Point of Grace Worship 3.19.23 Sermon Notes – “Conversations with Jesus on the eve of the Cross –John 16”
“Unrealistic expectations of the life a broken world filled with broken people can deliver on an daily basis is a set up for devastating disappointments of the heart!” -Somebody Smart-
John 16 33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
Sometimes it feels like the issue of “trouble in the world” is compounded for the Jesus follower!
The Problems – Pushback – Perplexities
of life in this world as a Jesus follower pale in comparison
to the Provision Jesus brings for our rescue!
John 16 33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16 1“All this I have told you so that you will not fall away.”
“…take heart…” – cheer up – have joy!
“… not fall away …” – don’t take the bait!
John 15:26-16:15 26 “When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me. 27 And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning. “All this I have told you so that you will not fall away. 2 They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. 3 They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. 4 I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you, 5 but now I am going to him who sent me. None of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ 6 Rather, you are filled with grief because I have said these things. 7 But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. 8 When he comes, he will prove (convict) the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: 9 about sin, because people do not believe in me; 10 about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; 11 and about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.
12 “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. 14 He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. 15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.”
According to Jesus,
The Problems – Pushback – Perplexities
of life in this world as a Jesus follower
pale in comparison to the
Provision
(the Holy Spirit)
Jesus brings for our rescue!
John 16 16 Jesus went on to say, “In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me.”
18 They kept asking, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? We don’t understand what he is saying.”
19 Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him about this, so he said to them, “20 Very truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. 21 A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world. 22 So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy. 23 In that day you will no longer ask me anything. Very truly I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. 24 Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.
The Problems – Pushback – Perplexities
of life in this world as a Jesus follower pale in comparison to the
Provision
(Holy Spirit, Kingdom Joy, Access to the Father)
Jesus brings for our rescue!
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.
In this world you will have trouble. But take heart!
I have overcome the world.”
Jesus