Gospel of John (2nd Yr Study 12 of 19, Chap 14 Cont) — G.W. North

Jesus and the Father’s Mutual Indwelling

Let's go on forward. Remember just catching up our thoughts. Jesus said Don't you believe I'm in the Father and the Father's in me. He challenged them because they didn't. At this late time after being disciples for three years and Call them Apostles as the Synoptic Gospels do, but John never.

He realized he wasn't really an Apostle except by name During this period and neither were any other Apostles don't talk about calling down fire from heaven to destroy whole villages. Or anything like that.

Here then is the main truth. He the Father was in him and he was in the Father. While he walked on the earth you must understand that. If you've seen Jesus Then you've seen Father Son and Holy Ghost. For you remember lower down in this chapter.

The Comforter and the Mystery of the Trinity

He says I'll pray the Father. He will give you a another comforter now if I have Mike here or whatever we want to call it and I put it down there. I said now I'll give you another. That's two or in the 15th chapter.

He says I'm with you all the time. I'm with you always. This is the great mystery of the Trinity. When Jesus was on earth. So was the Holy Ghost. So was the Father. And he said that to remind you where we left off.

It isn't me doing the work. It's my father. It isn't me that's speaking to you. It's my father. What a marvelous thing this blessing Revelation is. Because you will know. That the last thing those 12 men wanted he got rid of.

But the traitor by now Judas there are only 11. The last thing those 11 people wanted. Was that Jesus should go away and the care for us who's going to shepherd us? They never thought in these terms or at least if they did they never expressed it here.

Then is the great truth. Who's going to be? Like you to us Lord. Will there be another man on whose breasts I can lay my head? What's going to happen to us? Well, he's told him really love one another.

Faith as Entry Into Another Life

The mysteries that are wrapped up in Christ's words, even though they'd be plain I was gonna say plain English, excuse me all you people from other lands I don't know. They didn't really know what faith was as Jesus taught them say Luke who records if you had faith as a grain of mustard seed.

You could do this you could do that. You see Beloved there is another life. Really it translates you into another world. Where God is oh. And that's how it has to be. With each one of us. Let's go on very verse 12 chapter 14 literally.

Verily I say unto you he that believeth on me the works that I do shall he do also and Greater works than these shall he do was I go on to my father and whatsoever ye shall ask in my name. That will I do that the father may be glorified in the son.

Asking in Christ’s Name and Christian Representation

If you shall ask you ask now. You take this deeply into your heart and explain why there are so many Unanswered prayers, I know people get around saying well, it's just you always answer. Sometimes he says no that kind of insane.

Whatsoever. I'll never say no to you. If you should ask anything in my name, but you have to be in his name. You have to be Christ's representative on just barriers. You would come into this upper room with me, this is where he said it he didn't tell anybody out there about that.

He told them I want you to be true men of God. You see I Want you to be God-possessed what he died for. That's why he wouldn't let Peter go with him. He says you can't follow me now I'm going to prepare a place for you and he went and prepared the cross for Peter couldn't have told for his sin.

Nor can you nor can I but he prepared the cross for you. Don't you think like I've heard something always he's building little places up in heaven for you. No, he he was a carpenter, but he's not engaged in that now.

You understand it. Oh I love it. Don't you want to be in that place that he has for you? They might call you a missionary. I call you something or something something. Those sort of names aren't known in heaven.

That's Earth's convenience. You and I are to know this great secret for which he took these people into that unknown Where nobody else knew and from it dismissed the traitor. You're either a traitorous spirit or you are a teachable spirit you understand and If you are teachable, you are a traitor.

Though you may sing about Jesus at least every Sunday. This is the thing for us to understand. Do you know I don't believe Jesus ever sung choruses. Mm-hmm not taught his disciples. You know, oh come bring your guitars.

Now leave your dogs at home on all that business. And they weren't sitting on clouds playing hearts. He got them into that upper room to teach them Reality nothing wrong with any musical instrument. Except I believe that some lend themselves to worship nothing wrong in any in because they Can't play themselves.

You play and I listen to you playing your guitar. Or I listen to you blowing your trumpet. Sorry. I don't mean in a nasty way or playing the piano. I know who's playing the piano. Oh, well, I always play exactly.

But I hear your spirit coming through a piano or a guitar. You're alive time to God, you'll notice where it's coming from. Well, I you know, I play a xylophone or whatever you want to do. Instruments.

Or what you may be a place of show-off. And I read you as plain as I read this Bible you understand these things. Everything Can be adapted Unto God's youth, but beware. I Gave up a musical career. I could have had one.

You'd never believe it, but I hold still a couple of. Shall I say well Royal Academy certificates of violin player. You would never thought that would you? Listen to God you are the instrument and so you use other instruments man-made.

Living Consciously Before God

But what for? Here then is the glory. Do we understand you and my life so short on this earth? If we don't live every minute conscious minute for God. We could be if God was an accuser. Accused of wasting God's time.

You didn't invent time. God did. It's his it's very important for us to understand. So, I hope you're not dreaming in this class this morning. We are going to see what God says if there's verse 15. I must get through this chapter this morning.

Sorry, I've got to skim along. I should only get about halfway through it really, but time is an enemy. If you love me keep my Commandments and I will pray the father and he shall give you another Comforter.

There you are if you've seen The first Jesus you've seen the father. If you've seen Jesus you've seen the comforter. Another comforter. I've been comforting you all your life. I Came and healed your mother-in-law Peter right at the beginning.

Jesus Calms the Storm

They were about a bolt.

When they were thrust into pandemonium just by the blowing of a windmill. The rising of the waters and Jesus said to them After he'd you know, he went to sleep on a pillow. And they were sailing this boat and couldn't sail it.

The Waters had overcome them the wind that overcome them fear had overcome them. And Jesus was asleep. Well, don't we care what's happening? You know the great mistake they made. They should have taken a pillow and laid down beside him.

Oh, that's the kind of behavior God's expecting from you if you say you're one of his children. He doesn't beget foreigners. They're all in one family. That's it. Don't you see they should never have done that.

Of course, he doesn't really as they were an Extremist really they were their wits him. You know what to do where to go their skills their way. Wasted couldn't do a thing and he took one step across the boat and said Be marvellous, that's the word he was peace.

Be marvelled and the howling wind Stopped and they were more afraid of that than they were at the store because they said what manner of man and we got here. What manner of man or woman are you. That's what it's about.

The New Birth and the Death of the Old Self

That's what the new birth is about to make you a new woman a new woman hood a new man hood. It's so tremendous. But he says I'll pray father her and You'd be. I'll pray for another comforter that he may abide with you forever.

Just think I Have my own Comforter inside. God's comforter. Of course the Holy Ghost is my comforter you see the one thing Jesus could not do when he was on earth and One of the great reasons he went to the cross.

He could not get inside them. And live in them. That's what the Holy Ghost is about. He was going to come and be a married inside. If you like they in the plan of God, I'm sure he'll excuse me using my stupid language.

As long as the truth comes over to you. They were to be on earth as the reception committee to receive the Holy Ghost. That's right. And that's what happened on the day of Pentecost a reception. You will have a comforter just like me.

And I he's going to live in you. Live in you he's going to exterminate that old wicked sinful self. Kill it stone dead. That's what Paul meant when he said I I died daily. Whatever does that mean? No, I went to America.

Paul’s Death to Self and Transformation

I was invited to to teach in a college had a spouse on you. I don't know how long and The principal of the college came to me. I'd like to talk to you, but I'm not so we have a talk is I. Only just come and he was.

He was well all in you. I've only just come to see what Paul meant when he wrote I died daily. That's the self that has to die every day. You Nice as you are pretty as you are handsome as you are accomplished as you are.

No good to God. And that's that real self the real me and my accomplishments. That go to my credit Daily so he went through death and resurrection daily. Think that one over and then he went to fight with the beasts All around him.

I'm quoting from one Corinthians 15. You have to see this beloved what it's all about. It's Paul is the great exemplar of it all. And once we see these things we are transformed the old whining moaning self you Would be resurrected every day and you if you manage some sort of a Accomplishment to defeat him today.

He'll be there tomorrow. You really have to be dead crucified with Christ and listen Barry. It's the past buried You that made your past. Thanks God it is past. You made it. You'll probably help to make it by your very parents.

Authenticity Before Selling Anything

We're living in an age where you can't. At least to the people have got anything to sell. You know the prime teaching of a salesman or saleswoman. The first thing they have to learn is they must sell themselves first.

Then they'll sell them their goods. Do you see at psychology? It's not spirituality. It's the direct opposite. So don't envy these flashing creatures. You see on your television screens, will you? They're totally deceive.

These are the tremendous things for you to see. This is where Jesus gave his greatest teaching. In that upper room you should live in it live there if you can. I'm a restless creature. We don't need to know about creation.

Once told about creation that should satisfy you. You don't go ogling round to find a new dinosaur. Here's the mask the wonderful thing. I will not leave you as an orphan. So Comfortless I will come do you know this.

Jesus is great present Ambition if I may use for you that he should come and being and you Should become the new you in me. I have no hope of glory. Unless he is in me. But I believe. Well, that's only the first step.

There's an end in view and it is and this is what God wants to see. Every time he looks at your pretty or handsome face. He sees Christ. That's what the father wants. Oh, but I'm a Christian are you. By whose standards here then are the things that we've got to learn.

Christ’s Presence in Believers

I will come to. He didn't want to come to heaven. Except the heaven he creates in you and that's what he'll do. If you let him. If it isn't heaven in you, he won't live in you. You say.

Yeah, I.

You just have to accept what I say I suppose because I'm the lecturer and you're the student or something like that. But you think about it. That's right. You think about it. The only one who can create heaven is God.

No one else can. Marvelous it is for us to see. But it isn't heaven on earth. You must understand that so you'll meet earth's problems and you'll meet earth's Difficulties and you'll meet earth's oppositions and you'll meet earth's temptations.

That's why he had to be tempted in all points. Just the same as we are. So he's not a phony Savior, this is the whole glorious truth. And he says this isn't verse 19. Yet a little while and the world seeth me no more but you See me because I live.

You shall live also be careful how you read the Bible study it does it well because I live you shall live also. You see it's true, of course. Men usually get hold of the least meaning we learn so we go on.

You shall live and I'm promising you that you will live as I live. And that is the ultimate fulfillment of the promise. We're still on the earth, but you have to live the heavenly life. We're still human but you have to live the life of that one who became a human in order that you would become a human be.

Always let me get that through our parents. No, you don't your parents were all fallen in sin. Like the rest of everybody else you get a kind of a humanity. But we've all been robbed of the true life of humanity and we were robbed by Adam.

Mercy, the Gospel, and the Life of Christ

Sold down the river. This is why God has mercy upon us all and pities us and Loves us and has sent us a gospel in the person and the mouth and the deeds of his son. How wonderful it is. You See me now.

Do you see him or do you not or do you see? The Christian myth, you know what? I mean by that. Do you know when Paul stood before? The judge there were two judges actually when a gripper called out say almost Thou persuadest me to be a Christian.

And he said no, I don't want you to be a Christian. Excuse me. I think it he said would he said you were not only only not just only but all together such as I. You've got to get this. I am into your testimony accept these bonds.

Hey, what? Mm-hmm. He got the life. He got the Christ. He he got the gospel. He was living it and That's the only way you can preach it unless you can go to a Bible school and learn how to preach. And that's all you do know.

No, I'm accusing anyone. I I'm speaking the general truth. Here is the great thing and now listen to this at that day. You shall know That I know the word am is not in the Greek to know a different self than yourself.

You shall know that I in my father. That's what Jesus knew he knew that eternally existence. I. And he lived in his father. Then he Damed. May I say or shall I say graciously and one of Paul's great? Testimonies was this I?

Pause. Don't gavel it through. I What I am. By the grace of God now, that's what you have to be and I want to tell you that's all you can be. I Am What I am. Only one letter removed from the statement of God right out of her bush.

He said I am that I am. Paul said I am what the I am. Moses then still is now was uncreated. You and I were born. Now you are creating something in you a Great-big liar. Damned to hell or else one who will say this is the solemnity of it.

You should never go into this upper room if you don't want to learn the truth. That's why excluded all the crowd. I said they wouldn't have understood any he was talking about so we are right back into science.

Oh, wait, what a scientist language this great I. I Was once in prison. I told you this before. And I met a man. No, it wasn't prison. Sorry when I come up. And I met this man. And he said he was one of these real.

Modernly being through the top universe. You're not these red brick ones the real old real. He he'd been these he'd been through it and he said the only thing I know is that I am. He said I don't know that you are.

You see with a stupid place he'd got himself into by his brains he'd been reading somebody's philosophy. Do you see but you have got to know that I am not to take anything from God, but say it in worship and in praise Him because you have been recreated.

And you didn't come out to back a white cow. You have to understand this but at the end you were responsible. And I am responsible to tell you. Oh, I I'm never gonna finish this chapter this morning, but don't matter.

What next year if the Lord doesn't come? Here's the thing for us to see. Of course you won't want to listen to me then. Here's the truth. At that day you shall know that I In my father. Yes to say I am.

To make it logical and understand to us Understandable to us that I from that blessed God the eternal I not. The mere selfish I hasn't he come to share heaven with us through Christ. But I have is dying said a wise man of the old testament.

You say what flesh and blood you Sight hearing tastes My artistic nature, and I don't know what you want to go through. Comments from me. I'm talking about dear old Solomon. This is the whole thing and he said that very heaven of heavens cannot contain me.

Growing in Grace and Assurance

He was too big for heaven. He Created an earthy all these marvelous things beloved. This is our God. You love him now you have all that potential in you, but don't rob God of his position. I don't mean that he Deliberately sent his son to share it with you.

You don't know the concept that lies ahead. I'm rather looking ahead, but I'm not going to commit suicide to get there you understand. I'm old enough to be concerned a little bit now when you're young you don't always think like this but it's the duty and I may say privilege of people of my age.

To pass it on and that's your responsibility in this world you understand. Because you won't be able to preach for me, I'm not boasting about it. I mean you need years of Bible study. You need these years.

You will be and better still. I hope this is what the glory of it all is. Let me quote the Epistle again grow and you can only grow in grace. You get out of grace. I Mean personal grace now I must be a gracious man.

You understand you'll never grow except worse and worse. Harder and harder and get a head that's bigger than your body. You understand you'll know that I you in me. Well, I believe I'm in him. No you have to know he said he didn't say you believe.

Don't transpose the words. You start by believing, but then you get to know. And when you know you'll really secure you pass into the security of what you first believed. I Was thinking of Wesley this morning that wonderful confession of his in Aldersgate in London where I've been reading Luther's preface to The Galatian epistle he came out.

My heart was strangely warm. Now you always feel you know where you're captive not a tentative. I think I'm. And it's worse where from where the great minister came from this absolute certainty with my heart I first believed he.

Put it in some of the heavens he by power divine God will strengthen you to believe. If you try some trick in order to believe you'll get a mystics place so much as in so-called churches. He that hath my commandments and keepeth them he it is that loveth me.

Obedience as the Evidence of Love

So well, I believe that You Come to me all you that labor on a heavy laden, but I never preach it as an invitation. I preach it as a command. Do you? Say Oh God invites us all to come. God gives you the command to come.

And if you don't you're a sinner, I don't believe like so many. It is an invitation you can couch it by the tone of your voice and Exactly what you think it means. That's what the tone of voice is given to you for.

Come on to me. Perhaps you don't take orders from God. You just want a nice IP. God that can invite you to join in all the wonders of heaven and all this business. It's lovely it's nice you want to receive an invitation card where it says on the bottom.

You know what that means. Don't you respond. See the plate. Please say whether you're coming or whether you aren't. That's what we like that treats us as human beings. We are. The heaven human being you ought to be is a tiny Replica of Jesus you gotta have his commandments.

What he has commanded. He is that loveth me. He that loveth me shall be loved of my father, and I will love him. And will manifest thyself to him. Not scarier. Lord, how is it that thou shalt manifest thyself unto us and not unto the world.

Jesus said If a man loveth me he will keep my words and my father now listen only if you keep his words and my father will love him and Will come unto and we will come unto him and make our abode with him now.

What he is virtually said. We'll all come. Yeah, I'm going to give you another comforter. That's the Holy Spirit. He said that I'll come and my father will come. We'll have a wonderful time in you and The joy of it will spill over into your life.

He didn't say that. What else can it mean? We're all going to come we father son and Holy Ghost. Want to live in you. That's what the day of Pentecost Really means just to make you speak in another tongue, which I do.

Say I do. But that's not the important thing. You should you should read this these chapters through again and again and again and make sure that by his grace you Master that is in your understanding the things that are being said.

The Holy Spirit’s Teaching and Remembrance

A great accusation against Christians in general is that they skim over the surface water just to read their portion for the day. Oh, it's good thing. Don't stop. I could wash myself in milk, but I prefer with him about.

Do you understand? Here we go. He that loves me not keepeth not my sins and the word which you hear is not mine. Her father was talking to them. Are you listening? You say it was Jesus talking in the upper room same thing.

Father was talking to them and in his heart the father had slain Jesus from the foundation of the world. So this Bible says he's talking to me. This grain is the interplay of scripture. One part commenting on the other really without our minds understanding in the first.

Here it is. These things I've spoken into you being yet present with you, but the comforter. Which is the Holy Ghost and the father will send in my name. So sometimes when you say, oh Jesus do this or Jesus do is the Holy Ghost does it?

It's the Holy Ghost. He's come to you from the father and he is sending him in the name of Jesus because is exactly like him. Like Jesus was exactly like the father in a human form. And we have to avoid Patriotism.

I suppose you've learned all that have you been taught doctrine or patriotism. Is a heresy from the past, but they said it was the father died on the cross. But you needn't bother your head with that.

Here's the big thing for you to see. Father tells you scripture the father forsook Jesus or God did in a way He that loveth me not and I've said all these things before the Holy Ghost will come verse 26 in father's name.

He'll bring to remembrance whatsoever I said unto you, you know, I rely on them. I can't preach if God doesn't bring it to my remembrance. I Don't rely on notes pun. Goodbye Rita. I Come again tomorrow and listen to this gentleman.

Christ’s Peace in the Face of Trouble

Bye-bye. Well, someone's talking to me it's a I rely on. He will bring to me my remembrance all the things he has said unto me. I don't want much what man has said unto me. Peace I leave with you. My peace I give unto you and their minds must have gone back to the incident on the lake when he said It must have gone back to there my peace I give unto you.

You know, but if you claim to be a very filth which is what I should expect to find you. You will have be you'll be a peaceful. That's what decided me again becoming a soldier. Because they are for war.

Oh, whatever call kind you call it. Here it is. He said I Leave it with you. Not as a world give this good. I aren't you let not your heart be troubled because you know lots of people that you're Perhaps reckoned to believe a peep leaf with men with their wives for it's all person except.

Yes, I leave my peace with you. Don't you make any excuses? I said well it was his fault. Well, it was her fault. Think of the peace in which Jesus lived. That's isn't it? You've heard How I said unto you I go away and come to you.

You've got come again, but Better get the idea. He goes away and comes he didn't come again in a manger. He came again into those. That they decided to do away with themselves if you like commit suicide.

Go to the cross. No, but you say Roger that's the one death. You cannot commit you can electify yourself. You can cut your own throat. You can do everything else take poison if you want, but you can't crucify yourself.

You see, but God will crucify you. Oh, it's a marvelous crucifixion. Now don't get it all wrong nothing to do with a beer dollar Rosa or anything like that. He doesn't crucify me today. He did it. And this is what faith is it carries me if you like back to the cross, but most of us it's All right, you have no right to breathe breathing one breath on this earth.

It has to be him in you the Christ. The crucified Christ hallelujah. You know, I wish you can call me bloodthirsty. I wish I could crucify every one of you. If you aren't already crucified this awful self this self promoting self this self glory and self.

This traditionally unbelieving self or begrudgingly believing God I tell you it's all done if you'll agree to be buried With him. I heard a man say once. Someone else he was speaking. He said the trouble with him.

He's never been to his own funeral. Funny, isn't it? It's very witty. Isn't it Lovely perhaps you might say that about me, but let's go on shall we I Leave you my peace. I Will go away and come with you.

If you love me, you would rejoice. Because I said I go into my father for my father is greater than I. And now I have told you before it comes to pass that when it is come to pass you might believe. Hereafter I will not talk much with you.

The Prince of This World and Christ’s Obedience

For the prince of this world cometh, you know, that's the devil don't you and have nothing in the. And isn't it? You know what salesmen do they used to try to do whether they do it or not. They knock at your door ring the bell you open the door and they start there.

You'll find they've got their foot in the door just over the sill so as you can't shut it with Jesus. Anyway, not selling himself. He's giving you himself If you will have him. As my father gave me commandment.

Even so I do. Right. I will normally say to be continued in the morning was going to continue and He represents a man. He represents the society not just the man Worldwide and I knew The former secretary and he was very dear to me.

Stayed often in Bulstrode and in The home or whatever you want to call it the flat of Of little mole from his wife I Lay on the floor with them once. Up in the place where I was working now. Why are you seeking the Holy Ghost in a big way?

Hallelujah, I honor them under society so you listen.