But I tell you the truth it's good for you that I'm going away unless I go away the Counselor or the Holy Spirit of God The 3rd Person of the trinity will not come to you but if I go. Him to you and when he comes we talk about he will convict the world wrong about. About righteousness and about judgment and then spells out what sin is from God's vantage point is under belief in me in regard to sin because men do not believe me and as we have discussed so many times the. Plural of the world have all been placed upon Jesus Christ at the cross and there he became sin for me so that in his resurrected life in him we might become the righteousness of God you're not going to have righteousness any other way than if it's imputed to you and me by God Himself everything that we have is coming from him and so he's told us that the only sin that is attributable to man is the sin of the rejection of the Son of God and the work that he did on the cross and guys many times we hear people talk about and the more I watch some of these talk shows facing Larry King it seems like he keeps bringing on these people the guy's just as dead as a hammer but he's heard and heard and heard and heard and you wonder how in the world could some man here that long and still be so hard hearted as to not want to believe especially when. God is asked him to believe in his one of his own. He's not a gentile he's a Jew and you're rejecting your own people. But it's amazing to me how I hear so many times of people saying well all you have to do is believe in Jesus and I saw the other night when they were talking about that are you saying that you can go out and do all kinds of good deeds and and be kind to people and be generous with people and they're all going to go to hell and yet all you got to just believe in Jesus and they say yeah that's it well see that's nonsense because you're not just believing in Jesus like you believe in a blanket or George Washington you're believing in Jesus and what he had to accomplish for us and it never gets explained as to why Jesus is the only way to God that does not get explained we don't get explained that before you're ever going to come to Jesus for what he came to give you life that you're going to have to come to the conclusion that God meant what he said when he said you are dead spiritually. I feel like sometimes you know I wish I was a fly or something and some of those programs I could put in my 2 bits I'm sure be real important. But I talk to the t.v. Anyway. But I felt like the day of saying Heaven ever integer mind to the Jewish people who make those kind of claims not only Jews but gentiles but especially Jews who make that kind of a claim are you saying that when we do good deeds and all this type of thing that that that we're not going to go and yet all you gotta do is believe in Jesus and I feel like saying to them Do you ever have you ever give any consideration to what the Passover is this Passover that you as Jewish people celebrate the Passover. Now I want to ask you a question when the angel passed over which you celebrate did he look down into those houses to see who was good and who was nice and who was generous and who was kind or did he look at the blood on the lentil of the door post which did he look at the blood or the people and so the very thing that just celebrates you don't believe in you don't believe in the very thing that you've been celebrating for thousands of years where God came and spared those who did what he said to do put the blood on the level and on the doorpost and you'll be passed over and so we talk out of both sides of our mouth continually we say I believe over here and then turn right around and they gave it but the fact of the matter is that unless we as Christians began explaining to people why it's Jesus why Jesus only why there's only one person that can give life to the dead is the only person ever resurrected from the dead and to explain the truth that there's something more than just sin in this world and religion has kept us concentrating on sins sins and sin when Jesus says I've taken away your sin it's gone from the eyes of God and the only sin ever attributable to a man is the sin of the rejection of Jesus who came to provide that for you you're refusing the provision of God the only provision that I've ever given you is my son Christ Jesus and when you refuse him use you choose when you refuse you choose to remain dead. Remain in your sins and the uncircumcision of your sinful nature that's a choice that you make and it's not accidental you're not born that way it's a choice that you make that I do not choose Jesus. And so that's what the Holy Spirit came to do he came it says I came to the world about sin because they don't believe in me about righteousness because I go to the Father . There you have. Me You have seen it and having seen it I'm now going to go to the Father and impute that righteousness to you and about judgment because the prince of this world has already been judged I have so much more to say to you he said but you can't bear it you're not ready for it but when the Spirit of Truth. Truth that's the work of the Holy Spirit of God who indwells you today as a born again believer that the Spirit of God is there to lead you into guide you into all truth. He's not going to speak on his own he will speak only what he hears hears from whom the Father and He will tell you what is yet to come. He will bring glory to me to Jesus by taking from what is mine Jesus and making it known to you all the belongs to the father is mine and that's why I said the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you. No more and then after a little while you will see me now going to pick up now. In verse 17. Some of his disciples said to one another. This one mean did they hear what he said. They heard what he said they didn't know what he meant some of his disciples said to one another what does he mean by saying I hear what he's saying what does he mean by saying in a little while you will see me no more and then after a little while you'll see me again they did not know what he meant by that statement and he said because I'm going to the father what does he mean by this that he's going to the Father did they have the whole picture yet know he was with them from the beginning and yet the whole picture had not been put into play shit and guys the same thing many times is true in our lives we have bits and pieces of information but we've never put them together to make the puzzle complete That's quite frankly what I think that our seminars that we do accomplishes for people is it puts the pieces of the puzzle together on our radio program you'll hear bits and pieces of truth and you know what a piece of the puzzle looks like real well maybe 2345 or 10 of them but until they're all put together into one picture until you see the whole picture you're missing something. And so he's saying why it is they are say what does this mean what he's saying and they kept asking what does this mean I heard what he said but what does this mean and in a little while in a little while you're not going to see me anymore but then a little while I'll be back we don't understand what he's saying well least invented that Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him about this and so he said to them Are you asking one another what I meant when I said in a little while you will see me no more and then after a little while you will see me it seems like that little while was what was getting to him was he talking about here. I tell you the truth he said you will weep and you will mourn while the world is rejoicing he's talking about his cross you will weep and mourn but the world in which you live will be rejoicing over my death you'll agree. But there's going to come a time in a little while when that grief. Is going to turn to joy why because of the resurrection so you will have a period of grief and then it's going to turn to joy he said it's like a woman giving birth to a child she has pain because her time has come when her baby is born but when the time has come when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into those who are a woman having a child goes to many times unbelievable pain to bear that child that's why I say that's why God never gave men childbearing we had only had one. Women seem to handle pain a little better than we do. But that's truth we see that the at the anguish but because of the joy that is brought forth because of this child is going to be brought into the world that she can love in the child and love her that is all worth it and that in the anguish becomes joyful so was you he said Now is your time of grief but I will see you again and you will rejoice and no one can take away your joy guys when you and I have come to grips with the resurrection of Christ Jesus which is the Centrale it is the Christian faith is the resurrection. And you come to the reality that Jesus is alive he's alive today he's living in you and me he's alive he's not dead hanging on a cross he's alive that joy cannot be taken away from you in the world you can be in prison you can be threatened to be put to death but the joy of the resurrection is something that will never ever ever leave you once you have come by faith to the reality of the rape resurrection of Christ Jesus if you're enjoying the book of John check out our website Bob George dot net there you'll find messages from the Book of John as well as other D.V.D.'s C.D.'s and Bible studies available for purchase That's Bob George Dot Net Let's join Bob now as he continues the radio program. In that day you're no longer ask me for anything our guys were this is kind of we're going to get into this. Who have and who are the disciples depending upon for information while Jesus was with them who are they depending on for information Jesus they ask him continually did they not questions did he answer questions continually did he teach them continually guys think about this for a minute everything. That we know today about the character of God about his unconditional love and mercy about his kindness. About his goodness. About his forgiveness. About his dedication to you and me and his faithfulness the human being every single thing we know about God and His character has been revealed to us in Christ Jesus. Now God revealed Himself in many ways in times past as were told through through dreams visions nature. But is said but in these last days he's revealed himself to us through Christ Jesus. And everything that we know about God about his character we know that through the teaching of Christ Jesus and when you don't know the teachings of Christ Jesus you don't know the character of God. Because that's what he came to do was to reveal the father to you and me to reveal the totality of God to you and me so he's saying you have depended upon me while I was here with you you have depended upon me for revelation you've asked me all kinds of questions and when you did I've answered every one of them and my answers did not come from me they came from God who told me what to say because I say nothing unless the father tells me to say it and how to say it and I do nothing unless the father tells me how to do it and so everything he wanted to know I G.'s is have revealed to you Don going away and what he is saying to them is this you no longer need someone in between you and God the Father. You can now go direct to the father and that's what he's saying to you and that day you will no longer ask me for anything I tell you the truth my father will give you whatever you ask in my name now guys that is not meaning asking for Cadillac's and for Lincoln Continentals it's talking about asking for truth Jesus just got through saying I'm going to tell you truth you don't understand what I'm saying but asked me and I'll tell you the meaning of what I'm saying. And he's saying to us from now on when you have a question you asked the father and he will give you the Ensor. Until now you've got ask anything in My Name In other words in my authority you've never done that before we're born into that but they were not this was new to them you've never asked God for anything in the name or the authority of Christ Jesus he said I ask and you receive if you need wisdom I ask who gave it to you abundantly if you need mercy you ask he gives it to you abundantly you ask you receive and your joy will be complete though I have been speaking figuratively says The time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but I'll tell you plainly about my father so is telling of now about the father in that day now listen to this guys in that day you will ask in my name in my authority but you will ask the Father. Now look what he says I'm not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf he's not saying that if you want to know something from the father you've got to ask me and then I'll tell the Father to reveal it to me. He's saying that I'm not going to be asking the father on your behalf you will be asking the father on your behalf but when you do that you're going to be asking it in the authority of Christ Jesus who you have brought into your life as commanded by the Father for you and me to do do we get this we don't need an intermediary between you and God as some people have said a bunch of intermediaries. We've got Jesus You've got Mary you've got anybody else down the pike when Jesus is saying that you're not going to need to go through me you can go direct to the Father Now either that's biblical or it isn't folks. And if it is Biblical we shouldn't be teaching other intermediary should wish. There were no fun no the father himself loves you why does he love you and me because you've loved Jesus and have believed that Jesus came from God you came to Jesus on his grounds you came to God the Father scuse me on his grounds that the way that you're going to get to know me is when you get to know my son everything that I want to reveal about myself has been revealed in Jesus no more or no less That's why Jesus could say if you've seen me you've seen the father he's not saying the father are just all and there's a father and a son but he said I am a total everything that I am is the father so when you've seen me you've seen the Father so the father himself loves you and he loves me and he loves us because we have learned to love Jesus and the Bible says it's not that we love God but that he loved us 1st so he initiated the love to you and you've responded to him in love I Jesus I came from the father he said and entered the world and now he said I'm leaving the world and I'm going back to the Father and going back to where I came from and then Jesus' disciples said Well now you're speaking clearly and without figures of speech now we can see Jesus that you know all things. And that you do not even need to have anyone to ask you questions this makes us believe that you came from God you believe at last he's a said. But the time is coming and has come when you will be scattered each to his own home if he scattered all over the place he will leave me all alone I am not yet I am not alone saying I never will be alone my father is with me he said I've told you these things so that in me and in your relationship with Jesus you may have peace. And guys were told about the peace of God The passes all understanding but you are never experience a piece of God until you experience peace with God and you cannot experience peace with God until you recognize the truth that you have been reconciled to God through the death of his son and how much more having been reconciled shall you be saved by His resurrected life. So I've told you these things so that in your relationship with me Jesus you may have peace in this world you're going to have trouble in tribulation if you never had any other verses scripture to believe that the Bible is true just grab hold of that one. And this world you are going to have trouble and tribulation but take heart he said I've overcome the world don't worry about it I've overcome the world in this world. Especially if you're in Jesus but if you're not in Jesus. When Adam fell and sin entered into this world from that point on tribulation entered into this world did it not trials tribulation that disease all of the things that we fight every day of our life was brought into this world and introduced into this world at the fall of man to to the point where it even says all of nature even groans for its redemption nature itself fell and so in this world you're going to have tribulation we look at the world as a friendly place and if you just look at the nature that God gave us the beautiful hills and the valleys and the deserts in the trees and never stop to think that even the tiniest little insect that God created God gave it something to eat. But only a little insect and eat everything furnish for everything He created in this world he furnished food air furnished everything we have everything we need for life and for godliness but the world is not our friend. Because mankind is not our friend in this world people were born and when people were born into this world they were born with a choice to either choose to walk as God made us to walk involved by God or to choose to rebel against God and to walk in the energy of your own flesh living on your own understanding never knowledge in him and never having a chance to direct your path he said in this world you are going to have tribulation after Jesus said that he looked toward heaven. And he prayed and here's a phenomenal prayer that Jesus again he didn't. He didn't pray a prayer for us to memorize he's praying a prayer that he wants is to grab a hold of the heart of God Himself to see what Jesus was talking to his father about Father he said The time has come glorify your son make your son known that your son may glorify you for you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those that you have given him a Jesus came with the authority of God to grant eternal life to all who come to Him by faith to be able to grant to you and to me Life Eternal he who has the Son has life he who does not have the Son of God does not have life and these things are written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God in order that you may know that you have what eternal life. Jesus came to give eternal life to those who had come by faith to him believing him for what he came to do take away the sins of the cross and be raised from the did they give life to you and me who are born David and guys I cannot emphasize this enough you must see what the Bible says is true you're born into this world there. Thank you so much for tuning in the classic Christianity with Bob George we hope you've enjoyed today's program we truly hope that today's message has inspired you to walk a life of faith in the Lord and find more information online and Bob George that net There you'll also find available C.D.'s D.V.D.'s and Bible studies of billable for purchase it's through your help that we're able to spread the Good Word of Jesus Christ until next time walk in faith be good to one another in praise the lord amen. Jesus. 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