- The Resurrection of Jesus Christ
- Jesus and Mary
- Grief by the grave (v11-15)
- ‘Mary’ (v16)
- ‘My Father and your Father’ (v17)
- ‘I have seen the Lord’ (v18)
- Jesus and Us
- Believing without seeing
- ‘We have “seen” the Lord’
To see the gospel bear fruit in the Inner West and the World as we commit, grow, engage and send.
Sermons on John
- True and False Shepherds (v1-10)
- The Good Shepherd Lays Down His Life (v11-18)
- My Sheep Hear My Voice (v25-28)
- Jesus is really, truly God, just like the Father is God
- Jesus is really, truly human, just like we are
- Jesus is really, truly one person, not two
- Fatherhood and Power – the sent-ness of the Son
- The suffering of the cross
***Please note that due to technical errors, the last 5 minutes of the sermon are not included in this recording***
- The Controversy Continues (v22-30)
- They refuse to believe (v25a)
- There’s plenty of evidence (v25b)
- God determines who is in his flock (v26-28a)
- God’s people are eternally secure (v28-30)
- Jesus is indivisible from God (v30)
- Jesus bamboozles and his opponents fume (v31-39)
- Jesus retreats for another day (festival) (v40-42)
Video – C.S. Lewis excerpts from his books ‘God in the Dock’ and ‘Mere Christianity’
- Jesus is the Shepherd (who cares for his sheep) v1-10
- Intimate and tender image
- Sheep aren’t the smartest or the strongest
- But, each of us is precious in his sight
- Jesus is the only way in
- He comes to give us life, and every other option leads to death
- Jesus is the Good Shepherd (who dies for his sheep) v11-21
- Jesus has sheep outside Israel and he’s going to gather them in too
- Jesus’ intimate relationship with the sheep is like his relationship with the father
- His father loves him because he is aligned with his fathers plan
- He lays down his life
- No one takes his life from him, he lays it own of his own will
- He will take it up again
- Jesus makes the blind man see (aka the light shines in the darkness) v1-12
- The Pharisees condemn Jesus for healing a man v13-34
- His crime is working on the Sabbath v16
- It’s obvious that a sinner could not do such miraculous signs v16
- The Pharisees had already decided that Jesus wasn’t the Christ v22
- They establish the truth of the miracle, it is undeniable v25
- The Pharisees become more and more adamant that Jesus is a sinner v24, 29
- The blind man sees (aka the light shines in the darkness) v35-41
- Jesus is the Light of the World
- Jesus’ Light reveals what is hiding in the darkness
- Who’s your father?
- The truth will set you free
- The Blind Men and the Elephant
- We’re blind because we reject Jesus, because he exposes our sin
- Jesus offers living water: God Himself