Series: Learning From The Master
– A Plan to Live By
Be Ye Ready!
Be Ye Ready!
John 14:1-31(NKJV) 1“Let not your heart be troubled;
you believe in God, believe also in Me.
2In 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.
3And 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.
4And where I go you know, and the way you know.”
5Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You
are going, and how can we know the way?”
6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through Me.
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7“If
you had known Me, you would have known My
Father also; and from now on you know Him and have
seen Him.”
8Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is
sufficient for us.”
9Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and
yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me
has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the
Father’?
10Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the
Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not
speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in
Me does the works.
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Me that I am in the Father and the Father in
Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works
themselves.
12“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me,
the works that I do he will do also; and greater works
than these he will do, because I go to My Father.
13And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that
the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.
15“If you love Me, keep My commandments.
16And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another
Helper, that He may abide with you forever—
11Believe
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17the
Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive,
because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you
know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.
18I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.
19“A little while longer and the world will see Me no
more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live
also.
20At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and
you in Me, and I in you.
21He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is
he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by
My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to
him.”
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22Judas
(not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it that
You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?”
23Jesus answered and said to 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.
24He who does not love Me does not keep My words;
and the word which you hear is not Mine but the
Father’s who sent Me.
25“These things I have spoken to you while being
present with you.
26But 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 things that I said to you.
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27Peace
I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as
the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be
troubled, neither let it be afraid.
28You have heard Me say to you, ‘I am going away and
coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice
because I said, ‘I am going to the Father,’ for My Father
is greater than I.
29“And now I have told you before it comes, that when it
does come to pass, you may believe.
30I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this
world is coming, and he has nothing in Me.
31But that the world may know that I love the Father,
and as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do.
Arise, let us go from here.
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Jesus stated there is a much better place to
be – 1-3
John 14:1-31(NKJV) 1“Let not your heart be troubled; you
believe in God, believe also in Me.
2In 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.
3And 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.
Be Ye Ready!
Jesus stated there is a much better place to
be – 1-3
Plenty of room
Prepared by Jesus
Presence of Jesus (with us)
John 14:1-31(NKJV) 1“Let not your heart be troubled; you
believe in God, believe also in Me.
2In 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.
3And 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.
Be Ye Ready!
Jesus stated there is a much better place to
be – 1-3
Plenty of room
Prepared by Jesus
Presence of Jesus (with us)
John 14:1-31(NKJV) 1“Let not your heart be troubled; you
believe in God, believe also in Me.
2In 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.
3And 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.
Be Ye Ready!
Jesus stated there is a much better place to
be – 1-3
Plenty of room
Prepared by Jesus
Presence of Jesus (with us)
John 14:1-31(NKJV) 1“Let not your heart be troubled; you
believe in God, believe also in Me.
2In 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.
3And 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.
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Jesus stated that He was the only way to
God - 6
6Jesus
said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through Me.
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Jesus stated that He was the only way to
God - 6
We need to learn from Him
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Jesus stated that He was the only way to
God - 6
We need to learn from Him
We need to follow Him
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Jesus stated that He was the only way to
God - 6
We need to learn from Him
We need to follow Him
We need to believe in Him
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Peter said:
Acts 4:12(KJV) 12Neither is there salvation in any
other: for there is none other name under heaven given
among men, whereby we must be saved.
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Peter said:
Acts 4:12(KJV) 12Neither is there salvation in any
other: for there is none other name under heaven given
among men, whereby we must be saved.
Religion is not enough
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Peter said:
Acts 4:12(KJV) 12Neither is there salvation in any
other: for there is none other name under heaven given
among men, whereby we must be saved.
Religion is not enough
Rule keeping is not enough
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Peter said:
Acts 4:12(KJV) 12Neither is there salvation in any
other: for there is none other name under heaven given
among men, whereby we must be saved.
Religion is not enough
Rule keeping is not enough
Righteousness of self is not enough
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Jesus stated a great need in our life - 15
15“If
you love Me, keep My commandments.
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Jesus stated a great need in our life - 15
15“If
you love Me, keep My commandments.
We need to love Him (with all our heart, soul and
mind)
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Jesus stated a great need in our life - 15
15“If
you love Me, keep My commandments.
We need to love Him (with all our heart, soul and
mind)
We need to let our love show
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Jesus stated a great need in our life - 15
15“If
you love Me, keep My commandments.
We need to love Him (with all our heart, soul and
mind)
We need to let our love show
We need to live close to Him
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Jesus stated we are not alone in this world
- The Holy Spirit, Comforter, Helper, etc.
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Jesus stated we are not alone in this world
- The Holy Spirit, Comforter, Helper, etc.
Lives within us - 17
17the
Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive,
because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you
know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.
Be Ye Ready!
Jesus stated we are not alone in this world
- The Holy Spirit, Comforter, Helper, etc.
Lives within us - 17
Leads us – 21
21He
who has My commandments and keeps them, it is
he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by
My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to
him.”
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Jesus stated we are not alone in this world
- The Holy Spirit, Comforter, Helper, etc.
Lives within us - 17
Leads us – 21
Loves us - 23
23Jesus
answered and said to 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.
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Jesus stated help is on the scene
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Jesus stated help is on the scene
Assistance in all things – 26
26But
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 things that I said to you.
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Jesus stated help is on the scene
Assistance in all things – 26
Acceptance bring peace - 27
27Peace
I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the
world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled,
neither let it be afraid.
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Jesus stated help is on the scene
Assistance in all things – 26
Acceptance bring peace - 27
Announcement of certainty - 29
29“And
now I have told you before it comes, that when it
does come to pass, you may believe.
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When should we get ready?
Today
Psalms 95:6-11(KJV) 6 O come, let us worship and
bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his
pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear
his voice,
8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in
the day of temptation in the wilderness:
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When should we get ready?
Today
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw
my work.
10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation,
and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and
they have not known my ways:
11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not
enter into my rest.
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Why should we be ready?
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Why should we be ready?
Cost of uncertainty
Matthew 25:13(NKJV) 13“Watch therefore, for you
know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of
Man is coming.
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Why should we be ready?
Cost of uncertainty
Failure of unpreparedness
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Why should we be ready?
Matthew 24:42-47(NKJV) 42Watch therefore, for you do not
know what hour your Lord is coming.
43But know this, that if the master of the house had known what
hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not
allowed his house to be broken into.
44Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an
hour you do not expect.
45“Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made
ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?
46Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will
find so doing.
47Assuredly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all his
goods.
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Why should we be ready?
Cost of uncertainty
Failure of unpreparedness
Reward of unfathomed blessings
Matthew 25:23(NKJV) 23His lord said to him, ‘Well done,
good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few
things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the
joy of your lord.’
Matthew 25:34(KJV) 34Then shall the King say unto them
on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the
kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
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How do we get ready?
Believe wholeheartedly and follow Jesus
Paul and Silas (to the Roman jailer):
Acts 16:31(NKJV) 31So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
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How do we get ready?
Believe wholeheartedly and follow Jesus
Paul to the Romans:
Romans 10:9-13(NKJV) 9that if you confess with your mouth
the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him
from the dead, you will be saved.
10For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the
mouth confession is made unto salvation.
11For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put
to shame.”
12For
there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same
Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him.
13For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
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How do we get ready?
Believe wholeheartedly and follow Jesus
Phillip to the Ethiopian eunuch:
Acts 8:37(NKJV) 37Then Philip said, “If you believe with all your
heart, you may.” And he answered and said, “I believe that Jesus
Christ is the Son of God.”
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How do we get ready?
Believe wholeheartedly and follow Jesus
Jesus Himself:
John 14:1,23 (NKJV) 1“Let not your heart be troubled;
you believe in God, believe also in Me.
23Jesus
answered and said to 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.
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Are you ready to meet the Lord Jesus?
Have you sought Him as your Savior?
Have you asked Him to forgive you?
Is there an advantage
in waiting to accept the Lord?