June 4, 2021
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Reading along with us in John? Here’s today’s reading:
John 14 (NIV)
Jesus Comforts His Disciples
1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.........Continue Reading
6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
Jesus gives us a picture of the Trinity here. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. He knows and is trying to get the disciples to see that He must die to make this Holy Trinity complete the path to salvation for us all!
John 14
John 14 – Trust in God, Jesus is going to prepare a place for us a resting place. Jesus is the way the only way to our Father. Jesus explains to the disciples that his Father will give them another Counselor to be with them forever “the Spirit of Truth”, the Holy Spirit will be with them and reminding them of all they were taught. I love the next passage about his Peace that Jesus will leave what a great reminder to us that we have that Peace living in us and not to let our hearts be troubled which sometimes isn’t easy with all the things around us but when we focus on his word we can have that Peace.
“Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John 14:6 NIV
https://www.bible.com/111/jhn.14.6.niv
“And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.”
John 14:13-14 NIV
https://www.bible.com/111/jhn.14.13-14.niv
6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me
They knew the way to where Jesus was going because they knew Jesus. They just didn’t know Jesus was the way. In saying these words, Jesus defines things in no uncertain terms and draws a line in the sand that we dare not trifle with. He is the unique One who can be the way, the truth and the life. I also was struck by the way Jesus describes His connection with the Father. When they have seen Jesus, they have seen the Father. Not that they are the exact same person, but the Father is working through Jesus and can be known by what they see in Jesus. And if that is not enough Jesus promises the Holy Spirit as the One who will take over in the disciples life where Jesus left off. And yet it doesn’t stop there. We are also in Jesus as well! What a privilege to know that we have such an indelible connection with the Son of God and by extension with God Himself as well.
Reading through John this time, I am seeing more and more prominently Jesus connection and obedience to the Father. He continually stresses that He doesn’t teach or do anything that isn’t of the Father. “The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.” He says that they are one. “Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me?” “Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.”
THEN He says that in a little while He will send the helper to be with them and IN them. And HE will be in us. “A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also. 20 At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.”
I was thinking about Pastor’s teaching about Peace and Prayer when I read this: “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. 13 And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.” So often we isolate verse 14, but the context is doing the works that Jesus does, praying to do greater works to serve the Father when Jesus departs. It made me think of what Pastor said about praying in Jesus’ name, not being just a tag line, but actually praying in accordance with, in order to achieve, or walk in keeping with, the Father’s will.