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Jesus Leaves a Helper:
The Third Person of the Trinity and God’s Power on Earth
John 14:15-26
I. Jesus Reveals the Manifestation of the Holy Spirit
A. The Eternal Helper for loving and obeying God (15-24)
1. The Spirit is manifest in love for God
2. The Spirit is manifest in love for others
B. The Eternal Helper for knowing God (25-26)
Asking in Jesus’ Name:
Understanding How God Works Through Christian Requests
John 14:7-14
I. Misinterpreting the call to pray in Jesus’ name
A. Believing is seeing
B. Accept the responses that God gives to our prayers
1. We assume prayers will be answered in our way
2. We assume that if they do not go our way then there was no answer
3. We assume that whatever answer we receive is the only or final answer
C. Understand that praying in Jesus’ name is about access and not effectiveness
I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life:
Discovering Truth in a World of Lies
John 14:1-6
I. The lie of the morally relative church culture is that Christ makes life easy (1-3)
A. We cannot minimize our own troubles
B. We cannot minimize the trouble of others
C. We cannot minimize the power of God over trouble
1. Jesus is God (Trust in God)
2. He has made his children a home in heaven (Hope in Glory)
3. He is going to prepare that place (A personalized dwelling)
4. He will return and take us to that place (He wins, therefore we win)
II. The lie of the morally relative worldly culture is that Christ is one God of many (4-6)
A. The Way
B. The Truth
C. The Life
Faithful to the Plan:
The Faithful Revealed
John 13:31-38 (2)
I. The Faithful one knows God’s glory is in the cross
II. The faithful one demonstrates God’s glory through love
A. Love Christ
B. Love each other
C. Love your enemies
1. You can’t love your enemy on your own power
2. You cannot passively love your enemies
III. The faithful one needs God’s glory in failure
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