John 16:1-11 1 All this I have told you so that you will not fall away. 2 They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. 3 They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. 4 I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you, 5 but now I am going to him who sent me. None of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ 6 Rather, you are filled with grief because I have said these things. 7 But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. 8 When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: 9 about sin, because people do not believe in me; 10 about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; 11 and about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.
It was mentioned earlier that the disciples would suffer persecution, the persecution from the world. The Lord Jesus told the disciples these things so that they would not stumble when they were persecuted. In the days of the Lord Jesus, if anyone believed that He was the Christ, the Pharisees would expel them from the synagogue, and they also crucified the Lord Jesus on the cross. They did this, because they didn’t know God, and didn’t know the Lord Jesus. The apostle Paul once persecuted the church. He thought Christianity was heresy, and he thought persecuting the church was serving God. The Lord Jesus said this because He was leaving the world and going back to the Father. When the Lord Jesus left, the disciples were full of sorrow, but the Lord Jesus left for the benefit of the disciples. After He left, he sent the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, and the Holy Spirit came to convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. For sin because they did not believe in the Lord Jesus, and not believing in the Lord is sin, and for righteousness, he made the world know the righteousness of God. For judgment, because the king of this world has been judged, and the king of this world is Satan the devil, and he has been judged.
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