Presence (John 14:16-17‪)‬ Cityview Community Church - Sermons

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Presence
April 28, 2024 | Kyle Bjerga

Kyle Bjerga preached on Jesus' teachings about the Holy Spirit in John 14-17 and how the Spirit is better than having Jesus physically present. Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit as another advocate to continue his ministry of teaching and reminding believers. The Holy Spirit indwells believers and points them back to Jesus through ongoing revelation and spiritual promptings. Believers must be receptive to the Spirit's promptings by obeying and prioritizing God's presence. Kyle encouraged cultivating awareness of the Spirit through prayer and responding to the longings he places in believers' hearts.






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Well, good morning. You can go and grab your bibles turn to John chapter 14. If you're using one of the black pew Bibles there in front of you, there'll be on page 875. If you have been to the to Washington to see and seeing the Washington Monument pretty much everywhere you can there you can look up and see the monument there, this large stone pillar. It was one time the largest building in the world just for a short time. But at nights if you've been there, it's even more of an impressive structure as these 1000s of dollars worth of lights are pointing up. And at it, this stone pillar is very impressive. Now imagine you go there at night, and you take your phone your camera, and while all the tourists are taking pictures of the monument, you walk over to the lights and take pictures of the lights. Everyone's gonna look at you like what are you doing? That's not the reason we're here. We're here to see the structure. The lights are just showing us what this looks like. Nobody's saying wow, those lights are awesome. The stone pillar is brilliant. It looks great at night with all these lights. So you wouldn't do that. Because the lights if they're working and their function is they're supposed to you're just supposed to illuminate the structure in front of it supposed to show off the brilliance of the monument. And that really is the role of the Holy Spirit. The whole Holy Spirit is there to illuminate to shine on who Jesus is to bring glory to Him. J I Packer calls it his floodlight ministry, quietly turning everyone's attention away from himself and instead to the Savior. And so it's important to have this background as we dive into looking at to the Spirit, because we're here for three weeks, which means we cannot do a full theology on the Holy Spirit. So we're going to touch on a lot of things, but we're not gonna be able to fully develop everything. So it's good to have that background. And he is pointing us to Jesus, Romans eight two calls in the spirit of life, which is where the series title is taken from. So we're not going to do this full theology, the spirit, but as Brandon even just prayed, this is what we're looking at, in this three week series, how the Holy Spirit mediates Christ's presence with us. How he mediates Christ's presence with us the personal fellowship that we can have with God through the Holy Spirit. And we'll do this by looking this week at the presence of the Holy Spirit, the power next week, and finishing up a couple weeks with the promise of the Holy Spirit. So that's kind of the big picture of where we are and where we're going in this series. Now, for today, we're in John 14. And John 14 through 17 gives us the largest, the biggest selection of teaching that Jesus has about the Holy Spirit in his ministry. And this section of Scripture, John 14 to 17 is called a farewell discourse. And it's the farewell discourse because Jesus is preparing his disciples for what life without him will look like, at least life like they knew it. And what that looked like, you know,