In My Father's House are many Mansions
alisicia
telling us the true teachings of our Lord and Savior. We're going to
start in:
John 14:1 1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe
also in me.
Jesus is telling us not to worry about anything, because if we really
believe in our Father, and really believe in him, then we will listen
to what he's telling us.
John 14: 2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so,
I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
If you were to ask the average Christian today, what did Jesus mean in
verse (2) most of them will tell you, that when they die and go to
heaven, there's going to be a mansion waiting for them, because they
have gone above and beyond, pleasing God, while they were on this
earth. This is highly believed among the false teachings of the
Rapture Theory.
I can remember my granny's eyes swelling up with tears of joy; when
she would talk about how, she couldn't wait to go home to her mansion
in the sky! I often wondered, why do we have to wait until we die to
get a big ole house in the sky!
Whew! See what false teachings can do to you? Ok, let's get started
in our understanding of our Father's Word.
(When Jesus tells you something, there's always a deeper meaning
underneath what was actually being said. So, let's find out the real
truth about this word Mansions).
Let's check this word out in the original language, that it was
written in (Greek).
Greek Text King James Bible With Strongs Dictionary
http://www.htmlbible.com/sacrednamebiblecom/kjvstrongs/index2.htm
3438 monh, mone, mon-ay' from menw - meno 3306; a staying, i.e.
residence (the act or the place):--abode, mansion.
3306 menw, meno, men'-o a primary verb; to stay (in a given place,
state, relation or expectancy):--abide, continue, dwell, endure, be
present, remain, stand, tarry (for), X thine own.
(It means a place to rest and abide where there is no trouble).
Jesus is saying, if you are in my Father's House, and if you stay in
your Father's Word, if you dwell with us, if you listen to us, if
you hear us, if you depend on us, if you study our words, (not the
traditions of man), if you remain loyal to us, if you continue to seek
us, if you are in him, if you are in me, and we are in you, then you
are among the others who are resting in our Father's House.
HE IS your mansion! I AM your mansion!
He IS your resting place! I AM your resting place!
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and
receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
He's not saying, I'm going to go pick you out a mansion. Jesus is
saying, I'm going to go to the cross, take every sin that you have, on
my shoulders, and they are going to be nailed to the cross along with
me, so that when you mess up you can come to The Father, and ask for
forgivness, in my name, and it will be forgiven. Don't Worry! I'm
preparing a resting place for you!
Because, when I come back I want to be able to bring you to where I
am. I don't want you on the wrong side of the gulf!
(John sent from God, continues to bear witness of Jesus' teachings).
John 12:46
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me
should not abide in darkness.
(Satan, the prince of this world, would love for you to abide in
darkness with him).
John 15:4
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself,
except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
John 15:5
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in
him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do
nothing.
John 15:6
If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is
withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they
are burned.
(Be the Wheat not the Chaff!)
John 15:7
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye
will, and it shall be done unto you.
(Jesus reassures us over and over again, don't worry! I got your
back!)
John 14:18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and
I in you.
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will
send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things
to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world
giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let
it be afraid.
When the anti-christ comes and sit in Jerusalem, claiming to be the
Real Jesus, deceiving the whole world with his lies, saying Iv'e come
to rapture you out of here, don't worry!
You are already in your Father's House! You are already in your
Mansion!
Enjoy your studies! alisicia