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Sermon on John 14:1-4
Title: A Place Prepared
Sermon Theme: Christ as prepared a place for his people.
Goal: to assure Christians that Christ has prepared a place for his people.
Need: Often Christians can worry and question what is on the other side of this life.
Outline:
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Introduction
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A Place Prepared
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Return with Christ
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Conclusion
Sermon in Oral Style:
Congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
There’s no place like home.
We all know that line from the movie /The Wizard of Oz/.
Dorothy wants to get home from the land of Oz.
So she taps her… what are they… ruby slippers together and says, “There’s no place like home.
There’s no place like home.
Home should be a wonderful place.
A London news paper once had a contest that asked readers to send in their answer to this question.
“What is home.”
They received many entries.
Finally, they came up with a winning entry.
*It went like this: “Home is the place you are treated the best and complain the most.”
Maybe its true for many of us.*
*A better definition might be what Robert Frost wrote one time.
“Home is the place that when you arrive there, you have to be taken in.”*
I think that definition gets it pretty close to what I think of when I think of home.
*The place that when you arrive, you have to be taken in.*
The notion of home is especially important, I would imagine to immigrants.
Where was home during the immigrant years?
Even though the journey had been made across the ocean, Canada wasn’t really home.
The houses people lived in weren’t homes.
Many people were deeply homesick.
They missed home… that place far across the ocean that was left behind.
That was the place you felt you would always be taken in.
Not in Canada.
But slowly, Canada became home.
And slowly the houses lived in in Canada became family homes.
Slowly, many started to feel a little better about these new homes.
Usually the stories of our life are written in chapters about each home we have had.
Time marches on.
Some of us, even though we haven’t changed houses lately are starting to homeless.
Our same old houses just don’t feel the same any more.
*Some where in our lives we start thinking less and less about our earthly homes and we start thinking a lot more about if there is a home beyond this one for us.*
We start wondering if this is all there is for us, or truly is there something else better.
Will there be a new home?
Will it be all its been cracked up to be?
Is heaven for me, and is it worth it?
The disciples are wondering a little different thing at the time when Jesus says what he does in the passage.
He has just told his disciples where he has to go, to the cross to defeat sin and death, they cannot go, but later they will follow and be persecuted and die for their faith.
That’s what worrying the disciples.
Why can’t they go along right now?
Why is Jesus saying they are going to fall away?
Why did Jesus say Peter is going to disown him?
They are very worried about this.
*If Jesus sees ahead and sees that they are going to really mess up this being-a-disciple thing, what does that mean for their place in their eternal home with God?*
* Jesus says in verse 1 \\ 1 **“Do not let your hearts be troubled.
Trust in God; trust also in me.**[1]*
*His response to their worries and to our worries is a simple one.
He says, don’t let your hearts be troubled.
* Don’t worry about it.
Don’t fret about it.
Don’t let your insides get all twisted up when you think about the next life.
*He says Trust. Trust in God.
And Trust in Jesus.*
We usually think of trust and faith of being the things that guarantee our salvation and guarantee our place in the new creation.
*Here Christ says, trust is the way to be sure about the home yet to come.*
*How do you keep your heart from getting terrified over the end of this life?
You do your best to trust in God and in Jesus Christ.*
We need to trust that he knows every single sin we have ever committed.
*We need to trust that in spite of all of that, while we were still sinners, he died for us.*
*If ever you wonder if those terrible things you did in the past are going to stand in the way of your eternal home, remember the disciples.*
Here they are being told that they will share eternal life with Christ and Jesus knows that they still are going to commit some of the worst sins.
They are going to abandon and deny Jesus when he needs them the most.
*This sorry bunch of sinners are already marked for eternal life.
That sure comfort this sinners heart.*
Jesus Christ does the same to us today.
When he died on the cross, he was already looking ahead, bearing the weight of all our sins.
*Being welcomed to eternal life is not about what you have done, but whose disciple you were.*
Have you been Christ’s disciple.
*Then do not let your hearts be troubled.
Trust in God.
And trust in Jesus Christ.*
The next part of the passage continues this comfort to the disciples.
Verse 2 says, *2 **In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you.
I go to prepare a place for you.**[2]**
* If you noticed a few words being different, its because I read you the verse as you find it in the New King James version of the Bible.
The King James Bible that many people think is the English version that Christians should still be using, uses this word “Mansions.”
*The New King James version kept the word Mansions, but puts a little footnote by it.
It says, the Greek word, “Literally means dwellings”*
I wonder if the translators of the New KJV put a footnate because they realized that the word Mansion today gives a little different picture than Christ was actually bringing across.
The word Christ uses would be better called dwelling, or room, like we find in the NIV Bibles that we use in our church.
Mansion gives you the picture that Christ went to prepare these lavish homes with all the extras.
A million dollar home.
Jesus wasn’t saying he was going to prepare an expensive place.
It will be wonderful, no doubt about that, but Christ is going to prepare a room, a dwelling for us.
*It could be a broom closet for all we know from the word Jesus says here.
But it would be better to dwell in the broom closet of the house of God, than in mansions anywhere else. *
That is really the point.
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