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John chapter 14 · Scripture Unscripted

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  John 14, Let us pray. We thank you, Heavenly Father,
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  for another day to come to you, to worship you God, and to know
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  you more intimately. We thank you, Father, for a life
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  worth living. We thank you, Lord, that you
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  have given us purpose and meaning and dignity.
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  Lord, we are here to learn from you.
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  Holy Spirit, teach us. I decrease as you increase.
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  You get the last say. Convict US Father.
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  Help us to know that we are yours.
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  Disciple us, God. Discipline us, Lord, and show us
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  higher paths that we can reach, Father.
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  Continue to sanctify us, Lord, and make us more like you.
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  I pray that we'll have the strength to consecrate this
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  temple, Father. I pray in the name of Jesus,
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  Lord, that you'll help us to come up to where you are, Lord,
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  as you have come into us, Lord, I pray that we can be made your
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  people who are called by your name, Lord, and we could go out
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  and show this world who you are. God, through the love that
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  you've given us and through all of the times that you've loved
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  us and loved us well, we love you and it's in Jesus Christ,
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  holy and precious name, I pray, Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. Let not your heart be troubled.
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  You believe in God, believe also in me.
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  So here he's starting this chapter out right after he told
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  the disciples that he's going to a place that they could not come
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  yet. And then he tells them that they
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  will come because they're going to have to suffer.
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  But then he says, don't let your heart be troubled.
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  This band of unlearned men would have been dismayed at this
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  moment because their master, who lived a perfect, sinless life,
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  was going to the cross. It meant a brutal death, an
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  excruciatingly painful death. And here you can see that he's
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  saying, in the midst of all of it, he's saying, do not be
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  troubled. And we can have this peace,
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  friends, in the middle of the storm if we will trust him
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  through it all. We can know that the blood of
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  the martyrs, the seed of the Gospel, and that it goes down
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  into the ground and produces A crop.
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  It produces a harvest to in my father's house are many
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  mansions, and if it were not so I would have told you I go to
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  prepare a place for you. So he was going to prepare this
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  New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven after the second
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  destruction by fire. This 2000 by 2000 mile cube,
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  2000 miles wide and 2000 miles high and 2000 miles deep.
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  And we can see here that Jesus is referencing this new
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  Jerusalem that will come and will be placed on planet earth
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  after it's made new. And we know that heaven and
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  earth shall pass away, but not one of His words.
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  And we know that as He speaks this, we can rely on it, we can
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  bank on it. And we don't work towards the
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  mansion, we don't work towards the rewards, we don't work
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  towards the Street of Gold or the gates made out of a single
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  Pearl. What we do is we work towards
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  him. We just want him.
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  We want to lay our crowns at his feet.
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  Friends, we want Jesus more than we want anything else.
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  And I pray that that's your story.
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  I pray that you can say that today.
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  Three. And if I go and prepare a place
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  for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself, that
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  where I am, there you may be also talking about the rapture
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  of the Church. But we also know from the thief
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  on the cross to be absent from the bodies, to be present with
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  the Lord. We know that today you will be
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  with me in Paradise. So we can believe either way,
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  whether you have to go through the waters and He is there with
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  you, or whether you are raptured up to meet Him in the air.
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  Either way, where He went, we will go to be with Him.
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  He's coming for us for and where I go, you know, and the way you
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  know. So here you can see that He is
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  the way. He is the truth and the life.
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  And we know him so that we know the way.
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  And so therefore he's saying to us, don't be troubled.
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  Don't let your hearts be troubled with all the negative
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  news, all of the propaganda, all of the death and disease and
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  decay and wars and rumors of wars and famines and pestilences
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  and earthquakes in various places.
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  Do not be troubled, friends. Know that no matter what, you're
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  going to be there with him. If you are yoked up with him, if
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  you are a bondservant of the Lord Jesus Christ, you can trust
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  and believe that you are covered in His blood.
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  You're going to make it there with Him.
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  He's coming back for you, and His rewards are with you.
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  Look up and see that your redemption is drawing near. 5
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  Thomas said unto him, Lord, we know not where you go, and how
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  can we know the way? So Thomas just says what
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  everyone else is thinking. Praise God for Thomas. 6 Jesus
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  said unto him, I am the way, the truth, the life.
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  No man comes unto the Father, but by me, so he is exclusive.
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  There is no other way to heaven. There's no other way to eternity
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  with Him. There's no other way to the
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  Father except through the Son, Jesus Christ.
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  There is no other way. There is no other life, and
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  there is no other truth other than Jesus Christ.
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  He is our everything. He is not one of many ways.
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  He did not say I'm one of many ways, He says I am the way.
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  There is no other way unto the Father except through Him.
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  He is exclusive friends, and we must come to Him.
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  No matter where you are at in your life, you must come to the
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  Father through Jesus Christ and that is it.
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  There's no exceptions. 7 If you had known me, you should have
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  known my Father also, and from now on you know him and have
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  seen him. 8 Philip said unto him, Lord, show us the Father,
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  and this suffices us. So here Philip just says what
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  everyone else is thinking. He's saying, if you'll just show
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  us God, then we'll believe. And what does Jesus say?
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  9 Jesus said unto him, Have I been so long time with you?
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  And you have not known me, Philip, either, has seen me, has
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  seen the Father. And so how do you say then show
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  us the Father? So he's saying I and the Father
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  are one, and then us and him are one, and we can all be one in
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  the same. Praise the Lord for that. 10
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  Believe you not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me,
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  The words that I speak unto you, I speak not of myself, but the
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  Father that dwells in me. He does the works.
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  So he's showing that all the power that he has comes from the
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  Father, and we can have that same power as we're connected to
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  the Father through Jesus Christ. 11 Believe me that I am in the
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  father and the father in me, or else believe me for the very
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  work's sake. So he's telling Philip and he's
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  telling us. He's saying, if you need
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  reassurance, just look at all of the mighty works that I have
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  done. And then we here in our time and
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  our day, we can see all the miracles all around us, friends,
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  and we can believe all of creation proclaims His name, so
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  that we are without excuse. 12 Truly, truly, I say unto you, he
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  that believes on me, the works that I do shall he do also, and
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  greater works than these shall he do, because I go unto my
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  Father. So we know that he's going to
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  send the comforter. We know that we're going to be
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  indwelled with the Holy Spirit. We know that we're going to be
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  able to exponentially take the whole word to the whole world,
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  translating it into different languages, planes, trains,
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  automobiles, revivals, friends. We're going to be able to reach
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  the whole world with the gospel of Jesus Christ more than he did
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  in his three years of time of traveling by foot.
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  And he's saying that even when Peter on the day of Pentecost,
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  when he preached and 3000 came to him, He's showing us that we
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  will do greater things when the Holy Spirit comes. 13 And
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  whatsoever you shall ask in my name, that I will do, that the
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  Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 And if she, if you shall
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  ask anything in my name, I will do it. 15 And if you love me,
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  keep my commandments. So he's showing us that when we
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  come to him and ask in his name, ask in Jesus name, he will do
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  it. And this is the covey out
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  friends, that whenever we are in tune with Him and obey his
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  commandments, we will know the heart of God and the prayers
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  that we pray will be in line with God's heart.
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  And that is when you're going to start seeing mighty acts of God
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  being wrought in your life because you're in tune with the
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  Father's heart and you're praying the things that are on
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  the Father's heart. And that is when you're going to
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  see mountains move and oceans part.
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  We keep His commandments, we know His heart, we obey Him out
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  of the love that we have for Him, and we watch how He answers
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  our prayers. 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give
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  you another comforter, that he may abide with you forever.
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  So he is another comforter because Jesus is a comforter.
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  He's sending us another comforter that's going to abide
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  with us forever, friends. Holy Spirit indwells us forever,
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  friends. And we will be raised to new
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  life and new bodies, friends, and we will have the comforter.
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  17 Even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive,
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  because it sees him not, neither knows him, but you know Him, for
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  He dwells with you and shall be in you.
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  So we know prior to the glorification of Jesus Christ on
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  the cross that the Holy Spirit would come upon people.
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  But now we can see that after John the Baptist that the least
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  in the Kingdom is greater than all the prophets of old, because
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  we are indwelled with the Holy Spirit. 18I will not leave you
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  comfortless. I will come to you.
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  So he's promising us that we're going to be raptured unto him.
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  19 Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more.
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  But you see me, because I live, you shall live also.
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  He's promising us resurrection. He's promising us resurrected
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  bodies. He's promising us that we can
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  still be in tune with Him even after he goes and sits at the
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  right hand of the Father to prepare a place for us and to
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  intercede on our behalf. 20 At that day you shall know that I
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  am in my Father, and you, and me and I and you.
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  This is the promise, friends, that we can all be of 1 accord
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  and of one mind, the mind of Christ. 21 He that has my
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  commandments and keeps them, he it is that loves me, and he that
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  loves me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him and
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  will manifest myself to him. God says here, Jesus says here
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  that he's going to reveal himself to us.
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  And I pray that that is something that you experience
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  daily, that He reveals his presence in your life.
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  I pray that as you're going about your day and you're
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  walking in the Spirit, He is pleased to reveal Himself to
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  you, to reveal His presence in your life.
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  And it'll happen in ways that you cannot explain and no one
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  gets the credit for. And it's not by happenstance.
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  It's not by coincidence that those things happen.
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  It's Jesus revealing that He's with you. 22 Judas said unto
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  him, not Iscariot. Lord, how is it that you will
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  manifest yourself unto us, and not unto the world?
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  So here Thaddeus is asking him and saying, How is it that only
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  we will see, but not the world? Because we know when Jesus comes
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  back in his second advent, the whole world will see him coming
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  with all the angels. 23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a
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  man love me, he will keep my words, and my Father will love
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  him, and we will come unto him and make our abode with him.
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  So we know that we can have the Holy Spirit in dwelling us.
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  We know that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost
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  are one, and they will abide with us as we abide with them.
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  24 He that loves me not keeps, not my sayings, and the word
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  which you hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.
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  So there at the time the Jews are trying to say we believe in
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  the Father God from the lineage of Abraham, and they missed the
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  mark. Jesus Christ is God Incarnate.
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  25 These things I have spoken unto you, being yet present with
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  you. 26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the
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  Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things and
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  bring all things to your remembrance.
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  Whatsoever I have said unto you, this is what the Holy Spirit
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  does. He confirms God's word in our
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  lives. He jumps and leaps within us as
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  we're reading the Holy Scriptures, and he lets us know
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  that they're trustworthy and true, true and infallible and
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  inerrant, and the spoken word of God that is written down and
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  they are divinely inspired. And the Holy Spirit will bring
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  all these words up out of the deep well that we store them
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  into as we treasure them in our hearts, friends, as we store
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  them in our hearts, so that we do not sin against God. 27 Peace
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  I leave with you, my peace I give unto you, not as the world
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  gives I give unto you. Let not your heart be troubled,
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  neither let it be afraid. So you can see here.
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  He started the chapter this way, He ends the chapter this way.
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  He tells us not to be troubled, that we can have peace that
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  surpasses all understanding, and Jesus Christ is the Prince of
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  Peace, and we've got to grab ahold of the hymn of His garment
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  and be healed. Friends, we can be healed from
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  the fear of man. We can be healed from all of the
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  fear of death, and we can have this peace in the midst of the
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  turmoil and the tumult and all of the trials in our lives. 28
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  You have heard how I said unto you, I go away and come again
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  unto you. If you love me, you would
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  rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father, for my Father
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  is greater than I. So we know that in the office of
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  the Trinity it's God the Father, the Godhead that flows into God
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  made manifest, God Incarnate, Jesus Christ.
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  And we know that the Holy Spirit has the office of indwelling us,
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  and we know that they are equal in all of their power.
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  But we know that they all serve different purposes, and they are
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  separate in the sense that they are their own person.
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  And they all form 1 Godhead, and they are equal in that sense.
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  And He's showing that the Father is greater than Him, because He
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  at this time is in the flesh. 29 And now I have told you before
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  it comes to pass, that when it comes to pass, you might believe
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  30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you, for the Prince of
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  this world comes and has nothing in me.
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  So he's saying that Judas just went and sold him out for the
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  price of a slave, 30 pieces of silver.
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  He's saying here he comes, but he has nothing on me.
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  Jesus lived a perfect, sinless life, friends, and the devil
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  tries to raise and rail all kinds of accusations at Jesus,
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  but none of them could stick because he was perfect.
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  He was the only one found worthy to open the scroll, Friends, He
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  has nothing on him. 31 But that the world may know that I love
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  the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, Even so I
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  do arise. Let us go from here.
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  So here we go there at the end of the Passover.
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  He knows what's about to happen. They're about to go out to the
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  Garden of Gethsemane. He's telling this band of
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  unlearned men, these disciples, that he's disciplined.
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  He's saying, let's go from here. What an amazing chapter this is.
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  I hope you've been blessed by it.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you. I love you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.