John 14:1-3 (ESV) – Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
Jesus Was Sensitive to Other’s Troubles Despite His Own Troubles
Matthew 19:14 (ESV) – “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.
Mark 10:48ff. Blind Bartimaeus
1 Peter 5:7 (NIV) – So, cast all your anxieties on Him, because He cares for you.
Corrie ten Boom, The Tapestry Room
“My life is but a weaving
Between my God and me.
I cannot choose the colors
He weaveth steadily.
Oft’ times He weaveth sorrow;
And I in foolish pride
Forget He sees the upper
And I the underside.
Not ’til the loom is silent
And the shuttles cease to fly
Will God unroll the canvas
And reveal the reason why.
The dark threads are as needful
In the weaver’s skillful hand
As the threads of gold and silver
In the pattern He has planned
He knows, He loves, He cares;
Nothing this truth can dim.
He gives the very best to those
Who leave the choice to Him.”
2 Corinthians 1:3-4 (ESV) – [Blessed be the] God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
Jesus Provides Solid Reasons for Them to Be Comforted
John 14:1 (ESV) – Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
John 14:11b (NIV) – … at least believe on account of the miracles I’ve performed
John 14:2 (ESV) – In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to a prepare a place for you?
2 Peter 1:16, 19 (NIV) – We did not follow cleverly invented stories when we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. We were witnesses of His majesty.
And, we have the word of the prophets made more certain, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as a light shining in a dark place until the day dawns and the Morning Star rises in your hearts.
Jesus Comforts with His Leadership– He prepares the way for victory
John 14:2-3 (ESV) – In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
1 Peter 2:21 (ESV) – …to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.
Jesus Comforts Them in Their Doubts
John 14:5 (ESV) – Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?”
John 14:6 (ESV) – Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 14:8 (ESV) – Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.”
John 14:9 (ESV) – Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
Psalm 13:2 (ESV) – How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
Psalm 42:9 (NASB) – I will say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Psalm 94:19 (NLT) – When doubts filled my mind, your comfort gave me renewed hope and cheer. Jesus
Comforts Them with the Company of the Holy Spirit
John 14:16 (ESV) – And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 1 7 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
John 14:18-19, 27 (ESV) – “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
v.27, Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
Acts 2:38 (ESV) – Repent, and be baptized every one of you for the forgiveness of your sins and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
John 15:5 (ESV) – I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
Philippians 4:7 (ESV) – And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
