HWA Passover Service 1981 - Church of God - NEO

[I] didn't mean to preach a sermon tonight -- but I just felt that I needed to make a
comment or two as I go along on some of these things.
Well, again Jesus said (John 15:5):
John 15:5 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 ye can do nothing.
Whatever has been done in this Work in these last 54 years [since 1947 -- to 1981] has
not been done by me at all. It has been done by the Living Jesus Christ.
I have merely been an instrument that has been used. You may hear a beautiful violin
number but it is not really the violin. It is the man who plays the violin that is giving you
the music.
The violin is his instrument. And I have only been an instrument.
John 15:7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it
shall be done unto you.
8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall you be my disciples.
(Verse 11):
John 15:11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and
[that] your joy might be full.
(Verse 16):
John 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye
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 give it you.
17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you.
(Verse 22):
John 15:22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they
have no cloak for their sin.
Coming on to the 16th chapter -- just a few little excerpts here. (Verse 5):
John 16:5 But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither
goest thou
6 But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.