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Book: John
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John 14:20
I. "In that day you will know that I am in the Father, and you are in Me,
and, I am in you."
A. In what day? In the day that the Comforter comes to teach them
all things.
1. One of the great truths that the Holy Spirit emphasizes
to the believer is the fact of the indwelling power of
Jesus Christ in us.
2. In verse 23 Jesus said that if loved Him and kept His
words that His Father and He would come and make their
abode with Him.
3. In chapter 15:5,6,7 Jesus emphasizes the necessity of
abiding in Him.
4. In chapter 17:21-23.
5. Paul to the Ephesians declares that Christ might settle
down and make Himself at home in your hearts.
6. Paul declares that the great mystery that is taught to
the Gentiles is "Christ in you the hope of glory."
B. Through our relationship with Jesus Christ, our bodies become
the temples of the Holy Spirit.
1. The Father, Son and the Spirit dwell in me.
2. No wonder Paul declared, "If God be for us, who can be
against us?"
3. What an awesome thought, the God who created the
Universe has chosen to dwell in mortal man.
4. This does not in any wise make me God.
II. Our love proved by our obedience. "He that hath My commandments and
and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me."
A. It is not just having the commandments, this is the mistake
that the Jews made concerning the law, they felt because God
had given them the law, that they were justified. Paul said
that not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the
doers of the law shall be justified.
B. James tells us that we are to be doers of the word, and not
hearers only deceiving ourselves.
C. Moses called Israel to hear the statutes and the judgments
that he declared to them that they might learn them and keep
and do them.
D. Jesus said, "Not every one that saith unto Me Lord, Lord shall
enter the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of the
Father."
E. Obedience is the proof of love.
F. Those that love Him will be loved of the Father, and He said
that He would love them and would manifest Himself to them.
G. At this point Judas asked Him a question, remember this is
a discussion between Jesus and the disciples.
1. This Judas is not Judas Iscariot, for he has already
left the room and is at this very moment making his
deal with the priests to betray Jesus unto them.
2. He was also known as Thaddaeus, and was the brother
of James the son of Alphaeus.
H. Judas wondered why Jesus was going to manifest Himself to
them, and not to the world?
1. In verse 19 He told them that the world would see Him
no more, but that they would see Him.
2. Now he is declaring that He is going to manifest
Himself to those who proved their love for Him be
keeping His commandments.
I. This question was answered by repeating what He had already
been saying to them.
1. "If a man love Me, he will keep My words, and My Father
will love him, and we will come and make our abode with
him."
2. Love is the only environment in which Jesus will stay.
a. To the church of Ephesus he declared that they
had left their first love, and that they must
return to that first love or He would remove
the candlestick out of it's place.
3. Here Jesus changed the word manifest to abode. Not only
will the Lord manifest Himself to those who love Him,
but He will make His abode with them.
a. Paul wrote the Ephesians, "That Christ might
settle down and make His abode in your hearts."
b. Paul prayed for the Ephesians that Christ might
dwell in their hearts through faith, that they
might be rooted and grounded in love.
III. Conversely, "He that loveth Him not keepth not His sayings."
A. Again obedience is the proof of love.
1. There are many today who are not keeping the words of
Jesus.
2. Jesus declared again that the words were not His but
the Father's which sent Him.
a. Once more he claims that His words are those of
the Father.
In 7:16 He said that the doctrine was not
His but Him that sent Me.
In 8:26 he said that He spoke the words
that He heard of Him.
In 12:49 He said that he had not spoken of
Himself, but that the Father had commanded
Him what He was to say and speak.
3. Again Jesus declares that He was sent by the Father.
Thirteen times He asserts this in the gospel of John.
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