"The Cure for Our Troubles" (John 14:1-14)

13/02/2025 40 min

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Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This year, we're examining the Gospel of John to learn about the words and work of Jesus.Now that they understand that Jesus is departing, his disciples are troubled. What does Jesus give to enable his close friends to face their troubles? Not a self-help manual. Not set of instructions. He gives them Himself. And we promises that when his work is completed, his people today will have the same resources available us! Because after he dies and is raised again, those who trust in Jesus don’t navigate life’s troubles by living alongside him, or by living for him. John 14 reminds us that Jesus died and rose again so that we could live through him.QUOTES:“We don’t go to heaven — to the Father — beside Jesus, assisting him; or behind Jesus, imitating him. We go to the Father through Jesus, depending on him.” —John Piper“Jesus Christ is the visible manifestation of the invisible God. In him we see heaven’s heart walking around on two legs in time and space. When we see the heart of Christ throughout the four Gospels, we are seeing the very compassion and tenderness of who God himself most deeply is.” -- Dane Ortland“There is thus no [different] God behind the back of Jesus Christ, but only this God whose face we see in the face of the Lord Jesus.” —Thomas F. Torrance"There is no other stream” — Aslan, in The Silver Chair, by C.S. Lewis