Waggoner on the Gospel of John - Ellet J. Waggoner

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commandments; so that one has only to keep the faith in order to keep God's commandments. To us all, even as to Timothy, comes the exhortation, "Keep that which is committed to thy trust." It should not be considered a hardship to keep what is given to us, when that thing is the highest good. Notice that this talk about keeping the commandments immediately follows the promise that if we shall ask anything in His name He will do it. "And whatsoever we ask, we receive of Him, because we keep His commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in His sight. And this is His commandment, that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another." (1 John 3:22, 23) "Love is the fulfilling of the law," and love is freely shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. He makes the conditions of answered prayer very easy, and then supplies the conditions. "And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, 218
neither knoweth Him; but ye know Him; for He dwelleth in you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless [orphans]: I will come to you." (John 14:16-18) Jesus Himself is a Comforter. His presence is comfort. It was because He was going away, that the hearts of the disciples were troubled; and Jesus comforted them with the assurance that He was going to the Father, to prepare a place for them. Therefore we may know that "if any man sin, we have a Comforter with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." (1 John 2:1) The word rendered "Advocate," in this text is identical with that rendered "Comforter" in John 14:16. We have a Comforter with the Father, and "another Comforter" on earth with us. Surely we have no lack of comfort. This Comforter, the Spirit of truth, is Christ's own representative, Christ's own personal presence with us as He could not be in the flesh. We know this in two ways from our text. First, Jesus says, "I will send you another Comforter," and adds, "I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you." So through the Spirit Christ is personally present even 219
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WAGGONER ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN Elle
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years to meditate on the rejection
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"the flesh profiteth nothing;" it i
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everything. The Firstborn "Whom He
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the mystery of birth. Why should we
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exercised to give us life and happi
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ighteousness." (Rom. 8:8-10) Spirit
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each more than a few inches. They a
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condemnation may be, greater still
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Me." "And the Spirit and the Bride
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sink back into the old slough. So t
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that by nature they were no better
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I will make you fishers of men." An
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ye reconciled to God." In reading t
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earth, is given to everyone who wil
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Chapter 3 Revealing the Glory There
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time does not count in any of the L
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sin. No; that was not "the Lord's S
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it forth in one great blaze which i
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John 3:1-16 Chapter 4 The New Birth
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and speak one to another, everyone
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the kingdom of heaven except by a n
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eceive, to our own comprehension; w
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orn in us, He provides for a new bi
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John 4:5-15 Chapter 5 The Water of
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any trifle suffices to turn us away
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In the earth made new there will be
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All longing desire, ambition, disco
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efore. His resources are our resour
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that believe on Him should receive.
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Chapter 6 Healing the Nobleman's So
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accustomed. The early years of Jesu
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was at the point of death." His hea
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cometh by hearing." If you listen t
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the way in which he was led to beli
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Lord, and are therefore included in
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the pool, and Jesus could not have
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others,--it follows that true Sabba
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on what is to all the world (and ev
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ecause He is the Son of man." (John
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epresented God to man, that God mig
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these, that ye may marvel." (John 5
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When Jesus saw the multitude around
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and two fishes? Oh, that is an abun
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the repetition of the Lord's questi
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together with Him beseech you that
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Christ" are all and always "in Him,
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thing, remember that Christ Himself
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(Matt. 5:45) He even causes it to "
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Chapter 9 Living by the Father John
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acting, or claiming anything for Hi
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could wait for Him to give the righ
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who love the praise of men and este
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etween right and wrong in men's min
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for they shall all know Me, from th
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Chapter 10 The Test of Truth John 8
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light of men. (John 1:4, 9) He is t
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Christ would cleanse us from all si
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life in us, so may we know the trut
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time conscious of being in bondage.
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understanding, that we may know Him
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sinned, nor his parents: but that t
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truth; but if we walk in the light,
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day see with joy the light which hi
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escape the clearest evidences of tr
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There will always be plenty to side
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now come to seek and to save that w
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But this is not the end. While we a
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Christ did not come to combine Hims
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heart that all receive who enter th
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Chapter 13 Saved and Kept The utter
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the promise that they shall never p
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comfort at all. No one can deny tha
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your promise now, whether you like
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that I speak unto you they are Spir
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John 11:32-45 Chapter 14 The Glory
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power could avail nothing. It was t
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again, even so them also which slee
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Christ," and, moreover, the Spirit
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The same truth is taught in (Isa. 4
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Christ manifested in their own mort
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"The common people therefore of the
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Christ Himself was condemned as an
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them over the nations, the same as
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John 19:17-30 Chapter 23 A Finished
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compelled Him. He "endured the cros
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Thou art the Son of God; Thou art t
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life of Jesus is not manifested. Am
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seize Christ's goods, they found no
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which Thou gayest Me to do." (John
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and our relation to them. As He hun
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an earnest desire to know where her
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and had compassion, and ran, and fe
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eport; afterward the two disciples,
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hearts have not been cleansed, and
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