Gospels (63) - John 14:6-15

Teacher: Rusty Kennedy
​Series: Gospels

Rusty's Notes

As we move through the Gospels, we have watched Jesus come as a prophet and is now entering His time as a priest and will eventually get to Jesus as a king.

​JESUS REVEALS THE FATHER
John 14
6 Jesus told him, “I am the way,
 - The only way to the Father.
the truth,
 - Not his philosophies
and the life.

• Christ’s life in us is the difference.
• Jesus becomes your life.
• Not just as Savior that gets you out of hell.
• Jesus wants an intimate relationship with each believer.
• Not only will the Spirit come live in you, but Jesus and the Father will also.
• Colossians 3:4 – When Christ, who is your life…
• Romans 5:10 - … having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life.[1]

No one comes to the Father except through me.
 - Exclusivity – Just like all other faiths.
7 If you know me, you will also know my Father. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”

• They will always give the same answers.
• You ever experience identical twins were they finish each other sentences?

8 “Lord,” said Philip, “show us the Father, and that’s enough for us.”
9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been among you all this time and you do not know me, Philip? The one who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

• “Observe the Master”

10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?

• Envelopes

The words I speak to you I do not speak on my own.

• The Father speaks through the Son.
• Three individual persons who are one.

The Father who lives (abides) in me does his works.

• Jesus performed no works
• Jesus didn’t perform any miracles.
• Jesus allowed the Father to LIVE His life through Him.
• The Father does life through the Son who does it through me.
• How does that look? How does that work?
• God never saved you for you to do things for Him.
• God saved you so that He could live through you.

 

• When Adam was placed in the Garden he was given a choice to eat from two trees: 1) The Tree of Life or the 2) Tree of Knowledge and Good and Evil.
• Adam chose to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
• If Adam would have eaten from the Tree of Life he would have roamed this earth with God living His life out through Adam.
• Jesus came along and showed us what that would have looked like. For the Father to live out life through Himself.
• Jesus died so that the Father could live out His life through Jesus and Jesus through us.
• We don’t imitate… we actually live out life.
• Adam missed out on living life through the Father.
• We now live a life through another.

11 Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Otherwise, believe because of the works themselves.

• Only the Father could have done the Messianic Miracles:

1. Healing a Jewish leper
2. Healing a blind man born blind
3. Casting demons out of a mute

 
PRAYING IN JESUS’S NAME
12 “Truly I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do.

• As a pastor for the majority of my life, I have seen people saved, healed and walk in freedom.
• It definitely was not because of me.

And he will do even greater works than these, because I am going to the Father.

• The Fathers works will be multiplied through the many believers.

13 Whatever you ask in my name, I will do it so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.

• Understanding God’s will is understanding His person.
• His name determines His will.
• God’s will is derived (originates) from His name.
• Know the Father.
• What is God’s Truth and will for my life? Know Him and you will know God’s will.

 
ANOTHER COUNSELOR PROMISED
15 “If you love me, you will keep my commands.

• Which commandments?
• We teach that you are no longer under the Law.
• The 10 commandments were not even given to the Gentiles.
• Romans 5:20 – The Law came along to increase sin.
• I John 3:22-24 - and receive whatever we ask from him because we keep his commands and do what is pleasing in his sight. 23 Now this is his command: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as he commanded us. 24 The one who keeps his commands remains in him, and he in him. And the way we know that he remains in us is from the Spirit he has given us. [2]
• How do we love one another?
• Only the Father working through Jesus and Jesus working through us.
• It’s the only way it works.
• I will never understand how to “love” Michelle properly.
• But the more I know my Father, the more I learn to live my life by another who is able to love Michelle through me.
• If I am not loving to my wife… what does that say about me?
• Momentarily selfish… focused on me.
• The only way to love one another is by allowing the Father/Son to work through me.
  
  

[1] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Col 3:4, Ro 5:10). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[2] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (1 Jn 3:22–24). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.