John 14-17 "The Father is in Me"

John chapter 14 do not let your hearts be troubled you believe in God believe also in me my father's house has many rooms if that were not so would I have told you that I'm going there to prepare a place for you 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 you know the way to the place where I'm going Thomas said to him Lord we don't know where you're going so how can we know the

way Jesus answered I am the way and the truth and the life no one comes to the father except through me if you really know me you will know my father as well from now on you do know him and have seen him Philip said Lord show us the father and that will be enough for us Jesus answered don't you know me Phillip even after I've been among you such a long time anyone who has seen me has seen the father how can you say show us the father don't you believe that I am in

the father and that the father is in me the words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority rather it is the father living in me who is doing his work believe me when I say that I am in the father and the father is in me or at least believe on the evidence of The Works themselves very truly I tell you whoever believes in me will do the works I've been doing and they will do even greater things than these because I am going to the father 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 if you love me keep my commands and I will ask the father and he will give you another Advocate to help you and be with you forever the spirit of Truth the world cannot accept him because it neither sees him nor knows him but you know him for he lives with you and will be in you I will not leave you as orphans I will come to

you before long the world will not see me anymore but you will see me because I live you also will live on that day you will realize that I am in my father and you are in me and I am in you whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me the one who loves me Will Be Loved by my father and I too will love them and show myself to them then Judas not Judas es scariot said but Lord why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to

the world Jesus replied anyone who loves me will obey my teaching my father will love them and we will come to them and make our home with them anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching these words you hear are not my own they belong to the father who sent me all this I have spoken while still with you but the advocate the Holy Spirit whom the father will send in my name will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I've said to you peace I leave with you my

peace I give you I do not give to you as the world gives do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid you heard me say I am going away and I'm coming back to you if you loved me you would be glad that I'm going to the father for the father is greater than I I have told you now before it happens so that when it does happen you will believe I will not say much more to you for the prince of this world is coming he has no hold over me

but he comes so that the world may learn that I love the father and do exactly what my father has commanded me come now let us [Music] leave John chapter 15 I am the True Vine and my father is the gardener he cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful you are already clean because of the word I spoken to you remain in me as I also remain in you no Branch can bear fruit by itself it

must remain in the vine neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me I am the vine you are the branches if you remain in me and I in you you will bear much fruit apart from me you can do nothing if you do not remain in me you are like a branch that is thrown away and Withers such branches are picked up thrown into the fire and burned if you remain in me and my words remain in you ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you this is to my father's

Glory that you bear much fruit showing yourselves to be be my disciples as the father has loved me so have I Loved You Now remain in my love if you keep my commands you will remain in my love just as I have kept my father's commands and remain in his love I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete my command is this love each other as I have loved you greater love has no one than this to lay down one's life for one's friends

you are my friends if you do what I command I no longer call you servants because a servant does not know his master's business instead I have called you friends for everything that I learned from my father I have made known to you you did not choose me but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit fruit that will last and so that whatever you ask in my name the father will give you this is my command love each other if the world hates you keep in mind that it

hated me first if you belonged to the world it would love you as its own as it is you do not belong to the world but I have chosen you out of the world that is why the world hates you remember what I told you a servant is not greater than his master if they persecuted me they will persecute you also if they obeyed my teaching they will obey yours also they will treat you this way because of my name for they do not know the one who sent me if I had not come and

spoken to them they would not be guilty of sin but now they have no excuse for their sin whoever hates me hates my father as well if I had not done among them The Works no one else did they would not be guilty of sin as it is they have seen and yet they have hated both me and my father but this is to fulfill what is written in their law they hated me without reason 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 take testify about me and you also must testify for you have been with me from the beginning John chapter [Music] 16 all this I have told you so that you will not fall away they will put you out of the synagogue in fact the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they're offering a service to God they will do such things because they have not known the father or me 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 but now I am going to him who sent me none of you asks me where are you going rather you are filled with grief because I have said these things but very truly I tell you it is for your good that I'm going away unless I go away The Advocate will not come to you but if I go I will send him to you when he comes he will prove the world to be in the wrong about Sin and righteousness and judgment

about sin because people do not believe in me about righteousness because I am going to the father where you can see me no longer and about judgment because the prince of this world now stands condemned I have much more to say to you more than you can now bear 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 he will glorify me because it is from me

that he will receive what he will make known to you 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 Jesus 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 at this some of his disciples said to one another what does he mean by saying in a little while you will see me no more and then after a little while you will see me and

because I'm going to the father they kept asking what does he mean by a little while we don't understand what he's saying Jesus saw the they wanted to ask him about this so he said to them are you asking one another what I meant when I said in a little while you will see me no more and then after a little while you will see me very truly I tell you you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices you will grieve but your grief will turn to Joy 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 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 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 until now you have not asked for anything in my name ask ask and you will receive and

your joy will be complete though I have been speaking figuratively a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my father in that day you will ask him my name I am not saying that I will ask the father on your behalf no the father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God I came from the father and entered the world now I am leaving the world and going back to the father then Jesus's disciples said now

you're speaking clearly and without figures of speech now we can see that you know all things and that you do not even need to have anyone ask you questions this makes us believe that you came from God do you now believe Jesus replied a time is coming and in fact has come when you will be scattered each to your own home you will leave me all alone yet I am not alone for my father is with me 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 chapter 17 after Jesus said this he looked towards heaven and prayed father the hour has come glorify your son that your son may glorify you for you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him now this is eternal life that they know you the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent I have brought you glory on Earth by finishing the work you gave me to do and now father glorify me in

your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began I have revealed you to Those whom you gave me out of the world they were yours you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word now they know that everything you've given me comes from from you for I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them they knew with certainty that I came from you and they believed that you sent me I pray for them I'm not praying for the world but for those you have given me for

they are yours all I have is yours and all you have is mine and Glory has come to me through them I will remain in the world no longer but they are still in the world and I am coming to you Holy Father protect them by the power of your name the name you gave me so that they may be one as we are one while I was with them I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me none has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that scripture would

be fulfilled I am coming to you now but I say these things while I am still in the world so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them I have given them your word and the world has hated them for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world my prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one they are not of the world even as I I am not of it sanctify them by the truth

your word is truth as you sent me into the world I have sent them into the world for them I sanctify myself that they too may be truly Sanctified my prayer is not for them alone I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message that all of them may be one father just as you you are in me and I am in you may they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me I have given them the glory that you gave me that they may

be one as we are one i in them and you in me so that they may be brought to complete Unity then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me father I want those you have given me to be with me where I am and to see my glory the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world righteous father though the world does not know you I know you and they know that you have sent me I have made

you known to them and will continue to make you known in in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them [Music]