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John 14

5 positions in the corpus lean on this chapter. Cited verses are marked.

1“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe in Me as well.

2In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?

3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be where I am.

4You know the way to the place where I am going.”

5“Lord,” said Thomas, “we do not know where You are going, so how can we know the way?”

6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

7If you had known Me, you would know My Father as well. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.”

8Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”

9Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

10Do you not 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. Instead, it is the Father dwelling in Me, performing His works.

11Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me—or at least believe on account of the works themselves.

12Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever believes in Me will also do the works that I am doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.

13And I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

14If you ask Me for anything in My name, I will do it.

15If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

16And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever—

17the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.

18I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

19In a little while the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you also will live.

20On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you.

21Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”

22Judas (not Iscariot) asked Him, “Lord, why are You going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?”

23Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

24Whoever does not love Me does not keep My words. The word that you hear is not My own, but it is from the Father who sent Me.

25All this I have spoken to you while I am still with you.

26But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you.

27Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled; do not be afraid.

28You heard Me say, ‘I am going away, and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.

29And now I have told you before it happens, so that when it does happen, you will believe.

30I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming, and he has no claim on Me.

31But I do exactly what the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us go on from here.

Who leans on it

Jacobus Arminius on indwelling of the holy spiritPRIMARY SOURCEAFFIRMS°Union with Christ — and therefore the Spirit's indwelling — is the effect of faith, not its cause. Arminius calls that union 'the primary and immediate effect of that faith by which men believe in him as the only saviour…Jonathan Edwards on indwelling of the holy spiritPRIMARY SOURCEAFFIRMS°The Spirit does not merely act upon the saints; he is communicated to them and united to their faculties as a new principle of nature, and every gracious act — faith among them — is an exercise of that principle. Natural…Luther on natural / general revelationPRIMARY SOURCEAFFIRMS°Luther's theology of the cross is built against natural theology. Reading God's invisible attributes off creation and history is exactly what he says disqualifies a man from being called a theologian; that wisdom is 'com…Luther on continuation of spiritual giftsPRIMARY SOURCEAFFIRMS°Preaching on Mark 16:17-18, Luther takes up the view that the signs belonged to the apostolic era and have since stopped, names it, and rejects it: the power remains in the church. What has changed is the need. The signs…Zwingli on natural / general revelationDISPUTED READINGNO FITNo listed stance fits. Zwingli expects to meet Hercules, Socrates, Seneca, the Catos and the Scipios in heaven, and he admires Seneca's letter to Lucilius as an expression of real faith. But he does not get there by natu…