John 14:18-31
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I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”
What promise!
1 Kings
“As for this temple you are building, if you follow my decrees, carry out my regulations and keep all my commands and obey them, I will fulfill through you the promise I gave to David your father. And I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel.”
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The word ORPHAN appears only 2 times in the NT. It is also found in :
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
ORPHAN means comfortless, parent-less.
Isn’t interesting that Jesus would say this?
There are 2 promises here:
That the disciples will not be left comfortless or parent-less.
That Jesus will come to the disciples:He came to them after the resurrection; He came to them as the Counselor/Comforter.
What a beautiful reminder that the Holy Spirit is not about just spiritual gifts or the idea of godliness, but the assurance that Christ dwells within us.
Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
We see this reiterated in :
He was not seen by all the people, but by witnesses whom God had already chosen—by us who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
We will see later in that the disciples were overjoyed in seeing their Lord.
After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.
20/20 vision! They could see clearly later what He was telling them now!
They saw Him in a way the world could not.
When Jesus was discussing being the Bread of Life, He said in :
Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.
Therefore, here in , we have the powerful statement: “because I live, you also will live.”
On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
What is “that day?”
In that day you will no longer ask me anything. I tell you the truth, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.
John
In that day you will ask in my name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf.
“That day” is the day Jesus is glorified and His Spirit is poured out. It will become clearer. They will gain a greater understanding of Christ being in the Father. The Father is in Christ, and that Christ is in them.
Those who obey his commands live in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.”
There is a dignity in keeping the commands of Christ. We hear them, we see them written in His word, we know them, but that is not enough. We must obey them. It is the greatest show of our love for Him. In return, we have the Father’s love:
Proverbs 8:17
I love those who love me,
and those who seek me find me.
we have Christ’s love. He is our mediator and we will receive great comfort in that love.
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,
may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,
Ephesians
Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”
The belief among first century Jews was that the Messiah was coming in way to rule the world. This was a valid question. But before the answer is given, John makes sure that the identity of the Judas is correctly understood.
John makes sure that the identity of the Judas is correctly understood.
ohn makes sure that the identity of the Judas is correctly understood.
Jesus replied, “If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
Talking about repetition! We see this in verse 15, 21 and here. We will see again in 15:10.
Simply put, if you love Jesus, you obey His commands. Repetition confirms our faith.
The word “home” is referencing back to 14:2. The Father and the Son make a dwelling within us. We don’t get just One, we get both! They come as ONE - together. What does it mean for the Father and the Son to make their home with us?
The Lord your God is with you,
he is mighty to save.
He will take great delight in you,
he will quiet you with his love,
he will rejoice over you with singing.”
Zephaniah
I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and increase their numbers, and I will put my sanctuary among them forever. My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.
Revelation
“Little faith will take your soul to heaven, but great faith will bring Heaven to your soul.” Charles Spurgeon
He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
Another emphasis of the parallel of obedience and love. We see here the example of Jesus to do that which He is called to do. There is a duty. But duty must come through love.
Jesus indicates that His words are not His own.
I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers; I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.
Deuteronomy
Jesus emphasizes this on several occasions: 7:16-17; 12:49-50; 17:14.
“WORDS” by the way is LOGOS. It was first used in Greek literature by Heraclitus in 600 BC to designate the divine reason or plan which coordinates a changing universe.
“All this I have spoken while still with you.
The words of Jesus that were spoken were living words while He lived among them.
But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
The Comforter, the Counselor, The Holy Spirit sent by the Father. The purpose is to teach and remind us of the teachings of Jesus.
“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the Lord. “My Spirit, who is on you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth, or from the mouths of your children, or from the mouths of their descendants from this time on and forever,” says the Lord.
Have you ever be taught something then forgot it? Then, remembered it? It is by the prompting of the Holy Spirit that happens.
Notice the closeness of the Spirit to Jesus. They work together, never apart.
Whenever anyone is committed to Jesus, the Spirit is at work.
You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
The normal way to say goodbye was PEACE. Shalom. Jesus tells His disciples goodbye by saying, “I leave you peace.” It is harmony, security, safety, prosperity, and a peace that leads to salvation. They would have peace with God
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
because sins are forgiven and peace of God
And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
would guard their lives.
The world can’t know this kind of peace because the world strives to put disorder in one’s life. Remember creation? God took chaos and created order. Chaos is the opposite of peace. The world is chaos. The Holy Spirit produces peace.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
When we have His peace, there is no troubling of our hearts.
When we have His peace, there is no fear to dwell on.
“You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
A reminder of the departure. Assurance that it is a good thing.
Why does Jesus, who is God, say, “The Father is greater than I?”
Could it be interpreted that the messenger is not greater than the One Who sent the message?
The Father sent the Son. The Son willingly obeyed. the Son died on the cross. The Father raised the Son from the dead. Jesus always said the Father was greater than the Son.
I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe.
Jesus prepared His disciples for that which was to come. This is part of the PEACE He has given. No matter what happens, we can be assured of the fact He is with us. What can we learn from this?
How can we be assured that it is going go be okay?
I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me, but the world must learn that I love the Father and that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me.
“Come now; let us leave.
This initially is referencing the work of Satan in Judas that was getting ready to be completed. However, we see from other scripture that the world, those without Christ, is under control of the evil one.
We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.
Death was not the defeat but on ace of obedience to the Father. The fact is that everything does not revolve around us but around God.