John 14:1-4 Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have.

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John 14:1-4 Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.

God’s Promise in Troubled Times 1. He doesn’t promise your best life now

God’s Promise in Troubled Times Psalm 37:25 I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread.

God’s Promise in Troubled Times 2 Corinthians 11:23-27 Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death. Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned.

God’s Promise in Troubled Times 2 Corinthians 11:23-27 Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea; on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers; in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.

God’s Promise in Troubled Times 1.He doesn’t promise your best life now 2.He promises your best life…someday

God’s Promise in Troubled Times John 14:2-3: Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.

God’s Promise in Troubled Times Romans 8:18: For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us [in heaven].

God’s Promise in Troubled Times 1 Thessalonians 4:13: But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep [dead], that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.

The Temptation of Modern Life

You don’t have the wrong view of God or the Bible. But your expectations for what is normal or what you deserve have been set by our modern culture of convenience.

Our Obligation

1.Helping as many as possible to accept the gospel

Our Obligation 1.Helping as many as possible to accept the gospel 2.Helping to remove others’ earthly troubles

Our Obligation 1.Helping as many as possible to accept the gospel 2.Helping to remove others’ earthly troubles 3.If we cannot remove others’ earthly troubles, we help them to have a heart free of trouble