“Do Not Let Your Hearts Be Troubled” | John 14:1–14

You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a

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I'm Chris, and this is Jeff and here we are.

And I'm glad to be here, are you? Yeah? I am.

And today is a very special day, Chris. Why because

we are continuing this almost never ending quest to find

the very best Bible Guy's theme song. Right So it's

just consuming us right now.

Is it?

Oh? Yes, wow? And I didn't know that we're trying

to figure out because you know, you've mentioned before we

should redo the roll in and all those kinds of things.

For sure, So before we do that, only because it's

like we still headphones.

On, it was a long time. It was a long

time ago, studios ago. Yes, So anyways, we're trying to

figure out this Bible Guy's jingle and so today what

we thought we would do is and this is one

of the most requested segments we do, by the way, Oh,

people love it when you do it. Last time we

did it, that you did you did a Bible Guys

jingle to the tune of the Stars starts Angel Banner,

which so far I think has the most votes. So

that's pretty good. Uh and and it has all of

the the fun ash and oomph that a show like

ours deserves. That so right. But on the other side,

because we're a podcast and a couple of guys who

like to talk about the Bible and finding practical ways

if you want listening to the rolling and so we

thought maybe you should try doing it to the tune

of the Golden Girls. Wow, just a couple of friends,

Yeah right, you know the tune thank you for me

and my yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, okay, all right, So just a minute ago Jeff

went ahead and asked chat GPT.

That's right, I typed it in. I typed in and

here's my question. My question was, help me write a

theme song for the Bible guys, a podcast about a

couple of friends who like to talk about the Bible

and fun of practical ways to the tune of the

Golden Girls theme song. That was the prompt. Yep. So

it's not that big of a deal, no, And this

is what it turned out to us. This brilliance, all right.

This brilliance, all right, I'm gonna try this. I'm gonna

I'm gonna sing it lower. I'm not gonna make the

same mistake my friend.

Okay, here we go, Here we go.

This is houtreads. They're just a couple of friends who

love to talk about the word. They laugh in, learn

with truths you may have never heard. That's so bad,

Don dun And if you threw a Bible party, oh yeah,

I don't know what that is and invited every guest,

you knew you would see the biggest Bible from me,

and the jokes would come from these two. They're just

a couple of friends. That's that's it.

There you go.

Wow, that was rough.

All right. So if we were the Golden Girls, which

one would you be?

I would be of course Betty White, would you Yeah,

Betty White's the goat.

And I'm probably in my madge. Is that? That's that's

you kind of the groupie you have to be. Okay, anyways,

that's terrible. Anyways, Uh, that was ridiculous, Chris.

Hey, I I definitely need a.

Low moment in the show.

That's a low moment.

Yeah.

They're just a couple. Yeah, that was so low. They're

just a couple of friends.

Oh, there you go. See that's someone.

You love to talk about the words.

Well, I think you went low this time because you

started off the star spangled banners.

So much and heard oh there it goes out, he

goes and if you threw a party, oh I'm sorry,

a Bible party. Who throws a Bible party and invited

every guess you knew?

Yeah you.

Let's see the biggest battle from me and the jokes

would come from these two. Thank you for Oh no,

they're just a couple of frees.

So so the biggest Bible from me? Is that metaphorical

or is that literal?

I'm definitely assuming it's literal.

Literal?

Yeah, like a like a family Bible, family Bible, Yeah

you have one? Are you? Are you saying that like

I have the most Bible knowledge? That's what it's timing.

I don't know. That's why I was That's what I

was asking because I would feel, you know, like maybe

like that was a diss.

Yes, so I can make fun of I can make

fun of your shirt or your hair or your truck.

None of that matters. None of that matter matter.

Don't you dare say?

How big dare.

You are more of a Bible guy than me?

That's right because it ends with we're friends, and I

don't want to jeopardize it. That's true. Let's keep things.

That is true. That's true. That is so funny, it's ridiculous,

Whereas I would probably be more offended about the hair.

Yeah yeah, yeah, So that kind of troubles me that

you were implying that you had bigger Bible than me.

You know what Jesus said. Jesus said, don't let your

hearts be troubled.

Oh wow, wow, Mercy, that was even worse than yesterday's.

So you don't know. We always do these dumb segments

at the beginning, if your first time listener, we do

these dumb segments at the beginning just to laugh, because

we like to laugh. And then we always try to

find a transition into the devotional part, the Bible parts,

and we try to make the worst possible transition, and

that that was a pretty bad one.

Well, do not let your hearts be troubled. And I

got to tell you John fourteen is one of my

favorite things to quote at Believe or not at funerals.

Yeah yeah, good, yeah, yeah, because I just you're a

big fan, big fan of I love how.

He multiple times in this passage says that phrase do

not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid,

because I think that that's really what he's doing, is

he's trying to say, Hey, understand, heaven is a reality.

Understand this is a comforting thought. Don't be worried. Right,

I've got this. There's a reality that I'm trying to

explain to you that is just as real as the

reality that you find yourself in. So that's why I

like it.

So in John chapter fourteen, verse one, he says, don't

let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust

also in me. There is more than enough room in

my Father's home. And if this were not so, what

I've told you that I'm going to prepare a place

for you. When everything is ready, I will come and

get you so that you will always be with me

where I am. And you know the way to where

I'm going. No, we don't know, Lord Thomas said, we

have no idea where you're going, So how can we

know the way? Jesus told him I am the Way,

the Truth, and the life, and no one can come

to the Father except through me. If you'd really known me,

you would know who my father is from now on.

You do know him and have seen him. Philip said, Lord,

show us the Father and we'll be satisfied. Jesus replied,

have I been with you all this time, Philip, and

yet you still don't know who I am. Anyone who

has seen me has seen the Father. So why are

you asking me to show him to you? Don't you

believe that I am in the Father and the Father's

in me. The words I speak are not my own,

but my Father, who lives in me, does his work

through me. Just believe that I am in the Father

and the Father's in me, or at least believe because

of the work you have seen me. Do I tell

you the truth. Anyone who believes in me will do

the same works I have done, it even greater works,

because I'm going to be with the Father. You can

ask for anything in my name and I will do

it so that the Son can bring glory to the Father. Yes,

ask me for anything in my name and I will

do it. Wow, there you go, there you go.

Yep, So Jesus is there's a lot of red letters

here is This is all Jesus all the time right here? Yes,

and he's talking about the way to the Father. But

before we get to that part of it, he starts

off this, well, this thought. I was going to say

this chapter, but there was no chapter.

Which back then don't for chapter fourteen. Yes, let not

your true heart's betrothed.

So he's saying hearts be troubled. And then the statement

that comes after that that's connected to it, or the

reason why he's saying that is because he says, trust

in God and trust also in me.

Right.

In other words, what he's saying is everything that I'm

telling you is true. Yes, everything that I promise is true.

If you believe in the God, the Father of the universe,

then believe in me. And then he says, I am

the Father, are one, And he talks about you know,

his what I want to say, like his deity, his

claim to be equal with the Father, his importance as

he is the only way to the Father, and do

you not believe that I am the Father and the

Father is in me? And so he's equating himself to

the Father, right, which is awesome.

Well, I just had this thought just now. It's interesting

because you brought it up the other day. Yep. He

says the words I speak are not my own, but

my Father, who lives in me, does his work through me. Right.

So he's saying, these works, these words, the things I do,

I'm not doing them on my own. I'm doing them

through the power of my Father in me. And I

thought that was interesting because I always make the claim

that Jesus is doing this through the power of the

Holy Spirit. It's immediately after he says that sentence that

he says, let me introduce to this idea of the

Holy Spirit, right, So they didn't know what the Holy

Spirit was in the Jewish culture. In the Jewish belief system,

there was God the Father. That's it. So, so that's why

it was shocking to have this idea that God the

Father would have a human son. That was a shocking idea.

That Jesus says, if you've seen me, you've seen the Father.

Another place, he says, I and the Father were one.

Why he says that here, yeah, yeah, well no, no,

you're right. He says, I'm in the Father and the

Father's in me, right.

Right, And so he says, if you've seen me, you've

seen the Father. I and the Father were one. He says,

the Father's in me. That's how all these things are happening.

And then he goes, let me, let me, let me

introduce one more idea to you. And then he introduces

the Holy Spirit. Because the Father, the Father, the Son,

and the Holy Spirit one God, three persons, right, And

so what he's saying is here he's equating his power

to the fact that he's connected to the Father. And

then he introduces them to the idea of the Holy Spirit.

And this is the moment the first time the Holy

Spirit comes up in Jesus teaching. Isn't that interesting?

Yeah, well, we didn't read the Holy Spirit part to me.

No, no, no, no, it comes up. It comes up next.

But what I'm saying is he says, my power comes

from my Father, and then he introduces limit. Let me

explain to you. Really, how the power comes to me

is the same as going to be for you. I'm

going to give the Holy Spirit to you.

We think that's great, yeah so so so technically no

good technically because technically all we're saying here is it's

not Jesus powers, it's God the Father powers.

Yes, yeah, but that's the same powers available to you.

The God the Father power through the Holy Spirit power.

Yeah, yes, yeah, I every So tell me a miracle

other than his own personal resurrection. Tell me a miracle

that another human.

Didn't do, another human didn't do. Well, that's assuming that

I believe that people have raised people from the dead.

Well they did, Paul did.

Oh I'm in the Bible. I was, I was thinking today.

Yeah yeah, well they were real people.

Yes, I know, thank you, thank you. They were real humans. Yes, yes,

I know they were. So yeah, no, you're right. Other

than walking on the.

Water, Elijah made the axe head float. Well, I mean

that's that's the same same principle. Okay, sure, solid thing

that floated.

Sure, sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it's not a human.

But yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm telling you. So anyways, that's

the whole other thing. So here, the main idea in

this passage really is wait, wait.

We can't move on without without you have a sense

that you're that you're leaning towards the fact that this

proves anything. Whereas what I'm saying is I'm saying both

can be true, both can be true. So so what

I'm saying is everything you're saying is true. I don't

disagree with anything you're saying, right, but I'm saying that

doesn't disprove what I said, that's all, Okay. So I'm

saying is those two things can still be true at

the same time. That's all I'm saying, because everything.

You're saying is in the power of the Holy Spirit

and his own Jesus powers.

Yes, I'm saying. I'm saying that Jesus himself if he

were exactly like us, if he were if he were

at absolutely zero knowledge other than what the Holy Spirit

has given to him, then it wouldn't say certain things

that just like I felt power leaving me. That's one

of them, right. I think there's others, But I think,

but I think there are things in the in the

New Testament, like, for instance, another thing was they said

something about why is he doing these miracles? And Jesus

makes the comment and says, I'm doing these miracles for

one reason, and that is so that everybody knows that

I'm the Messiah. Right, So, so again that that that

proves to you that or should prove. I think that

there are some things that are reserved for Jesus that

he never intended for other men, for women to do.

But that's what I just brought up is all these

miracles other people have done well in the fact that

he's yeah.

But the fact that he I think that they were

also referring to things that he spoke that came true

the his wisdom. I think that that statement was reserved

for the entire life of Jesus. And I just think that.

I think that there are some things that Jesus did

that were exclusively in his messiahship and his christ title

that wasn't reserved for us. And I think that, and

I think that Jesus made that clear.

Yeah. So it's funny our listeners going. Didn't guys just talking.

About this yesterday, I know, I know, we brought it

up and started gloting. Well, so I had to say things.

So when Jesus kicks off his ministry in Luke chapter four,

he says, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me

and then announces his ministries here, and this is right

after his baptism in Matthew, Jesus says, I cast out

these demons in the power of the Holy Spirit. So

there's multiple times when he mentions the spirit in direct

connection to his ministry. So was that Matthew had looked

it up again? Matthew twelve twenty eight. So I cast

out these demons and the power the always, but he

never references the idea of the Holy Spirit. He only

just like drops these hints. But he never explains to

the disciples who the Holy Spirit is until this moment

right here. This is is that the next passage that

we didn't read here, But he's connecting it to everything

I do. I don't do on my own. It's not

coming from me. It's coming from my Father. And he's

sending the message to them that later on when he says,

and you're going to do even greater things than these

than I did, he's connecting that it's possible that you

can too, through the power of my Father. And then

he explains it's through the Holy Spirit, right the Holy

Spirit the Father. So all of those things come back to,

quite honestly, where he's saying, I'm gonna bring you to

where I am in eternity, in my father's home, in

my father's house. When everything's ready, I'll come and get you.

I love that. What does that mean. I don't even

know what that means. To mence with you when I'm

done building this house. He created the entire universe in

six days, right, So how long does it take to bill?

It must be a nice house.

You're gonna love it. I'm spending so much time on us.

Yeah, or is it when it's your turn.

It's getting vaulted ceilings arches for the doorway. These are

just normal square arches.

The plaster work is impeccable, so the crown molding is

cut perfectly. Wait to see the home theater, right. So,

so I don't think he's talking about I'm in the

process of building this and when all the permits come through,

we're gonna come and get you.

I think we had to go down to Hell and

get a contractor and everything.

And the code official. Yeah. So, oh, oh my goodness.

So I don't think that's what he's talking about. When

I'm done building this, I'm going to come and get you.

An what he's saying is, when your time is done,

I'm going to come and get you. Is that what

do you think he's saying?

Yeah, yeah, I do.

I do, because when it's ready for you, when I'm

ready for you, I'm going to come and get you.

I personally think this falls into the same category as

all the other analogies that Jesus makes, right, so he's

able to he's able to communicate truths through things that

people understand, which is why he says he separates the

sheep and the goats, right, It's the reason why get

they're literally not sheep and they're not goats right right.

There are those who know him those who don't know him,

So this is something that people can understand. He's talking

about a house. He's preparing. There's room, You're welcome, you know.

Back then, in the Middle East and even today, in

some cultures, what they do is they just continue to

build on to structures, so as the family grows, they

don't just ship them off like Americans do. Hey, you're eighteen,

get on my household, right, that's the American mentality, that's

the West mentality. But in the Middle East even today,

they just continue to build bigger houses and stay together

as a family, which is why you and I drive

around them. We see these million dollar mansions and we say, oh,

you know, that's that's I know who lives there, right,

because that's that culture and that's what they do, you know,

And so I think that that's what he's doing. He's

using a literal house building metaphor for talking about a

place for them.

In heaven, so that when everything's ready. That's the joke

I was making this. I think it's I think what

he means is when I'm ready for you, Yes, I'm

going to come and get you. And I love that

that this death process, you're not alone. It feels alone, right,

but you're not a loan. He said, I'm going to

come and get you. Bible says it's a pointed that

a man wants to die and after this the judgment,

so I have an appointment. I think he's referencing that

appointment right when everything's ready. But I love the fact

that he's going to come and get us. He doesn't

leave us alone. He comes and gets us. Uh. I

have to travel to India just in a couple of days,

and I've already coordinated who who's you know, who's going

to meet me at the hotel, Who's going to meet

me at the right It helps a lot when you're

in a new culture, when you're going to a new place,

you kind of set up. It helps a lot when

somebody's standing there. When you walk out of the airport

in the international airport, somebody's got to sign with your

name on it right right. My wife and I we

had to go. We flew to New Delhi a while back,

and the hotel we were staying in sent a car.

It was a nice, really nice hotel, and they sent

a car. And this guy's standing there and the guy's

hat on and his fancy uniform and he's holding the

sign it says Jeff and Bonnie Ports or mister and

missus Forster what it says on the thing. So it's

just chaos. There's so many people, there's so much going on.

There's so many people.

There's a there's in India and and and there. There's

there's a certain amount of anxiety of I don't know

where to go. I don't know what to do, I

don't know all the customs. I don't know even know

how to speak the language right right, But man doesn't

help when somebody says, I'll be there for you. We

were just same thing Morocco, and we had a friend

that one of the guys I was traveling with knew him,

and so he met us with his own personal car

and he got us and he took us to his

house and his wife made this amazing dinner for us,

and it felt so much more comfortable having somebody that

you know meet you there, get you to their home

and feed you. Right. And I love the attitude of that.

It feels so much better when you know all you're

doing is when you get off the plane, you're going

to meet Jesus and he's got it under control, and

you're going to go to his dad's house and it's

gonna be amazing. That's what he's saying. He doesn't tell

us tons about eternity, but he does say it's going

to be okay, and I've got you covered and I've

planned for you. You're not just some stranger in some

strange country. You're a guest. You're a fan member of

the king, and you're going to be invited into the

house when he's ready for you. Yeah. So I love that.

And so Jesus talks about heaven and talking about them

and he says, I will always be with you. You'll know

where I am and you'll know the way. And he's

talking about heaven, right, and then and then Jesus and

then Thomas Thomas is disciples say, uh no, we don't know, Lord,

we have no idea where you are going, So how

can we know the way. It's it's almost like you're

you know, he's talking about one thing and Thomas has

no idea what he's talking about.

I have no idea where we're going next.

Yeah. Yeah, It's like it's like you remember when.

He was going to Nazareth again, right, heading down to Jerusalem?

Right, do you remember when he was Uh, he just

got done with the woman at the well and uh,

And they said, Lord, aren't you hungry? And he said,

I have food that you don't know about. And they're like,

who gave him food?

Right? How do you food? Hey?

Are you? Are you carrying a Snickers? Yeah? It's like,

what do you It's like they have no idea. They're like, like,

who brought him food? They're so literal, they're so literal,

and Jesus always speaks in these metaphors. So then Thomas says,

what do you mean. We don't know, we don't know

the way. How can we know the way? Jesus is

still talking about heaven. He's way up here, and he says,

I am the way, I am the truth, I'm the life.

No man comes to the Father except through me. You

want to know the way you're looking at him? Right,

And it's just it's an incredible conversation of just showing

like It's like Nicodemus too in John chapter three where

he says you must be born again and he says,

you mean I'm supposed to crawl into my mother's womb,

And He's like, how could you be a rabbi and

not understand the metaphor the spiritual things in which I'm

talking about?

Right, So then Philip goes, well, just show us the

Father then, if you're the only way to the Father,

show us the Father.

Yeah, and you'll be satisfied.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, prove it?

Right? He say, hey, we're prove it, indicating we're not

currently satisfied. Right, We're not satisfied with that claim.

I love these guys. I love these guys, and sometimes

I feel like I'm that thick headed yeah that I

just don't always get it.

But well, he calls Philip out. Have I been with

you all this time? Philip? And you still don't know

who I am? Right, anyone has seen me. Wh's seen

He's seen the Father? So wow, what what a claim?

And so Jesus is coming out with it here because

after all, he's coming to the end, right, this is

this is Uh, he had already predicted Peter's denial. Uh,

he already predicted his betrayal just before this, and he's

coming to the end. He's sort of holding nothing back,

isn't he.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And it's at the end of this chapter where I

mentioned at the very beginning. It's at the end of

this chapter where he says, do not let your hearts

be troubled, do not be afraid. After he promises the

Holy Spirit, he promises peace and peace of mind and heart,

which is what I just absolutely love, because you know,

Christians do possess supernatural peace, you know, and it's it's

given through through God's power in our lives, through the

power of the Holy Spirit.

So so this phrase, which I've already referenced many many

times over the last several weeks, this is any one

who is verse twelve, I tell you the truth. This

is what King James and barely verily I say under the.

That's right, referenced by the way less than twenty times

in the whole Gospels. Yeah, yeah, when he says I

tell you the truth, it's only twenty times.

Yeah, And he's really leaning in going listen.

Yes, listen, closely and listen carefully.

There's no debate about this one. Yeah right, this is

absolute truth.

Scholars refer to this as a double amen.

Oh yeah yeah.

When he says, truly, I tell you, it's a double

a men.

So he says, I will tell you the truth. Anyone

who believes in me will do the same works I've done,

and even greater works because I'm going to be with

the Father. You can ask me for anything in my name,

and I'll do it so that the Son can bring

glory to the Father. Yes, ask me for anything in

my name, and I will do it. We've talked about

this before. That's not about a maserati, right, right, or whatever.

He's talking about the works I've done. If you need

help from me, I'll make sure that you get it.

And then he pivots from there into if you love me,

keep my commandments, and then I'm going to send that

Holy Spirit. I'm going to ask my Father to send

no spirit. So the fact that the Holy Spirit is

sent by the Father and him saying my power comes

from the Father, that's a whole other thing. But so

he's saying, your mission is the same mission I'm on,

because there's going to be so many of you. You

guys will do far more than I did. Jesus whole

ministry was relegated to this little country the size of

New Jersey. And even then he didn't cover all the

ground there, right, He mostly was between Jerusalem and Galilee.

That was it, right, like ninety miles. And so he's

he's saying, listen, you guys will go everywhere and you'll

reach everybody, and you're going to get the gospel all

around the world the impact. And I love this because

I'm inspired by this idea that Okay, He's going to

come and get me when he's done with me. And

I've said this before. I'm invincible until he's done with me.

So are you right? Right? We all are right? We

all feel like, oh, what if we get canceled, What

if we lose our job? What if we Dude, you

are in vincent until God's done with you. You need

to get on his mission. You get on his mission.

You can ask him for anything you need and he'll

provide for you. That's it, dude, what's his mission to

seeking to say?

That?

Which was a loss? If you just recognize the fact

you're in your office because there's lost people in your office,

you live in your neighborhood, because there's lost people in

your neighborhood. God puts you in the school that you're in,

or or in the family that you're in because there's

lost people there. And he says, you will do greater

things than I did, and if you need any help,

I'll help you. That's what he says. What kind of

promise is that? And yeah, we just kind of gloss

over it. We like to have in part. We don't

think about the mission part too much. When he's done,

he's gonna come and get you. It's gonna be great.

Between here and there. I got a plan for You're

gonna do greater things than me. And it's it's one

of the most inspiring passages in the Bible.

To me, that's awesome.

And then I love the fact that he ties to

the Holy Spirit into it. He said you can do

it too.

That's great. Well, hey, that is our time, so hopefully

we will see you tomorrow on the Bible gush