February 1, 2026 - I AM The Way, The Truth, and The Life (John 14:6 - John Shearhart)

``And, I know that God is going to heal me. Like, I know that that's going to happen at some point. Maybe not here, but some point. But, it's the waiting. It's the the trouble, the troubled heart of the frustration of, God, when are you going to do this? God, I'm just tired of having to deal with this this kind of suffering. I'm I'm just wishing that this wasn't part of my life. It makes everything much harder. [00:24:03] (24 seconds)  #TrustGodToHeal

But, you all have the same stuff. I mean, maybe it's a work, a job that you do and you're just you're just troubled and you're waiting. Or maybe it's something in your marriage and you're waiting. And, God, I'm just troubled. I don't know how what to do with this. All of us have come here this morning. And I know that there are, you know, there are some people who are maybe more prone toward having troubles or in a harder season, say, and some are in a better season. But all of us have things that we're waiting on, and all of us can get kind of troubled while we wait. And the disciples found themselves doing that in John chapter 14. [00:24:27] (31 seconds)  #WeAllHaveTroubles

So Jesus is about to die. The next day, he'll be crucified. And so he takes his disciples. John is a great book. The first 12 chapters is him just bouncing around from one place to the next, helping peep people, doing miracles. Then you get to chapter 13, and everything just slows way down. It's the last twenty four hours of Jesus' life. [00:25:01] (21 seconds)  #JesusFinalHours

And his disciples are like, wait, wait a minute. Hold on. I thought you were the Messiah. I still think you're the Messiah, and that you're going to kick Rome out of here, and you're going to establish your kingdom. And we're going to start experiencing the kingdom of God right here, right now. That's what we want, God. That's what we want, Jesus. Jesus says that's that's not how it's gonna play out just yet. You're gonna have to wait a little while. I'm leaving and where you're where I'm going, you can't come. You can't follow. [00:25:37] (27 seconds)  #NotYetTheKingdom

But it's not even just that. It's actually gonna be worse to see the the evil one. He's he's on his way. And it's kind of like a wolf attacking a flock. You're going to see some real hard things because I'm about to die. [00:26:05] (16 seconds)  #HardTimesAreComing

How am I supposed to do that? And, you don't need that big of a stack of things going against you to feel that way, do you? I mean, sometimes, I'm amazed at how weak and fragile I can be in my faith. I mean, I'm a pastor. I've been preaching twenty five years. I've got it all together. Right? I don't ever flip out or lose my mind about things. I don't ever worry. I mean, God's got it all. I've seen it a thousand times in my life, and yet here it comes. Some little problem comes my way and it can totally derail my day, and I'm just filled with trouble. [00:28:41] (33 seconds)  #FaithCanBeFragile

But he doesn't just say, let not your hearts be troubled. Because if that's all he said, I mean, sorry. He gives us something to focus on though. Believe in God. Believe also in me. I like it that he uses the word believe twice. Here's my command, let not believe, believe. That's where your focus needs to be. But, man, that is hard to do, isn't it? Because I want to do something. [00:29:22] (27 seconds)  #BelieveInGodAndJesus

I feel the need to do something. What we're going to talk about today with this this idea of waiting, it's like there's a lot of things that we have to do in Christianity. And there are a lot of checklist type things that here's what you need to do. You need to focus on this, you need to do this. But when it comes to the idea of waiting, it's kind of a passive activity even though it's not really. And so we we sit here and we look at it and we go, okay, well, I'm supposed to wait. Alright. What do I need to do then? Tell me what I need to do. Tell me the next thing that I need to focus on. And it really is just this simple. You need to believe in God. [00:29:48] (37 seconds)  #WaitingRequiresFaith