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Book: John
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John 16:12
I. "I have many things to say unto you, but you can not bear them now."
A. In verse 4 He told them that He had not told them about the
severe persecution that they were going to facing in the
beginning because He was with them.
B. Note how sensitive Jesus was to their state of spiritual
development
1. There are things that we could not handle in our early
spiritual development.
2. As we grow and mature in Christ, as we find Him
faithful, we are able to handle more difficult things.
3. Jesus teaches us to trust in Him for our evening
dinner.
a. We find that He is faithful and He always
provides. Not always as we expected, sometimes
in very unexpected ways.
b. That's what makes it so interesting and
exciting.
4. Now we trust in Him for thousands of dollars to support
the hundreds of missionaries, and employees who are
involved with the Calvary Chapel ministries.
a. The same Lord who always came through with the
evening meal, always comes through for the
needs of the church.
b. We do not have to worry or fret wondering if He
is going to make it this month, for we know
that He will.
5. At the beginning of my ministry when we had a monthly
church budget of one thousand dollars, if He had told
me what the monthly budget would be now, I would not
have been able to bear it.
C. The Lord is so gracious in bringing us along in spiritual
maturity.
1. In I Cor. 10 Paul tells us that the Lord will not tempt
us beyond what we are able, but will with the
temptation provide for us a way of escape that we may
be able to bear it.
2. He knows our limits and will not push us beyond our
capacity to handle things.
II. "Howbeit when the Spirit of truth is come,"
A. The subject is still the Holy Spirit.
1. He is the Paracletus who will come along side of us to
help us.
2. He will bring to our remembrance the words of Jesus.
3. He will testify of Jesus.
4. He will reprove the world of sin, righteousness and of
judgment.
B.He is the Spirit of truth and He will guide us into all truth.
1. This is the second time that Jesus refers to Him as the
Spirit of truth. John 14:17
2. This is looking forward to the writing of the New
Testament.
a. Refering to the Old Testament Paul said to
Timothy, "All scripture is given by inspiration
of God.
b. Peter referring to one of the Psalms said that
the Holy Spirit through the mouth of David
said.
c. Peter wrote that the prophecies of old came not
by the will of men, but holy men wrote as they
were moved by the Holy Spirit.
3. The things that they could not bear then were later
revealed by the Holy Spirit in the books of the New
Testament.
a. The doctrine of Redemption through the blood of
Jesus Christ.
b. The barriers will come down between the Jew and
the Gentile in Jesus.
c. The gospel is to be carried to the Gentiles.
d. All that His death would accomplish.
1. He was not able to talk to the about
His death. They were not able to bear
it.
2. There hearts were troubled enough
because of their lack of understanding
of the things He was saying to them.
3. He had told them "Let not your heart be
troubled."
4. In the very next statement, they had
difficulty understanding what He was
saying.
C. He will show you things to come.
1. Much of the New Testament is prophecy.
a. Paul epistles are filled with prophecies of the
last days.
b. Peter and James prophesy of things of the last
days.
c. Then the book of Revelation.
D. He shall not speak of Himself, but that which He hears shall He
speak.
1. Jesus declared that He was sent by the Father and spoke
the things that He heard of the Father.
a. "The words that I speak unto you, I speak not
of myself, but the Father that dwelleth in My
He doeth the works.
b. In John 7 Jesus said, "My doctrine is not Mine,
but His who sent Me."
c. In John 8 Jesus said, "When you have lifted Me
up, then you will know that I am He, and that I
do nothing of Myself, but as the Father has
taught Me, I speak these things.
d. John 12:49 "I have spoken nothing of Myself,
but the Father which sent Me, He gave Me
commandment what I what I should say, and what
I should speak."
2. Now He declares that He is going to send the Spirit,
and that the Spirit will not speak of himself, but the
things that He hears.
a. As the Father sent the Son, so now the Son will
send the Spirit.
b. As the Son spoke not of Himself, but the things
He heard of the Father, so the Spirit will not
speak of Himself, but the things that He hears.
III. He shall glorify Me.
A. Again Jesus came to glorify the Father. I came not to do My own
will but the will of Him who sent Me.
1. Jesus prayed, "I have glorified you on the earth and
have finished the work you gave Me to do.
2. So the Spirit comes to glorify Jesus.
B. How will the Spirit glorify Jesus?
1. By receiving from Him and showing it to us.
2. Note how in the miracles of Jesus the Father was always
glorified.
3. In the miracle of the lame man at the temple being
healed, Peter in explaining it declared that God had
glorified His Son Jesus.
4. When Paul explained to the elders in Jerusalem the
works that God had wrought among the Gentiles through
His ministry it declares that they glorified the Lord.
5. The Spirit glorifies Jesus by testifying of Jesus.
IV. "All things that the Father hath are Mine."
A. What a positively powerful statement. This is another one of
those radical statements of Jesus that marks Him as a lunatic
or the Son of God.
1. I think of His statement at the end of Matthews gospel,
"All power is given to Me in heaven and in earth."
2. Paul declared that the fullness of the Godhead bodily
dwelled in Him.
3. How God must look with disfavor upon those who
denigrate His Son.
a. The Mormons making Him the brother of Lucifer.
b. The Jehovah Witnesses making Him Michael the
arch angel.
c. The Moslems who make Him just one in the line
of many prophets.
B. That is why Jesus said the Spirit will take of Mine and
show it to you.
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