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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><b>MAR
28 - JOHN 13:31-14:31 - JESUS: FOUNDATION FOR HOLY SPIRIT</b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b>1.
13:34-35 (13:31-35) JESUS: SPEAKS OF HIS GLORIFICATION. “A new
commandment I give you, that you love one another; even as I love
you, that you also love one another. <font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1">35</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">
By this shall all know that you are my disciples, if you have love
one to another” (NNT). </font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">This</span></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
is the great fruit of the Atonement and indwelling Holy Spirit! If
Jesus is glorified in You Father, and we are in You; then we </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">must
love</span></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
one another! </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Hallowed
be your :name!</span></i></font></b></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">2.
13:38 (13:36-38) JESUS: PREDICTS DENIAL OF PETER. “Jesus
answered, Will you lay down your :life for me? Amen, Amen, I tell
you, The cock shall in nowise crow, till you have denied me thrice.”
</span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">Presumption</span></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
is not faith! Claiming what we do not truly understand is not
necessarily faith, but often is presumption. Help us to be humble in
these areas, Father! </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Your
:kingdom come!</span></i></font></b></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">3.
14:6 (14:1-7) JESUS: HIS PREPARED PLACE. “Jesus said to him, I
am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one comes unto the
Father, but through me.” </span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Father,
You have made Your Son Jesus to be the true and living way! Only
through Him can we find You. Only by Him can we become Your corporate
dwelling place on earth. You have given Jesus to us, Father! </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Your
:will be done, As in heaven, so on earth.</span></i></font></b></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">4.
14:10 (14:8-14) JESUS: UNITY WITH HIS FATHER. “Do you not
believe that I </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">am</span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
in the <br>Father and the Father is in me? the words that I say to
you I speak not from myself: but the Father abiding in me does his
:works.” </span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Father
You want to abide is us </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">just
as</span></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
You abide in Your Son. He is Your tent on earth. </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">We</span></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
are to be Your many-roomed mansion now, and in the resurrection Jesus
will return with the dead and make Your Kingdom glorious on earth. O
forgive us that we selfishly put off this Glory as pie in the sky!
</span></span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Our
:daily :bread Give us this day.</span></i></font></b></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">5.
14:21 (14:15-21) JESUS: PROMISES THE COMFORTER. “Who has my
commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves me: and who loves
me shall be loved of my :Father, and I will love him, and will
manifest myself to him.” </span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Here
is the Key! O Father, help us to hear and perceive these words of
Your Son Jesus! The early disciples understood and manifested their
faith. May we believe that the Glory of the </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">Latter
House</span></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
shall be greater than the Former! </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">And
forgive us our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors.</span></i></font></b></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">6.
14:23-24 (14:22-24) JESUS: ANSWERS JUDE'S QUESTION. “Jesus
answered and said to him, If any love me, he will keep my :word: and
my :Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our
abode with him. </span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="text-decoration: none;">24</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
Who loves me not keeps not my :words: and the word which you hear is
not mine, but the Father's who sent me.” </span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Here
is the mansion; here is the abode: You Father, and Your Son abiding
in us in Your fullness upon earth. The </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">meek</span></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
shall inherit the </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">earth</span></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">!
By Your Spirit You will help us to understand. </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">And
bring us not into temptation.</span></i></font></b></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">7.
14:26 (14:25-31) JESUS: WORK OF THE COMFORTER. “But the
Comforter, the Holy :Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, HE
shall teach you all </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">things</span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.” </span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Your
Spirit Father, is our Paraclete, our Comforter. We rest in You and
trust You to lead us into all truth. We bless You for Your Spirit,
for Pentecost following Passover. Now we await </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">Tabernacles</span></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">,
the Harvest, the Greatest Feast of all, when </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">openly</span></u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
you will show Your Kingdom and power and glory! </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">But
deliver us from the evil </span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">one!</span></font></b></p>
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<u><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">NOTE</font></b></u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>:
14:12 (14:8-14) JESUS: PROMISE TO US OF GREATER WORKS! “Amen,
Amen, I say unto you, Who believes unto me, the works that I do shall
HE do also; and greater that these shall he do; because I go unto the
Father.” </b></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">You
Father, with Your Son abiding in us together, will enable us to do
more than Your Son alone. He said so. We believe Him!</span></span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">John
13-17 majors on the Holy Spirit. Jesus primarily came to Redeem and
Reconcile lost mankind back to God - who created us. Satan through
Adam's sin put </span></span></font><u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="">his</span></font></u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
nature into Adam and </span></span></font><u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="">all</span></font></u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
his progeny, including you and me. Jesus by His Atoning death legally
made it possible to put </span></span></font><u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="">His
heritage into us</span></font></u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
- namely the Holy Spirit. No other section in the Bible more clearly
sets forth the nature and function of the Paraclete, the one set to
come alongside of us and inside of us. Many of His functions as
Teacher and Remembrance are set forth here.</span></span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">The
washing of the disciples' feet by Jesus - when </span></span></font><u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="">they</span></font></u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
failed to demonstrate a “servant spirit” - is the very basis for
us becoming candidates for the Holy Spirit. The whole nature of God
and Jesus is so contrary to the nature of Satan, which was injected
into us through Adam in the Garden of Eden!</span></span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Jesus
promises all of us through His disciples - the New Jerusalem and
Paradise. Many have received visions of the reality of John 14:6 -
but for me - “Visions Beyond the Veil” by H.A. Baker - more fully
and clearly confirms this promise than any other. I know the
daughter-in-law of this author - who also confirms this - and her
son, grandson of this writer, has put forth an updated edition of
this classic volume. You can obtain it through </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><<a href="http://www.irismin.com/">www.IrisMin.com</a>></span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">,
Rolland and Heidi Baker.</span></span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">The
Holy Spirit in these 5 chapters is also called the Comforter! Just as
Jesus was a comfort to His disciples through His brief 3-year
ministry - so the Holy Spirit would be a </span></span></font><u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="">Comfort</span></font></u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
to us the church through the next 2000 years - Jews and Gentiles
together. Israel is the “firstborn” in the One New Man - and
therefore has a place of precedence that is normal for the firstborn
to receive. Paul in Romans 11 exhorts us as Gentiles to perceive and
act upon this truth. Not that Israel is better - but God in His
Sovereignty has </span></span></font><u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="">chosen</span></font></u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
her for this position! Do we recognize Him as the Potter - and we the
clay? Then we will have no difficulty accepting His choice in this.</span></span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">John
17 is the Key and Conclusion to this section. It is the High Priestly
prayer of our Lord Jesus after the order of Melchizedek. The Father
abundantly answered His prayer - by giving us the same glory as a
part - that His Son on earth had in fullness! The Glory - the
Shekinah - is closely related to the Holy Spirit.</span></span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">And
now our Psalm for the day - </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">88:13
(88:1-18) I CRY OUT DAY AND NIGHT BEFORE YOU! “But I, O LORD, cry
to you; in the morning my prayer comes before you” (ESV) </span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">For
even if the fig tree does not blossom ... still, I will rejoice in
the LORD. I will take joy in the God of my salvation .... The LORD my
God is my strength (Hab. 3:17a, 18-19a). Yes, we </span></span></font><u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="">will</span></font></u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
</span></span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Hallow
your :name</span></i></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">,
Father!</span></span></font></p>
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