Equipped 2024 - Youth: "How the Descriptions of Jesus in John Can Help My Faith" by Scott Cain Lehman Ave Church of Christ

April 20, 2024 - Saturday 1:30PM Tent Speaker
 
Speaker: Scott Cain
John 20:31
Faith

Trust in an individual

a lot of description of Jesus in John


 
Faith faces the fact of…
Jesus' Facts (John 1:1-14)

Jesus’ Rationality (John 1:1-3)


Jesus’ Identity (John 1:1-17)


“The World”


Jesus


In the Beginning


Eternal


With God


Distinct from the Father


Was God


Deity/Godhead


All… Made by Him


Creator


Flesh… dwelt among us


Human


Only begotten


Son of God


Grace and Truth


Brought Grace and Truth


Jesus’ Reality (John 1:14)

John bases his description of Jesus on evidence


Gnostics - made up, what they claim they knew

Ex. Dualism: spiritual =good and humanity = bad

Jesus wasn’t actual physical


Others claim Jesus was physical but not deity


Know-it-alls that didn’t know anything




Jesus’ Forgiveness

John 1:29 words of John the Baptist


Isaiah 53:4-7 suffering servant


“It’s not ok, but it’s going to be ok”


John 12:32


Model of forgiveness (Personal and moving passages on forgiveness)

John 5:14 (general forgiveness)


John 4:17-18, 21 (woman at the well)


John 8:7, 11 (woman caught in act of adultery, failed to catch her accomplice)


John 13:38; 21:17 (Peter will deny Jesus 3x) why did Peter go back to tomb a 2nd time?  Peter wept bitterly over his own actions. 


Every time sin happens, someone made a choice



Motive of Forgiveness (John 3:16)

Jesus’ Friendship (John 15:13)

Out of Friendship…

He died for me (John 15:13)


I live for Him (John 15:14)


He shared His Father’s Will (John 15:15)


I have His Father’s Ear (15:15, 16:27)


 
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4ESJBRbG2k
 
Duration 41:43