"it is for Your Good That I Am Going"

IIT UBF - University Bible Fellowship at IIT

"it is for Your Good That I Am Going"

Date: Jul. 21, 2018

Passage

John 16:1-15 (ESV)

1 “I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. 2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. 3 And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. 4 But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you.

“I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. 5 But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ 6 But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. 7 Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. 8 And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: 9 concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; 10 concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer; 11 concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

12 “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. 14 He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. 15 All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

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Daily Bread

Key Verse: 16:7a

1. "...unless I go away..." (1-11)

The world hated the disciples. How? They put them out of the synagogues and they thought killing them was doing a service to God. Jesus was leaving them in such a time, and the disciples were grieving. But Jesus taught them it was to their benefit he was going. Because he was going, he could send them the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit would be their Advocate. He would testify that the world was wrong about sin (unbelief) and righteousness (Jesus going to the Father) and judgment (sin is condemned).

2. He will guide you into all truth (12-15)

The Holy Spirit would come and guide the disciples into all truth. The Spirit would make known all that it received from Jesus. The Holy Spirit would be with the disciples after Jesus left them. It would guide them and tell them all they needed to know to continue to grow as Jesus' disciples. The Holy Spirit does the same with us. God sends the Holy Spirit to us as well. He will be our advocate and will guide us in the truth of God.

Prayer: Lord, give me your truth through the Holy Spirit.

One Word: The Holy Spirit; the Spirit of truth

Plagues of Frogs and Gnats

Exodus 8:1-19

Key Verse: 8:19

Today's Question

What are we specifically taught in the first commandment by the words before me?

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