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• The Gospel of John sermon series • Focusing at the whole area of CHRISTIAN DISCIPLESHIP Transformation thru Discipling
• The Gospel of John sermon series
• Focusing at the whole area of CHRISTIAN DISCIPLESHIP
Transformation thru Discipling
Do you know ... Over the past 24 hours : heart beat > 103,000 times, blood travelled 168 million miles, breathed 23,400times, inhaling 438 cu ft of air, ate 1.5Kg of food & drank 1.5L of liquid, perspired 0.7L … generating 450 tons of energy, spoke 4,800 words, moved 750 major muscles, exercised 7 million brain cells.
It is any wonder why many of us are feeling so tired !!
KEY POINTS of John’s Gospel : • The WORD, the LIGHT & the RIGHT • John used SEVEN specially chosen
miraculous “SIGNS” as signpost ... Key Verse : John 20:31: “But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.”
John 1:12 “Yet to all who received Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God”
The Gospel of John
“Come & See” .... Bringing people to Jesus
The Gospel of John
and that is the hallmark of being a disciple ... bringing / introducing people to Jesus ...
& helping them to grow and mature ...
Today’s Scripture : John 2:23-25
Now while He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the miraculous signs He was doing and believed (trusted) in His name.
But Jesus would not entrust Himself to them, for He knew all men.
He did not need man's testimony about man, for He knew what was in a man.
from Fear to Faith to Fulfillment
From Fear to Faith to Fulfillment John 2:23 Now while He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people SAW the miraculous signs He was doing and BELIEVED in His name. John 3:1-2 Nicodemus ... "Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the MIRACULOUS SIGNS you are doing if God were not with him.“ John 4:45 When He arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed Him. They had SEEN ALL THAT HE HAD DONE in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, for they also had been there.
From Fear to Faith to Fulfillment John 2:24-25
BUT Jesus would not entrust Himself to
them, FOR HE KNEW ALL MEN. He did not need man's testimony about
man, FOR HE KNEW WHAT WAS IN A MAN.
From Fear to Faith to Fulfillment
Jesus, Son of God ... KNOWS ALL men (and women) KNOWS what is in a man God is OMNISCIENT God KNOWS EVERYTHING about
EVERYONE God KNOWS EVERYTHING about you How do you feel ?
Survey : Which would you
prefer to be able to do :
1. To be able to ‘read’ people’s mind
OR 2. To be able to ‘see’
the future ?
Acts 5:11
“GREAT FEAR seized the
whole church and all who heard about these events.”
From Fear to Faith to Fulfillment
If God KNOWS EVERYTHING about ME,
What will be my reaction ?
Quite naturally we will be FEARFUL ...
Why ?
For example ....this really happened
“There is someone here who cheated in his income tax to the tune of $20,000 ? Please own up and pay up ....” His social security number is ....
From Fear to Faith to Fulfillment
Sitting in the pews ... How will you feel ? How will you react ?
Rich Young Ruler: Matt 19, Mark 10 & Luke 18
Jesus knew what was the stumbling block in this man’s life .... But Jesus did not just condemn him... Jesus graciously allowed him to decide...
John 4:28-29 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, "Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?"
John 4:41-42 And because of His words many more became believers. They said to the woman, "We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Saviour of the world."
Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!" Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me,
you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."
Reason why Jesus did not trust “man”
Danger of only ‘Seeing the Signs’ but not the ‘Saviour’
“Seeing” Faith
John 6:14-15 After the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus did, they began to say, "Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world." Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make Him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by Himself.
John 6:60 On hearing it, many of His disciples said, "This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?" John 6:66 From this time many of His disciples turned back and no longer followed Him.
Yet Jesus did trust some men ...
Luke 6:12-13 Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God. When morning came, He called His disciples to Him and chose twelve of them, whom He also designated apostles:...
From Fear to Faith to Fulfillment
God’s Plan of Salvation for the whole of creation God had Only ONE PLAN John 3:16... 16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His one
and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.
18 Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because He has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.
From Fear to Faith to Fulfillment
God’s Plan of Salvation for the whole of creation
1 John 5:11-12
11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
12 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.
THERE IS NO PLAN B
From Fear to Faith to Fulfillment
John 17:20-23 "My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message (i.e. you & I), that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
From Fear to Faith to Fulfillment
Application
From Fear to Faith to Fulfillment
Our VISION
TRANSFORMING LIVES
EXPANDING HIS KINGDOM
Our Faith as Christians or as Disciples ...
Must always be
At times be but
At all times to live a Christian life.
- To be a Christian is to be a Disciple Discipleship must
be Discipleship is
about
Matt 28:18-20
From Fear to Faith to Fulfillment
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. From Fear to Faith to Fulfillment
Jesus & the “crowd”
No need ...
No commitment ...
But ...
He loved them...
He willingly died for them...
From Fear to Faith to Fulfillment
From Fear to Faith to Fulfillment
Jesus knows all man & woman
Jesus knows EVERYTHING about you – your mind, heart, soul & body...
No child of God need ever walk ALONE
No child of God need ever say :
“NO ONE UNDERSTANDS OR CARES!”
Because God knows, understands & cares.
From Fear To Faith To Fulfillment
In closing just remember WHO You Are - GOD KNOWS WHERE You Are - GOD’s THERE WHAT You Are - GOD CARES Need to Move from FEAR to FAITH – Trust God Then to Move from FAITH to FULFILLMENT – Be a Disciple of Christ
