Don’t Let Your Heart Be Troubled

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Don’t Let Your Heart Be Troubled

Dave Riddle • 04/24/2022

Key Passage: John 14:1-15

Don’t let your heart be troubled

  • John 14:1

    • Troubled = tarassō (Greek) - stirred up, agitated, inward commotion, to take away one’s calmness of mind.

  • John 12:27 - “now my heart is troubled”

    • Jesus faced this too!

      • Not a sin issue.

The answer for a troubled heart

  • John 14:1 - “believe in God, believe also in me “

    • Believe = pistueo (Greek): to think to be true. To be persuaded of; to place confidence in. To have faith (in, upon, or with respect to, a person or thing). To believe.

I’ve got a spot for you 

  • John 14:2-4

    • A place for you

    • “You will be with me!”

    • you know the way to where I am going.

Wait… where are you going?

  • John 14:5 (HCSB): “Lord,” Thomas said, “we don’t know where You’re going. How can we know the way?”

    • Thomas sets it up on tee for Jesus

Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life

  • John 14:6

    • No one comes to the Father except through Jesus

Know and See

  • John 14:7

    • Know = ginōskō: to know experiential, in contrast to oida, which means to know intuitively or perceive.

    • See = horaō - to stare at. to see, i.e. become acquainted with by experience, to experience.

They Miss the Point

  • John 14:8

    • They still don’t get it.

  • John 14:9

    • Philip… you still don’t know me?

    • The one who has seen (horaō) me has seen the Father.

  • John 14:10-11

    • There is such a close relationship between Jesus and the father that you can’t separate them.

A Surprising Promise

  • John 14:12 - Don’t miss this!

    • The one who believes in me will do even greater works than me.

      • Not exclusively referring to miracles, but instead referring to the entirety of His life.

      • Why? The Holy Spirit is coming.

        • The impact of the ministry of the church goes worldwide as a result of the power of the Spirit.

I Will Do It

  • John 14:13-14

    • Ask in my name, and I will do it.

      • Jesus is not a divine vending machine or our personal Genie.

      • When we are aligned with Jesus’ mission and motives and allow God to use us He will do incredible things.

Keep My Commands

  • John 14:15 - if you love me, you will keep my commands.

    • Keep = tēreō - to attend to carefully, take care of.

How often do we stress over things that have little eternal significance?

  • Everything we do is rooted in our faith and trust in Jesus as leader of our life.