Refreshing Our Spirits With Scripture

In Memory of  Irv Eggert When I moved to Denver Colorado in 1977 I got to know Irv and Vera Eggert.   Irv was a man then who loved the church and loved the Bible and truly respected those who were serious about their walk with the Lord. A bit later Irv was involved in helping to start a new congregation in Denver and in that context I was blessed to work with Irv for about twenty five years.   I was the minister at the SE church of Christ in Aurora and Irv and his wife Vera were actively helping to make the congregation the best it could be for God’s glory.   They opened their home to small groups and worked at building up the people of all ages.   They “adopted” several different families who needed and wanted a deeper relationship with God and with each other in Jesus Christ. Irv was great at visiting people.   He visited visitors to church services.   He visited people in hospitals.   He reached out to anyone who needed encoura...

John 15. 26  “When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me. 27  And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.

John 15. 18  “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19  If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. 20  Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ [ b ] If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. 21  They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me. 22  If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23  Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. 24  If I had not done among them the works no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. 25  But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without reaso...

John 15. 15  “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2  He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes [ a ] so that it will be even more fruitful. 3  You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4  Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. 5  “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6  If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 7  If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8  This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples. 9  “As the Father ...

John 14. 28  “You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. 29  I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe. 30  I will not say much more to you, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold over me, 31  but he comes so that the world may learn that I love the Father and do exactly what my Father has commanded me. “Come now; let us leave.

John 14. 25  “All this I have spoken while still with you. 26  But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. 27  Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

John 14. 22  Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?” 23  Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. 24  Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.

John 14. 15  “If you love me, keep my commands. 16  And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— 17  the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be [ c ] in you. 18  I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19  Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20  On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. 21  Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”