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Harry A. Ironside<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father\u2019s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 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. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:1-6)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In these verses, two outstanding truths are emphasized: first, that of the Father\u2019s house, and second, our Lord\u2019s personal return for His own. The Lord Jesus had been giving His last messages to His disciples. He had intimated that soon they would forsake Him and flee. He had told them He was going away, and for the present, they could not come where He was to go. And in verse thirty-six of chapter thirteen we read:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

He was going, you see, to the Father\u2019s house. He was going home to God by way of the Cross and resurrection, and Peter could not follow immediately. But the Lord says, \u201cThou shalt follow Me afterwards.\u201d Peter did not understand that, and he said to Him, \u201cLord, why cannot I follow Thee now? I will lay down my life for Thy sake\u201d (John 13:37).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for My sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow till thou hast denied Me thrice\u201d (John 13:38).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

And then He immediately adds, \u201cLet not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in Me.\u201d You see, the Lord Jesus is addressing these words, of course, to all His disciples, but directly to the disciple who was to deny Him in so short a time. And this is surely very comforting for our hearts. Peter was to fail the Lord\u2014Jesus knew he would fail\u2014but deep in Peter\u2019s heart, there was a fervent love for the Lord Jesus. And when he said, \u201cI will lay down my life for Thy sake,\u201d he meant every word of it. But he did not realize how untrustworthy his own heart was. It was a case of the spirit being willing, but the flesh weak. And Jesus knew something of the fearful discouragement that would roll over the soul of Peter when he awoke to the realization of the fact that he had been so utterly faithless in the hour of his Master\u2019s need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the very time that Jesus needed someone to stand up for Him and to say boldly, \u201cYes, I am one of His, and I can bear witness to the purity of His life and to the goodness of His ways\u201d\u2014at that time, Peter, frightened by the soldiers gathered about, denied any knowledge of his Savior. And, oh, the days and nights that would follow, as he would feel that surely he must be utterly cast off, surely the Lord could never put any trust in him again! But if he remembered these words, what a comfort they must have brought to his poor aching heart! For Jesus is practically saying, \u201cI know all about it, Peter. I know how you are going to fail, but I want you to know this; in My Father\u2019s house are many mansions, and you are going to share one of those mansions with Me some day. I am not going to permit you, Peter, to be utterly overcome. I am not going to permit you to go into complete apostasy. You will fall, but you will be lifted up again, and you will share with Me a place in the many mansions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When He says, \u201cLet not your heart be troubled,\u201d He does not mean, \u201cDo not be exercised about your failure,\u201d for He Himself sought to exercise the heart of Peter, and in a wonderful way restored him by the Sea of Galilee later on. But He means this, \u201cDo not be cast down. Do not allow the enemy of your soul to make you feel there is no further hope, there is no opportunity for you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wonder if I am speaking to someone who has failed, perhaps, as Peter failed. Under the stress of circumstances you, too, have denied your Lord, denied Him in acts if not in words, and the adversary of your soul is saying to you now, \u201cIt is all up with you; your case is hopeless. You knew Christ once, but you have failed so miserably, He would never own you again.\u201d Oh, let me assure you His interest in you is just as deep as it ever was. If you have truly trusted Him as your Savior, the fact that you failed so grievously, and the fact that you mourn over it, only emphasizes the truth that you belong to Him. Still He says, \u201c[Return], O backsliding children, [unto Me]; for I am married unto you\u201d (Jeremiah 3:14)\u2014not, \u201cI am divorced from you.\u201d And therefore He waits for you to come back and confess your failure and your sin, and He has promised complete restoration, for, \u201cIf we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness\u201d (1 John 1:9). And some day for you, too, there will be a place in the Father\u2019s house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLet not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in Me.\u201d You see, in the days gone by before Jesus came to them at all, the people of Israel did have faith in the one true and living God. Now they had never seen Him, and Jesus is saying to His disciples, \u201cYou have believed in God when you couldn\u2019t see Him, now I am going away in a little while and you won\u2019t be able to see Me, but I want you to trust Me just the same as when I was here. Just as you have believed in the unseen God through the years, I want you to put your faith in Me, the unseen Christ, after I have gone back to the Father.\u201d Do we have that implicit trust and confidence in Him, realizing that He is deeply interested in every detail of our own lives? The Word says, \u201cCasting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you\u201d (1 Peter 5:7). There is absolutely nothing that concerns His people about which He Himself is not concerned. And therefore, He would have us put away all the stress and all the anxiety. He says, \u201cBe careful [anxious] for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God\u201d (Philippians 4:6). \u201cYe believe in God, believe also in Me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then He adds, \u201cIn My Father\u2019s house are many mansions.\u201d \u201cMy Father\u2019s house,\u201d and by that of course He means Heaven, and He is speaking of a place, a place to which He was going, and a place into which some day He will take all His own. I often hear people say, \u201cHeaven is a condition rather than a place.\u201d Heaven is both a place and a condition. It is true we do not read a great deal about Heaven in the Bible. Somebody has said, \u201cHeaven is the land of no more.\u201d We have more in the Bible about what will not be in Heaven than about what will be there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember in the book of Revelation, we read that there will be no more sin, there will be no more tears, there will be no more pain, there will be no more sorrow, there will be no more curse, there will be no more darkness, there will be no more distress of any kind in the Father\u2019s house. The Father\u2019s house is the place where Christ is, and that is the place to which the redeemed are going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf it were not so, I would have told you.\u201d What does He mean by that? The Jews had had a belief in a heaven of bliss after death, and Jesus said, \u201cIf you had been wrong in that, I would have corrected you.\u201d But because He didn\u2019t correct it but rather affirmed it, we know that it is true, that there is a glorious home beyond the skies for the redeemed which we shall share with Him by-and-by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He adds, \u201cI go to prepare a place for you.\u201d What does He mean by that? You see the mansions are different from what they were before He went back there. Before He went back to the Father\u2019s house, the sin question had never been settled. Before He went back to the Father\u2019s house, the veil had not been rent, the blood had not been sprinkled on the mercy-seat. So the saints of old went to Paradise on credit. They did not have the same blessed access into the immediate presence of God that the saints have now. We read in the Epistle to the Hebrews that we have now come to the spirits of just men made perfect. They were the spirits of just men of all the centuries before the Cross; God had redeemed them and taken them to Paradise, but they were not yet made perfect. They could not be until the precious blood of Jesus was shed on the Cross. Now having settled the sin question, He entered into the holiest with His own blood in antitypical fashion, sprinkled His own blood on the mercy-seat above, and now a place is prepared in the holiest for all of His own, and the spirits of just men of the past have been perfected, and we who believe now are perfected forever. So we are all suited to that place to which we are going. \u201cI go to prepare a place for you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then He said, \u201cAnd 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.\u201d Now I know that a great many people think of this as a word in regard to death, and of course, when a believer dies, that believer goes to be with Christ. But we are never told in Scripture that in the hour of death Christ comes for His people. If we may draw an analogy from something our Lord said when He was here on earth, we gather that that is hardly true. We are told that a dear child of God was dying\u2014he was a beggar, it is true. He was an outcast, lying at the rich man\u2019s gate, but he was a real son of Abraham. He had faith in the God of all grace. And the beggar died, we are told, and was carried by the angels into Abraham\u2019s bosom. Angels carried the poor beggar\u2014poor no longer\u2014into Paradise. What I rather gather from that, is that the last ministry of angels, who are ever keeping watch over the people of God, will be to usher them into the presence of God. He is yonder in the Father\u2019s house, and His angels usher His saints into His presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But He is speaking of something different here. Death is the believer going to be with Christ. That is what the Scripture tells us\u2014\u201dAbsent from the body . . . present with the Lord\u201d (2 Corinthians 5:8); \u201cTo depart, and be with Christ; which is far better\u201d (Philippians 1:23). But a believer going home to be with Christ is spoken of as being unclothed, having laid his body aside. He is there in the presence of the Lord a glorified spirit, but he is there waiting for his redeemed body. When the Lord Jesus fulfills that which is spoken here in the fourteenth chapter of John, then believers will receive their glorified bodies and will be altogether like Him. This coming, referred to here, is developed for us more fully in the fourth chapter of the First Epistle to the Thessalonians. There we read in verse thirteen: \u201cI would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep\u201d\u2014that is, saints whose bodies are sleeping in the graves but whose spirits are with Christ\u2014\u201cBut I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord\u201d (1 Thessalonians 4:13-17). This is the coming our Savior refers to when He says: \u201cIf I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto Myself\u201d (John 14:3). It is at that coming that the expectation of our completed redemption will be fulfilled. In Romans eight, the apostle Paul tells us in verse nineteen:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.\u201d Verses twenty-two and twenty-three: \u201cFor we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption\u2014\u201dWhat does he mean by that?\u2014\u201dto wit, the redemption of our body.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our spirits have already been redeemed, we have already received the salvation of our souls, but we are waiting for the complete salvation of the body, the redemption of the body at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. \u201cFor we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope\u201d (Romans 8:24). What hope is it then? The hope of the coming of our Lord. And to this He refers again in the third chapter of the Epistle to the Philippians, where we read in verse twenty: \u201cFor our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the way there. Will everybody get to the Father\u2019s house? I wish that they would. Richard Baxter used to pray, \u201cOh, God, for a full Heaven and an empty hell!\u201d But alas, alas, many persist in rebellion against God and so that prayer can never be answered! There is only one way to the Father\u2019s house. And what is that way? I have had people say to me so many times, \u201cWe are traveling different roads, but we will all get to Heaven at last.\u201d No, no; I don\u2019t find that in my Bible. My Bible says, \u201cThere is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death\u201d (Prov. 16:25), and it warns me against taking the broad way that leads to destruction and tells me to take the narrow way that leads to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so here Jesus says, \u201cAnd whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto Him\u2014\u201d Thomas was honest and he was never afraid just to blurt out all the truth. He said, \u201cWe don\u2019t know what You are talking about. We have to confess we are ignorant, and we don\u2019t know where You are going, and how can we know the way?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus said unto him\u2014and, oh, dear friends, you get what He said, for it is for you as well as for Thomas\u2014\u201dJesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me\u201d (John 14:6).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, don\u2019t talk about many ways. There is only one\u2014Jesus is the only way. There is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved, but the name of Jesus. Have you come to Him? Are you trusting Him? If you are, you are on the way to the Father\u2019s house, and now you can wait with equally glad expectation for the hour of His return, for He said, \u201cIf I go, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself.\u201d When will He come? We can\u2019t tell that, but we are waiting for Him day by day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know not when the Lord will come
Or at what hour He may appear,
Whether at midnight or at morn,
Or at what season of the year.
I only know that He is near,
And that His voice I soon shall hear.
I only know that He is near<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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