JOHN - The JESUS IS Gospel

In this conclusion to our Journey Through John's Gospel, the truth is declared from Chapter 21 concerning our calling to follow Jesus Christ, while dealing with anything that would distract us from doing so.

From his own life and the story Simon Peter's restoration, Elder Greg Harrell boldly declares and teaches keys to walking out genuine reconciliation, even if it is not easy.

Learn the importance of being a disciple, empowered by the Holy Spirit, willing to continue Christ's ministry by doing outreaches and living as team-players, as well doing our part in sending others out, along with important resources, in answer to the prayer request of Jesus for more laborers in His harvest fields.

May the Lord use these nuggets of truth - relating to His resurrection - to strengthen your faith in Him.

While Jesus has "finished" His redemptive work for us on His cross, now He is continuing His works by bringing others into the full benefits of that redemption, through His redeemed people, according to His statement, "...as the Father has sent Me, so send I you..."

While suffering for our salvation, Jesus was given distasteful vinegar on a nasty sponge at the end of a stick, after which He said, "It is finished" and died. Having experienced humanity's wickedness and sin's cruelty at its worst, up to the very end of His innocent life, our redemption was purchased and our ransom fully paid.

Be encouraged by the truths of the Gospel concerning how Jesus Christ was the perfect offering for our salvation from the power of and penalty for our sins.

Be inspired by the example of Jesus Christ, Who although He had divine rights and royalty, He gave them all up for the sake of the God's Kingdom.

Encouraging words for us are gleaned from the story of Christ's betrayal, as to how we were benefited by it through His resurrection and for how we should respond when we taste such pain from the hand of a friend.

From the real Lord's prayer in JOHN 17, we can see His heart for our unity and it's relevance to effective evangelism. In this sermon, the hearers are challenged to submit their selfish desire to His desires.

While predicting great sorrow, Christ promised His disciples greater joy that could not be taken from them. In this sermon, the truth is declared concerning hard times and our assured joy with ultimate victory.

Jesus Christ promised what had already been predicted when speaking of the Holy Spirit. In this teaching, you will hear several Biblical reasons for believing and receiving this promise, Who is our Helper.

Unlike our attempts to frame Jesus Christ in our own image, the real One is real honest, really unpopular and real comforting. In this continuation of our journey through John's Gospel, you will hear more encouraging words and also some very true things that will not be very enjoyable but - when realized - are necessary for our being real Christ followers.

From making His borrowed tomb empty to filling our empty hearts, the influence and ministry of Jesus Christ continues on the earth today. In this sermon, you will hear the Good News of the Resurrection - as well as several logical reasons to believe it - communicated in a memorable and encouraging way.

While expressing His love for His disciples, Jesus called them His friends. Based on His choosing, this loving friendship is one to enjoy and never take for granted and one to invite others into.

Our strength and fruitfulness as believers is derived from a real and ongoing relationship with Jesus Christ, starting with believing in and receiving His love for us always.

As the Word, Jesus was in the beginning with God, as the Messiah, He was in the beginning with His disciples and as our Savior, He was the beginner of His Church. In this sermon, Dr. Wayne Wilks teaches the importance of how things begin, while emphasizing the Jewishness of our faith and our need to recognize such, for the sake of our unity and witness to all ethnicities.

While many hated Jesus Christ, He never stopped loving people. In this sermon, Greg Harrell declares the truth concerning our call to follow Jesus and represent Him to a fallen world.

Like a jeweler displaying his jewels on dark fabric, so Jesus used his impending - though temporal - doom and gloom as a back drop to display precious promises to His followers who would need such encouragement in a few hours. May this attitude and practice be ours, enabling us to encourage others in the midst of our own possible discouragement.

From Jesus Christ's exclusive declaration for His being the only way to the Father, the truth is declared about the life we are called to live for the glory of His name.

Receiving Christ's undeserved love for ourselves leads us to His command to love one another the same. Loving us first set the stage for our loving obedience to His will for us to love.

In this teaching, the truth is declared concerning Christ's loving His disciples till the very end of His physical life. If He - our Lord and Master - was willing to wash the dirty feet of those who would betray, deny and abandon Him in just a few hours, how much more willing should we be to serve others?

In this sermon, you will hear the importance of heeding the call of God now. While His grace is extended to us - freely - today, it may not always be extended indefinitely. Therefore, those who the Holy Spirit is drawing to Jesus today would do well to respond sooner than later.

Why did Jesus refer to Himself as the Son of Man, more than any other of His many identifications? In this teaching, Pastor Alan proclaims some of the encouraging things about our Savior being the Son of Man, for us.

From Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, in the midst of thousands of people, while riding on a - never been ridden before - colt of a donkey, we can see both His humility and authority at work, as He headed toward the cross.

From the story of Mary - the sister of Martha and Lazarus - pouring out her costly oil upon Jesus' body, the truth is emphasized concerning our place and function in expressing the honor that He is worthy of, as well as our gratitude.

From the legitimate prophecy coming from the High Priest, while plotting Christ's death, we can easily see how God ultimately brings His purposes to pass, even through His enemies.

Knowing Christ as our Savior includes knowing Him as our Resurrection. In this sermon about the raising of Lazarus, Pastor Alan declares the foundation of our hope and faith as being in the person of Jesus, our Death and Resurrection.

Jesus saves and He is able to keep us saved, proving that all the glory for our salvation goes totally to Him. In this sermon from JOHN 10:22-42, you will hear the truth proclaimed concerning the keeping hand of God in the lives of His children.

After leading the formerly blind man to faith, Jesus declares Himself to be the good shepherd, which was an indirect rebuke of Israel's bad religious leadership, relating them to thieves and robbers. In this teaching, the hearer is encouraged to follow the good shepherd in every area of life, resulting in our being like Him.

From this amazing story of Jesus healing a blind man - with dirt and spit - on the Sabbath Day, the truth is told about different kinds of blindness and our need for the healing of Christ's ministry.

Pastor Garry Spotts delivers a masterful discourse on the humanity of Christ and why He prayed. While not coming from John's Gospel, we felt our JESUS IS Series would not be as complete without this important sermon.

While declaring His divinity, Christ appeared to be blasphemous to those religious leaders who would not believe in Him. In applying the penalty for such a perceived wrong, these unbelievers began plotting His death, which would result in fulfilling God's plan for His Son to die unjustly.

Embracing the truth of this sermon will surely change the lives of all who listen. Just as the finished works of Jesus frees us from the penalty of sin, so the heeded words of Jesus frees us from the power of sin.

Through Jesus Christ's offering up of Himself for our sins, we have freedom from the plight of dying in our sins. This is the gospel to be declared to and through us all.

Immediately following His delivering of a woman caught in adultery, Christ declares Himself to be the light of the world, Who, if followed, will lead His followers from darkness to the light of life. This teaching concludes with our call to be His light in the world.

From the story of Jesus' freeing the woman caught committing adultery springs the glorious truth of how He still changes our lives for the better, by paying the penalty and breaking the power of our sins.

While Jesus promises living water to all who will believe in Him, the joy of responding is our's - for letting His abundant life and boundless love flow through us to others - by way of listening to His Spirit and doing what He leads us to do for others, who might be thirsty for God. In this sermon, Rocky Gathright does an eloquent job in communicating this truth and applying it to the many opportunities we have in our unique places in the world.

In the midst of doubt, unbelief and outright hatred, Jesus declares who He is as the source of living water for all who are thirsty. In spite of His enemies' threats, Christ gives out promises for all will believe in Him.

Pointing out three of the paradoxes in JOHN 6, Pastor Alan declares the truth concerning Christ being the only source of eternal life and our need for God to draw us to Himself, as well as how some people will resist His intervention on their behalf.

On the day after miraculously feeding 5,000 men - plus women and children - Jesus is approached by many of the same people for more amazing signs; to whom He declared how He was the Bread of Life, sent from Heaven to give eternal life to all who would believe in Him.

The story of Jesus' walking on the water reveals not only His Deity but also His Name as I AM. In JOHN 6:20, He is quoted as saying, "It is I, do not be afraid." but Christ actually said, "I am, do not be afraid."