05-30-21 | The Gospel: The Helper—Can You Ever Do Enough?

Plainfield Christian Church

Luke Proctor preaches from John 14:15-31 on Sunday May 30, 2021. JOHN 14:12-14 12 "Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it." JOHN 14:16-18 16 "And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you." "Employee burnout is on the rise globally, with the World Health Organization predicting a global pandemic within the next decade. Competing for market share in our global economy requires more hours of harder work (with the same pay). What makes it worse is that our smart-phones and communication devices have opened the door to work (and the associated stress) to follow us home, taking hostage what once was our place of resting and refreshing." MATTHEW 11:28-30 28 "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." Acceptance MATTHEW 3:16-17 16 As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. 17 And a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased." MATTHEW 4:3 The tempter came to him and said, "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread." MATTHEW 4:4 Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'" EPHESIANS 3:17-19 17 And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. You are God's child. ROMANS 8:15-16 15 The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. You are God's child. You are God's friend. JOHN 15:13-15 13 "Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you." JOHN 15:9 "As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Now remain in my love." Sustenance Significance 1 PETER 2:9-10 9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. Achievement JOHN 15:12, 16-17 12 "My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 16...You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit--fruit that will last--and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. 17 This is my command: Love each other." JOHN 15:16 "...whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you."