The Believer's Equipment
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The Believer’s Equipment
The Believer’s Equipment
Introduction:
Jesus prepares His disciples for facing the future as His prepare to be crucified. This is a moment of equipping. Today we want to begin viewing this chapter understanding and making these things applicable to our lives. Seeing each of these Promises from Jesus as equipment for our lives. First we recognize:
There was:
“I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you.
“I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.
THE PROMISE OF PERSECUTION
THE PROMISE OF PERSECUTION
The Lord is here warning His disciples that times of trial and suffering were before them. "These things have I told you, that when the time shall come ye may remember" (). Jesus asserts to His disciples that there will be hurt and harm towards them.
Too often many of us live under the pseudo-reality that as a Christian there will be no problems, that everyday will be sunny and we won’t suffer any pain.
Jesus tells His disciples:
1. “They will put you out of the synagogues” v.2a
2. “They will kill you” v.2b
3. “They will think they are doing service to God” v. 2c
4. “They will do them because they don’t know the Father nor Me” v.3
5. “I want you to be faithful” vv.4-6
“I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you.
“I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.
1. THE PROMISE OF A COMFORTER
1. THE PROMISE OF A COMFORTER
"If I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart I will send Him unto you" (). He does not say, I will send it, but Him. Christ never dishonors the Holy Spirit by speaking of Him is a mere thing. As a companion, the Holy Spirit was to be to them all that Christ had been. This was abundantly proven after Pentecost. This is what the Spirit can be to us in our times of suffering for His Name. His invisible Presence is here as really as the visible Presence of Christ is departed.
Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
2. THE PROMISE OF GUIDANCE AND TEACHING
2. THE PROMISE OF GUIDANCE AND TEACHING
"He will guide you into all truth, and He will shew you things to come" (). John says that ye need not any man teach you, for this anointing teacheth you all things (). This is the Spirit that searcheth all things (). Why should we not expect the Holy Spirit to do His work in us just as effectively as Christ has done His work for us? Don't grieve the Spirit by refusing His teaching regarding these "things to come."
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge. I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also. Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father. And this is the promise that he made to us—eternal life.
I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you. But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.
But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge. I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also. Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father. And this is the promise that he made to us—eternal life.
I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you. But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.
But, as it is written,
“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor the heart of man imagined,
what God has prepared for those who love him”—
these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge. I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also. Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father. And this is the promise that he made to us—eternal life.
I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you. But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.
3. THE PROMISE OF HIS COMING AGAIN
3. THE PROMISE OF HIS COMING AGAIN
"You now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice" (). This was literally fulfilled when He rose from the dead. "Then were their hearts glad when they saw the Lord." But is there not a wider fulfilment awaiting for His suffering, sorrowing disciples in these latter days? When He promised: "I will come again and receive you unto Myself, that where I am, there ye may be also" ().
So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
4. THE PROMISE OF ANSWERED PRAYER
4. THE PROMISE OF ANSWERED PRAYER
"Whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in My Name, He will give you; ask and ye shall receive that your joy may be full" (). Having, therefore, brethren, such good and sure promises, let us come with boldness into the holiest by the Blood of Jesus and confidently make our requests known (). "Open thy mouth wide and I will fill it" ().
In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus,
I am the Lord your God,
who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
5. THE PROMISE OF CHRIST’S INTERCESSION
5. THE PROMISE OF CHRIST’S INTERCESSION
"I will pray the Father for you, for the Father Himself loveth you" (). What thanksgiving and confidence this should bring to our hearts, that Christ is pleading for us with the Father who loves us. What then in Heaven, earth, or Hell can hinder His will being done in us? Only our own unbelief.
In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf; for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
6. THE PROMISE OF PEACE
6. THE PROMISE OF PEACE
"These things have I spoken unto you, that in Me ye might have peace" (). He has made peace by the Blood of His Cross. He has spoken peace by the power of His resurrection. This peace is not of ourselves, not the result of anything we can do. It is not conditioned by our circumstances. Not affected by our disappointments or tribulations. The world cannot give it nor take it away. It is in Himself, and all that He is to His own people. It is as real as abiding and as eternal as He Himself is. "In Me ye shall have peace."
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
7. THE PROMISE OF VICTORY
7. THE PROMISE OF VICTORY
"In the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world" (). "All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution" (). But persecution, mockery, or death does not mean defeat, for out of their tribulation they shall come with washed robes (). Nothing can "separate us from the love of Christ, and where His love is, His power also is there to make us more than conquerors" (). The powers of the world are impotent when the "Greater is He that is in you" is with us (). Christ has already overcome the world, and your life is hid with Christ in God. To God be the thanks, who in Christ ever heads our triumphal procession ().
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written,
“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.