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Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast our desire is for the word of God spread throughout all me know join is now for a portion of one of our services here at Kerwin Baptist Church located in Kernersville North Carolina look at John chapter 4 delivers one Jesus says this. Let not your heart be troubled you believe in God believe also in me. In my father's house are many mansions if it were not so I would've told you. I go to prepare a place for you and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am, there you may be also. And whither I go you know in the way you know Thomas is on him, Lord, we know not whither thou ago is no Jesus just said they Artie knew it and Thomas comes right back out and says we don't know Jesus says listen you know where I go.

Thomas is Lord we don't know where you're going, Jesus, as you know the way. And Thomas is Lord we don't know the way so we have a little bit of a conundrum little bit of an issue.

So verse six Jesus Anthony him as his answer.

For clarity, I am the way, the truth and the life no man cometh unto the father but by me. Now notice in verse six and in working to get there even more specifically, next week, but Jesus answers both questions is not just the fact that he is the way the truth and the life what Thomas asked literally was answered in the last statement he says this no man can come unto the father. So that's where he was going unto the father so that answer Thomas's question of will whither you go, we don't know when Jesus says no man can come unto the father which is literally where he was going so that answer to question number one for Thomas Russia number two Thomas as is and how do we know the way Jesus says this, but by me.

So answers both questions that literally I'm going to the father and nobody can go to the father unless they go through me. Everybody understand that so far, so says I am the way the truth and the life.

But this was a response literally to beginning statement that Jesus made. Let not your heart be troubled, so what was going on.

Let's pray Lord I love you.

Thanks for all you've done. Lord I pray as you work in my heart through this passage I pray that you would working hard Florida.

I can't do it often. I think of tried to work in hearts and Lord. While I know I can't. Many times the work you do in my heart the things you show me from verses that I'm just so excited about it.

I'm just so changed by that. I want everybody to see it. I want everybody to feel it. I want everybody to be excited about it and yet Lord, I know that might not always be the case but Lord you can work in a heart even though I can't so that I'm asking you to do that today. Lord, you have given us a statement that our hearts should not be troubled.

So Lord I pray that you did help me to rightly divide your word this morning in Jesus name we pray. Amen this conversation. Beginning in verse one in John chapter 14. This happens on the last night before the crucifixion you understand when Jesus says what he says here in John chapter 14 the next day he is going to be going through suffering that none of us have ever gone through.

We will never fully understand and he would not just bear the weight of physical, emotional, mental abuse, but he would bear the on variable bird of spiritual sin. He was getting ready to go through this and he looks to his disciples, and you think really what he was getting ready to go through the next day you would think it was Jesus's heart, that would be troubled, but he looks in verse one and he says let not your heart be troubled, so what was the context.

What was the conversation. This was the night before the crucifixion.

This was literally the past over meal where Jesus is sharing that but may I remind you what Jesus shared at the Passover meal which apparently brought great trouble to the disciples in chapters 12 and 13.

You'll you'll find that this was an ongoing thing and this is what he had shared with the disciples and this is why their hearts had become troubled PE. Literally he had washed the disciples feet and mean. Imagine the humility of your Savior washing your feet, that active humility. I mean almost all about you and I don't not try to take away the active what Jesus it would make me feel guilty that Jesus would wash my feet is anybody else like that.

Today I me. Don't you feel that I'm not even worthy to wash his feet, let alone for him to wash my feet.

It just kind of always are mine and then Jesus predicted in this Passover meal and a sense he predicted the betrayal of Judas. He predicted that one of this inner circle would betray him and lead him to be crucified now know about you, if you're kind of a tight group of these men that had been the inner circle and Jesus is one of you is going to betray me one of you is going to literally deliver me to be crucified. That would bring trouble to my heart. But not only that Jesus predicted the denial by Peter that Peter would deny him three times. Peter could not even believe that he would say that that that that would be the case in a sense and Peter was taken back in and hear Jesus not only washes their feet in an active humility.

But he tells them that one of the most betray him, and that one of them would deny him and not only that, he tells them that he would soon be going away in chapter 13. All of this prompted questions in the disciples minds. Questions of this who's going to betray him.

Who's going to deny him, where is he going are we going with him. I thought he was setting up his kingdom and he was by the way, leaving to set up his kingdom, but they thought the kingdom was going to be set up on earth. And although he had told them he was going to set up a kingdom in heaven, and yet that all these questions and so Jesus could see and he could sense that although the suffering he was going to face the next day he saw that the things he had shared and by the way he had just given them little tidbits of information and it brought trouble to their heart. Have you ever gotten some information that brought trouble to your heart. So Jesus in chapter 14 verse one. He makes a statement. Let not your hearts be troubled.

That means this that everything from here on out is really centered around the fact that there is a reason that your hearts, do not have to be troubled, although I've given you some difficult news and although you have questions. And although you're a bit confused. And although your kind of hurt.

Although your kind of dejected although you have all these questions, let not your heart be troubled, and so everything he shares is going to be about giving them reasons why their heart does not have to be troubled, so in this first statement I begins these little phrases and every one of them in their own way is a way of explaining to these disciples why their heart does not have to be troubled, may I say this the same reasons he gives the disciples that evening either heart should not be troubled by the way, the same reasons are given to you and me in this passage, and applicable to us in 2020 that number one I want you to want you to notice this as you look at this phrase. Let not your hearts be troubled as we begin just these first few verses were not even going to get to our theme verse today. In a sense that as we go through this you we got a look at this first statement that he said so that we can understand the rest of the chapter notice verse number one. I want you notice the word troubled receiving that a break this statement down to understand what he is trying to say that as he gives the statements following this statement to prove this statement that there parts don't have to be troubled when I can understand them if we don't understand the statement this word troubled. This is a Greek word terrazzo. It literally means this it means to stir or agitate the Royal water. I didn't say boil water to Royal water around about you. I was not familiar with that word Royal. It literally means this it means to stir to make turbulent, to disturb to stir up sediment.

It's literally this unrest and and and and it's kind of be what Jesus is saying don't let your heart be troubled, kind of like a troubled sea when it can't rest in these disciples had been on boats on troubled see all through their ministry with Jesus. So they understood the statement that it was kinda tossing to and fro. There is nothing settling nothing that they could count on when you're in the middle of the sea that is being stirred and agitated.

You can't get your ground there's there's nothing certain and constant and still everything's moving. Everything's up and down. Nothing can be depended on. So he said don't let your hearts get like this.

Now, may I say he does not say let not your hearts be sensible.

He doesn't even say let not your hearts be sad she there's gotta be a number of things that are to come along your path in life and my path in life and Jesus is not saying that you have to literally not be hurt not be sad not mourn the fact the Bible. Many occasions tells us those things.

What is he saying he saying this, listen. It's okay that your heart is sad.

It's okay that your heart is a bit dejected. It's okay that your hearts a bit discouraged. It's okay that you have questions. It's okay that you're confused but you can't let your heart get troubled because that's a different story.

Man remind you, as God's children this morning. You and I there's it's okay that were sad. It's okay were taken off for the Clevenger family of been in contact every day numerous times throughout the day with Mrs. Clevenger. She's asked me to do the memorial service and that will have to be a month or two later down the road and different things and say something told her I'll tell you we have people right here in this building that have lost loved ones just in these past months. It's okay to be sad.

It's okay to be hurt. It's okay to mourn.

It's okay to cry. It's okay to have questions.

It's okay to have a lot of things and a lot of feelings but as God's children. We do not have to let our art get troubled because there is some things constant in our life. We don't have to let our heart be stirred as if it's a troubled see because we are not on some boat that rocks with our Savior. He is the solid with what we go through. He says let not your hearts be troubled. Notice second word on what you notice and this raises the work part. He said let not your heart be troubled now. Sometimes your mind is going to be trouble. Sometimes your body is going to be trouble. But what Jesus is talking about here is the soul heart.

He says let not your heart be troubled. What is he saying he is saying key possession of your own heart.

When you cannot keep possession of anything else honey, when everything is gone awry. Make sure that you guard your heart, your heart is the main floor. Whatever you do, keep trouble from this cheat your heart with all diligence, the Bible says out of it are the issues of life, literally the spirit.

The Bible says your spirit must sustain your infirmity.

Therefore, don't let your heart get wounded Bible says a wounded spirit who can bear. Listen to me what was what you got to get this Jesus said this, listen, there's a lot of things that are gonna bring trouble. But don't let your heart get troubled protect that guard that it's the main thing and you can't let trouble see through your mind and your emotions and circumstances and disappointments. You can't let that seep into your heart. Listen to me this morning. You and I have totally underestimated how dangerous it is when our heart is allowed to get troubled. We have underestimated that it begins to cause all kinds of confusion begins to cause all kinds of damage it begins to cause questions and doubts when our heart gets trouble there might be some things in our mind that don't make sense but we've got to guard our heart. We can't let our heart get troubled or it will lead to doubting God and doubting God's word and doubting God's love and doubting God's sovereignty.

Yes, there are some things we can't make sense but his ways are above our ways, but we've got to keep trouble from seeping into our heart makes all the difference. All around this area are people who are no longer in church. Not really because they don't love God, not even because they don't really believe God's word, but their heart was troubled number three want to notice his word. Your he said let not your heart be troubled, your he is saying this. Who is he saying this to his disciples, he is saying this you are my disciples.

You are my followers. You are my redeemed, you are my sanctified once you are my men that I have chosen to literally birth the church and and to literally begin what what will be true then and a gospel to the Jew and the Gentile, and that all that want to come to Christ. However, everyone else is overwhelmed by sorrow and grief and trouble. At this present time.

Let that not be with you. You don't let your heart be troubled, let the sinners in Zion tremble. The Bible says, but let the sons of Zion, be joyful. It makes all the difference in the world. When you and I are now sons listen to me, Christ's disciples should do more than others, and we should be more than others because we have more than others. The followers of Jesus should keep their minds and hearts quiet when everything else is loud, you must guard your heart and I must guard my heart when everyone else is troubled, you don't have to be let not your heart be troubled, you're not careful through stress of life and your heart begins to get troubled and you don't guard your heart, you can begin to get bent out of shape with people in leadership and mate job circumstance, and everything else.

Jesus says let not your heart be troubled. Notice number four. He brings this up he says this ye believe in God.

Now at first glance you might say, okay, November everything is through the lens of let not your heart be troubled, so everything that were going to say from now on somehow is saying you don't have to be trouble. He says this ye believe in God. Now this is an acknowledgment that they believed in God and he commands them for that. Ye believe in God and you and I would say will that's an obviously that's a comforting statement and that that's a statement that will keep your hearts are being troubled and different. I disagree with you because just the statement that you believe in God is not a statement that will keep your heart from trouble.

In fact, the fact that you believe in God is a statement that will cause trouble to your heart and are looking at me like I can be different without Jesus. If you believed in God, there would be no comfort. There is a why is that because if you believe in God, we are brought into covenant with God through Christ and we have God's favor in God's promise through Christ as sinners. You and I would just spare with our belief in God. If it wasn't for Jesus Christ because if we believe in God. That means we have to believe in a holy God and if we believe in a holy God that would obviously make it clear that we cannot approach God if I believe in God.

That means I believe in a God that I can't get to that. Can't get to me because I'm a sinner and he is a holy God and I have no way to clean myself enough to get to him, there would be no hall. It means if I believe in God.

That is a holy God and only God has no right to judge sin. Do you understand me this morning, Jesus looks at his disciples, is that you believe in God but that's not going to bring comfort because believing in God reminds us that we have to answer to God, we have to give account of ourselves to God, and there would be no comfort available, it would not keep trouble away from my heart. If all I could do was believe in God. It in fact would create trouble in my heart because now I see a scenario of a holy God and I have no hope. I have no salvation. I have no way to make myself righteous in his eyes the best works I could do is nothing but filthy rags. I would have absolutely nothing to keep trouble from my heart if I only believed in God. But Jesus said you believe in God, demand that I have chosen and have followed me and serve me.

You believe in God believe also in me that it's what keeps our heart from being troubled via get me this morning say amen if you do listen to me those that believe in God must believe in Jesus to get to God. You see the joy of faith is the best remedy against a troubled heart. It is a remedy with a promise connected to it. The Bible says the just shall live by faith. The Bible says. I had fainted unless I believed it to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. That's why Jesus says hey you believe in God, that's a great step because God does exist, and God is real and you should believe in God but what will keep trouble from coming into your heart is the fact that you believe in me. Have you ever believed Jesus is a different if you just believe there's a God, then you should have nothing but trouble in your heart but if you believe in Jesus Christ.

He said no man cometh unto the father but by me, ye believe in God, he says, believe also in me. Listen to me, believing in Jesus Christ as our mediator between God and us that makes our belief in God, comforting because when I believe in God. I also believe in Jesus Christ and because of Jesus Christ. My putting my faith in Jesus Christ. It is now comforting to believe in God you see I believe when the Lord returns there will be a number of people who believe that there is a God, but they've never believed in Jesus you believe in God believe also in me. Then he makes another statement that ought to bring comfort to a heart. He says this in my father's house. He said you believe in God believe also in me.

In my father's house. What a statement in that statement Jesus is proclaiming again that he's the son of the father by that statement he is proclaiming that the father's house is also the son's house because that's where children live. He said in my father's house was a Jimmy you gotta get this this statement points us to the determining factor of our hearts, not being troubled it all. Rest in the father's house. We would have nothing to look forward to.

If it wasn't for the father's house.

It wasn't for the father's house.

All we would have to look forward to is what we have right now and I don't know about you, it's not very comforting here right now, but our comfort lies in the father's house. Listen you, but you gotta get this, what keeps our true our hearts from being troubled here on earth is not something from this earth. What keeps our hearts from being troubled here on earth is the promises that we have in the father's house. It means this it is our faith in the father's house. It is our future now in the father's house. It's our new family in the father's house. The Bible says this and this is what Jesus said in my father's house are many mansions know may I ask you this. Why would there be a need for many mansions.

If there was not the desire of Jesus to have us with him in heaven. Why are all those mansions. There if it's just God the father, God the son God the Holy Spirit. The fact that there there.

The fact that heaven is there in the father's house has many mansions, shows that it is his desire that all of us come to heaven with him.

God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. Listen to me. Jesus said this in my father's house are many mansions know me to say this. I know there's a lot of talking and may I say this, we will know when we get to heaven. There are people believe that we all have our own mansion. There are people believe that in my father's because of the terminology in my father's house are many mansions, mansions don't going to house their rooms in a house so that there is the father's house and we all have an area in the house. Whatever the case might be, and you say you say what is your opinion or my opinion is that we have a mansion and were in the father's house because that's what the Bible says, but let me tell you why a believe that because you and I are limited to how we think and were limited to this earth. It makes no sense for us to think that there is a mansion inside of another house, the mansion is the house but may I remind you that heaven and Jesus do not operate like we do here on earth that it might be were all in one house, but you know what the entire solar system could be a house. All I'm saying is this, that whatever we have there. And wherever it is and whatever it isn't and whether it's a mansion if it's a room if it's whatever the case might be, may I say is greater and broader that our minds can imagine so little motel room at the Holiday Inn. I don't see heaven like that. I wonder if there will be room service is the biggest pain for us was in a motel. Wives always word of the complainer of the company room listen to me when you get this Jesus says this if it were not so I would've told you that means this is father's house was not a joking matter to Jesus and it was in a lying matter to Jesus. He was very serious. I would in the said it. If it wasn't so. So my father's house should be a comfort to you my father's house should keep your heart from being troubled because whatever happens here. This isn't our house. Our home is now in the father's house. That should keep our hearts from being troubled. You see, when a loved one dies, it knows the Lord. Yes, it's hard.

He didn't say we can't be said.

He didn't say that we can't grieve. He didn't say that we can have questions but he did say this, there's no reason for your heart to be troubled because of my father's house while Cindy is another statement that the comfort were almost done is let your hearts be troubled you believe in God believe also in me. In my father's house are many mansions or not so I would've told you. And then he says this I go. How is that comforting here again like he had just been sharing in the last chapter, he tells them I'm leaving. How can that bring comfort instead of trouble to my heart and how could it bring comfort to their hearts to know that he was leaving. He said I go but he said this I go to prepare a place for you. You and I need to understand the design and the purpose of Christ going away was to prepare a place for the disciples and for you and for me that I put our faith and trust in Jesus Christ Jesus is saying this year grieve to know I'm going away, but I am going away on an errand for you. I am the forerunner for you to get there.

I got a get their first for you to have a place there. I got a go prepare it there some business that I have to do with the father before you arrive. You're my bride. I'm making the house ready. Thank you for listening to you received a blessing from our broadcast. The current Baptist Church is located at 4520 Old Hollow Rd. in Kernersville, NC may also contact us by phone at 33699351924 Kerwin Baptist Church.com enjoy our services live molar medium on our website and church. Thank you for listening. Kerwin broadcast God bless you