Oakwood Church

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.”
John 14:1

What is troubling your heart right now?

Change, loss, uncertainty, waiting, failure, betrayal, opposition…

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.”
John 14:1

Trust in God grows from the Knowledge of God

• God is Gracious - so trust Him to prepare you for Eternity

“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?” John 14:2

• God is Gracious - so trust Him to prepare you for Eternity

○ Jesus is the Way

“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?”
John 14:2

Trust in God grows from the Knowledge of God

• God is Faithful - so trust Him to come back 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.”
John 14:3

“It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Acts 1:7-8

• God is Faithful - so trust Him to come back for You

○ Jesus is the Truth

“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.”
John 14:3

• God is Faithful - so trust Him to come back for You

○ Jesus is the Truth

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?”
Romans 8:35

Trust in God grows from the Knowledge of God

• God is Generous - so trust Him to Provide for you

“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John 14:6

“He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.”
～C.S. Lewis

• God is Generous - so trust Him to Provide for you

○ Jesus is the Life

“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John 14:6

• God is most fully revealed in Jesus

“If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
John 14:7

• God is most fully revealed in Jesus

“Whoever has seen me has seen the Father… Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?”
John 14:9-10

“God, I know surely that You do not exist. But if perchance You exist, which I contest, it is not my duty to believe in You; it is Your duty to reveal Yourself to me.”
～ Richard Wurmbrand

“Did I believe in God? Now the test had come. I was alone. There was no salary to earn, no golden opinions to consider. God offered me only suffering—would I continue to love Him?”
～ Richard Wurmbrand, In God’s Underground

“It was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners. It was understood that whoever was caught doing this received a severe beating. A number of us decided to pay the price for the privilege of preaching, so we accepted their [the communists' ] terms. It was a deal; we preached and they beat us. We were happy preaching. They were happy beating us, so everyone was happy.”
～ Richard Wurmbrand, Tortured for Christ

“We can feel unworthy that the King of kings attends to such seemingly insignificant details in our lives. Read Matthew 6:25-34. As you think about your last week, thank Jesus for all the needs that He has met.”
～ Richard Wurmbrand, The Midnight Bride

“There’s always a good reason to rejoice. There is a God in Heaven and in the heart. I had a piece of bread this morning. It was so good! Look now, the sun is shining! And so many here love me! Every day you do not rejoice is a day lost, my son!”
～ Richard Wurmbrand, In God’s Underground

“My brothers and sisters, you also must believe that your lives are clay in the hands of a wonderful Sculptor. He never makes mistakes. If at times He is hard on you, it is because He sometimes has what we could call negative successes. He loses a pawn in order to win the chess game. He loses a battle in order to win a war. He causes his Son to endure suffering in order to save a world. Just trust. Don’t live on another’s messages, but discover the message for which He is molding you.”
～ Richard Wurmbrand, If Prison Walls Could Speak