Category: Sermons (Page 5 of 10)

John 4:27-38 (ESV)

A Passion for the Gospel

27 Just then his disciples came back.
They marveled that he was talking with a woman,
but no one said, “What do you seek?”
or, “Why are you talking with her?”

28 So the woman left her water jar
and went away into town
and said to the people,

29 “Come, see a man
who told me all that I ever did.
Can this be the Christ?”

30 They went out of the town
and were coming to him.

The Satisfaction of Submission

31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him,
saying, “Rabbi, eat.”

32 But he said to them,
“I have food to eat that you do not know about.”

33 So the disciples said to one another,
“Has anyone brought him food?”

34 Jesus said to them,
“My food is to do the will of him who sent me
and to accomplish his work.

The Unity of the Task

35 Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months,
then comes the harvest’?
Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes,
and see that the fields are white for harvest.

36 Already the one who reaps is receiving wages
and gathering fruit for eternal life,
so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.

37 For here the saying holds true,
‘One sows and another reaps.’

38 I sent you to reap
that for which you did not labor.
Others have labored,
and you have entered into their labor.”

Rev. Jim Whittle from Equipping Leaders International

1 You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus,

2 and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

3 Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

4 No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him.

5 An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.

6 It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops.

7 Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything.

John 4:1-14 (ESV)

The Samaritan

1 Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

2 (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples),

3 he left Judea and departed again for Galilee.

4 And he had to pass through Samaria.

5 So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

6 Jacob’s well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.

7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”

8 (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.)

9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

The Water

The Messiah (Verses 10, 12, 14)

10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water?

12 Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.”

13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again,

14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

John 3:16-21 (ESV)

The World

16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Faith

18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

Judgment and Salvation

19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.

20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.

21 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

February 19th 2023

John 3:9-15 (ESV)

Man’s Doubt and Ignorance

9 Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?”

10 Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?

Man’s Rejection and Unbelief

11 Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.

12 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

Jesus’ Someone and Glory

13 No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.

14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.”

February 12th 2023

Birth Announcements

John 3:1-8 (ESV)

New Birth and Perception

1. Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 

2. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him. 

3. Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

4. Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”  

New Birth and the Spirit

5. Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God

6. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 

7. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’

8. The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

February 5th 2023

The Power of Salvation

John 23-25 (ESV)

The Foundation of Faith:

23. Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing.

The Problem of Man:

24. But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all
    people
25. and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man.