Assurance Amidst Calamity

Wednesdays, 2025.

John 16:16-33.

Central Idea: Jesus comforts us with the assurance of victory for those who believe when He returns.

Question: What assurances does Jesus give as He prepares the disciples for His departure?

1. He assures them joy. [16-22]

Joy that no one can take.

Joy to replace the sorrow.

2. He assures them provision. [23-24]

Ask the Father in my name.

A new era of prayer.

3. He assures them clarity. [25-32]

He will speak clearly and not with figurative speech.

1 Corinthians 13:9–13 “9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will come to an end. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put aside childish things. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, as I am fully known. 13 Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love—but the greatest of these is love.”

4. He assures them peace. [32-33]

Even amidst suffering

Peace

Through and because of His victory!

Romans 8:16–18 “16 The Spirit himself testifies together with our spirit that we are God’s children, 17 and if children, also heirs—heirs of God and coheirs with Christ—if indeed we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him. 18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is going to be revealed to us.”

1 John 2:13–14 “13 I am writing to you, fathers, because you have come to know the one who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have conquered the evil one. 14 I have written to you, children, because you have come to know the Father. I have written to you, fathers, because you have come to know the one who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, God’s word remains in you, and you have conquered the evil one.”

1 John 4:4 “4 You are from God, little children, and you have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.”

1 John 5:4–5 “4 because everyone who has been born of God conquers the world. This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith. 5 Who is the one who conquers the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?”

CONCLUSION:

The follower of Christ has two points of application for the assurances Jesus offered in this passage preparing His disciples for his departure (the departure discourse):

[1] We have the Holy Spirit by which we experience His presence and the realities of these same assurances.

[2] We anticipate the second coming of Jesus whereby these assurances will be made real to us.