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The Root Command:Love One Another
John 15:9-17 MSG “I've loved you the way my Father has loved me. Make yourselves at home in my
love. 10 If you keep my commands, you'll remain intimately at home in
my love. That's what I've done--kept my Father's commands and made myself at home in his love.
Love One Another
11 “I've told you these things for a purpose: that my joy
might be your joy, and your joy wholly mature. 12 This is
my command: Love one another the way I loved you.
Love One Another
13 This is the very best way to love. Put your life on the line for your friends. 14 You are my friends when you do
the things I command you. 15 I’m no longer calling you servants because servants don't understand what their master is thinking and planning. No, I've named you friends because I've let you in on everything I've heard
from the Father.
Love One Another
16 “You didn't choose me, remember; I chose you, and put
you in the world to bear fruit, fruit that won't spoil. As fruit bearers, whatever you ask the Father in
relation to me, he gives you.17 “But remember the root command: Love one another.
Persecution Predicted
John 16:1-33 MSG “I've told you these things to prepare you for rough times ahead.
Excommunicate you. The first persecutions were Jewish.
(PNT)
Persecution Predicted
2 They are going to throw you out of the meeting places. There will even come a time when anyone who kills
you will think he's doing God a favor.Even so Saul of Tarsus thought while persecuting the saints. Fanaticism has
always held the slaughter of those who are deemed heretics to be
praiseworthy. (PNT)
Persecution Predicted
3 They will do these things because they never really understood the
Father.Ignorance of the benevolence of God, and of the philanthropy of
Christ, is the grand fountain whence all religious persecution and intolerance proceed. (Clark)
Persecution Predicted
4 I’ve told you these things so that when the time comes and they start in on you, you'll be well-warned and ready for
them.
The Friend Will Come
"I didn't tell you this earlier because I was with you every
day.He had made his instructions as
they were prepared to receive them, lesson by lesson. (PNT)
The Friend Will Come
5 But now I am on my way to the One who sent me. Not one of you has asked, 'Where are
you going?' 6 Instead, the longer I've talked, the sadder
you've become.
The Friend Will Come
To the Father, by way of the Cross, the Sepulcher, the Resurrection
and the Ascension. Not one of you has asked, 'Where
are you going? They had asked this question, but in the
stupefaction of their sorrow they had ceased to ask. (PNT)
The Promise of The Holy Spirit and His Office
7 So let me say it again, this truth: It's better for you that I leave. If I
don't leave, the Friend won't come. But if I go, I'll send him to you.What seemed then a crushing sorrow was a real blessing. His
mission could never be accomplished unless he went
away.
The Holy Spirit and His Office
If I don't leave, the Friend won't come. While Christ was present in person, in bodily form, the Holy Spirit, the representative of the
Godhead, could not come. Christ, as King, must send him, and on the
day of Pentecost Peter declared, "He hath shed forth the things ye
do see and hear."
The Holy Spirit and His Office
8 “When he comes, he'll expose the error of the godless world's view of sin, righteousness, and
judgment:9 He’ll show them that their
refusal to believe in me is their basic sin
The Holy Spirit and His Office
10 that righteousness comes from above, where I am with the Father, out of their sight
and control; 11 that judgment takes place as the ruler of this
godless world is brought to trial and convicted.
The Holy Spirit and His Office
This is one of the passages most pregnant with thought in the profound discourses of Christ; with a few great strokes depicting all and every part of the ministry of the Holy Ghost in the world - His operation with reference to individuals as well as the mass, on
believers and unbelievers alike [Olshausen].
The Holy Spirit and His Office
As all sin has its root in unbelief, so the most aggravated form of
unbelief is the rejection of Christ. The Spirit, however, in fastening this truth upon the conscience, does not extinguish, but, on the contrary, does consummate and intensify, the sense of all other
sins. (JFB)
The Holy Spirit and His Office
12 “I still have many things to tell you, but you can't handle them
now.In illustration of these three points, Christ had many things to say; but he found that his disciples could
only bear general truths;
The Holy Spirit and His Office
yet, in saying what he did, he sowed the seeds of the whole system of
theological knowledge, and heavenly wisdom, which the Holy
Spirit of this truth afterwards watered and ripened into a glorious
harvest of light and salvation, by the ministry of the apostles.
The Holy Spirit and His OfficeDr. Lightfoot supposes that the things which the
apostles could not bear now were such as these:
1. The institution of the Christian Sabbath, and the abolition of the Jewish.
2. The rejection of the whole Jewish nation, at the very time in which they expected to be
set up and established for ever.3. The entire change of the whole Mosaic
dispensation, and the bringing the Gentiles into the Church of God. (Clark)
The Holy Spirit and His Office
13 But when the Friend comes, the Spirit of the Truth, he will take you by the hand and guide you into all
the truth there is. - He will consider your feeble infant state; and, as a father leads his child by the hand, so will the Holy Spirit
lead and guide you.
The Holy Spirit and His Office
He won't draw attention to himself, - He shall teach nothing contrary to
what I have taught you:but will make sense out of what is about to happen and, indeed, out of all that I have done and said.
The Holy Spirit and His Office
He will fully explain every thing that may now appear dark or difficult to
you; will give you such a knowledge of futurity as shall, in all necessary cases, enable you to foretell future
events; and shall supply every requisite truth, in order to make the
new covenant revelation complete and perfect. (Clark)
The Holy Spirit and His Office
14 He will honor me; he will take from me and deliver it to you. 15 Everything the Father has is also mine. That is why I've said, 'He takes from me
and delivers to you.'
Christ's Departure and Return
16 “In a day or so you're not going to see me, but then in another day
or so you will see me."17 That stirred up a hornet's nest of
questions among the disciples: "What's he talking about: 'In a day or so you're not going to see me, but then in another day or so you
will see me‘?
Christ's Departure and Return
And, 'Because I'm on my way to the Father'? 18 What is this 'day or so'? We
don't know what he's talking about."On the morrow he would die, be buried, and for "a little while" they would not see him; then he would rise, and for another
"little while," a space of forty days before "he went to his Father," they would see
him while he remained on the earth.
Christ's Departure and Return
When he ascended to his Father, they, in a spiritual sense,
would "see him coming in the kingdom of God." (PNT) they
knew his words, but not his meaning. (Gill)
Christ's Departure and Return
19 Jesus knew they were dying to ask him what he meant,
This is a proof of Christ's deity, that he is the omniscient God who knows all things,
what is in man, even the secrets of the heart; for he not only knew the
whisperings of the disciples, and their inquiries among themselves about the
sense of his words, but also their secret desires to ask him concerning it:
Christ's Departure and Return
so he said, "Are you trying to figure out among yourselves what I
meant when I said, 'In a day or so you're not going to see me, but
then in another day or so you will see me'? which he said before they could put the question to him, they
being bashful, and backward, through fear or shame;
Christ's Departure and Return
and which not only confirms what is before observed of his
omniscience, but also shows his readiness to open his mind and meaning, and explain himself to his disciples, as he does in the
following words. (Gill)
Christ's Departure and Return
20 Then fix this firmly in your minds: You're going to be in
deep mourning while the godless world throws a party.
You'll be sad, very sad, but your sadness will develop into
gladness.
Christ's Departure and Return
How sad were the broken-hearted disciples, as they wept at the tomb!
At the same time their enemies were gloating over their triumph. Soon all was changed, for your sorrow but your sadness will
develop into gladness.
Christ's Departure and Return
The glad news came, "The Lord is risen!" Then they heard that "all power was his," saw him
ascend into heaven, and "returned to Jerusalem with
great joy." (PNT)
Christ's Departure and Return
21 “When a woman gives birth, she has a hard time, there's no getting around it. But when the baby is born, there is joy in the
birth. This new life in the world wipes out memory of the
pain.
Christ's Departure and Return
22 The sadness you have right now is similar to that pain, but the
coming joy is also similar. When I see you again, you'll be full of joy, and it will be a joy no one can rob from you. 23 You’ll no longer be
so full of questions.
Christ's Departure and Return
Now our Lord, by this instance, illustrates the sorrow his disciples should have by his departure, and
the joy that they should be possessed of upon his return to
them; that as the pains of a woman in travail are very sharp and
severe, and the distress of her mind,
Christ's Departure and Return
about the issue of things respecting herself and offspring, is very great, so would be the grief and trouble of the disciples on account of the
death of their Lord and master: but as when a woman is safely
delivered of a man child, she is so filled with joy,
Christ's Departure and Return
that her sorrow is remembered no more so should it be with them, when Christ should appear to
them; all their trouble, concern, anxiety of mind, and fears, that attended them, would all vanish
away, and they be distressed with them no more. (Gill)
Encouragement to Prayer
"This is what I want you to do: Ask the Father for whatever is in keeping with the things I've
revealed to you. 24 Ask in my name, according to my will, and he'll most certainly give it to you.
Your joy will be a river overflowing its banks!
Encouragement to Prayer
Ye shall then be led, by that Spirit which guides into all truth, to consider me in
the character of Mediator in the kingdom of God, and to address your prayers to the Father in my name - in
the name of Jesus the Savior, because I have died to redeem you - in the name of Christ the Anointer, because I have ascended to send down the gift of the
Holy Ghost. (Clarke)
Encouragement to Prayer
25 “I've used figures of speech in telling you these things. Soon I'll
drop the figures and tell you about the Father in plain language. 26 Then you can make your requests directly to him in relation to this life I've revealed to you. I won't continue making requests of the
Father on your behalf.
Encouragement to Prayer
27 I won't need to. Because you've gone out on a limb,
committed yourselves to love and trust in me, believing I
came directly from the Father, the Father loves you directly.
Overcoming the World
28 First, I left the Father and arrived in the world; now I leave
the world and travel to the Father."
29 His disciples said, "Finally! You're giving it to us straight, in
plain talk--no more figures of speech
Overcoming the World
30 Now we know that you know everything--it all comes together in you. You won't have to put up with
our questions anymore. We're convinced you came from God."
31 Jesus answered them, "Do you finally believe?
Overcoming the World
32 In fact, you're about to make a run for it--saving your own skins and abandoning me. But I'm not abandoned. The Father
is with me.
Overcoming the World
33 I’ve told you all this so that trusting me, you will be
unshakable and assured, deeply at peace. In this godless world you
will continue to experience difficulties. But take heart! I've
conquered the world."