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John 16 - Devotion · The Five Minute Bible Podcast

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  Welcome to Five Minute Bible in our journey through the New
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  Testament. In each episode, we take just a
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  few minutes to focus on one chapter of the New Testament,
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  exploring the truths God is teaching us through His Word and
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  expanding our view of who He is. Before you listen, make sure
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  you've gone straight to the source, either by reading
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  today's chapter of the Bible yourself or listening to today's
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  read along episode in this podcast.
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  Feed if. You haven't done that yet.
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  Feel free to pause and do that now.
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  When you're ready, let's dive into God's Word together.
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  In John chapter 16, as Jesus continues his final words to his
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  disciples before he's betrayed and executed, he speaks to them
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  about the Holy Spirit. I think if we're not careful,
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  we'll miss the power and importance of what Jesus
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  promises here and as a result, miss what is available to us as
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  believers. Listen to verses 5 through 15
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  from this chapter. It says, But now I am going to
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  him who sent me, and none of you ask, where are you going?
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  But because I have said these things to you, sorrow.
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  Has filled your heart. But I will tell you the truth.
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  It is to your advantage that I go away.
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  For if I do not go away, the helper will not come to you.
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  But if I go, I will send Him to you, and He, when He comes, will
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  convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgement,
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  concerning sin because they do not believe in Me, and
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  concerning righteousness because I go to the Father and you no
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  longer see me, and concerning judgment because the ruler of
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  this world has been judged. I have many more things to say
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  to you, but you cannot bear them now.
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  But when He, the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into
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  all the truth. For He will not speak on His own
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  initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak, and He
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  will disclose to you what is to come.
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  He will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose
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  it to you. All things that the Father has
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  are Mine, therefore I said that he takes of mine and will
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  disclose it to you. Did you catch that?
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  Jesus tells his disciples, these men who have left everything to
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  spend all of the last three years learning at Jesus feet,
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  that it is to their advantage. It is better for them that Jesus
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  is leaving because if He doesn't leave then the Holy Spirit
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  cannot come. This had to be hard to fathom.
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  The Son of God, the Messiah, is standing right in front of them.
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  He's been revealing to them what is to come.
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  He's been teaching them who God is and how He operates in the
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  world. And now he says that he is
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  leaving, but that it's actually a good thing for them because of
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  the one who is coming. Can you imagine?
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  What would you give to be able to go back to the 1st century
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  and spend a few hours, much less a few years, learning from Jesus
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  Himself? So if this is true, that his
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  departure is to their advantage, what are we missing?
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  We're missing the power, the miracle, that is the presence of
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  God in us through the Holy Spirit.
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  Jesus in his human form was not omnipresent.
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  He had placed on himself the limitations of humanity.
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  He is the image of God the Father.
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  But He could only be in one place at a time, having one
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  conversation at a time. The Holy Spirit that has
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  promised fills all believers with the actual presence of God.
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  God Himself is not just standing next to you or nearby you.
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  He is dwelling inside of you, He is within you, convicting you of
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  sin, teaching you what the Scriptures mean, revealing to
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  you the depths of truth about God and His salvation plan that
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  the disciples were even unable to bear before the Holy Spirit
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  came. After the book of John, we'll
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  study Acts together, and we'll see that the birth of the church
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  and its explosive growth is tied directly to the outpouring of
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  the Holy Spirit, the presence and power of God in dwelling the
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  hearts of his people. Jesus was called Emmanuel, God
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  with us, but what he enabled through his death and
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  resurrection, justifying a people in God's sight so that
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  holy God could dwell in sinful but now redeemed man, brings an
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  even greater fullness to this understanding of God with us.
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  He is not far off. He is not merely near.
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  He dwells within us. He displays His power through
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  us. So do not neglect this reality.
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  Do not neglect this third person of the Trinity.
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  If you are in Christ, you have received the Holy Spirit.
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  God Himself lives in you. Walk in His power, depend on
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  Him. Allow Him to convict you, to
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  teach you, to unveil God's truth to you, to glorify Jesus in your
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  life.