John 13-17 is one event. Remember that reading chapter by chapter doesn’t always help us out. John 16 intends to focus on on eternal things and not the things of the world. Jesus shows us what love looks like in John 13. He then tells us that our future in secure in Him in John 14. John 15 reminded us that we must remain in Him to hope we can do anything for God’s glory. Yet the world won’t like us.

John 16 tells us how we will persevere even after He leaves (which has been the past 1980 years or so). He will send the Spirit to help us out! The Spirit will convict and lead us to do the will of God. The Holy Spirit helps us to remain in Jesus and then gives us hope to face the challenge of being the church in today’s world.

Finally, Jesus tells us that He has overcome the world and will give us all we need to take heart and handle all that comes our way. Many say that “God will never give us more than we can handle.” This simply isn’t true. This life is too much to handle all the time. But if we remain in Him and let His Spirit lead us – we have what we need! He has overcome the world. Things won’t always be easy. Often this life is going to try to crush us. However, Jesus was crushed and won all victories. We can claim these and eagerly await Him to return.