John 13:31–14:7

[Music] [Music] hey welcome to coffee and devotions this tuesday morning this where every weekday morning at 9 00 am and on the weekends when i get a spare moment from my kids you and i we get together we have some coffee we're getting to god's word and we grow in our love for the lord together and this year 2020 we'll make it through all the gospels well if you want something fun for 2021 i have a big surprise coming up so stay tuned stay tuned until the end of this video as i show you something that we've created that i hope will be helpful to you for 2021 well we're still playing a little bit of ketchup we are at john chapter 13 verses 31 down through chapter 14 verse 7. it's not terrible today why don't we go ahead and have some coffee pray and get into god's word let's pray father we thank you so much for this day and we thank you for your word we pray now that as we get into your word that you would bless us and care for us that you would work in our hearts that we would understand these things that we would have a peace that surpasses all understanding as we rest in jesus christ it's in his name we pray amen when i say it's not terrible none of the bible is terrible i mean it's not terribly long why don't we go ahead and jump in today john chapter 13 beginning at verse 31 so when he had gone out jesus sat said now the son of man is glorified and god is glorified in him if god is glorified in him god will also glorify him in himself and glorify him immediately little children i shall be with you a little while longer you seek me and as i said to the jews where i am going you cannot come so now i say to you a new commandment i give to you that you love one another as i have loved you that you also love one another by this all will know that you are my disciples if you love one another simon peter said to him lord where are you going jesus answered him where i am going you cannot follow me but you shall follow me afterward peter said to him lord why can we not follow you now i will lay down my life for your sake jesus answered him will you lay down your life for my sake most assuredly i say to you the roosters shall not crow till you have denied me three times then chapter 14 the first seven verses let not your heart be troubled you believe in god believe in me also in my father's house are many mansions if it were not so i would have told you i go to prepare a place for you and if i go to prepare a place for you i will come again and receive you to myself that where i am there you may be also and where i go you know and the way you know thomas said to him lord we don't know where you are going and how can we know the way jesus said to him i am the way and the truth and the life no one comes to the father except by or through me if you had known me you would also have known my father also and from now on i say and from now on you know him and have seen him well what a beautiful passage we have for us this morning we need to ask ourselves a what is this about b what is the best verse to summarize this passage and see what are we called to do in response to these words so first a what is this about well jesus tells them that he's he's leaving jesus is trying to tell them that he is going to be dead buried raised again and go into heaven they don't know this obviously we have the end of the story but in their lived situation as a wrestling with this jesus is saying he is going to be glorified right he is going to be exalted he is going to be made absolutely wonderful and he goes on after that though it's it's amazing what he says john the apostle picks us up in his book first john as he fleshes out what jesus meant by this but jesus says in verse 34 a new commandment i give to you that you love one another as i have loved you that you also love one another isn't that what jesus had just done as he had washed his disciples feet as he had just cared for them in that extremely humble way well in that next part you know christ tells simon peter that he's going to reject him not once not twice but three times in the margin of my bible i would say jesus tells peter that he's going to deny him the next seven verses are are interesting they keep tying together this idea that flows between 13 and 14 where jesus saying he's leaving and where he goes they cannot follow but they'll go there with him and what does he mean by this and and jesus tells right after he told peter right after he told him he was going to deny him that he actually wouldn't lay down his life for him what does he say do not let your hearts be troubled jesus was going to go away jesus was going to depart he was going to be put into the grave and none of them would follow him there but where he was ultimately going up into heaven they would follow him there he says don't let your hearts be troubled jesus is preparing that place for them jesus is preparing a home for them in his father's house there are many rooms if it weren't the case he would have told them that but thomas doesn't get this right the first part a about five through seven he says where are you going we don't know how we're supposed to get there and jesus says one of the most memorable things i am the way the truth and the love and the life no one comes to the father but through me see jesus is saying you want to get to the father you want to see the father you get through me you want to go and be in the presence of god almighty himself you go through me you believe in me you trust in me you love me you serve others like i served you because you love me what's the best verse for this well recently i've preached two funeral sermons on john 14 1-4 and i think that's it's a wonderful passage maybe you would underline that as the best verse to summarize this section it in my bible though i'm actually going to underline those three verses there 15 or five six and seven i think that's the heart of what's getting on here what are we called to do in response to this what are you called to do in your life as you respond to these words first do you love jesus christ do you trust in him do you desire to be with god the father almighty forever if so you only get there through faith in jesus christ do you desire to seek after god maybe you need to love others is there an opportunity for service in your life is there a way in which you can be serving others around you to demonstrate that love of jesus these might not be instagramable ways to serve these might not be things that you want to let your right hand know what your left hand is doing type of ways might not be big public ways but are there ways in your life that you can be serving are there ways that you can be showing the love of jesus christ let me know down in the comments or shoot me a message what is a way that you would like to be serving as christ served and lastly callings hope do you have hope that if you believe in jesus christ that there is a place for you with the father we're going to see that jesus has more to teach on this tomorrow so i'm going to hold off a little bit but if you've gone this far i thank you for stick sticking with me you know that i love reading the bible you know that this is one of the things that i want to encourage you to do on a regular basis and so we are at december 15th we are only half a month away from 2021 and so i've created a new tool for you and i wanted to show you that it's going to be right on our website so let me show you this tool so if you went to our website this is our our website sharonrpc.org some of you are already on there right now and if you go to sharonrpc.org backslash 2021 bible reading plans i'll put this as a post on our facebook and and stuff like that later or you can send me a message and let me know but if you go here this is a tool i've made in as little as ours as max six questions you can have a custom bible reading plan just for you so the first thing is you ask you answer a question do you want to get the big picture this year or do you want to do it a deep dive and so let's say we want to uh take a deep dive we didn't want to take the whole scriptures we wanted to just take a chunk so we can say we want to do a deep dive and then we need to be honest do we have a lot of time or a little bit of time well i don't have that much time that's understandable that's fine so the question is do you want to do the old testament new testament or the whole bible i'm kind of interested in the old testament so i'm going to click there well this next question is great what do you want to do right what do you want to read do you want to read the prophets do you want to read the poetry and wisdom do you want to read some of the prophets well let's go ahead and do some poetry and wisdom and now based on the poetry and wisdom there's a custom plan just for you so if you click on get my custom plan it'll take you right to your 2021 bible reading plan for the year and you can print this out you can stick it in your bible and you can find a custom plan just for you feel free to use this form as many times as you'd like to find one of these plans that you think will work best for you if you don't want to go through the tool you're always more than welcome to just scroll down and find all the plans as well they're they're all there for you you can see them all all of them are downloadable pdfs that you can print and they have hyperlinks on them so if you're going to use them on the computer you can click it'll take you to a website called logos and if you log in you can go and read the bible for free online that way so all that to say we have a whole bunch of fun bible reading plans for you to work through this is a customizable tool for you i will put that link in the comments if that's something that would be helpful to you feel free to hit that like or love button and until i see you tomorrow may the grace and peace of our lord jesus christ fill your heart this 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