Friday, May 9, 2014

The LORD our Passover

We are in John's synoptic gospel chapter 13 and verse 36 where it begins with Simon Peter speaking:

Simon Peter said to Him, Lord, where are you going? Jesus answered him, Where I go, You cannot follow Me now; but you shall follow Me afterwards. (John 16:12-16) Peter said to Him, Lord, why cannot I follow You now? I will lay down my life for Your sake. Jesus answered him, Will you lay down your life for My sake? Verily, verily, I say to you, The cock shall not crow, before you have denied Me thrice. Let not your heart be troubled: you believe God, believe Me also. For in My Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know. Thomas said to Him, Lord, we know not where You are going; and how can we know the way? Jesus said to him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no man comes to the Father, but by (through*) Me.
*This will be examined later on at the end of this study lesson.

If you had known Me, you should have known My Father also: and from henceforth you know Him, and have seen Him. (The LORD is indeed by meaning and definition both Father, Master, husbandman and the mighty Oak in which are grafted His disciples and stewards, husband and to all those betrothed in Him, Psalm 2:7-9, Acts 13:33)

Philip said to Him, Lord, show us the Father, and it suffices us. Jesus said to him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? he that has seen Me has seen the Father; and how say you, Show us the Father? Believe you not that I am the Father (the Spirit of Gen. 1 and 2), and the Father is Me? the words that I speak to you I speak not of Myself: but the Father (Spirit*) that dwells in (fills) Me, He does the works. Believe Me that I am the Father, and the Father is Me: or else believe Me for the very works' sake. Verily, verily, I say to you, He that believe Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater than these shall he do; because I go to My Father. And whatever you shall ask being in My name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. (Galatians 1:16, 2:20, 4:6, Ephesians 4:13, Colossians 1:13, 1Thessalonians 1:10, 1John 1:7, 2:23-24, 4:14-15, 5:11-13, 20, 2John 1:9) If you shall ask any thing in My name, I will do it. *It should be noted that after Jesus was washed by baptism to fulfill and righteousness, as required by the scriptures written about Him, by John, He was filled by the Spirit without measure as witnessed to by John the Baptist and those who were present. Then while in the wilderness which was representative of the Hebrews captivities He within Himself may have said something like this towards the end of His stay and before His temptation, 'I have within me the Spirit and I will to this Spirit be true and will not allow my flesh to rule me, because my spirit in which the Spirit now dwells is stronger then my flesh'. This is also witnessed to by the voice heard from heaven which is recorded as saying, 'I have both glorified it and will glorify it again.' (in John 12:28-29)

If you love Me, keep My commandments.
 
I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever; Even the Spirit of Truth; Whom the world cannot receive, because it sees Him not, neither knows Him: but you know Him; for He dwells with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. (in the person of the Spirit Holy, the Spirit of all Truth as an attribute of the person of the LORD) Yet a little while, and the world sees Me no more; but you see Me: because I live, you shall live also. At that day you shall know that I am Father, and you in Me, and I in you. (see the prayer of John 17) He that has (does) My commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves Me: and he that loves (knows will understand, Mat. 11:29) Me shall be loved of Father, and I will love Him, and will manifest Myself in Him. Judas said to Him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world? Jesus answering said to him, If a man loves Me, he will keep My words: and My Father will love him, and We will come into him, and make our abode within him. He that loves Me not keeps not My sayings:(of Life Eternal by revelation) and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father's which sent Me.

These things have I spoken to you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, Whom the Father will send in My name, (Christ and LORD) He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatever I have said to you. Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. (Within the text of the soon to be old witness are many things which speak of the Prince of Israel and the required peace offing due Him, some are found in Ezekiel 2:6, 37:26, John 14:1) You have heard how I said to you, I go away, and come again to you. If you love Me, you would rejoice, because I said, I go to the Father: for My Father is greater than I. And now I have told you before it comes to pass, that, when it is come to pass, you might believe. Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world comes, and has nothing in Me. But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave Me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.”    

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