Jesus' Personal Promises

Old Testament reading will be out Psalm 56 starting in verse 8 to 13.

You have kept count of my tossing my tears in your bottle.

Are they not in your book.

Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call This.

I know that God is for me.

In God whose word I praise in.

In the Lord whose word I praise.

In God I trust.

I shall not be afraid.

What can man do to me.

I must Perform my vows to you.

Oh God, I will render.

Thanks offering to you.

For you have delivered my soul from death.

Yes, my feet from falling that I may walk before God in the light of life.

New Testament scripture is Luke 22 beginning in verse 7.

Then came the day of unleavened bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.

So Jesus sent Peter and John saying go and prepare the Passover for us that we may eat of it.

They said to him.

Where will you have us prepare it?

He said to them behold when you have entered the city a man carrying a jar of water will meet you.

Follow him into the house that he enters and tell the master of the house.

The teacher says to you Where is the guest room?

Where where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?

And he will show you a large upper room furnished prepare it there and they went and found it just

as he had told them and they prepared the Passover and When the hour came he

reclined at the table and the apostles with him and he said to them.

I Have earnestly desired to eat the Passover with you before I suffer.

For I tell you I will not eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.

And he took a cup and when he had given thanks he said take this and divide it among yourselves.

For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.

And he took bread and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to them saying this is my body which is given for

you do this in remembrance of me and Likewise a cup after they had eaten

saying this cup that is poured out for you is a new covenant in my blood.

But behold the hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table for the Son of Man goes

as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed and

They begin to question one another which of them it could be who was going to do this.

A Dispute also arose among them as to which of them was to be

regarded as the greatest.

And he said to them the kings of the Gentiles exercise exercise lordship over them and

Those in authority over them are called benefactors.

But not so with you rather.

Let the greatest among you become as a youngest and the leader as the one as one who serves.

For who is greater?

Who is the greater one who reclines at the table or one who serves?

Is it not the one who reclines at the table?

But I am among you as the one who serves.

You may be seated.

Good morning.

I'd like for you to turn your Bibles to John 14.

Decided to tackle a pretty big passage.

So I'm going to be hitting some of the key highlights and I'm gonna

ask you to hang with it.

Verse 1.

Like to read verses 1 through 23.

Let not your heart be troubled.

Believe in God.

Believe also in me.

In my father's house are many rooms.

If it were not so what I have told you I Go to prepare a place for you.

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and I will take you to myself and where I am

you may be also and You know the way To where I'm going.

Thomas said to him Lord.

We do not know where you are going.

How can we know the way?

Jesus said I am the way the truth and the life no one comes to the father

Except through me.

If you had known me you would have known my father also from now on.

You do know him and have seen him.

Philip said to him Lord show us the father and it is enough for us.

Jesus said to him have I been with you so long that you still do not know me Philip.

Whoever has seen me has seen the father.

How can you say show us the father?

Do you not believe that I am in the father and the father is in me?

The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own Authority, but the father's who

dwells in me does his work.

Believe me that I am in the father and the father is in me or else believe on the account of the

works themselves truly truly I say to you whoever believes in me will also do

the works that I do and Greater works than these will he do because

I am going to the father.

Whatever you ask in my name this I will do and the father may be glorified in the Son if you

ask me.

Anything in my name I will do it if you love me, you will keep my commandments

and I will ask the father and he will give you another helper to be with

you forever.

Even the spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him.

But you know him.

For he dwells with you and will be in you.

I Will not leave you as orphans.

I will come to you yet a little while and the world will see me no more.

But you will see me because I live.

You also will live in that day.

You will know that I am in my father and you and me and I in you.

Whoever has my commandments and keeps them he it is who loves me and he who loves me

will be loved by my father.

And I will love him and me and manifest myself to him.

Judas not a scary it said to him Lord.

How is it that you will make yourself known to us and Not to the world.

And Jesus answered if anyone loves me he will keep my words and my

father will love him and We will come to him and make our

home with him.

Let's pray.

Father we ask for your strength father we ask

for You to help us as we open your word and hear what you

have to say to us.

May you speak?

May you use?

This moment in time to change our hearts.

To affirm to us your goodness in our

lives.

Your faithfulness in our lives and That your words are

powerful and your words are for eternal purposes in our

lives.

Father we praise you and thank you for your son Jesus Christ in his name.

We pray Amen.

Interesting this starts out.

Let not your heart be troubled and here I am all this week.

Troubled what are we worried about right?

God's Word is true.

So I want to tell don't do a little background here as far as why are the disciples troubled?

You know, we understand we have trouble every day, right?

Every day in our lives.

There's trouble.

Disciples are Dealing with troubles and Christ, of course knew this.

Jesus was with his disciples for the past three years.

Jesus has done everything for them.

He called them he taught them he fed them he sheltered them he paid their taxes.

He protected them from both Roman and Jewish leaders.

He saved them both physically and spiritually.

That is except for Judas and now preparing them for the future Jesus

has led them for three years towards a great kingdom a kingdom that he often referred to as

God's kingdom.

To.

My kingdom things were just starting to line up for this kingdom and these disciples

minds anyway as.

The people were waving palm branches and shouting Hosanna Blessed is he who

comes in the name of the Lord even the king of Israel.

The disciples were hearing this ringing in their ears.

They were convinced that Jesus was setting up an earthly kingdom.

Even so that they were there were several arguments recorded among the disciples.

Other discussions directly held with Jesus about who would be positioned on his right and on his

left.

All the while Jesus himself was trouble.

He was troubled in his spirit according to John 1331 concerning his

upcoming suffering.

His death that he knew was what was inevitable.

With the unbelieving Jews and disciples around him.

He considered consider his very own disciples Judas the betrayer

Peter who was about to become the denier Thomas

the consistent doubter and the other disciples That lacked faith

and showed ignorance and their lack of understanding of what Jesus was saying to them and

These were supposed to be his closest companions.

The thing that bothers me the most this is off -script.

Is that the portion that we read this morning.

Christ was trying to tell them about his death his upcoming death.

And what were they doing.

They ended up arguing over who was the greatest.

How was that how is that to leave you in a troubled situation.

This is the thing that's really boggled my mind with the disciples and yet We do some of the same

things.

The troubling part for the disciples is that Jesus is now stating that he's leaving he's going to suffer and die.

Throughout the week of Passover Jesus had been telling the disciples that he was leaving.

John 12 32 starts out by saying that he was going to die

1333 he says and a little while I Am with you and Peter even states

states in 1336.

Where are you going?

Disciples have no clue.

They don't understand.

In this chapter that we've read this morning in chapter 14 in verses 2 and 3 Jesus is saying

I go.

He says it again in verse 3 I go verse 4 he says I am going and verse 12 He's saying I

am going and in verse 5 Thomas states plainly Lord.

We do not know where you are going.

How can we know the way?

These disciples were clearly confused their mindset.

They're thinking their direction is all going one way.

And.

Jesus is Trying to tell them that he is the way.

And he's going a different direction than what they are thinking.

Yet, they're troubled because well the party's over.

They've been hanging together for three years.

This is a very Crisis tried to create a tightly -knit group to listen and to follow

and follow them.

But yet Peter's sentiments apply here from Matthew 19 where it was a totally different

subject.

But it applies here where he says we have left everything to follow you.

What then will there be for us.

It's a great question if Christ leaves, what would there be for us?

Who would we be without Christ?

Where will we be without him and this is the troubling questions that are hitting them?

Disciples are troubled confused things are not going the way that they had they had thought the pieces no

longer fit together the way That they had planned.

What are we going to do if he leaves.

Are we going to be abandoned here without him.

In Chapter 13 Peter asked asked the Lord.

Why can I not follow you?

Why can I not follow now?

I'll lay down my life for you.

Jesus's words to Peter are almost haunting.

Will you lay down your life for me?

We like Peter have a difficult time making our life our loves our loyalties to the

Lord on a daily basis let alone.

Physically laying down our life.

Yet Jesus loved them in their unfaithfulness their fear and in

their doubt.

In fact John says in chapter 13 verse 1.

Having loved his own.

Who were in the world he loved them to the end?

That's a powerful statement that Christ was with them and he loved them every moment that he

was with them.

The disciples needed to be reminded of what God said to Joshua.

Which applied to their present time which now applies to their present time?

I will never leave you or forsake you.

Be strong and courageous do not be frightened.

And do not be dismayed for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.

Joshua 1 5.

This is a good reminder for us.

These are promises that Christ is going to make to the disciples that apply to us they apply to

us every day to be a reminder a Promise from Jesus Christ

as we're going to see is eternal.

He.

Doesn't change his words.

He doesn't mince words.

He doesn't change his mind.

He doesn't tell you something to get you on his side and then later do something for himself in fact.

While he was troubled to go to the cross in chapter 13 he

loved them and continued to show them humility of Word and indeed by

washing their feet.

This is the king of glory stooping to wash their dirty feet.

Jesus washes our feet and he makes a promise.

He makes many promises to us and here's just a few and I might not even get through all of them because of

time.

But I'm gonna start and we'll see how this goes.

So what promises does Jesus give the disciples and how do they apply to us?

Jesus promises a personal and permanent place with him.

Verse 1.

But not your heart be troubled.

Believe in God.

Believe also in me.

Comfort is found when we trust Jesus for what he says.

Even when Jesus was facing facing the worst situation on life in life to die a

humiliating death to be forsaken by God.

Because of our sin and the full payment of our sin that was pinned on him was nailed to the

cross yet He loved and cared for these men.

He loved us.

Even while we were yet sinners.

So, how does he comfort them first he starts out by saying?

Let not your heart be troubled or in other words.

Stop.

Letting your heart be troubled.

Stop being troubled stop the bleeding stop thinking

this way.

You believe in God.

Who you cannot see?

Believe me who you do see and have before you when he's talking about a belief.

He's saying.

Obey.

He's saying have faith.

Believe in me.

Jesus has given the disciples his word and if you don't believe what I say believe in my works.

This is what he told the unbelieving Jews.

Are you like them?

That you have to have a work have works before you in order for you to believe.

You've seen me heal the lame the blind the leper the demon -possessed feed feed the thousands.

From my hand and with my powerful truthful words.

Raise dead men back to life.

What's not to believe.

What's not to trust.

Keep watching me.

Keep believing me if you turn to Hebrews.

1 pastor Tim has been doing a study on Hebrews and right in

the very beginning of this.

Book is a.

Extremely powerful statement.

And I think that it fits perfectly.

Because Jesus is speaking to them and he's telling them in verse 3 he

Jesus is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact

imprint of God's nature and he.

Jesus.

Upholds the universe by the power of his word.

In other words The word of his power or the power of his word.

He holds all things together not with his hands with

his word.

Just with his word.

When Christ tells us not to be troubled.

I Need to I need to listen.

Why?

The disciples need to listen.

It is from his words that all this power that is that is possessed and just in what he has to say.

We need to realize his power the authority of his words for our lives and for the disciples need to realize this for

themselves.

He goes on to say in my father's house are many rooms.

The father's house is heaven in this context.

Christ.

Stated that he's going back home to be with his father and that he is going to prepare a

place for you.

How is Jesus preparing this place?

Did he go there with hammer and nails and Lumber.

How did Christ prepare this place?

He did this with an instruments of the cross an Empty tomb his shed

blood and his resurrected life.

These are the tools that were used in order to prepare heaven for his children.

Do you realize that his heavenly preparation is already done?

If we stay in Hebrews read the second half of the verse again.

It says he is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature

and he upholds the universe With the power of his word.

Part B is the key point here after making purification for sins

our sins.

He sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high.

When the Son of God sat down it meant that his work in preparing heaven was complete.

It's done.

He's not still working on it.

He did it once and for all.

Your detail room is ready, sir.

It's been ready.

It's been waiting.

But the disciples didn't did not have the privilege of knowing what you and I know.

For they could not see and know what you and I know.

They didn't know what was gonna happen in the next 24 hours.

So it was all coming together for them right little by little.

Can I share one more truth for you with you?

It's a it's a freebie.

Not a BB but a freebie.

And act 7.

When Stephen was being stoned he made a statement before his death that applies here.

It says that the Jews were about to stone him and that he gazed into heaven and said

behold.

I see the heavens open and the Son of Man Standing

at the right hand of God.

I.

He was seated but he stands to welcome

Stephen the standard to

welcome us to his eternal home.

It's finished already.

He's prepared it for his children so Jesus words are great words of hope

the hope of heaven and not only that but Jesus adds to his words of promise and hope and even more.

When he says to the disciples, I'll come again.

And I will take you to be with myself that where I am you may also be heaven is with Jesus.

That's the hope that's heaven.

Where God is is heaven where Christ is is heaven.

The reward is Christ.

It isn't this eternal plush.

Place like our vacations may be sometimes.

The beauty is it's where Christ is.

All right, it's an eternal promise.

Book the trip.

Hang your hat on it.

Yes.

I'm leaving you in order to prepare the way for you and to Save you all.

It reminds me it reminds me of a story that I had to look up there was.

I was trying to get a wrap my mind around this a little bit more and It's like the story of

a true story of a famous Explorer his name is Ernest Shackleford or Shackleton and

his crew of 28 men left England aboard a ship called Endurance on August the 8th 1914 to

fulfill his dream of crossing the solar polar Continent or the south polar continent

from sea to sea during the expedition.

The ship got trapped in ice.

Shackleton and his men found themselves marooned in an ant in the Antarctic for five months.

They lived on top of floating ice they fed on seals kept warm by playing hockey and

holding dog sled races in.

April of.

1916 Shackleton and five of his men set off for Set off in three small

lifeboats that they had recovered to find help on Elephant Island.

The six men spent 16 days crossing over 800 miles of ocean.

The six men landed landed on an uninhabited part of the island.

So their last hope was to cross 26 miles of treacherous mountains

until finally they reached a whaling station where they found help.

Shackleton returned to rescue the remaining men on the ship on the

ship Endurance and Found in their amazement apart apart from missing

a few toes from frostbite.

No one member of the crew was lost.

You got to wonder what Shackleton said to these men these.

Other.

22 men.

He didn't even expect them to be alive.

But the reality is he came back for them.

There was hope for these men to continue to live and to survive.

Christ is saying To these men.

I'm coming back.

I'm Coming back.

I'm coming back to get you.

This is a hope.

There's great hope when we're stranded in this earth when we're dealing with all the things that we deal with.

As Believers we have this great.

Hope of Christ's return.

Now would be a good time for the disciples to remember what the Lord had told Moses.

To speak to the people crossing the River Jordan.

Be strong be courageous.

Do not fear or be in dread of them.

For it is the Lord God who goes with you he will not only he will not

leave you or forsake you as God led Israel by the pillar of fire into the

promised land of milk and honey.

So it is the foreshadowing of heaven for us.

Just like little children like just like the children of Israel who had sojourned at forum desert land

Jesus says that there is only one way to heaven to the Father and we are

not sojourning.

Alone.

Second Jesus promises the way to him the way to heaven and The way to the

Heavenly Father in verses 4 through 6.

It says, you know the way to where I'm going.

Thomas said to him Lord.

We do not know where you are going.

How can we know the way?

The famous verse that Jesus says is our path to hope

Path to eternity.

Jesus says I'm the way I'm the truth.

I'm the life.

No one comes to the father but by me.

He starts out with a positive of I am I'm the way I am

truth.

I Am life.

Jesus had used these things prior to as He as he was teaching these men

as to who the I am is but the negative connotation here is no one.

No one will see heaven.

No one will see the father except through me.

Through.

The way I am the way means that it is an exclusive path

to Salvation that is the only path that leads to the father.

It is the path of faith in Jesus Christ.

So.

We need to follow that path.

In fact, Jesus says in Matthew 7 13 enter by the narrow gate.

For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction and those who enter by it are

many.

For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life and

Those who find it are few.

In fact Jesus said earlier in John 10 truly truly I say to you I am the door

if anyone enters by me.

He will be saved and will go in and.

Out and.

Find pasture.

There's life Through this door.

He said I am the truth.

I'm the truth to the way and.

And what is this truth and what is this way.

To follow him by walking and living like Jesus Christ walked.

Jesus walked in truth and an obedience to his to his heavenly father.

To his father's will and Humbly lived and served and died for us.

I Am the life.

John 1 4 states that in him was life.

In this life was the light of men.

Or in other words Nothing was made that has not been made to live except through and by him.

What did he say to Martha in John 12.

Actually was my last sermon maybe you don't remember either.

I Am the resurrection and the life.

Whoever believes in me though he died yet shall he live.

And everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die.

Friend you're not living Unless you've met Christ.

There is no life.

There is no real life without Jesus Christ.

He upholds life.

He is life.

He is life eternal.

That's why he is our hope.

Jesus promises a Personal assurance and I've turned to verse 15.

It says if you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Well, how is that a promise?

How is that a personal assurance a promise?

The Lord told the disciples that one of you will betray me and that In their

minds dust.

The disciples were questioning that If you walked in here and said one of you are going to betray me we'd all be saying is it

me.

What assurance do I have that it's not going to be me that's going to be the betrayer.

Christ gives them a Condition of insurance.

The term is if you love me You will keep my commandment.

You'll be keeping his commandments or you will be.

Obedient.

This is like a person's acid test so to speak to see if whether We're truly one of his.

To continue to love and obey Jesus Christ is in and of itself our statement of

true saving faith.

This is a true love for Christ a supreme affection.

A Loyalty to him is what marks our lives and assures

our hearts every time we submit and obey him With all your heart mind and soul

and spirit.

Are you passing the test?

Peter was a denier.

Did he pass the test?

It's a good question, isn't it?

Judas.

Turned his back.

Did he pass the test?

What's the difference between these two men?

Peter passed the test.

Because he confessed to Christ.

He was broken in remorse.

In his sin as a true believer.

Jesus asked him three times.

Do you love me Lord?

You know that I love you.

He said Christ wanted to feed a sheep.

What did Peter do?

He responded Through repentance.

He responded to Christ in his love for him.

Christ said in Revelation to him who overcomes believer.

We sin and we sin every day.

And just as it was prayed this morning that we would continually seek to repent

Daily and be right before the Lord.

How did Judas respond?

He didn't overcome.

He killed himself.

That's the response and If we don't overcome

We're basically Allowing death to occur to our eternal life.

Live because Christ lives, right.

So there's an assurance Christ said even in Matthew 10 that you would love me

more than these talking about father and mother children.

Your own desires.

Your own wants your own aspirations are those before your love for Christ.

And only your heart before the Lord can answer those questions.

Jesus promises personal help.

Many of you know this passage as well.

This is a very well -known section both one through Through the

chapter, but in verse 16 The Lord is saying

asking the father.

He says I will ask the father and he will give you Another helper to be with you forever.

Who's the other helper?

Jesus is the one helper that they knew right?

But he's saying he'll give you another helper.

Even the Spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him.

But you know him.

For he dwells with you and will be in you now.

This is a word of promise and hope.

Christ was with them.

But now he says I'm gonna send another helper and we know that that who that helper is, right?

The Holy Spirit.

And What is there in heaven that

the father would not give to his son?

I'm going to ask the father.

I'm gonna ask daddy for this.

What wouldn't his father not give him?

What did Christ already do he already obeyed the Heavenly Father?

He's already obeying him as he walks to the cross.

What would God withhold from his son?

What father would?

Withhold anything from their son if they know it's good for him, right?

But especially Jesus Philippians said that He

died on the cross and obedience and God highly exalted him and gave him the name above every

name.

He pleased the father.

Jesus pleased the father and so when Christ prays for us

He fulfilled it as he does everything that he says.

So.

Another helper means this terminology means another of the exact same

kind.

It is Jesus's very spirit.

It is God the Father's very Spirit that is going to be exactly like

Jesus that would be comforting to the to these disciples.

Because they knew they knew Jesus.

But now Jesus is going to be He is offering for his spirit

to be with them.

Only it's going to be better.

You're saying how can it be better than Jesus being with me?

That's why we want to go to heaven, right?

We want to see Jesus face to face.

We want to be with him.

But yet it's even better.

Because Jesus was confined by his humanity.

Jesus could only be if you will in one place at one time

With the disciples.

Not that he was sinful or not that he was limited in Anything that he could do

but in this point of humility in his.

Humanness.

He could have only be with the disciples and It would be like after we leave I

Can't be with each of you, but you can be with me right now, right?

When we go home, it's just you know, Deb and I the same thing's true with Jesus.

He couldn't be with the disciples if he was going to die.

Right, but what he says.

I'm gonna do something even better.

I'm gonna place my spirit not only with you But that spirit of mine

will be in you and in you all at the same time.

Believers Jesus Christ is present with us Because he

lives in our lives.

He is promised.

So the beauty of us being together is the Spirit of God is working on Your life

and when you come and encourage me and I'm he's working in my life.

We just sharpen that.

We just strengthen that.

So.

Greg Field was right all along.

We need to be together.

We need to be together.

A Helper who will

not only be with you, but he will also be in you.

The term helper has a lot of meanings.

The base meaning is one called alongside of and you've all heard this from Genesis.

One called alongside to help.

Genesis 218 says it is not good that The man should be alone.

I will make him a helper fit for him.

Helper has a lot of meanings.

Deb is my helper.

Heaven forbid where I'd be right now without my helper.

But.

Helper has a lot of meanings.

It has more than a marriage relationship Relationship With God's Spirit

as our helper it has a lot of meanings to strengthen the relationship

Jesus.

Jesus's Spirit lives Inside every believer and

is working in behalf of the believer.

Helping Revealing truth interpreting the word

Guiding through the word counseling through the word

encouraging teaching comforting convicting Correcting

only a few of the things that God's Spirit does in our life according to

his word and.

Jesus said.

He's going to live with you and will be in you it's a promise.

So he's no longer living just beside you as Christ did but Christ sent his Spirit to live in

us.

Jesus promises his personal closeness in verses 18 through 20.

I will not leave you as orphans.

I will come to you yet a little while and the world will see me no more.

But you will see me because I live and you also will live in.

That day you will know that I am in the Father and you in me and I in you.

What Christ is saying is a is Basically a figure of speech.

I will not leave you as orphans, but he's gonna go die.

He just said I'm going right.

But what he's saying is I am leaving for the cross for my death.

I will come to you and after I die and after my burial I Will see you.

Then and then I'll see you again

on the final day.

The world will not see me.

In fact Christ returned.

He revealed himself only to the believers.

In fact, no unbeliever ever saw Christ after his resurrection.

Think about his appearing and when that happened Dr. Lawson, Dr. Steve Lawson who

I Really appreciated in some of these studies said if I were Christ

I think I would want to walk down the middle of the street of Jerusalem.

And show myself off to the world.

Just to prove them wrong and to say I told you I'd arise on the third day.

But Christ didn't do that.

It wasn't according to his words.

His words Said that he will come to us.

Believer.

The world has no truth no wisdom no

life.

No way out.

No answer to our future no hope.

Why do we listen to the world's lies?

Be wise it does not

see nor does it know God.

Don't get hung up On what the world is dishing out.

Stay Focused and believe In God.

Christ gives us another promise very quickly verses 21

through 23.

Whoever has my command and keeps them he it is who loves me and he who loves me what

you've already heard.

He who loves me will be loved by my father.

It's not just an assurance now That we're saved because we know that we love him and obey him.

Christ is adding to it if you will he who loves me will be loved by my father and

I will love he loved him and Make myself known to him so Judas

says Lord.

How is it that you will make yourself known to us and not to the world?

Since if anyone loves me he will keep my word and my father will love him and

We will come to him and make our home or abide in him

in verse 15 Jesus.

Jesus helps them understand that their obedience to Jesus is the assurance of love for him in

their obedience that is and Serves as an affirmation of being his child, but here

Jesus reassures his love for them.

Not only do I love you because you love me the father loves you as well.

This is why you're not left abandoned like a broken marriage.

But you're more than loved by the father and the son.

I Will not only tell you that he says that I love you, but I'm about to show

you as well.

No greater love.

No one no greater.

Love has anyone and him who lays down his life for his friends.

What Christ is saying is is that not only is the Holy Spirit gonna live in your life, but I am too

because you love me because you obey me and Because you love me

the father Loves you.

It's very simple principle.

You like my kids.

I Like you.

It's easy for us humanly.

It's easy to love someone who loves you, right?

But Christ said that he would die.

Even while we were sinners.

God is different, but the point is is you're not alone.

Because the Spirit of God lives in you.

Jesus Christ is The Spirit and Christ is saying and father's in me.

We're not alone The deity of God lives and operates

in.

Our lives.

The realization is They are stable.

We on the other hand we have the tendency of doing some of these things.

We are like a wave.

Sin is that wave.

Sin pulls us away from that relationship.

But as we obey more and more every day.

And as we grow Relationship with the Father and the Son and the Spirit grows

an encouraging verse.

Think about Peter's life.

Think about Peter's life.

He really blew it.

I know each one of us can sit here and say man I really blew it.

Peter blew it big and the whole world knows.

Everybody knows about Peter's life.

But there was an overcoming.

Because he believed and then he writes later in his mature life as He led the disciples as

he loved Christ as he shared the truth as he died Similarly to the way

Christ died.

Here's a man that says later in first Peter 1 6 through 8.

In this you rejoice.

Though now for a little while if necessary you have been grieved by

various trials.

So that the tested genuineness of your faith.

More precious than gold that perishes though.

It is tested by fire.

May be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

That's encouraging coming from a man who's been tested and sifted by

Satan himself.

Though you have not seen him you love him though you do not now see

him you believe in him and

rejoice with joy that is Inexpressible and filled with glory.

Let's pray.

Father your word is So great and

the power of your word holds all things together and your

word is a promise to us That you will not leave us or forsake us that you will live

in your children and that you will help us and

comfort us as we walk in this world and as we're bombarded with

all kinds of Information and so many

lies.

Lord help us to realize that we have to run to you at all times.

We have to see what your word has to say what your spirit has to teach us and to hold fast to

these things.

Help us father to hold fast to your promises and to the

faithful one.

Faithful and true is.

Jesus.

So we praise you and thank you in his name for your word and for your son we pray

amen.