You Can Help It
Foundation Statement: No matter what is happening in your life you NEVER HAVE to be troubled
– You can help it
I.
John 14:1-Don’t let your
heart be troubled
A. Can you help it if you’re
troubled or not?
1.
Jesus
is telling them that he is leaving and they are upset and troubled; Their lives
have radically changed since they have followed Him and they are receiving
revelation from Heaven and seeing miracles and their lives are amazing and
Jesus looks at them and says I’m leaving and you can’t go with me right now and
they are upset and troubled about it – He’s saying to them, “Don’t do that, stop doing that.”
a. Troubled-Agitated, inward commotion, no calmness of mind, disquiet,
restless, strike one’s spirit with fear, anxious, distressed
2.
Many
people’s response to that would be? “I can’t help it and you don’t know what
I’m going through and if you were going through what I was going through you’d
be troubled too,” and they are insinuating that it’s not their fault they
are troubled because they can’t help it
a. John 14:1-LET
NOT-Translations-CEB-Don’t be troubled --- CJB-Don’t let yourselves
be disturbed --- DLNT-Do not let your heart be troubled --- GNT-Don’t
be worried and upset --- JB-You must not let yourselves be distressed
--- MSG-Do not let this throw you. You trust in God don’t you? Trust me. --- NET-Don’t
let your hearts be distressed --- VOICE-Don’t get lost in despair --- WE-Do
not let anything trouble your heart --- AMP-Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed and do not
permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled
b. Are you at the mercy of your circumstances? Do your
circumstances determine whether or not you’re troubled or do you?
B. When Jesus told you to do
it he empowered you and authorized you to do it – You have the power
and authority to not let your heart be troubled under any circumstance,
in any situation EVER and therefore You NEVER
HAVE TO BE troubled
1.
Don’t
let your heart be troubled, NO EXCEPTIONS; He didn’t say try to do it or do
your best; I gave you the power and authority so don’t let it happen
2.
If
you’re are troubled today you allowed it to happen, you let it happen and you
didn’t have to
C. This whole thing starts
with believing that I NEVER HAVE TO BE TROUBLED ABOUT ANYTHING EVER and I can
help it; If you believe you can’t help it you’ll be stuck being troubled and
you won’t resist it when it comes but rather you’ll yield to it, let it in you
and live under the thumb of it; You have to believe that you can live your life
like this and not allow your heart to be troubled about anything, ever
1.
Many
believe that under certain circumstances you just couldn’t help but to be
troubled, but to believe that is to disagree with Jesus; You never have to be troubled about anything – You could have
helped it, but you choose not to
2.
Matthew
14:24- Peter could have heard Jesus say, “Come,” and said that’s impossible,
man can’t walk on water and if Peter refused to believe he could walk on the
water he never would have and yet all the while he’s sitting in the boat with
the authority and power to walk on the water
a. Jesus said, “Let not your
heart be troubled,” and you can hear that and say that’s impossible, there are
some situations where you’re just going to be troubled and you can’t help it; If
you believe that then you’ll sit in the boat and live and troubled life with
the authority and power to never be troubled about anything ever
b. Believers are walking around troubled when they’ve been given
power and authority by Jesus to not be troubled about anything ever and one of
the main reasons is because they don’t believe it’s possible to not be troubled
(and sometimes it’s just going to happen and you can’t help it)
II.
Jn14:1-Rather
than being troubled trust me; You replace the trouble with trust; You can be
troubled or you can trust, but you can’t be both
A. This is a choice that you
have to make – Faith is a choice (I will believe God, I will trust God, I
will not be troubled)
1.
Believe-Place confidence in, To
trust in Jesus or God as able to aid either in obtaining or doing something
B. One of the greatest demonstrations
that you are actually in faith is that you have a peace about you
1.
Why
would they be troubled? They don’t trust that God is going to take care of them
when He’s gone; If they trusted that God was going to take care of them no
matter then they wouldn’t have been troubled when he said he was leaving
– Jesus addresses them being trouble my directing their faith
2.
If you are troubled you
are not trusting, if you have no peace you’re not in faith; Any time you are
troubled about anything you are not trusting God; If you were trusting you
wouldn’t be troubled-Romans 15:13
3.
Isaiah
26:3-He has peace because he trust you, has confidence in you; Your peace is
connected to your faith; If my faith wanes my peace weakens
4.
Hebrews
4:3-When you truly are believing and in faith you enter into rest (Calming of the winds, make quiet,
to still)
5.
1
John 4:18-Fear has torment (Misery of mind, that which gives vexation or
misery, to vex, to harass, to put into great agitation)
6.
We
don’t measure your level of faith by what you say, but by answering this
question how troubled are you? You can force yourself to say the right thing
from your head and have no peace at all – If you’d stop pretending like
you’re faith and be honest with yourself and with the Lord the Lord will give
you the grace and help to make the corrections you need to make to have real
faith and real faith would work and help you overcome-Mk9:23
a. Faith is of the heart NOT
just of the mouth and if your heart is troubled and heavy you can put the right
thing in your mouth and try to portray faith, but it’ll be phony faith not the
real-Matthew 15:8