To: ALL WHO HAVE EARS TO HEAR
From; GOD THE FATHER, THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST HIS SON and Ministered through the HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD,
The Helper, that He may be with you forever. [John 14:16 ]
Subject: MY WORD
15 “If you love Me, you will keep My
commandments.
Role of the Spirit
16 “I
will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever;
17 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.
18 “I
will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
19 “After
a little while the world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me;
because I live, you will live also.
20 “In
that day you will know that I am in My
Father, and you in Me, and I in you.
21 “He
who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who
loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose
Myself to him.”
53So Jesus
said it again, “With all the earnestness I possess I tell you this: Unless you
eat the flesh of the Messiah and drink his blood, you cannot have eternal life
within you. 54But anyone who does eat my flesh and drink my blood has
eternal life, and I will raise him at the Last Day. 55For my flesh
is the true food, and my blood is the true drink. 56Everyone who
eats my flesh and drinks my blood is in
me, and I in him. 57I
live by the power of the living Father who sent me, and in the same way those
who partake of me shall live because of me! 58I am the true
Bread from heaven; and anyone who eats this Bread shall live forever, and not
die as your fathers did—though they ate bread from heaven.” 59(He
preached this sermon in the synagogue in Capernaum
60Even his
disciples said, “This is very hard to understand. Who can tell what he means?”
61Jesus knew
within himself that his disciples were complaining and said to them, “Does this
offend you? 62Then what will you think if you see me, the Messiah,
return to heaven again? 63Only the Holy Spirit gives eternal life.
Those born only once, with physical birth, will never receive this gift. But
now I have told you how to get this true spiritual life. 64But some
of you don’t believe me.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning who didn’t believe
and knew the one who would betray him.)
9“My plea is
not for the world but for those you have given me because they belong to you. 10And
all of them, since they are mine, belong to you; and you have given them back
to me with everything else of yours, and so they are my glory! 11Now
I am leaving the world, and leaving them behind, and coming to you. Holy
Father, keep them in your own care—all those you have given me—so that they will be united just as we are,
with none missing. 12During my time here I have kept safe within
your family all of these you gave me. I guarded them so that not one perished,
except the son of hell, as the Scriptures foretold.
13“And now I
am coming to you. I have told them many things while I was with them so that
they would be filled with my joy. 14I have given them your commands.
And the world hates them because they don’t fit in with it, just as I don’t. 15I’m
not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them safe from
Satan’s power. 16They are not part of this world any more than I am.
17Make them pure and holy through teaching them your words of truth.
18As you sent me into the world, I am sending them into the world, 19and
I consecrate myself to meet their need for growth in truth and holiness.
20“I am not
praying for these alone but also for the future believers who will come to me
because of the testimony of these. 21My prayer for all of them is
that they will be of one heart and mind, just as you and I are, Father—that just as you are in me and I am in you,
so they will be in us, and the world will believe you sent me.
22“I have
given them the glory you gave me—the
glorious unity of being one, as we are—23I in them and you in me,
all being perfected into one—so that the world will know you sent me and
will understand that you love them as much as you love me. 24Father,
I want them with me—these you’ve given me—so that they can see my glory. You
gave me the glory because you loved me before the world began!
