Where is Your Hope?
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Where is Your Hope?
Where is Your Hope?
Misplaced hope
Shattered dreams
Frightening circumstances
Declining fortunes
Loss of work
Health
Jesus Has A Word for Us
Jesus Has A Word for Us
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
Jesus Has a Word for Us
Jesus Has a Word for Us
Don’t be troubled
Believe in God
Believe in Me
Jesus Is Preparing for Us
Jesus Is Preparing for Us
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? 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 is Preparing for Us
Jesus is Preparing for Us
His Departure Has a Purpose
A place for his disciples
A plan to come get us
A plan for our presence in Heaven
Do You Know the Way?
Do You Know the Way?
And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?”
Do You Know the Way?
Do You Know the Way?
Jesus Says His Disciples Know the Way
Thomas wants to get it right.
First, where are you going?
First step to get there
How do we know the way?
You need to not get lost
There is Only One Way
There is Only One Way
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
There is Only One Way
There is Only One Way
I Am in Three Important ways
I Am the Way
I Am is also the Truth
I Am is the Life
Get to the Father through Jesus the I AM
Know the Father by Knowing His Son
Know the Father by Knowing His Son
If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
Know the Father by Knowing His Son
Know the Father by Knowing His Son
His is Closest Friends Missed This
The Father is present in His Son
Know one, know the other
It’s about to become clear
You do know
You have seen
Do You Want a Vision?
Do You Want a Vision?
Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” 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’?
Do You Want a Vision?
Do You Want a Vision?
What Convinces You?
We want the extraordinary
Yet knowing someone is personal
Philip wanted a window into heaven
Jesus says heaven has come to you
If you have seen me, you’ve seen Him
Everything of the Father’s personality is present in Jesus
We don’t need a new vision
Do You Believe?
Do You Believe?
Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.
Do You Believe?
Do You Believe?
Who Do You Believe Jesus to Be?
Think Deeper
Think Wider
Think Higher