Sermon Notes — May 25, 2025 Sermon May 25 Written By Craig Goff </div></div><div class="col sqs-col-0 span-0"></div></div><div class="sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule" data-block-type="47" id="block-a76e452af9086a691548"><div class="sqs-block-content"><hr /></div></div><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" data-border-radii="{"topLeft":{"unit":"px","value":0.0},"topRight":{"unit":"px","value":0.0},"bottomLeft":{"unit":"px","value":0.0},"bottomRight":{"unit":"px","value":0.0}}" id="block-eba80a298fbfc5dcded3"><div class="sqs-block-content"> <div class="sqs-html-content"> <p style="text-align:center;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="">John 14:25-29</p><p style="text-align:center;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="">May 25, 2025</p><p style="text-align:center;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="">Dr. Craig Goff</p><p style="text-align:center;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="">The Gifts Jesus Gives</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The Passover Sedar meal was and is an important part of the Jewish faith. It enables the Jewish people to remember the story of their deliverance from slavery in Egypt in a powerful and beautiful way. </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">In the Gospel of John, Jesus and the disciples share three Passovers together. The first is mentioned in chapter 2, the second in 6:4, and the third begins back at chapter 11 at verse 55 and runs through our text today and beyond. </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">So the Passover that serves as the background of our text this morning is not their first Passover together. They had all celebrated Passovers even before they met Jesus. They had grown up celebrating Passover. </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">But they had never had a Passover like we have described in our text today.</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Never before had they seen a teacher remove his outer robe and kneel down and wash the feet of those in attendance like a lowly slave or servant</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Never before had they had a rabbi pour a glass of wine and say: “This is the cup of the new covenant. This is my life poured out for you.”</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Never before had they heard the one presiding over the Seder say very calmly, “one of you is going to betray me.”</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">In the Upper Room that night, during that Passover, all the hints that Jesus had been making about his approaching death were coming into sharp focus</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The news of his death wasn’t just a strange and confusing rumor. Things (as they say) were starting to get real (or whatever it is they say like that).</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Those who had gathered in the Upper Room, who had left everything to follow Jesus began to realize the one they trusted with the fulfillment of all their hopes and dreams, was leaving them. </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">So, while on the one hand it is an extraordinary event and night, on the other hand, as they began to deal with losing Jesus, they are facing an experience that is common to us all. </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Because….as we all know….loss, death, being left alone….is just part of life</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">It happens to us all. These disciples described in John 14 are experiencing what we all experience </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Let’s take a look at what Jesus says in verse 27 “I do not give to you as the world gives.”</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Let’s think about that.</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">How does the world give? What does the world give? </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Sometimes the world gives us some pretty cool stuff.</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Just look at the sky on a star filled night, listen to music, listen to the ocean, smell an orange, feel the touch of a baby’s skin or a kitten’s fur. The world gives us some pretty beautiful things. </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">But the world also gives us heartache, grief and pain. The world gives us trouble. The world gives us disappointment </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">We live our lives doing our best, hoping to make a difference, trying to give ourselves fully to relationships and friendships only to see them fall through our hands sometimes, only to see them crumble before our eyes sometimes as we are left alone and maybe even a little bitter</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The world gives us war, racism. The world gives us trauma and I think those are the kind of things Jesus is talking about in this text</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">In the Message contemporary Bible translation Jesus says: “I don’t leave you the way you are used to being left — feeling abandoned, bereft”</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">That is a powerful and important message for us all. </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Sometimes the world leaves us feeling like the rug has been pulled out from under us (and if you have never felt that way, chances are you will).</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Jesus definitely knew what that felt like and he knew that the disciples were beginning to feel like that the night in the Upper Room and yet he tells them: </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">“Peace, I leave with you. My peace I give to you.”</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Jesus says to his disciples, I don’t give to you as the world gives, I give you peace.</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">When I was a student at Vanderbilt Divinity School, I kind of thought I might be a great theologian….for about a semester. I was the cream of the theological crop at Treveca Nazarene College, I thought I was pretty smart. However, when I got to Vanderbilt with all those other top students from all those other colleges, I was just run of the mill. So my dream of being a great theologian was very short lived. Sometimes I do good to even read what great theologians write. </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">So, I definitely realize I am not a great theologian, but actually anyone who thinks about God is a theologian (theology literally means “thought or study of God” </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">And we all think about God…</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">So I realize I am not the next John Cobb or Rosemary Reuther, but here is my attempt at a little constructive theology …..</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">What if the peace Jesus gives to us is the Holy Spirit?</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Jesus says “I am leaving you peace. I am giving you the Holy Spirit.”</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Coincidence? I am giving you peace. I am giving you the Holy Spirit. </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">I realize my theory may not be the cutting edge of theology, but if we have the Holy Spirit, we have peace no matter what happens. </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">So Jesus says, I am giving you peace and in light of all the things that are about to happen he also says, “Take heart” which can also be translated “have courage.”</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Take heart, have courage because I am giving you the Holy Spirit and because you have the Holy Spirit you have peace.</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">On his way to the cross, Jesus said some pretty important things. </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The world can kill you, the world may kill you. </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The good news is, we don’t have to be like the world.</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The world killed Jesus, but Jesus is stronger than death.</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">This is the Easter Season. We are Easter people.</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">We are people of the empty tomb, people of the resurrection, people who have been given the gift of the Holy Spirit </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Take heart, have courage believe in Jesus the One who doesn’t give as the world gives.</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The One who gives us peace. 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Sermon Notes — May 25, 2025 Sermon May 25 Written By Craig Goff </div></div><div class="col sqs-col-0 span-0"></div></div><div class="sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule" data-block-type="47" id="block-a76e452af9086a691548"><div class="sqs-block-content"><hr /></div></div><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" data-border-radii="{"topLeft":{"unit":"px","value":0.0},"topRight":{"unit":"px","value":0.0},"bottomLeft":{"unit":"px","value":0.0},"bottomRight":{"unit":"px","value":0.0}}" id="block-eba80a298fbfc5dcded3"><div class="sqs-block-content"> <div class="sqs-html-content"> <p style="text-align:center;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="">John 14:25-29</p><p style="text-align:center;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="">May 25, 2025</p><p style="text-align:center;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="">Dr. Craig Goff</p><p style="text-align:center;white-space:pre-wrap;" class="">The Gifts Jesus Gives</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The Passover Sedar meal was and is an important part of the Jewish faith. It enables the Jewish people to remember the story of their deliverance from slavery in Egypt in a powerful and beautiful way. </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">In the Gospel of John, Jesus and the disciples share three Passovers together. The first is mentioned in chapter 2, the second in 6:4, and the third begins back at chapter 11 at verse 55 and runs through our text today and beyond. </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">So the Passover that serves as the background of our text this morning is not their first Passover together. They had all celebrated Passovers even before they met Jesus. They had grown up celebrating Passover. </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">But they had never had a Passover like we have described in our text today.</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Never before had they seen a teacher remove his outer robe and kneel down and wash the feet of those in attendance like a lowly slave or servant</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Never before had they had a rabbi pour a glass of wine and say: “This is the cup of the new covenant. This is my life poured out for you.”</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Never before had they heard the one presiding over the Seder say very calmly, “one of you is going to betray me.”</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">In the Upper Room that night, during that Passover, all the hints that Jesus had been making about his approaching death were coming into sharp focus</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The news of his death wasn’t just a strange and confusing rumor. Things (as they say) were starting to get real (or whatever it is they say like that).</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Those who had gathered in the Upper Room, who had left everything to follow Jesus began to realize the one they trusted with the fulfillment of all their hopes and dreams, was leaving them. </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">So, while on the one hand it is an extraordinary event and night, on the other hand, as they began to deal with losing Jesus, they are facing an experience that is common to us all. </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Because….as we all know….loss, death, being left alone….is just part of life</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">It happens to us all. These disciples described in John 14 are experiencing what we all experience </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Let’s take a look at what Jesus says in verse 27 “I do not give to you as the world gives.”</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Let’s think about that.</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">How does the world give? What does the world give? </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Sometimes the world gives us some pretty cool stuff.</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Just look at the sky on a star filled night, listen to music, listen to the ocean, smell an orange, feel the touch of a baby’s skin or a kitten’s fur. The world gives us some pretty beautiful things. </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">But the world also gives us heartache, grief and pain. The world gives us trouble. The world gives us disappointment </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">We live our lives doing our best, hoping to make a difference, trying to give ourselves fully to relationships and friendships only to see them fall through our hands sometimes, only to see them crumble before our eyes sometimes as we are left alone and maybe even a little bitter</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The world gives us war, racism. The world gives us trauma and I think those are the kind of things Jesus is talking about in this text</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">In the Message contemporary Bible translation Jesus says: “I don’t leave you the way you are used to being left — feeling abandoned, bereft”</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">That is a powerful and important message for us all. </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Sometimes the world leaves us feeling like the rug has been pulled out from under us (and if you have never felt that way, chances are you will).</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Jesus definitely knew what that felt like and he knew that the disciples were beginning to feel like that the night in the Upper Room and yet he tells them: </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">“Peace, I leave with you. My peace I give to you.”</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Jesus says to his disciples, I don’t give to you as the world gives, I give you peace.</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">When I was a student at Vanderbilt Divinity School, I kind of thought I might be a great theologian….for about a semester. I was the cream of the theological crop at Treveca Nazarene College, I thought I was pretty smart. However, when I got to Vanderbilt with all those other top students from all those other colleges, I was just run of the mill. So my dream of being a great theologian was very short lived. Sometimes I do good to even read what great theologians write. </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">So, I definitely realize I am not a great theologian, but actually anyone who thinks about God is a theologian (theology literally means “thought or study of God” </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">And we all think about God…</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">So I realize I am not the next John Cobb or Rosemary Reuther, but here is my attempt at a little constructive theology …..</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">What if the peace Jesus gives to us is the Holy Spirit?</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Jesus says “I am leaving you peace. I am giving you the Holy Spirit.”</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Coincidence? I am giving you peace. I am giving you the Holy Spirit. </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">I realize my theory may not be the cutting edge of theology, but if we have the Holy Spirit, we have peace no matter what happens. </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">So Jesus says, I am giving you peace and in light of all the things that are about to happen he also says, “Take heart” which can also be translated “have courage.”</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Take heart, have courage because I am giving you the Holy Spirit and because you have the Holy Spirit you have peace.</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">On his way to the cross, Jesus said some pretty important things. </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The world can kill you, the world may kill you. </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The good news is, we don’t have to be like the world.</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The world killed Jesus, but Jesus is stronger than death.</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">This is the Easter Season. We are Easter people.</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">We are people of the empty tomb, people of the resurrection, people who have been given the gift of the Holy Spirit </p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Take heart, have courage believe in Jesus the One who doesn’t give as the world gives.</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The One who gives us peace. 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