... no more, but you will see me; because I live, you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you (John 14:18-20)." "You are in me," he says, "and I am in you." Just as Jesus is in the Father, so the believer and Jesus have a ... God's love. They result from the fact that in his resurrection we have been given a new life. The Spirit and Christ live in us (John 14:17, 20). Good works come naturally with live-in partners like that. When you love someone and live with them, works of love just come ...
... specifically to guide us "into all truth." Truth is the major concern of the Holy Spirit. In fact, both here in verse 13 and in John 14:17 He is called "the Spirit of truth." When we learn about this aspect of the work of the Holy Spirit, we will understand that ... it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you." (John 16:14-15, NKJV) The Holy Spirit is not come just to guide us to know things. The Holy Spirit has come to guide us to know ...
... take Jesus away from them? It did not make any sense. How could God, our Heavenly Father, allow this to happen? How could he seem so cruel? Jesus, the ever-caring man that he is, tried to calm his friends' anxiety (John 14:1). Think of it. The man is anxious about his own death (John 13:21), and yet he comforts others. What a loving, caring God we have! How can you not love someone like that? Jesus assumed that his disciples knew where he was going (into heaven to prepare for them and his other followers ...
... mortal could fulfill. In fact, it seemed cruel even to make such a promise within the hearing of one who so well knew the awful finality of death. "Lord," Thomas burst forth at the Last Supper, "we do not know where you are going: how can we know the way?" (John 14:5). But what Thomas really meant to say was: "Lord, I know where you are going. You are going to your death, and I want to go with you. So please, do what you must, but stop consoling us when you know that there is no consolation." One Of The ...
... come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” (John 14:1-4, ESV) Jesus lets the disciples know where He is going. He is going to work. He is going to prepare the place for His ... Realize Only a Relationship Will Get Us To God Listen to the last part of this statement, “No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6, ESV) If that is true then all roads don’t lead to God. The way to God is a one-way street and if you are ...
... liar, a lunatic, or God! Consider: Other great religious leaders said, "I have taught you the truth." But Jesus said, "I am the truth" (John 14:6). Of all the great religious teachers of history, it is Christ alone who actually claimed to be God (John 20:26-29; John 4:19-26; John 14:8-11). He asked his followers to believe in him (John 14:1), he said that to see him was to see God (John 14:9), he said all earth would pass away, but never his words (Mark 13:31), he accepted worship from people as if he were ...
... fulfillment of the promise: ‘Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.’ (Matthew 28:29). The Spirit would bring to men an uninterrupted fellowship forever.” (William Barclay, The Daily Study Bible, The Gospel of John, Volume 2, p. 224). The King James Version translates John 14:16 in this fashion: “And I will pray to the Father, and He will give you another comforter, that He may abide with you forever.” In terms of current use of the word comfort, that is not a good translation ...
... than the ceiling? That they really do make it all the way to heaven? You can IM with the I AM if you are willing to meet these three conditions. I. Must Be Confident In God's Power "Now this is the confidence that we have in Him." (I John 5:14, NKJV) Now the word confidence is a word that literally means, "freedom of speech". Originally, it was a political term and it referred to the freedom to speak your mind in a public assembly. In order to connect with God, you must first of all come to God confidently ...
... we know the Holy Spirit must be a person because both God the Father and God the Son are persons. Jesus told the disciples in John 14:16, "And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever." The word He ... the Spirit is a person. In Rom. 8:27 we are told the Holy Spirit thinks. In Rom. 8:26 we are told the Holy Spirit prays. John 14:26 tells us the Holy Spirit teaches. Rom. 15:30 tells us the Holy Spirit loves. Eph. 4:30 says the Holy Spirit can be grieved. Now ...
... 11:25 (RSV). Jesus knew that Judas would betray him, but this did not detract Jesus from staying focused on his mission. Jesus washed his disciples’ feet as an example of service to other people John 13 (RSV). Jesus promised the Holy Spirit who would teach his disciples everything John 14:25-26; 16:12-14 (RSV). Jesus anticipated difficult times for his disciples. He left the disciples with the words of, “I have said this to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation; but be ...
... or zoe, which is a forward moving, vibrant life. God meets us in difficult circumstances and then points us to move ahead in our life journey. There is no bad situation that we cannot move beyond with this zway or zoe life. There are other examples in John’s gospel. In John 14, Jesus met a Samaritan woman at the water well who had had five husbands and was living with a man who was not her husband. Yet, Jesus promised her eternal life that was the zway sort of life. She could get on with her life and have ...
... not leave you as orphans; I will come to you…All this I have spoken while still with you. 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.” (John 14:16,18,25-26, NIV). Can you imagine a more radical possibility?… “you will do greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.” Note the phrase “going to the Father.” What did Jesus say He would do when he went to the Father? One of ...
... . Thomas told him they couldn’t follow because they didn’t know where he was going. Jesus replied by giving him that famous answer from John 14:6-7. “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really know me ... if they understood him when he asked, “Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me?” (John 14:10). He implored them to believe that it was true; if for no other reason than on the works he had done. He added that ...
... more specifically to guide us "into all truth." Truth is the major concern of the Holy Spirit. In fact, both here in v.13 and in John 14:17 He is called "the Spirit of truth." When we learn about this aspect of the work of the Holy Spirit, we will understand that He ... of God, He never picked up a pen, and the reason was because He anticipated the reminding ministry of the Holy Spirit. In John 14:26 He said, "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, ...
... is the only gate to the Father: "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me" (John 14:6). So we see that no one can get at God's flock without going through Jesus and no one gets into God's flock without ... . Have you been through the gate called Jesus? Our Gate Is a Proposition Not only is our gate a person, our gate is a proposal. In John 10, Jesus offers a proposition to all who are not yet living for him. Here it is: "Whoever enters by me will be saved" (v. 9 ...
... through heaven's open door! "A great multitude which no man can number" (Revelation 7:9). Surely this means heaven is big enough to hold all of God's children. Jesus promised, "In my father's house are many mansions. I go to prepare a place for you" (John 14). Hear that? "A place for you." "Prepared." By Jesus. He is doing all this for you right now. Will We Recognize Each Other? A third question is: "Will we recognize each other in heaven?" Some say we are like a drop of water returning to a faceless sea ...
... in Isaiah 52:12-53:13. This is God the Son or redeemer who is always with the creation of God. It is God the Son, or second person of the Trinity. God the Creator of the universe is one, yet in John’s gospel, God comes in the flesh and dwells among God’s creation (John 1:1-14 RSV). Jesus responded with “Very truly I say to you…” In those days they did not have writing symbols for emphasis such as italics, underscoring or bold type. To emphasize a point had to be citied within the text itself. The ...
... 10:36 I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. — John 11:25-26 I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. — John 14:6 I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. — John 15:1 Each time that Jesus says, "I am"in these statements, he invokes the use of eime, a powerful holy first-person Greek pronoun that Scripture uses exclusively everywhere else to ...
... , in this passage is that he and his Father share exactly the same genetic makeup. In other words, it would be impossible for Jesus to be any more like his Father than he is. No wonder then that Jesus says to Philip: "Whoever has seen me has seen the Father" (John 14:9). Jesus next prays to his Father about his Father's gift: "I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me" (v. 6). He is telling us that salvation is not received by human merit ...
... 5, the man by the pool of Bethesda believed at first that he had been the beneficiary of some kind of welfare program. There was nothing spiritual about his understanding of his healing until Jesus told him, "Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you" (John 5:14). We see this all revealed in Jesus' parable of the sower: A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much ...
... depth. We have no idea how big our lives will be until we trust him for new life. Where is your life leading you? If you died today, where will you spend this evening? Where will you go when you die? Jesus says, "Because I live, you also will live" (John 14:19). But, where will we live forever? That is the most important question that will ever confront us. There are just two ways to get to heaven. The first way is the Plan A way. The A stands for accomplishment. To get to heaven under this plan all you ...
... spoke words of assurance to his frightened disciples. "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you know me, you will know my Father also. From now on, you do know him and have seen him" (John 14:6-7). In John's Gospel, truth isn't a fact, a scrap of data, or even a system of thought that explains the world. Truth is the life-giving power of God, graciously given to the world through the death and resurrection of Jesus. Truth is the love of God revealed ...
... to give His life a ransom for many.” Image Exegesis: Seat of Power After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God. (Mark 16:19) I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. (John 14:6) Vying for the best seats in the house is a human condition. Here the metaphor of “seat” or “sit” means more than just to place one’s bottom upon a chair. It also means to “judge,” “rule,” or “have position” beside. In rabbinic theology, God’s right ...
... final consummation of His coming. What shall we do until then? Here is where some startling words of our Lord seem to apply. In John 14:12 He is reported to have said, " Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works ... and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also." (John 14:1-3) In his book The Transforming Friendship, Leslie Weatherhead passes on to us a lovely story of an old Scotsman who, when he was very ...
... promises to be an overwhelming experience of joy for those who believe? The Bible tells us so. Let’s take a look at what the Bible says about life after death. Perhaps the most familiar passage of Scripture that promises the gift of life after death is found in John 14:1-3. Here we find Jesus in the upper room comforting his disciples before his own death: Let not your hearts be troubled; believe in God, believe also in me. In my father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, would I have told you ...