More of you, GOD: Produce, Practice & Persevere

 
 
 
 

More Of You, God! 

Produce, Practice, and Persevere

Pastor Cole Parleir

FOCUS: When we belong to Christ we will produce spiritual fruit that lasts, practice spiritual gifts, and persevere until Jesus returns.

  • Producing The Fruit Of The Spirit

  • Practicing The Gifts Of The Spirit

  • Persevering In The Spirit Until You’re Perfect

Producing The Fruit Of The Spirit

When we abide in Christ he produces through us fruit that lasts thereby bringing glory to the Father and joy to our hearts.

John 15:1-14 ESV (The True Vine for true fruit)

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.

I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.

If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. '

  • Every human will either be ‘taken away’ by God’s wrath or ‘pruned’ by His Word.

  • Placing your faith in Jesus Christ is the beginning of an eternally fruitful existence.

What is this ‘fruit that lasts” that Jesus is speaking of?

Galatians 5:15-26 ESV (Flesh that fades vs Fruit that lasts)

'But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.'

  • As believers, we can abide in Christ because His Word has made us clean thereby allowing His Spirit to dwell in us.

Ephesians 1:13-14 ESV

'In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory. '

  • The Holy Spirit in us is a guarantee of salvation as well as a life filled with God’s gracious yet painful pruning. (Eph 1:13-14)

  • A pruned life is one that displays God’s character as we walk in Christ’s footsteps by the power of the Holy Spirit.

  • This brings God the Father glory and His children joy.

Practicing The Gifts Of The Spirit

When we walk with Jesus the Holy Spirit will lead us to practice spiritual gifts for the building of his Church. 

1 Corinthians 12:1-11 ESV

'Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit. Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.

To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills. ' 

  • The fruits of the Spirit display God’s character. The gifts of the Spirit display God’s power.

  • The manifestations of the Spirit are empowered by God in EVERYONE for the common good.

  • We all have the same Spirit and the same mission to build the church. We all are gifted but do not all have the same gifts.

1 Corinthians 12:27-31

'Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.'

  • All are to pursue and practice the most excellent way and highest gifts: the motivation of God’s love and to prophesy.

1 Corinthians 14:1-3

' Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation. ' 

  • Since God’s love builds His people and saves sinners, we are to all desire and practice prophesying.

1 Corinthians 14:24-25

'But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all, the secrets of his heart are disclosed, and so, falling on his face, he will worship God and declare that God is really among you. '

  • Prophecy is God giving the speaker information that will allow the hearer to know that God sees them, knows them, and is among His people. This will encourage, comfort and edify God’s people while creating a road for the Gospel to enter an unbeliever's heart.

In summary: 

“Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy...So, my brothers, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues. But all things should be done decently and in order.- 1 Corinthians 14:1,39-40

Persevering In The Spirit Until You’re Perfect

Even at our best we are still practicing on this side of heaven. We must persevere by the power of the Holy Spirit knowing that “He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ”.

1 Corinthians 13:8-12

'Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. '

By the power of the Holy Spirit God does perfect work through imperfect people, preparing the worker and the field for the day of Jesus’ return.

  • We can persevere in yielding to the Holy Spirit and practice without fear of condemnation when we miss it because our Savior is merciful to us as well as perfect for us.

  • What God began in you by faith he will finish by that same faith.

Galatians 3:2-7

'Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith— just as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”? Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. '

  • We must be renewed daily in our faith in Jesus as Savior and Lord, as well as in the truth that the Holy Spirit is working miracles here and now.

  • As we walk in the power of the Holy Spirit let us remember that we have the Holy Spirit because of the sinless life, substitutionary death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. In this Gospel we take our stand all the way Home.

Question: 

Have you taken your stand on the Gospel of Jesus Christ?  

Are you confident that he really has forgiven your sin, given you his Spirit, and will bring you all the way home into his Father’s house? 

You can be today if you turn from the works of the flesh and place your trust in Jesus’ work for you on the cross.  

 

'And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. ' - Philippians 1:6

Second City Church - Pastor Cole Parleir 2021 

More of You, God!: From Passion to Power

 
 
 
 

More of You, God!: From Passion to Power

 Lead Pastor: Rollan Fisher

God desires his people to grow in the experience of his Holy Spirit - understanding why he is given and how he operates.

Focus: We will experience more of the Holy Spirit when we allow Jesus to expand our minds regarding who he is and how he operates through his Word. 

  • Passion for God

  • The Power Of God

  • The Purpose of that Power

Passion for God

Passion for God and the power of God will always lead you to the person and work of Jesus Christ. 

Acts 18:24-28

Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, competent in the Scriptures. He had been instructed in the way of the Lord. And being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John. He began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately. And when he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he greatly helped those who through grace had believed, for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, showing by the Scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.

There is always more to learn about God.

Apollos understood and taught about Jesus with great accuracy, boldness and fervency, yet still had more to learn.  

Priscilla and Aquila explained the way of God to Apollos more accurately, going beyond John’s baptism of repentance, that Apollos might become even more fruitful.

John 15:1-11

15 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. 7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. 9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. 11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.

What does this mean for us?

We can have great passion for God even whilst God desires to give us more power to testify to the person and work of Jesus Christ.

As we are sanctified by the Holy Spirit, we become more like Christ and are filled with God’s zeal to share the good news of Jesus with others. 

Passion for God is fanned through God’s Word and prayer, leading to encounters with the person and power of the Holy Spirit.

When we experience the power of the Holy Spirit, we are empowered to take our faith from private to public in love for and service to the world (Acts 2).

And so we become ever more fruitful as God intends.

The Power Of God

God adds power to our passion for him by allowing us to experience the person of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 19:1-7

And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples. And he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John's baptism.” And Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, Jesus.” On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking in tongues and prophesying. There were about twelve men in all.

*It is not enough that we are satisfied with what we have experienced in God, the exhortation of Scripture is that we pursue all that GOD intended for us in the person and power of the Holy Spirit.

Philippians 3:12-16

Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. Only let us hold true to what we have attained.

Always remember that Acts 1 was a command from Jesus, not a suggestion.

*According to Paul’s interaction with the disciples in Ephesus, one of the first matters of discipleship is that believers are baptized in the Holy Spirit, to be released in the power of God.

As we look to Jesus as disciples and believe God’s Word, we can all grow in operating in the power of the Holy Spirit.

When the Holy Spirit comes on believers, God releases gifts of the Holy Spirit.

We do not earn the power of God.

Galatians 3:1-6

O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified. Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith— just as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”?

God gives his power as a gift and every gift from God is good.

We can trust the Holy Spirit and his gifts just as we trust our benevolent, Heavenly Father.

The problem has come when we have seen people mishandle the “gifts of God” in Christ’s name.

Always remember that the godly response to abuse is not disuse, but proper use.  

We find the proper use of God’s power in his Word - 

  • The book of Acts

  • I Corinthians 12-14

  • Ephesians 4-5

  • I Peter 4

God wants to use our lives to glorify his strength, not our own, by the power of the Holy Spirit.

The Purpose of that Power

God gives us his power to testify to the reality and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 14:1-5

Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation. The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church. Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up.

God commands us to eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy.

The gifts are all administered in partnership with the Holy Spirit, in submission to God’s word and in the character of love.

All the gifts of the Holy Spirit are to be administered with order, being both tested and affirmed by the Word of God.

The gift of tongues was given to edify the believers. 

As they spoke in tongues, the disciples were able to fellowship with and give praise to God by the Holy Spirit, uttering mysteries to God revealed by the Spirit.

In such languages they never cursed, defiled another human being or blasphemed the name of God (James 3:5-12).  

It was a pure gift for a pure fellowship. 

The gift was given to the believers in Acts to first strengthen them individually, providing a vehicle for fellowship with the Holy Spirit, and as a means of giving praise to God (I Corinthians 14).

Prophecy was given to strengthen, encourage and comfort other believers, as well as make the reality of God known to unbelievers.

1 Corinthians 14:20-25

Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature. In the Law it is written, “By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.” Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers but for believers. If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your minds? But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all, the secrets of his heart are disclosed, and so, falling on his face, he will worship God and declare that God is really among you.

How do I experience more of God?

  1. You have hands laid upon you in prayer, as in Acts 19

  2. You simply ask in faith in response to the Word of God proclaimed to you (Acts 10)

Luke 11:13

13 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

-Jesus

You must live in the shadow of the cross to stay anchored in the purpose of the power of God.

As we continually reflect on Jesus’ substitutionary work at the cross, taking the wrath of God upon himself for our sins, that through repentance from our sins and faith in Christ’s work, we might go free, we live with a daily fear of the Lord.

And so we humbly handle the power of God in the hope of honoring the Lord, crying out daily for more of him, that we might make Jesus known to the world that he loves.

 

Second City Church - Pastor Rollan Fisher 2021

More of you, GOD!: Presence

 
 
 
 

More of You, God!: Presence

 Lead Pastor: Rollan Fisher

God desires his people to grow in the understanding of his Holy Spirit - who he is, what he does and to what he points.

Focus: We will better understand the person of the Holy Spirit when we look to Jesus and his Word.  

  • The Presence of God

  • The Person of God

  • The Priorities of God

The Presence of God

God gives us not only information about himself, but his presence in the person of the Holy Spirit.

 John 14:15-31

15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you. 18 “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. 21 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.” Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. 24 Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me. 25 “These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. 26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. 28 You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. 29 And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe. 30 I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me, 31 but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.

There is one God in three persons - God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit is just as much God as God, the Father and Jesus, the Son.

The Holy Spirit was represented as God in both the Old and New Testaments.

In the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit was the person by whom the prophets spoke, performed their miracles and made predictions of both world events and the coming Messiah.

That same Holy Spirit is with us today as New Testament believers.

Why did God send his Holy Spirit?

God sent his Holy Spirit that his presence might be with us until Christ’s return.

Cultivating our relationship with the Holy Spirit is the manner in which we have direct access to the Father, through Jesus his Son.  

The presence of God in the Holy Spirit empowers us to obey the commands of God.

We show our love for God by obedience to God’s commands.

The more intimately you walk with the Holy Spirit, the more you will demonstrate and so prove your love for God (Romans 8:5).

“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God.  The world is crowded with him.  He walks everywhere incognito.”

-C.S. Lewis

In what ways are you growing in your recognition of the presence of the Holy Spirit?

The Person of God

God’s Word allows us to understand who the Holy Spirit is and what he does.

John 16:4-11

4 But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you. “I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. 5 But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ 6 But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. 7 Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. 8 And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: 9 concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; 10 concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer; 11 concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

The Holy Spirit is God in the earth to convict the world of sin, righteousness and judgement.

You do not have to convince people regarding the truth of God’s Word - when you preach it, the Holy Spirit testifies to it.

Jesus perfectly exemplified obedience to God’s commands.

Now that Jesus has ascended to the right hand of the Father, the Holy Spirit is with believers to constantly lead them into right decisions that both please and glorify the Lord.

The Holy Spirit reminds people with conviction that they will have to give an account for their lives in the judgment to come.

We can try to ignore, but we will not escape the judgment of God.

In what ways are you growing in sensitivity to the Holy Spirit’s conviction?

The Priorities of God

The Holy Spirit continually points us to God’s priorities found in his Word as we seek to live a life that glorifies Jesus Christ.

John 16:12-15

12 “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. 14 He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. 15 All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

The Holy Spirit continually takes from what is Christ’s and makes it known to the world.

In doing so, the Holy Spirit heals and makes us whole. 

The Holy Spirit primarily makes what is Jesus’ and makes it known to the world through Scripture (the Bible), the Word of God, which was breathed out by the Holy Spirit (II Timothy 3:15).

The Holy Spirit secondarily leads us with moment by moment promptings of how to use our time, our talent and our resources in manners which glorify Jesus.

As we grow in fellowship with the Holy Spirit, he not only keeps us from sins of commission, but also sins of omission.

James 4:17

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. 

In what ways are you growing in being led by the Holy Spirit?

We are continually led to the cross by the Holy Spirit, to experience first the regeneration and then the ongoing renewal of the Holy Spirit through repentance and faith.  

Come to the cross today to experience the substitutionary work of Jesus Christ, who paid for our sins by his sacrifice, and was resurrected by the power of God so that he might pour out the Holy Spirit by whom we live a life that glorifies God!

Second City Church - Pastor Rollan Fisher 2021

More of you, GOD

 
 
 
 

More of You, God!

 Lead Pastor: Rollan Fisher

Focus: We will fulfill the mission of Christ when we know who he said we are to be, what we are to do and how we are to do it.  

  • Who We Are To Be

  • What We Are to Do

  • How We Are to Do It

Who We Are To Be

We are to be witnesses of Christ’s life transforming gospel.  

Acts 1:1-11

In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.

He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said,

“you heard from me; for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?"

"He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes, and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”

What We Are to Do

We are to be witnesses of Christ by proclaiming his Word - all that he has done and all that he has taught.  

How We Are to Do It

We are to be witnesses of Christ’s resurrection by the power of the Holy Spirit. 

John 14:1-14

14 “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. 2 In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. 4 And you know the way to where I am going.”

Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?”

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”

Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. 11 Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves. 12 “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. 13 Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.

Second City Church - Pastor Rollan Fisher 2021

 
 

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