Category: John
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Emotional contrasts
John 16:20 “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy.” What makes you happy and what makes you sad? According to John 16, your relationship to Jesus will have a big effect on the answer to…
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Remembering critical things
John 16:2-4 “Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you.” Jesus told His disciples the things…
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The cost of love
John 16:2 “They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.” What was Jesus talking about here? Why would his disciples be so mistreated? It was because Jesus had commanded them to obey Him and His greatest commandment was…
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The reasons we follow
John 16:1-4 ““I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor…
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Tragic neglect
John 16:1-2 “I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away.They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.” There is a reason that Jesus said the things He said. This pertains not just to the…
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Why?
John 15:25 “They hated me without a cause.” Do you realize that your reaction to Christ and his words has a lot more to say about you than it says with Him? In other words, there is absolutely no reason in heaven or earth for Christ to be hated by anyone. He is without sin,…
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The two sides of the “good news”
John 15:22-25 “If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. Whoever hates me hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they…
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Knowing God
John 15:21 “But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.” Perspective, how we see things, means everything. This includes, first and foremost, how we see God. Before we actually know God, we can think we know a great deal about Him, but our…
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Do you love? What’s your definition?
John 15:19 “If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own.” How does the world, i.e., the world that is opposed to Christ and all He represents, love? We are told in the verse above that the world does show love, i.e., “brotherly love” or phileo, as rendered in the…
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The silent treatment
John 15:18 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.” According to the words of Jesus in the verse above, the world will likely hate us if we are one of His followers. By the “world” Jesus is referring to the ordered systems of this world, and…
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