Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled: Jesus is the Way

That'll get your blood going. Right? Praise and worship. You know what I love about that is I know what sermon I'm about to preach, and I know how much words in those songs just related to what we're about to talk about today. The holy spirit is moving in a mighty way. The title of this message today is let not your heart be troubled. people on the sound of my voice and not just in this room, people on the sound of my voice are dealing with unknown illnesses, [00:37:45] (34 seconds)  #PraiseAndWorshipPower

illnesses, not knowing what they have or what the cure may be, illnesses that they're fighting and going through the battle now for a cure, people that, are dealing with the possibility of divorce, of separation, people that are dealing with the possibility of deployment and distance from their family members, people that don't even know where the next paycheck's gonna come from or the next place that they're gonna lay their head. But Jesus says one thing through all of that, and that's what we're gonna talk about today is let not your heart be troubled. [00:38:17] (46 seconds)  #ComfortForTheTroubled

But before we get into scripture, and I'll go ahead and give you time, we're gonna go to the book of John chapter 14. But before we go there, I wanna I wanna talk about I wanna share a a short story that I heard, and I think it ties in beautifully to this. So a few years ago, commercial airline on a commercial airline was flying through clear skies when all of a sudden they hit the worst turbulence they've ever hit. And this is a turbulence that sending drinks flying, [00:39:03] (27 seconds)  #TurbulenceTestimony

you know, people holding on to armrests, people crying out, but there was one little girl on that plane who sat there undisturbed just coloring in her book. And after the turbulence had ended and the screams had stopped and and the flight attendants were cleaning everything up, this man looked over to the little girl and said, girl, why were you not disturbed? How were you not scared? And she said, mister, my dad's the one flying this plane and he's bringing me home. [00:39:29] (33 seconds)  #SafeBecauseOfFather

See, when she was focused on the father and what her father could do, she had no fear. She had no anxiety. She had she knew that she was perfectly perfectly fine because the father was going to bring her home. And that no matter what she faced during that time, that the end result was that she was going to be at home with her father. So if we can, I wanna go to the book of John chapter 14? We're gonna go through verses one through six. [00:40:03] (36 seconds)  #FocusOnTheFather

that girl in that story had a peace like I talked about. It wasn't peace because life was smooth. It wasn't peace because everything makes sense. It wasn't peace because we're strong enough to handle it. It was peace because we knew who was in control. It's peace because we knew who's directing our paths. Jesus was telling his disciples here, the night if you guys don't know the setting of this, it's the night before Jesus went to the cross. [00:41:28] (32 seconds)  #PeaceBecauseOfJesus

Before he said this, he had just told his disciples, one of you will betray me. One of you will deny me, and I am leaving you all. And where I'm going now, you cannot follow now. That caused up a lot of anxious feeling and fear. Like, how would that make you feel? And that's where his answer looking right into the disciples' eyes telling them, let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me. [00:42:00] (33 seconds)  #BelieveInGodAndJesus

That's where I wanna go next is to have peace, not trouble. And how do we do that? See, in that verse fourteen one, Jesus isn't offering a suggestion. He's giving a command. Not because trouble isn't real, but because he's greater than the trouble. Fear loses its grip when you know that you're not walking through life alone. [00:42:33] (28 seconds)  #HeIsGreaterThanTrouble