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0:00John chapter 16.
0:02In the previous [music] chapter, Jesus
0:04was speaking about abiding in the vine
0:07and about [music] the disciples relation
0:10to the world, how the world is going to
0:12hate them because they don't belong to
0:14it.
0:16But most importantly, we want to
0:17remember that all of these chapters are
0:20[music] happening
0:21between Judas' departure
0:25to go betray him at the Last Supper and
0:28his arrest.
0:29So, this is a a moment full of poignancy
0:34and import.
0:36Verse 1, "These [music] things I have
0:38spoken to you
0:39so that you may be kept from stumbling."
0:42Now, what are the things that he has
0:44just spoken to them?
0:45He has told them that the world is
0:47[music] going to hate them
0:49and that the world is going to hate them
0:52because they are not of the world and
0:54because they hated Christ.
0:56But his answer [music] is that he's
0:58going to send the helper
1:00who comes in his name
1:02and the helper will testify of him.
1:06"These things I have spoken to you
1:08[music] so that you may be kept from
1:09stumbling.
1:11They will make you outcasts [music]
1:13from the synagogue.
1:15But an hour is coming for everyone
1:17[music] who kills you to think that he
1:19is offering service to God."
1:23"These things they will do because they
1:26have not known the Father or me.
1:29But these things I have spoken to you
1:31[music] so that when their hour comes,
1:34you may remember that I told [music] you
1:36of them.
1:37These things I did not say to you at the
1:39beginning
1:40>> [music]
1:41>> because I was with you.
1:44But now I am going to him who sent me
1:47and none of you asks me, "Where are you
1:50going?" [music]
1:51But because I have said these things to
1:53you, sorrow has filled your heart.
1:57But I tell you the truth,
1:59>> [music]
1:59>> it is to your advantage that I go away.
2:02For if I do not go away,
2:05the helper, the advocate,
2:08will not come to you.
2:10But if I go, I will send him to you.
2:15And he, when he comes, will convict the
2:18world concerning sin
2:21and righteousness and judgment.
2:24Concerning sin, because they do not
2:27believe in me.
2:28And concerning righteousness, because I
2:31go to the Father
2:33and you no longer see me.
2:36And concerning judgment, because the
2:38ruler of this world has been judged.
2:42"I have many more things to say to you,
2:44but you cannot bear them now.
2:47But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes,
2:50he will guide you into all the truth.
2:54For he will not speak on his own
2:55initiative, but whatever he hears, he
2:58will speak and he will disclose to you
3:01what is to come.
3:03He will glorify me, for he will take of
3:06mine and will disclose it to you.
3:09All things that the Father has are mine.
3:13Therefore, I said that he takes of mine
3:17and will disclose it to you."
3:21So,
3:22in this, Jesus is describing the agency
3:26of anointing
3:29working in the church. The agency of the
3:33Spirit working in the church.
3:36And he calls this the advocate, the
3:38helper, and we remember that the word
3:41helper or advocate is parakletos in
3:44Greek,
3:45which means defense attorney,
3:47counselor, or
3:50helper, support, someone at your side in
3:53a conflict.
3:56And he says that he's going to convict
3:58the world of sin
4:01and of righteousness and of judgment.
4:05And he says that the conviction of sin
4:08is based on the fact that they do not
4:10believe in him.
4:12So,
4:14sin is what we shouldn't do. The Holy
4:16Spirit is going to convict us of what we
4:18should not do, all those things that we
4:20do that are outside of and contrary to
4:24our
4:25professed belief
4:27in God as our Lord and Savior, in Jesus
4:30as our Lord and Savior. And then he says
4:32he's going to convict us of
4:33righteousness.
4:35Sin is what we should not do,
4:37righteousness is what we should do
4:40because I go to the Father and you no
4:42longer see me.
4:44He's saying, "Because I'm not here to
4:47offer this instruction to you in the
4:49flesh, you need some kind of advocate,
4:53some kind of influence in your life. And
4:56that influence is going to be the
4:57prompting of the Holy Spirit
5:00once they are born of the Spirit."
5:03Judgment is the last thing that the
5:05Spirit is going to convict us of.
5:08And judgment is the consequence
5:11of both sin and righteousness.
5:15It's God's decision. It's God's
5:18analysis. It's God's conclusion on
5:21whether we have sinned or whether we
5:22have acted righteously.
5:25"Concerning judgment, because the ruler
5:27of this world has been judged."
5:30He's He's saying that when
5:33the rulers of this world kill the Lord
5:35of glory,
5:36that they will be judged in that act.
5:39They will be shown for who they are,
5:42their envy. This refers to the religious
5:45system. It refers to the Roman system,
5:48but it refers to the devil, also. The
5:51devil is exposed and made a mockery of
5:54at the cross
5:55when he tries to extinguish the only
5:58righteous life.
6:00Amen. And so, he is judged in that
6:03sense. He is also judged in the sense
6:06that he is
6:07putting his hand on someone over whom he
6:10has no rightful claim.
6:12Jesus never acted in sin, so he never
6:15placed himself under the domain of the
6:17devil, even though he was a human being.
6:21So, when the devil used the powers of of
6:24his kingdom, of violence and fear and
6:27death, to harm the Son of God, he
6:31undermined himself. He disarmed himself.
6:35Christ disarmed him.
6:37One of the most important things here is
6:39that Jesus says, "It is to your
6:41advantage that I go away,
6:45or else the helper will not come."
6:48And this is a profound insight. Jesus
6:50feels like
6:52the disciples could develop
6:55a fleshly dependence on his bodily
7:00presence in their life
7:02that could actually represent a
7:05hindrance
7:07to them learning to hear the voice of
7:09the Spirit themselves. So, he's saying
7:11to them, "If I stay around here and
7:13answer all your questions, you're never
7:15going to learn how to walk in the
7:16Spirit. So, it is you to your advantage
7:20that I go away so that you can learn to
7:23be dependent on the Holy Spirit."
7:27He's already said in this same book two
7:29chapters earlier,
7:31"He has been with you." Because Jesus is
7:35the Holy Spirit in bodily form. He was
7:38born and conceived of the Holy Spirit
7:40according to Matthew 1:20.
7:42He says of the Spirit, "He has been with
7:44you," referring to Jesus in the flesh,
7:47"but he will be in you," referring to
7:50the Holy Spirit, the anointing that is
7:52going to be guiding them and convicting
7:54them of sin, righteousness, and
7:56judgment.
7:58"A little while and you will no longer
8:00see me, and again a little while and you
8:04will see me."
8:05Some of his disciples then said to one
8:07another, "What is this thing he is
8:09telling us, 'A little while and you will
8:11not see me and again a little while and
8:14you will see me and because I go to the
8:17Father'?"
8:19So, they were saying, "What is this that
8:22he is saying, 'A little while'?
8:25We do not know what he is talking
8:27about."
8:29Jesus knew that they wished to question
8:32him
8:34and he said to them,
8:37"Are you deliberating together about
8:39this
8:40that I said, 'A little while and you
8:42will not see me and again a little while
8:45and you will see me'?
8:48Truly, truly, I say to you that you will
8:51weep and lament, but the world will
8:54rejoice.
8:57You will grieve, but your grief will be
8:59turned into joy.
9:02Whenever a woman is in labor, she has
9:04pain
9:05because her hour has come.
9:08>> [clears throat]
9:08>> But when she gives birth to the child,
9:10she no longer remembers the anguish
9:13because of the joy that a child has been
9:16born into the world.
9:19Therefore, you too grieve now,
9:22but I will see you again.
9:24And your heart will rejoice
9:27and no one will take your joy away from
9:30you."
9:32You say, "Well, what is he talking
9:34about?" He's talking about two things.
9:37He's talking about a little while of him
9:40being in the grave,
9:41a little while
9:43between his arrest and his resurrection.
9:47And he's saying, "You're going to be
9:49brokenhearted,
9:50but the world's going to be real
9:52gleeful.
9:53But then, you're going to have a joy
9:56that no one can take away from you.
9:58But he's also talking about another
9:59dimension.
10:01He's talking about when he ascends into
10:03heaven.
10:05And this relates to what he's been
10:06pointing to regarding the comforter.
10:08[clears throat]
10:09So when he ascends into heaven, they
10:11were left staring up into heaven.
10:14And that begins a little while
10:16where they wait in Jerusalem.
10:19But when the day of Pentecost had fully
10:21come, their joy was made full and no one
10:24could ever take that joy away from them
10:26again.
10:27This refers to his coming, his return in
10:31the mode and form of the Holy Spirit.
10:35So he says,
10:37"No one will take your joy away from
10:38you." Verse 23, "In that day,
10:42you will not question me about
10:44anything."
10:47Well, now they did question him after
10:49the resurrection.
10:51But he says the spirit of truth is going
10:52to come and he will lead you and guide
10:55you into all truth. And he will bring to
10:58your remembrance. So that this is is him
11:00speaking about the outpouring of the
11:02spirit.
11:03"In that day, you will not question me
11:05about anything. Truly, truly I say to
11:07you, if you ask the Father for anything
11:10in my name, he will give it to you.
11:13You're not going to be asking me.
11:15You're going to be interacting directly
11:18with God.
11:19Until now, you have asked for nothing in
11:22my name.
11:24Ask and you will receive
11:26so that your joy may be made full."
11:30You remember one of the first things
11:32that they would ask in his name
11:34was for the healing of the man at the
11:36gate beautiful.
11:38When they said, "Silver and gold we do
11:39not have, but what we do have we give to
11:42you in the name of Jesus Christ of
11:44Nazareth, rise up and walk." That was an
11:47example of them acting
11:49by the power of the spirit they had just
11:51received in the name of Jesus.
11:55The name by which the Holy Spirit was
11:57called.
11:58"These things I have spoken to you in a
12:00figurative language."
12:03He's saying, "I'm not talking real
12:04clearly. I'm using a figure of speech.
12:07So there's room for misunderstanding.
12:10Proverbs is what it means.
12:12An hour is coming when I will no longer
12:15speak to you in figurative language, but
12:18will tell you plainly
12:20of the Father."
12:22So there's an understanding that they're
12:24going to get of the incarnation of the
12:27oneness of God the Father in Jesus
12:29Christ
12:30where there he's not going to use
12:32figurative speech anymore.
12:34He's going to tell them plainly of the
12:36Father.
12:38"In that day, in the day when he tells
12:40them plainly about the Father, you will
12:43ask in my name
12:45and I do not say to you that I will
12:48request of the Father on your behalf,
12:51for the Father himself loves you.
12:54He's saying there's not going to be a
12:55go-between of a fleshly
12:58Jesus on Earth
13:00and you asking me and me going to the
13:02Father. You there's going to be a direct
13:04connection. For the Father himself loves
13:07you because you have loved me and have
13:10believed that I came forth from the
13:13Father. So he's saying there's going to
13:15come a day when you're going to have a
13:16direct relationship with God.
13:19I came forth from the Father and have
13:21come into the world. I am leaving the
13:24world again and going to the Father."
13:29The plurality of entities does not refer
13:32to two divine persons. It refers to
13:35Christ and his humanity versus God the
13:38Father. But God the Father is living in
13:41him. God the Father is where he comes
13:43from. God the Father is the words that
13:46he speaks.
13:48And he's going to bring us into that
13:50complete union and we're going to
13:52understand the disciples are going to
13:54understand and more plainly about the
13:56Father in the future.
13:59His disciples said to him, "Lo,
14:02now you are speaking plainly and are not
14:05using a figure of speech.
14:07Now we know that you know all things
14:11and have no need for anyone to question
14:13you.
14:14By this, we believe that you came from
14:18God."
14:20Jesus answered them,
14:22"Do you now believe?
14:25Behold, an hour is coming and has
14:27already come
14:29for you to be scattered, each to his own
14:32home,
14:34and to leave me alone. And yet
14:38I am not alone
14:41because the Father is with me.
14:44These things I have spoken to you so
14:46that in me you may have peace. In the
14:50world, you have tribulation,
14:53but take courage. I have overcome the
14:56world."
14:59So in this, he's telling them that at
15:01the crucifixion, at his betrayal,
15:04they're all going to abandon him. At
15:06[clears throat] first, Peter's going to
15:07stick around, but then a servant girl
15:10and a soldier and a couple people are
15:12going to ask him
15:13and his fear of death is going to drive
15:15him away from the one he loves.
15:18But Jesus doesn't have that fear of
15:20death.
15:21Jesus knows that he can lay his life
15:23down and take it up again by the power
15:26of the spirit of the Father.
15:28And so he says, "The Father is not going
15:31to leave me alone. I'm going to be with
15:34the Father."
15:35Amen. But on the cross,
15:38what is his last cry? He's going to say,
15:41"Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?"
15:45Literally, "The God of me, the God of
15:47me, why have you left me behind or
15:50alone?"
15:52So in his death, he will know separation
15:56because he's bearing on the cross our
16:00judgment for sin.
16:03And our judgment for sin is separation
16:06away from the presence of the Lord.
16:09Because your sins [music] have made a
16:10separation between you and your God.
16:13So at the cross, the union that Jesus
16:16knew between his humanity and the
16:20indwelling God, the indwelling Father
16:23inside of him, he's going to experience
16:25[music] separation at the cross.
16:28But other than that moment, there will
16:30be no [music] separation. And then when
16:32he is raised up again, that separation
16:35will be permanently resolved.
16:38He will not live in heaven as he lived
16:40on Earth
16:41as the Son [music] of God
16:44possessed with the Father, but
16:46having emptied himself of [music] some
16:48of his divine rights. No, in heaven, he
16:51will not empty himself.
16:53In heaven,
16:54it will please the Father that all his
16:57fullness dwell in Jesus.
17:00In heaven, he will be the throne
17:02>> [music]
17:02>> and
17:03locus of all the Father's activity.
17:06In heaven, he will be the permanent
17:08expression of the Father.
17:11And that's why they will be able to
17:13relate plainly to the Father.
17:15Speaking of acting in Jesus' name and
17:18acting by and to the Father is one in
17:21the same thing.
17:25>> [music]

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