John 14:1 - Jesus' Response to Uneasy Times

Text: John 14:1

Title: Jesus’ Response to Uneasy Times

Introduction

#1 - Don’t Be Raddled (loss of composure) (1a)

heart (internal feature) n. — the place of a person’s thoughts (mind), volition, emotions, and knowledge of right from wrong (conscience) understood as the heart.

to be troubled v. — to be or become characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need.

-Expected Troubles

Their bereavement of His presence…

The disappointment of their worldly hopes…

The persecutions they were to meet with from an ungodly world…

#2 - Trust the Savior (1b)

-Troubles’ Anecdote - BELIEVE in Him

As present with them in their trials…

As interested in their welfare…

As sufficient for their support…

As coming again to recompense all that they might endure for his sake...

(illustration) A story is told about a young child he was amazed at how the telephone man would climb up and down the telephone pole.

He realized to keep him from sliding down the pole and getting splinter he had a shoes with spikes and a belt he rested against.

The telephone man admitted that as a young man he didn’t know how to do it, nor did he trust his belt. Because he did not trust his belt he kept sliding down the post. And as a result he got plenty of splinters.

“Many of us, because we refuse to trust God, keep getting splinters in our lives—things that keep sticking us that we can’t get over, things that keep jabbing us that we can’t get around. We will continue to get splinters until we learn to trust in God and to put all our confidence in HIs Word.” (Dr. Tony Evans)

CONCLUSION

I trust in God wherever I may be, Upon the land, or on the rolling sea, For come what may, from day to day, My heav’nly Father watches over me.

Refrain: I trust in God, I know He cares for me; On mountain bleak or on the stormy sea; Though billows roll, He keeps my soul; My heav’nly Father watches over me.

He makes the rose an object of His care, He guides the eagle through the pathless air, And surely He remembers me; My heav’nly Father watches over me.