The Gospel of John 15-21

Pt. 2: I Have Overcome the World

By Louie Marsh, 4-23-2023

 

 

1) Jesus says be ALERT or I could fall away.

 

“1“I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. 2They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. 3And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.” (John 16:1–3, ESV)

 

“17You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability.” (2 Peter 3:17, ESV)

 

2) The Holy Spirit’s Ministry…

 

·       To the world: CONVICTION of…

 

“8And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: 9concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; 10concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer; 11concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.” (John 16:8–11, ESV)

 

o   SIN

 

“4Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.” (1 John 3:4, ESV)

 

o   RIGHTEOUSNESS

 

“9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—” (Philippians 3:9, ESV)

 

o   JUDGEMENT

 

“13For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.” (James 2:13, ESV)

 

·       To the Believer: leading me to TRUTH.

 

“13When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. 14He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.” (John 16:13–14, ESV)

 

3) Jesus turns my sorrow into JOY.

 

“20Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy. 21When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. 22So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.” (John 16:20–22, ESV)

 

4) Jesus has OVERCOME the world.

 

“32Behold, the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me. 33I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”” (John 16:32–33, ESV)

 

 

Be of good cheer (θαρσειτε [tharseite]). Imperative active from θαρσος [tharsos], courage (Acts 28:15). A word for courage in the face of danger, only here in John, but see Matt. 9:2, 22; Mark 10:49. I have overcome the world (ἐγω, νενικηκα τον κοσμον [egō, nenikēka ton kosmon]). Perfect active indicative of νικαω [nikaō], to be victorious, to conquer. Always of spiritual victory in the N. T. See 1 John 5:4f. This majestic proclamation of victory over death may be compared with

 

A.T. Robertson, Word Pictures in the New Testament (Nashville, TN: Broadman Press, 1933), Jn 16:33.

 

“4Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.” (1 John 4:4, ESV)

 

“4For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.” (1 John 5:4, ESV)