The Gospel of John

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In the Beginning Was the Word

Sep 21, 2008

Whatever else you may enjoy about Jesus, John’s Gospel wants you to know and treasure Jesus in his infinite majesty.

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In Him Was Life

Oct 5, 2008

Not only is Jesus the Life that created all material life, but he is the Life that creates all eternal life.

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John Was Not the Light, but a Witness to the Light

Oct 12, 2008

Let's join John the Baptist in saying, “Jesus must increase, but I must decrease.”

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We Beheld His Glory, Full of Grace and Truth

Nov 2, 2008

By becoming a man, Jesus shows us the glory of God.

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From His Fullness We Have All Received, Grace Upon Grace

Nov 9, 2008

Those who by grace are born of God have seen the glory of God that Moses asked to see but wasn't permitted.

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Behold the Lamb of God

Nov 16, 2008

Those who embrace Jesus as their Lamb and their Lord will be sheltered from God's otherwise inescapable wrath.

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This Is He Who Baptizes with the Holy Spirit

Nov 23, 2008

“Baptism with the Spirit” in John is not a technical term for one experience of the Christian life, but a general term for all that the Holy Spirit does for us because of Christ.

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We Have Found the Messiah

Nov 30, 2008

7 ways John shows us the glory of Jesus.

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Son of God, Son of Man, King of Israel

Dec 7, 2008

Jesus’s many titles show his divinity and universal rule, yet his identity is what drove man’s wickedness to reject and kill him.

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Obedient Son, Ultimate Purifier, All-Providing Bridegroom

Dec 14, 2008

3 of Christ's glories on display in John 2.

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Destroy This Temple, and in Three Days I Will Raise It Up

Dec 21, 2008

Jesus is the new temple. Authentic worship is no longer attached to any place. It is attached to Jesus.

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Put in the Fire for the Sake of Prayer

Dec 28, 2008

God can put his people through the fires of suffering to awaken our appetite for prayer.

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If My Words Abide in You

Jan 4, 2009

When you let Jesus’s words abide in you, they will grow into a bountiful harvest for God’s glory and your good.

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He Knew What Was in Man

Jan 11, 2009

Jesus knows everything about everyone and is still willing to love those who trust in him.

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The Son of Man Must Be Lifted Up — Like the Serpent

Apr 5, 2009

Jesus saves us by becoming a curse for us. Only in this substitution can we find blessing.

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I Have Seen the Lord

Easter Sunday

Apr 12, 2009

Twenty centuries later, we can still see the truth of the Resurrection.

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The Free Will of the Wind

Apr 26, 2009

The wind of God’s Spirit gives new birth to whomever he pleases.

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God So Loved the World

Part 1

May 3, 2009

We have eternal life because Christ died in our place and because in him is life. He removes God’s wrath, and he supplies the everlasting life we don’t have.

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God So Loved the World

Part 2

May 10, 2009

John 3:16 represents a glorious love, but there is more to God’s love than the free offer of the gospel.

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This Is the Judgment: Light Has Come into the World

May 17, 2009

Jesus didn't come to a neutral world. He came to those already dead and guilty to make some alive and free.

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He Must Increase, I Must Decrease

May 24, 2009

Only when we decrease and Christ increases will we have full joy.

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The Father Has Given All Things into Jesus’s Hands

May 31, 2009

The Gospel of John lifts Jesus up as coming from God, being full of God, and speaking and ruling as God.

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You Will Never Be Thirsty Again

Jun 14, 2009

Jesus reveals our woeful condition that causes our thirst, and then offers his cup of grace so we never have to thirst again.

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The Tragic Cost of Her Cavernous Thirst

Jun 21, 2009

Our hearts wander to the sewer even though Jesus offers living water. Only he can transform and satisfy our deepest desires.

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Not in This or That Mount, but in Spirit and Truth

Jun 28, 2009

Only those who know Jesus have the Spirit and know the truth that makes real worship possible.

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The Food of Christ Is to Give Eternal Life

Aug 9, 2009

The natural timeframe of sowing and reaping does not pertain to Jesus and his saving power.

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Go, Your Son Will Live

Aug 16, 2009

What do Jesus' miracles say about Jesus?

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Healed for the Sake of Holiness

Aug 23, 2009

Jesus healed a few but left many more unhealed. Until he comes back, the main issue is not that we have perfect physical health, but that we meet him in our brokenness.

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Jesus: Equal With God

Sep 6, 2009

John 5:1-24 has at least 3 extraordinary things to teach us about Jesus.

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The Life-Giving Voice of the Son of God

Sep 13, 2009

At least six observations about the final judgment can be made from John 5:25-29.

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The Love of Human Praise as the Root of Unbelief

Sep 20, 2009

The dry root of unbelief is the desire for self-praise, but true faith seeks satisfaction in Christ, the fount of living waters.

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If You Believed Moses, You Would Believe Me, for He Wrote of Me

Oct 4, 2009

Wherever God is revealed in the Old Testament, Jesus is revealed.

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The All-Providing King Who Would Not Be King

Nov 1, 2009

Jesus came not mainly to give bread but to be bread. He became the all-satisfying bread of life when he gave himself up for us.

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Twelve Baskets of Bread and the Walk on Water

Nov 8, 2009

Jesus’ presence brings the kind of fullness that produces generosity and risk-taking in his church.

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Do Not Labor for the Food That Perishes

Nov 15, 2009

Jesus offers himself to us freely as the food that endures to eternal life. No amount of working for God can make you taste him for the feast he is.

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Behold, Believe, Be Raised

Nov 22, 2009

We should hunger and thirst for God and all he has done in Jesus more than anything else in this world.

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Skeptical Grumbling and Sovereign Grace

Nov 29, 2009

When we come to Jesus, we come voluntarily and freely. And behind that change in us is a decisive work of the Father.

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They Will All Be Taught of God

Dec 6, 2009

We come to God not because we merely made a decision, but because God has called us, drawn us, and taught us who Jesus really is.

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It Is the Spirit That Gives Life

Dec 13, 2009

As once-adoring followers disappear, Jesus’s message becomes clearer and clearer: their resistance itself is in God’s hands.

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You Have the Words of Eternal Life

Dec 20, 2009

Christmas is for salvation. God sent his Son into the world to save it, not condemn it.

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The Common Root of Unbelief in the Brothers of Jesus and the Jewish Crowds

Jan 30, 2011

Faith, at its core, is despairing of human approval and being glad in the God of grace.

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Willing God’s Will as a Way of Knowing Christ’s Word

Feb 14, 2011

You can’t know Jesus until your will is to do God’s will. And God’s will is to make much of himself.

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Out of Your Heart Will Flow Rivers of Living Water

Feb 20, 2011

Every river of joy in your soul will flow from Jesus. When you come to him, you get him. And he never leaves.

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No One Ever Spoke Like This Man

Feb 27, 2011

Jesus will not allow you to call him merely interesting, intelligent, or instructive. Everyone must reckon with his actual claims.

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Neither Do I Condemn You

Mar 6, 2011

The Bible has unrivaled historical evidence. You can trust this book with your life because God has kept his word pure through the ages.

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I Am the Light of the World

Mar 12, 2011

There is no light besides Jesus. It’s Jesus or darkness. It’s life or death. Choose this day whom you shall serve.

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The Truth Will Set You Free

Mar 19, 2011

Self-justification won’t work. Only Jesus can free you from Satan’s chains.

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If You Abide in My Word, You Are Truly My Disciples

Apr 16, 2011

The mark of the true disciple is lasting, enduring, persevering, and keeping on in the force field of the word.

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You Will Know the Truth and the Truth Will Set You Free

Easter Sunday

Apr 23, 2011

Don’t envy the freedom of those who pitch themselves out the skyscraper window of sin.

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You Will Never See Death

May 14, 2011

One day your strength will fade and your body will fail, but if you are trusting in Jesus you will never see death.

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Why Was This Child Born Blind?

May 21, 2011

Every sorrow and every time we suffer, there is a divinely designed purpose to display God’s glory and increase our joy.

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The Works of God and the Worship of Jesus

Jun 4, 2011

Jesus does the very works of God so that all might know that he himself is God.

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For Judgment I Came into This World

Jun 11, 2011

Sin blinds us all. We can only stumble about in darkness until Jesus takes us by the hand, and leads us into his heavenly light.

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My Abandoned Life for Your Abundant Life

Aug 6, 2011

Abundant life is not about having more stuff, but about having Jesus. Only he can save, satisfy, and give life because he is is the way, the truth, and the life.

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I Have Other Sheep That Are Not of This Fold

Aug 13, 2011

Everyone who believes in Jesus is a member of his flock. If you’re his, he’ll keep you safely to the end.

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I and the Father Are One

Aug 20, 2011

At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter, 23 and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the colonnade of Solomon. 24 So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, “How long…

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This Illness Is for the Glory of God

Sep 10, 2011

Jesus loved Lazarus so much that he allowed him to die. But he also raised Lazarus to life and promises to do the same for all who trust in him.

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Jesus Is the Resurrection and the Life

Sep 17, 2011

God does not mainly love us in this life by sparing us from suffering. He mainly loves us by giving us more of himself and his glory.

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Jesus Died to Gather the Children of God

Oct 29, 2011

John 11:45–57 — Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him, 46 but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47 So…

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Leave Her Alone, Judas — This Is for My Burial

Nov 5, 2011

If Jesus is your greatest treasure, then your affections for him should be lavish and unbounded.

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If a Grain of Wheat Dies, It Bears Much Fruit

Nov 12, 2011

The Christian life is far from being easy. It’s no stroll in the park. But God guarantees that our journey will end in glory.

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For This Purpose I Have Come to This Hour

Dec 3, 2011

“Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But for this purpose I have come to this hour. 28 Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified…

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Belief in Jesus

Its Barriers and Blessings

Dec 10, 2011

God is sovereign not only over our belief, but also our unbelief. He plans both for his glory in all things.

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For His Sake and for Your Joy, Go Low

Dec 17, 2011

All Christians have the high, spiritual status of being a child of God. And with this high standing, there is a call to go low.

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You Cannot Follow Me Now

Mar 10, 2012

Only Jesus could do the saving work we needed. Only he could bear the awesome weight of our sin.

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As I Have Loved You, Love One Another

Mar 17, 2012

John 13:31–38 When [Judas] had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32 If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at…

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I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life

Mar 23, 2012

Jesus prepares a place in paradise for all his people. Trust him now, and you’ll reap untold riches — now and forever.

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Doing the Works of Jesus and Greater Works

Apr 21, 2012

God equips his people with everything we need to serve him. And we will do even greater works than Jesus himself.

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If Anyone Loves Me, He Will Keep My Word

Jun 2, 2012

Loving Jesus is not a matter of doing excellent things. It’s a matter of delighting in an excellent Savior.

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My Peace I Give to You

Jun 9, 2012

When Jesus went to the cross, he not only desired our faith, joy, and peace; he also secured them.