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Sermon Outline
- Reflect with me for a moment upon two stories
- Simon Magus’ Story (Acts 8:8-23)
- Crowds in Jerusalem on Palm Sunday (John 12:12-19, Mt 27:17-23, Mk 15:11-14)
- Many people believed in his name (John 2:23)
- Setting: in Jerusalem on the heels of Passover and the cleansing of the temple that we discussed last week
- The Miraculous signs (John 20:30-31)
- In the gospel of John 5:1-9, 9:6, 11:43-45
- In Jerusalem (Mt 21:18-22, Mk 11:12-25, Mt 20:29-34, Mk 10:46-52, Lk 18:35-43, Lk 22:50-51)
- Many Believed in his name
- Belief is trusting, acting upon a certain assurance
- But what Did they believe?
- They believed in his name.
- In gospel of John so far, we have the following names for Jesus:
- The Word (Jn 1:1, 14);
- The true Light (Jn 1:9);
- Jesus Christ (Jn 1:17) the one who brings grace and truth;
- Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world (Jn 1:29);
- one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit (Jn 1:33);
- Lamb of God (Jn 1:36);
- Messiah (Jn 1:41);
- one Moses wrote about in the Law and whom the prophets also wrote (Jn 1:45);
- Rabbi (Jn 1:49);
- Son of God (Jn 1:49),
- King of Israel (Jn 1:49);
- Son of Man (Jn 1:51)
- Which name did they believe?
- Application: What we believe about Jesus and who He is really matters and set the believer apart from those who have some ideas about Jesus but incomplete
- 2 Deficiencies of Faith
- Saving faith is
- Application: True faith is fruitful and God given, not temporal and human induced. (Eph 2:8-10)
- But Jesus would not entrust himself to them (Jn 2:24)
- “But Jesus, himself, did not believe them about him.”
- Jesus didn’t believe their belief
- Jesus’ grounding was in Father, not in how others received him.
- Application: We would do well to remember that the human heart is desperately wicked and prone to all types of corruption. (Gen 6:5, 8:21)
- Application: Each of us would do well to adopt Jesus’ attitude towards human accolades. They are nothing when compared with the identity the Father declares about us. (Jn 5:32)
- Conclusion
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