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W O W - T H E B I G P I C T U R E
by Thomas Nelson Publishers
Last Words at the Last Supper: Part One
-- John 14:1-15:11; Psalm 109:26-28; Proverbs 20:4
"Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in
Me. 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 and 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 do not know where You are going, and how
can we know the way?"
Jesus said to him, "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; and from now
on you know Him and have seen Him."
Philip said to Him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for
us."
Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not
known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can
you say, 'Show us the Father'? Do you not believe that I am in the
Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not
speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the
works. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else
believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.
"Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I
do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I
go to My Father. And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that
the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name,
I will do it.
"If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and
He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever-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 orphans; I will come to you.
"A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will
see Me. Because I live, you will live also. At that day you will know
that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. He who has My
commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me
will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to
him."
Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, "Lord, how is it that You will
manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?"
Jesus answered and said to him, "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 with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the
word which you hear is not Mine but the Father's who sent Me.
"These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. But
the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He
will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things
that I said to you. Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not
as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled,
neither let it be afraid. You have heard Me say to you, 'I am going
away and coming back to you.' If you loved Me, you would rejoice
because I said, 'I am going to the Father,' for My Father is greater
than I.
"And now I have told you before it comes, that when it does come to
pass, you may believe. I will no longer talk much with you, for the
ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me. But that the
world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave Me
commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go from here.
"I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in
Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears
fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean
because of the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in Me, and I in
you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the
vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
"I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in
him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. If anyone
does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and
they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. If
you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you
desire, and it shall be done for you. By this My Father is glorified,
that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.
"As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. If
you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have
kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.
"These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and
that your joy may be full."
John 14:1-15:11
WORSHIP:
Help me, O LORD my God!
Oh, save me according to Your mercy,
That they may know that this is Your hand-
That You, LORD, have done it!
Let them curse, but You bless;
When they arise, let them be ashamed,
But let Your servant rejoice.
Psalm 109:26-28
WISDOM:
The lazy man will not plow because of winter;
He will beg during harvest and have nothing.
Proverbs 20:4
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