<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span data-ke-size="size26">The Gospel According to John Chapter 14</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;">The Bible Text from <u></u><u><a href="https://www.bible.com/bible/111/JHN.14.NIV" target="_top" class="ke-link">https://www.bible.com/bible/111/JHN.14.NIV</a></u></p><p style="text-align: left;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><span data-ke-size="size23"><b><span style="color: #c75252;">The New Hope in Despair</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size23"><b><span style="color: #315f97;">Jesus Comforts His Disciples</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size20">1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God ; believe also in me. <span style="color: #c75252;">(Jesus comforts His disciples in such a stressful moment of His imminent departure.)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size20">2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? <span style="color: #c75252;">(This world is a very small part of the Kingdom of God. He will prepare our residences there; the ultimate hope in despair.)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size20">3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. <span style="color: #c75252;">(Amazing blessing to be with the Lord forever.)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size20">4 You know the way to the place where I am going.” <span style="color: #c75252;">(Now the disciples came to know the place up there.)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"> </p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size23"><b><span style="color: #315f97;">Jesus the Way to the Father</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size20">5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” <span style="color: #c75252;">(Thomas was a funny guy, 20:25, but honest enough to reveal his lack of understanding asking questions to Jesus where He is going for all of us. How much do we know the truth of the yet untraveled world?)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size20">6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. <span style="color: #c75252;">(The way is not faraway from us. Jesus Himself is the way to the truth, which leads us to the LIFE. The way was unknown to us but Jesus gradually leads us from the ambiguity to the reality. The Life in Jesus, the Kingdom life is the most solid, tangible, and must-live reality.)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size20">7 If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.” <span style="color: #c75252;">(If you know me, the One whom Thomas has been with so far, since He is the perfect revelation of God, already have the truth of God.)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size20">8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.” <span style="color: #c75252;">(Philip who once had brought Nathanael to Jesus, wanted to see God through Jesus. He didn't know everything but knew whom he was supposed to ask the question.)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size20">9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? <span style="color: #c75252;">(Jesus confirm‎s that they were following the right man, Jesus himself. To see Jesus is to see God. To believe in Jesus is to believe in God.)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size20">10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. <span style="color: #c75252;">(The Father God and the Son God are in perfect harmony and perfect coordination not only in the identity of Trinity but also in ministry.)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size20">11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. <span style="color: #c75252;">(Jesus proves that God and He is in perfect unity with His teachings and ministries.)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size20">12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. <span style="color: #c75252;">(The disciples will inherit the ministry of Jesus, even in larger scales as the gospel spread throughout the world.)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size20">13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. <span style="color: #c75252;">(Jesus Himself will be the support for the ministry of the disciples for the glory of the Father.)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size20">14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it. <span style="color: #c75252;">(The promise made by the Lord.)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"> </p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size23"><b><span style="color: #315f97;">Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size20">15 “If you love me, keep my commands. <span style="color: #c75252;">(Love will be demonstrated in the obedient action which requires suffering, sacrifice, and hard labor.)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size20">16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate <span style="color: #c75252;">(helper)</span> to help you and be with you forever- 17 the Spirit of truth. <span style="color: #c75252;">(The Father will give the Holy Spirit on Jesus' request for the continuing ministry. The complete Trinity.) </span>The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. (<span style="color: #c75252;">Those who stay with Jesus will stay in the Spirit.)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size20">18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. <span style="color: #c75252;">(Not only the presence of the Spirit with them, Jesus will come back to His disciples.)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size20">19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. <span style="color: #c75252;">(Jesus will retreat for a while from the years of public ministry in this world, but not only being with them all the time but also physically will come back eventually.)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size20">20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. <span style="color: #c75252;">(The perfect harmony of God and Jesus will encompass all those believers together.)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size20">21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. <span style="color: #c75252;">(The tangible obedience is the way of loving the Lord.)</span> The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.” <span style="color: #c75252;">(Loving the Lord is loving God, and being loved by God and Jesus, which will lead us to the perfect revelation.)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size20">22 Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?” <span style="color: #c75252;">(Judas wanted the whole world come to the truth of Jesus.)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size20">23 Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size20">24 Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me. <span style="color: #c75252;">(But the world was not ready to accept Jesus as the Savior at the time. It will be done by the obedient ministry of the disciples who will be powered by the love of Jesus for the love of Jesus.)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size20">25 “All this I have spoken while still with you. <span style="color: #c75252;">(Jesus was with them yet in such a short period of time. During the time Jesus scattered the seed of the truth.)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size20">26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. <span style="color: #c75252;">(The Holy Spirit will germinate, grow the truth and harvest the result.)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size20">27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. <span style="color: #c75252;">(Pease that Jesus promises is a result of harmony, one of the characteristics of the Kingdom (Rom. 14:17), and so that our blessing. Peace will cover all of our worries, concerns, and fears.)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size20">28 “You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. <span style="color: #c75252;">(There is a true joy in the midst of the upcoming suffering of Jesus. There is the best in the worst. Jesus will be in perfect harmony with the Father God which will lead Jesus to the utmost blessing and joy.)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size20">29 I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe. <span style="color: #c75252;">(We can be comforted in the worst moment by knowing the whole picture of God's sovereignty in advance. No reason to fear the tribulation in the last days even we may getting through the time since we know the LORDSHIP of Jesus and God rules. (Dan. Ch. 9 & Rev.)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span data-ke-size="size20">30 I will not say much more to you, for the prince of this world <span style="color: #c75252;">(Satan)</span> is coming. <span style="color: #c75252;">(The time of Jesus in this world is almost over.)</span> He has no hold over me, <span style="color: #c75252;">(Not because of Satan)</span> 31 but he comes so that the world may learn that I love the Father and do exactly what my Father has commanded me. <span style="color: #c75252;">(but to complete God's plan for salvation.)</span> “Come now; let us leave. <span style="color: #c75252;">("Let's move on to the cross." Time goes as things happen, or vice versa.)</span></span></p><p> </p>
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