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This sermon was preached from John 6:60-71 for evening service on September 28, 2014. Remember, Jesus just finished a long discourse where He made one of the famous “I am,” statements. This one being, “I am the bread of life” (John 6:35, 48). He taught the crowd that followed Him from the day before that they needed to believe in Him as the Messiah that would give unto them eternal life. This would happen through His death, burial and resurrection as means for salvation.  The Disciples’ Reaction (6:60-66) 60. The author includes a reaction to the discourse this time. Yet, the reaction comes from the disciples as opposed to those who were following Jesus. Jesus’ teaching that they must consume His this bread, that is, His flesh which He will offer up for the life of the world, then they will receive eternal life, is hard for the disciples to accept. They were not expecting a Messiah that would about such things. Jesus is teaching about Him needing to suffer a death and then...

This sermon is preached from John 6:22-59 for the morning service of September 28, 2014. In order to understand this passage one must remember the events that happened just the previous day. Jesus tried to get some rest and relaxation with His disciples in a deserted area outside of Bethsaida on the sea of Galilee. However, the Galileans spotted Jesus and a crowd that had 5,000 men grew. Later in the day, Jesus performed a miracle by feeding the entire crowd so that they were full by only using five barley loaves and two small fishes. When the crowd saw that Jesus was able to provide food they wanted to make Jesus king. This in turn caused Jesus to send away the disciples into a boat and then He went away privately for a while. The disciples have a sleepless night trying to get the sea of Galilee due to a wind blowing the opposite direction. Jesus walks on the water and meets them in the middle of the sea. Search for Jesus (6:22-25) A portion of the crowd must have stayed in the a...

This sermon is preached from John 6:1-21.

This sermon is preached from John 5:31-47. Last Sunday morning we covered verses John 5:1-18. The scene was that Jesus had just healed a lame man. However, the healing happened on the sabbath day. It caused quite a stir amongst the rulers of the Jews that someone was working on the sabbath day (John 5:10). Jesus does not take the time to argue with the Jews. Instead, He tells them that He is God and is therefore permitted to work on the sabbath (John 5:17). Jesus, in a sense, lit a bomb by making this claim. This caused the Jews to only kill Him even more (John 5:18).  In the evening service we saw how Jesus then goes on to explain even further that He is equal to and is God. He did this by explaining the relationship between God the Father and God the Son. Jesus claimed that He and the Father are the same in Their will and actions (John 5:19-20, 30). Jesus claimed that He and the Father are equal in power (John 5:21, 25-26). Jesus claimed that He and the Father are equal in ...

This sermon was preached from John 5:19-30 to Tidioute Baptist Church for the evening service. John is going to continue with his emphasis on showing Jesus as God, the second Person of the Trinity. “But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name” (20:31). The last two parts of that verse will be covered in this section.  Do not forget either how I mentioned that the prologue introduced multiple themes that will be fully explained in John’s Gospel. I believe this section really explains “καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος / and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (1:1b). There is very special kind of relationship that is being described between the first and second Persons of the Trinity in this section. Not only are they full agreement with each other, they are one in the same.  Last time we looked at the text, we saw the Jews wanting to kill Jesus bec...

This sermon was preached from John 5:1-18 to Tidioute Baptist Church for the morning service. This passage of Scripture is in keeping with the verse that we have called to be the theme for this Gospel, “But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name” (20:31). This whole narrative/chapter is meant to show specifically the Deity of Jesus Christ. Healing the Lame (5:1-9a) Verse 1. There is no indication as to which feast that is being celebrated here in this passage. We do know that according to Old Testament law, there were three feasts that occurred every year that required the males to be present at the temple. These feasts were the Feast of Unleavened Bread/Passover, Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Tabernacles/Booths (Deut. 16:16). Therefore, Jesus must have visited Jerusalem more times than are accounted for in the Gospels. Most speculate this was feast was to celebrate the Passover...

This sermon was preached from John 4:43-54 to Tidioute Baptist Church for the evening service. No notes are available.

This sermon was preached from John 4:26-42 to Tidioute Baptist Church for the morning service. Last week, for the evening service, we looked at the discussion that occurred between Jesus and the Samaritan woman. The conversation started with the woman seeing a weary man and then realized he was Jew, then a rabbi, then a prophet and finally presumed Him to be the Christ. The conversation culminates with the Samaritan woman realizing that she may have just met the Christ. Remember, this one of the reason why John wrote this Gospel, “But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name” (20:31). These people are believing that Jesus is the Christ. “You, Come and See” (vv. 26-30) Verse 26. I mentioned this last week but I want to emphasize it again. This is really the first “I am” statement of Jesus in the Gospel of John. This recalls the self-existent claims that are found in the Old Testament...