"Why cannot I follow Thee now?" We see the result.III. This is not a chance expression, far less a mere figure of speech. Its reality. Probably no single chapter is read so much to the dying, over the dead. The defectiveness of our belief apart from Him. The trust which Christ requires is entire committal to Him in all my relations and for all my needs.3. There must be a due search into the heart of the grounds of our trouble; for often Christians are troubled, they cannot tell wherefore; as children that will complain they know not why. Scholarly men analyze and compare the great historic religions, allowing little preeminence to Christianity. It was very kind of you to take me up, and I could not expect you to carry my pack as well." And so belief in God is not mere assent, nor mere conviction, but absolute personal trust, submission, and service.4. What security this! It is pleasant to me to think that we are wanted there. De Witt Talmage, D. D.)A good home to go toMr. Observe, too, how the particular truth received, no less than the accompanying doctrines objected to, runs up into matters which we can neither dispute as facts, nor yet, apart from God, settle. THE BEST CHRISTIANS ARE SUBJECT TO BE TROUBLED MORE THAN SHOULD BE. (c)Faith conquers them (1 John 5:4). The defectiveness of our belief apart from Him. The angel with the flaming sword no longer guards the tree of life, and the veil of the Temple no longer hinders man's approach to God.2. This had not seemed to trouble their heart at first; they regarded His language as metaphorical Probably they had the impression that first some great battle had to be fought, or some unknown trial to be gone through; that would last three days. Christ is the sun of this house. )The heavenly homeJ. )Sources of Christian comfortW. Therefore Christ, aiming at our spiritual profit rather than at our scientific enlightenment, leaves for future solution all problems that have only to do with place.2. H. Wilson.There is a boy whose father was buried yesterday. "Home, sweet home." He saw his mistake. There is power, the power which sent forth the disciples on their errands of love.3. (c)There are degrees of angelical glory (1 Thessalonians 4:16; Jude 1:9). An English nobleman once asked himself why there should be a future existence, and answered, "Because, on any other hypothesis, the world would be a piece of magnificent nonsense."1. Here is a man amongst a handful of friends, within four-and-twenty hours of a shameful death, that to all appearance was the annihilation of all His claims and hopes. It may be intellectually conceived, but no moral nor social truth is ever presented so as to be believed, unless it be presented in such a way as to carry sympathy and feeling with it; and that is not the case with all kinds of truth. Sibbes, D. D.Why do we not go home? Christ was going to prepare a place for them; first, by His Cross; next, by the Spirit, who would change their hearts and train their natures for the rank they would inherit, as well as for the work they had to do.5. But, although we thus stand upon the dignity of the Cross as a mystery, we do find, as a matter of experience, that no man dispenses with it without being a definite loser in some feature of the Christian character.1. THE TROUBLE IN THE HEART OF THE DISCIPLES. But "home!" As impossible as that the clod of the valley should generate a human soul, as that the blossoming branch of the tree should bring forth living intelligence; so impossible is it that personality in you and me should come from impersonal forces and mechanical laws. THE SPIRIT WILL TEACH THE DISCIPLES, and supply their want of understanding when left alone (vers. Men who inquire into the facts and laws of the world, and find no God in it, have made themselves homeless. In spiritual troubles. Its extent. "Nearing homeH. God is keeping a room for you in His house; do you see that you fill it.II. A house with "many mansions" in it, large, spacious, having many rooms, fitted up for the reception of many guests.II. The gentleman who took him expected to see him greatly astonished and charmed with its magnificence, but it seemed to excite little or no admiration in his mind. 15-17).V. She was standing near, and she said, "Papa, have you got a home in that land you are going to?" It has less power to inspire and impel. Beecher. And unless our own nature were pressed down into some kind of mechanical exactness and shape, weariness would ensue. Let the gaps remain. "He will send death to us," you may say, "to summon us to His kingdom." Roberts. How comes it that these two objects blend into one, like two figures in a stereoscope? For our wants and necessities: being —(1) Void of all troubles —(a) Spiritual: as of the sense of God's displeasure (Ezekiel 16:42); doubts about our estate; Satan's temptations (1 Peter 5:8); the delusions of this world; our own corruptions (Ephesians 5:27; Hebrews 4:10). The ample room in this great house. "God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself."3. He is God in our nature. Yet even here we find instruction from those who are nearest to Him in spirit and character. This takes us back into bewildering depths. There shall be no wavering of faith, no waning of hope, no chill of love. Out of the idea of vastness arises that of an endless VARIETY. Many times over Judas betrays his Lord, and hangs himself. Christ is the sun of this house. Christ does present also a positive view. (1) It is as when a palace has been raised with all its rooms and their furniture complete, but it is dark or dimly seen by lights carried from place to place. (3) By our enmity. Are they to dwell isolated in their several mansions? Now, someone might say, Look at the saints of the Old Testament. When we have these promises, let us labour to understand them thoroughly, and then to digest them in our affections, and so make them our own, and then to walk in the strength and comfort of them.5. The astonished prodigal had the best provisions, and the best robe, brought forth for him, when he got home.3. We are assured of the victory of righteousness in the world.(R. OF LOVE. )Belief in God based on the knowledge of His characterJohn K. Shaw.A banknote is tendered to me — it is a promise to pay, but by whom? (3) We dishonour Christ, and the love of God in Christ; for it is as if we had not in Him a sufficient remedy for that great malady. )My Father's house magnificentW. And only one is possible. They were right in this principle, that all comfort depends on the presence of Christ. "(Dean Vaughan. But the place to which we were going was my home; there was my family; there was my church; there were my friends, who were as dear to me as my own life. But "home!" He has extracted from the thought of God all that is calculated to give pain and introduced everything calculated to give comfort. Yet even here we find instruction from those who are nearest to Him in spirit and character. "I thank thee for thy question. It makes us one with the fountain of comfort, and by its repeated acts derives fresh comfort. EXTENT. Or the attributes most emphasized are those pertaining rather to the Divine essence. Many times over Judas betrays his Lord, and hangs himself. (1)By absence;(2)by death.3. EXTENT. Therefore, not comprehended, or included anywhere (Isaiah 66:1).3. Beecher. And I lay perfectly happy in the midst of sickness and nausea. God's own house. But if He had no hatred of sin, how much worse it would be for us. Note in these words —I. The Old Testament saints found in this a panacea for all their cares. It was, no doubt, with special reference to His sacrifice and its consequences that Christ spoke of His disciples, in the text, as having (in some sense) still to believe. But now, what is the comfort that the idea of a father's house, or home, conveys to the mind? It is possible to overmaster trouble, however hard the lot in life may be.2. THE HELP OF THE SPIRIT IS VOUCHSAFED in the absence of Christ (vers. The permanence of the dwelling shall ensure permanence in all that belongs to the dwellers in it. While man is asleep in the night, the sun goes before him, that he may prepare the day for him to wake in. Hence, observe that they who come to heaven —(1) Dwell with God, and so with the fountain of light (Psalm 104:2): life (Psalm 36:9), love, joy (Psalm 16:11). That He would come again, and receive them unto Himself. But now, what is the comfort that the idea of a father's house, or home, conveys to the mind? (1)As the great atoning Substitute. It is to be noticed that our intellects gravitate toward a common centre. The anchor of our hope seems to lose its hold, our sense of pardon and peace may be broken, and the face of God, if seen at all, may look dim and distant.2. "The third heavens"; Christ has "passed through all heavens"; "heaven, even the heaven of heavens," a place evidently of inconceivable grandeur, for even that cannot contain the infinite presence of God. It has less power to inspire and impel. B. Hodge, D. D.)Believe also in MeDean Vaughan.1. If I might so speak, it is the heart's look to Jesus — a single glance, indeed, at first, and yet a constant looking to Him ever after.(J. Their error was in tying all comfort to a bodily presence; as if it were necessary for the sun to come down and abide upon the earth, to bestow its heat and influence.I. You immediately catch the idea of home here. H. You say you are afraid of God. We shall no more be afraid of any real harm while we are affiliated with God in spirit.2. HIS PRESENCE WITH US in every hour and every place. What do we get a revelation for? And you will notice that preparation made for us testifies to the kindness and love of Him who prepares it.1. W. Of bereaved love. "Mother told me whom to go to before she died," answered the little orphan. But above all let us labour for a spirit of faith. Human history is also God's day of grace. THE HELP OF THE SPIRIT IS VOUCHSAFED in the absence of Christ (vers. We might be in the power of evil spirits stronger than we are, from whose hideous tyranny we should feel it a mercy to be delivered over to the righteous judgment of a pure and holy God. But He says, No; "I go there to prepare a place for you." Shall we dare, we the guilty and helpless ones, to say that, with nothing but poor human tears and cries and paltry efforts, the stain of sin can be wiped out? Either He was wrong, and then He was a crazy enthusiast, only acquitted of blasphemy because convicted of insanity; or else He was "God, manifest in the flesh."II. Jesus was speaking to the sad thoughts then stirring in the hearts of His mourners on account of the shortness of the time they had spent with Him, and which seemed, in the review, only like a dream. The earth and sun and stars are moving from their old forms into new, but their slow, stern cycles seem to us changeless when we think of ourselves. If Christ had not risen the words are exhaustible. What, therefore, we may ask, may we not expect in heaven? Heaven becomes richer to us as Christians die. There must be, indeed, the change of progress: it is the permanence not of death but of life; and so the changes of decay, of loss, of bereavement, of the unretiring past, these are gone with the last great change, which ends the perishing and opens the eternal. And, if we believe the Bible, there are long eras to run, when the flow shall be toward God more than it ever has been away from Him. But let not your heart be troubled. Undoubtedly there is much to perplex us in the prevalence of sin, and the long delay of punishment. Here, change at every step leaves some lost good behind it; there change shall take all its good things forward into fuller possession, and thus become a growing performance. He saw his mistake. D.I. But our trouble is of another kind, and apt to be inordinate (1 Samuel 1:13; Isaiah 38:14; Psalm 77:3; Jonah 2:2). Raleigh, D. D.From these words we learn —I. )Belief in God based on the knowledge of His characterJohn K. Shaw.A banknote is tendered to me — it is a promise to pay, but by whom? (b)Temporal: outward afflictions (Lamentations 1:4).2. But it is only truth to remember that men thus dispensing with Christ are yet unspeakably indebted to Him. Now, it is an obvious answer, and surely a just one. There is a permanence about heaven that we can well understand, if we cannot fully comprehend.1. If we believe not God, as seen, how can we believe in Him as not seen.III. Now whilst this shows the love of Christ to His people, the simple fact of His going to prepare a place for us you see involves too His knowledge of our love to Him. When we have these promises, let us labour to understand them thoroughly, and then to digest them in our affections, and so make them our own, and then to walk in the strength and comfort of them.5. (2) For our bodies (Philippians 3:21), robes (Revelation 6:11), crowns (James 1:12; 2 Timothy 4:8), thrones (Luke 22:30), banquets (Isaiah 25:6; Romans 14:17; Revelation 7:17), the most pleasing objects (1 Corinthians 13:12), the most celestial melodies (Revelation 4:8-11).3. It is not a world of shades, but a world of sons in strong immortal forms, instinct with energy, rich in faculty, busy with the tasks that occupy the angels; a world glad with work and bright with song.(J. A prior acknowledgment of the Divine. It has been yielding immense numbers to heaven in every age. (2) That many shall be saved (Revelation 7:9; James 2:5); but not irrespectively (1 Corinthians 1:26-28).2. Are there not many in Christian Churches needing still the voice which shall say, Believer, believe; Christian, come to Christ; disciple of three or of thirty years, still, as for the first time, behold Him!2. Yes, we say, something within tells me that I had a Father once — but long, long have I lost Him. Stephen saw its open door and its glory when his breath was being beaten out of his body.II. But Christ says death is not a closing so much as an opening — not a going away so much as a coming home. Heaven is a home. )Belief in God inextinguishableH. Such unbelief has increased greatly of late. For as all heavenly light, and heat, and influence come from the sun, so all heavenly comforts must come to us from Christ's presence. We see the indications of it in His works, where intelligent contrivances present themselves to us in the adjustment of force to force, in the relations of one object to another; and in Christ, who said, "I and My Father are one." I could not trust it. (2) With thy lusts? John 14 Mary Anoints Jesus at Bethany 12 Six days before i the Passover , j Jesus therefore came to Bethany , k where Lazarus was , whom Jesus had raised from the dead . But you say, We do not see Him I Do we see the air, magnetism, the productive force in nature, music, fragrance, the voice of a friend? We propose, then, to examine —I. Carter. Who knows so well as He the kind of heaven that will meet our needs? If we trust we may be quiet. Faith in God. Emphasis resting on the idea of permanence. But trust in Jesus Christ brings infinitude on my side. An English nobleman once asked himself why there should be a future existence, and answered, "Because, on any other hypothesis, the world would be a piece of magnificent nonsense."1. CHRIST HERE POINTS TO HIMSELF AS THE OBJECT OF PRECISELY THE SAME RELIGIOUS TRUST WHICH IS TO BE GIVEN TO GOD.1. Arithmetic deals with truths that have no relation directly except with the understanding. But is present everywhere (Psalm 139:7).4. asked Peter; and the saying, "I go to prepare a place for you," is an answer to this "Why?" But He says, No; "I go there to prepare a place for you." So belief may be real in the mind and yet be entirely insufficient for any useful and inspiring purpose. In times like the present, of doubt and unrest, it is a great piece of Christian wisdom to recognize the limitations of our knowledge and the sufficiency of the fragments that we have. How to deal with it, and not how to ignore it, becomes the great problem. THE OBJECT OF FAITH IS CHRIST — i.e., the things to which we are to assent are truths concerning Christ, and these things in which we are to trust are His promises. The very idea of God as our Father comes from His revelation.III. Sibbes, D. D.)Christ comforting the disciplesW. The word of the Saviour promises a reversal of this long, sad history. And more are yet to come.II. Through Him we are able to draw near to God with hope of acceptance. The trouble —1. Many times over Judas betrays his Lord, and hangs himself. He atones for our sins. Our Lord argues from the Father to Himself, and particularly recommends them to have such faith in Him as they have in God.3. (1)We cannot ignore it. (a)Our understandings. By the miracle of His grace He first changes all His captives into children, then welcomes them all home. Here was a personal bereavement. Relief comes by belief. Both of these are difficult duties. Why, then, teach men to believe in God, and command it? He had got no home beyond the grave.Heaven -- homeT. Well, that is what you are to think about; that is what it will be. FAITH IN CHRIST AND FAITH IN GOD ARE NOT TWO, BUT ONE. Yes, God is amazing in every attribute. There is a permanence about heaven that we can well understand, if we cannot fully comprehend.1. (d)Their capacities, i.e., everyone shall enjoy as much as he is capable of (Psalm 16:11). A house, not a tent, put up today, and taken down to morrow; but the home we come to at the end of all our travels; fitted up for rest, security and enjoyment.2. (a)Our understandings. It will not be long before you, and I, and every one of us will hear the messenger sent to bring us back to heaven. 15-17).V. NOT EXHAUSTIBLE. Having taught that God is our Father, must He remain in sight to confuse or divide our allegiance? The wheels of the soul are thereby taken off (Nehemiah 8:10). )The heavenly homeJ. B. (1) It banishes troubles, and brings in comfort, because it is an emptying grace. (1) There is something awful, even to the best souls, in the thought even of the glories beyond. He is the Loges or Revealer. Are there not many in Christian Churches needing still the voice which shall say, Believer, believe; Christian, come to Christ; disciple of three or of thirty years, still, as for the first time, behold Him!2. When we think of our own weakness and sinfulness here, and then think of the glory of God, the glory of Christ, the glory of angels, and the glory of the spirits of just men made perfect, it requires no slight effort of mind to fancy that we shall be at home there: but we shall.2. He could not properly be worshipped except He were holy. He had got no home beyond the grave.Heaven -- homeT. S. Storrs, D. D.1. B. It empties us of ourselves, and so makes us cleave to another, and thereby becomes a grace of union. From then till now the kingdom has steadily advanced. Every apparent discord leads up to the final harmony.3. There is a reflection of that tenderness in our own hearts. How comes it that these two objects blend into one, like two figures in a stereoscope? We have been told that this is a doctrine of Materialism, and that heaven is in character rather than in condition. It is impossible to stand idly by while Christ gives and suffers all.II. Now the first thing that strikes us here is a wonder certainly — but it is the truth — that we shall feel perfectly at home in our Father's house. "Many mansions," many methods of enjoyment, various fields of occupation, unexhausted resources of interest and pleasure. If we believe not God, as seen, how can we believe in Him as not seen.III. Christ was going to prepare a place for them; first, by His Cross; next, by the Spirit, who would change their hearts and train their natures for the rank they would inherit, as well as for the work they had to do.5. We can talk with the folks at home with a confidence that we cannot use towards strangers. This applies to —1. It will not be long before you, and I, and every one of us will hear the messenger sent to bring us back to heaven. He speaks of heaven as none other: like One who had been familiar with it.2. Now, it is an obvious answer, and surely a just one. They are commanded to cast their cares upon the Lord; but, even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk burdened. Hodge, D. D.)Believe also in MeDean Vaughan.1. He knew that the most exact precision of statement and the most dazzling magic of description would leave the greatest as well as the least of mortals as much in the dark as ever. He speaks of heaven as none other: like One who had been familiar with it.2. UNITY. (d)There are degrees of grace and good works here (Romans 2:6; 2 Corinthians 5:10; Luke 19:16-18).3. He left His Father's house for us; He now returns to it for us. (4) Christ hath forbidden it, "Let not," etc.II. He asks philosophy, and she answers, "I see something like it, but I cannot surely tell. How comes it that these two objects blend into one, like two figures in a stereoscope? Thus he prepares light for him to see by, power for him to work with, and the spirit of gladness. God's holiness shines upon us through His law in our own reason and conscience and in the person of Christ. You cannot eliminate the fact that Christ claimed as His own the emotions of the heart, to which only God has a right and which only God can satisfy.4. Observe, too, how the particular truth received, no less than the accompanying doctrines objected to, runs up into matters which we can neither dispute as facts, nor yet, apart from God, settle. These facts disturb our impression of the Divine holiness. There would be a sighing for the lost seasons of the earth, its withered flowers, its light and shade, its many countries, and its encircling seas. Now, it is a very common thing in our days for men to eulogize faith. Yet the moment we came into still water I rose from my berth and got up on deck. She has, he says, good examples around her in the birds and in the beasts. And when we are there, He will not say — "There is the door of My Father's house open for you; you may now enter in;" He will not leave angels to welcome us, or our holy ministers and friends, who have gone before, to receive us; He Himself will come like a parent to his door to receive there his long expected and beloved child. Peter denied his Master with an oath. Conclusion: We read of a Roman army, when eagerly engaged in battle with their country's enemies, being unconscious of an earthquake which made the ground beneath their feet to tremble; and so will a high faith in God and Christ, and a holy hope of immortality and heaven, cause the true Christian to be insensible to the tossings to and fro of the life that now is.(W. Either He was wrong, and then He was a crazy enthusiast, only acquitted of blasphemy because convicted of insanity; or else He was "God, manifest in the flesh."II. A man cannot really see Himself a sinner, and not cry out for a Saviour.2. You step upon the beach and find the little puddles of water, but there is not enough to float the boat and keep alive the fish. (c)There are degrees of angelical glory (1 Thessalonians 4:16; Jude 1:9). Inferentially a proof of Christ's Divinity. )Sources of Christian comfortW. In the present world the children of God are far apart, separated by the emergencies of life, by death, by misunderstandings and prejudices, by chills of heart and jealousies; and they rear their many little mansions, forgetful of the one house. Death, as a natural event, always seems so. The population of this world is something tremendous. But then, with this holiness is united tenderness; and it is that which it seems harder still to recognize, for we associate with absolute justice absolute sovereignty rather than absolute tenderness: and yet there is in His Word the declaration of His tenderness. They were in a grievous plight. "I go to the Lord Jesus: He was mother's friend, and He's mine." 18-24).VI. "Believe also in Me." If these happy dreams of ours are all to melt into misery, why were we not informed of this before? That He would come again, and receive them unto Himself. And I lay perfectly happy in the midst of sickness and nausea. "That they all may be one, as Thou, Father, art in Me," etc. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? I could see nothing. Hengstenberg. thought the gentleman, who knew that his father's home was but a poor mud cottage. What he promised is just as sure as if I had it in my hand." The permanence of the dwelling shall ensure permanence in all that belongs to the dwellers in it. Many times over Judas betrays his Lord, and hangs himself. )Heaven the Christian's homeJ. "He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father." The population of this world is something tremendous. So just before, Peter asks, "Whither goest thou?"2. How full of joy she is all at once! Andersen, LL. This was Paul's idea of heaven — having a desire to depart and to be with Christ.(W. I know that bank has a name for solvency and stability. My Father's house! So belief may be real in the mind and yet be entirely insufficient for any useful and inspiring purpose. "No man hath seen God at any time," etc. Heaven was his home.(D. "Jesus Christ is in the sky. Conclusion: If thus we believe in God, then —1. Lean your whole weight of guilt, of sin, of weakness, of sorrow, upon Jesus Christ and Him crucified. By supplying its blessings. But let not your heart be troubled. But, although we thus stand upon the dignity of the Cross as a mystery, we do find, as a matter of experience, that no man dispenses with it without being a definite loser in some feature of the Christian character.1. That the heavenly place is His home and theirs. "It is," I replied. It is steam power, but not enough to drive the train. THE "FATHER'S HOUSE," AND ITS AMPLE ROOM. "(3) If we think of its extent and variety, our imagination might be bewildered, and our soul chilled by boundless fields of knowledge, which stir the intellect and famish the heart; but where He is, knowledge becomes the wisdom of love — the daylight softened; and a heart beats in the universe which throbs to its remotest and minutest fibre; for "in Him is life, and the life is the light of men. How cloth faith in Christ ease the soul in trouble? And yet our Lord counsels calmness. John 14:1-4. D. Hitchcock, D. D.What the Caliph Omar is reported to have written to Amru, his general commanding in Egypt, has a grand moral. Human history is God's judgment day. She has, he says, good examples around her in the birds and in the beasts. Furnished with all delightsome furniture. There must be, indeed, the change of progress: it is the permanence not of death but of life; and so the changes of decay, of loss, of bereavement, of the unretiring past, these are gone with the last great change, which ends the perishing and opens the eternal. But if we take it just as it is projected to our view in the Scriptures — in its relations to earthly labour, and suffering, and desire; and as the place where our higher toils and nobler enjoyments shall begin: — then the desire of heaven is the noblest and purest passion we cherish. The very best things it can afford will be ours. It empties us of ourselves, and so makes us cleave to another, and thereby becomes a grace of union. "(4) If we think of heaven in its unity of fellowship, it is in Him that it is maintained and felt. To be able in some overpowering grief to throw the weight of one's care upon another and to trust wholly in that other's help is an eminently satisfying process; while the trustless soul is without the least gleam of comfort. A man cannot be said to believe a moral truth unless he believes it so that it carries some emotion with it. This is the purpose of God. There was natural trouble at the departure of such a friend. It is Himself that He is showing us when He is showing us God. When prodigal children go away from the father's house sometimes a heartbroken parent will keep the boy's room just as it used to be when he was young and pure, and will hope and weary through long days for him to come back and occupy it again. Today, as related to heathen peoples and religions, the Judas Iscariot of Christianity is Christendom itself. 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