Due to technical difficulties, the first reading (Proverbs 21:1-31) was not recorded and the second reading (John 14:1-14) starts part way into the reading, from v3
We live in a stressful world! (picture??)
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“Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, trust also in Jesus.”
1) Trust Jesus because of heaven
2) Trust Jesus because Jesus is the only way
John 14:6, “I am the way the truth and the Life no one comes to the Father except through me”.
The basis of Jesus claim
He and the Father are one.
John 20:30-31, “but he has written these things so that you might believe the Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and by believing you might have life in his name”.
3) Trust because Jesus will keep working through you
John 5:20 – these greater works.
V 24 – “anyone who hears Jesus words and believes the one who sent him has eternal life and will not be condemned, he has crossed over from death to life.”
John 14:13 … whatever they ask for in his name.
… Jesus nature, character, purposes and work.
For us today
Firstly – The best is yet to come.
Secondly, Jesus is the only way that anyone can be saved.
Thirdly … ask Jesus to work thorough us
Do you trust Jesus?