Sixteen Sermons On The Lord S Prayer For His People In John Xvii 24

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 18 edition. Excerpt: ...and his company against both Moses and Aaron: " You take too much upon you," Numb. xvi. 3. To this strife between Moses and his brother and sister, the Lord puts an end by very extraordinary words. I will read them, because one part of them belongs evidently to our present purpose: " Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, (as there were seventy set apart in the preceding chapter, ) I the Lord will make myself known to him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream," Numb. xii. 6. (And these were the usual ways and means of God's darting in prophetical light into the minds of his prophets; either when awake, by visions; or when asleep, by dreams; and both were attended, doubtless, with such signatures of God's interest therein, as did satisfy and secure their faith). " But my servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all my house," ver. 7. (I have set him above those ways and ordinances.) "With him will I speak mouth to mouth," (the same with face to face, " as a man speaketh unto his friend," Exod. xxxiiL 11; and in Deut. xxxiv. 10. So Moses saith of God's way of giving the law: " The Lord talked with you face to face in the mount, out of the midst of the fire," Deut. v. 4.) even apparently, and not in dark speeches, (as Psa. Ixxviii. 2, " I will utter dark sayings of old;") and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold: (as much beyond the other, as seeing is beyond hearing darkly of a person or tiling.) "Wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?" ver. 8. Now, what was this similitude of the Lord that Moses did behold, and was so dignified by reason of this singular privilege? You know he tells them: " Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves, for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day...

With a scholar's mind and a pastor's heart, N. T. Wright helps us discover the clues John gives in his gospel that we might see even more clearly the reality of who Jesus is, the new creation he inaugurates and the difference that all makes. Includes 26 sessions for group or personal study.