QT 17 Jan 18, John 16:20-22, The world thought it won

Wk	Date	Passage	Key Verses(s) [Optional]	Basic Thing(s) Taught	Personal Insight(s) & Application(s)	Prayer Response
14	1/17	John 16:16-24	John 16:20–22 (ESV) — 20 Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy. 21 When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. 22 So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.	Jesus death on the cross would bring great sorrow at first, although for some it was a time of rejoicing. Later, three days to be exact, their sorrow would turn to great joy as they witnessed the resurrected Christ.	I've always wondered about the relationship between sorrow and joy. It seems that they are inseparable. True joy often follows times of great sorrow. Can you really have one without the other? And if so, what does that mean for heaven? Jesus says that heaven will be a time of no tears, but what kind of tears? I don't know the answers but I can trust that God's plan is perfect.	Father, the world and Satan thought they had defeated you that day on Golgotha. But you won the victory and defeated death. Because of you victory, I have eternal life with you in heaven. Thank you.