Big_Nature_20.jpg?itok=wnmTNzd7' alt='Closer To Truth Video Download' title='Closer To Truth Video Download' />Updated Weekly with Exclusive Videos Videos Stream on any Mobile Device All Videos are Available for Download with no DRM Sort by Model or Category and Mark your.All of these Bible verses are in an ebook format for you to download to your computer and print out.Simply click on the image to the left or you can also click.I Am the Way, the Truth, and the LifeLet not your hearts be troubled.Believe in God believe also in me.In my Fathers house are many rooms.If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.And you know the way to where I am going.Thomas said to him, Lord, we do not know where you are going.How can we know the way Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life.No one comes to the Father except through me.If you had known me, you would have known my Father also.From now on you do know him and have seen him.Philip said to him, Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.Jesus said to him, Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.How can you say, Show us the FatherDo you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.The Gospel of John and this passage, in particular, is very practical.Its very relevant to one of the most common struggles we have, namely, the tendency to have an unholy heart turmoil.Remember two weeks ago we saw in verse 2.Jesus was troubled in his spirit.And I argued that there is, therefore, a holy turmoil of soul a righteous unrest caused by love, not unbelief.But here in John 1.Let not your hearts be troubled.This is a fretful failure to trust God fully for the problem we are facing.At first, it may look like Jesus is addressing an anxiety that isnt the one youre dealing with.But hang on, because Jesus takes a surprising turn in this story.Recalling This Gospels Goal.You recall how this Gospel works.John tells us in John 2.These are written so that you may believe trust, be assured, treasure the reality that Jesus is the Christ the promise fulfilling Messiah, the Son of God the presence of God himself God the Son among us, and that by believing you may have life in his name.And when he says life he means the connection with Gods life, through connection with Jesus.And that life includes the power not to have unholy turmoil of soul.So what we encounter in this Gospel is the living God, the creator of the world, present among us humans, in our world in his Son the infinitely loved, eternal, image and radiance of his essence and through faith through believing and receiving him for all that he is we are connected to this One and through him to the Father, and so share in eternal, supernatural life, even now.How Unholy Turmoil Is Overcome.And what Jesus does in todays text, John 1.Father team up to overcome our unholy turmoil of soul and give strength and peace to carry on in the sacrifices of love that we saw last week.And he does this by calling us to trust Jesus and the Father, and giving five reasons why we should.And between reason three and four Jesus takes the surprising turn in a direction that you may find more helpful than you thought.So first notice that verse 1 and verse 1.Verse 1 Let not your hearts be troubled.Believe in God believe also in me.Verse 1. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.So you can see what he is after Belief.Faith. And this is the opposite of your hearts being troubled.Verse 1 Dont be troubled Trust me.Trust God. And twice in verse 1.Believe me. Believe.Trusting Jesus for who he really is, and trusting God, are included in each other.John 1. 2 4. 4 Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me.Well see why that is before we are done.The point is Dont be troubled.Trust me, and in trusting me, trust God.He had just told them at the last supper that he was going away John 1.He had told them that they could not go with him.And he had told Peter he was going to deny Jesus before the night is over John 1.In other words, Im leaving you.And youre not even able to make it through the night without me.This is ample reason for all of them at the table to be troubled.And Jesus says in the next verse ignore the chapter break Dont be troubled.Even Peter Thats amazing.Instead, trust me.Trust God. And he is saying it to you now.Five Reasons to Not Be Troubled, but Trust Jesus.The rest of this text verses 21.Why should they and why should we not be troubled Why should we trust you in a situation like this Or in our unique situation Jesus now gives five reasons.Dont be troubled, but trust me, because my Father has many rooms in his house and each of you will have one.In my Fathers house are many rooms.If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you And if I go and prepare a place for you.John 1. 4 23Pause there and let the first reason for faith sink in.Gods house is large.It has many rooms.He wont run out of space.And, see the end of verse 2 there is a place for you.I go to prepare a place for you.The argument for trust is based on three things First, this is Gods house, not his hotel.His children live with him in his house.Second, it is very spacious so that he never runs out of room.And third, there is a room designed for each of the eleven, even Peter. Nero 9 Burn Extreme Crack Serial Key . And that means even you, if you trust him.So Peter, and all us other fragile saints who follow Jesus so imperfectly, dont let unholy turmoil rise in your heart.Trust Jesus. Trust God.You will have a place in his house indeed in his household as his child.To as many as received him, to them he gave power to become the children of God John 1 1.Yes. Im leaving. No.You cant come with me now.Yes, you will be scattered this night when they strike the shepherd, and I will do this work alone.But dont let your sorrow.Dont let your fear.Dont let your shame.Let not your hearts be troubled.Trust me. Trust God.Why There will be a place for you in my Fathers house, as my Fathers children forever.Dont be troubled, but trust me, because I myself am going to make ready the place of dwelling with God.Verses 23a In my Fathers house are many rooms.If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for youAnd if I go and prepare a place for you.So two times Jesus says, I go to prepare a place for you.What does that mean Does it mean that things in heaven are in disrepair Does it mean that the sweetness of fellowship with God is a defective thing and in need of improvementDoes it mean that Jesus can say in Matthew 2.Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world, but that he cant say, the rooms have been prepared from the foundation of the world I dont think so.The house of God is not in disrepair.The sweetness of fellowship with God does not need improvement.And this dwelling near the heart of God has been in one sense designed and suitable for redeemed sinners from before the creation of the world.But there are two senses in which things are not yet ready as Jesus speaks.One of these senses is this What is not yet ready not yet prepared is the way to get your room in Gods presence.Sin has not been atoned for.And Jesus is the Lamb of God about to be slain John 1 2.The wrath of God, the condemnation, the curse of God, is still unsatisfied, and Jesus is about to become a curse for us Galatians 3 1.Romans 8 3 and endure the bruising of the Father Isaiah 5.Death is yet to be defeated and Jesus is about to give his life and take it back again from the jaws of death John 1.Every obstacle between us and our room in the Fathers house is about to be removed in the next three days.Thats the first thing I think Jesus means when he says I am going to prepare a place for you.Im preparing it not in the sense thats its defective but that the way there is not prepared.I think Jesus confirms that he is thinking this way in verses 46 And you know the way to where I am going.Thomas said to him, Lord, we do not know where you are going.How can we know the way Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life.No one comes to the Father except through me.In other words I go to prepare a place for you.And as I go I become the way that you get there.
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