NO LONGER ORPHANS (John 14:15-21)
1/ The challenge ahead with the help we need
We must strive to obey the life God has commanded us to live, but where we fall short we have a helper to see us through.

2/ Something special for those who follow Christ
We belong to God, we are family, and family has privileges.

3/ You will know the love of the father
After salvation we start to really understand how much God loves us.

CHALLENGE: As a believer, do you strive to understand the love of God, and His promise of the Holy Spirit in your day to day life?

Duty to God

1/ Believers and doubters (vs 16-17)
There is a choice to be made and not making one is a choice.

2/ Christ authority here and there (vs 18)
His authority on earth is established by the fact that he created everything.

His authority in heaven is established by his payment on the cross in the power of his resurrection.

3/ Our duty, His promise
Completing the task is possible when the instructor is always there.

The Way

1/ To recognize the way (vs 1-4)
When you know the way getting lost isn’t an issue.

2/ To realize the truth (vs 6-11)
When you know the truth a lie can’t persuade you.

3/ To receive the life (vs 12-14)
When you see God’s life from the other side, you finally realize what being spiritually dead really was.

The Son’s Glory

John13 31 38
31 When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32 If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once. 33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’ 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Jesus Foretells Peter’s Denial

36 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus answered him, “Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow afterward.” 37 Peter said to him, “Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.” 38 Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, the rooster will not crow till you have denied me three times.

John 13:18-30
I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled,[d] ‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’ 19 I am telling you this now, before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe that I am he. 20 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.”
One of You Will Betray Me

21 After saying these things, Jesus was troubled in his spirit, and testified, “Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.” 22 The disciples looked at one another, uncertain of whom he spoke. 23 One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining at table at Jesus’ side,[e] 24 so Simon Peter motioned to him to ask Jesus[f] of whom he was speaking. 25 So that disciple, leaning back against Jesus, said to him, “Lord, who is it?” 26 Jesus answered, “It is he to whom I will give this morsel of bread when I have dipped it.” So when he had dipped the morsel, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. 27 Then after he had taken the morsel, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, “What you are going to do, do quickly.” 28 Now no one at the table knew why he said this to him. 29 Some thought that, because Judas had the moneybag, Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor. 30 So, after receiving the morsel of bread, he immediately went out. And it was night.

1/ Those who trust and those who don’t
Jesus was fully aware of Judas’ betrayal and the necessity of it. However, Judas allowed his heart to be swayed by Satan and was responsible for the results.

2/ Betrayal does not happen by chance
Jesus was betrayed by one of his closest companions, and yet, his disciples never saw it coming.

3/ Wickedness cannot be hid from God
A wicked heart does not come from a person that just does not do good, but from being disconnected from the one who is where goodness (righteousness) comes from.

John 13:1-17
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

2 And [a]supper being ended, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him, 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God, 4 rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself. 5 After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded. 6 Then He came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him, “Lord, are You washing my feet?”

7 Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this.”

8 Peter said to Him, “You shall never wash my feet!”

Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.”

9 Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!”

10 Jesus said to him, “He who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you.” 11 For He knew who would betray Him; therefore He said, “You are not all clean.”

12 So when He had washed their feet, taken His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, “Do you [b]know what I have done to you? 13 You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. 14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. 16 Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. 17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

The Everlasting Love of God
1/ The depth of God’s love
The path to the cross was set and nothing would stand in His way.

2/ The definition of God’s love
The creator of the universe would stoop down to wash the feet of a fisherman.

3/ The direction for God’s love
The example given is that we should not hesitate to serve one another as the followers of Christ.

The End of the Line
44 Then Jesus cried out and said, “He who believes in Me, believes not in Me but in Him who sent Me. 45 And he who sees Me sees Him who sent Me. 46 I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness. 47 And if anyone hears My words and does not believe, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. 48 He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him—the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day. 49 For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak. 50 And I know that His command is everlasting life. Therefore, whatever I speak, just as the Father has told Me, so I speak.”

1/ The Last Cry To The Lost (44-46)
God will someday honor the request of the lost to leave them alone.

2/ The Judgment of the Father (47-48)
God the father is the Judge and the word of God is the witness.

3/ The Authority of God
God’s authority is without opposition. It is final, it is perfect, and it is just.

Challenge: Do you hear the Word of God and act accordingly to it’s truth?