Posts Tagged ‘Upper Room Discourse’

Fellowship with God – pt2 – Believe

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In this class, we’re working our way through Jesus’ unfolding of the New Covenant and what life with the Holy Spirit would like: What’s God’s part? What’s our part? How do we walk out this new relationship?

Part 2 looks at Jesus’ first of four simple, relational commands: believe. Trusting in the Father, and believing what He is like, is the foundation for our New Covenant relationship. The love Jesus calls us to is a love that comes as we abide in Him and as we ask in His name, which our both made possible only through faith. We have to believe in His goodness and in what He desires to give in order to enter into it. Faith comes through revelation, and so the call to believe is a call to an active pursuit. We grow in believing as we position ourselves to let Holy Spirit give us the revelation of the Father through the life of Jesus.

Fellowship with God – pt2 – Believe (mp3: 31.9MB, 56min)

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Fellowship with God – pt1 – The Upper Room Discourse

Posted by Tim

In this class, we’re working our way through Jesus’ unfolding of the New Covenant and what life with the Holy Spirit would like: what’s God’s part? what’s our part? how do we walk out this new relationship?

Part 1 is an overview of the Upper Room Discourse – John chapters 14 through 16 – where Jesus begins to teach His disciples about the New Covenant. In this talk, we’re looking at the context Jesus is speaking in and what that says about how to receive this message; the key points of Jesus’ instruction; and the overall theme that Jesus continually draws our hearts into as He is speaking.

Fellowship with God – pt1 – The Upper Room Discourse (mp3: 32.0MB, 56min)

Notes (pdf)

Simple Faith – Asking (Burning Hearts Gathering 10/10/12)

Posted by Tim

Part 9 in a series on the Upper Room Discourse and Jesus’ teaching on: Simple Faith

The final call of the Upper Room Discourse is to ask. Though never commanded, asking is the assumed response to believing, and Jesus promises that when we ask, He will answer. He will give us the Holy Spirit that we can abide in Him and will have power to love as He loves and even do greater works than He did.

Asking is not a command, it’s an inheritance. In love, God calls us to “ask and receive that your joy may be full.” The glory of love is to gaze upon the beauty of the One we love, to desire what we see, and to ask of Him to give us Himself, knowing confidently that He will because He loves us.

Burning Hearts Gathering – 10/10/12 – Asking (19.9MB 70min)

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Simple Faith – Loving as Jesus Loves (Burning Hearts Gathering 10/3/12)

Posted by Tim

Part 8 in a series on the Upper Room Discourse and Jesus’ teaching on: Simple Faith

Jesus’ main command, although He doesn’t get to explaining it until late in the teaching, is to love. But not just any kind of love: to love as He has loved. In saying that, Jesus changes what the standard of love is, and where love comes from. No longer is it about basic human rights and common courtesy – it’s about living in the testimony of how God feels about human beings. It changes our approach to loving our neighbor to one that’s rooted and grounded in faith and in the testimony of Jesus, so that it’s Jesus loving them through us.

Burning Hearts Gathering – 10/3/12 – Loving as Jesus Loves (20.3MB 71min)

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Simple Faith – Abiding (Burning Hearts Gathering 9/12/12)

Posted by Tim

We’re continuing to look at the Upper Room Discourse and Jesus’ teaching on: Simple Faith

We’re moving on to the second command of Jesus: abide. Jesus says abiding in Him is absolutely crucial. Those who do will bear much fruit; those who don’t cannot possibly bear any fruit and will be cast into the fire.

It’s both a mysterious and a simple command. The mystery is in what God has done in joining us to Him; the simplicity is in what we calls us to do in response – to abide literally just means “remain.” We are to know where we have been placed in Christ and we are to let nothing move us from living there by faith.

Burning Hearts Gathering – 9/12/12 – Abiding (20.0MB 70min)

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Simple Faith – Believe (Burning Hearts Gathering 8/22/12)

Posted by Tim

We’re continuing to look at the Upper Room Discourse and Jesus’ teaching on: Simple Faith

This message zeroes in on Jesus’ foundational command: believe. Earlier in John 6, Jesus, when asked, told the Jews it was what they must do to please God: believe in He whom God had sent. Now Jesus teaches His disciples how belief is the only source of the love God desires.

Jesus makes two major points about belief in His teaching in the Upper Room: 1. it’s impossible to love rightly apart from belief, not just in the work of God in salvation, but in the Person of God. 2. it’s possible to believe because the Person of God is revealed to us through the Incarnate Son.

The implication of Jesus’ teaching is clear: every godly ambition must be thoroughly grounded in wholehearted pursuit of the knowledge of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Burning Hearts Gathering – 8/22/12 – Believe (20.3MB 71min)

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Simple Faith – The Upper Room Discourse (Burning Hearts Gathering 8/15/12)

Posted by Tim

We’re starting a new series on: Simple Faith

In the Upper Room Discourse in John 13-17 Jesus teaches on what life looks like under the New Covenant. It’s beautiful in its simplicity, its loving nature and its accessibility. The Father, in love, has prepared for us a light yoke that is not out of our reach but belongs to little children.

We need to hear again and again Jesus’ message on the simplicity of believing and abiding, because our chief battleground in pursuing God is remaining in the simplicity of faith in and love for the Person of Christ, and not getting distracted and confused by adding to the simplicity of devotion that is in Christ.

Burning Hearts Gathering – 8/15/12 – The Upper Room Discourse (18.6MB 65min)

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