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John 17:5-12 NASB "Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was. (6) "I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world; they were Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. (7) "Now they have come to know that everything You have given Me is from You; (8) for the words which You gave Me I have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that I came forth from You, and they believed that You sent Me. (9) "I ask on their behalf; I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom You have given Me; for they are Yours; (10) and all things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them. (11) "I am no longer in the world; and yet they themselves are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are. (12) "While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and not one of them perished but the son of perdition, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.

Surviving Your Storms (John 16:1-4) John 16:1-4 NASB "These things I have spoken to you so that you may be kept from stumbling. (2) "They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God. (3) "These things they will do because they have not known the Father or Me. (4) "But these things I have spoken to you, so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you of them. These things I did not say to you at the beginning, because I was with you.

A Fruitless Christianity is a Rootless Christianity, Part 3. John 15:6-11 John 15:6-11 NASB "If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned. (7) "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. (8) "My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples. (9) "Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. (10) "If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. (11) "These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.

Discipleship Definitions. John 15:12-17 John 15:12-17 NASB "This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. (13) "Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. (14) "You are My friends if you do what I command you. (15) "No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. (16) "You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. (17) "This I command you, that you love one another.

A Fruitless Christianity is a Rootless Christianity, Part 2. John 15:6-11 John 15:6-11 NASB "If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned. (7) "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. (8) "My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples. (9) "Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. (10) "If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. (11) "These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.

A Fruitless Christianity is a Rootless Christianity, Part 1. John 15:1-5 John 15:1-5 NASB "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. (2) "Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. (3) "You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. (4) "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. (5) "I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. Dr. Kelly Nelson Birks Messiah Reformed Church, Omaha NE www.kellynelsonbirks.com

The Abiding Absolutes During Christ’s Absence, John 14:27-31 John 14:27-31 NASB "Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful. (28) "You heard that I said to you, 'I go away, and I will come to you.' If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced because I go to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. (29) "Now I have told you before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe. (30) "I will not speak much more with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in Me; (31) but so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded Me. Get up, let us go from here. Dr. Kelly Nelson Birks Messiah Reformed Church, Omaha NE www.kellynelsonbirks.com

The World Without the Word Has Lost its Way, John 14:19-24 John 14:19-24 NASB "After a little while the world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me; because I live, you will live also. (20) "In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. (21) "He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him." (22) Judas (not Iscariot) *said to Him, "Lord, what then has happened that You are going to disclose Yourself to us and not to the world?" (23) Jesus 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 abode with him. (24) "He 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. Dr. Kelly Nelson Birks Messiah Reformed Church, Omaha NE www.kellynelsonbirks.com

Christ’s Teaching on Baptism: Why the Church is Bound to Only ONE Baptism, Part 3, John 16:12-15 Dr. Kelly Nelson Birks Messiah Reformed Church, Omaha NE www.kellynelsonbirks.com

Christ’s Teaching on Baptism: Why the Church is Bound to Only ONE Baptism, Part 2, John 15:26-16:15 Dr. Kelly Nelson Birks Messiah Reformed Church, Omaha NE www.kellynelsonbirks.com

Christ’s Teaching on Baptism: Why the Church is Bound to Only ONE Baptism, Part 1, John 14:16-18, 26 Dr. Kelly Nelson Birks Messiah Reformed Church, Omaha NE www.kellynelsonbirks.com

What it Means to Have the Father in You as a Believer, John 14:12-15 Dr. Kelly Nelson Birks Messiah Reformed Church, Omaha NE www.kellynelsonbirks.com

The Exclusivity of What You Must Know, John 14:4-11 Dr. Kelly Nelson Birks Messiah Reformed Church, Omaha NE www.kellynelsonbirks.com

Are You Having Heart Trouble? John 14:1-6 Dr. Kelly Nelson Birks Messiah Reformed Church, Omaha NE www.kellynelsonbirks.com

The Beginning of the End of the Beginning, John 13:31-38 Dr. Kelly Nelson Birks Messiah Reformed Church, Omaha NE www.kellynelsonbirks.com

Born to Betray, Part 2, John 13:18-30 John 13:18-30 NASB "I do not speak of all of you. I know the ones I have chosen; but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'HE WHO EATS MY BREAD HAS LIFTED UP HIS HEEL AGAINST ME.' (19) "From now on I am telling you before it comes to pass, so that when it does occur, you may believe that I am He. (20) "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me." (21) When Jesus had said this, He became troubled in spirit, and testified and said, "Truly, truly, I say to you, that one of you will betray Me." (22) The disciples began looking at one another, at a loss to know of which one He was speaking. (23) There was reclining on Jesus' bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved. (24) So Simon Peter *gestured to him, and *said to him, "Tell us who it is of whom He is speaking." (25) He, leaning back thus on Jesus' bosom, *said to Him, "Lord, who is it?" (26) Jesus then *answered, "That is the one for whom I shall dip the morsel and give it to him." So when He had dipped the morsel, He *took and *gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. (27) After the morsel, Satan then entered into him. Therefore Jesus *said to him, "What you do, do quickly." (28) Now no one of those reclining at the table knew for what purpose He had said this to him. (29) For some were supposing, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus was saying to him, "Buy the things we have need of for the feast"; or else, that he should give something to the poor. (30) So after receiving the morsel he went out immediately; and it was night. Dr. Kelly Nelson Birks Messiah Reformed Church, Omaha NE www.kellynelsonbirks.com

Born to Betray, Part 1, John 13:8-13 Dr. Kelly Nelson Birks Messiah Reformed Church, Omaha NE www.kellynelsonbirks.com

The Necessity of Fulfilling Isaiah, John 12:37-41 Dr. Kelly Nelson Birks Messiah Reformed Church, Omaha NE www.kellynelsonbirks.com

Crowd Management & The Cross, John 12:32-36 Dr. Kelly Nelson Birks Messiah Reformed Church, Omaha NE www.kellynelsonbirks.com

This Hour, John 12:27-33 Dr. Kelly Nelson Birks Messiah Reformed Church, Omaha NE www.kellynelsonbirks.com

Reacting to a Resurrection, Gospel of John Dr. Kelly Nelson Birks Messiah Reformed Church, Omaha, NE www.drkellynelsonbirks.com

The Lazarus Condition, Part 5 Dr. Kelly Nelson Birks Messiah Reformed Church, Omaha, NE www.drkellynelsonbirks.com

The Lazarus Condition Part 4 Dr. Kelly Nelson Birks Messiah Reformed Church, Omaha, NE www.drkellynelsonbirks.com

The Lazarus Condition Part 3 Dr. Kelly Nelson Birks Messiah Reformed Church, Omaha, NE www.drkellynelsonbirks.com

The Lazarus Condition Part 2 Dr. Kelly Nelson Birks Messiah Reformed Church, Omaha, NE www.drkellynelsonbirks.com