Women of Grace Fall Semester ‘03

With the Master in the Upper Room

Homework for Lesson Six: John 14:1-6

Five Cures for a 
Troubled Heart

Your Homework is Not Only to Sharpen Your Understanding of the Bible but a Ministry to Others in Your Small Groups! Be Faithful to Give Careful Thought to Each Answer with the Expectation of Sharing with Others What You have Discovered.

 

 

Memory Work-John 14:1

1) Read John chapter 14:1-6. (a) Why would the disciples’ hearts be troubled?

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b) How does the Lord comfort them?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2) (a) How do John 14:1-6 and I Peter 1:6-9 relate?

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b) What comfort do these verses give you during troubled times?

 

 

 

 

3) (a) What is the cure for a troubled heart according to the following verses?

Ps. 42:5-11

 

 

 

Ps. 43:5

 

 

 

Ps.77:2-14

 

 

 

II Cor 12:9,10

 

 

 

(b) Who or what does the world turn to in time of trouble?

 

 

 

 

 

(c) What or who do you turn to when your heart is troubled?

 

 

 

 

4) Jesus says in John 14:2 that He has gone to prepare a place for us. (a) How does John describe that "place" according to Revelation 21 and 22?

 

 

 

 

 

(b) Who will be there, and who will not be there?

 

 

 

 

(c) What is the best thing about heaven to you?

 

 

 

 

5) Jesus says in John 14:6 that He is the way, the truth and the life. (a) What do those three names mean?

 

 

 

 

 

(b) Look up the following verses to see what else Jesus says He is, and what He meant by each of these.

John 6:48

 

 

 

John 8:12

 

 

 

John 10:9

 

 

 

John 10:11

 

 

 

John 11:25

 

 

 

John 15:1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6) (a) What are some of the "ways" in which unbelievers are hoping to gain eternal life?

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b) How could you use what Jesus says in John 14:1-6, as well as other passages, to confront their false security?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7) How is Jesus the way, the truth and the life to you personally?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8) Is your heart troubled? Come prepared with a prayer request for how your partner might pray for you during this troubled time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Come with a request so that we might pray for you.