Scripture:  John 11:1-53 I. Jesus takes our pleas for help and demonstrates his love by delay. A. In vs. 5 John writes that Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So, what do you expect vs. 6 to say? We read in vs. 6, “So, when (Jesus) heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer…

Scripture:  John 10:1-21 I. Jesus is a shepherd who knows his own people. A. The shepherd’s voice and call are distinctive. But Jesus the shepherd goes even further than just having his own call. “He calls his own sheep by name” (vs. 3). In his teaching Jesus is making a clear contrast between him as the good shepherd…

Scripture:  John 6:25-59 I. Jesus brings God’s life to us because He himself is God’s manna. A. The crowd says to Jesus in vs. 30, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform? Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave…

Scripture: John 3:1-21 I. Jesus is a gift who makes you born again. A. God had promised His people that they could be born again. You can be new. What did Jesus mean by born again? He explains what he means when he says in vs. 5, “Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot…

Scripture: John 2:13-25 I. Since Jesus is the temple, He will make us clean to meet God. A. In John 2:13 we see that Jesus went to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover. But Jesus discovered that the people were distracted from their worship of God by the business going on at the temple (vs. 14-16). The temple had become a…

Scripture: John 1:1-18 I. Jesus the Word creates us. A. The first three words in John’s Gospel are “In the beginning.” These words remind us of the creation of the world in Genesis 1. The Word, who is Jesus (John 1:14), creates. Words express who we are and what we think. You get a picture of who someone is…