Comforting Words (5 of 21)
Series: The Upper Room
Stephen Whitney
John 14:1-7
At six weeks old Francis Crosby caught a cold and developed an inflammation in her eyes. The treatment damaged the optic nerves in her eyes so that she became blind the rest of her life. She wrote her first poem when she was eight and wrote more than 8,000 hymns and gospel songs throughout her life. Some of her most famous are: Pass My Not O Gentle Savior, Praise Him, Praise Him, Blessed Assurance and To God Be The Glory. In 1891, at the age of 71, she attended a mid-week prayer meeting at which Dr. Howard Crosby, a relative and Presbyterian minister, spoke from the Twenty-third Psalm. Later that week she was stunned when he suddenly died. Pondering the suddenness of death, she asked herself, ‘‘I wonder what my first impression of heaven will be.’’ A moment later she answered her own question with a sudden insight: ‘‘Why, my eyes will be opened and I will see my Savior face to face.’’
Background Jesus had just told his disciples that he was going away and they could not go with him (13:33). They were left wondering where was he going and what would happen to them when he left. C.S. Lewis said that while we are on this earth we are ‘‘on the wrong side of the door. But he added, ‘‘All the leaves of the NT are rustling with the rumor it will not always be so.’’
Divine Promise :1-3 Person :1 Jesus offers encouragement to his disciples who are confused. Let not - our natural reaction when we are confused is to let our emotions control our thoughts instead of believing the truth. The disciples can go with their emotions or to trust his words.
Heart - was thought to be the seat of a person’s emotions and feelings which in turn then controlled their thoughts. Troubled - Gk. to be agitated or stirred up. Literally of the water in the pool of Bethesda (5:4,7). Emotionally of experiencing grief over Lazarus (11:33). It causes inward turmoil in your heart and mind.
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Series: The Upper Room
Stephen Whitney
John 14:1-7
At six weeks old Francis Crosby caught a cold and developed an inflammation in her eyes. The treatment damaged the optic nerves in her eyes so that she became blind the rest of her life. She wrote her first poem when she was eight and wrote more than 8,000 hymns and gospel songs throughout her life. Some of her most famous are: Pass My Not O Gentle Savior, Praise Him, Praise Him, Blessed Assurance and To God Be The Glory. In 1891, at the age of 71, she attended a mid-week prayer meeting at which Dr. Howard Crosby, a relative and Presbyterian minister, spoke from the Twenty-third Psalm. Later that week she was stunned when he suddenly died. Pondering the suddenness of death, she asked herself, ‘‘I wonder what my first impression of heaven will be.’’ A moment later she answered her own question with a sudden insight: ‘‘Why, my eyes will be opened and I will see my Savior face to face.’’
Background Jesus had just told his disciples that he was going away and they could not go with him (13:33). They were left wondering where was he going and what would happen to them when he left. C.S. Lewis said that while we are on this earth we are ‘‘on the wrong side of the door. But he added, ‘‘All the leaves of the NT are rustling with the rumor it will not always be so.’’
Divine Promise :1-3 Person :1 Jesus offers encouragement to his disciples who are confused. Let not - our natural reaction when we are confused is to let our emotions control our thoughts instead of believing the truth. The disciples can go with their emotions or to trust his words.
Heart - was thought to be the seat of a person’s emotions and feelings which in turn then controlled their thoughts. Troubled - Gk. to be agitated or stirred up. Literally of the water in the pool of Bethesda (5:4,7). Emotionally of experiencing grief over Lazarus (11:33). It causes inward turmoil in your heart and mind.
You believe in ...
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