1 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:14,200 Hi everyone, welcome to another episode of The Daily gospel 2 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:17,300 exegesis podcast. We're all about doing a really 3 00:00:17,300 --> 00:00:20,000 in-depth, look at scripture, helping you understand, the 4 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,500 literal sense of the Gospel reading that you'll hear it 5 00:00:23,500 --> 00:00:25,500 today's mass. So we're giving Catholics and 6 00:00:25,500 --> 00:00:28,800 Christians and anyone who listens we're giving you the 7 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:32,700 tools to Stand, what the text meant in its original context 8 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:34,700 and it's easy to forget to do that. 9 00:00:34,700 --> 00:00:37,000 But as Catholics, that's where we have to start. 10 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:40,000 If we want to understand the Bible, we have to start with the 11 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,700 literal sense of the text. So today, we're looking at quite 12 00:00:43,700 --> 00:00:46,800 a rich text, there's a lot, you can say about this one, so John 13 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:54,400 chapter, 14 verses 15 to 21. Jesus said to his disciples, if 14 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:57,000 you love me you will keep my Commandments. 15 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:00,700 I shall ask the father and he will give you another Advocate 16 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:05,400 to be with you forever that Spirit of Truth whom the world 17 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:09,600 can never receive since it neither sees him nor knows him 18 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:15,600 but you know him because he is with you, he is in you, I will 19 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:18,800 not leave you orphans, I will come back to you. 20 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:23,400 In a short time, the world will no longer see me, but you will 21 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:28,700 see me because I live and you will live on that day. 22 00:01:28,700 --> 00:01:33,200 You will understand that I am in my father, and you in me and I 23 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:38,500 in you Anybody who receives my Commandments and keeps them will 24 00:01:38,500 --> 00:01:43,400 be one who loves me and anybody who loves me Will Be Loved by my 25 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:47,700 father and I shall love him and show myself to him. 26 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:52,200 So that's our text today. It's incredibly deep. 27 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:54,400 There's a lot of trinitarian language here and there's some 28 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:57,200 quite deep spiritual theology in here as well. 29 00:01:57,900 --> 00:02:02,000 So we're right in the middle of the farewell discourse, his 30 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:05,000 Jesus just prior to. This has said, you will perform 31 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:08,100 Greater Works than I have and you can hear that text on 32 00:02:08,100 --> 00:02:12,800 Saturday of week, 4 of Easter. So the farewell discourse is 33 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:14,600 actually right at various times in the year. 34 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:17,400 It's broken up into smaller sections and the part we have 35 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:20,300 today is actually never read as a A weekday reading. 36 00:02:20,300 --> 00:02:24,600 It's only red once every three years on the sixth Sunday of 37 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:28,000 Easter in year a. So you may not hear this reading 38 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,200 all that often. So starting in verse 15, 39 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:35,100 remember Jesus is speaking to his Apostles at the Last Supper 40 00:02:35,100 --> 00:02:38,600 on Easter Thursday. If you love me, you will keep my 41 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:40,800 Commandments. Now, this actually very 42 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:45,100 important line in understanding. According To Jesus, how one 43 00:02:45,100 --> 00:02:48,100 achieves salvation and what it means to be a Christian. 44 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:50,600 If you love me, you will keep my Commandments. 45 00:02:50,900 --> 00:02:53,900 This is going to be developed later in the farewell discourse. 46 00:02:53,900 --> 00:02:55,700 So we won't say too much about it now. 47 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,800 But the main point is that Jesus teaches that it's Not enough to 48 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:03,000 Simply know him or even to know his Commandments. 49 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:06,800 One has to follow him, you have to keep the Commandments rather 50 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,200 than just knowing them. So, and this turns out to be 51 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,900 equivalent to remaining in Jesus when Jesus, says, remain in me 52 00:03:12,900 --> 00:03:16,500 or abide in me, what he actually means by that, and we'll see 53 00:03:16,500 --> 00:03:20,400 that as we go through the discourse is abiding, me equals 54 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:23,700 keep my Commandments if you want to abide in Jesus, if you want 55 00:03:23,700 --> 00:03:27,100 to abide in the life of the Trinity, you need to keep Jesus 56 00:03:27,100 --> 00:03:29,800 Commandments. That's Jesus teaching all the 57 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:32,600 way through here. Verse 16. 58 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:36,100 I shall ask the father. So Jesus now is going to tell 59 00:03:36,100 --> 00:03:38,400 the apostles about a promise, he's going to give them. 60 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,800 He says, I shall ask the father so the father is the source of 61 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:45,100 all gifts and he will give you another advocate. 62 00:03:45,500 --> 00:03:49,700 So the word here for advocate in the Greek is parakletos, and 63 00:03:49,700 --> 00:03:51,400 that can be translated counselor. 64 00:03:52,300 --> 00:03:55,200 So Jesus, he says, I will give you another Advocate or 65 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:58,100 counselor. In Jesus Culture, that was 66 00:03:58,100 --> 00:04:01,200 actually a technical legal term which referred to a person's 67 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:04,800 defense counsel in court. So it literally Jesus is saying, 68 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:06,600 I'm going to give you a defense lawyer. 69 00:04:07,300 --> 00:04:09,800 This Advocate is going to be someone who will assist the 70 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:14,300 apostles and will plead on their behalf to the judge and defend 71 00:04:14,300 --> 00:04:16,700 them from the prosecutor. So it's really interesting 72 00:04:16,700 --> 00:04:18,800 imagery here. That Jesus uses to talk about 73 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:22,900 the Christian Life. Jesus gives is going to give the 74 00:04:22,900 --> 00:04:25,200 defense counselor after he's gone. 75 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:28,200 The judge is essentially Picked it as God and the prosecutor is 76 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:30,200 Satan. This is actually picked up later 77 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:34,300 in the Book of Revelation as well, where Satan is called, the 78 00:04:34,300 --> 00:04:37,100 accuser of the Brethren. Whereas the holy spirit is their 79 00:04:37,100 --> 00:04:40,200 defense counselor. So Jesus gives the apostles a 80 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:43,700 promise, and he's going to give them a counselor, parakletos 81 00:04:44,700 --> 00:04:47,200 notice it. He says I will give you another 82 00:04:47,500 --> 00:04:50,800 counselor, so they already have one, which is Jesus, but he's 83 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:53,500 going away. So he's promising that even 84 00:04:53,500 --> 00:04:56,100 though he won't be with them, a different one will be the. 85 00:04:56,100 --> 00:04:59,600 Holy It will be their Advocate. After Jesus is gone. 86 00:04:59,900 --> 00:05:03,500 We often don't think about this aspect of the Holy Spirit taking 87 00:05:03,500 --> 00:05:06,600 Jesus Place. Essentially Jesus goes on. 88 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:10,000 I will give you another Advocate to be with you forever. 89 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,600 So even though Jesus will be with them for a short time 90 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:17,100 longer, a very short time. Actually, he says the Holy 91 00:05:17,100 --> 00:05:21,100 Spirit which is the advocate will remain with Jesus 92 00:05:21,100 --> 00:05:23,400 followers. Always Forever is what he says. 93 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:25,200 The holy spirit will be with you forever. 94 00:05:25,500 --> 00:05:29,500 This is a promise for the The church Jesus knows that he won't 95 00:05:29,500 --> 00:05:32,600 always be able to be present on Earth, but he promises that the 96 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:36,200 holy spirit will be present in a special way in the church. 97 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:40,200 This is actually the first of five promises that Jesus is 98 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:42,200 going to make about the holy spirit. 99 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:44,400 So this whole section here is going to be about the Holy 100 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:47,500 Spirit. Jesus calls him in verse 17, 101 00:05:47,500 --> 00:05:51,300 that Spirit of Truth. So, the spirit, the holy spirit 102 00:05:51,300 --> 00:05:54,800 is the one who reveals God's will earlier in the Gospel of 103 00:05:54,808 --> 00:05:57,400 John. We learnt that the Is God's 104 00:05:57,400 --> 00:05:59,200 will. So the holy spirit is the one 105 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:02,800 who reveals God's Will and makes it possible to follow. 106 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:06,300 God's will the holy spirit gives knowledge and also gives the 107 00:06:06,300 --> 00:06:08,800 ability to follow that knowledge. 108 00:06:09,700 --> 00:06:13,600 Jesus says that Spirit of Truth whom the world can never 109 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,300 receive. Now this is interesting because 110 00:06:16,500 --> 00:06:20,000 in a sense the Holy Spirit does have a general work in the 111 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:21,700 world. But Jesus here says that, 112 00:06:21,700 --> 00:06:24,900 there's a special sense in which the world cannot receive the 113 00:06:24,900 --> 00:06:27,400 Holy Spirit. There's Special blessings that 114 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:30,500 the holy spirit gives the church not to the world. 115 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:34,300 And when Jesus uses the term the world, he means Humanity in 116 00:06:34,300 --> 00:06:37,100 general. That's in Rebellion against God, 117 00:06:37,700 --> 00:06:41,900 Humanity, in Rebellion, against God, who refuses to accept Jesus 118 00:06:41,900 --> 00:06:44,700 and the New Covenant, they cannot accept the spirit of 119 00:06:44,700 --> 00:06:47,700 Truth. Jesus goes on the world can 120 00:06:47,700 --> 00:06:51,300 never receive him since it neither sees him nor knows him. 121 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:55,700 So Jesus says that unbelievers in the world cannot receive the 122 00:06:55,700 --> 00:06:59,200 holy spirit because they don't perceive it and they don't 123 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:03,000 understand it. Jesus is going to develop this 124 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:04,700 further. He's going to say the world 125 00:07:04,700 --> 00:07:07,200 rejects Jesus himself in the same way. 126 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:10,600 So just as the world rejects Jesus they'll also reject the 127 00:07:10,608 --> 00:07:14,100 Holy Spirit and in fact they'll also reject the apostles as well 128 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,200 perceiving Jesus and perceiving the Holy Spirit go together. 129 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:21,000 The catechism talks about this. Actually sometimes you might 130 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:26,400 hear Catholics or Christians say that they understand Jesus or 131 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:29,100 they prefer Jesus but not the Holy Spirit or you might hear 132 00:07:29,100 --> 00:07:31,100 some other religions. Say they believe in the The 133 00:07:31,108 --> 00:07:33,100 spirit, but they don't follow Jesus. 134 00:07:33,100 --> 00:07:35,900 Well, Jesus teaching is, you can't separate them. 135 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,200 You're either perceive both of them or you perceive neither of 136 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:42,500 them. So Jesus says, since the world 137 00:07:42,500 --> 00:07:45,600 near the Seas, nor knows him but you know him. 138 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:49,100 So Jesus says to the apostles, you know, the Holy Spirit 139 00:07:49,100 --> 00:07:51,200 already. Now certainly they don't fully 140 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:54,000 understand it yet. There's been several times when 141 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,400 they haven't understood what's going on but Jesus says, you do 142 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:01,500 already know the holy spirit. So this is a verse that Is that 143 00:08:01,500 --> 00:08:04,600 only Believers can access and perceive the Holy Spirit at 144 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:09,100 least, to an extent. Notice the personal pronoun, 145 00:08:09,100 --> 00:08:11,700 which is associated with the Holy Spirit, Jesus uses the 146 00:08:11,700 --> 00:08:14,300 pronoun, him all the way through here. 147 00:08:14,300 --> 00:08:19,400 Jesus says, the holy spirit, is a person, he goes on because he 148 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:23,800 is with you, he is in you. So before this Jesus says, you 149 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:27,100 know, him and as we just said, they don't fully understand him. 150 00:08:27,100 --> 00:08:30,000 But Jesus says, the way in which the apostles know the Holy 151 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:33,900 Spirit already, Is that he is with you, he is in you. 152 00:08:34,500 --> 00:08:36,700 Now there's different translations here and Scholars 153 00:08:36,700 --> 00:08:39,299 debate, what the best way of looking at this phrases. 154 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,799 L lectionary has it as because he is with you, he is in you. 155 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:47,500 But other translations, put it this way he dwells with you and 156 00:08:47,500 --> 00:08:50,500 he will be in you. So there's a question here about 157 00:08:50,500 --> 00:08:53,100 is Jesus. Making an extra promise of a 158 00:08:53,100 --> 00:08:55,200 future tense promise he will be in you. 159 00:08:56,500 --> 00:08:59,100 So depending on which translation you take Jesus seems 160 00:08:59,100 --> 00:09:02,200 to be saying that the Holy Spirit It is already in their 161 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:05,500 midst and that would make sense, given that Jesus himself. 162 00:09:05,500 --> 00:09:08,200 Already has the Holy Spirit, he received the Holy Spirit at his 163 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:13,300 own baptism, but he also makes an additional promise he is with 164 00:09:13,300 --> 00:09:16,400 you and he will be in you. So, there's a deeper filling of 165 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:19,600 the holy spirit that the apostles will receive, but it 166 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:22,300 hasn't happened yet. We know that that happens at 167 00:09:22,300 --> 00:09:24,800 Pentecost. So Jesus is foreshadowing, a 168 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:28,900 special outpouring of the spirit Other scholars, believe though 169 00:09:28,900 --> 00:09:33,100 that when Jesus says he is with you, that will refer to the 170 00:09:33,100 --> 00:09:36,400 general dwelling of the holy spirit in the whole church. 171 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:40,300 And when Jesus says, he will be in you maybe that refers to the 172 00:09:40,300 --> 00:09:42,900 Holy Spirit, indwelling individual Believers. 173 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:45,800 So some Scholars think that maybe we can translate this as a 174 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:49,400 collective and then a personal so it's a general promise and 175 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:53,600 then a personal promise. So for that reason we can say 176 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:56,400 that both the church and individual Believers can be 177 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:59,300 considered to be temples of the holy spirit. 178 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:01,800 So you see how rich this theology is here and really, 179 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:03,200 what? Only scratching the surface 180 00:10:04,500 --> 00:10:07,100 Verse 18. Jesus says, I will not leave you 181 00:10:07,100 --> 00:10:10,600 orphans or another translation is, I will not leave you 182 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:13,500 desolate now that will be quite comforting for the apostles 183 00:10:13,500 --> 00:10:15,800 because the apostles were probably thinking, based on 184 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:19,300 everything Jesus has said about, I'm going away, they probably 185 00:10:19,300 --> 00:10:22,800 quite worried that Jesus their Master is going away and he's 186 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:25,400 never going to return. That's probably something 187 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:28,800 they're really concerned about. But Jesus says, I will not leave 188 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:32,100 you orphans. He goes on, I will come back to 189 00:10:32,100 --> 00:10:34,500 you. Now, in context, this is a 190 00:10:34,508 --> 00:10:37,300 reference to the resurrection. It can sometimes be hard to 191 00:10:37,300 --> 00:10:40,500 discern because there's a few times in the Gospel of John. 192 00:10:40,500 --> 00:10:43,700 When Jesus says, I'm going away and going to the father and that 193 00:10:43,700 --> 00:10:48,000 seems to be a reference to the Ascension, but sometimes he 194 00:10:48,008 --> 00:10:51,100 talks about going away, is in, I'm going to die. 195 00:10:51,100 --> 00:10:53,100 And that seems to be what he's talking about here. 196 00:10:53,100 --> 00:10:56,900 He says, I will come back to you, so he's thinking of the 197 00:10:56,900 --> 00:11:00,500 resurrection and then he clarifies it in verse 19 in a 198 00:11:00,500 --> 00:11:03,400 short time, the world will no longer see me. 199 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:07,400 So, after the crucifixion, even after the resurrection, Jesus 200 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:09,900 appeared to the apostles, but he doesn't appear to the whole 201 00:11:09,900 --> 00:11:12,100 world. We sometimes forget this Jesus 202 00:11:12,100 --> 00:11:15,500 preached to the apostles after his resurrection, but he doesn't 203 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:18,900 preach to the world anymore. The World At Large does not see 204 00:11:18,900 --> 00:11:23,300 Jesus after his death. Jesus goes on but you will see 205 00:11:23,300 --> 00:11:28,000 me because I Live Now. Jesus is speaking in the present 206 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:31,500 tense so it gets a bit complicated here because I live. 207 00:11:31,500 --> 00:11:35,400 It probably means something like I am alive always even after my 208 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:39,000 death. So I am the one that lives he 209 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:41,300 says because I live you will live. 210 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:44,100 So he speaking to the apostles here and gives them a promise, 211 00:11:44,500 --> 00:11:46,000 what does it mean by you will live. 212 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:48,100 You can take this to mean physical life. 213 00:11:48,100 --> 00:11:50,400 As in you'll be resurrected on Judgement Day. 214 00:11:51,100 --> 00:11:54,200 It could be spiritual life. And certainly the gospels often 215 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:58,200 talk about being saved as having eternal life, as, in 216 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:00,500 participating in the Divine Life Of God. 217 00:12:00,700 --> 00:12:04,000 It could mean either one of those, probably Jesus. 218 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,700 Here is referring to the apostles own Resurrection at the 219 00:12:06,700 --> 00:12:09,400 end of time. So Jesus, he says, because I 220 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:13,500 live as in because he will be bodily resurrected, you will 221 00:12:13,500 --> 00:12:15,500 live. You also will be bodily 222 00:12:15,500 --> 00:12:18,500 resurrected Jesus death. And Resurrection is what makes 223 00:12:18,500 --> 00:12:20,500 it possible for all other believers to be. 224 00:12:21,100 --> 00:12:25,100 In the future. Verse 20 on that day. 225 00:12:25,100 --> 00:12:29,400 You will understand that I am in my father and you and me and I 226 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:32,300 in you. So, we have this deep, mystical 227 00:12:32,300 --> 00:12:35,600 Union language on that day. So, on the day of the 228 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:39,300 Resurrection, you will understand these things at the 229 00:12:39,300 --> 00:12:43,600 time, Jesus says, this stuff at the Last Supper, The Apostles 230 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:46,400 don't yet grasped, the Deep, mystical Union between the 231 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:49,700 Father, the Son, and the disciples, but after the 232 00:12:49,700 --> 00:12:53,300 resurrection, they will come to understand that more clearly 233 00:12:53,500 --> 00:12:56,500 That's what Jesus says, you will understand that I am in my 234 00:12:56,500 --> 00:12:58,700 father and you and me, and I in you. 235 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:02,400 So, there's this deep, mystical Union between the Father, the 236 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:05,300 Son, and the apostles. And indeed, all Christians are 237 00:13:05,300 --> 00:13:09,900 invited to be part of this deep. Trinitarian Union of love. 238 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:13,500 Jesus says that, on that day, they will come to understand 239 00:13:13,500 --> 00:13:15,300 those things more clearly. And indeed after the 240 00:13:15,300 --> 00:13:18,300 resurrection they do particularly after Pentecost 241 00:13:18,300 --> 00:13:21,500 their radically transformed in the apostles, understand the 242 00:13:21,500 --> 00:13:25,700 things of God much deeper. Verse 21, anybody who receives 243 00:13:25,700 --> 00:13:29,400 my Commandments and keeps them. So, what does he mean here by my 244 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:31,200 Commandments? That's a good question. 245 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:34,600 Some have taken this to mean, the whole of the Old Testament 246 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:37,000 is in God's Commandments in context. 247 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,500 Jesus seems to mean the Commandments, he's given 248 00:13:39,500 --> 00:13:43,000 throughout his ministry. My Commandments is the one that 249 00:13:43,100 --> 00:13:45,400 the ones that he's been giving as part of the New Covenant, 250 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:48,700 during his ministry and Jesus Commandments are basically 251 00:13:48,700 --> 00:13:51,600 instructions on how to live as God wants them, he's been 252 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:54,600 revealing to them what it means. Means to follow the truth. 253 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:56,300 What it means to follow the will of God. 254 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:00,900 Jesus says, anybody who receives my Commandments and keeps them 255 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:04,500 notice that receiving them in itself is not enough, they have 256 00:14:04,500 --> 00:14:08,500 to receive the Commandments and keep them one has to willingly 257 00:14:08,500 --> 00:14:12,100 choose to keep them in order to get the the benefits of This 258 00:14:12,100 --> 00:14:16,600 Promise notice he says anybody. So this part applies to anyone 259 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:19,500 who's willing any Christian who's willing, anybody who 260 00:14:19,500 --> 00:14:23,000 receives my Commandments, and keeps them will be one who loves 261 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,900 me. So, Jesus says that, in order 262 00:14:25,900 --> 00:14:28,600 for someone to love Jesus, they must keep his Commandments. 263 00:14:28,900 --> 00:14:31,600 Those are interesting words, if you commit, keep my 264 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:33,400 Commandments, then you will love me. 265 00:14:33,900 --> 00:14:37,900 Love means doing what's good for the other and this is very much 266 00:14:37,900 --> 00:14:41,500 tied up with Covenant faithfulness to be a Christian, 267 00:14:41,500 --> 00:14:44,700 According To Jesus means to have Covenant faithfulness to Jesus, 268 00:14:45,500 --> 00:14:47,200 which is to follow his Commandments. 269 00:14:47,500 --> 00:14:50,400 And to be a good representative of him in the world. 270 00:14:51,500 --> 00:14:55,700 Jesus goes on anybody who loves me Will Be Loved by my father. 271 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,900 So notice the flow-on effect here, anyone who follows, Jesus 272 00:14:58,900 --> 00:15:02,700 Commandments Will Be Loved by Jesus and they'll be loved by 273 00:15:02,700 --> 00:15:05,000 the father as well. Notice the intimate link there 274 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:08,800 between the father and the son. Now, when Jesus here says, if 275 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:10,600 you do these things, the father will love you. 276 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,600 This is not a denial that God loves everyone. 277 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:16,600 He certainly does love everyone, he loves everything that exists 278 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:20,500 but it does teach here Jesus teaches that God has a special 279 00:15:20,500 --> 00:15:23,400 favor, especially Special Covenant, faithfulness to those 280 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:28,000 who follow Jesus Commandments. Jesus goes on anyone who loves 281 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:31,500 me Will Be Loved by my father and I shall love him. 282 00:15:31,900 --> 00:15:35,200 So not only will faithful disciples be loved by the father 283 00:15:35,500 --> 00:15:37,200 they'll be loved by the Sun as well. 284 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:40,900 Notice how all these things keep kind of circling back on both 285 00:15:40,900 --> 00:15:45,500 the father and the son. Jesus goes on, I shall love him 286 00:15:45,500 --> 00:15:48,900 and show myself to him. Now that part gets explained a 287 00:15:48,908 --> 00:15:52,400 bit more in the coming versus the show, myself part is 288 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:55,500 explained in verses 22 to 26. And if you want to hear that 289 00:15:55,500 --> 00:15:59,900 next section, it's red on Monday of week, 5 of Easter. 290 00:15:59,900 --> 00:16:02,500 So you might like to go through the podcast archives, to find 291 00:16:02,500 --> 00:16:04,900 that one Monday of week, 5 of Easter. 292 00:16:05,900 --> 00:16:08,900 So really quite an amazing text and I hope that exegesis has 293 00:16:08,900 --> 00:16:10,400 helped you understand it a bit better. 294 00:16:11,500 --> 00:16:13,700 If you turn to the catechism of the Catholic Church, there's a 295 00:16:13,700 --> 00:16:16,300 whole stack of places which talked about this verse. 296 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:20,100 So we're just going to read out a few of them and will include 297 00:16:20,100 --> 00:16:22,500 as many of these, as we can in the episode description 298 00:16:23,300 --> 00:16:25,500 paragraph, seven to nine about Christ. 299 00:16:25,500 --> 00:16:29,700 Jesus only, when their hour has arrived for his glorification, 300 00:16:29,900 --> 00:16:33,600 choose does Jesus Promised the coming of the Holy Spirit, since 301 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:36,700 his death and Resurrection will fulfill the promise made to the 302 00:16:36,700 --> 00:16:41,400 father's the spirit of Truth. The other paraclete will be Even 303 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:45,600 by the father in answer to Jesus prayer, he will be sent by the 304 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:49,500 father in Jesus name and Jesus will send him from The Father's 305 00:16:49,500 --> 00:16:52,000 Side since he comes from the Father. 306 00:16:52,900 --> 00:16:55,500 The holy spirit will come and we shall know him. 307 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:59,500 He will be with us forever. He will remain with us, the 308 00:16:59,500 --> 00:17:02,800 spirit will teach us everything. Remind us of all the Christ said 309 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:06,700 to us and bear witness to him. The holy spirit will lead us 310 00:17:06,700 --> 00:17:09,300 into all truth and will glorify Christ. 311 00:17:09,700 --> 00:17:13,200 He will prove the world wrong. Our sin righteousness and 312 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:16,000 judgment. So there we have the catechism, 313 00:17:16,300 --> 00:17:19,300 basically summarizing all the promises that Jesus gives about 314 00:17:19,300 --> 00:17:23,500 the Holy Spirit paragraph. 69 to, this is about the Holy 315 00:17:23,500 --> 00:17:25,900 Spirit. Again, when he proclaims and 316 00:17:25,900 --> 00:17:28,800 Promises the coming of the Holy Spirit, Jesus calls him, the 317 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:34,000 paraclete literally, he who is called to one side advocaat has 318 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:38,800 paraclete is commonly translated by consoler and Jesus is the 319 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:41,800 first consoler. The Lord also, Call the Holy 320 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:45,800 Spirit, the spirit of truth. Then in paragraph 2, for 3 321 00:17:46,300 --> 00:17:49,600 before his Passover, Jesus announced the sending of another 322 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:54,000 paraclete Advocate the Holy Spirit at work since creation. 323 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:57,700 Having previously spoken through the prophets, the spirit will 324 00:17:57,700 --> 00:18:01,200 now be with and in the disciples to teach them. 325 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:03,100 And to guide them into all the truth. 326 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:07,500 The holy spirit is thus revealed as another Divine person with 327 00:18:07,500 --> 00:18:13,100 Jesus and the father Paragraph, 687, the spirit of Truth, who 328 00:18:13,100 --> 00:18:17,700 unveils Christ who us will not speak on his own such properly. 329 00:18:17,700 --> 00:18:21,600 Divine self-effacement explains why the world cannot receive 330 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:23,800 him? Because it neither sees him nor 331 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:26,600 knows him while those who believe in Christ. 332 00:18:26,700 --> 00:18:28,800 No, the spirit because he dwells with them. 333 00:18:29,900 --> 00:18:32,000 So that's an interesting interpretation there. 334 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,900 The catechism cubes. So Jesus says, the world cannot 335 00:18:34,900 --> 00:18:37,700 see him or know him. And the catechism reminds us 336 00:18:37,700 --> 00:18:41,700 that one of the reasons for that is the Spirit sort of is very 337 00:18:41,700 --> 00:18:43,900 humble. He doesn't speak of himself, he 338 00:18:43,900 --> 00:18:47,300 speaks of Jesus and the father. So in that sense, the world 339 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:50,800 might find it hard to see the holy spirit because he's quite 340 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:52,600 humble and doesn't speak about himself. 341 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:55,800 So, really, the gateway to the holy spirit in a sense is 342 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:59,700 through the father and the Son, and the Holy Spirit reinforces, 343 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:02,100 all that is known about the father and the son. 344 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:06,700 Paragraph. 788. This is about the Church in 345 00:19:06,700 --> 00:19:10,600 communion with Jesus. When his visible presence was 346 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:13,300 taken from them. Jesus did not leave his 347 00:19:13,300 --> 00:19:17,500 Apostles, orphans, he promised to remain with them until the 348 00:19:17,500 --> 00:19:21,000 end of time. He sent them his Spirit as a 349 00:19:21,008 --> 00:19:24,800 result communion with Jesus has become in a way more intense. 350 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:28,800 By communicating his Spirit Christ mystically constitutes as 351 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:32,200 his body, those Brothers of his who are called together from 352 00:19:32,300 --> 00:19:35,600 every nation. So that's a good place to 353 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:37,200 finish. I hope you have learned 354 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:40,300 something new today. If you're enjoying this podcast, 355 00:19:40,300 --> 00:19:42,000 please consider supporting the ministry. 356 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,400 This ministry can only grow with your support. 357 00:19:44,700 --> 00:19:47,500 Please continue to tell other people about the podcast as well 358 00:19:47,900 --> 00:19:49,100 and we'll see you tomorrow.