John 16 Upper Room Discourses | Amy Anthony

Amy Anthony March 5, 2025 WOW John 16 It is Well With My Soul

1. These Things (16:1-6)
   1. Four Encouragements
      1. Don’t let your heart be troubled-you have a peace only Jesus can give
      2. This world is NOT your home, and Jesus has prepared a place for YOU
      3. Jesus says PRAY in His name and the Father will answer
      4. If you are a believer, you have the Holy Spirit as an ever-present Helper
2. Six Calls to Action
   1. Serve others by doing
   2. Love one another as Jesus has loved you
   3. Abide in Jesus
   4. Go and bear fruit
   5. Be prepared for the World to hate you
   6. Testify about Jesus

Principles:

• We share in those things that Jesus told His disciples during the upper room discourse, and because His word is living and active, they are every bit as applicable to us today as they were to the 12 then.

Applications:

• Are you personally applying Jesus’s encouragements and commands to YOUR life?

1. The Helper (16:7-15)
   1. The Spirit’s actions through believers to the world
      1. Convicts re: sin, righteousness, judgment
   2. The Spirit’s actions for believers in their spiritual walk
      1. Guides into all truth

Principles:

• Unbelievers are convicted in their unbelief by the Spirit inside you, as a believer

Applications:

• If you have never accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior, let that change today. That uncomfortableness you experience around Christians is the Holy Spirit in them convicting you in your unbelief-your denial of God’s messenger and His message. Let today be the day you turn away from the world and all its temporary pleasures and embrace the Lover of your soul who died so that you might live forever with Him.

1. A Question of Timing  (16:16-23a)
   1. Jesus will go, but He will come back again
   2. The world will rejoice, but has sorrow after; they will have sorrow, but then will have a joy no one can take away

Principles:

• Momentary grief (the cross) followed by eternal joy (salvation) is more precious than momentary joy (the world’s view of the cross) followed by eternal sorrow (judgment)

Applications:

• Do you LIVE in that joy? If yours is the only testimony, the only Christian witness someone ever encounters, how joyful is the story they would see?

1. Prayer (16:23b-27)
   1. Pray in Jesus’s name- according to the will of the Father
   2. “In that day”- after Jesus’s resurrection and ascension
   3. Pray directly to the Father-no intermediary!
   4. An end to the cryptic speaking

Principles:

• Jesus says to pray.
• With the disciples, He ushers in a new concept of prayer-not through an intermediary like the temple priest, but directly with the Father Himself because He loves us and because Christ’s redeeming work on the cross means the veil is torn and we can boldly approach the throne.
• But when you pray, you should pray in Jesus’s name, praying in His merit, His worthiness, in line with the will of God.

Applications:

• Are you praying regularly?
• Are you praying things that you are comfortable asking Jesus to “sign His name to”?

1.  The Plainest Truth (16:28-33)
   1. Like some prophecy, Jesus’s “plain speech” seems to have a “now and yet to come” aspect to it
   2. “Present courage is not good enough for future testing.” - Stephen Davey
   3. We’ve circled back to “these things”, but now they have peace
   4. Jesus overcame the world BEFORE THE CROSS!!!

Principles:

• Our victory is assured too. Not in our own strength or our own actions, but in His..... For rest of notes email WOW@Shepherds.org