a different thing.
But the church is one family. There's no divisions in it. There are one family.
There'll be a family, no doubt, of little babes that have gone on that really are not a part of the church.
And there's a family of martyrs and the great tribulation. They'll be in the glory, and they're all have a part in the first resurrection.
But not in the rapture we're Speaking of in the 4th chapter of First Thessalonians.
Christ is the first fruits, then they that are Christ that he's coming.
Then the martyrs all belong to the first resurrection.
And so we have the love of Christ here in the 13th verse, He lays down his life for his friends.
Another place we learned in ladies life. Down for his enemies.
But here he's speaking to friends, his own disciples.
He says I won't call you anymore servants.
Because the servant doesn't know what his Lord doeth.
And so he reveals to his people, the church, the whole council of God.
You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you and ordained or really set you.
That you should go and bring forth fruit. Now the word set is a little stronger than ordained. One may be ordained and not do anything.
But he was he was set in a certain place for certain things.
Is a thought.
That you should go and bring forth what fruit?
Fruit.
Now.
Fruit may take various forms.
But fruit?
Is what the father enjoys because he planted the vineyard.
It's the husband man that is looking for the fruit.
And there will be nothing in the way of fruit except what he sees in the believer.
In which the believer has imitated Christ.
That very life that is in Christ the believer in the measure in which it flows out its fruit for God.
It might take the form of preaching the gospel or caring for the sick.
It might take the form of breaking the alabaster box. Does it work? And praise and worship.
Whatever it is that the believers called upon to do, it may be prayer, which is also much needed today.
Visiting the widows and fatherless in their affliction.
Or it may be simply to keep himself unspotted from the world. All that is fruit for God, because it's according to the pattern.
That your fruit should remain.
Someone has said I would rather have quality than quantity.
Because if it isn't according the word of God, it isn't fruit.
That whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, He may give it you. These things I command you. These are His commandments, not the law of Moses. These are different. These are the commandments of love, in a place where perfect love is cast out all fear.
And why is it a command? Because you and I would never know what to do if he hadn't commanded us.
Never know.
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There's not one thought that comes from the natural mind. That's right, not one in the things of God.
That she loved.
One another.
Now this chapter is practiced, beloved. It will make for a very peaceful home and a peaceful assembly and a testimony to the world.
Because the Lord said in the last chapter, By this shall all men know that you are my disciples.
In that you have love, one for another.
Now, if the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you.
Now, if you were of this world, the word would love its own, he tells us.
The world loves its own.
Doesn't love the Christian, at least the one who's walking with abiding in Christ.
Because you are not of the world, but I've chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Remember, the servant is not greater than his Lord.
They persecute me, They will also persecute you. If they've kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
Now all these things will they do unto you for my namesake, because they know not Him that sent me. Again He refers to the Father.
The Lord Jesus came to reveal the Father.
And the father is the husband, men, as you see in the first verse.
Here's the one that directs all this. The Lord Jesus is the one who carries it out down here while he was here.
But he's leaving them now, and he's going to place that privilege on the shoulders of his disciples, and that includes all his people, because he's going to leave them.
The same line of things that were true of the Lord Jesus are now true of His people.
The same powers there, the same intelligence, not the same measure, of course.
That is on account of our still being in the flesh and the flesh hindering it.
The principle that's in us that oftentimes acts and hinders the truth going forth in power.
But still, it's the same line of things that were true of him.
Now this is brought out in the epistle, because in the epistle we have what is true of the believer down here.
This the thing which is true in him.
And in you? In the gospel it was true of Christ. In the epistle the same thing is true of the believer. Which thing is true in him and in you?
He that hateth me, hateth my father also.
Now in the 24th verse we have.
One of the credentials that the Lord Jesus presented to Israel.
To prove who he was, there are two.
The one is in the 8th chapter.
And it's simply this, which of you convinces me of sin?
That's the credential he presented to Israel.
Could anyone else say that no.
And immediately that verse commands their conscience. They may not accept it, but it commands their conscience. Because no one else could say which of you accused me of sin?
But this?
I'll try to explain. Back in the 4th chapter of Exodus, Moses was the leader to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt, and he was to have two signs.
One was that he was to have a rod and as he cast on the ground and became a serpent and he fled from before, that's the natural man, but at the command of God, he takes it up and becomes a becomes a rod of power in his hand. That's the type of the Lord Jesus in perfect obedience to the Father, he takes the power over the serpent Satan, and he uses it as a rod down here.
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To deliver God's people as Moses did.
Next was to put his hand in his bosom and took it out as leprosy snow.
That's the natural man before God.
He's altogether sin.
But now at the command of God, Moses puts his hand in his bosom, at the command of God, perfect obedience, and it says his other hand.
Now he says, which of you accuseth me of sin? He was pure within. And now in this verse we'll see the 24th verse of our chapter, He's pure without.
The very spittle that came from his lips cured the blind man.
If I had not done among them the works which none other man did.
They had not had sin.
He had come as the one that Moses spoke of.
One like unto me, Moses said, That was Moses saw God face to face, at least his representative. That is, he saw God in the form God was pleased to take.
Face to face and he spoke to him face to face.
So a prophet like me shall God send, and him shall you hear, and the soul that will not hear, that prophet shall be cut off in the midst of his people.
But now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. Jesus had done the works that none other man did. He had proved who He was outwardly pure, that Satan had no power over Him. He had power over Satan whatever He did, but also He manifested the purity within. Which of you convinced me of sin? Now He was the one not to lead them into the earthly Canaan.
But he was the one who was to lead them into the father's house.
He was the leader of Israel by these credentials. But this comes to pass, that the word might be fulfilled as written in their law. They hated me without a cause. But now he changes back again. But when the comforter has come.
Whom I will send unto you from the Father. We notice in the last chapter the Father sent the Comforter to them because they were orphans.
He left them, but now he's going to send the comforter himself.
Because he now is Lord over all, He's gone on high and he's the one who commands. And it's a question here of testimony. He'll bear witness, but they will bear witness also because they had been with him from the beginning.