Jesus Comforts the Disciples
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Intro:
Intro:
TS: Judas has been revealed as the betrayer and has left. The disciples didn’t catch why, they thought it was some errand.
Chapter 14 centers on the promise that Christ is the One who gives the believer comfort. Jesus begins His final teaching to His disciples.
The Outline Bible (Section Outline Fourteen (John 14))
I. THE CONSOLATION HE GIVES TO HIS DISCIPLES (14:1–4)
I. THE CONSOLATION HE GIVES TO HIS DISCIPLES (14:1–4)
A. “I am going to prepare a place for you” (14:1–2).
A. “I am going to prepare a place for you” (14:1–2).
“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.
In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
Let not your heart be troubled
Jesus continues displaying amazing love for His disciples. He supports them in their hour of greatest need.
Faith in Jesus comforts the troubled and gives them hope
Father’s house
Mansions- Greek word is dwelling places
Probably rooms-
Think of a family home with rooms for all members of the family
Jewish custom- as the family expanded, rooms (apartments) were added.
Jesus si the groom and the church is His bride
He is preparing rooms for us in the Father’s house
B. “When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am” (14:3–4).
B. “When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am” (14:3–4).
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
And where I go you know, and the way you know.”
He promised to return to bring them home to Him
Much like the groom coming and taking home his bride.
MacArthur Study Bible NASB (Commentary)
This is one of the passages that refers to the rapture of the saints at the end of the age when Christ returns.
The features in this description do not describe Christ coming to earth with His saints to establish His kingdom (Rev 19:11–15), but taking believers from earth to live in heaven.
Since no judgment on the unsaved is described here, this is not the event of His return in glory and power to destroy the wicked (cf. Mt 13:36–43, 47–50).
Rather, this describes His coming to gather His own who are alive and raise the bodies of those who have died to take them all to heaven. This rapture event is also described in 1Cor 15:51–54
Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope.
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.
For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep.
For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.
Therefore comfort one another with these words.
After being raptured, the church:
will celebrate the marriage supper (Rev 19:7–10),
be rewarded (1Co 3:10–15; 4:5; 2Co 5:9, 10),
later return to earth with Christ when He comes again to set up His kingdom (Rev 19:11–20:6).
II. THE CONVERSATION HE HAS WITH HIS DISCIPLES (14:5–31): Jesus answers three questions asked him by three disciples.
II. THE CONVERSATION HE HAS WITH HIS DISCIPLES (14:5–31): Jesus answers three questions asked him by three disciples.
A. Thomas and Jesus (14:5–7)
A. Thomas and Jesus (14:5–7)
1. Thomas’s question: “We haven’t any idea where you are going, so how can we know the way?” (14:5).
Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?”
Thomas’ question prompts another I am statement of Jesus
He wanted to know where Jesus was going
He was thinking physically, what town, what GPS coordinates
Jesus was speaking of something far more important
Since he didn’t know where.... the way (path, road) was unknown
2. Jesus’ answer (14:6–7)\
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
“If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”
a. “I am the way, the truth and the life” (14:6a).
6th I Am statement of the gospel
He is the way to God because He is the truth of God
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
b. “No one can come to the Father except through me” (14:6b–7).
There is no other pathway to God.
No other way but through Him
Does this sound exclusive? Yes, because it is
exclusive because there is only 1 way
Inclusive because it is so easy!
HE did all the work!
Over and over He has repeated the key:
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
“He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Every time He discussed condemnation, it always was for the unbeliever
Faith in Jesus
Taking Him at His word and trust Him alone
That is the key to eternal life
B. Philip and Jesus (14:8–21)
B. Philip and Jesus (14:8–21)
1. Philip’s question (14:8): “Lord, show us the Father and we will be satisfied.”
Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.”
2. Jesus’ answer (14:9–21)
a. He says anyone who has seen him has seen the Father (14:9).
Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
To see Jesus, is to see the Father
This again points out that HE and the Father were one
b. He says that he is in the Father and that the Father is in him (14:10).
Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.
c. He says they will do greater things than he has done because he is going to the Father (14:11–14).
Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.
“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.
And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.
Greater works
Not greater power, but greater extent
There can be no greater power than God’s power
They would share the gospel and plant churches around the world.
Through the power of the Holy Spirit the gospel would spread throughout the world.
The focus is on spiritual more than physical miracles.
d. He says he will ask the Father to send them the Holy Spirit (14:15–21).
“If you love Me, keep My commandments.
And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—
the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.
I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.
“A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also.
At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.
He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”
If love: Keep my Commandments
Obey Christ
Jesus promises the Holy Spirit
the Helper
Jesus wouldn’t leave them alone
HE is promising the indwelling of the Spirit
This is why they would be able to spread the gospel!
MacArthur Study Bible NASB (Commentary)
To ask in Jesus’ “name” does not mean to tack such an expression on the end of a prayer as a mere formula. It means:
1) the believer’s prayer should be for His purposes and kingdom and not selfish reasons
2) the believer’s prayer should be on the basis of His merits and not any personal merit or worthiness
3) the believer’s prayer should be in pursuit of His glory alone.
C. Judas (not Judas Iscariot) and Jesus (14:22–31)
C. Judas (not Judas Iscariot) and Jesus (14:22–31)
1. Judas’s question (14:22): “Lord, why are you going to reveal yourself only to us and not to the world at large?”
Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?”
A valid question from a human standpoint
Why not show the world
Why not lead a movement to victory over Rome
2. Jesus’ answer (14:23–31)
a. He says that he only reveals himself to those who love and obey him (14:23–24).
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 home with him.
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.
Jesus continuously emphasized a lifestyle of obedience
We don’t obey to earn love
We obey because we are loved and we love him
True love leads to our obedience to Him
b. He promises that the Holy Spirit will explain all this to them (14:25–26).
“These things I have spoken to you while being present with you.
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 things that I said to you.
The Spirit teaches them (and us)
He guides us just as HE reminded them and clarified Jesus’ teachings
c. He reminds them again of his departure and return (14:27–31).
Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
You have heard Me say to you, ‘I am going away and coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, ‘I am going to the Father,’ for My Father is greater than I.
“And now I have told you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe.
I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me.
But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go from here.
Jesus prepared them for His departure
Conc
Conc
Jesus’ teachings and comfort He gave prepared the discples for the horrible days ahead. he is aobut to be arrested and killed. BUT He was also going to rise agaain and prepare a place for them. His is an eterenal relationship!
He left us with teaching:
if you love me, obey Me
He left us with comfort
The Holy Spirit dwells in every believer!
teaching us
equipping us
He left us with hope
When the time is right and our rooms are ready He is returning to take us home
Are you ready?