John 14: 22

v22 Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”

Then Judas said, Lord, what is your intention? Help us to understand what you are doing. You are showing yourself to such a few. What is your strategy? What is your plan to usher in the Kingdom of God? We thought your goal was to rule and reign over all.
How will you do that if you are hiding yourself from the majority of the people? Why are you only showing yourself to a handful of your disciples? What can we do as such a small group to keep this plan moving along? Wouldn't it benefit your cause to have your sphere of influence be as large as possible?
Perhaps if your movement was large enough and powerful enough, you could finally usher in this new era in which you are the King and we co-reign with you. (recall John's mother's request).
If you showed everyone your great power and authority then you would have a great army of people and we could take over the world, and regain our independence and freedom from the tyranny of Rome. Isn't that part of your plan? To set us free?
We don't want to live under Rome's domination and control and you are the only hope we have, but if you do not let the world know, then how will we succeed?
In our way of thinking a leader should be as visible as possible, gaining support and strength through numbers. If you limit your exposure then how are you going to get the job done?
You say are going back to the Father in a little while, and in the meantime you only show yourself to a handful of people…. your leadership strategy doesn’t make sense to us. How is this all supposed to work out?

John 14:21

vs 21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.

My commands are my teaching, my will, my desires, my intentions and purposes.
The person who has my commands is the one who has listened to me teach and preach and has taken my words to heart. The person who keeps my commands obeys them, follows them, lives according to them, and is governed by them in thought as well as deed. This is the one who shows me their love.
The person who has my commands in their mind and heart will keep them in their lifestyle and habits. To keep them is to take heed to them, to acknowledge and recognize their value and their paramount importance, to agree with the pre-eminence of their truth and the necessity of living according to them out of love and respect for the Father and I.
To keep them is to treasure them, keeping them is proof that your attitude is right toward the Father. If you didn't love me and my Father then you would have no respect for the commands and would show contempt for them by ignoring them.
The person who loves me will be loved by my Father. My Father loves all those He has created but He has a special affection for those who keep His commands because they are open to receiving His love and loving Him in return.
I will love them, too. I will show myself to those who are near and dear to the heart of God. These are the ones whose eyes are open and whose hearts are open and whose will is yielded - they are the ones who are able to see and hear and believe.
Those who have rejected my commands and treated them with no regard are the ones who are too dull to hear and too blind to see. They have missed out. They have forfeited the opportunity to be in a special love relationship with the Father and I, and they will not see the Father.
My intentions is to show myself and reveal who I am in the fullness of the Godhead, but I can only do that for those who have eyes to see and who are humble enough to see me without being puffed up with false pride and a sense of superiority or self-importance as a result. There is no use in showing myself to those who cannot recognize me.
The privilege of seeing me is reserved for those who want to see me because they love me. My father and the Holy Spirit take delight in revealing me to those who appreciate who I am and believe in me and worship me. As I've already said, you believe in God, so believe also in me. Believe who I am and believe what I say. This is what pleases and delights the Father.

John 14: 20

Vs. 20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.

On that day, the day you see me in all my splendor and glory, exalted and seated at the right hand of the Father, you will realize and understand fully what I've been trying to explain to you in part. The Father and I are one. Therefore, I am in Him and He is in me. An even greater mystery will be revealed and made known to you and that is that I am in you. It is a truth and reality so fantastic that you will have to see it to believe it.

Trust me and take my word for it. It is too wonderful for you to grasp now. Until that day, I will be in you by way of the Holy Spirit. That is only a foretaste of what it will be like when you come to be with me in Heaven. On that day you will be joined to me as my Bride, then we will experience a oneness that you never dreamed possible and is beyond even your wildest imagination. Even I am so excited and look forward with such anticipation to the day when the Father presents you to me, a Bride without spot or wrinkle or blemish, holy and radiant.

John 14: 19

vs 19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.

When I depart for heaven in a little while, the people in this world will not see me anymore because my time on earth is up. The work the Father gave me to do will be finished on the cross. I've come to do the will of my Father. My life of obedience brings me to this point of death, which is for you, to bring you life everlasting. Because death cannot hold me I will rise again and live forever, securing eternal life for you. I live now and I will live again.

The world will not see me, but you will. You will see me in three ways, initially you will see Me three days after my crucifixion because I will raise from the dead and appear to you alive. Secondly, you will see me in this world in the form of the Holy Spirit, and thirdly you will see me in the world to come, in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Because I live, you will live. You have hope.

You will live here on earth as new creations, with new hearts and new minds. You will live in Heaven with new bodies. I am purchasing this new life for you with my blood. I am redeeming you from a life of separation from God, who is LIFE. I am sacrificing my life for yours. Because I am laying my life down for you, you will live forever.

The world will eventually see me again. This is my first visit. I am here as the Suffering Servant. On my second visit I will come as the King of Kings, Lord of Lords and Judge.

John 14: 18

vs 18 I will not leave you as orphans. I will come to you.

You are not orphans. You have a Father. You are the children of the Most High. You belong to the family of God. In fact, I am your elder brother, the Firstborn.
The Father, the Spirit, and I would never dream of abandoning you or leaving you alone to fend for yourselves. What kind of father would walk away from His children or not allow them to live in his house and provide for them? What sense would it make for a father to build a house, make many rooms, and create a place for his family, and then leave them outside in the street? Even sinful earthly fathers know enough to care for their own children whom they love. They know it is right to make a home for them and give them the love and care they need to grow up. How much more will your Heavenly Father do for you?
If God the Father and I are spending all this time and effort preparing a place for you, would it make any sense at all for us to not bring you here to enjoy it?
We're doing it all for you, so you can be sure that I am coming back to get you.
This is why I have assured you that you do not need to be troubled. There is so much in store for you. So much for you to look forward to. Even though what you are facing right now on earth is difficult, you will be full of joy in God's house.

John 14: 16 & 17

16 And I will ask the Father and He will give you another Advocate to help you and be with you forever- the Spirit of Truth.

I’ve just reassured you that you can ask me for anything in my name. In fact, I’ve told you twice now that I will do for you whatever you ask that is consistent with my name (character, nature, purpose). I will not violate my integrity and forsake my plan in order to answer you. I am true to myself and my Father. It is for this reason that I bring you into alignment with myself so we are work together. You, the Father, the Advocate, and me - all on the same page – working for the same goal which is to glorify the Father.
In the same way that you ask me, I ask the Father. I ask in accordance with His glorious plan, too, which includes not leaving you alone or abandoned or forsaken. Quite to the contrary…..you will be accompanied by me in a new way….by the Holy Spirit of God.
The only way you can keep my commands is by the power of God and with His help anyway. This is why I am asking the Father to give you One who can help you. The Advocate, the Paraclete, the One who comes along side. My departure and return to Heaven is not detrimental but essential, because my leaving ushers in the opportunity for the Helper to come in my place. My leaving insures the coming of Another, the Spirit of Truth. I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Therefore, the embodiment of Truth will come to you as spirit. The Spirit of Truthfulness and Absolute Reality will abide with you.

17 The world cannot accept Him, because it neither sees Him or knows Him. But you know Him, for He lives with you and will be in you."

The world cannot accept or receive Him. Why? Because they do not recognize Him, they do not know who He is. Sadly, He is foreign to them, a stranger, and someone unfamiliar. They are blind and deaf, even though they’ve seen me and heard me, they still do not know who The Way-Truth-Life is or who the Spirit of Truth is. They believe the lie instead.
The world cannot accept Him because they do not belong to the One who is sending Him. You receive Him because you know the Father who is sending Him and have already believed in Him. If the world recognized the Father they would also know the One who comes from the Father.
But you do know Him. You already know Him because it is He who is with you even now. The Spirit of Truth and The Truth are One in the same. I am with you in body now but in a little while I will be with you in spirit. You will recognize me and welcome me. I will come to you and dwell in you.
This Advocate, the Spirit of Truth, will lead you in all truth. The truth about who I am and who the Father is. Because he will live inside you, He will enable you to know and understand more than if I remained here with you, on the outside of you. The Spirit reveals truth to you from the inside. Up till now truth has come to you from the outside. God is making a new covenant with you, a new and living Way. You will understand more after I have returned to the Father and the Holy Spirit will explain this to you.

John 14:15

15 If you love me keep my commands.

Show your devotion to me by your obedience. Demonstrate your loyalty to me with your willingness to do what I've asked. You show that your love is real, and not just empty words, by the way you carry out my will and my commands.
True love begets action. Love goes beyond mere sentimental words.
It will become plain and obvious to you just how true and sincere your love for me is by how much you are willing to do and to what extent you will carry out my desires. The attitude with which you do it will be further evidence of your sincerity. If you willingly and joyfully keep my commands it is proof of your love. If you grudgingly comply out of a sense of obligation and duty, this is proof that you do not yet love me as I love you.
Your inward desire to please me is demonstrated by your outward actions. A heart empty and devoid of love will produce insincere and hypocritical deeds. I am not seeking mechanical robotic compliance, but rather, heart-felt and undivided devotion.

John 14: 13, 14

13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

I promise to continue doing the works I have been doing among you, even after I've returned to the Father. I will keep doing things for you and give you what you ask for.
When I give you what you need, it is really the Father in me doing His work, so whenever He does it, He is glorified through me. Only God could do the things you see me doing.
After I am gone, you will do the same works that you see me doing. In fact, you will do greater works than me because when you pray in my Name and ask for help I will answer and enable you to do "greater" things.
In the same way the Father is in me, working in me, I will be in you and work in you. When the Father is working in me, and when I am working in you, all of it brings glory to God the Father.
The glory of God is His presence. God's presence is evidenced when His works are done in me and in you.
My greatest joy and desire is God's glory, so anything that will bring glory to Him is what I want to do.
That is why I am encouraging you to ask me for anything in agreement and harmony with who I am and what I want to do. This gives me another opportunity to glorify my Father. The more you ask for the more I can do the more God the Father is glorified.
God knows that the more dependent you are on Him the better off you are. He created you to be in a dependent relationship with Him. You function at your best when you are rightly relating to Him. God has designed you to give praise, honor, respect & glory to Him.
God has made you to be at your best when you are humble, submissive, yielded, obedient, and fully reliant upon Him. The sin in the Garden was to act independently from God and become your own gods, full of pride and arrogance.
It is the sin of pride that resists needing me and having to ask me for anything. It is a sign of faith, trust and belief that you ask me for things. It means you believe I can give it to you, thereby exercising faith in me. Faith pleases God the Father. Without it you cannot please Him. (see Hebrews)
You believe in God, believe also in me. (repeat theme of vs. 1)
He delights in you and you delight in Him in return. That is LOVE.
Asking Him for things is the best reminder that you need Him.
Apart from Him even I can do nothing. I cannot be apart from Him, I cannot act independently from Him because we are One. And in my bodily form I demonstrate that I can do nothing without Him - because I have laid aside my equality with God and willingly subjected myself to a position of great need and dependence on God. This arrangement is for your benefit.
I can sympathize with your weaknesses. I need to rely on God's power and strength like you do. I became a man so you would know that I know how you feel.
When you ask me to do something, you can be sure I will do whatever is in harmony with my Father's purposes. I do not say that I "might" do it, or would "consider" doing it, or even that I "am capable" of doing it, but rather, I tell you that I "will" do it. When you ask for something, in my name, then it will bring glory to the Father. It is, therefore, my joy and pleasure and great honor to do it.

John 14:12

12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.

You have been watching me do what I do. You are eye witnesses. You have been there first-hand and up-close to see and hear every word. Not by word of mouth or rumor, but personally you have seen my works. Your belief and trust and faith will enable you to do the same things that you see me doing. In the same way that God is working through me, he will work through you. God lives in me and works through me. When I go to the Father and send the Holy Spirit, He will live in you and work through you in the same manner doing the same things. This is all the plan God has to accomplish His will. What He began in me, He will finish in you, only on a grander and larger scale. Tehre will be millions and millions of people in whom the H.S. will dwell and work. Collectively and simultaneously you will accomplish much more over many years than I could as one individual limited to a span of one life time in one geographical location. God’s work will not end with my departure. On the contrary, my leaving will usher in a new covenant which will enable His works to expand to cover the whole earth to all peoples in all nations. With each new convert, the body of Christ increases and grows in size, influence, power, and scope. From your limited perspective it would seem better for me to remain with you. But by looking at the whole picture you will see that my leaving is better for the entire world- past, present and future.

John 14:11

11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves.

Believe what I am telling you about this relationship the Father and Son share. You can have confidence in what I am saying, you can trust my words, remember, I AM THE TRUTH!. You can take me at my word. I say what I mean and mean what I say. The Father is in me and I am in Him, there is no separation – only union and oneness that you must believe exists in order to understand who I am.
If for some reason (unbelief, fear) my words are not enough, then look at the evidence of the works themselves. That should be proof enough. It should be obvious that my works back up my words. No one could do what I am doing unless God were working through him/her. The miracles are proof of what I say. My claims are not empty or vain.
What more can I say to convince you? If I was all talk and not walk then I would not blame you for doubting me, but my actions back up my words 100%. I’m giving you ample reason to be able to believe me when I tell you that the Father and I are residing in one another, that we are inseparable, that we are indeed ONE.
I don’t expect you to fully understand this divine mystery just yet, but I do expect you to believe what I say about it. The fact that you request that I show you the Father indicates that not only do you not understand what I’ve said but you also do not trust me to be telling you the truth. If you needed more, then I would have given you more. But what I have shown you and demonstrated to you is enough. It is sufficient.
If you really believed me, your hearts would not be troubled, as they now are.

John 14: 10

10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.

Do you not believe that the Father and I are in each other? Our ‘one-ness’ is a mystery; no one has ever seen anything like this before. I know it is difficult for you to make sense of it, so you just have to trust me when I tell you it is true. Do not try to figure it out just yet, simply believe it.
I created your heart, therefore I understand how it is that you are unable or unwilling to believe. Face the fact that your heart is unbelieving; that your faith is lacking. By challenging you with this question I am exposing your unbelief.
It is essential that you believe me and trust me because you will face opposition and trials, on account of me, in the days ahead. You must stand firm and be convinced that I am doing the Father’s will, especially when you see me on the cross.
You would have good reason to be troubled if I were abandoning you and deserting you. If I were a temporary fly-by-night revolutionary leader, organizing a political movement, then I would not be serving the cause to leave. On the contrary, I would remain to keep the revolution going.
My kingdom is not of this world. That is not what I am all about. I am the King of Heaven and Earth and I will reign forever and ever.
I emptied myself and humbled myself and became a servant, I have willingly submitted to my Father’s authority. I do not presume to speak on my own, but defer to His rule and Lordship and supremacy over me. I do not take it upon myself to do or say anything of my own initiative but rather, I take all my directives form my Father who is the Ultimate and Supreme Authority and Master of all.
What I am telling you comes from the Highest Authority, the Most Reliable Source, the Final Word, the Absolutely Dependable basis and origin. There is no one higher to appeal to or to verify this with. This is where truth originates, in the mind and heart of God, Creator of all. Truthful words have their beginning with God. He cannot speak anything but truth. God is truth and I just told you that I am the Truth. God is 100% accurate and inerrant. God the Father has given His Son, me, the authority to repeat His words. Because He is in me and I am in Him, we speak identical words without conflict or contradiction. The Father lives in me and is accomplishing His plan. Whatever He says goes. Whatever He desires is carried out.
While I am on the earth in this humble role, I take my lead from Him. I am fully and completely obedient. I never usurp God’s authority by doing or saying anything independently of Him.
I am in the Father and the Father is in me, therefore, He is free to do whatever He wants through me. I did not come to do my will, but His.
The Father is living in me and therefore is doing His work in me and through me and according to His plan and purpose. His ways are my ways and His thoughts are my thoughts, not the other way around.
When I was in Heaven with Him we had a different arrangement. But this is a new covenant which requires a different way of relating to each other while I am here with you.
Consider my conversation with you as being directly from God Himself to you. He is speaking to you face to face as He did with Moses and He is calling you “friends”. You may relate to God in the same way you relate to me.
Recognize that He has entrusted to me His words of life, healing power, authority, love, forgiveness, etc. Whatever He wants done will be done because I do and say exactly what He wants. I do not alter it or change it or translate it, it is 100% pure God-talk.
I am the only one who can understand and communicate God’s truth without distorting it, polluting it, misinterpreting it, minimizing it, or contaminating it in any way. I am without sin, therefore, can speak the words of God without error or prejudice. I am a perfect vessel through which His voice can be heard and His truth revealed and His nature expressed. He can trust me to deliver His word accurately and untainted by the flesh.
The Father has chosen in His wisdom to work in me. In many ways He has accepted limits and restrictions as a consequence of working through my humanness. Divine has taken on flesh. God is working out His salvation through me.
My Father has work to do, a plan to fulfill, a universe to run. He is accomplishing His work in and through me. His perfect plan included my coming to be with you for a short while. His work of redemption and salvation will be finished in my death and resurrection. He is in me reconciling the world to Himself.
God’s work of creation was finished in six days and then He rested, but His work of salvation continues till this day, until everyone is saved. This work is a joint effort; we are doing this together as One.
My work on earth is complete; this phase of God’s plan is coming to a close; but there is much more to come. I am the Suffering Servant now, but will come again as the Mighty Warrior.
I must go to prepare the next step in the Plan so when the times the Father has set (which only He knows) everything will be ready.

John 14:9

9 Jesus answered, ‘Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ’Show us the Father’?


Jesus answered, I thought you would have known me better by this time, Philip. After _ years of being together, and yet you don’t realize who I am yet. After all the conversations we’ve had and after seeing all the demonstrations of God’s power and hearing all the teaching and witnessing all the miracles, and still you do not know me…….what more will it take?
You claim if you could just see the Father that would be enough. I AM ENOUGH! I’ve given you all that you need and I’ve shown you all you need to see. Are you not paying attention? Are you as dull as the Pharisees who are ever learning and never coming to the knowledge of the truth? Who are seeing but remain blind? Who are listening but remain deaf?
You have had the privilege of watching, observing, & listening long enough to know that I am authentic. This is no hoax.
Your request to be shown the Father reveals your lack of understanding. I know men’s hearts, so I am not surprised, but I am saddened. For your sake, it is essential that you grasp the full implications of what I am telling you. I am telling you as plainly as I can that I am equal with the Father. Your understanding of this truth would result in a peaceful calm confident heart rather than a troubled heart.
Do not fear the plan of God even though it includes my leaving you. His plan includes difficult things for Him, for me, and for you. My betrayal, suffering, death, burial, and resurrection are not easy things to endure, but they are necessary things.
While I am bound in this humble body of flesh God the Father is greater than I, but when I return to heaven, I will be exalted and will resume my rightful place at the right hand of God. I will return to the place I left before I laid aside my glory and emptied myself to come to earth.
In a few years, my Apostle, Paul will describe me by writing that I am the perfect representation of God, that His fullness dwells in me, and that the glory of God is revealed in me.
How can you say Show us the Father when you are already staring him in the face? Hearing his voice? Watching him heal? Sleeping and eating and walking with him? Is it not obvious that no man could do the things I am doing unless God was working in him? Has anyone ever done the things I have done? No mere human can do the things I do.
If I were able to do these things on my own, independently of the Father, then I would be another God! Moses wrote, The Lord your God is One. Either I am one God and the Father is another God, or, we are the same God, working in perfect harmony and unity. The only explanation is that we are the same Divine Personhood.
Consider the implications of what I am telling you. God is good. What He does is good. Always. Therefore, my leaving you can only be good. Trust that God’s plan is good even though it includes my death.
I will return. I will take you to be with me, and that is as good as it gets! There is nothing better than that – to live with God and enjoy Him forever.

John 14:8

8 Philip said, ‘Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.’

Philip said, Lord, what you are saying doesn’t make sense to us. If you would just give us a glimpse of the Father then we’d be convinced. We’d get it. We see you, but how is it that you are telling us we are seeing the Father? You don’t look like the Father, at least not the way we imagined He would look.
If we could see the ‘real deal’ that would be the confirmation we need to comprehend what you’re saying about yourself. We need to see you side by side so we can decide for ourselves if what you are saying makes sense.
We are troubled because we don’t understand. If we could just see God, then our hearts would be put at ease. It’s all so vague and mysterious to us. It would be much easier and simpler if you could just let us see the Father. It would be plain to us then.
We are so shaken by what you are saying about your departure then we can’t really think clearly enough to allow your words of comfort to sink in enough to have an impact. We need something external, some outward proof, to relieve our anxiety. We need something more concrete, something dramatic, and seeing the Father in person would be enough to show us that we don’t need to be afraid.

John 14: 6-7

6-7 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”

This is why I could say that you know the Way, because I am the way and you know me. You can get to the Father by way of me, by going through me. I give you access to the Father. There is no other entryway or door. That is why it is vitally important that you know me. If you by-pass me and seek another way to the Father you will miss Him and will not ever get to where He is. If you want to live in His many rooms then you must enter by the door that He has designed which is me.

Not only am I the way but I am also the Truth and the Life. I am the embodiment of all that is true. I am truthful through and through so you can bank on what I’ve told you. You can put your troubled minds and hearts at ease because I tell you the truth about all that concerns you. I am incapable of deceiving you or misleading you in any way. If I had been untruthful with you in the past I could understand your worry; but I’ve always told you the truth because that is who I am. I am true to my nature which is truth.

Not only am I the way to the Father and way to Heaven, and the final and ultimate truth regarding all spiritual matters, but I also am the Life. I am eternal life. I have the power over death. Death can never conquer me or overcome me. I will lay my life down as a ransom, as a LIVING sacrifice, but I have the power to take it back up again, and I will do so. Death has no hold on me because I am 100% pure life. I am the creator of life and the sustainer of all that exists. (See Jn 1) The words I speak are Life and Truth. They are life-giving. Without me there would be no life because everything is held together by the power of my word. I alone have the words of life. I will voluntarily submit to death when I identify with the guilt and sin of all mankind. I willingly taste death for you. But because I am greater than death, because I have always been eternal life, I have no beginning and no end. I created time. I am before, above and over all time. I am before, above and over death. I created the universe and all that is in it which includes death. Death cannot stop me. Death submits to my authority because I possess the keys. Death is punishment and separation from life, which I will bear so you will not have to, though you deserve to die and I do not. The wages of sin is death but the gift of God is Eternal Life through Me.

A relationship with me is the portal through which you must pass to enter the presence of the Father in a literal physical way in the future, and also in a spiritual way in the present. While you remain on earth your relationship with me is synonymous with a relationship with the Father.

When you really know me you know the Father as well. Your relationship with the Father must rest on me and the work I do on your behalf; bringing together and reconciling Holy God and sinful mankind. You know the Father through your knowledge of me for now. You will know the Father face to face later because of the relationship you with have with me now. Whether future or present, the only access a person has to the Father is by way of a relationship with me.

I am the only Source of Life. He who has the Son has Life, and he who does not have the Son does not have Life. Nothing has life apart from me. If you actually recognize me for who I really am, you’d know my Father also. From now on, consider this to be a fact- because you know me you do know my Father. Knowing me is identical and equal to knowing the Father. Not only do you know Him by knowing me, but you also see Him by seeing me. It is one and the same. When you look at me you are looking at the Father.

John 14: 4-5

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

I want you to realize that you already know how to get to the place I am going. I know your hearts are troubled because I have told you I am going away, but not only have I told you about where I am going (to prepare a place for you in My Father's House) but I also want to reassure you that you even know the way to that place. Take comfort, you will not get lost along the way. It is not a secret path that is hidden from you that you will have to search for. The way is plain and simple and straightforward. In fact, it is so simple that you have overlooked it.

5 Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we do not know where You are going, how we know the way?"

Thomas said, Lord, I know you've told us before but we just don't get it. Whatever you are trying to explain to us sounds like nothing we’ve ever heard before. It doesn't make sense to us that you would be leaving us so soon. You’ve only been leading us and teaching us for 3 years. And since we do not understand the first part, about where you are going, we certainly cannot understand the second part about how to get there.

John 14: 3

3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.

Since my purpose in going is to get rooms ready for you all, it only makes sense that I will come back to get you so you can live in what I've made ready. You can rest assured that my work will not go to waste. The work I am doing is for you and for those who will come after you. Otherwise, I would not need to go. If this life was all there was, and if you were the only children God had in mind to save, then I'd stay here with you. But the rooms you live in now are temporary; they are mere shadows of what is in store for you. Even your earthly bodies will be transformed to make you fit for your new home so you can stay there forever.
I want you to be with me where I am. The purpose of my coming to earth to be with you here was so I could bring you there. My temporary visit to earth was to tell you the good news of your permanent home in Heaven. My death and resurrection will seal the deal. The Holy Spirit is the guarantee that you will make your residency in Heaven.

John 14: 1-2

John 14

1-2 Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me.
In My Father's house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.

Do not allow or permit your heart to be agitated, upset, and bothered. Stop the uneasiness of your soul. Resist the temptation to give in to troubling thoughts, anxiety, and worry.
(You) believe in God, so believe in Me in the same way. You trust God; you rely on Him and depend on Him. Therefore, in the same exact and precise way, you can trust Me, rely on Me, & depend on Me. Have the same degree of reliance on Me that you have on God because I can handle it. Whatever you need from God, or whatever you want Him to do for you, anything you look to Him to provide, you can exercise the same confidence in My ability to provide it for you, because we are one in the same. In the identical way that you look to God, you may look to Me. There is no difference between believing in God the Father and believing in Me, because I am God - the Son. As you believe in God for your daily bread, for forgiveness, etc (Lord's Prayer) extend your belief to include Me. Do not limit your trust to only God as if I am unable or unwilling to hear you or act on your behalf. God and I work together, in unity and in harmony, to meet your needs. What God does, I do. What God hears, I hear. What God gives, I give as well. Believing in Me is just as essential/necessary as believing in the Father.
Let me explain why you do not need to be anxious and bothered.
This is not the end of the story. There is more. Way more! You have so much to look forward to.
Just for starters, listen to this promise. In My Father's House, which is Heaven, there will be places for you to live. My Father has a House, and inside His house are many rooms. There are not just a few, so do not worry if there will be enough for all of God's family members. He and I and the Spirit of Truth know just how many to prepare. We will not run short. No one will be left out or shut out. Whoever belongs there will have a room. Your final destination is living with the Father. You have a permanent home in Heaven. God's home is your home.
If this were not the truth, then I would certainly have let you know so you would not be misled. I wouldn't allow you to build your hopes on false expectations or fantasies.
It is true that you have a future in heaven. In fact, your Heavenly room is more permanent than your earthly room which will pass away. Your Heavenly room is eternal. You will never have to move out.
You can rest your mind with the assurance that you have this reality to anticipate. You have my word on it.
I understand that the circumstance of my leaving to go to the Father causes you to feel troubled at the moment, however, be comforted and encouraged by the truth I am telling you. I personally am going there ahead of you to get things ready for you so when I come back to get you at just the right time, everything will be finished. The Father has given me this task and I'm excited about going because I know what it means in the end, it means you will come to be with us.