Now, what we do with that passage is we use this as an opportunity to, to try to make the case that Jesus is saying that he is God. So how can we know the way? And Jesus answered, I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father, except through me. Thomas said to him, Lord, we don't know where you're going. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I'll come back and take you to be with me so that you may also be where I am. Come with me to Israel, we'll pull it apart. This is exactly the conversation that a young groom-to-be would have with a young lady of prospect, a young lady that they're looking at, maybe getting hitched. This is it, exactly, in my father's house are many rooms, but I go to prepare a place for you. My father's house has many rooms if that were not so, would I have told you that I'm going there to prepare a place for you? By the way, this is wedding language. So it says, don't let your hearts be troubled.
And this going to - we're going to pull a section of that out and look at it. Let’s read – Jesus is preparing, this is in the middle of this long discourse which Jesus is having with his guys at the last supper. John 14 is where we're going to begin this morning. And so we're going to do that today and we're going to pull this apart as we go. It's just good scholarship to try that, but before we can apply it to our life, we need to do our work to try to figure out what it meant for them, so that we can then understand what it means for us. One of my core convictions about understanding the Bible is, first and foremost, we need to do the work to try to understand what it meant for the original writer and the original readers. It's definitely the most misunderstood of the seven I Am's and so, I want to kind of put it back into their context. And so please forgive me if I'm a little bit scattered, it's been a long week.īut we're, I'm excited to be here and I'm excited to jump into this sermon today because it's one of the more misunderstood statements in the whole Bible.
I just did the ceremony. She got a discount on it and then we had dinner together and then last night I drove home cause I really wanted to be with you guys today. And yesterday, married my daughter. Technically she married another guy. Like, and so I asked him, why, why do you want to live here? It's pretty, but at what cost? And, and so, I flew back Thursday evening, and then Friday we left to go up to Fort Collins to a little Airbnb place. I was there Sunday through Thursday and then, um, and it was same temperature as was here only - it was like way humid. I went to Michigan and spoke at a family camp there for a Wesleyan denomination district family camp. I am so glad to be back with you, you know, last week Tom did a great job and, uh, he killed it. We’ve got several miles to go before the sunsets today. Good morning, morning, family, morning family online.
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