1 00:00:01,700 --> 00:00:04,200 Good morning, everybody. It's good to be here with you, 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:06,000 all. It's good to worship together. 3 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,800 I'm just excited to be here, but to be able to speak for you, 4 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:11,700 it's special. So thank you for having me and 5 00:00:11,700 --> 00:00:14,500 I'm excited for a week for what we have to study this morning 6 00:00:14,900 --> 00:00:17,200 and John chapter 14, if you'll turn with me there. 7 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:20,200 Thank you for your prayer this morning. 8 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:22,600 Darren one of the things you mentioned was the promises that 9 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:26,900 we have and I want to study a little bit about those promises 10 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:30,600 because things clutter our mind things, get us distracted on 11 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:34,200 daily basis and we get layers in our mind that cover the things 12 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:35,800 that we used to have as a foundation. 13 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:39,500 And so I want to study through this chapter and unpack the 14 00:00:39,500 --> 00:00:41,700 richness that we have in John 14. 15 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:45,500 One of the things that's amazing about it is for a lot of the 16 00:00:45,500 --> 00:00:48,100 Bible. We have Snippets of God. 17 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:52,300 Of speaking, we have Snippets of what Jesus said, to his 18 00:00:52,300 --> 00:00:54,100 followers in different situations. 19 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:58,800 But for about John 14:2 about 17, he just just pours out his 20 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:01,600 heart. We just get a one way with a 21 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:05,000 little bit of interaction with the disciples almost a one-way 22 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,400 stream of Jesus. Just just pouring out his heart 23 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:09,100 to them telling them all these things. 24 00:01:09,100 --> 00:01:11,100 He has to let them know before he goes. 25 00:01:12,100 --> 00:01:15,300 And so this is special what we're about to read at this 26 00:01:15,300 --> 00:01:16,800 point. John chapter 14, we're going to 27 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:20,100 pick up, Jesus has just called out his disciples in the upper 28 00:01:20,100 --> 00:01:21,900 room. He's up there with him. 29 00:01:21,900 --> 00:01:25,100 He told him Judas, you're going to betray me, he walked out and 30 00:01:25,100 --> 00:01:27,800 left him. Then he told Peter, Peter, 31 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:30,200 you're going to deny me and Peter's, like, oh no, I'm gonna 32 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:32,600 be there for you and he's like, no, you're going to deny me? 33 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:36,000 So there's a lot of tension going on because he tells them 34 00:01:36,008 --> 00:01:39,800 that he's about to leave and they throughout the throughout 35 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:42,800 the gospel they they clearly didn't get it. 36 00:01:43,700 --> 00:01:45,900 They didn't get the fact that he said, I'm going to leave but 37 00:01:45,900 --> 00:01:48,000 they're like, no, you're not. Where we're going to set it up. 38 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,500 It's gonna be great here. And when he said he's going to 39 00:01:50,500 --> 00:01:52,300 leave, they start to get worried because they're like, what are 40 00:01:52,300 --> 00:01:53,900 you talking about? No, you're not. 41 00:01:55,300 --> 00:01:57,700 And so it's all this with all this turmoil going on. 42 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:01,300 It's with all their anxiety in this stress that's building 43 00:02:01,500 --> 00:02:02,600 after. He's just told him all these 44 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:04,700 things that are going to happen that we read it. 45 00:02:04,700 --> 00:02:11,100 Beginning in verse 1, John 14:1, he says, Let not your heart, be 46 00:02:11,100 --> 00:02:14,700 troubled, you believe in God believe. 47 00:02:14,700 --> 00:02:20,000 Also in me and my father's house are many mansions, if it were 48 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:24,400 not. So I would have told you I go to 49 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:28,300 prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place 50 00:02:28,300 --> 00:02:32,900 for you, I will come again. And receive you to myself that 51 00:02:32,900 --> 00:02:38,300 where I am, there you may be also and where I go, you know, 52 00:02:39,100 --> 00:02:43,000 and the way, you know, so let's back up to verse 1 and see what 53 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,100 he's saying. Here verse 1, he says let not 54 00:02:45,100 --> 00:02:47,300 your heart, be troubled. He starts out by saying, 55 00:02:47,300 --> 00:02:50,400 regardless of what's happened? You can't get worried. 56 00:02:50,900 --> 00:02:54,100 You can't let your heart get anxious and stirred up about 57 00:02:54,100 --> 00:02:56,600 this. You can't, it's imperative, 58 00:02:56,600 --> 00:03:00,100 don't let it happen and usually when people tell us, you know, 59 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:02,700 don't worry. Uh something they just say that 60 00:03:02,700 --> 00:03:05,400 they say don't worry about it and they don't really give you 61 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:08,300 anything to make you not worried and so it doesn't really help. 62 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,000 But I think Jesus is going to give us three things that will 63 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:16,500 help us to not worry for good. He's going to tell us to not 64 00:03:16,500 --> 00:03:17,900 worry because of what he'll show. 65 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:24,200 Because of where we'll go. and because of who, we know, He 66 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:27,200 said, you can't worry because of what he's going to show us 67 00:03:27,300 --> 00:03:29,200 because of where we're going to go. 68 00:03:29,700 --> 00:03:33,700 And because of who we know he says you believe in God believe. 69 00:03:33,700 --> 00:03:36,700 Also in me. I can see him just sitting 70 00:03:36,700 --> 00:03:38,200 across the table under candle light. 71 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:40,200 Talking to his close friends, and remember that. 72 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:42,800 He's saying this to you by extension. 73 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:45,400 That whatever you're going through. 74 00:03:45,500 --> 00:03:47,300 These are his words directly to you. 75 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:52,700 Because you were his friends. You believe in God believe also 76 00:03:52,700 --> 00:03:56,500 in me in my father's house are many mansions. 77 00:03:56,700 --> 00:03:59,400 As I understand this words actually better translated rooms 78 00:03:59,500 --> 00:04:02,300 this word Mansions but because of some issues with the Latin 79 00:04:02,300 --> 00:04:05,500 Vulgate, they translated it Mansions but it makes sense more 80 00:04:05,500 --> 00:04:07,900 with rooms when you look at kind of the context It Was Written in 81 00:04:08,500 --> 00:04:11,400 because during this day and time they would live together as 82 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:13,200 families. If you had your extended family, 83 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:16,600 you would all kind of share a big dwelling together and when 84 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:19,300 your family grew, They just added on room. 85 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,400 And it made sense because you live together to feed off of 86 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:24,100 each other. You have support systems for 87 00:04:24,100 --> 00:04:26,000 each other. They didn't have social security 88 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:27,400 like we do. So you need to support the 89 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:30,700 elderly, you need to share resources together and this is 90 00:04:30,700 --> 00:04:33,800 how they did that they would live together and they groups. 91 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,300 And so they would just add on a room when the family got bigger 92 00:04:37,900 --> 00:04:41,200 and he says, don't worry. There's plenty of room for you. 93 00:04:42,100 --> 00:04:45,200 There's plenty of rooms for everyone at you if it were not. 94 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,500 So I would have told you, I love this. 95 00:04:48,500 --> 00:04:52,200 Chapter is so Full, because it deals with things that seem very 96 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:55,900 distant and very far out and very simple ways. 97 00:04:55,900 --> 00:04:57,900 He's like, it wasn't this way. I want to told you. 98 00:04:58,700 --> 00:04:59,900 I'm here, I'm being straight up with you. 99 00:04:59,900 --> 00:05:03,100 I'm being face value with you, you can trust what I'm saying. 100 00:05:03,100 --> 00:05:05,500 He said, this is the way it is, if it weren't. 101 00:05:05,500 --> 00:05:11,200 So I would have told you He says I go to prepare a place for you. 102 00:05:12,500 --> 00:05:16,900 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and 103 00:05:16,900 --> 00:05:22,100 receive you to myself that where I am, there you may be also now 104 00:05:22,100 --> 00:05:26,100 as this picture of their own Traditions at the time is drawn 105 00:05:26,100 --> 00:05:28,000 here, it's amazing. What Jesus says, when you look 106 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,900 at kind of the history behind it, and it has to do a lot with 107 00:05:30,900 --> 00:05:32,700 the Jewish marriage traditions of the time. 108 00:05:33,300 --> 00:05:38,600 Because during this time, a man When he was looking for a wife, 109 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:40,700 he had a prospective bride. He was living in his father's 110 00:05:40,700 --> 00:05:42,600 house at the time. They probably didn't look 111 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:45,500 anything like that, but he would see a prospective bride living 112 00:05:45,500 --> 00:05:50,200 somewhere else. And what he would do is he would 113 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:56,200 leave his father's house. To go to meet them to spend time 114 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:58,700 with him. And when he went, he came with a 115 00:05:58,700 --> 00:06:02,800 gift from his father. Maybe you've known as a dowry. 116 00:06:02,900 --> 00:06:05,500 He came with a gift to give to her family. 117 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:08,600 And if all went well and they worked it out, they would say, 118 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:11,500 okay, this is decided, you're going to be engaged, you will be 119 00:06:11,500 --> 00:06:13,900 married. And so at that point, the Dowry 120 00:06:13,900 --> 00:06:17,300 was given everything was set up. The gift was paid, they were 121 00:06:17,300 --> 00:06:20,300 engaged. Or betrothed. 122 00:06:21,700 --> 00:06:25,200 Then after everything was climaxed after all, this was 123 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:30,000 decided, it was such a big deal. You turn around and leave this 124 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,200 man went turn around and go back to where he came from right 125 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:36,500 after they got engaged. That doesn't really make any 126 00:06:36,500 --> 00:06:42,200 sense to us, but he had to go back to add on a room, he had to 127 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:43,600 go back to get his father's house. 128 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:47,000 Ready for them to live together. And so he would turn around 129 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:48,500 leave right after all this happened. 130 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,100 And he would tell her. Don't worry, I'm coming back to 131 00:06:53,100 --> 00:06:56,700 get you. I'm going to go get ready and 132 00:06:56,700 --> 00:07:00,200 get things ready for you and you can trust in that, but he would 133 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:03,500 leave for an unspecified amount of time and she just had to 134 00:07:03,500 --> 00:07:07,000 trust that was going to happen and it could be up to about a 135 00:07:07,008 --> 00:07:09,900 year before he got this house. Ready for them to live together. 136 00:07:11,300 --> 00:07:15,300 And when he finally finished, he started to make his way back to 137 00:07:15,300 --> 00:07:17,700 the woman. Now, they didn't have a 138 00:07:17,707 --> 00:07:20,400 communication platforms that we do now. 139 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:23,100 And so, when you start to come back, people to see him coming 140 00:07:23,900 --> 00:07:27,100 and they said, hey, he's coming. He's coming to get, you get 141 00:07:27,100 --> 00:07:29,400 ready in the word with pass along a heaven ahead of him 142 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:33,300 because word travels faster than foot, the word would get ahead 143 00:07:33,300 --> 00:07:36,300 of him and people would start talking, hey, this guy's Getty. 144 00:07:36,300 --> 00:07:39,200 This guy is on his way, get ready, get yourself ready, he's 145 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:42,400 coming. And when they finally got back, 146 00:07:42,500 --> 00:07:47,500 she was ready to go and they reunited and then they turned 147 00:07:47,500 --> 00:07:52,400 around and went back together to live in the father's house. 148 00:07:53,500 --> 00:07:55,600 Now, this is amazing. When you look at what Jesus just 149 00:07:55,600 --> 00:08:01,300 said, he said, I'm going to go away, but I'm going to prepare a 150 00:08:01,300 --> 00:08:03,400 place for you. There are so many overtones of 151 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:06,700 what Jesus did we learn in John chapter 1, the in the beginning 152 00:08:06,700 --> 00:08:10,500 was the word, the Word was God, the word was with God, just was 153 00:08:10,500 --> 00:08:15,100 there a living in his father's house and the special place and 154 00:08:15,100 --> 00:08:20,000 he left. He left and came to offer a gift 155 00:08:20,100 --> 00:08:23,700 from the father to pay for a new relationship. 156 00:08:24,500 --> 00:08:25,900 We know that is the New Covenant. 157 00:08:26,500 --> 00:08:28,100 He came and brought a gift from the father. 158 00:08:28,100 --> 00:08:32,900 That gift was his life. And when you paid that gift, 159 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:36,000 that gift of his life, a New Covenant was set up. 160 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:40,700 His betrothed, he was betrothed to the church. 161 00:08:41,100 --> 00:08:45,000 We learn about Jesus being the church be like the bride of 162 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,700 Christ. This is all tied in with this 163 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:52,400 and he came and set up this relationship with his life but 164 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:56,900 he turned around and he left and that's what his disciples are 165 00:08:56,900 --> 00:08:58,600 going through right now. They're struggling with is 166 00:08:59,300 --> 00:09:02,200 what's going on, you're leaving. But he's like I'm setting this 167 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:04,300 up because I'm going to come back to you. 168 00:09:05,500 --> 00:09:06,800 I'm going to come back to get you. 169 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:10,800 Don't worry. And the beauty of all this is, 170 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:14,200 we see this a lot of times we're frustrated, we're tired, were 171 00:09:14,300 --> 00:09:17,600 anxious, we're worried and we get slow in our faith. 172 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:24,300 And we forget the big picture. The big picture is that half of 173 00:09:24,300 --> 00:09:27,100 this most of this has already been done because in the Old 174 00:09:27,100 --> 00:09:29,600 Testament know, they had to wait, they were still looking 175 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:31,600 for the Messiah to come. There is a whole process that 176 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:35,400 still had to happen. But at this point where we're at 177 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:40,000 right now, Jesus has already left the father's house guard. 178 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:43,700 This world came in the flesh. He left, he came. 179 00:09:43,700 --> 00:09:46,700 Paid a gift. He died. 180 00:09:46,900 --> 00:09:50,300 It's proven, you can look at history and he left. 181 00:09:51,300 --> 00:09:55,400 So we're already here and so the only thing we're waiting for is 182 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:59,400 for him to come back and it seems like it's been so long. 183 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:01,500 What's going to happen? And the early church, they were 184 00:10:01,500 --> 00:10:05,900 frustrated because they were like, it's been like 50 years. 185 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:10,000 What are we gonna do? But it's been like, two thousand 186 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:11,600 years and so we feel the weight of that. 187 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:16,600 We naturally feel that kind of sense of what is it really going 188 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:20,700 to happen, but you can know that it is because of what he said is 189 00:10:20,700 --> 00:10:24,400 he says all the plans. It's not like weirdest a dead 190 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:26,700 state with this whole process God is working. 191 00:10:26,700 --> 00:10:30,000 Now, the cogs are moving, everything is turning. 192 00:10:30,700 --> 00:10:34,800 It's all in his timing. And so wherever you're at, you 193 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:36,700 can know that we're at this point right here. 194 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:39,100 He's getting that place ready for us. 195 00:10:41,100 --> 00:10:43,500 Are you ready for that? Are you? 196 00:10:43,500 --> 00:10:44,900 That bride here. Getting ready. 197 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:50,500 Are you looking forward to that? I kind of doubt that bride just 198 00:10:50,500 --> 00:10:52,500 forgot about it. We showed up, he was like oh man 199 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:55,300 I yeah you're coming back I forgot about you. 200 00:10:56,700 --> 00:11:00,700 Is that how we are? Do you everyday wake up with a 201 00:11:00,700 --> 00:11:02,700 joy knowing that it could be today? 202 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:07,800 And if you don't that's that's real, that's that's life life. 203 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:12,100 Just covers our priorities with layers with distractions. 204 00:11:13,100 --> 00:11:15,000 But it's so important to see the big picture. 205 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:18,300 Because Jesus is doing things right now. 206 00:11:18,300 --> 00:11:19,900 He's getting things, ready for us. 207 00:11:22,500 --> 00:11:24,800 I will come again and receive you to myself. 208 00:11:25,900 --> 00:11:29,500 That where I am there you may be also, he doesn't where I go, you 209 00:11:29,500 --> 00:11:34,300 know, and the way you know, I love Thomas because he pretty 210 00:11:34,300 --> 00:11:37,300 much says, what everyone was thinking but he's the only one 211 00:11:37,300 --> 00:11:38,800 that pulled up to say, it Thomas said to him. 212 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:40,400 Lord, we don't know where you're going. 213 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:42,900 How can we know the way that's like saying, hey, I'm going 214 00:11:42,900 --> 00:11:44,000 somewhere, you want to meet me there? 215 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:46,000 Like, what? What are you talking about? 216 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,600 He says, Jesus said I am the way. 217 00:11:49,700 --> 00:11:52,800 The truth and the life. No one comes to the father, 218 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:55,000 except through me. I think that's true in a couple 219 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:57,700 different ways. One, Jesus said, in John chapter 220 00:11:57,700 --> 00:12:00,500 10, the he is the gate to the Sheepfold. 221 00:12:00,900 --> 00:12:05,100 He is the door, you can't get in without him because if you go in 222 00:12:05,100 --> 00:12:07,700 any other way, you're not legitimate. 223 00:12:08,300 --> 00:12:11,900 Jesus says, I am the door, I am the way in, but it's also true 224 00:12:11,900 --> 00:12:14,100 in the sense that, you know, if I was going to tell you how to 225 00:12:14,100 --> 00:12:16,800 get somewhere, I could say up on the main road, you're going to 226 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:18,400 go left, you're going to turn left. 227 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:20,500 You go about a mile. No way. 228 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:23,700 You're gonna hang a right in about a quarter mile and it's 229 00:12:23,700 --> 00:12:25,400 going to be the third house on your left, whatever. 230 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:28,800 I can give you those kind of vague instructions or I could 231 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:30,000 say, hey, I'm going to get my car. 232 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:33,300 You get in yours and you follow me, I'll take you there. 233 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:37,100 And Jesus. So to speak. 234 00:12:37,300 --> 00:12:40,600 Didn't both of us. He got in his car so to speak 235 00:12:41,300 --> 00:12:45,700 and he took us there. He spent the time he took the 236 00:12:45,708 --> 00:12:48,700 time out of his Heavenly existence where everything was 237 00:12:48,700 --> 00:12:52,700 perfect, he came down and he got in his car so to speak and took 238 00:12:52,700 --> 00:12:58,300 you there. That's special says I no one 239 00:12:58,300 --> 00:13:01,000 comes to the father, but through me, I am the way, the truth and 240 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:03,600 the life. Verse seven. 241 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:08,100 If you had known me, you would have known my father also and 242 00:13:08,100 --> 00:13:13,400 from now on, you know, him and have seen him, you know, this 243 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:17,400 idea for me I'm kind of visual. So if this seems extra to you, I 244 00:13:17,408 --> 00:13:19,000 apologize. But this is this helps me. 245 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:24,400 Sometimes it when when I think of the idea of seeing God it 246 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:28,600 seems like it's a distant idea. Like when I go up in the 247 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:30,900 mountains and I'm back packed in and I'm in the middle of the 248 00:13:30,908 --> 00:13:36,100 clearing and there's not a light around except for this guy, and 249 00:13:36,100 --> 00:13:40,900 it's glowing, like I never seen it before and not moment, I try 250 00:13:40,900 --> 00:13:43,400 to see God for whatever that means. 251 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:47,900 I try to see God and understand him or if I'm standing on the 252 00:13:47,900 --> 00:13:52,900 edge of the ocean, I look out. I try to see God. 253 00:13:54,900 --> 00:13:57,500 And honestly, I kind of get confused. 254 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:01,600 I'm just kind of unsettled. I don't quite get it, I can't 255 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:05,300 comprehend it. But one of the things he's going 256 00:14:05,300 --> 00:14:08,900 to tell us in just a minute will clear that up a lot. 257 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:13,000 He says, if you had known me you would have known my father also 258 00:14:13,900 --> 00:14:17,500 and from now on, you know, him and have seen him. 259 00:14:19,100 --> 00:14:22,400 So he says, if you know me, you know the father, okay? 260 00:14:22,900 --> 00:14:27,300 So was its physical qualities. Was it seeing his physical form 261 00:14:27,700 --> 00:14:31,000 and the things he did fleshly that we need to know? 262 00:14:31,700 --> 00:14:33,700 Well, no, because we learn in John, chapter 6. 263 00:14:34,100 --> 00:14:36,700 The Jesus came and he was, he was feeding the multitudes. 264 00:14:37,100 --> 00:14:39,300 He added, give him physical food, and he was feeding 265 00:14:39,300 --> 00:14:44,000 thousands, and it was an amazing scene And they saw that and 266 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:45,600 they're like, yes Jesus, give us this bread. 267 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:49,400 Always, we love it. This is great and Jesus is like, 268 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:52,600 you don't get it. I'm the bread it come from God. 269 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:56,000 I am the Manna From Heaven. I'm the one who should be paying 270 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:59,000 attention to do? You look at me and he's like, 271 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:00,500 they're like well Jesus, we know your parents. 272 00:15:00,500 --> 00:15:04,200 So And they just didn't get it. So it's not the physical 273 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:05,400 qualities. Jesus possessed. 274 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:07,200 It's not the things he did for them physically. 275 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:10,800 It's a spiritual, it's his character. 276 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:13,700 It's the things he teaches as the things you live by its his 277 00:15:13,700 --> 00:15:15,500 ideologies. It's his life. 278 00:15:16,700 --> 00:15:18,700 It's the things you brought those different than anybody 279 00:15:18,700 --> 00:15:23,200 ever brought. He's like, if you know me, you 280 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:27,400 know, the father, And a little bit, he says, if you love me, 281 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:30,500 keep my Commandments. And I will pray the father and 282 00:15:30,500 --> 00:15:32,700 he will give you another Helper and he may abide with you. 283 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:38,700 So, as you think about knowing god, Jesus says, just follow me. 284 00:15:40,100 --> 00:15:42,200 Just follow my footsteps. And you what happens with me I 285 00:15:42,208 --> 00:15:47,400 think is you know I think I tried and do that but I'm just 286 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:49,600 sitting there looking down at the ground trying to follow in 287 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:52,400 his footsteps and I never take the time to look up and see 288 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:56,100 where I'm going. I never take the time to look up 289 00:15:56,100 --> 00:15:58,000 and realize. Wow, I'm getting closer to God. 290 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:03,300 Do you realize that that it might seem like a for I far-out 291 00:16:03,300 --> 00:16:06,900 idea to know God but if you're walking closer to him, you're 292 00:16:06,900 --> 00:16:09,800 following in his footsteps. You're getting closer to the 293 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:13,300 Creator and you can know him. You can own it for sure. 294 00:16:13,300 --> 00:16:15,900 That's what Jesus says. He's like if it wasn't so but I 295 00:16:15,900 --> 00:16:20,700 told you it's that simple and you can know that you know, him 296 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:24,500 If you had known me, you would know, my father. 297 00:16:24,500 --> 00:16:29,300 Also Philip said to him verse a lord, show us the father and 298 00:16:29,300 --> 00:16:33,000 that is sufficient for us. He's like just just show us this 299 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:36,000 and then that's enough. You know what amazes me is, they 300 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:39,500 had the Son of God walking with them and talking to them, 301 00:16:39,500 --> 00:16:43,100 they're close to him and they look past it like no just shows 302 00:16:43,100 --> 00:16:47,600 this and then Does your faith feel that way? 303 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:51,700 Does your faith feel like an if-then Faith? 304 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:54,000 Just just show us this and then it'll be enough. 305 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:59,100 Just just do more than then you're doing right now and then 306 00:16:59,100 --> 00:17:04,099 I will that's a trap that even they fell into his close. 307 00:17:04,099 --> 00:17:07,599 Friends is his disciples fell into so it's not as nothing new 308 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:10,900 but we have to read, you have to understand this so we can get 309 00:17:10,900 --> 00:17:14,300 past in our own faith. He said just show us the father 310 00:17:14,300 --> 00:17:16,099 and that's enough. Jesus said to him have I been 311 00:17:16,099 --> 00:17:19,099 with you so long and yet you have not known me Philip he who 312 00:17:19,099 --> 00:17:21,099 has seen me, has seen the father. 313 00:17:21,599 --> 00:17:23,400 So how can you say show us the father? 314 00:17:23,700 --> 00:17:25,300 Do you not believe that I am in the father? 315 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:28,900 And the father in me? The words that I speak to you, I 316 00:17:28,900 --> 00:17:32,400 don't speak on my own authority but the father Other dwells in 317 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:38,800 me, does the works believe in me and I am in the father and the 318 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:42,300 father in me or host believe for the sake of the works 319 00:17:42,300 --> 00:17:45,600 themselves. See, they all kept looking past 320 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:49,000 and he's like, you don't don't look for more than what I have 321 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:52,700 provided you with. Don't take rest anywhere but the 322 00:17:52,700 --> 00:17:56,400 plan I have for you and what I'm showing you pay attention, dig 323 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:58,600 into this. It's got right here with you 324 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:04,500 still Verse 12, most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in 325 00:18:04,500 --> 00:18:06,300 me. The works that I do. 326 00:18:06,300 --> 00:18:08,200 He will do also and Greater Works than these. 327 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:12,400 He will do because I go to my father and whatever you ask in 328 00:18:12,408 --> 00:18:16,100 my name that I will do that, the father may be glorified in the 329 00:18:16,100 --> 00:18:19,500 son. That's an amazing thing. 330 00:18:19,500 --> 00:18:23,400 You just said, whatever, I ask, whatever you ask in my name that 331 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:25,800 I will do. Do you realize that he's 332 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:29,700 provided you that outlet, that you can literally talk to this 333 00:18:29,700 --> 00:18:31,500 God that we've been talking about. 334 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:34,400 You can literally speak to him. He's like, I got you, I'll give 335 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:37,900 you what you need. But it is lines up its when you 336 00:18:37,900 --> 00:18:42,100 line up with his will he says, and whatever you do, whatever 337 00:18:42,100 --> 00:18:43,700 you ask, in my name that I will do that. 338 00:18:43,700 --> 00:18:46,600 The father may be glorified in the son, if you ask anything. 339 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:49,900 In my name, that in my name is really closely tied with, you 340 00:18:49,908 --> 00:18:52,500 know, if it's, if it's in our best interest and part of that 341 00:18:52,500 --> 00:18:55,900 is in your life, we need to line our interests up with gods. 342 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:59,600 And if you don't feel like they are pray about that. 343 00:18:59,700 --> 00:19:02,900 Say, God, my interests aren't lined up with years and maybe 344 00:19:02,900 --> 00:19:04,700 that's why you don't feel like your prayers are being answered. 345 00:19:04,700 --> 00:19:07,100 Is because you're Interest don't line up with God's. 346 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:12,200 What are your interests? Do you really care about the 347 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:14,900 things that the Creator cares about do? 348 00:19:14,900 --> 00:19:17,000 I really care about the things, the Creator cares about, he 349 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,900 says, if I do he's like, ask I'll give you it. 350 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,500 No one else can say that you can, you might have a boss that 351 00:19:25,500 --> 00:19:27,700 gives you some perks. It's like, hey, can I get the 352 00:19:27,700 --> 00:19:28,900 tickets? And he's like, yeah. 353 00:19:28,900 --> 00:19:30,700 And that's a amazing thing for us. 354 00:19:30,700 --> 00:19:33,500 Like if we get one little perk for a boss, when we feel like, 355 00:19:33,500 --> 00:19:36,200 man, he's powerful, he helped me out big time, he says, whatever 356 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:41,800 you ask in my name. Your life can have, meaning your 357 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:45,200 life cannot value connected to the real source of value. 358 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:48,100 Jesus says, I am the vine, you are the branches. 359 00:19:48,100 --> 00:19:52,400 Just connect to me and you'll have fruit if you want value in 360 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:54,700 your life. Connect to me, just stay in me. 361 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:57,200 Have your interest in line with where I'm going. 362 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:00,900 It'll be good. I will do for you. 363 00:20:00,900 --> 00:20:05,500 I won't work fruit through you. Are you producing fruit? 364 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:11,700 Am I producing fruit? Whatever you ask in my name, 365 00:20:11,700 --> 00:20:14,700 that I will do verse 15. If you love me, keep my 366 00:20:14,700 --> 00:20:18,100 Commandments and I will pray the father and he will give you 367 00:20:18,100 --> 00:20:21,400 another helper that he may abide with you forever. 368 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:26,700 So when Jesus left, he said, I'm going to leave something with 369 00:20:26,700 --> 00:20:32,600 you. He told us he's not gonna leave 370 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:35,300 us orphans. My question for you is, do you 371 00:20:35,300 --> 00:20:39,800 feel like an orphan spiritually? So, we can look at the old test 372 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:42,500 and we can say, yeah, you know, Adam God was with Adam in the 373 00:20:42,500 --> 00:20:44,600 garden. He spoke to him, he was in the 374 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:46,700 air in the Old Testament. He was doing these amazing 375 00:20:46,700 --> 00:20:48,300 Miracles. The ground would open up and 376 00:20:48,300 --> 00:20:49,900 swallow people. He was on the mountain, he made 377 00:20:49,900 --> 00:20:52,700 the mountain blow up with a storm, and he was there, 378 00:20:52,700 --> 00:20:55,000 literally, with a cloud of smoke by day. 379 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:57,700 Cloud of Fire by night in the Old Testament, he was there 380 00:20:58,200 --> 00:20:59,700 everywhere, man, you could see it. 381 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:04,200 And then when Jesus came, wow, that was Jesus. 382 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:06,000 God In the Flesh. Walking among them. 383 00:21:07,100 --> 00:21:09,100 Man, they have all this. What do I have? 384 00:21:10,500 --> 00:21:13,700 I can't see it. Do you feel like you're an 385 00:21:13,700 --> 00:21:19,100 orphan spiritually right now? Inferred in chapter 15. 386 00:21:19,100 --> 00:21:22,800 Jesus says, excuse me, verse chapter, 16 verse 7. 387 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:27,000 He says, nevertheless, I tell you the truth, it is to your 388 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:33,600 advantage that I go away for. If I do not go away, the helper 389 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:39,200 will not come to you, but if I depart, I will send him to you. 390 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:42,800 So there's a lot. I need to learn about this 391 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:46,300 Helper but one of the things he says that it's to our advantage. 392 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:50,200 Aged if Jesus, the son of God, Walking In the Flesh, doing 393 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:54,200 Miracles, healing people talking with it as like a close friend 394 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:55,900 right there with them back and forth. 395 00:21:56,100 --> 00:21:59,300 Jesus says it's better for you. It's to your advantage that I go 396 00:21:59,300 --> 00:22:03,000 away. So, whatever our state of mind 397 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,400 is, you know, I could, I could see in the Old Testament, the 398 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:07,000 Bible, how people God was there with them? 399 00:22:07,100 --> 00:22:09,700 What about me? We're going to study a little 400 00:22:09,700 --> 00:22:13,000 bit about this afternoon, but one of the things that we can 401 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:17,400 see is that this helper was going to come, he says I will 402 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:20,500 give you another helper that he may abide with you forever. 403 00:22:20,500 --> 00:22:23,700 That forever is forever. That's us included, the spirit 404 00:22:23,700 --> 00:22:26,700 of Truth whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees 405 00:22:26,700 --> 00:22:29,600 him nor knows him. So, the first thing about this 406 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:33,400 is I just need to learn to appreciate this helper this Holy 407 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:36,000 Spirit, obviously because it's a big deal. 408 00:22:36,500 --> 00:22:38,500 I might not ever see understand everything about it. 409 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:42,700 But I can't look at God and feel like, hang on, what are you 410 00:22:42,700 --> 00:22:44,700 doing? Where you're not coming through 411 00:22:44,700 --> 00:22:46,400 for me? Because he has, it's a matter of 412 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:51,200 whether I see it. Whom the world cannot receive 413 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:55,700 because it neither sees him nor knows him. but, you know, him 414 00:22:55,700 --> 00:22:59,700 for he dwells with you and will be in you I will not leave you 415 00:22:59,700 --> 00:23:03,400 orphans, I will come to you. The reality is, you're not an 416 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,200 orphan. But whether you feel like it or 417 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:09,800 not, that's that's in our own mind, a little while longer in 418 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:16,000 the world will see me, no more. But you will see me Wow, do you 419 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:19,800 see? Because I live, you will live. 420 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:23,300 Also at that day, you will know that I am in the father and you 421 00:23:23,300 --> 00:23:28,600 and me and I in you, he who has my Commandments and keeps them. 422 00:23:28,700 --> 00:23:31,800 It is he who loves me and he, who loves me, Will Be Loved by 423 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:35,100 my father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him. 424 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:38,000 Judas not Iscariot said to him. Lord, how is it? 425 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,900 You will manifest yourself to us and not to the world. 426 00:23:41,100 --> 00:23:43,300 Again, it's almost like it's kind of a mystical question. 427 00:23:43,300 --> 00:23:47,300 Like, how are you going to show yourself to them and not to us? 428 00:23:47,300 --> 00:23:50,300 And Other people, and Jesus answered and said to him, if 429 00:23:50,300 --> 00:23:52,900 anyone loves me, he will keep my word. 430 00:23:52,900 --> 00:23:56,100 And my father will love him, and we will come to him and make our 431 00:23:56,100 --> 00:23:58,300 home with him. He who does not. 432 00:23:58,300 --> 00:24:02,100 Love me, does not keep my words and the word what you hear is 433 00:24:02,100 --> 00:24:03,600 not mine, but the fathers you sent me. 434 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,600 So, it's not mystical, it's not some far-out idea. 435 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:10,400 He's like, just do what I say and you can know me. 436 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:16,100 You can be close to me. So, whatever we understand about 437 00:24:16,100 --> 00:24:20,600 this, we learned in chapter 16 verse 12. 438 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:23,200 He says, I still have many things to say to you, but you 439 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:25,900 can't hear the know. However, when he the when this, 440 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,600 however, when he the spirit of Truth is come, he will guide you 441 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:32,600 into all Truth for he will not speak on his own authority. 442 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:36,200 So we learn that the Holy Spirit at least what we can know, is it 443 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:39,300 came and it delivered the word on the day of Pentecost, 444 00:24:39,300 --> 00:24:40,500 starting on the day of Pentecost. 445 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:43,300 And so whatever we need to know, we've got it right here. 446 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,000 Do we appreciate this? Like it's literally part of God 447 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:51,200 With Us and I think a lot of times we we might fall into the 448 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:53,900 Trap and we hear the world talking about the Holy Spirit. 449 00:24:53,900 --> 00:24:57,900 We want some infomercial holders infomercial, Holy Spirit, like 450 00:24:57,900 --> 00:24:58,600 being bang. Boom. 451 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:00,600 There's there's one right there. There's one under your seat. 452 00:25:00,900 --> 00:25:03,000 That's not how it has to work, though. 453 00:25:03,900 --> 00:25:07,200 He's like, just follow me, keep my Commandments and it's simple. 454 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:11,300 We can live inside you and we can mistake these simple reading 455 00:25:11,300 --> 00:25:14,100 the Bible and take it in praying about it. 456 00:25:14,300 --> 00:25:17,500 We can look past I go and I want something bigger than that. 457 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,400 We mistake and we don't understand the value. 458 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:26,300 At least I fail to a lot of times the value of just reading 459 00:25:26,300 --> 00:25:30,300 it and having them, aha moment. And it's understanding of what's 460 00:25:30,300 --> 00:25:34,100 in there. He says, I'm going to be with 461 00:25:34,100 --> 00:25:37,700 you. I'm going to live in you today. 462 00:25:37,700 --> 00:25:41,500 If you don't have that in your heart and your life, why not? 463 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,900 He only offers us good things. The fact that all this plan is 464 00:25:45,900 --> 00:25:48,700 set up for you. We've already made it most of 465 00:25:48,708 --> 00:25:51,200 the way through its we're just waiting on him. 466 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,500 If you're not ready this morning, why there's no reason 467 00:25:55,500 --> 00:25:58,000 not to be. You can leave here and wake up 468 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:02,100 every morning with this real. This realization that your life 469 00:26:02,100 --> 00:26:04,400 means more. Life is going to be born. 470 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,300 More than you can make out of it, more than your schooling or 471 00:26:08,300 --> 00:26:11,500 your career, or your eight hours a day. 472 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,400 You're going for something more. You've heard a little bit that 473 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:19,300 were this morning, if you believe it, you can repent of 474 00:26:19,300 --> 00:26:21,200 your past life and say, I want to change. 475 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,400 I want to wake up. I want to live a new life, you 476 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:27,000 can confess that Jesus Christ. Is the Son of God, we learned 477 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:31,600 that he will confess us back, you can be baptized and added to 478 00:26:31,608 --> 00:26:34,900 the church as they were on the day of Pentecost in Acts 2:38. 479 00:26:35,700 --> 00:26:38,700 Or if you've done that and you just need some help. 480 00:26:38,700 --> 00:26:41,700 You want our prayers. I know I need yours. 481 00:26:42,300 --> 00:26:46,200 It's okay to not be okay. And we all need to wake up. 482 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:51,300 We all need the revamp. 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