Title: Don’t Fear! The Spirit of Truth has Come.
Preacher: Rev’d Aëlla Gage
Teaching Passage: John’s Gospel 14:12-31
Series: Jesus on the Eve of the Cross
10-11:15am Holy Communion Service (Fordham Church). With the All Saints Club groups for 4-16 year olds and a play creche for parents with little ones to make use of. The service will be livestreamed into the creche.
You are invited to stay for a cup of tea or coffee after the service.
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Online ChurchJohn 14:12-31
14:13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father.
14:14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
14:15 "If you love me, you will obey what I command.
14:16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever--
14:17 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.
14:18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
14:19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
14:20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
14:21 Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him."
14:22 Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, "But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?"
14:23 Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
14:24 He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
14:25 "All this I have spoken while still with you.
14:26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
14:27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
14:28 "You heard me say, 'I am going away and I am coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
14:29 I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe.
14:30 I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me,
14:31 but the world must learn that I love the Father and that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me. "Come now; let us leave.