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Hi everyone. 
Welcome back to our podcast 

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where we really dig into the 
gospel texts and today we're 

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looking at John chapter 14, 
verses 1 to 6. 

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So we'll have a look at the text
and then we'll try and pull it 

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apart a little bit. 
Jesus said, to his disciples. 

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Do not let your hearts be 
troubled, trust in. 

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God, still and trusting me. 
There are many rooms in my 

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father's house. 
If there were not, I should have

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told you. 
I am now going to prepare a 

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place for you and after I have 
gone and prepared you a place, I

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shall return to take you with 
me. 

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So that where I am? 
You may be too. 

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You know, the way to the place 
where I am going. 

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Thomas said, Lord, we do not 
know where you are going, so how

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can we know the way? 
Jesus said, I am the way, the 

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truth and the life. 
No one can come to the father 

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except through me. 
So the context here is that it's

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in the Last Supper. 
So the Last Supper has already 

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begun, and Jesus has just 
finished washing their feet. 

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And that's in the first part of 
John Chapter 13. 

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That first part of the Last 
Supper is read on Tuesday of 

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Holy Week. 
See, you might like to go back 

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and look through the podcast, 
archives. 

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To find that Tuesday of Holy 
Week is the start of John 

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Chapter 13. 
So in that passage, Jesus gives 

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them the new commandment to love
one another as I have loved you,

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and And he foretells Peter's 
denial. 

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So he starts. 
What's called the farewell 

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discourse, which is a set of 
final instructions for his 

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Apostles before he departs. 
And now we continue with the 

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farewell discourse. 
He says, do not let your hearts 

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be troubled. 
So by this point, the Apostle's 

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have worked out that he's 
leaving because he's told them 

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that and the Greek word for here
for troubled is distressed. 

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So he doesn't want them to be 
anxious and sad that he's 

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leaving. 
He says trust in God still and 

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Trust in Me. 
Now other lik other translations

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have this word as believe in God
steel but I think the lectionary

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translation gets it right here, 
it puts the word trust and 

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really in the New Testament 
context to believe. 

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Was to trust. 
So Jesus, he says trust in God's

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tool and trust in me and the 
basic meaning is he's talking to

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the apostles, you have trusted 
in God up until now keep doing 

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that and trust in me as well. 
I am his perfect representative 

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and messenger, even though 
things may look Bleak, keep 

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trusting us, that's the idea. 
He wants them to stay strong in 

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their faith, in both the father 
and the son even though 

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difficult times are coming. 
Verse 2, there are many rooms in

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My Father's House. 
Sir presumably, Jesus is talking

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here about heaven, where God, 
dwells and he says it has room 

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for many people. 
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probably would have thought of 
the temple in Jerusalem because 

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the temple, which was considered
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Actually did have many rooms. 
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outside of the temple. 
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some were for worship, and some 
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quarters, people lived in the 
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So, that's probably this model 
of God's house that Jesus 

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starts. 
With if there were not, I should

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have told you. 
So Jesus wants them to trust him

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again. 
He wants them to know that they 

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will be with him in heaven, and 
he's basically saying I would 

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not deceive you about this. 
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would actually get to be with me
in heaven, then I would tell you

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that. 
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being honest, you will be with 
me, trust me, you will get to be

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with me in heaven. 
Now some Scholars think this 

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imagery of my father's house 
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literal place of heaven but 
maybe just the state, the 

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Believers can be in. 
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with the father that the 
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although I think as we see, I 
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elicit some visual imagery of an
actual place. 

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Now, Jesus is going to go on 
here to use this, do this famous

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short little Parable and he's 
going to Use wedding imagery 

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that will be quite familiar to 
the apostles. 

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And so, here's the background. 
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exegesis is really important in 
that culture. 

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First century Jewish culture, a 
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And a bride would be betrothed. 
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the marriage, which meant that 
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front of witnesses and they were
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that was only stage one. 
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groom would leave the bride for 
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To go and prepare a room for 
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And usually that would be an 
extension of the father's house.

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He would actually go and build 
another room in his father's 

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house for them to live in. 
So while that's happening, the 

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bride, would await the return of
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Although the bride doesn't know 
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it could be a short time. 
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One day, the groom would come 
back unexpectedly and he would 

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take the bride to be with him in
the new house, and it will be a 

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very joyful time with great 
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And you can see that appearing 
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for example, the parable of the 
ten virgins, who light their 

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lamps while they wait for the 
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So you can start to see some 
really clear parallels and it's 

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such a beautiful image as well 
as Jesus as the groom and he's 

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actually going away to prepare a
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father's house in heaven. 
Even so that we can live in it 

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and that's exactly what he says.
I'm going now to prepare a place

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for you. 
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probably what they would have 
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He is the groom that's going to 
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in heaven. 
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that the reason that Jesus must 
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Ascension or at least one of the
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is so that he can prepare heaven
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Isis wants to comfort the 
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him leaving temporarily is 
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thing because it means that they
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forever in their glorious home 
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So he wants to comfort them. 
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It's a good thing that he's 
going away. 

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Verse 3, after I have gone and 
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I shall return to take you with 
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So that where I am, you may be 
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So this is a prediction that 
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going to Back at the end of 
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So one day he's going to come 
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can be understood as all 
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the apostles and he's going when
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lead his bride to heaven to go 
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home. 
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actually. 
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You know, the way to the place 
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mind that Jesus hasn't actually 
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We can assume that he means 
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that Nevertheless he says to 
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place I'm going. 
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apostles think they don't know 
the way they don't know what 

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he's talking about, but Jesus 
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way if you think about it verse 
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Now this is the first Thomas 
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the gospels but here in John, he
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elements of die out here in his 
question and later after the 

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resurrection in the same that 
he's very famous. 

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He has a similar attitude of 
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resurrection. 
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become known as probably not a 
feel like feel label because he 

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he asks reasonable questions but
that's certainly what he's known

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for. 
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Lord we do not know where you 
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So how can we know the way? 
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because they don't know where 
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actually told them. 
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think where we don't know the 
way but if they reflected on the

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past three years and all that 
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probably realize that they do in
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what Jesus says. 
He says, I am the way, the truth

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and the life. 
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I am statement in the Gospel of 
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the gospel and they're all about
Jesus trying to communicate his 

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identity. 
Now here it's actually a summary

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of all the others that have come
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unpacking. 
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He's the way the truth and the 
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And obviously there's a lot you 
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when he says I am the way. 
Basic meaning of that is, he's 

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the way that people can access 
the father and access eternal 

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life and that's discussed, 
particularly in the parable of 

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the Good Shepherd. 
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He says, I am the truth and that
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one follows Jesus Commandments, 
they will know God's will, which

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is the truth. 
So, the truth is, what is God's 

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will, for people. 
That's discussed more earlier in

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the Gospel of John in. 
That famous phrase, you will 

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know the truth and the truth. 
Earth will set you free. 

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And then Jesus also says, I am 
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is Zoe which is kind of like 
eternal life, spiritual life. 

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So Jesus is the source of that 
spiritual life for all who 

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believe and that's unpacked, 
particularly in the bread of 

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life discourse in John, chapter 
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So he's the way the truth and 
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Why does Jesus say this in 
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Well, remember what Thomas is 
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We do not know where you were 
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way? 
So, Jesus basic answer to Thomas

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is if you know me, you already 
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to the father and to get to 
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That's the basic reason he says 
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The last thing he says here is 
no one can come to the father 

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except through me. 
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only way to get to the father's 
house which is essentially what 

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he means here by the father is 
to continue to believe in Jesus,

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identity and teachings. 
That's how you get to be where 

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the father is in the father's 
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This idea of no one can come to 
the father, except through me in

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the Teachings about enter 
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So it is unpacked a little more 
and particularly later in the 

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New Testament. 
In the book of Acts, it says, 

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there is only one name under 
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saved. 
And then Paul and Peter, both 

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unpack, this idea of Jesus being
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So basically Jesus in context is
telling Thomas, keep trusting me

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and you will make it to the 
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Now that last line though does 
have profound theological 

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significance. 
No one can come to the father 

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except through me. 
The only way to the father is 

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through the son. 
And that applies to lots of 

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different things, primarily to 
applies, to Salvation. 

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The only way we can be saved and
get to heaven is through 

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trusting, the Sun. 
And obviously, this teaching has

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been developed through church 
history and the basic teaching. 

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Now of the Catholic church is 
that this line does not mean 

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that non-christians definitely 
can't get to heaven. 

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That's not the teaching. 
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anyone who does get to heaven, 
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Jesus, even if they don't. 
Explicitly believe in him. 

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So it is true. 
That no one can get to heaven. 

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No one can get to the father 
except through the son even if 

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that operates in mysterious ways
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Now that's the end of the 
passage we have before us at the

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moment. 
But that farewell discourse 

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continues over the next couple 
of days in the lectionary. 

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So we'll pick it up there again 
tomorrow. 

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Let's take a brief. 
Look at some passages in the 

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catechism that make reference to
John chapter 14. 

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And the point of this is so that
we can get to know our Catholic 

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faith, a little better. 
It's always good to go to the 

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catechism. 
There's quite a few places here.

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There's some references to the 
Ascension. 

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There's some discussions of 
Heaven, there's some discussions

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about Jesus identity. 
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few of them, but I'll put all of
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to look at paragraph, 15 14, a 
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cannot be separated from 
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In the one he sent his beloved 
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pleased, God tells us to listen 
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The Lord himself said to his 
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believe. 
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7, 9 5. 
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line Who Art in Heaven in the 
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heaven. 
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house is our homeland sin, has 
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Covenant, but conversion of 
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the father to heaven in 
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Heaven and Earth are reconciled 
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Descended from heaven and causes
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his cross resurrection and 
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Paragraph 661 is discussion 
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It says, this this final stage 
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first that is to his descend 
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Only, the one who came from the 
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Christ. 
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heaven, but he who descended 
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to its own natural Powers 
Humanity, does not have access 

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to the father's house. 
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only Christ can open to man such
access that we his members might

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have confidence, that we too 
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our sauce has preceded us. 
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the Theology of why Jesus had to
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by what we see here in our 
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14 about, he goes to prepare a 
place for us. 

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And then the last paragraph will
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And this is a discussion about 
Jesus teaches us how to pray 

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when Jesus openly entrusts to 
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The mystery of prayer to the 
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their prayer and ours must be. 
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father, in his glorified 
Humanity, what is new is to ask 

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in his name, Faith in the son, 
introduces the disciples into 

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the knowledge of the father, 
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truth and the life. 
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passages that could be meditated
on a lot and there's a lot of 

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Rich meaning in there. 
But hopefully, today, this has 

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helped you understand, the 
literal sense of the text a 

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little more. 
Thanks again for tuning in.