Jesus has Overcome the World

Jesus has Overcome the World — John 16:23-33

There is a joy in the Christian’s life that cannot be !

is there a that cannot be taken from the Christian?

The means by which we obtain in our lives (that cannot be taken away) is !

John 16:23: What day is Jesus speaking of? ______________________________

The repetition of Jesus’ words concerning is because Jesus is applying what He has said to. 

What is prayer? Prayer is   – admitting that we are not all or s. Prayer is aligning our with His. 

Why is prayer so important? Along with many other reasons – -Prayer is the of obtaining the fullness of God’s joy (R.A. Torrey). 

The means of gaining true joy that cannot be taken is asking for it. 

Sometimes, we think we are entitled to know “why?” but we never know the answer.

We should not skip over the phrase “in my ” in verse 23. 

The phrase “in my name” means that we are to Jesus in prayer — we desire what He wants for us more than we want what we want. 

Alan Redpath: “When God wants to use a man, He takes him and crushes him.” 

What Jesus has discussed in this discourse is o because the disciples do not yet understand the resurrection.

There is no evidence that the disciples of Jesus made any sense of the cross until after the

The ministry of the Spirit is to point to Jesus as revealed in the

The fact that the disciples are by God should be a great cause for !

In verse 28, Jesus is summarized and the disciples take this as Jesus speaking plainly to them. 

At the end of chapter 16, we see that the disciple’s faith was . 

Weak faith isn’t the of faith — these faith in Christ!

What in your life reveals the weakness of your faith? _________________________

When our faith is weak, we must turn to !

Weak faith goes . In the midst of trial, we turn to or others when we should be looking to Christ. 

The genius of the church is found in the fact that the disciples who established it were people with faith, like you and I. 

Christ, before His death, points the disciples to Himself — it is only in Him that we have true Joy and the peace that comes from it!