John 14.15-24
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John 14.15-24
15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you. 18 “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. 21 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.” 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” 23 Jesus answered 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. 24 Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.
John 14.15-24
Introduction
Introduction
The role of marketing and advertising in our world
How the actual plate of food never looks like the picture of food
The various billboards advertising the church
Context
Context
There is a certain understand of Jesus which the author wants us to have
See this in the prologue; clashes, purpose of author
Preceding section commanded to perform revelatory-works; linked with summary statement of prayer and promise that Jesus will answer prayers in His name
Text analysis
Text analysis
The concern of Jesus
The concern of Jesus
John 14.18
18 “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
The concern of Jesus has for His disciples
The concern of Jesus has for His disciples
How does Jesus address that concern?
Jesus' provision for His disciples
Jesus' provision for His disciples
John 14.18
18 “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
First His resurrection return for the disciples immediately
First His resurrection return for the disciples immediately
We are not privileged with the same, but stand in the tradition of hearing the witness of His return
16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
John 14.16-17
The role Jesus played = parakletos
The role Jesus played = parakletos
The replacement, another = the same as
He dwells with and will be in
21 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
23 Jesus answered 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.
Jesus will manifest Himself to the one who loves = make present/evident to ones senses/experience
The spiritual unity between Father, Son and the one who loves Jesus = make home, temporal view in mind as compared to
The condition of the world
The condition of the world
John 14.17
17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
John's use of the word world
Tenses are important here
Receive is aorist tense; sees and know in present tense
The condition of world is one of inability
As a consequence, Jesus will not be manifested to them
THIS SHOULD GRIEVE US!!!!!
Hope for the world
Hope for the world
13 Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
John 14.13
It is is the same aorist tense
The efficacy behind our prayers isthe commitment of the Son to glorify the Father
John 14.23
23 Jesus answered 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.
There will be a visible community enjoying the manifested Son and Father before the world
Reflections
Reflections
Are you so in love with Jesus that you are committed to obedience, irrespective of the temporal cost?
Is this truly a community where the Spirit of Christ in manifesting Jesus in such a way that there is an awareness of our unity with the Father and the Son?
Can one truly summarise your life as one of prayer, including praying for those who are unable to receive the Spirit?