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Scripture: John 12:23-33 and John 17:20-26 I. Jesus and you are glorified in death. A. Jesus says in John 12:23, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.” The word glory means heavy or weighty. Christ’s glory, His greatness, was about to be revealed. How? “‘And I, when I am lifted up from the earth,…
Scripture: Romans 3:10-26 No One is Righteous, Because of Their Bad Works “None is righteous, no, not one. . .” (v10) “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” (v23) “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” (1 John 1:8) No One…
2 Corinthians 3:16-18 and 1 Corinthians 15:42-49 I. The Holy Spirit transformed Jesus into a life-giving Spirit. A. We know that the Holy Spirit is the one who gives life because of what we read in 2 Corinthians 3:6: “The Spirit gives life.” The first person that the Holy Spirit gave bodily resurrection life to was Jesus. Romans 8:11: “If the Spirit of him…
Luke 3:4-6 & Acts 9:1-5 I. Jesus is risen and has been restored from exile to God. A. When God’s people sin, God often disciplines with exile away from Him and the Promised Land. Deuteronomy 28:36: “The Lord will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other…
Isaiah 42:1-7 & Acts 26:16-23 I. Jesus and you have a mission to open people’s eyes to see Jesus. A. Isaiah 42:1 is a prophecy about a coming servant. Who is this servant? We find out when Jesus is baptized in Matthew 3:16-17: “And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to…
John 20:1-10 & John 6:47-59 I. You can be resurrected by trusting that Christ died for you. A. We read the details of Jesus’ historical resurrection in John 20. It was what John had seen and not seen in Jesus’ tomb that made him believe that Jesus rose from the dead (John 20:8). In John 6:4 we see that Jesus does…
Good God “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1) Good Creation “And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.” (Genesis 1:31) Good Relationship “then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life”…
2 Corinthians 1:5-11 You Share in Jesus’ Sufferings “For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings” (v5) “For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had…
Revelation 1:4-6 I. Jesus and you are kings who make God known to the world. A. The seven churches of Asia (vs. 4) faced the hostility of Roman power and the seduction of Roman wealth. But their main task was the same as our main task: to make disciples. To make God known in the…
1 Corinthians 1:30 & Romans 8:18-25 I. You have hope that you will have freedom from death. A. Jesus and you are both redeemed (1 Corinthians 1:30). Jesus did not need to be redeemed from sin. What did Jesus need to be set free from? Death. Hebrews 13:20: “Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord…
