Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFATORY NOTE
- Contents
- CAMBRIDGE AND OTHER SERMONS
- I THE PROBATION OF THE JEWS BY THE LIGHT
- II THE REVELATION TO THE SHEPHERDS
- III THE KING EXPECTED AND FOUND
- IV GOD MAKING ALL THINGS NEW
- V ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST
- VI MAN VISITED BY GOD
- VII THE CHURCH AND ITS MEMBERS
- VIII BAPTISM AND CONFIRMATION
- IX THE DISCOVERY AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF SIN
- X SELF-RESTRAINT THE CONDITION OF MASTERY
- XI [REASONABLE SERVICE]
- XII CHRIST'S LOVE AND OBEDIENCE TO THE FATHER SHOWN IN HIS PREPARATION FOR DEATH
- XIII THE PEACE OF CHRIST AND THE PEACE OF THE WORLD
- XIV THE CONQUEROR FROM EDOM
- XV NEWNESS OF LIFE (A CONFIRMATION SERMON)
- XVI FAITH IN THE RESURRECTION THE FOUNDATION OF ENDURING WORK
- XVII THE PERPETUAL PRESENCE OF CHRIST
- XVIII THE BIRTHDAY OF THE CHURCH
- XIX VICTORY OVER THE WORLD
- XX THE DESIRE OF THE FLESH NOT THE DESIRE OF THE MAN
- XXI THE BATTLE OF SPIRIT AND FLESH, AND THE LIFE IN THE SPIRIT
- XXII [THE UNSPEAKABLE GIFT OF GOD] (A HARVEST FESTIVAL SERMON)
- XXIII THE EVANGELIST A PHYSICIAN
- XXIV ALL THINGS OF, THROUGH, AND TO GOD
XII - CHRIST'S LOVE AND OBEDIENCE TO THE FATHER SHOWN IN HIS PREPARATION FOR DEATH
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFATORY NOTE
- Contents
- CAMBRIDGE AND OTHER SERMONS
- I THE PROBATION OF THE JEWS BY THE LIGHT
- II THE REVELATION TO THE SHEPHERDS
- III THE KING EXPECTED AND FOUND
- IV GOD MAKING ALL THINGS NEW
- V ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST
- VI MAN VISITED BY GOD
- VII THE CHURCH AND ITS MEMBERS
- VIII BAPTISM AND CONFIRMATION
- IX THE DISCOVERY AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF SIN
- X SELF-RESTRAINT THE CONDITION OF MASTERY
- XI [REASONABLE SERVICE]
- XII CHRIST'S LOVE AND OBEDIENCE TO THE FATHER SHOWN IN HIS PREPARATION FOR DEATH
- XIII THE PEACE OF CHRIST AND THE PEACE OF THE WORLD
- XIV THE CONQUEROR FROM EDOM
- XV NEWNESS OF LIFE (A CONFIRMATION SERMON)
- XVI FAITH IN THE RESURRECTION THE FOUNDATION OF ENDURING WORK
- XVII THE PERPETUAL PRESENCE OF CHRIST
- XVIII THE BIRTHDAY OF THE CHURCH
- XIX VICTORY OVER THE WORLD
- XX THE DESIRE OF THE FLESH NOT THE DESIRE OF THE MAN
- XXI THE BATTLE OF SPIRIT AND FLESH, AND THE LIFE IN THE SPIRIT
- XXII [THE UNSPEAKABLE GIFT OF GOD] (A HARVEST FESTIVAL SERMON)
- XXIII THE EVANGELIST A PHYSICIAN
- XXIV ALL THINGS OF, THROUGH, AND TO GOD
Summary
“But that the world may know that I love the Father; and, as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.”
—John xiv. 31.The fourteenth chapter of St. John's Gospel stands out of the New Testament with a distinctness almost peculiar to itself. Probably no chapter has been so much read even by those who seldom open their Bibles at all. The reason is plain. It is chiefly in times of trouble that we are forced, as it were, to wish to learn what God has to say to us; and this chapter has been felt to be well suited to times of trouble. If we ask why it is singled out by so many when they are in trouble, the opening words give us the answer: “Let not your heart be troubled”; repeated again, “Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.” Our Lord soon goes off to speak of many things which are not often present to our thoughts when we wish for comfort. Perhaps we do not then take the pains to think very much what those questions of Thomas, and Philip, and Jude mean, or even what Christ's answers to them mean. His own first gracious words go sounding on in our ears. We feel that it is Christ who bids us not to be troubled. We may not be able to know how our hearts are to be delivered from trouble, or what kind of comfort it is that He can and will give us.
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- Cambridge and Other Sermons , pp. 133 - 142Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009