Jesus said He came to the Father and now He was going back to the Father. His purpose on earth was accomplished.
At the end of your earthly life, will you be able to say that?
The disciples said that now He spoke plainly.
He said they would be scattered and leave Him alone yet He was not alone. He was secure in His Fathers love. Though He enjoyed His Fellowship with His disciples, His security did not lie on that. His security was in the Father.
We are called to follow Him in the same way; though we may enjoy fellowship with other, our security must lie in the fact that God loves. If every other believer who you are in fellowship with leaves you when you are in trouble, that should not disturb you or cause you to be bitter against them because your security didn't come from them but from God. David says that vain is the help of man. Ps 60:11,108:12.
The purpose of the words of Jesus is to give us peace. In the world we will have tribulations, many trials and sorrows, but Jesus whom we are following have overcome the world. No tribulation should take away our peace, and there is no tribulation that can ever come to us which we cannot overcome. Our forerunner has overcome and we will overcome the same way He overcame.
Jesus then begun praying asking God to glorify Him as He glorified Him on earth; if we glorify God on earth, we will be given glorified bodies in Heaven; 1Cor 15:43
The purpose of God giving authority to Jesus was that He may give eternal life to those under Him.
This is the purpose of spiritual leadership and authority. God does give authority so that we can lord it over those under us, controlling their personal lives and manipulating them and coerce them to submit to us, but it is that we may give them eternal life.
What is eternal life? We have been taught that it is life that never ends but those who go to hell also have life that never ends, but that is not eternal life.
Eternal life is knowing the Father intimately and Jesus Christ as the sent one of God. It is not in religious activities but a relationship with God.
A true leader is not one who manipulates and controls their members, but one that empowers them.
It's unfortunate that there are many in spiritual positions who have to be consulted in everything, what to buy, who to marry, what to do, and many other things. They have made themselves god's to their members.
God wants each one to know Him individually. He desires to speak to each one. We must know God as a Father.
Just like in a home, every child can speak to the Father without consulting the elder ones, and the Father speaks to each child without consulting any others. There is no mediators between us and the Father but Jesus Christ. Some make Mary a mediator, others make their pastors a mediator and all are equally wrong. Each one must be connected to Christ individually.
The purpose of spiritual authority is to lead others to be connected to Christ individually without trying to be a mediator.
There is no one to know God for you; if those over you wants to only control your life and not connect you to Christ, you are in the wrong place. The purpose of spiritual authority is to give eternal life to those under us, not to lord it over them, coercing them to do what you want, manipulation and threatening them if they don't obey. Jesus never threatened even those who persecuted Him. He never coerces anyone to do anything for Him. 1Pet 2:21-23, 5: 2-3
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