John || The Cure for Troubled Heart

Listen. There is nothing in the kingdom of God that is in disarray. There is nothing that is unorganized. There's nothing there there is no room in the father's kingdom that needs to be reorganized. That is not what Jesus is talking about here. When Jesus says, my father's house has many rooms. If it were not so, I would have told you I'm going there to prepare a place for you. It's Jesus' way of saying, there has to be a way for you to get into the room. The room is perfect. But the problem with the room is that the room's door is locked right now. I want you to understand that. [00:27:18] (37 seconds)

And what he's going to prepare, he's not he's not going to make your bed and put up some posters in your room. When he says, I'm going to prepare a place. I'm going to make a way. What he's saying there is, I am going to be crucified. I'm going to become a curse upon a tree so that you can bypass the curse as it falls on my shoulders. I'm gonna be treated like I don't belong in this family, so you get entrance. And that friends is the message of the gospel. This is what he says here, he goes from there in verse three. He says, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to myself. [00:28:48] (33 seconds)

What Jesus is explaining to these 12 or these 11 guys in the room right here is, look, don't freak out. Like, you have a place in the kingdom. How you feel at home and how you feel belonging and how you feel an overwhelming sense of, like, joy and gratitude when you're with me. What you have to understand is my father has eternal everlasting home, and you've got a room there. You've got a place there. So don't freak out when I say I'm going to leave because where I'm going is to make a way for your door to be blown off the hinges. And what he does to blow the door off the hinges is he gives his life upon a cross. [00:27:55] (31 seconds)

If you're going through some trouble, if your heart is currently troubled, let me submit to you this. Jesus may permit or even cause trouble to produce trust. To put it in a different way, trouble is often Jesus' tool that he uses to teach us to trust him more. And again, I know we don't like that. We we would just love for Jesus to put answers in the sky that would help us trust him more. We would we would just love for to see Jesus put money in the bank account and just go, I trust you so much. Like, I woke up and it was a negative, and now it's a big old positive. I trust you so much more. [00:20:19] (39 seconds)