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G. Campbell Morgan · Citado em PreceptAustin
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Morgan - Let Not … September 14 One weekend when President Jimmy Carter was at Camp David, a terrible scandal broke out concerning his brother Billy. Back at the White House, Rosalynn kept calling Jimmy, deeply distressed. Over the phone, Jimmy reminded her of John 14:1 which they had read the previous night during their devotions. They agreed to claim afresh the words of Jesus: “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.” Thus they weathered the storm. When Jabez Bunting was 19, he struggled with whether to enter the ministry. On a paper, he set forth the arguments for and against: Pro: 1. The want of labourers, especially such as are intelligent and well-informed. 2. The general duty of using every talent that God has imparted. 3. The deep-rooted and long-continued conviction that I am called to this work. 4. The opinion of those Christian friends whom I have consulted. Contra: 1. My own deficiency in point of knowledge. 2. My want of time for religious study. 3. My youth and inexperience. 4. My unfaithfulness to God’s grace and my littleness of faith and love. 5. My rare opportunities of exercising. The “Pros” won, and on August 12, 1798, Jabez preached his first sermon in a cottage in a village called Sodom. His text was John 14:1. He grew to be a powerful leader of the early Methodist movement and the successor to John Wesley. Howard Jones of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association once preached from this verse to a remote tribe in the Sudan. He noticed his interpreter had difficulty with the text, and after the service he asked him about it. “Well,” said the translator, “in the Sudanese language, the heart isn’t the seat of the emotions; the liver is. So when I translated your words, it came out, ‘Don’t let your liver quiver!’ ” (BORROW From this Verse) David Jeremiah - JESUS: MAN OF HIS WORD JOHN 14:1 Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. A young boy was out in the country, climbing among a row of cliffs. He yelled from the top of one, “Hey Dad! Catch me!” The father turned around to see his son joyfully jumping off a rock straight at him. The dad became an instant circus act, catching his son, causing them both to fall to the ground. When the father found his voice, he gasped in exasperation, “Son, can you give me one good reason why you did that?” He responded with remarkable calmness: “Sure … because you’re my dad.” His whole assurance was based on the fact that his father was trustworthy. As Christians, we can throw ourselves into the arms of Jesus because He is trustworthy. We can stake our lives upon His promises, because He is a Man of His Word. If doubts assail us, we must simply look at the convincing evidence—His perfect track record! For instance, He said He would die and He did (Matthew 20:18). He said He would rise from the dead on the third day and He did (Matthew 20:19). He said He would return to His Father and He did (John 7:33). Because Jesus is a Man of His Word, we can be assured He will keep His future promises as well. He said He will return for us and He will (John 14:3). (BORROW Sanctuary) J C Philpot - "You believe in God, believe also in me." –John 14:1 To believe in God is to believe in him as he has manifested himself in his dear Son in all the fullness of his love, in all the riches of his grace, and in all the depth of his mercy. God must be seen, not in the terrors of a holy law, but in the mercy and truth of the glorious gospel of the Son of God, and thus be approached and believed in as the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our Father in him. How few see and realize this, and yet how severely exercised are many of the living family upon this point! To believe in God in such a way as to bring pardon and peace into their conscience; to believe in God so as to find manifest acceptance with him; to believe in God so as to call him Abba, Father, and feel that the Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are his children; to believe in God so as to find him a very present help in trouble; to receive answers to prayer, to walk in the light of his countenance, to have his love shed abroad in the heart, to be manifestly reconciled to him, and feel a sense of his manifested goodness and mercy--this is to believe in God through Jesus Christ. And O how different is this from merely believing about God from what we see in nature that he is the Creator of all things, or from what we may have realized of his footsteps in providence that he watches over us as regards the things that perish, or from seeing in the letter of the word that he is the God of all grace to those who fear his name! James Smith in Handfuls of Purpose- HEART-TROUBLE AND ITS CURE JOHN 14:1 I. The Disease. Heart-trouble. “Let not your heart be troubled.” This disease is common. Its causes varied. Its cure humanly impossible. II. The Remedy. “Ye believe in God, believe also in Me.” In ME— 1. As the SON of the Father (v. 2). 2. As the PROVIDER for His own (v. 2). 3. As the WAY to the Father (v. 6). 4. As the IMAGE of the Father (v. 9). 5. As the REPRESENTATIVE of the Father (vv. 10, 11). 6. As the ANSWERER of prayer (vv. 13, 14). 7. As the GIVER of the Holy Spirit (v. 16). 8. As the COMING One (v. 3). A W Tozer - THE REALITIES OF HEAVEN Let not your heart be troubled…I go to prepare a place for you. John 14:1–2 Much of the secularism and rationalism of our times dismisses the Christian view and teaching about heaven as “nothing more than hopeful thinking.” But the Christian’s promised hope of future blessedness is founded upon the fullest and plainest revelations of the Old and New Testaments. That it accords with the most sacred yearnings of the human breast does not weaken it, but serves rather to confirm the truth of it, because the One who made the heart might be expected also to make provision for the fulfillment of its deepest longings. God’s promises are made to the Christian believer, who generally has difficulty picturing himself as inheriting such bliss as the Scriptures describe. The reason is not hard to discover, for the most godly Christian is the one who knows himself best, and no one who knows himself will believe that he deserves anything better than hell. But even justice is on his side, for it is written, “If we confess our sins, [God] is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). F B
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Morgan - “They were not to think of Him as having ceased to be when they could not see Him. He had only gone to another abiding-place to prepare for their coming; and moreover, He would come back to receive them.” (SEE Searchlights from the Word: Being 1188 Sermon-suggestions - OR download PDF these are arranged by Bible book and chapter) I will come again and receive (paralambano) you to Myself - What were they most concerned about? Jesus was leaving them. Watch how He addresses their fear. Note two promises. First, Jesus will come again. Second, Jesus will receive them to Himself. The verb receive (paralambano) is in the middle voice which is reflexive (i.e., "to Himself") and gives a beautiful picture of Jesus with arms open wide ready and willing to take us to His bosom! The idea is that we will accompany Him for He will take us along. In addition paralambano implies "welcome a person" which gives us a wonderful picture of Heaven as the place where we will experience personal fellowship with God! Amazing grace indeed! As Paul said after describing a similar reception of saints by the Lord Jesus, "Comfort (parakaleo in present imperative see our need to depend on the Holy Spirit to obey) one another with these words!" (1Th 4:18+). Note that this is a reference to Jesus' personal return and not a reference to His sending the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. William Hendriksen on the meaning of receive you to Myself - Observe that instead of saying what one might expect him to say, namely, “And when I go and prepare a place for you, I come again and will take you to that place,” Jesus says something that is far more comforting: “I will take you to myself” (or: to be face to face with me; for the meaning of πρός see on 1:1). So wonderful is Christ’s love for his own that he is not satisfied with the idea or merely bringing them to heaven. He must needs take them into His Own embrace. (BORROW Exposition of the Gospel according to John PAGE 264) Note that not everyone agrees that John 14:3 refers to the Rapture, but associate it with His Second Coming at the end of this age. Leon Morris for example writes "The reference to the second advent should not be missed. It is true that John does not refer to this as often as do most other New Testament writers, but it is not true that it is missing from his pages.” Tasker on the other hand writes "This was a very precious promise to the early Church, and Paul may well be echoing it when he informs the Thessalonians ‘by the word of the Lord’ that Jesus will descend from heaven and gather believers unto Himself to be with Him for ever (see 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17).” John