PART 19

THE FAREWELL DISCOURSE

"Do not allow your heart to become troubled," Yeshua said. "You trust in Elohim, so trust in Me the same way. In Avi's house are many places to dwell. I would have told you if there was not. I go to prepare a place for you all. Since I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and bring you to Me, so that you will be there where I am. You know now where I am going and the path there you know." T'oma said to Him, "Adonai, we do not know where You are going, so then how can we know the path to get there?" "I am the Light on the path, the Remembrance and Life itself. No one {ever} comes to Abba, except through Me. If you had known Me, you would have known Avi, but from now on you know Him and have seen Him," Yeshua answered. Philip said to Him, "Adonai, show us Abba and it will be enough for us." "Have I been with you such a long time and yet, you have not known Me, Philip?" Yeshua said. "The one who has seen Me has seen Abba! Why do you say, 'Show us Abba?' Do you not trust that I am in Abba and Abba is in Me? The words which I speak to you I do not speak on My own. Abba who indwells Me does the works. Trust Me that I am in Abba and Abba is in Me. At least trust Me because of the works. Amen, amen! I tell you, the one who trusts in Me will also do the works that I do. Also, he will do even more than these because I go to Avi. I will do whatever you will ask in My Name, so that Abba may be glorified in the Son. If you will ask any thing in My Name, I will do it. If you love Me, obey My Commandments {for they are permanent from the beginning of time}. Then I will ask Abba and He will give you another Helper and He will abide with you forever. {He is} the Ruach of Remembrance, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see Him, nor knows Him. However, you do know Him, because He remains with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans. I will come to you. Yet, in a little while the world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also. On that day you will understand that I am in Avi and you are in Me and I am in you. The one who has My Commandments {which are permanent from the beginning of time} and obeys them, he is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by Avi and I will love him and will reveal Myself to him." {The other disciple named} Yehudah, who was not from Kir'yot, said, "Adonai, why will you reveal Yourself to us, but not to the world?" Yeshua answered, "If a person loves Me, he will obey My Word and Avi will love him and we will come to him and make our dwelling in him. The one who does not love Me does not obey My instructions. The Word which you shema is not Mine, but Abba's who sent Me. These things I spoke to you because I am present with you. But the Helper, Ruach HaKodesh, whom Avi will send in My Name, He will teach you everything and bring everything to your remembrance. That is: whatever I have said to you. Shalom I leave with you. My Shalom I impart to you. I do not give you the kind the world gives. Do not allow your heart to be troubled, nor allow it to be afraid. You have heard Me tell you that I am going away and will come back to you. If you loved Me you would rejoice because I said, 'I am going to Avi,' for Avi is more than me. I have predicted to you what will happen, so that when it happens you will trust. After this I will not talk much with you, for the prince of this world is coming and owns no part of Me. But so the world may know that I love Abba, I do exactly as Abba commands Me. Now get up, let us go over here." {Yeshua and the twelve went to a place on the Mount of Olives where there was a vineyard.} "I am the true vine and Avi is the Farmer. Every branch which is in Me that does not grow fruit He removes and every one which grows fruit He prunes, so that it can grow more fruit. Now you are clean through the Word which I have spoken to you. Remain in Me and I will be in you. Since the branch cannot grow fruit on its own unless it remains in the vine, you can't either unless you remain in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches. The one who remains in Me and I am in him, that one grows abundant fruit. Without Me you can do nothing. If a person does not remain in Me, he is thrown away like a branch which has withered and men gather them and throw them into the fire and they are burned. If you remain in Me and My Word remains in you, you may ask for whatever you seek and it will be accomplished for you. In this way Avi is glorified because you grow abundant fruit.

So you will be My disciples. As Abba has loved Me, so I have loved you. Continue in My love. If you obey My commandments you will remain in My love, just as I have obeyed Avi's commandments and remain in His love. These things I have spoken to you, so that My joy will remain in you and you will be full of joy. This is a commandment of mine: you love one another, as I have loved you. No one has more love than this: when one sacrifices his life for his friends. You are My friends, if you do whatever commandment I gave you. From now on I will not call you My servants, for the servant does not know what Adonai is doing. I have called you My friends, for all things which I have heard from Avi I have made known to you. You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and ordained you, for you to go and grow fruit and for your fruit to remain. Then, whatever you ask from Abba in My Name, He will give it to you. This commandment I give to you: you shall love one another. If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before you. If you were {a part} of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not {a part} of the world and I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the Word I told you, 'The servant is not greater than Adonai.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they have obeyed My sayings, they will also obey yours. All these things they will do to you on account of My Name, because they do not know the One who sent Me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin. But now, they have no kippur [covering] for their sin. The one who hates Me hates Avi also. If I had not performed the works among them which no other man has done, they would not have had sin. Now they have both seen and hated both Avi and Me, that the Word might be fulfilled which is written in the Torah, 'They hated Me without a cause.' When the Helper has come, whom I will send to you from Abba, the Ruach of Remembrance who proceeds from Abba, He will testify concerning Me. You also will be a witness, because you have been with Me from the start. These things I have spoken to you, so that you would not fall away. They shall put you out of the councils. Yes, the time comes, that whoever kills you will think that he serves Elohim. They will do this to you, because they have not known Abba, nor Me. But I have I told you this, so that when the time comes you will remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you this from the start, because I was with you. But now I go on My path to Him who sent Me. Yet, none of you asks Me, 'Where are you going?' For since I said these things to you, your heart is filled with sadness. Still, I tell you, remember. It is best for you now that I depart, for if I do not depart the Helper will not come to you. But if I depart, I will send Him to you. When He comes He will convict the world of sin, of righteousness and of judgment. {He will prove the world to have} sin, because they do not trust in Me. {He will prove to the world what is} righteousness, because I go to Avi and no longer will I be here for an example {of righteousness}. {He will prepare the world for} judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged. There are yet many things I would like to say to you, but you cannot handle them now. However, when He who is the Ruach of Remembrance comes, He will guide you to remember all things. He will not speak about who He is, but whatever He hears is what He will speak. Then He will show you the things to come. He will glorify Me, because He will receive what is Mine and reveal it to you. All things that Abba has are Mine also. For this reason I told you that He will take what is Mine and reveal it to you. Because I go to Abba in a little while, you will not see Me. Then a little while more and you will see Me once again." Then some of the disciples wondered among themselves, "What is He trying to tell us? What does He mean by 'a little while'? We cannot understand what He is talking about." Yeshua knew they wanted to ask Him about it, so He said, "Do you inquire among yourselves because I said, 'A little while and you will not see Me, then a little while more and you will see Me again?' Amen, amen! I tell you, you will cry and grieve, but the world will celebrate. You will be very sad, but your sadness will be changed to joy. When a woman is in travail she has sorrow, because her time {for giving birth} has come, but as soon as she delivers the child, she loses the memory of the anguish, because of the joy that her child has been born into the world. Therefore, you are sorrowful, but I will see you again, then your heart will rejoice and no one will take your joy from you. At that time you will not ask Me for anything. Amen, amen! I tell you, whatever you will ask Abba in My Name, He will give you. To this point you have not asked for anything in My Name. Ask and you will receive, so your joy may be full. These things have I taught you in proverbs. But the time is coming when I will not anymore speak to you in proverbs. Instead, I will show you clearly from Abba. At that time you will ask in My Name and I do not tell you that I will pray to Abba for you. For Abba Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have trusted that I came out from Elohim. I came out from Abba and came into the world. Now, I leave the world and go to Abba." His disciples said to Him, "We are taking note! You are speaking clearly and not using a proverb. Now we are sure that You know everything, because You do not need for anyone to ask You {before You tell them}. By this we trust that You came out from Elohim." "Now you have trust?" Yeshua said. "Watch, the time is coming, yes; it is now here, for you to be dispersed. Everyone will go to his own {house} and will leave Me alone. Yet I am not alone, because Abba is with Me. I have told you these things so that you can have Shalom in Me. In the world you will have pressures, but have courage. I have won the victory over the world." Once Yeshua said this, He raised His eyes to Heaven and said, "Abba, the time has come! Glorify Your Son, that also Your Son may glorify You. You have given Him power over all humans, so that He can impart eternal life to as many as You have given to Him. This is eternal life: To know You, the only remembered Elohim and Yeshua HaMoshiach, whom You sent. I have glorified you on the Earth. I have finished the work you gave Me to do. So now, Oh Abba, You glorify Me along with Yourself, with the same glory I had with You before the existence of the world. I have revealed Your Name to the men whom you gave Me out of the world. They were Yours; You gave them to Me. They have obeyed Your Word. They have known that everything You have given Me is Yours. For I have given to them the words which You gave Me and they have received and known surely that I came out from You. They have trusted that You did send Me. I pray for them. I do not pray for the world, but for those who You have given Me, for they are Yours. All mine is Yours and Yours are Mine and I am glorified in them. Now I am not going to be in the world, but these are in the world. I come to You, Holy Abba. With Your own Name guard those whom You have given Me, that they may be one, as are we. While I was with them in the world, in Your Name I guarded them. Those whom You gave to Me I have safely guarded, so none of them are lost except the ruined child, in order to complete the scripture. Now I am coming to You. These things I speak in the world, so they can have My joy filling up their being. I have given them Your Word and the world has despised them, because they do not belong to the world, even as I do not belong to the world. I do not pray for You to take them out of the world, but instead, that You would guard them from the evil one. They do not belong to this world, the same as I do not belong to this world. Make them holy through Your Remembrance. Your Word is the Remembrance. As You have sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world, in like manner. For their sakes I make Myself holy, that they also might be made holy through the Remembrance. I do not pray this only for these, but also for those who will trust in Me through their communication. In this way, may they all be one. As You, Abba, are in Me and I am in You, may they also be one in Us, that the world may trust that You have sent Me. The glory which You gave Me I have given to them, that they may be one, even as We are One. I in them and You in Me, that this way they may become as one upon completion. That through this the world may know that You have sent Me and You have loved them, as You have loved Me. Abba, It is My will that those whom You have given to Me would also be with Me where I am. That they may look upon My glory, which You have given to Me. For You loved Me before the conception of the world. Oh Righteous Abba, the world has not known You, but I have known You and these here have known that You did send Me. I have declared to them Your Name and will certify it {in this way}: That the love with which You have loved Me will be in them and I in them.”

AGONY IN GETHSEMENE

While in Gethsemane, Yeshua said to the disciples, "You sit here, while I go and pray over there." He took along with Him Kefa and the two sons of Zavdai {Yochanan and Ya'akov} and began to be heavy hearted and full of sadness. So He says to them, "My soul is grieving extremely, even to the point of death. You wait right here and watch with Me. Pray you will not enter into temptation." He went about a stone's throw away and fell on His face and prayed, "Oh Avi, all things are possible for You. If You will do it, allow this cup to be removed from Me. Yet, no matter what My desire is, You do as You require." Yeshua came to the disciples and found them asleep. So He says to Kefa, "What! Couldn't you watch with Me for one hour? Watch and pray now. That way you will not enter temptation. Surely, the spirit is willing, but the body is weak." He went away the second time and prayed, "Oh Avi, if this cup cannot be removed from Me and I must drink it, Your will be done." Then a messenger from Heaven appeared to Him and strengthened Him. Yeshua came back and found them asleep again, because their eyes were heavy. They did not know what excuse to give Him. He left them and went away the third time and prayed the same words. While He was praying, He became more intensely in anguish and His sweat turned into large drops of blood falling to the ground. Finally, Yeshua came to His disciples and said, "Go ahead and sleep; get your rest. But, notice now, the time is near when the Son of man is to be betrayed into the hands of sinners." {After a while longer Yeshua awoke them saying,} "Get up now and let us be going. Look, the one who betrays Me is nearby."