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Anything for Jesus
John 14:12-14
Online Sermon:
http://www.mckeesfamily.com/?page_id=3567
Imagine what it must have been like to be a disciple and
while entering Jerusalem hear the leader of your group called
“The Way” predict His own death was about to occur!
They who
had “left everything
to follow Jesus”
(Matthew 19:27) to
“fish men” (4:19)
would have been
greatly troubled for
what would they do
without He who
ushered
in
the
kingdom of God
(Luke 17:20-21)?
And if Rome could crucify the Messiah who
had performed all those miracles, then what chance would they
have to continue the ministry and not be executed as well?
To
comfort His disciples Jesus told them1 to fear not for while His
crucifixion and resurrection were the climax of His three-year
earthly ministry it was certainly not the end but the beginning of
1
James Montgomery Boice, The Gospel of John: An Expositional Commentary (Grand
Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2005), 1093.
2
Merrill C. Tenney, “John,” in The Expositor’s Bible Commentary: John and Acts, ed.
Frank
E. Gaebelein, vol. 9 (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1981), 145.
3
Gary M. Burge, John, The NIV Application Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan
Publishing House, 2000), 391.
the kingdom of God!2 Jesus explained He was about to return to
the Father to prepare a place for them and upon His return He
would take them there to be with Him (14:1-4).3
When Thomas
questioned where this place was and how to get there4 Jesus
reassured the apostles that He was “the way, truth and life” and
as such the only means of going to the Father.
(14:5-6).
In the
meantime, what would they ever do without their Master’s love
and wisdom as their compass?
Jesus reassured the apostles that
“the intimacy they had enjoyed with Him” (13:36-37) 5 during
His earthly ministry was not going to end for He would send the
Spirit of God Himself to live within their hearts.6
The Spirit would not only lead them into
“deeper revelations”7 and a better
understanding of the teachings of Jesus but
would also enable them to continue to do
miracles, signs, and wonders.
And if all of this were not encouraging enough Jesus
promised He would do for them “anything asked in His name, so
that the Father may be glorified in the Son” (14:13)!
Even
though Jesus’ words revealed that God’s plan for His disciples
was indeed glorious and therefore should have been very
comforting, the disciples remained filled with doubt and fear
right up until they saw the resurrected Christ and received the
Holy Spirit!
4
Gary M. Burge, John, The NIV Application Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan
Publishing House, 2000), 392.
5
Gary M. Burge, John, The NIV Application Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan
Publishing House, 2000), 391.
6
Gary M. Burge, John, The NIV Application Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan
Publishing House, 2000), 389.
7
Gary M. Burge, John, The NIV Application Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan
Publishing House, 2000), 392–393.
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Lest we be too judgemental of the disciples and too
lenient on ourselves we must admit that we often feel that
applying the Great Commission to our culture is beyond our
abilities as well!
For instance, how does one convince a culture
that believes in many
gods and paths to heaven,
that Christ is the only
way, truth, and life to
come before the only
God that truly exists
(John 14:6)?
Also, how
does one convince those
who only “want to hear
what their itching ears want to hear” (2 Timothy 4:3) that truth
is not situationally dependent and a mere fabrication of each
person’s mind but is instead only contained within God’s word
which is “useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training
in righteousness” (3:16)?
And how often do we get discouraged when
we let our Light shine amongst what we hope
are “fields that are ripe” (Matthew 5:15-16,
9:37) only to find out that those who are
given over to their reprobate minds (Romans
1:28) have stone hearts and not only do they
reject the Gospel message but persecute
those who even suggest that God has the
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