John 14:15 If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. Sounds simple, doesn’t it! Then why do we try to complicate it? What are Yeshua’s commandments? Anything we read in His Testament is His commandment. Do they include the “Big 10?” You better believe it. “Oh,” some might say, “I thought only the 2…
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John 14:12-14 Amen, amen I tell you, he who puts his trust in Me, the works that I do he will do; and greater than these he will do, because I am going to the Father. And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in…
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John 14:10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on My own; but the Father dwelling in Me+does His works. Yes, let’s break this down (my way of saying, let’s dig deeper). The first part of the…
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John 14:7 If you have come to know Me, you will know My Father also. From now on, you do know Him and have seen Him. Yeshua is building on where we left off last time. Then Yeshua said, John 14:6b No one comes to the Father except through Me. In the new verse, we…
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John 14:6 Yeshua said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life! No one comes to the Father except through Me.” Rabbi Trail: When I was a new believer, I was part of a congregation that had two services every week, one on Friday night that was Messianic, and one on Sunday…
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John 14:1 Do not let your heart be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in Me. These are words of consolation from Yeshua, and they continue well into the 15th chapter of John. Judaism has seven weeks of consolation following Tisha B’Av. Tisha B’Av (the 9th of the Hebrew month Av) is recognized as the…
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Peter is the most colorful of the disciples. Right in the middle of the Upper Room Discourse, Yeshua prophesies over Peter saying … John 13:38 Yeshua answers, “Will you lay down your life for Me? Amen, amen I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times!” Peter had just finished saying…
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Mark 14:22-24 And while they were eating, He took matzah; and after He offered the bracha, He broke it and gave it to them and said, “Take; this is My body.” And He took a cup; and after giving thanks, He gave to them and they all drank from it. And He said to them,…
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Would it stretch your imagination if I said Yeshua turned the world upside down? Consider this: Luke 22:26 But with you, it is not so. Rather, let the one who is greatest among you become like the youngest, and the one who leads like the one who serves. What was that? Let “the one who…
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The “Upper Room Discourse” is the title used to describe a series of stories and teachings shortly before the Passover of Yeshua’s crucifixion. It records the events during a time of extreme urgency. Yeshua had much left to say to His disciples, but only a short time in which to say it. One Chronological Bible…
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