Teaching

Scriptures: John 15:12-27 Love One Another 12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14 “You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you. 16 “You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that…

Scriptures: John 15:1-11 I Am the True Vine John 15:1-17  “I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. 2 Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 “Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. 5 “I am the vine. You are the…

Scriptures: John 14:15-31 Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit John 14:15-31  “If you love me, keep my commandments. 16 I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counsellor, that he may be with you forever: 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you. 18 “I will not leave you 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…

Scriptures: John 14:1-14 I Am the Way, the Truth and the Life John 14:1-14  “Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. 3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also. 4 Where I go, you know, and you know the way.” 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t…

Scriptures: John 13:18-35 A New Commandment John 13:31-35  When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. 32 If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him immediately. 33 “Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you. 34 “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I…

Scriptures: John 13:18-35 One of You Will Betray Me John 13:21-30  18 “I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’ 19 From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I am he. 20 Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.” When Jesus had said this, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, “Most certainly I…

Scriptures: John 13:1-20 Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet John 13:1-20  Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2 During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him, 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and was going to God, 4 arose from supper, and laid aside his outer…

Scriptures: Luke 22:14-30 The Last Supper Luke 22:14-23  When the hour had come, he sat down with the twelve apostles. 15 He said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer, 16 for I tell you, I will no longer by any means eat of it until it is fulfilled in God’s Kingdom.” 17 He received a cup, and when he had given thanks, he said, “Take this, and share it among yourselves, 18 for I tell you, I will not drink at all again from the fruit of the vine, until God’s Kingdom…

Scriptures: Luke 22:1-13; Matthew 26:14-30; Mark 14:17-25 Betrayal and Preparing for the Passover Luke 21:37-22:1-13  Every day Jesus was teaching in the temple, and every night he would go out and spend the night on the mountain that is called Olivet.  (38)  All the people came early in the morning to him in the temple to hear him. Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching.  (2)  The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.  (3)  Satan entered into Judas, who was also called Iscariot,…

Scriptures: John 12:37-50 Sent by the Father to Save the World John 12:36b-43  Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them. 37 But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn’t believe in him, 38 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, “Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?” 39 For this cause they couldn’t believe, for Isaiah said again, 40 “He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes,…