Blessed Night, Loves 😊

I Pray All Is Well With Everyone… And Your Hearts And Minds Are Full Of Love, Joy, And Compassion…For All God’s Children… And All God’s Creation. For Where The Love Of The Living God Flows… Peace Is Sure To Follow; And A Peace Of Mind In Anyone… Makes For More Loving And Gracious Individuals. Remember, Also… That Radiating And Expressing The Sincere Loving Energy Of Our Very Own “Mighty I AM Presence”… Is Our Strength And Our Salvation! So Let Us Be Sincere Love More In The World… In Our Actions, Associations, And Daily Living… Cuz Our Loving Energy Matters! And Stressing Less About The Darkness And Evil That Surrounds Us… Let Us Focus More On The Divine “Presence” And Light Power Within – That Is Everywhere Present; For That Light Power Is The Most Potent Energy… In All The Universe. Amen… 🤗💜💜💜

Give Thanks And Praises For Love Life… 🙏🏾💞

And Y’all Be Love… 💗💗💗

Christ here comforts his disciples: That they should be under the tuition of his Spirit.

“The reflection Christ would have them make upon the instructions he had given them. These things have I spoken unto you (referring to all the good lessons he had taught them, since they entered themselves into his school), being yet present with you. This intimates, (1) That what he had said he did not retract nor unsay, but ratify it, or stand to it. What he had spoken he had spoken, and would abide by it. (2) That he had improved the opportunity of his bodily presence with them to the utmost: “As long as I have been yet present with them you know I have lost no time.”

Note: When our teachers are about to be removed from us, we should call to mind what they have spoken, being yet present with us.

The encouragement given them to expect another teacher, and that Christ would find out a way of speaking to them after his departure from them, (John 14:26). He had told them before that the Father would give them this other comforter, (John 14:16), and here he returns to speak of it again; for as the promise of the Messiah had been, so the promise of the Spirit now was the consolation of Israel. Two things he here tells them further concerning the sending of the Holy Ghost:

(1) On whose account he should be sent: “The Father will send him in my name, that is, for my sake, at my special instance and request”; or “as my agent and representative.” He came in his Father’s name, as his ambassador, the Spirit comes in his name, as resident in his absence, to carry on his undertaking and to ripen things for his second coming. Hence, he is called the Spirit of Christ, for he pleads his cause and does his work.

(2) On what errand he should be sent; two things he shall do: He shall teach you all things, as a Spirit of wisdom and revelation, Christ was a teacher to his disciples. If he leave them now that they have made so little proficiency, what will become of them? Why, the Spirit shall teach them, shall be their standing tutor. He shall teach them all things necessary for them either to learn themselves, or to teach others. For those that would teach the things of God must first themselves be taught of God; this is the Spirit’s work.

He shall bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you. Many a good lesson Christ had taught them, which they had forgotten, and which would be to seek when they had occasion for it. Many things they did not retain the remembrance of because they did not rightly understand the meaning of them.

The Spirit shall not teach them a new gospel, but bring to their minds that which they had been taught, by leading them into the understanding of it. The apostles were all of them to preach, and some of them to write the things that Jesus did and taught, to transmit them to distant nations and future ages.

Now, if they had been left to themselves herein, some needful things might have been forgotten, others misrepresented, through the treachery of their memories; therefore, the Spirit is promised to enable them truly to relate and record what Christ said unto them. And to all the saints, the Spirit of grace is given to be a remembrancer, and to him by faith and prayer we should commit the keeping of what we hear and know.

That they should be under the influence of his peace, (John 14:27), Peace, I leave with you. When Christ was about to leave the world, he made his will. His soul he committed to his Father; his body he bequeathed to Joseph to be decently interred; his clothes fell to the soldiers; his mother he left to the care of John; but what should he leave to his poor disciples that had left all for him? Silver and gold he had none but he left them that which was infinitely better, his peace. “I leave you, but I leave my peace with you. I not only give you a title to it but put you in possession of it.” He did not part in anger, but in love, for this was his farewell, Peace I leave with you, as a dying father leaves portions to his children, and this is a worthy portion.

Observe. The legacy that is here bequeathed Peace, my peace. Peace is put for all good, and Christ has left us all needful good, all that is really and truly good, as all the purchased promised good. Peace is put for reconciliation and love, the peace bequeathed is peace with God, peace with one another, peace in our own bosoms seems to be especially meant, a tranquility of mind arising from a sense of our justification before God. It is the counterpart of our pardons, and the composure of our minds. This Christ calls his peace, for he is himself, our peace, (Ephesians 2:14).

It is the peace he purchased for us and preached to us, and on which the angels congratulated men at his birth, (Luke 2:14). To whom this legacy is bequeathed: “To you my disciples and followers, that will be exposed to trouble, and have need of peace; to you that are the sons of peace, and are qualified to receive it.” This legacy was left to them as the representatives of the church, to them and their successors, to them and all true Christians in all ages.

In what manner it is left: Not as the world gives, give I unto you. That is, (1) “I do not compliment you with Peace be unto you; no, it is not a mere formality, but a real blessing.” (2), “The peace I give is of such a nature that the smiles of the world cannot give it, nor the frowns of the world take it away.” Or (3), “The gifts I give to you are not such as this world gives to its children and votaries, to whom it is kind.” The world’s gifts concern only the body and time, Christ’s gifts enrich the soul for eternity. The world gives lying vanities and that which will cheat us, Christ gives substantial blessings, which will never fail us; the world gives and takes, Christ gives a good part that shall never be taken away. (4) The peace which Christ gives is infinitely more valuable than that which the world gives. The world’s peace begins in ignorance, consists with sin, and ends in endless troubles. Christ’s peace begins in grace, consists with no allowed sin, and ends at length, in everlasting peace.

As is the difference between a killing lethargy and a reviving refreshing sleep, such is the difference between Christ’s peace, and the world’s. What use they should make of it: Let not your heart be troubled for any evils past or present, neither let it be afraid of any evil to come.

Note: Those that are interested in the covenant of grace, and entitled to the peace which Christ gives, ought not to yield to overwhelming griefs and fears. This comes in here as the conclusion of the whole matter; he had said, (John 14:1), Let not your heart be troubled, and here he repeats it as that for which he had now given sufficient reason.

(John 14:28). Christ here gives his disciples another reason why their hearts should not be troubled for his going away; and that is because his heart was not. And here he tells them what it was that enabled him to endure the cross and despise the shame, that they might look unto him, and run with patience. He comforted himself, that, though he went away, he should come again. “You have heard how I have said, and now I say it again, I go away and come again.”

Note: What we have heard of the doctrine of Christ, especially concerning his second coming, we have need to be told again and again. When we are under the power of any transport of passion, grief, or fear, or care, we forget that Christ will come again. Christ encouraged himself with this, in his sufferings and death, that he should come again, and the same should comfort us in our departure at death; we go away to come again. The leave we take of our friends at that parting is only a good night, not a final farewell.

That he went to his Father. “If you loved me, as by your sorrow you say you do, you would rejoice instead of mourning, because though I leave you, yet I said, I go unto the Father, not only mine, but yours, which will be my advancement and your advantage; for my Father is greater than I.”

Observe here: (1) It is a matter of joy to Christ’s disciples that he is gone to the Father, to take possession for orphans, and make intercession for transgressors. His departure had a bright side as well as a dark side. Therefore, he sent this message after his resurrection, (John 20:17), I ascend to my Father and your Father, as most comfortable.

(2) The reason of this is, because the Father is greater than he, which, if it be a proper proof of that for which it is alleged (as no doubt it is), must be understood thus, that his state with his Father would be much more excellent and glorious than his present state; his returning to his Father would be the advancing of him to a much higher condition than that which he was now in. Or thus, His going to the Father himself, and bringing all his followers to him there, was the ultimate end of his undertaking, and therefore, greater than the means. Thus Christ raises the thoughts and expectations of his disciples to something greater than that in which now they thought all their happiness bound up. The kingdom of the Father, wherein he shall be all in all, will be greater than the mediatorial kingdom.

(3) The disciples of Christ should show that they love him by their rejoicing in the glories of his exaltation, rather than by lamenting the sorrows of his humiliation, and rejoicing that he is gone to his Father, where he would be, and where we shall be shortly with him. Many that love Christ, let their love run out in a wrong channel. They think if they love him, they must be continually in pain because of him; whereas those that love him should dwell at ease in him, should rejoice in Christ Jesus.

That his going away, compared with the prophecies which went before of it, would be a means of confirming the faith of his disciples, (John 14:29), “I have told you before it comes to pass that I must die and rise again, and ascend to the Father, and send the Comforter, that, when it is come to pass you might believe.”

Christ told his disciples of his death, though he knew it would both puzzle them and grieve them, because it would afterwards redound to the confirmation of their faith in two things: (1) That he who foretold these things had a divine prescience, and knew beforehand what day would bring forth. When St. Paul was going to Jerusalem, he knew not the things that did abide him there, but Christ did. (2) That the things foretold were according to the divine purpose and designation, not sudden resolves, but the counterparts of an eternal counsel. Let them therefore not be troubled at that which would be for the confirmation of their faith, and so would redound to their real benefit; for the trial of our faith is very precious, though it cost us present heaviness, through manifold temptations, (1 Peter 1:6).

That he was sure of a victory over Satan, with whom he knew he was to have a struggle in his departure, (John 14:30). “Henceforth, I will not talk much with you, having not much to say, but what may be adjourned to the pouring out of the Spirit.” He had a great deal of good talk with them after this, but, in comparison with what he had said, it was not much. His time was now short, and he therefore spoke largely to them now, because the opportunity would soon be over.

Note: We should always endeavour to talk to the purpose, because perhaps we may not have time to talk much. We know not how soon our breath may be stopped, and therefore, should be always breathing something that is good.”

Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible, John 14:25-30, by Matthew Henry, 1706