Youth: "How the Descriptions of Jesus in John Can Help My Faith" by Scott Cain

April 20, 2024 - Saturday 1:30PM Tent Speaker

 

Speaker: Scott Cain

John 20:31

Faith

• Trust in an individual
  • a lot of description of Jesus in John

 

Faith faces the fact of…

Jesus' Facts (John 1:1-14)

• Jesus’ Rationality (John 1:1-3)
• Jesus’ Identity (John 1:1-17)

“The World”	Jesus
In the Beginning	Eternal
With God	Distinct from the Father
Was God	Deity/Godhead
All… Made by Him	Creator
Flesh… dwelt among us	Human
Only begotten	Son of God
Grace and Truth	Brought Grace and Truth

• Jesus’ Reality (John 1:14)
  • John bases his description of Jesus on evidence
  • Gnostics - made up, what they claim they knew
    • Ex. Dualism: spiritual =good and humanity = bad
      • Jesus wasn’t actual physical
      • Others claim Jesus was physical but not deity
      • Know-it-alls that didn’t know anything

Jesus’ Forgiveness

• John 1:29 words of John the Baptist
• Isaiah 53:4-7 suffering servant
• “It’s not ok, but it’s going to be ok”
• John 12:32

• Model of forgiveness (Personal and moving passages on forgiveness)

  • John 5:14 (general forgiveness)
  • John 4:17-18, 21 (woman at the well)
  • John 8:7, 11 (woman caught in act of adultery, failed to catch her accomplice)
  • John 13:38; 21:17 (Peter will deny Jesus 3x) why did Peter go back to tomb a 2nd time?  Peter wept bitterly over his own actions. 
  • Every time sin happens, someone made a choice

• Motive of Forgiveness (John 3:16)

Jesus’ Friendship (John 15:13)

• Out of Friendship…
  • He died for me (John 15:13)
  • I live for Him (John 15:14)
  • He shared His Father’s Will (John 15:15)
  • I have His Father’s Ear (15:15, 16:27)

 

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4ESJBRbG2k

 

Duration 41:43