Christ Community Olathe
The Promise of Heaven - 9 & 10:45am & ON-DEMAND
John 14:1-7 ESV
Title: The Promise of Heaven
Scripture: John 14:1-7
Speaker: Ben Laur, BenL@ChristCommunityKC.org
>> The promise of heaven is a comfort on earth.
>> Three ways the promise of heaven comforts us now:
- We can endure any trouble.
- We can be welcomed home.
- We can know the way.
I am the way to God: I did not come
To light a path, to blaze a trail, that you
May simply follow in my tracks, pursue
My shadow like a prize that’s cheaply won.
My life reveals the life of God, the sum
Of all he is and does. So how can you,
The sons of night, look on me and construe
My way as just the road for you to run?
My path takes in Gethsemane, the Cross,
And stark rejection draped in agony.
My way to God embraces utmost loss:
Your way to God is not my way, but me.
Each other path is dismal swamp, or fraud.
I stand alone: I am the way to God.
- D. A. Carson, The Gospel according to John, The Pillar New Testament Commentary