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Jesus' Final Words: Comfort, Promise, and the Way to the Father 0:09 Good morning. Welcome to Stand on the Word. Thanks for joining me this morning. Today, we've got 1 of the most beloved passages in all the Bible. It is a passage filled with hope. It's filled with promise. It's John0:21 chapter 14 verse 22. Judas, not Iscariot, said to him, lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us and not to the world? You know what? That is a great question. How is it that the lord can reveal0:33 himself to us, but the world can't see him? Well, that the answer to that question, it's coming up in today's passage, so stick with me. Let me ask you this question. Why are people's final words given so0:45 much weight and attention? Well, there are probably many reasons. But I think 1 of the main reasons is because we believe, and I think correctly so, that the things we speak when we know our lives are0:57 about to to end is that these words convey what is most important to us. May rarely do last words pertain, you know, pertain to1:09 people's finances. The condition of their car, the status of their job, or their house? Last words usually convey love, affirmation, direction, and in some1:20 cases, regret and disappointment. Jacob, in Genesis 49, blessed each of his sons before he breathed his last and was gathered to his people. Moses, before he went up to Mount1:32 Nebo where he died, in Deuteronomy 33, we read that he blessed the children of Israel. So what we have here beginning in chapter 14 all the way through chapter 17 of John is we have Jesus' final1:44 words to his disciples culminating in a prayer. He prayed for them in John chapter 17 right before he was crucified. Let's begin verse 1, chapter 14. Let not your1:56 heart be troubled. You believe in god, believe also in me. Now these words have been used to comfort for millennia, which was their intended purpose. Just, you know, within hours2:08 of Jesus saying these words, he would be gone. The community, the disciples, their community would be shattered and their world turned upside down. And by the way, this is an irrefutable declaration2:20 of the divinity of Christ. Alright. Verse 2. In my father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place2:32 for you, I will come again and receive you to myself, that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go, you know, and the way you know. Now did you hear what I just2:44 said? Jesus said this, where I go, you know, and the way you know. Do you recall back in chapter 8 when he was debating the religious crowd? Look what he said in verse2:55 21 of chapter 8 of John. He says, I'm going away and you will seek me and will die in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come. Wow. So3:08 how do we know the way so that we can get there? It's exactly what Thomas asked next. Look at verse 5. Thomas said to him, Lord, we do not know where you are going, and how can3:20 we know the way? Look at this. Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No 1 no 1 comes to the father3:32 except through me. How do we get to heaven? Here it is, Jesus. Verse 7. If you had known me, you would have known my my father also. And from now on, you3:43 know him and have seen him. Philip said to him, lord, show us the father, and it is sufficient for us. Jesus said to him, have I been with you so long and yet you have not known me, Philip?3:56 He who has seen me has seen the father. So how can you say show us the father? Do you not believe that I am in the father and the father in me? The words that I speak to you, I do not speak on my own authority,4:08 but the father who dwells in me does the work. 1 God, 3 persons, the trinity. Verse 11, believe me that I am in the father and the father in me or else4:20 believe me for the sake of the works themselves. Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also, and greater works than these he will do because I4:31 go to my father. Now let me stop here for just a moment. What works did Jesus do? Well, we tend to look at the at the miracles, but what4:43 was the purpose? What was the purpose of those miracles? Recall back in, in chapter 9 when Jesus encountered the man who was blind from birth, the disciples asked, who sinned? Was it his parents that4:55 caused him to be blind, or was his was it the man? Jesus' response was this, neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of god should be revealed in him. Jesus's5:07 work was according to the purposes of the father to bring people to the father so that the father could be glorified. As we focus on glorifying5:19 the father, empowered by the Holy Spirit, because we can't do it on our own, we have to have the the presence of the Holy Spirit, the power of the Holy Spirit. We have to be filled with the spirit as as Paul wrote in5:30 Ephesians 5. We will see as we're filled with the spirit and we're bringing glory to the father, we're gonna see men, women, and children come to know the lord Jesus. Verse 13, and whatever you ask5:42 in my name, that I will do that the father may be glorified in the son. Now notice the qualifier, that the father may be glorified in the son. Yes. We will do greater works. Yes. The father will5:54 answer our prayers when it glorifies him. Verse 14. If you ask anything in my name, I will do it. John writes about this further in first John chapter 56:06 verse 14. Now this is the confidence that we have in him that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that6:18 we have asked of him. Alright? It has to be according to his will. Verse 15, if you love me, keep my commandments. Now this is an inconvenient6:30 truth. Alright? Our love for the lord is expressed in our obedience. It's not legalism. We obey him because we love him, because he first loved us. Verse 16, and I will pray the father, and he will give you a6:42 16. And I will pray the father, and he will give you another helper, that he may abide with you forever. So the father gave the son, the son gave the spirit. The Holy Spirit is only for6:54 those who receive the Son. Verse 17. The spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him, but you know him, for he dwells7:06 with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you. A little while longer and the world will see me no more, but you will see me because I live.7:18 You also you will live also. And that day you know and that day you will know that I am my father and in in me and you and me and I in7:29 you. He who has my commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my father, and I will love him and manifest myself to7:41 him. Again, we see the connection between love and obedience. That would mean we can't claim that we love the lord if we live in contradiction7:53 to his teaching. Verse 22. Judas, not Iscariot, said to him, lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us and not to the world? Jesus answered and said to him, if anyone8:05 loves me, he will keep my word, and my father will love him, and he will come to him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. He who does not love me does8:17 not keep my words, and the word which you hear is not mine, but the father who sent me. So here's the answer to our question. How is it that we can know the word know the lord and the8:29 world can't? The word of God. It's the word of God illuminated by the Holy Spirit. Verse 26, but the helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the father will8:41 send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. So this is why we should pray as we study the word of God for the8:52 Holy Spirit to teach us the word of God. He is our teacher. The Holy Spirit will open our eyes and our hearts to the truth of God and show us how the word of God applies to our lives. Verse 27. Peace I9:04 leave with you. My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. It's not it's not a passing peace. It's not a temporal peace. It's not a conditional peace. It9:16 is an everlasting peace. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. Somebody needs to grab a hold of that today. Here's what Jesus left you. Alright? This is what Jesus has9:28 given you. If you've made him the lord of your life, he's your savior. Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give it to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be9:40 afraid. You have heard me say to you, I am going away and coming back to you. If you loved me, you would rejoice because I said I'm going to the father, for my father is greater than I. And now I have told you9:51 before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe. I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in me. Satan had no power10:03 over Jesus. He was sinless. He had nothing on him. Jesus was holy. He was sinless. He was in unbroken fellowship with the father, so Satan couldn't touch him. When we repent of our sin and10:15 we live submitted to God, empowered by the Holy Spirit, guess what? Satan has nothing on us either. Now he he tries to resurrect things, but if it's under the blood of Jesus, if we've confessed that10:27 sin, our past is past. Behold, we're a new creation. Old things have passed away. All things have become new. Verse 31. But that the world may know that I10:39 love the father, and as the father gave me commandment, so I do. Arise. Let us go from here. Well, Jesus told his disciples about love and obedience. He10:50 now models for them as his love of the father is displayed, as his as he displayed, as his as he offers himself on the cross and he11:02 dies on the cross. Father, we thank you for your word. And, Lord, we just thank you for the Holy Spirit that is our teacher leading us into all11:14 understanding of your word. And and, Lord, we wanna see you. We we wanna we wanna see and understand. And so to do that, we have to be in your word. We have to abide in your word, and we need the Holy Spirit to open our11:25 eyes and our hearts. And we know we have the Holy Spirit if we have accepted you as our lord and savior. And so I I I pray that we would choose to be filled with the spirit11:37 abiding in you, and that through our lives, others would see and be drawn to Jesus Christ that the father might be glorified. We pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Alright.11:49 Thanks for being with me this morning. Until next time. Keep standing on the word.11:56 Today's study comes from the Stand on the Word Bible Reading Plan available for free at f r c dot o r g slash bible. By following along in just a few minutes a day, you12:08 can read through the entire Bible in just 2 years. Learn more and request the free reading guide at frc dot org slash bible.In this video 0:00 Jesus' Final Words: Comfort, Promise, and the Way to the Father
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