Classic Tee-Up

Peter: “I will lay down my life for you”

o   We set unrealistic expectations for ourselves

Thomas: “Howe can we know the way if we don’t know where you are going”

o   We try to solve every single mystery as it pertains to God and faith

Phillip: “Let us see the Father, and then we will be content”

o   We bargain with God trying to force his hand

Judas: “Why don’t you just reveal yourself to the whole world

o   We critique God’s method

Promises of Jesus in John 14

• I am preparing a place for you in my Father’s house and I will bring you there
• I am the way the truth and the life
• I am in the Father and the Father is in me. If you have seen me you have seen the Father
• I will do whatever you ask in my name, even greater than what’s been done, so that the Father may be glorified
• The advocate, the Spirit of truth, I will send you and will be in you
• Peace I give to you and peace I leave with you
• The ruler of this world has no power over me
• I will not abandon you, but I will come to you