February 14, 2010
Evening Service

St.Jn. 14:8-31

 

Review:

1.      This morning we saw Jesus telling all His disciples not to be troubled.  He is in control.  The closer we live to Him, the more He is in control.  Let’s face it, some people don’t want Him in control.

2.      He told us that He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and that no one can come to the Father but by Him.  The thing that makes this statement so remarkable is that This Father is very God that the Jews, and Muslims worship.  Jehovah God, of the Old Testament.

3.      Another thing that is so amazing is that the God that did all the marvelous things in the Old Testament was the Word, even to the point of creation, and we know from John’s writing that This Word was in the beginning with God, and that This Word was God, and that This Word took on flesh, and dwelt among us, as the only begotten of the Father.  How marvelous, and intriguing is that?

4.      We also saw this morning how that Jesus is the Everlasting Father.  Jesus said, “I have not come to destroy, but to fulfill.”  He fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah 9:6.

 

Let’s finish chapter 14 this evening, and see what it holds in store for us:

 

Joh 14:8-31  Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.  (9)  Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?  (10)  Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. 

• I think we can understand Philip’s dilemma.  Because we just can’t relate to what is not of the flesh, and easily understood.
• But notice,   Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me,
• Listen to Jesus talking to the woman at the well;  Joh 4:24  God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
• Even though in the beginning God said, “let us make man in our image”  He later instructed the people through Moses not to make any graven images; Deu 4:16  Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
• But it only goes to figure that if we are made in the image of God, God will look like us.
• Paul said it best;  1Ti 3:16  And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.  Only one person ever fit this description, Jesus of Nazareth.  God manifest in the flesh.
• That’s why all the above that Jesus tells Philip makes sense.
• Jesus is saying that I am full of the Spirit of God, the Father.
• And that the Holy Ghost is the Father of Jesus we only need to read Matt. 1:18;  Mat 1:18  Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
• And it was the Holy Ghost in Jesus that did all the powerful works.  Jesus was very man, and very God.

 

(11)  Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.  (12)  Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. 

• Now this is a tough one.  I know I believe Jesus was filled and overflowing with the Holy Ghost, but I can’t do the works He did.
• Now some of His immediate disciples, such as Peter, was allowed to do some miracles.  Even the Apostle Paul was allowed to do some miracles. 
• So I must admit I don’t fully understand this Scripture.  Unless He just considers the works that we do today are greater than what He did.  Which I don’t see it that way.
• Each of us are given a measure of the Spirit, and It’s not near the measure that Jesus had.  Just being realistic.

(13)  And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.  (14)  If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. 

• However, I think we are to ask, as Jesus ask in the garden, “not my will but thine be done.”  We must ask in the Father’s will, in Jesus name.

(15)  If ye love me, keep my commandments.  (16)  And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever;  (17)  Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.  (18)  I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.  (19)  Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.  (20)  At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.  (21)  He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. 

• We receive this understanding by faith.  We may not fully understand it, but we accept it by faith.
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(22)  Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?  (23)  Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.  (24)  He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.  (25)  These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.  (26)  But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. 

• John said this in I JN. 1Jo 2:27  But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

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(27)  Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.  (28)  Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.  (29)  And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.  (30)  Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.  (31)  But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.