43: John 14: Preaching/Teaching

A Life Long Homecoming! or Exclusivity

Key Verse

John 14:6 NASB95

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

The Bible Knowledge Commentary C. Jesus, the Way to the Father (14:1–14)

The disciples were completely bewildered and discouraged. Jesus had said He was going away (7:34; 8:21; 12:8, 35; 13:33), that He would die (12:32–33), that one of the Twelve was a traitor (13:21), that Peter would disown Him three times (13:38), that Satan was at work against all of them (Luke 22:31–32), and that all the disciples would fall away (Matt. 26:31). The cumulative weight of these revelations must have greatly depressed them.

Jesus starts with the heart! (1)

John 14:1 NASB95

“Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me.

The heart is the center of who we are. And life has a way of bringing a lot of trials our way.

Life has lots of things that can trouble us and lot’s of things we can worry about.

What do you worry about?

Just things that I worried about this week:

My kids

My marriage

MY INLAWS COMING

The Church

Finances

What are you worried about right now?

There is a remedy for trouble, fear and anxiety. What we believe in.

BELIEF-This is a present active, meaning we are to continually be believing.

Jesus gives the hope and direction (why): 2-7

John 14:2 NASB95

“In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.

But he does not just tell us to believe he tells us why we should believe.

He is leaving to prepare something greater for us!

John 14:3–4 NASB95

“If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also. “And you know the way where I am going.”

John 14:5 NASB95

Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way?”

The disciples would not put the pieces completely together until after the resurrection.

At this point the disciples had a lot of the data they needed: They had the word of God, they had history and so much more but they just could not put all the pieces together.

How many people today have a lot of data but are clueless to the good news of Jesus?

John 14:6–7 NASB95

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on you know Him, and have seen Him.”

The Bible Knowledge Commentary 14:5–6

By His words, No one comes to the Father except through Me, Jesus stressed that salvation, contrary to what many people think, is not obtainable through many ways. Only one Way exists (cf. Acts 4:12; 1 Tim. 2:5). Jesus is the only access to the Father because He is the only One from the Father (cf. John 1:1–2, 51; 3:13).

Salvation is exclusive to those who turn and trust in him.

The way of Jesus satisfies

John 14:8 NASB95

Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.”