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Passage of Comfort
Mainly heard at funerals to comfort those who have lost someone they have loved.
This isn't the end.
There is a better place and your loved one is there.
Today let's find out why this passage is so comforting and is it just for the funeral setting?
14:1 Do not let your heart be troubled
Jesus is talking to His disciples.
He has just told them that He is going away and where He is going they would not be able to come with Him.
He has also told Peter that soon he would deny Him 3 times.
Two things to keep in mind:
Jesus knowing that His going away means He will die a very cruel death.
and lets us know that Jesus is deeply troubled in His heart and spirit.
It would have been very appropriate for his disciples to offer Jesus comfort at this time.
In spite of this deep foreboding worry and concern about His future, He puts aside His own feelings and comforts his disciples.
Once again we see Jesus as the One who gives selflessly, comforts, and instructs.
The disciples have left all to follow Him and learn from Him.
He has become their reason for living.
Now they have just found out that He will be leaving and they wouldn't be able to go with Him.
Peter who loves Jesus deeply has just told Jesus that he would lay down his life for Him.
Jesus told Him, "No Peter, the fact is you will deny me three times.
The disciples hearts are filled with worry and concern.
What now?
What will they do with themselves when this man whom they have devoted their lives to leaves?
14:1 Believe in God, believe in Me also
Here Jesus is telling them that He and God are the same.
Look to God and Jesus for comfort by believing that they are in control and have a infinitely good plan for what is about to happen.
There is a reason not to worry or be concerned.
14:2-3 Here Jesus give His disciples the reason for not being troubled.
Tells them that in His Father's house, which is heaven, there are many dwelling places, rooms, mansions.
He is not trying to tell them that there are huge homes with marble staircases, velvet draperies, elaborate furnishings.
Rather He is telling them in heaven there is plenty of room for all those who have believed in Him and followed Him.
When I think of a mansion the first thing I see is the immensity of it, getting lost in its many rooms.
That is what Jesus is getting across to His disciples.
There is plenty of room for you in heaven.
I am going there to prepare a place for you.
This place, heaven, already exists.
The comfort is found in His going and that going is the way He prepares for them to be with Him.
Jesus knows His going means His death on the cross.
That death has a purpose; to take upon Himself the sin of us all.
An yet here He also is telling His disciples that His death is not the end.
He will rise again.
This is the preparation that Jesus makes so that His disciples will one day be with Him again.
Jesus is giving them a reason for living, the hope of heaven where they will live with Him eternally!
14:4 You know the way where I am going.
Jesus is telling them that if they really think about who He is and why He has come, which He has been teaching them, they already know the way to where He is going.
14:5 The disciples' thick heads/our thick heads
It's interesting to see who has the courage to question Jesus: Thomas.
What is the nickname we have given Thomas?
(Doubting Thomas) He says to Jesus, "You say you are going away and we know the way but, I'm confused."
How can we know the way when you haven't told us the exact location where you are going?
Please we need a road map to get there!"
This lets us see that Thomas along with the other disciples still aren't getting the reason why Jesus has come.
They are still thinking about earthly comforts and earthly joy.
Jesus very specifically has told them where He is going: heaven.
He also has told them that He is preparing the way to get there (death and resurrection).
14:6 Jesus' answer to Thomas
Jesus says, "Thomas, I am the way."
When Jesus says this He is showing Thomas/disciples that He is not talking about an earthly location.
He is telling them that He is the way to know God and to enjoy God because of two other aspects.
He is the Truth: Jesus is the truth of who God is
says only One has ever seen God and that is His only begotten Son, Jesus, and He explains God.
says, "Jesus is the image of the invisible God."
It goes onto say that God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him.
He is the Life
, 4 declares that it was through Jesus that all things were created and in Him was life
, says that whoever believes in Jesus not only has life but eternal life
Jesus is saying that He is the way to God because in Him dwells the Truth of God and who God is and in Him the true life of God is discovered.
Do the Disciples/Thomas ever get it?
After the crucifixion and the resurrection the disciples went into hiding for fear of their lives.
In we read this account.
After eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them.
Jesus *came, the doors having been shut, and stood in their midst and said, “Peace be with you.”
27 Then He *said to Thomas, “Reach here with your finger, and see My hands; and reach here your hand and put it into My side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing.”
28 Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!”
29 Jesus *said to him, “Because you have seen Me, have you believed?
Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed.”
Thomas saw and with his hands felt the reality of Jesus being the way to God, the Truth of God and the Life of God.
He fell on his knees and acknowledged Jesus not only Lord and God but my Lord and my God.
I find how Jesus responds to Thomas unbelievably encouraging, "Because you have seen Me, have you believed?
Blessed are they who did not see, and yet have believed."
I believe that Jesus is the way, the truth and the life.
I have a secure hope that one day I will be in heaven with Him and live in His presence forever.
Have I ever actually seen Jesus?
No! It is then that I realize that Jesus was talking about me when He said to Thomas, "Because you have seen Me, have you believed?
Blessed are they who did not see, and yet have believed."
What about you?
Have you come to the point where you know that Jesus, through His death died for your sins and through His resurrection conquered sin and death and that He is the way to God?
If you have you according to Jesus are blessed.
If you have not I invite you to consider Jesus.
Think about who He is the Way to God, the Truth of God, and the Life of God.
Place your trust in Him and be blessed with the sure knowedge of an eternal hope.
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