" The Hound of Heaven " was first published by English poet Francis Thompson in 1893. To be plants in his garden, Supposing him to be the gardener, is all the heaven we can desire. And so in all of this we again see the three things I mentioned above: My message today has been mostly aimed at those who profess the lordship of Jesus Christ and are followers and believers in His name. Annas is not currently the high priest, but has been in the past, and is so powerful that he is actively involved in the affairs of temple and his son in laws administration of things. We affectionately treasure our world while spitting on the One who created it for us. This isnt the only place we read this in the Bible. In fact, if the council knew the miracles were authentic (which it seems that they did) they ought to have followed Jesus. Likewise, the miracle that were about to read of bolstered the faith of the disciples and those who were near Christ. Do we not all need watering and tending by his constant and gracious care? Even in the midst of all this seeming chaos, Jesus is getting everything He wants. [18] No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. (g) Finally, I think that our Lords sudden appearing on shore, when the morning broke, may possibly represent our Lords second advent. Some have taken this verse (incorrectly) to mean that on our own we can make a decision on whether or not we want to believe in Jesus. So Jesus withdrew for a time in order to prepare for the final chapter in His ministry, where He would once again enter Jerusalem, this time for the last time before His grand passion that would serve as the atoning sacrifice for millions and millions of His followers for generations to come, effectively changing the world forever. Cant they just let this go? (Philippians 2:12-13). The poem became famous and was the source of much of Thompson's posthumous reputation. Spurgeon sees great, if perhaps accidental, wisdom in Marys mistaking Jesus for the gardener: She was mistaken when she fell into supposing him to be the gardener; but if we are under his Spirits teaching we shall not make a mistake if now we indulge ourselves in a quiet meditation upon our ever-blessed Lord, supposing him to be the gardener., It is not an unnatural supposition, surely; for if we may truly sing, We are a garden walled around, We are here to glorify Christ in our daily life. One day He will return to consummate His kingdom (the not yet) and upon that return will usher in the visible reality of his reign (the already). [30] Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants on his throne, [31] he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. But in this account I believe that Jesus is almost certainly referring to the revealing of His person/deity and not specifically seeking praise. John uses the word world in ten different ways in his Gospel. Because the world is mentioned earlier in the verse it must therefore mean that Jesus has in view that everyone in the world will be saved by His death. In Eden, Adam took the fruit from Eves hand; in Gethsemane, Christ received the cup from His Fathers hand. (Psalm 23:1-3), Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. In the first parable we see the lengths to which a good shepherd will go in order to find a lost sheep. Our King reigns now, so for us to put the kingdom of God entirely in the future is to miss one of the most significant points of the New Testament. As Paul says: Put your mind and efforts into serving Him and others in obedience and with love through thick and thin. Amen. Come!, 11:38-40Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. As John MacArthur says, The apostle skillfully demonstrates that the shameful, debasing things done to Christ failed to detract from His person, but rather offered decisive proof of His glory.. That verse helps us understand why Jesus was so indignant. He weaves the denials of Peter in with the first part of the Jewish trial of Jesus. It is so bold, so new, so fearless. It is the beautiful glory of His holiness which confounds men. But what Caiaphas didnt realize (in his unconscious prophecy as Morris aptly puts it) is that it was indeed expedient for one man to die for the nation a scapegoat covered not with the political excuses of sinful men, but with the weight of their sins upon Him. How we think about the kingdom of God shapes how we view the book of Revelation, and perhaps the millennium question in particular. When they enter his airspace (so to speak) in that garden, they are on holy ground. Also, it was the love of the Father for us that He allowed Lazarus to get sick because through this He would reveal more of His Sons glory to His creatures. The veracity of His teaching is at stake, but of course much more than that, His saving grace is non-existent if He didnt accomplish a victory over death. Peter responds in the affirmative, and with each affirmative reply, Jesus charges Peter to Feed the lambs, tend my sheep, and feed my sheep.. It is the evidence of faith, and the outward reality of a changed heart within us. Below is a sermon I preached this past week on John 18:1-27. One cannot understand or appreciate the need for Christs imputed righteousness, the importance of His being fully man, the significance of Christs non-Levitical (and eternal) priesthood, or the typological significance of this enigmatic character Melchizedek if one is still learning the basic truths upon which these are built. They are a love gift from the Father, and despite their wanderings, He will surely go to the ends of the earth to chase them down with His love. In this we look to Him the author and finisher of our faith, and our true Friend and Brother. He enters into our sorrows with us. When you take the entire corpus of his work, his writing, youll see a man so transfixed on Jesus that in order to summarize his entire mission to the Corinthians he says that he resolved to know nothing else but Christ and Him crucified. We have pains and ills and death all around us.

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