As we examine the second part of John 8:1-11, Jesus will show us how God’s sense of mercy also changes our hearts in four ways… 1st) When we realize God takes sin seriously, 2nd) When We Realize Jesus Came to Pay the Debt for Our Sins, 3rd) When We Bring Our Sins to Christ and Find Mercy, 4th) When Christ Calls Us to Obedience and Growth

In John 8:1-11, Jesus transforms our understanding of justice and mercy and show us that in him, God has come to bring us both in the way we most need. (Part 1) First, we will see, How Jesus transforms our sense of justice us with God's sense of justice. (Part 2) And, second, we will see, How Jesus transforms our sense of mercy with God’s mercy.

In John 7, especially verses 33-39, we will be discussing “Streams of Living Water and the Satisfied Heart.” In this powerful scene, Jesus will show us three things. First, How God alone Can Satisfy Our Deepest Thirsts Second, How God in Jesus Came to Satisfy Our Deepest Thirsts And, Third, How We Can Experience God's Overflowing Life

And as we look at John 7, and the book of John as a whole, we find that John is asking us again the big question, “What will you do with Jesus?” To help us process that question, we will ask two questions. First, How Does Jesus Force Us to Respond to Him? Second, How Are You (Personally) Responding to Jesus Right Now?

Jesus will show us the difference between Bad, Life-Taking Judgment, and Good, Life-Giving Judgment. First, Jesus will show us, “The Problem of Bad Judgment: Judging According to What Appears Right to Us.”Second, Jesus will show us, “The Solution to Bad Judgment: Judging According to the Heart of What God Says.”

We will be discussing three ways we can obey the call of “Overcoming with Christ’s Love in an Age of Hate.” 1st) We Overcome Hate with Humility, Because, in Christ, God Loves Us Even When We Don’t Deserve It, 2nd) We Overcome Hate with Genuine Love, Because, in Christ, God Overcomes Our Opposition with Genuine Love, And, 3rd) We Overcome Hate with Good, Because, in Christ, God is Good and Just in the Face of Evil.

When Jesus’s disciples get frustrated with the request of some parents, Jesus himself uses the situation to turn around and humble them, teaching them a very important spiritual lesson about how we too need to, “Come to God Like Children.” 1st) Jesus passionately wants us to know that all are welcome to come to him, especially those we consider unworthy. 2nd) Jesus passionately wants us to know that if we would receive God’s blessings, we must come with the dependency of a child.

And as we look at Jesus’s teaching in the temple, we focus on three key ideas. First, we will see, that You Can Be Close to Jesus Without Really Knowing Him. Second, We will see Jesus Give Us a Test for Finding God, by asking the question, “What Do You Really Want?” And, third, we will try to apply all these things to our own hearts.

In Jesus’s surprising response to his brothers we see is Jesus gives us two keys to understanding why God’s work isn’t often more obvious in their lives and in our own. First, Jesus Says God’s Work Faces Opposition from Us, No Matter How Obvious to Us. And, second, Jesus Came to Make God’s Work Obvious to Us, No Matter the Opposition from Us.

Jesus shows us three struggles and marks of what it means to truly follow God. 1) Be Prepared: Because truly following God is always hard. 2) Be Humble: Because truly following God is impossible without the help of God's Spirit. 3) Be Faithful: Because Jesus is the reason we endure it all.