Jesus said that we shouldn't let our hearts be troubled. We should trust Jesus,
the Son of God, in the same way as we trust in God the Father, see The Trinity.
(John 14:1, 27). See Don't be anxious in The Sermon on the Mount.
Jesu didn't leave or forsake the disciples to be alone. He left the disciples to prepare a place for his believers. He will come back and take us with him.
(John 14:2–3, 28a). Jesus is coming back for his bride who are the believers in him, see The Return of Jesus.
Jesus Christ is the faithful witness (Rev 1:5a, 3:14b). When he witnesses to us,
we get the absolute truth.
Jesus said: "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father
except through me." (John 14:6). Jesus is the only way to Salvation, see
from time 0:33 in Salvation by Goodness: Can I be saved by being a good person?
Jesus is the cornerstone of the kingdom of God in all that God builds among people (Acts 4:11–12, Psalm 118:22, 1 Pet 2:6, Isaiah 28:16).
See cornerstone explained in The Parable of the Tenants.
See the animated video: How Can Jesus Be the Only Way?
See also What Happens to Those Who Have Never Heard About Jesus?
Jesus also said: "For the one who is not against us is for us." (Mark 9:40) and:
"Do not stop him, for the one who is not against you is for you." (Luke 9:50).
This is about the attitude of the followers of Jesus. Because Jesus also said: "Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters." (Mat 12:30, Luke 11:23). Neutrality about Jesus isn't an option. This means that when it comes to people's attitude towards Jesus himself, he is sharper.
"Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist,
he who denies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also." (1 John 2:22–23).
See time 26:14–30:53 in 1 John 2 (Part 2) :18-29 • Abiding in the Truth.
Jesus also said: If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him. Whoever has seen me has seen the
Father. Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is
in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves." (John 14:7, 9b–11).
With these words Jesus declared his deity, see Jesus is God,
The Order between Jesus and the Father in the Trinity, and Miracles of Jesus.
When we read about Jesus' miracles, we see the will of God the Father.
Jesus is the radiance of God the Father's glory and the exact representation
of his essence (Heb 1:3a), see God's Attributes.
Jesus then said: "Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father." (John 14:12).
When Jesus says that his believers will do greater things than he did, it doesn't
necessarily mean that Jesus is talking about more sensational miracles. It can mean larger in scale and scope. Jesus ministered in a limited area for only 3.5 years.
After the Holy Spirit was given, believers have served all over the world for almost 2000 years, sometimes with signs and wonders as they spread the gospel, see
Spiritual Gifts. People have become born again believers as a result of this.
The greatest miracle of all is when someone hears Jesus' message, accepts it,
is born again, becomes a child of God, and receives eternal life with God
(Luke 15:7, 10), see The Book of Peter and Jesus and Nicodemus.
Jesus said: "Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full. In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf; for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God."
(John 14:13–14, 16:23b–24, 26–27).
When Jesus says "in my name" it includes that it must be according to his will and character, see Ask, and it will be given to you in The Sermon on the Mount.
When we pray in the name of Jesus, it means that we are asking God the Father
directly, and it's he who gives us what we ask for. It's Christ who makes the relationship with God the Father possible, because it's Jesus who gives us access to God the Father. Jesus is the only mediator between God the Father and mankind (1 Tim 2:5). Jesus death on the cross made it possible for us to have our sin forgiven. One of the reasons God the Father loves us is because we love Jesus and believe that he came from God the Father in Heaven.
Jesus said: "If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the
Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth. Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself 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 home with him. But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me." (John 14:15–17, 21, 23, 15:26).
Jesus speaks of obedience as an expression of love, see Jesus and the Law. There are promises related to keeping his commandments. Jesus will ask God the Father to give that person a Helper, the Spirit of truth, that's the Holy Spirit. He will witness about Jesus. On that day we will know that Jesus is in God the Father, and we are in him, and he is in us (John 14:20, 23b). Technically it's the Holy Spirit who is in us, but since the persons; God the Father, Jesus, and God the Holy Spirit, together are One God, see The Trinity, they are all in us through the Holy Spirit.
Jesus also said that the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in the name of Jesus, will teach us all things and remind us of all that Jesus had said to us (John 14:26). This teaching takes place every time we take time for God's word, the Bible. God is then the teacher through the Holy Spirit.
Jesus said about the Helper, the Spirit of truth, that's the Holy Spirit:
"I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer; concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged. I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When 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. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you." (John 16:7–15).
The Holy Spirit will convict the world about their unbelief, that they need Salvation. No one comes to the God the Father except through Jesus (John 14:6). The Holy Spirit is personal, masculine, and real. It's because the Holy Spirit is a person that we can have a personal relationship with God, see The Trinity. As long as the physical Jesus was on Earth, he could only be in one place. But when he went to join
God the Father, and the Holy Spirit was sent to be with the believers, now Jesus can be everywhere and in every born again believer through the person the Holy Spirit.
Jesus Farewell Prayer:
Jesus gave his Farewell Prayer (or the High Priestly Prayer) just hours before his crucifixion: "Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on Earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. And now,
Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you. For
I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me.
I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth. I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may
be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them."
(John 17:1–26). See also Unity.
See also Some stories in the gospels at the bottom of The Four Gospels.
