08/10/2024
In John 14, Jesus is comforting His disciples. He starts out by saying “don’t let your hearts be troubled.” “In my father’s house are many mansion.” He goes on to say
that He will go and prepare a place for them. Thomas said to Jesus, they don’t know where He is going and how do we know the way? John 14:6 “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.”
Jesus then brings light to the oneness with the Father.
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.”
Jesus is saying He and the Father are one. Everything He says or does is because of the Father in Him. (John 14:11)
John 3:16 says that God gave His only begotten Son. Abba gave us Jesus but it was Jesus who chose to die on our behalf
(Mathew26:53) Jesus could have just snapped his finger and 72000 angels with swords drawn would have came to earth and wiped out everything that we know today. Jesus said no, I want to do this.
John 15:14 Jesus tells us if we are His friends, we would do what He commands and that is to love one another.
John 15:15 “No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.”
Jesus said we are his friends. We have to love one another to be friends with one another.
Paul says Jesus died for us. He goes on to say that we are justified by His shed blood and we are reconciled.
Romans 5:8 “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
John 15:13 “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.”
Jesus demonstrated the ultimate sacrifice to make atonement for His friends. I am free today at the price of my friend’s life.
What a friend we have in Jesus!