Title: The King’s Father
Scripture: John 14:1-14
Speaker: Paul Brandes, PaulB@cckc.church

> Everything is going to be okay.
-I know where we’re going.

“Those in union with Christ Jesus are promised that the haunted brokenness that infects everything — every relationship, every conversation, every family, every email, every wakening to consciousness in the morning, every job, every vacation — everything — will one day be rewound and reversed. The more darkness and pain we experience in this life, the more resplendence and relief in the next. As a character says in C.S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce, reflecting biblical teaching, ‘That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal suffering, ‘No future bliss can make up for it,’ not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.’ … For those not in Christ, this life is the best it will ever get. For those in Christ … this life is the worst it will ever get.” —Dane Ortlund

> Everything is going to be okay.
-I know where we’re going.
- I am everything that you need.

> I am everything you need.

“You, follow me! I am the way and the truth and the life. Without the way there is no going; without the truth there is no knowing; without the life there is no living. I am the way which you must follow; the truth which you must believe; the life for which you must hope. I am the inviolable way; the infallible truth, the never-ending life. I am the straightest way; the sovereign truth; life true, life blessed, life uncreated.” - Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

> Everything is going to be okay because:
-I am everything you need.
-keep trusting and praying.

“The name is Christ Jesus. Christ signifies King, Jesus signifies Savior. Therefore whatever we ask for that would hinder our salvation, we do not ask in our Savior’s name, and yet he is our Savior not only when he does what we ask but also when he does not. When he sees us ask anything to the disadvantage of our salvation, he shows himself our Savior by not doing it. The physician knows whether what the sick person asks for is to the advantage or disadvantage of his health. And the physician does not allow what would be harmful to him, though the sick person himself desires it. But the physician looks to his final cure.” - Augustine