The Helper-The Holy Spirit -Pt. II
So that you may believe - Gospel of John • Sermon • Submitted • Presented • 1:03:47
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What brings you comfort?
What brings you comfort?
Are there times that you need comfort?
What are things that bring you comfort when you have a troubled heart?
Think back in the past few weeks, what are some of the thinks Jesus has offered to bring comfort to the troubled hearts to the apostles?
Our Passage
Our Passage
22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, what then has happened that You are going to disclose Yourself to us and not to the world?”
23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.
24 “He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me. 25 “These things I have spoken to you while abiding with you.
26 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.
27 “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.
28 “You heard that I said to you, ‘I go away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced because I go to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
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29 “Now I have told you before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe. 30 “I will not speak much more with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in Me;
31 but so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded Me. Get up, let us go from here.
What verse reached you, and why?
What is the requirement for the Father and Jesus to make abode with him (v.23)?
How can you tell someone does not love Jesus, what is the evidence (v.24)?
What is the job of the Holy Spirit (v.26)?
What is the promise (v.27)? What is the admonishment too?
What does Jesus remind them (v.28)?
Why do they need to be reminded to believe (v.29-30)?
How is the world going to know Jesus love for the Father (v.30)?
Why Jesus?
Why Jesus?
More questions, more answers.
Jesus I don’t understand (v.22)
It was a good question. Hey don’t you want the world to know who you are? Now you say you are only going to manifest, disclose yourself to us? This makes no sense to us. You just told us you are leaving us. How so, how is Your message to save the world going to get out?
The answer is love brings the love of the Father (v.23)
Jesus answered as previously by his actions all the way back 14:5 by the washing of the stinky feet , then the challenge to them by doing the same, love as I have loved you. Be in obedience to the Father. Know the Father by knowing the Son.
He further explains
Love is personal, if you love Me; you will keep My word
If you keep My word My Father will love him.
If you My father will love him, then We will come and make abode with him
Parting Gift
Parting Gift
Everyone loves to receive gifts, Our Father who is in Heaven loves to give gifts (Jesus) and gifts in His name, wow. Then top it with Jesus gift in (v.27)
25 I am telling you these things now while I am still with you. 26 But when the Father sends the Advocate as my representative—that is, the Holy Spirit—he will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I have told you.
27 “I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid.
The Holy Spirit is sent as the Character, the Nature, as the representative of Jesus, in the name of Jesus. Sent with a purpose.
To teach and to bring to remembrance
The Holy Spirit would teach them more and bring to remembrance what they already knew and forgot since it did not make any sense to them.
While Jesus was leaving physically and his teaching was ending in person, His teaching was not ending, it was to continue through the works of the Holy Spirit.
I need to pause here just for a moment since many can take this verse out of context. while there is some truth that the Holy Spirit does still teach today. He gives us understanding of scripture as we continue to study. We understand something today that we did not understand last year or 10-years ago. But there is no divine revelation that was reserved for the 1st century disciples and apostles who established the church.
20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone,
Jesus did not speak to us. Jesus did not teach us directly. But does teach us through His word that the Apostles and the prophets did record under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit did.
Alford on this verse recorded: “It is on the fulfillment of this promise to the Apostles, that their sufficiency as Witnesses of all that the Lord did and taught, and consequently THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE GOSPEL NARRATIVE, is grounded.”
Remember we are talking about comfort for a troubled heart all through chapter-14 right?
Now we get to the next comfort
Shalom/Peace picture inserted here
Well, this is not that!
Shalom is peace a normal greeting or good-bye used in the world or Jewish or religious culture, but this is not what Jesus meant. He takes this to a deeper meaning.
Think about this for a minute.
If you could put anything in your last will and testament, what would be the most important thing in it?
What in this world did Jesus at this time did Jesus have to leave to His followers?
Jesus was giving them, leaving them two great things.
Himself, His peace, then the Father was sending His Spirit in Jesus name.
The peace He was leaving was to bring peace to the troubled and fearful heart.
Morgan said it like this:
“He carefully described the peace as ‘My peace.’ His peace was a heart untroubled and unfearful in spite of all the suffering and conflict ahead of Him.”
The love of the Father
The love of the Father
28 Remember what I told you: I am going away, but I will come back to you again. If you really loved me, you would be happy that I am going to the Father, who is greater than I am.
29 I have told you these things before they happen so that when they do happen, you will believe. 30 “I don’t have much more time to talk to you, because the ruler of this world approaches. He has no power over me,
30 “I don’t have much more time to talk to you, because the ruler of this world approaches. He has no power over me,
Did your fathers love compel you to do anything in your life?
Do these verses remind you of anything said previously in this chapter?
The disciples had troubled hearts, Jesus said if they loved Him they would have rejoiced.
Why did Jesus say they should rejoice if He was leaving them?
Rejoice for the sake of Jesus; for He is returning to the Father
Rejoice for their own sake; He is returning to them.
Rejoice for the sake of the world; He is going to save the world through their word if they believe.
Stop! Think personally for a minute, why do you rejoice because Jesus went to the Father? Be specific for You
Jesus acclaims the Father is greater (v.28) in which He means in position, yet not in essence for they are both equally God. For remember He had previously said.
9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
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11 “Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe because of the works themselves.
Jesus says this to them again so they will not be surprised and so that they will believe, rmember that is the whole purpose of the gospel
31 but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name.
Why?
30 I cannot talk with you much longer, because the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,
The ruler of this world is coming, he has no power of Him, but he is going to try to raise havoc with them and they better be ready. so they better believe in the Father, better believe in him. Believe in His works, believe in the Spirit that He is sending for they will need it all along with the word that the Spirit will remind them and teach them.
For the world will know the Father loves Him (Jesus) because He does exactly what the Father wants (His sacrifice) so the world may believe and the world maybe saved (those who come to Him).
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