Special Sermon 7/7/24

John 16:31–33 KJV (WS)

31 Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe? 32 Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. 33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Introduction

We are going to take a break this morning from our Nehemiah series to hopefully be an encouragement to one another in the word.

With so many hurting, and now with the passing of little Evelyn, we need the comfort that only God can offer.

We are all at a loss for what to say.

The things we do think to say feel so empty.

Thankfully, God’s word has what we need.

Jesus knows what painful trials feel like.

He is our high priest and he has been touched with the feelings of our infirmities.

There is no emotion that we feel that Jesus has not also felt.

That is why, in times like this, we can go to him and be honest about what we feel.

The passage we read starts out with a question.

The disciples have just expressed their belief in Jesus as being sent from God.

Jesus responds to their great expression of faith in him by