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Don’t Let Your Heart Be Troubled

Dave Riddle • 04/24/2022

Key Passage: John 14:1-15

Don’t let your heart be troubled

John 14:1
- Troubled = tarassō (Greek) - stirred up, agitated, inward commotion, to take away one’s calmness of mind.
John 12:27 - “now my heart is troubled”
- Jesus faced this too!
  - Not a sin issue.

The answer for a troubled heart

John 14:1 - “believe in God, believe also in me “
- Believe = pistueo (Greek): to think to be true. To be persuaded of; to place confidence in. To have faith (in, upon, or with respect to, a person or thing). To believe.

I’ve got a spot for you

John 14:2-4
- A place for you
- “You will be with me!”
- you know the way to where I am going.

Wait… where are you going?

John 14:5 (HCSB): “Lord,” Thomas said, “we don’t know where You’re going. How can we know the way?”
- Thomas sets it up on tee for Jesus

Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life

Know and See

John 14:7
- Know = ginōskō: to know experiential, in contrast to oida, which means to know intuitively or perceive.
- See = horaō - to stare at. to see, i.e. become acquainted with by experience, to experience.

They Miss the Point

John 14:8
- They still don’t get it.
John 14:9
- Philip… you still don’t know me?
- The one who has seen (horaō) me has seen the Father.
John 14:10-11
- There is such a close relationship between Jesus and the father that you can’t separate them.

A Surprising Promise

John 14:12 - Don’t miss this!
- The one who believes in me will do even greater works than me.
  - Not exclusively referring to miracles, but instead referring to the entirety of His life.
  - Why? The Holy Spirit is coming.
    - The impact of the ministry of the church goes worldwide as a result of the power of the Spirit.

I Will Do It

John 14:13-14
- Ask in my name, and I will do it.
  - Jesus is not a divine vending machine or our personal Genie.
  - When we are aligned with Jesus’ mission and motives and allow God to use us He will do incredible things.

Keep My Commands

John 14:15 - if you love me, you will keep my commands.
- Keep = tēreō - to attend to carefully, take care of.

How often do we stress over things that have little eternal significance?

Everything we do is rooted in our faith and trust in Jesus as leader of our life.

The Truth Teller & The Lie Giver

10/03/2021 - Dave Riddle

Key Passage: John 8:30-47

Genuine Discipleship

Discipleship, in Jesus’ day, had both a spiritual and a physical component.
John 8:31 - if you continue in my word, you really are my disciples…
pistueo: to think to be true. To be persuaded of; to place confidence in. To have faith (in, upon, or with respect to, a person or thing). To believe.
Jesus is offering a clear caution to us so that we understand what it truly means to be his disciples.
- Continue, abide, remain, stay… in the word of my teaching.

Real Freedom

John 8:33: referring to spiritual freedom, not political freedom.
- Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Greece, Rome…
Slaves to sin!
- Only the Son can set you free.
- John 8:34-36

Actual Identity