And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.
He puts His trust in God as a member of the human family and stands with the children God has given Him as His brethren, of whom He is not ashamed, sanctifier and sanctified being all of one through His taking human nature and suffering to bring many sons to glory. To stand there the Majesty of heaven laid aside His royal robe and crown and clothed His divinity with humanity, made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, tasting death for every man to rescue them, overcoming in their behalf as their Surety and Captain made perfect through sufferings to restore and uplift fallen humanity. In that humanity He trusted God in exactly the way He desires His disciples to trust, giving a self-hiding example of sympathy for the tempted and weary that calls leaders to magnify Christ and not man and to join His compassionate work. When their conflict is ended He carries that human nature to God's throne and presents the purchase of His blood to the Father as faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, fulfilling His prayer that those given Him be with Him where He is with sin's discord banished. Parents may likewise hope to stand before God with the children entrusted to them, presenting a faithful gathered flock prepared in faith and obedience to enter the city, which lays on parents and teachers the responsibility to educate them for heaven and keep them from evil rather than leave them to drift into the world.
Christ Sharing Human Trust
The verse shows Jesus putting His trust in God and standing with the children God has given Him as His brethren, of whom He is not ashamed. He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all of one, and this oneness belongs to His taking human nature and suffering to bring many sons to glory and to help those who are tempted. He calls them His brethren and His children, identifying Himself with them as one who shares their human nature.
It means the Majesty of heaven and King of glory laid aside His royal robe and crown, clothed His divinity with humanity, and was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death. As a member of the human family and brother to every person in the fallen race, He tasted death for every man by the grace of God, died in their place to rescue them from death, and knew human sufferings and temptations for Himself. He stood at the head of the race as their Surety to overcome in their behalf and live a sinless life, declared God's name to His brethren, and as Captain of salvation was made perfect through sufferings to elevate fallen humanity, restore human nature to purity, and uplift people to the heavenly family. Through His humiliation those given Him are accepted as members of the royal family and through His power obtain victory over sin and evil.
In His humanity He put His trust in God in exactly the way He desires His disciples to trust, giving a self-hiding, trusting example. Leaders must therefore magnify Christ and not man, keep self out of sight hidden in Christ, seek a deep work of grace in the heart, be strictly guarded in example, teach self-denial, and keep outlay as small as possible. Because He became like His brothers and sisters and suffered, He sympathizes with those who are tempted, weary, and in danger, and His work and the work of His disciples are closely joined as His followers join His work with compassion.
By assuming human nature Christ became Elder Brother and Redeemer, united to believers by human relationship, making them God's property in a peculiar sense and drawing them into a union with God closer than angels can enter. Those consecrated to God therefore belong wholly to Him and are to keep heart, mind, soul, and body free from contamination. His becoming poor and setting aside heaven's glory revealed selfless love that drew the angels' deepest adoration. Careful study of the chapter confirms faith and shows the importance of holding steadfastly to every principle of truth that has been given. The instruction given in the early days through the Holy Spirit is established by time and trial and suffering and self-sacrifice as safe instruction for the closing days, and indifference to that light leaves rejectors to stumble and fall and be snared and taken.
Christ Presenting the Redeemed
When their conflict is ended, the verse is Christ's declaration as He presents the purchase of His blood to the Father before the holy city as faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy. Saying Here am I and the children whom Thou hast given me, and Those that Thou gavest me I have kept, He fulfills His prayer that those given Him be with Him where He is. As the redeemed enter in to inherit the kingdom prepared from the foundation of the world and behold Paradise, the infinite Father looking upon the ransomed beholds His image. Sin's discord is banished and its blight removed, and humanity is once more restored to harmony with the divine.
Having taken human nature, He carries that nature to God's throne and introduces those who belong to Him as sons and daughters. As their Advocate and Intercessor He presents them with the honor God confers on them through Him. That honor exceeds that given to angels.
Parents Presenting Their Children
The verse is the hope that parents may stand before God with the children entrusted to them, all prepared in faith and obedience and acceptance of Christ to enter the city of God and share in redemption. It looks to parents persevering in love and faith and prayer to win their children for Christ and bringing them to God as those entrusted to them, with the whole family accepting Christ and living in obedience to God's law. Children are those God has given, and parents who have faithfully raised them in the Lord's ways and brought them to Christ may hope to meet them at the gates of God's city and stand together there, with Christ bringing His own with Him into the city; faithful care and training of children is part of their responsibility before God.
Faithful, victorious parents will use its words in the day the gates of the heavenly city are opened to admit faithful parents and obedient children. They will then present themselves with the children God gave them, for children are not their parents' own but are bought with a price and must be prepared for a home in heaven. On that day a crown of glory will be placed on every victorious parent and every victorious child.
To speak it then will mean they were overcomers who led their children step by step heavenward, teaching the Word as it is in the simplicity of true godliness and bringing them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. It will mean they prayed with them with Christ by their side and angels around them, did not scold them but took them to the Lord and taught them to ask God for forgiveness for being cross and impatient. It will mean they took hold of the divine nature to escape the corruption in the world through lust, and through the great sacrifice of the Lamb were made partakers of Christ's nature with life that measures with the life of God and an immortal inheritance in the kingdom, after which harps are placed in their hands and their voices are raised in songs of praise to God and to the Lamb. Christ's sacrifice on the cross makes it possible for children, reunited in God's unbroken family, to develop Christian character and share in that victory when the ransomed are redeemed from the earth and the city of God is opened to them.
It is the joyful exclamation of a faithful father over his saved household, spoken both in this life and in heaven. When the father acts as priest of the home, governing with integrity and self-control, offering morning and evening worship with wife and children uniting in prayer and praise, and educating his children in self-control, Jesus abides with that family and by His quickening influence brings them to salvation. That salvation means saved, eternally saved, freed from corruption in the world through lust and through Christ's merits made heirs of immortality, with children as those God has given under the father's sacred responsibility to guide the family and help form their Christian character.
It lays on parents and teachers the responsibility to educate children for heaven so they are not lost. They are to teach and care for them faithfully, carefully teach them God's ways and keep them from evil, raise them for the Lord in faith in Christ and submission to God's discipline, and prepare them for the heavenly inheritance and eternal life in united trust in Jesus. Children in a household are younger members of God's family entrusted to parental care to be raised for the Lord, to be presented faithfully as a gathered flock when the Master comes rather than left to drift into the world and become unfit for heaven, and neglect of their spiritual training is recorded in heaven.
It means parents do not lay down responsibility when children are sent away to school but keep watch to know whether they are improving and walking in the right way and whether religious interest is kept alive in their hearts. A mother's responsibility is doubled by separation, so that the lesson she gives must hold the children where they stand in school as a blessing to others, for everyone can be a blessing to those around him. It belongs to parents who pray and work earnestly, trusting God to draw their children to Himself and hoping to present them to God at the last great day, standing together with the children God has given in trust in Christ; God will hold a person's hand if that person lets Him, in reliance on the Lord as helper amid practical needs and uncertainty.
He puts His trust in God as a member of the human family and stands with the children God has given Him as His brethren, of whom He is not ashamed, sanctifier and sanctified being all of one through His taking human nature and suffering to bring many sons to glory. To stand there the Majesty of heaven laid aside His royal robe and crown and clothed His divinity with humanity, made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, tasting death for every man to rescue them, overcoming in their behalf as their Surety and Captain made perfect through sufferings to restore and uplift fallen humanity. In that humanity He trusted God in exactly the way He desires His disciples to trust, giving a self-hiding example of sympathy for the tempted and weary that calls leaders to magnify Christ and not man and to join His compassionate work. When their conflict is ended He carries that human nature to God's throne and presents the purchase of His blood to the Father as faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, fulfilling His prayer that those given Him be with Him where He is with sin's discord banished. Parents may likewise hope to stand before God with the children entrusted to them, presenting a faithful gathered flock prepared in faith and obedience to enter the city, which lays on parents and teachers the responsibility to educate them for heaven and keep them from evil rather than leave them to drift into the world.
Christ Sharing Human Trust
The verse shows Jesus putting His trust in God and standing with the children God has given Him as His brethren, of whom He is not ashamed. He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all of one, and this oneness belongs to His taking human nature and suffering to bring many sons to glory and to help those who are tempted. He calls them His brethren and His children, identifying Himself with them as one who shares their human nature.
It means the Majesty of heaven and King of glory laid aside His royal robe and crown, clothed His divinity with humanity, and was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death. As a member of the human family and brother to every person in the fallen race, He tasted death for every man by the grace of God, died in their place to rescue them from death, and knew human sufferings and temptations for Himself. He stood at the head of the race as their Surety to overcome in their behalf and live a sinless life, declared God's name to His brethren, and as Captain of salvation was made perfect through sufferings to elevate fallen humanity, restore human nature to purity, and uplift people to the heavenly family. Through His humiliation those given Him are accepted as members of the royal family and through His power obtain victory over sin and evil.
In His humanity He put His trust in God in exactly the way He desires His disciples to trust, giving a self-hiding, trusting example. Leaders must therefore magnify Christ and not man, keep self out of sight hidden in Christ, seek a deep work of grace in the heart, be strictly guarded in example, teach self-denial, and keep outlay as small as possible. Because He became like His brothers and sisters and suffered, He sympathizes with those who are tempted, weary, and in danger, and His work and the work of His disciples are closely joined as His followers join His work with compassion.
By assuming human nature Christ became Elder Brother and Redeemer, united to believers by human relationship, making them God's property in a peculiar sense and drawing them into a union with God closer than angels can enter. Those consecrated to God therefore belong wholly to Him and are to keep heart, mind, soul, and body free from contamination. His becoming poor and setting aside heaven's glory revealed selfless love that drew the angels' deepest adoration. Careful study of the chapter confirms faith and shows the importance of holding steadfastly to every principle of truth that has been given. The instruction given in the early days through the Holy Spirit is established by time and trial and suffering and self-sacrifice as safe instruction for the closing days, and indifference to that light leaves rejectors to stumble and fall and be snared and taken.
Christ Presenting the Redeemed
When their conflict is ended, the verse is Christ's declaration as He presents the purchase of His blood to the Father before the holy city as faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy. Saying Here am I and the children whom Thou hast given me, and Those that Thou gavest me I have kept, He fulfills His prayer that those given Him be with Him where He is. As the redeemed enter in to inherit the kingdom prepared from the foundation of the world and behold Paradise, the infinite Father looking upon the ransomed beholds His image. Sin's discord is banished and its blight removed, and humanity is once more restored to harmony with the divine.
Having taken human nature, He carries that nature to God's throne and introduces those who belong to Him as sons and daughters. As their Advocate and Intercessor He presents them with the honor God confers on them through Him. That honor exceeds that given to angels.
Parents Presenting Their Children
The verse is the hope that parents may stand before God with the children entrusted to them, all prepared in faith and obedience and acceptance of Christ to enter the city of God and share in redemption. It looks to parents persevering in love and faith and prayer to win their children for Christ and bringing them to God as those entrusted to them, with the whole family accepting Christ and living in obedience to God's law. Children are those God has given, and parents who have faithfully raised them in the Lord's ways and brought them to Christ may hope to meet them at the gates of God's city and stand together there, with Christ bringing His own with Him into the city; faithful care and training of children is part of their responsibility before God.
Faithful, victorious parents will use its words in the day the gates of the heavenly city are opened to admit faithful parents and obedient children. They will then present themselves with the children God gave them, for children are not their parents' own but are bought with a price and must be prepared for a home in heaven. On that day a crown of glory will be placed on every victorious parent and every victorious child.
To speak it then will mean they were overcomers who led their children step by step heavenward, teaching the Word as it is in the simplicity of true godliness and bringing them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. It will mean they prayed with them with Christ by their side and angels around them, did not scold them but took them to the Lord and taught them to ask God for forgiveness for being cross and impatient. It will mean they took hold of the divine nature to escape the corruption in the world through lust, and through the great sacrifice of the Lamb were made partakers of Christ's nature with life that measures with the life of God and an immortal inheritance in the kingdom, after which harps are placed in their hands and their voices are raised in songs of praise to God and to the Lamb. Christ's sacrifice on the cross makes it possible for children, reunited in God's unbroken family, to develop Christian character and share in that victory when the ransomed are redeemed from the earth and the city of God is opened to them.
It is the joyful exclamation of a faithful father over his saved household, spoken both in this life and in heaven. When the father acts as priest of the home, governing with integrity and self-control, offering morning and evening worship with wife and children uniting in prayer and praise, and educating his children in self-control, Jesus abides with that family and by His quickening influence brings them to salvation. That salvation means saved, eternally saved, freed from corruption in the world through lust and through Christ's merits made heirs of immortality, with children as those God has given under the father's sacred responsibility to guide the family and help form their Christian character.
It lays on parents and teachers the responsibility to educate children for heaven so they are not lost. They are to teach and care for them faithfully, carefully teach them God's ways and keep them from evil, raise them for the Lord in faith in Christ and submission to God's discipline, and prepare them for the heavenly inheritance and eternal life in united trust in Jesus. Children in a household are younger members of God's family entrusted to parental care to be raised for the Lord, to be presented faithfully as a gathered flock when the Master comes rather than left to drift into the world and become unfit for heaven, and neglect of their spiritual training is recorded in heaven.
It means parents do not lay down responsibility when children are sent away to school but keep watch to know whether they are improving and walking in the right way and whether religious interest is kept alive in their hearts. A mother's responsibility is doubled by separation, so that the lesson she gives must hold the children where they stand in school as a blessing to others, for everyone can be a blessing to those around him. It belongs to parents who pray and work earnestly, trusting God to draw their children to Himself and hoping to present them to God at the last great day, standing together with the children God has given in trust in Christ; God will hold a person's hand if that person lets Him, in reliance on the Lord as helper amid practical needs and uncertainty.