Let not Your Heart be Troubled
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That's right! Jesus said, "Let not your heart be troubled!"
John 14:1-3
1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. (KJV)
This Scripture contains special meanings for us all the time, but it is especially meaningful at the death of a loved one. Jesus talks about the Father's house and the many mansions in that house. Then he said that he left this earth to prepare one for every born again believer.
First, we see that there is no such thing a "just a little cabin in the corner of glory land." Nowhere do we find a single reference to a little cabin for us to live in when we get to heaven. Jesus speaks here of "many" mansions that he goes prepares for "you."
Could this not mean that he is preparing an individual, luxurious apartment, condo, townhouse or mansion for each of us individually.
Second, could this not mean that he comes for us as individuals only when he has finished the construction of our individual mansion?
Third, could this not mean that, until our private mansion is finished, no power on earth can kill us?
Finally, could this not mean that when he finishes our private mansion, no power on this earth can keep us here?
Every Christian faces death, either their own, or the death of a loved one. But because of Jesus, we do not face it alone.
Luke 24:13-15
13 And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.
14 And they talked together of all these things which had happened.
15 And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them. (KJV)
After the resurrection of Jesus, two men were walking down the Emmaus Road. Obviously, they made two sets of footprints in the sand. Suddenly, there appeared another set of footprints out of nowhere. Jesus suddenly appeared and walked and talked with them.
When they got home they recognized him and were comforted by him. You see, He had been in death's dark valley and came out of it alive again. And now they knew it.
No wonder he said, "Let not your hearts be troubled!"
1 Cor 15:6
6 After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. (KJV)
Paul said that over five hundred people at one time had seen Jesus alive after he had died, been buried and resurrected. And when Paul wrote this the Corinthian Church, he also said that the majority of them were still alive and could verify what he had written.
They saw a man who had died but now lived again. What a comfort when their time comes to enter death's dark valley.
With this many eyewitnesses, no wonder Jesus said, "Let not your hearts be troubled!"
John 21:1
1 After these things Jesus shewed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and on this wise shewed he himself. (KJV)
John 21:9-14
9 As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.
10 Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have now caught.
11 Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.
12 Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine. And none of the disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord.
13 Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish likewise.
14 This is now the third time that Jesus shewed himself to his disciples, after that he was risen from the dead. (KJV)
After Jesus' resurrection, he prepared breakfast on the seashore for his disciples. They saw him. They talked with him. They knew it was him. They were convinced that here was the man they knew who died but now was living again.
What a comfort for each of them to see him alive. Now when death closes his cold, icy fingers around the throats of each of them, they now knew that they would go to their mansion in heaven. They knew also they would come back some day with Jesus to this earth.
And what a comfort this is to each of us! You see, the same things are in store for each Christian.
No wonder Jesus said, "Let not your hearts be troubled!"
Here is another short faith builder to help you through death's dark valley.
Dr. Jay Snell: Author of several books concerning the healing, prosperity, family well being and salvation contained in the Abrahamic covenant for Christians. These books were presented many times on TBN.
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