Heaven is the Cure For Troubled Hearts

Don’t Let Your Heart Be Troubled

Jesus had just told his disciples that He was leaving and that they couldn’t follow Him. Of course, He was speaking of His crucifixion and resurrection, but they did not understand. They thought that He was going to desert them and they would have to figure life out without Him.

The context here is that they had trusted Him, befriended Him, left their lives behind to follow Him, and believed Him to be the Son of God. Now Jesus said that they could no longer follow Him. You can imagine how their hearts would be troubled. I can imagine that they were asking, “What now? What are we suppose to do?”

Jesus answered this question. He said, ”believe in God and believe also in me.” What Jesus is saying is to recognize the sovereignty of God and Himself. God knows everything that happens in your life. Good, bad, and indifferent God is aware and in control of everything that happens. This doesn’t mean that God is going to make everything easy and give you a life without difficulties. It does mean that God sets boundaries for everything in your life. For example, He will only allow disease to go as far as to fulfill His purpose. He will only allow you to accumulate so much wealth. He will only limit the amount of authority you have. The question then is how far will disease go, how much wealth will I have, or how much authority will be given to me. The answer is as much as God wants.

The problem arises when what we want doesn’t line up with what God wants. This leads to a troubled heart. God always knows what is best for us. We must BELIEVE in Him.

What if Jesus would have given the disciples what they wanted. What if instead of going to the cross, he just let them follow him the rest of their lives? They would have enjoyed fellowship for maybe 70 years but would have died and spent eternity in the lake of Fire. Jesus left so that His disciples and us could have everlasting life with Him!

Jesus always know what is best for us and will give it to us. We must believe in Him.

My Fathers House

Jesus explained to His disciples that He was going to prepare a place for them in His Father’s house. He list 5 important things: It His His Father’s House, He is preparing the place, there are many rooms, Jesus is coming back to take us, and we will be with Jesus forever.

Father’s House

Only family lives in the Father’s house. We will be like family. We will have deep rooted love for one another. We will have no reason for disputing because there is no sin. We will have perfect love for one another and enjoy time with one another.

People have asked me if I think that we will recognize people of our family here on earth when we get to heaven. I believe we will, but it will be in a different capacity. They will no longer be our Father or mother, wife or child. We will all be one family and have different relationships.

Matthew 22:23–30 NASB95

On that day some Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) came to Jesus and questioned Him, asking, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies having no children, his brother as next of kin shall marry his wife, and raise up children for his brother.’ “Now there were seven brothers with us; and the first married and died, and having no children left his wife to his brother; so also the second, and the third, down to the seventh. “Last of all, the woman died. “In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had married her.” But Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, not understanding the Scriptures nor the power of God. “For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

Relationally speaking, we are like angels who have no family relationship except that of the family of God.

Jesus is preparing a place for us

This means that there will be a place of perfection. When Christ created the world it was done perfectly. There was nothing wrong. The place that Jesus prepares for us will be the same way.

We have lived in the same house for 16 years. Mr. Wilson was a fantastic builder and we have had no major difficulties with our home. As a matter of fact we have only had normal wear and tear on the home. The place Jesus is preparing will be perfect and not even have any wear or tear. His place pales in comparison to any earthly home we have.

There are many rooms.

heaven will not be crowded. As a matter of fact the dimensions of the Holy city 2.25 million square miles. Revelation 21:15-17

Revelation 21:15–17 NASB95

The one who spoke with me had a gold measuring rod to measure the city, and its gates and its wall. The city is laid out as a square, and its length is as great as the width; and he measured the city with the rod, fifteen hundred miles; its length and width and height are equal. And he measured its wall, seventy-two yards, according to human measurements, which are also angelic measurements.

I understand why he mentions the length and width, but why does he mention the height. Will we be able to fly? Needless to say there is a lot of room.

Jesus will take us to heaven.

Jesus is the only one who can take us to the place that He prepared for us. Richard Philips tells the story of Skip Ryan: Skip Ryan tells of having served on a special project for the United States Department of State. The working group to which he was assigned once held a briefing at the White House. The meeting took place in the Roosevelt Room, a conference room across the hall from the Oval Office. After the meeting, the State Department official in charge asked whether Ryan would like to see the Oval Office, the official working place of the President of the United States, since the President was out of town. Ryan recalls two things about that visit. The first was the awe he felt at being in such a place. The second was that he could not possibly have entered the Oval Office unless he was taken there by someone authorized to bring him.

Richard D. Phillips, John, ed. Richard D. Phillips, Philip Graham Ryken, and Daniel M. Doriani, 1st ed., vol. 2, Reformed Expository Commentary (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2014), 206.

Jesus is the only authorized one to take us to our heavenly dwelling place.

We will be with Jesus forever.

When we get to heaven, there will be no more curse of sin. Revelation 22:1-5

Revelation 22:1–5 NASB95

Then he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb, in the middle of its street. On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. There will no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His bond-servants will serve Him; they will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads. And there will no longer be any night; and they will not have need of the light of a lamp nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God will illumine them; and they will reign forever and ever.

So how do we get to Heaven?

Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life

When Thomas asked Jesus how to get to the place Jesus described, He said that He was the way truth and life. No one gets to the Father but through Him

Jesus is the Way

The only way to get to the Father is through reconciliation. This can only happen by what Jesus has done for us on the cross. We can not be reconciled to the Father through good works. Just being a good person does reconcile you to the Father. James 2:10

James 2:10 NASB95

For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

Because we are all law breakers, we must be reconciled to the Father. Jesus did this on the cross by paying our sin debt and our punishment for sin. Jesus sacrificial death was enough to satisfy the wrath of God due to us. It is only the reception of this forgiveness and salvation that we can be reconciled.

JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY!

Jesus is the truth

Jesus has given us the truth in written form. The Word of God reveals all truth. The Word of God was inspired by Jesus and written by man. In essence the Bible are the very words of Jesus that reveal all truth. The truth is God is almighty, he created us to worship Him, sin caused us to rebell against Him, for that we are separated from God, Jesus died and rose again to reconcile us to the Father, Jesus gives eternal life, He is going to return. John 3:16

John 3:16 NASB95

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

Jesus is the Life

Jesus breaths new life into every believer. John 3:36

John 3:36 NASB95

“He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”

John 5:24 NASB95

“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

Jesus gives new life to all who will believe in Him. This means that you repent of your sins, receive forgiveness and salvation, and give your life to Him.