Jesus continues to prepare His disciples for what they will face as they share the message of the Gospel after He returns to the Father.
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In this section of the Farewell Discourse the disciples are warned that the world will hate them. This is true for us as well as we are also disciples of Jesus. When we encounter hate from the world we can be reassured that Jesus is with us, because He gave us the Holy Spirit, and we are therefore capable of continuing to obey Jesus’ commands even in difficult circumstances.
Jesus asks His followers to keep His commands so that they can remain in His love, experience the joy of Jesus, the friendship of Jesus. This is how God’s plan will be made known.
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As Jesus prepares to leave His disciples He uses the analogy of the vine and the branches to encourage His disciples to remain in Him. As we are also Jesus’ disciples, His prized possession, we can know that these words are also for us. Jesus promises that if we remain in Him whatever we ask for will be done. When this is lived out in our lives we will bear fruit and this will bring glory to the Father.
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Jesus is giving a farewell discourse to His disciples and He is assuring them that He will be leaving them with His presence. Even when He is physically gone, they will never be alone. We can believe the same thing as we are disciples of Jesus. He will never leave us alone and the Advocate- the Holy Spirit- is with us.
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In this passage, Jesus promises the Holy Spirit to His followers. The Holy Spirit being part of the Trinity is God and we should revere Him as such. He is a comforter- an advocate- and He is in every believer.
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Jesus has been faithful and shown Himself to us. We must believe in Him for who He has shown Himself to be and not ask for more signs. We must also love Him for this love will empower us to obey His commands!
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The command Jesus gives His disciples to, “Love one another as I have loved you,” entails more than meets the eye. Ryan discusses the relationship between love, faith, and sacrifice as it relates to carrying out this command in the local church in order to fully experience the glory of God and to bring that glory into the world.
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We can have hope going into the New Year, because Jesus is our hope and He is always with us!
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Thank you Paul and Minda Nichols for coming and encouraging us to truly be the church that Jesus is building!
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“Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.” These are the words of Jesus in John 12. Vanessa encouraged challenged us to really follow Jesus. to pursue fellowship with one another to strengthen our faith especially in the hard times, and to know that we carry the light of the world in us everywhere we go.
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Just as Jesus asked those grieving the death of Lazarus, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?” So the same question can be asked of us. If we believe we will follow Jesus, do the things He asks of us, and then we will see the glory of God!
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