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John chapter 16 · Scripture Unscripted

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John chapter 16. Let us pray, O Heavenly Father,
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we thank you, Lord, for another day to come and sit at your
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feet, to come and dine and Sup with you.
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Lord, we are asking for a divine touch today, a divine encounter
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today. Teach us your holy scriptures,
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Teach us your divine paths. Father, we thank you God for the
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inspired word. We thank you for the complete
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authority. God, we just want more of you.
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We want a deeper revelation of Jesus Christ.
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Lord, we want to know that you're with us and that you are
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for us and not against us. God, we want to know that you're
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fighting our we want to know that we are more than
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conquerors. Lord, give us the mind of Christ
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and help us to do war with the darkness.
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Lord, I pray that you will come and show up and show off in this
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place. Lord, we confess and repent of
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all the times that we made it about sin and self.
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Lord, we repent of all the times that we were self reliant and
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all the times that we thought that we knew better.
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God, we confess that you are Lord Jesus Christ and Holy
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Spirit. We are asking for you to be our
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teacher today. Show up and teach us all of the
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Lorde ways, all of the Lorde paths.
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Give us divine counsel, give us more of yourself.
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And we want to be filled to the brim and overflowing into our
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neighborhoods, into this country, and into the world at
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large. Father, we just want more of
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you. And so Lord, empower us and fill
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us today and give us a greater portion.
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Lord, give us a double portion. Father, I pray that you will
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help us to do the things that you are asking of us today,
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Lord. And we know that all of our
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righteousness is filthy rags. And so we are relying upon the
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blood of Jesus Christ. And we plead the blood of Jesus
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Christ, Lord, over all of our circumstances.
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We plead the blood of Christ over our emotions.
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We plead the blood of Christ over our families and houses.
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We plead the blood of Christ over our workplaces.
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We plead the blood of Christ over hospital rooms.
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And sails, Lord, we plead the blood of Christ over our cars,
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Lord, we plead the blood of Christ over government, Lord, we
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plead the blood of Christ over schools, Lord.
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And we are asking that Jesus be magnified and glorified in all
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the land throughout all the ages.
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Lord, raise up warriors unto yourself.
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Lord, I pray that we will be found with faith and be found
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doing the work of Jesus Christ, his hands and feet here on this
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earth. Lord, help us to do those
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greater things. Father, help us to know that you
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are in our midst and you are well pleased and you are fueling
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the journey and you're pushing us along to the end, Father,
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where we can be there with you and you with us.
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So we love you, Lord Jesus, and we thank you for these eternal
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inspired scriptures. I decrease as you increase.
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Jesus Christ, we love you and it's in your holy precious name
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that I pray, Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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These things have I spoken unto you that you should not be
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offended? Imagine that, friends, Jesus
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Christ is speaking the truth to us and He's telling us all these
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things. He's letting us into his mind so
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that when persecution comes, so that when that bad report comes,
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so that when that court summons comes, so that when you have the
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trials and tribulations and persecutions that are coming on
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your doorstep, you will not be offended and fall away.
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He said blessed are those that are not offended by him and he
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does not want us to be trapped by our own insecurities and by
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our own reasonings. He wants us to know the truth
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and he is the truth and he gives us line by line, precept on
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precept. He gives us all of the road map
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to get us to home and home is where he is.
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Home is the Lord Jesus Christ. So we can be sure that all of
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these words are trustworthy and true.
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We can be sure that if we will not rely on our own instincts,
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not rely on our own selfish cleverness, that we can make it
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to where He is by knowing these words, owning these words,
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living these words. And how many words has he given
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us in the last chapter or two? And here we go again as we enter
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into this next chapter, we're seeing Him give us this
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discourse that will help lead us home, help lead us in the face
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of persecution, lead us in the face of adversity.
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If we will memorize and hold on and hide these words in our
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heart, we will not be offended by all of the times that God and
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that Jesus and that Holy Spirit do not act in the way that we
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think that they should. We will not fall away when the
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world doesn't behave in the way that we think that it should.
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We will not fall away whenever all of these new Age cult ideas
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come our way. We will be rooted and grounded
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in the Word of God. We will be rooted and grounded
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in the judeo-christian Bible from Genesis to Revelation, the
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God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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And we thank you, Yahweh, for all of these inspired divine
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words that we have that we hold in our hands that are reading
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us. We don't read them, friends.
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They are interpreting us. We don't interpret them,
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friends. We obey these words.
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And with that obedience will come a defense against offense.
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Friends 2. They shall put you out of the
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synagogues. Yeah, the time comes.
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That whosoever kills you will think that he does God's
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service. He's talking about the apostle
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Paul. He's talking about how Saul of
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Tarsus comes in and he's persecuting the early church and
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he thinks that he's doing God a service because this Nazarene
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sect has come in and they are teaching another way.
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And here Paul thinks that he's doing God service, but he has to
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get wrecked on the road to Damascus for him to understand
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that he's persecuting God himself when he persecutes Jesus
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Christ. And we need to know that,
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friends, that persecution is all around us, for us.
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It might be subtle, it might be the cancel culture, it might be
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the loss of a job promotion. It might be in a lot of myriad
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of ways of subtle persecution. But you can see mainstream
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politics, mainstream news. You can see it, friends, that
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this blaspheming of God and this blaspheming of his Son is
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increased incrementally friends. And it used to be just for the
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profane. It used to be just for the
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hidden by night kind. But now it is in the light, it
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is reared it's ugly head, and we can see persecution, we can see
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it all around us, and we can see that this whole culture has
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turned away and they are turning towards sin and self.
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And they say they have no room in modernism for a barbaric,
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archaic God. But I want you to know He's just
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as alive and active today as he was from eternal.
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And He is moving mightily in our midst, and He is separating the
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sheep and the goats. And I pray in the midst of
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persecution that you and that I will be able to stand firm until
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the end, not wavering in our faith, not willing to renounce
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Him. In the midst of all of it.
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Let's stand firm. Let's charge the hill.
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Let's know that we have more power inside of us then all of
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the governments and armies in the whole world put together.
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There's more power in one sold out blood believer of Jesus
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Christ and all the atomic bombs put together.
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Friends, we can have peace. We can have peace in the midst
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of the storm. We can have His power from on
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high if we will just trust in Him through it all.
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He's going to lead us in passive righteousness.
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He's going to lead us home, friends, to where he is.
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Verse 3 And these things will they do unto you, because they
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have not known the Father nor me.
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They are listening to the Father of lies.
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They are listening to Satan. You cannot serve both God and
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Mammon. You will love 1 and you will
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hate the other. And they have rejected Yahweh,
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they have rejected God Almighty. They have rejected El Shaddai
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because they are in love with self and money and power and
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greed. They're in love with this world,
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friends, For but these things have I told you that when the
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time shall come, you may remember that I told you of
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them. And these things I said not unto
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you at the beginning, because I was with you.
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So we know that the coming of the Comforter, the Holy Spirit,
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the Holy Ghost coming in US is much better.
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And Jesus wanted his band of disciples to understand that it
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was much better for Him to go so that he could send the Helper.
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And he was saying that he did not need to explain all of the
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things that would come yet because He was there in their
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midst. And it was the time for His
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earthly ministry here. It was time for Him to be here
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in bodily form, but he knew that his time to go to the right hand
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of the father was at hand, only hours away at this point.
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And he was explaining to them to take heart, to take courage, and
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to be peaceful, and to know that even though he was leaving them,
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not to be frightened, but to wait on the power of Pentecost,
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wait on the baptism of fire and the tongues coming down like
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fire, to wait for them to be in dwelled with the Holy Ghost.
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And then they would understand that the power that was
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available to them was much better than just having Him in
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the midst to teach them. And they needed to hold on to
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all of these words and remember all of these words.
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And it's the same call for you and the same call for me, that
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we would do well in the midst of all of our trials and
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tribulations and persecutions, to go back and search the
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Scriptures, to bring up out of the wellspring of our heart all
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of these words. And remember that He gives us
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peace, but not as the world gives. 5 But now I go my way to
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him that sent me, and none of you asked me, Where do you go?
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6 But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow has
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filled your heart. So here you remember that Thomas
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and Peter in previous chapters they have said, Where are you
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going? And then here Jesus says, None
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of you ask, where do you go? So for them, Peter and John and
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the disciples at large, they were more self-centered, wanting
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to know how could they join in on wherever Jesus was about to
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go. Here Jesus is explaining to them
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that he's going to death, he's going to the cross, and he knew
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that they would be scattered like sheep, that they would all
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turn and run away from their master.
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And so here he is saying, do not even ask where I am going.
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You will not ask if you can go there because you're about to be
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scattered. And then he says the sorrow that
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has filled their heart, they had lost all their bravado.
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They had lost all of this nonsense talk of I will go to
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you or with you to death. They had lost all of it.
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They were full of sorrow because they knew at this point that he
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was about to go to the cross. 7 Nevertheless, I tell you the
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truth, it is expedient for you that I go away.
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For if I go not away, the comforter will not come unto
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you. But if I depart, I will send him
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unto you. So we can see here that the Holy
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Spirit is coming on the scene and it is going to indwell us.
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And Jesus Christ said that the least in the Kingdom of God is
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greater than John the Baptist, who was the greatest prophet and
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all the prophets of old. Long to see the day that you and
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I live in, to be indwelled with the Holy Spirit, friends, and to
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have discernment friends, and to be able to commune with the
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Father on a constant basis. Even as you dream and sleep.
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He gives you dreams and visions and prophecies.
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And we need to know that these disciples at this time, they
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were still operating in the carnal.
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They were still operating and all they had to go by were their
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senses and their conscience. They were not yet indwelled like
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you and I. What a privilege and what a
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responsibility you and I have to be filled with the Holy Spirit
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and to operate in that office, friends.
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And we need to not sear our consciences.
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We need to make sure that we do not grieve the Holy Spirit.
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We need to make sure that we keep and cultivate that
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relationship, vibrant friends, and we need to be able to sit
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and to know that He is God and to listen for that still small
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voice that speaks to you loudly and boldly and roars like a lion
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of Judah. We need to be able to discern
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whenever the Lord is telling us things that are even
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counterintuitive to our own thoughts, counterintuitive to
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our own emotions. We need to know that it is the
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Lord speaking and it comes by faith.
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You increase your faith, you walk not by sight but by faith,
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and you will be able to discern the voice of the Lord in your
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life. And he's telling us it's much
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more expedient for him to go away.
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And when he has come, He will reprove the world of sin and of
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righteousness and of judgment. So you can see here that as the
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Holy Spirit comes in, his work is to reveal Jesus Christ to the
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world. His work is to give us Jesus's
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heart when it comes to the sin in our lives, to give us Jesus's
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heart when it comes to the righteousness that only Jesus
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Christ could fulfill fully. He was the only one that was
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sinless so that he is the only one that has full authority over
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sin. He was the only one that was
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righteous and his righteousness can be ours.
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And when we put on the blood of Jesus Christ and he tells us end
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of judgement. So he will give us sound mind to
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be able to discern the things that are evil and to discern the
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things that are good and, and to be able to rightfully judge a
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situation. When there are two people that
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are blinded and delusional, we will be able to see through all
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of their duplicity. We'll be able to see through all
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of their schemes and trickery, friends, because we have this
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mind of Christ that comes through being indwelled with the
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Holy Spirit. 9 of sin, because they believe not on me. 10 of
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righteousness, because I go to my Father and you see me no
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more. 11 of judgment, because the Prince of this world is
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judged. So he's showing that he disarmed
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all of Satan's rule. He snatched the keys to death
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and hell, and he made a public spectacle of all of evil and
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darkness, and he put him to shame.
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What the world thought of as Jesus.
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Embarrassment wrought his victory for you and for me to be
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indwelled with the Holy Spirit and he knew it.
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And it was a masterpiece that was painted all throughout
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history, all throughout the Old Testament.
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You're going to see as we study through it, you're going to see
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Jesus Christ on every page. You're going to see this grand
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masterpiece that God was painting all the way back from
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the beginning that all points and culminates to this moment
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that we're in here. Well, I have yet many things to
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say unto you, but you cannot bear them now.
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So you know, God gives us revelation by degree.
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And so if he was to pour out all of His divine revelation on a
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babe in Christ, it would overpower them to the point
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where they could not steward it. They would not be able to
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harness the amount of revelation that God Almighty wants to give
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to us. And He has to take care of the
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most obvious things in the beginning.
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And then as we go along with Him and we think that it is easy to
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stiff arm all of the outright sins that we know of, all of the
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things that have plagued us and plagued the world at large.
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He will start to reveal even the nuances in your life.
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He will start to reveal the things that you have hidden in a
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way that you don't think anybody knows about.
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He will start to reveal all of your inner motives and your
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emotions and all the things that you in the beginning thought
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were not even necessary. And God is after the whole
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heart. You're all your strength and all
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your mind. He's not after a halfway
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lukewarm Christianity. He desires for you to be either
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hot or cold friends. And so therefore we cannot play
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the middle. We have to make sure that our
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love burns for our Father and for the Lord Lord Jesus Christ.
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And he's saying he has much more things and he's going to reveal
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them in the Pauline epistles. He's going to reveal them in the
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apocalyptic writings. He's going to reveal them to us
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throughout all of the New Testament and from acts all the
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way to revelation. This is the much more that He
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spoke of. And you and I, we just compound
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upon this finished work. That's all we do.
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We don't add anything to it. All we do is reveal what has
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already been said and we reveal how it pertains to this time,
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for such a time as this. And it is finished, and it is
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authoritative for all mankind, for the entire globe, all over.
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Every land, every people group, every tongue, every nationality,
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it is truth and He is the only way.
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He is the truth and He is life and He is life abundant.
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And we must come to him and believe that God is and believe
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that Jesus was raised from the dead and that Jesus is the Lord
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and we must believe that He has great plans for us.
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Friends 13 How be it when he, the Spirit of truth has come, He
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will guide you into all truth, for he shall not speak of
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himself, but whatsoever He shall hear that shall He speak, and He
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will show you things to come. So He's telling us the office of
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the Holy Spirit and how it all works.
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And he's showing us that God the Father, God the Son, and God the
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Holy Ghost are one, and they are of 1 accord and they're
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congruent and they all are saying the same thing because
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they are one. And He's showing us that as the
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Holy Spirit indwells us, He's going to lead us in those paths
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of righteousness. He's going to show us the
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eternal paths. He's going to help us to not
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make the wrong decisions in this life.
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And we don't have to be afraid if God is mad at us.
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We don't have to be afraid if we're making the wrong
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decisions, if we will stay in constant communion with Him.
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Remain in the vine, friends, stay in constant communion with
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Father God through His Son Jesus Christ as we are indwelled with
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the Holy Spirit. Then you can know that you know
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that you know that you know that even in the menial, mundane
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things of life that He is all around you and He is leading
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you. Just like when Moses was in the
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wilderness for 40 years, God was doing a great work.
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And the greatest work that God does in our lives is in the
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waiting. It's not in these monumental
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moments that mark our lives for all of mankind, for history.
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That is not it. It's the waiting, friends, that
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he's pulling out all the dross and the impurities.
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It's in the waiting that he's refining you in the refiners
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fire. It's in the waiting that he's
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polishing you so that he can see His reflection in you.
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Friends, 14 He shall glorify me there.
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He shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you.
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He's saying that the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ words are
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synonymous. 15 All things that the Father has are mine.
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Therefore I said that he shall take of mine, and shall show it
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unto you. So Jesus here is declaring his
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divinity his deity, that He and the Father are equal. 16 A
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little while and you shall not see me.
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And again a little while and you shall see me, because I go to
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the Father. So here, this is Him Speaking of
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His death, His resurrection. He's Speaking of a second
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advent, he's Speaking of all of the timeline of things that are
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to come, and he's saying I must go to the cross, but I will
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resurrect, and I will appear to many, and I will ascend to the
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right hand of the Father, and then I will come back, and I
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will gather you to myself, and there you will be with me
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forever. 17 Then said some of the disciples among themselves,
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What is this that he says unto us, A little while and you shall
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not see me. And again a little while and you
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shall see me. And because I go to the Father.
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So Jesus here is having to deal with a band of unlearned men who
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at this point were not indwelled with the Holy Spirit, and they
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were still relying on their carnal impulses, they were still
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relying upon their conscience, and they had not yet been
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indwelled. And so therefore, they're
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wrestling through all of these eternal words that have
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ramifications for all ages. And here they are, boots on the
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ground, and they're trying to figure it all out.
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And we are eternally grateful for their questionings because
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Jesus knows their hearts and their minds and their thoughts,
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and he wants to comfort them. 18 They said, Therefore, what is
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this, that he says a little while.
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We cannot tell what he says. 19 Now Jesus knew that they were
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desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do you inquire among
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yourselves of that I said, a little while, and you shall not
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see me, and again a little while, and you shall see me. 20
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Truly, truly, I say unto you that you shall weep and lament,
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but the world shall rejoice. You shall be sorrowful, but your
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sorrow will be turned into joy. He's talking about his death.
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He's talking about the shame and the embarrassment of their
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master being crucified, being whipped with the cat O9, tails
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being scourged and his flesh being ripped open.
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He's talking about their dismay when they're all disbanded and
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run and scatter. He's talking about the denial of
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Peter three times. He's talking about nails through
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his wrists and his feet. He's talking about him hanging
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there, suffocating as the world looks on, saying, you said you
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could save the world, save yourself, come down from there
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and we'll believe on you. And they are mocking the God of
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the universe. And all these disciples at that
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moment would be stricken with grief.
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But he tells them, and he hints to them of his resurrection
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power, and he has the power to lay down his life, and he has
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the power to take it up again. And no one took his life from
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him, but he breathed his last. 21 A woman when she is in
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travail, has sorrow because her hour has come, but as soon as
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she is delivered of the child, she remembers no more the
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anguish for joy that a man is born into the world.
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So we can see here that the birth pains are happening and
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that the head of the child is crowning.
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We can see here that we are closer today than we were
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yesterday and we need to know that all of these birth pains
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are pointing to the second advent of Jesus Christ.
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We can know that as all of the contractions are closer and
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closer together, that the leaves on the fig tree are near, the
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summer is near, and that we can see that Jesus Christ and his
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second advent is imminent. And here he is Speaking of the
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natural when a woman is about to give birth and she goes through
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so much pain as she is birthing this child, But the moment that
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the child is safe and sound and in her arms, all of that is
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nothing. And he's saying it will be much
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like that as we enter in to the outer bands of tribulation, as
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we enter in to the outer bands of the beast system, as we start
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to see it all queued up, as we start to see everything getting
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in line with the Antichrist in the way of all of evil coming
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and having its heyday. We can see here that it will be
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anguish and sorrow. But the moment that Christ
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reveals himself to the whole world, and comes back with all
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angelic hosts and his Saints with him, and writing in with a
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name on his thigh, faithful and true, and with a sharp 2 edged
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sword from his mouth, and eyes like fire, and hair like wool,
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we can be sure that our redemption has drawn.
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And we will all see it, and we will rejoice.
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Friends 22 And you now therefore have sorrow.
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But I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and
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your joy no man takes from you. So you can see here that Jesus
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is promising that we will see him again.
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He's saying here that no one will be able to take the joy
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that he gives to us away. This is boundless, endless joy
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in the midst and in all trials and tribulations.
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This is in the midst of all the chaos all around us.
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We can have joy. I pray that that's your story.
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I pray that you understand that you can't be blown to and fro.
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You cannot have a salvation that is just based upon emotion.
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You cannot have have a salvation that is just based upon
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everything going your way. We have to know that God's way
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is whenever we get out of our own way and we actually give him
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the steering wheel, the gas pedal, the brake, we give him
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the keys to the locked box, we give him the keys to the house,
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we give him all access to everything.
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And we say your way is better, Yahweh.
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And we love the Lord Jesus Christ and we can trust Him even
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in all of the sorrow and grief in our lives, we can trust Him.
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I pray that you understand that no man can take away that joy.
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He's promising to come and gather us again. 23 And in that
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day you shall ask me nothing truly, truly, I say unto you,
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whatsoever you shall ask the Father in my name, he will give
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it to you. So we need to know here in this
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little verse, verse 23, in that day when He comes back in all
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His glory. We have all heard growing up
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that one day when we get there, we can ask Him the hard
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questions that we don't have answers to on this side.
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But the reality and the brevity and the gravity of it all,
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friends, is that when we finally see Him, we will be undone.
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When He comes in all of His glory, friends, and He
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encompasses us in His glory, we will be completely undone.
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There will be such glory that encompasses us that we will not
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be able to speak. All we will do is lay at His
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feet and worship and He will have to lift our chin up.
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He will have to fix our eyes upon Him because when we finally
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see the risen Lord coming in all of His glory, it will be a wait
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unlike anything that we have ever experienced.
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And there will be those who try to run and hide and try to hide
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themselves in the caves and under rocks because of this
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glory coming in the clouds, that he told Caiaphas that he would
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see him coming. And whenever that day happens,
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Friends, it will be a scene unlike this world has ever
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known. He's not coming back as a little
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child in a Manger, weak. He's coming back as the ruler of
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the universe. He's coming back as the mighty
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king of Friends. And we would all do well to know
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that the only thing that we will be able to do in that moment is
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worship. And he's saying that on this
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side of things, if we will just ask it in His name, He will do
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it for us. And whenever it is in line with
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the will of the Lord and the Word of God, that is when you
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see mighty miracles happening all around you. 24 From hitherto
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have you asked nothing in my name?
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Ask and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.
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So he's telling us the way to this fullness of joy.
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It is not relying on our own senses, it's not allowing the
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weight of this world to crush us, friends, but it is going to
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Him and increasing our faith. And it is speaking to the Father
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through the Son, through the name of Jesus Christ, the name
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that is above all names, the only name that has any power to
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subdue all of the darkness and the demonic and to subdue all of
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the plagues in our lives, all of the things that are trying to
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crush us. We speak that name in darkness
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flees. And he's saying, if you want
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this joy, speak his name over that situation.
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Speak a better word over the lies of the enemy that comes
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creeping in, trying to get you to relinquish your inheritance,
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trying to get you to forget who you belong to, trying to get you
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to forget that you are indwelled with the Holy Spirit and have
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all the authority and power in Jesus name. 25 These things have
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I spoken unto you in Proverbs, but the time comes when I shall
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no more speak unto you in Proverbs, but I shall show you
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plainly of the Father. So here we know that Jesus would
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speak to them a lot of times in parables, and then he privately
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would discuss it with his disciples plainly, and he would
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say, O ye of little faith. And they needed to increase
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their faith. But when the Holy Spirit comes
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and dwells within us, we can know the mind of Christ, We can
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understand these scriptures, and we need to know that as we are
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reading the Scriptures, he is making it plain.
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This is plain language. And if it's still a mystery unto
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you, then my advice is to go and pour yourself out.
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Pour all of your own understanding out.
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Pull. Pour all of your own
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presuppositions and ideology of how God is to operate and what
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God is and how God is and who Jesus is.
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Pour it all out at the altar. Pour it all out at the foot of
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the cross and ask the Lord to give you the Holy Spirit and to
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give you discernment in this baptism of fire and so that you
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can have this plain theology that is simple.
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It's a simple gospel, friends. We complicate it.
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We get in our own way and we need the Holy Spirit to be our
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guide. We don't need to rely on our own
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understanding. 26 At that day you shall ask in my name, and I
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say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you.
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So he is making intercession for us, even the Holy Spirit.
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He tells the Father what all of our groanings are, all of the
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things that we don't even understand that are happening,
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all the emotions and feelings that we are going through.
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The Holy Spirit is revealing all of that to the Father.
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Even as we are praying and we don't know what to pray, the
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Holy Spirit prays for us. And here Jesus is telling us
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that He is going to speak for us to the Father.
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He is going to let the Father know that we belong to Him, that
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He knows us. It's not enough to know Him.
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We have to be known by Him, friends, and that is the point.
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27 For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me
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and have believed that I came out from God. 28 I came forth
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from the Father, and I am come into the world again.
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I leave the world and go to the Father.
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So here is the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ.
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Here He is revealing how He came as a little baby.
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He came from heaven and it was an Immaculate Conception the
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came to the Virgin Mary and how He was born in a Manger and
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lived a perfect, sinless life. And He was in His Father's house
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at the age of 12. He was about his Father's
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business. And then out of obedience to his
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parents and honoring them, he goes back and he lives a
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perfect, sinless life and then reveals himself to the world as
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the Messiah, and for three years walks this earth in his priestly
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ministry as the High Priest of the universe.
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And then he was beaten, stricken, mocked, and put in the
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tomb. And then he revealed himself to
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many and ascended to the right hand of God and sat down at the
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finished work of the cross. And it is all right here in
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verse 28. You can see that He came from
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the Father. He came into the world, He left
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the world and he went back to the Father.
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It's all encapsulated in one verse.
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Friends. 29 His disciples said unto him, Lo.
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Now you speak plainly, and speak no Proverb 30 Now are we sure
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that you know all things, and need not that any man should ask
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you? By this we believe that you came
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forth from God. So here the disciples are
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putting the declaration of their faith and they're telling the
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Lord Jesus Christ, we believe that you are who you say you
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are. And I pray that you can say the
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same thing. I pray that you know that Jesus
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Christ is the only way to the Father, that He is our
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salvation, that He is life and there is no life outside of
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Jesus Christ, and He is truth and there is no truth outside of
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Jesus Christ, and He is the way. He is the only way to the
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Father. And I pray that you understand
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that in the way that the disciples say that they did. 31
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Jesus answered them. Do you now believe?
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32 Behold, the hour comes. Yeah, it is now come that you
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shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me
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alone. And yet I am not alone, because
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the Father is with me. You can see Father Abraham and
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Isaac as they ascend the mountain, as God said, go and
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sacrifice your only son. And you can see that they were
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one as they went up the mountain.
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And Isaac dared not to try to leave his father's side.
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And you can see here Jesus as he's going to the cross.
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He knows that his Father is right there beside him.
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He's not alone, that God is well pleased and glorified in the
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obedience of the Son. 33 These things I've spoken unto you,
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that in me you might have peace in the world.
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You shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer.
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I have overcome the world. So this peace that Jesus offers
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us is not the same kind of peace that the world tells us that we
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should take. The world tells us that money is
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going to solve all of our problems.
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The world tells us that we need to fix these broken bodies.
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The world tells us we just need a better job, a better position,
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that we just need more time. The world tells us that peace
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comes from all of your retirement and savings.
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The world tells us that we need all of these policies and
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insurance. The world tells us that peace is
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found in a different partner and a different family in a solo
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career. The world tells us that we need
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more friends. The world tells us lots of
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things that are going to try and bring us peace, that we just
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need more, more, more. And it's materialism.
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It's consumerism, and it promises us peace, but it cannot
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deliver on it. Jesus gives us this peace in the
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midst of a storm, and it is through contentment.
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It is through resting on the finished work of the cross.
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It's by knowing that we were made for heaven.
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We were made for an eternal state.
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It's by knowing that this is not our home that we are headed
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somewhere far grander than this world could ever offer us.
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And we know that where He is, we will be.
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We know that this is not the end, and the peace that He gives
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to us, friends, is not like the world gives.
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We have to have this peace, and it is not anything like what the
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world offers. It's peace in the midst of all
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of the storm. And he tells us to be of good
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cheer. He has overcome the world.
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He snatched the keys to death and hell.
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And we do not need to fear death.
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We need to know that as we exit out of here, the only thing that
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we take with us are the things that we sent ahead.
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And I pray that you share your testimony with everyone that you
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meet. Pray that you share the love of
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God with your neighbors. I pray that you help to build up
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your brothers and sisters and not break them down.
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I pray that you are found in the Father's house doing the
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Father's will. I hope you've been blessed by
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this chapter. I know I sure have.
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Praying for every single one of you.
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I love you. We'll see you back here
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tomorrow. God bless you.