As shown by the Pharisees in their response to Jesus, unbelief is a heart issue. No amount of evidence will suffice for the person determined to seek his own way to reconciliation to God. But God! God sent his Son into

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•      The Root of Unbelief

•       Answering the Charge

•       The Exclusivity of Salvation

In one verse, the saving gospel of Jesus Christ is proclaimed. Jesus is the light of the world that illuminates the darkness. He is the Christ sent to defeat sin and to bring sight to the spiritually blind. The promise is salvation for all who will follow him.

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•       The Setting

•       The Claim

•      The Condition

•      The Promise

Too often God’s patience and forbearance with sin are misinterpreted to be signs of his acceptance. God’s compassion for us is not shown in accepting sin but in mercifully accepting all sinners who will come to Jesus in repentance and faith for salvation. The infinite wisdom of Jesus is demonstrated as he addresses the hypocrisy of the religious elite and shows compassion to a guilty sinner.

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•      The Wickedness of Hypocrisy

•      The Compassionate Christ

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•       Grace: A Conditional Offer

•       Outward Focus of the Spirit-Filled Life

•       True Grace Divides

How people answer the question determines their eternal

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•       Knowing God IS Believing in Christ Jesus

•       Comfort in the Sovereignty of God

•       The Eternal Consequences of Unbelief

Jesus commands his followers to judge not by appearances

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•       The Bold Authority of Jesus

•       The Will to Know

•       Applying the Truth: Righteous Judgment

Since the advent of Christ, the question is not so much whether one believes in Jesus but what a person believes about Him. This passage displays God’s perfect timing, while Jesus encounters more crowds. They all have a view about Jesus, but do they savingly believe?

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•       God’s Timing

•       Believing Unbelief

•       Proper Time to Feast

•       Nobody Ignores Jesus

A crowd followed Jesus eagerly, but when the true Word of God was proclaimed, they faced the same choice everyone faces today: humbly submit to the truth—believe for forgiveness and eternal life, or reject Jesus and his call for repentance and faith. Jesus’s response brings glory to God

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•      The Offense of the Cross

•       Spirit and Word

•       God’s Glory in the Great Confession

Like a child misbehaving because of hunger, the spiritually

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•       Grumbling in Disbelief

•       Saved by Sovereign Grace

•       Believing is Eating (A Perfect Metaphor)

Can salvation and eternal life, once given by grace through

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•       The Will of God

•       Resting in God’s Preservation

•       Running with Perseverance

•       Blessed Assurance