Live to Love Scripture Encouragement

John 14:19 After a little while the world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me; because I live, you will live also. I don’t know if we can imagine the impact of these words on the disciples. He’s told them He’s leaving so that He can return to live in them so they might live forever with Him. Let’s remember why Jesus told them these things. He was telling them what was to happen in the futur...

John 14:17-18. that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. So far in John 14, we have seen the foundational truth of the union of the Father and the Son. Now in vss 17-18, we discover another foundational truth. The Holy Spiri...

John 14:16.2 “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever;” This is the first promise to His disciples regarding the Holy Spirit. Again, we come to a third pivot point. The promise of the presence of the Holy Spirit in their lives changed everything from the moment these words were uttered. It was a seismic paradigm shift of understanding and world v...

John 14:16 “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever;” The context of John 14 helps us get the fullness of what Jesus said in verse 16. It is something like this: “When I go back to My Father, I will ask Him to give you another Helper, who is the same as Me, so that He may always be with you to help you love Me, obey My commandments, love one anot...

John 14:15 "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.” Yesterday I explained what I thought “asking in Jesus’ name” meant. I said, “To ask in His name is to ask according to what Jesus has commanded, namely, to believe in Him and to love as He has loved us so that God may be glorified in His Son. In other words, we ask for the life and love of Jesus to be manifested in our lives. That’s our n...

I’m so excited that you have joined me for today’s live to love scripture encouragement from John 14:13-14. Yesterday we were encouraged by Jesus’ call to a radical, this-changes-everything new purpose: to live to love with and in Jesus as He lives in them. A call to do the works of Christ for the glory of God. This verse confirms everything that Jesus has said from John 13:34 “A new commandment I...

John 14:12 Truly, truly, 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 the Father. These words are stunning, important, and encouraging. Do you remember that I mentioned when we looked at the first few verses of this chapter, that the place Jesus had in mind to prepare for us was not a mansion in heaven when we d...

John 14:11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe because of the works themselves. We should pivot and seek after Jesus because of two witnesses. First, the witness of Jesus’ own testimony. Second, the witness of the works He did while on the earth. If the self-testimony of Christ are denied, the source and authority of the works He did cannot be denied. Agai...

John 14:10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works. Here is a fundamental truth to Christianity. We believe that Jesus, the Son is in the Father, God and that the Father, God is in Jesus the Son. Jesus’ point to His disciples was that they have been walking with...

John 14:9 Jesus said to him, "Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, 'Show us the Father'? Here they are again being told that they don’t know Jesus or what He came for. Philip, like Thomas, and the rest of the disciples had not come to know Jesus, but in this verse, everything changes. We all hit the piv...

John 14:8 Philip said to Him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us." Have you ever been slow to understand something someone is trying to teach you? I have. Like Philip, we hear, but we don’t understand. We read our Bibles, sit through sermon after sermon, listen to podcast after podcast, and experience the love of God through parents, siblings, pastors, and friends, yet, we want mor...

John 14:7 If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on you know Him, and have seen Him." These are strange words. Do they confuse you? Let’s keep them in context. What Jesus is showing and teaching them is pivotal. It’s like a pivot point where you have been going one direction, but then you see something that catches your attention, and you stop, pivot, and go in the dire...

John 14:4-6 And you know the way where I am going." Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way?" Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. If you don’t know where you are going, how can you know the way to where you are going? Sensible reasoning and question from Thomas. Jesus made it clear w...

John 14:3 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. What an amazing, incredible encouragement these words must have been to the disciples —and to us. He told them he was going someplace to which they could not go at that time, but He wasn’t going to be apart from them for good. The place He was going to prepare made it...

John 14:2 In My Father's house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. Our Father has planned ahead! There are many places to abide, dwell, or live in our Father’s household. In this verse, we learn where Jesus was going to which His disciples were not ready to go. Back in John 13:1 and 3, John’s readers were told where Jesus was goi...

John 14:1 "Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. Today we are encouraged by the second commandment that Jesus gave to His disciples in preparation for His departure. The first commandment was to love one another as He loved them. The second commandment is to believe in Him as they believe in God. Faith in Jesus as God apparently is the antidote, the necessary condi...

John 13:38 Jesus answered, "Will you lay down your life for Me? Truly, truly, I say to you, a rooster will not crow until you deny Me three times. Again, Jesus told what was going to happen before it happened so that Peter would ultimately come to believe in, trust in, rely upon, and follow Him unto death. Jesus responded to Peter’s boast that he would lay down his life for Him. Indeed, Peter woul...

John 13:36-37 Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, where are You going?" Jesus answered, "Where I go, you cannot follow Me now; but you will follow later. Peter said to Him, "Lord, why can I not follow You right now? I will lay down my life for You." In Luke’s gospel account of the last supper, he recorded something John left out. Luke 22:22-24 “For indeed, the Son of Man is going as it has been determ...

John 13:35 By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another." Disciples of Jesus are known by their love for one another. Of all the qualities that a man or woman can have, love—the sustained direction of the will toward the highest good of another no matter what the cost—is the beacon light of the presence of the life of Christ. This kind of supernatural love...

John 13:34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. Little children, this is the direction that Jesus gave His disciples as He prepared them for His departure. It’s not a suggestion, it’s a commandment. He was sending them just like He was sent by the Father, and thus honoring and glorifying them as the Father had glorifi...

I’m so glad you’ve joined me for today’s Live to Love Scripture Encouragement from John 13:33 “Little children, I am with you a little while longer. You will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, now I also say to you, 'Where I am going, you cannot come.’” Why does Jesus call His disciples, “Little children” at this point? He hasn’t referred to them as children at all since they met in the upper roo...

Welcome to today’s live to love scripture encouragement from John 13:32. We’ve been diving into the ocean of the glory of God revealed in Jesus Christ. After saying, “Now is the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified in Him,” Jesus said, “If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him immediately.” We have been considering that the primary motivation for...

Today’s live to love scripture encouragement again comes from the last phrase in John 13:31 “Therefore when he had gone out, Jesus said, ‘Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him;’ How was God glorified in Jesus when Jesus told Judas to go quickly and betray Him? We’ve considered how Jesus was glorified by the Father in that He was chosen and sent by Him to accomplish the work...

I would like to encourage you to live to love with Jesus by spending a few moments again in John 13:31. Jesus had just told Satan/aka Judas to quickly do what he was going to do, which was betray Him. We read this yesterday and again today. “Therefore when he had gone out, Jesus said, ‘Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him;’” Yesterday we saw that the Son was glorified by th...

John 13:31 Therefore when he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him; Let’s visualize what we’ve been reading in John 13. Jesus fed Judas the morsel at the table. Immediately after that, Satan entered into Judas. Then Jesus said to Satan in Judas, “What you do, do quickly.” Immediately Judas left the upper room and Jesus declared upon Judas’ departur...