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ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father
may be glorified in the Son. If you ask any-
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thing in My name, I will do it.
14:6 This is the sixth I AM statement of Jesus in 15 “If you love Me, keep My commandments.
John (6:35; 8:12; 10:7,9; 10:11,14; 11:25; 15:1,5). 16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give
In response to Thomas’s query (v. 4), Jesus you another Helper, that He may abide with
declared that He is the way to God because He you forever— the Spirit of truth, whom the
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is the truth of God (1:14) and the life of God world cannot receive, because it neither sees
(1:4;3:15;11:25).In this verse,the exclusiveness Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for
of Jesus as the only approach to the Father is He dwells with you and will be in you. I will
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emphatic. Only one way, not many ways, exist not leave you orphans; I will come to you.
to God, i.e., Jesus Christ (10:7–9; Matt. 7:13,14; 19 “A little while longer and the world will see
Luke 13:24; Acts 4:12).
Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I
live, you will live also. At that day you will
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known My Father also; and from now on you know that I am in My Father, and you in Me,
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know Him and have seen Him.” and I in you. He who has My commandments
8 Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he
Father, and it is sufficient for us.” who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and
9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”
long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord,
He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us,
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how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do and not to the world?”
you not believe that I am in the Father, and the 23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone
Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I loves Me, he will keep My word; and My
do not speak on My own authority; but the Father will love him, and We will come to him
Father who dwells in Me does the works. Be- and make Our home with him. He who does
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lieve Me that I am in the Father and the not love Me does not keep My words; and the
Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake word which you hear is not Mine but the
of the works themselves. Father’s who sent Me.
12 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who 25 “These things I have spoken to you while
believes in Me, the works that I do he will do being present with you. But the Helper, the
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also; and greater works than these he will do, Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My
because I go to My Father. And whatever you name, He will teach you all things, and bring to
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your remembrance all things that I said to you.
27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you;
not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not
your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
14:12 greater works than these he will do.
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Jesus did not mean greater works in power,
but in extent. They would become witnesses away and coming back to you.’ If you loved Me,
to all the world through the power of the you would rejoice because I said, ‘I am going to
indwelling and infilling of the Holy Spirit (Acts the Father,’ for My Father is greater than I.
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1:8) and would bring many to salvation “And now I have told you before it comes,
because of the Comforter dwelling in them. that when it does come to pass, you may
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The focus is on spiritual rather than physical believe. I will no longer talk much with you,
miracles. The Book of Acts constitutes the for the ruler of this world is coming, and he
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beginning historical record of the impact that has nothing in Me. But that the world may
the Spirit-empowered disciples had on the know that I love the Father, and as the Father
world (Acts 17:6). gave Me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us
go from here.
DAY 5: How is the role of the Holy Spirit explained in John 14?
Jesus said,“I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with
you forever” (v. 16). The priestly and intercessory work of Christ began with the request that the
Father send the Holy Spirit to indwell in the people of faith (7:39;15:26;16:7;20:22;Acts 1:8;2:4,33).
The Greek word specifically means “another of the same kind,”i.e.,someone like Jesus Himself who
will take His place and do His work.The Spirit of Christ is the Third Person of the Trinity, having the
same essence of Deity as Jesus and as perfectly one with Him as He is with the Father. A “Helper”

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