john-17:3

THE LIVING WATER JOHN 7 : 37-39 In order fully to understand the meaning of this scripture, and the circumstance for which this feast, to which Jesus went up, is a type, we must, in the first place, see the way in which He is presented to us in Scripture-at present as an absent Lord. Under an antici... Read More

Let us go back to the history of the Lord's life, and to the last days of this blessed life. Two days after was the passover, and the chiefs of the Jews sought to kill Him; nevertheless they feared to stir up a tumult amongst the people, because they felt that His doctrine and miracles had produced ... Read More

John 17 It is a mistake to take this chapter as intercessional: intercession is one element in it, but that is not the object. In the previous chapters we get the Spirit of God as the operating power. From ch. 13 you have the Lord on the earth, or else this testimony concerning Him - but rejected. A... Read More

I take this chapter as fully setting us - the twelve disciples, then those that believe on Him through their word - first, in our place of relationship to the Father; secondly, to the world; and both in a most distinctive way. We have something of the same character in the Ephesians; but there it is... Read More

In chapter 1, Peter is laying the foundation, but the subject proper to his epistle does not begin until chapter 2:11: "Dearly beloved, I beseech you," etc. In both epistles he lays the foundation of redemption, and then he proceeds to unfold the principles of the government of God under which the J... Read More

THE ACCEPTED MAN 2 CORINTHIANS 3 There are two ways in which we may approach the judgment of man. We may judge of where man is (of the condition in which he is looked at by God) by taking the word of God and applying it to the condition of man in himself, to his state as an actual sinner. Thus, for ... Read More

J. N. Darby. If anything has weighed on my spirit and exercised it, it has been that of which our brother has just spoken, the gospel without the church; but one broad thing we must remember is, that people preached Christ even of contention, and the apostle was glad of it. Now, if Christ be really ... Read More

The coming of the Lord, beloved brethren, is the subject of which I wish to speak to you a little. Till the Lord came into the world there was very little about heaven in the scriptures. But when He came to earth, immediately there was a testimony from heaven to the shepherds, that now there was glo... Read More

The coming of the Lord is connected itself with the whole life and ways of the Christian, and we will now look a little into this. I turn to it not simply to bring proof of His coming, but to see the way in which it is connected with all the thoughts and with all the feelings of the Christian's life... Read More

John 17:21 Luke 12: 36 Collected Writings of J. N. Darby, 1: 20-35, Dublin 1828 The writer of these pages – he trusts, not the author of them – would add whatever God might afford him in ministering to the progress of the Church through the various exercises to which its faith is exposed. He cannot ... Read More