DISCOURSE: 1671 OUR LORD’S VIEWS OF HIS OWN DEATH John 12:23. _Jesus answered them, saying. The hour is come, that the Son of Man should be glorified. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit_.... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1672 THE BENEFIT OF FOLLOWING CHRIST John 12:26. _If any man sense me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour_. THE Christian’s life is certainly a life of difficulty and self-denial, not only as being contrary to... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1673 CHRIST’S RESIGNATION John 12:27. _Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name_. THE sight of one in affliction necessarily produces some emotion of pity in our breasts, if we be not... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1674 THE EFFECTS OF CHRIST’S DEATH John 12:31; John 12:32. _Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me_. INCONCEIVABLY arduous was the work which Christ had undertaken: yet amidst h... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1674 THE EFFECTS OF CHRIST’S DEATH John 12:31; John 12:32. _Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me_. INCONCEIVABLY arduous was the work which Christ had undertaken: yet amidst h... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1675 THE DUTY OF WALKING IN THE LIGHT John 12:35. _Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1676 THE DANGER OF LOVING THE PRAISE OF MEN John 12:42. _Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God_. IT s... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1677 MEN JUDGED BY THE GOSPEL John 12:48. _He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day_. THE judgment of the last day is a period to which we must all look forward with the deepest inte... [ Continue Reading ]