April 19, 2024 - Friday 1:30PM MPR 4 Speaker

Speaker: Ty Rhymes

Duration 38:49

April 19, 2024 - Friday 1:30PM Auditorium Speaker

Speaker: Glen Hitchcock

Good news for thirsty people, John 4

• A Great Chapter on Personal Soulwinning.

• The "Must" for the Winner of Souls (4:4)

• Living Water is Dispensable, 4:4-15

• Away to Galilee, 4:1-3

• “Jesus came to the fountain as a hunter...He threw a grain before one pigeon that He might catch the whole flock... At the beginning of the conversation, He did not make Himself known to her, but first she caught sight of a thirsty man, then a Jew, then a Rabbi, afterwards a prophet, last of all the Messiah. She tried to get the better of the thirsty man, she showed her dislike of the Jew, she heckled the Rabbi, she was swept off her feet by the prophet, and she adored the Christ.”

Rev. 22:17 - And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDtmyV2DyfY

Duration 40:18

April 19, 2024 - Friday 1:10PM Auditorium Speaker

Speaker: Kason Eubanks

Sanctify Them Through Your Truth

There were twin brothers: Truth and Lie. They stood next to a river outside of town. Lie challenged Truth to a race claiming he could swim faster than truth. Lie laid out the rules that they would both remove all of their clothes, he would count to three then they would dive into the freezing cold water and swim to the other side of the river and back. Lie counted to three. But when Truth jumped in, Lie did not. He put on Truth's clothes and walked back into town. He made a big show as he walked around town pretending to be Truth. When Truth made it back to shore he could only find Lie's clothes. He didn't want to put on Lie's clothes so Truth walked back to town naked. People stared and glared as Truth walked through town. He tried to explain what happened and that he really was Truth. The people made fun of him and wouldn't go near him. They wouldn't believe he was really Truth. The people in town chose to believe Lie because he was dressed appropriately and easier to look at. From that day on people have chosen to believe a Lie rather than a naked Truth.

Using this old tale Kason, illustrates how we typically ignore the truth of Jesus and falls for the lies presented by society, because it is better looking or more in sync with man's ideas.

Psalms 24:4-5 - He who has clean hands and a pure heart,

John 3:21 -  But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

John 8:37-38 -  I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you. 38 I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”

John 8:28 - So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.

John 14:6 - Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 17:17 - Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

John 16:7-11 - Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. 8 And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: 9 concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; 10 concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer; 11 concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

Ephesians 4:21-25 - 21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, 22 to put off your old self,[a] which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

25 Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5on7bC6sDts

Duration 6:06

April 19, 2024 - Friday 11:00AM MPR 1 Speaker

Speaker: Bud Woodall

John 20:30-31-

30 Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; 31 but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

By the time of the writing of his gospel John was an old man. He could remember being called to follow Jesus, the feeding of the 5,000, Lazarus coming out of the cave, and cries of the crowd as Jesus was crucified. John could recall seeing Jesus ascending into the clouds. There were at this time already the gospels by Mathew, Mark, and Luke. But John saw that something was being missed by the readers of the other accounts.

John wants you to know Jesus, such that you may believe and have everlasting life. John's gospel uses some words more repetitively than any other gospel because of this upward focus.

John looks at Jesus's identity and the work of Jesus.

• John looks at Jesus through the lens of eternity - John 1:1-4

All of this comes together such that we should see that Jesus came to earth for us that we may receive eternal life.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3ZIUhikUW4

Duration 37:53

April 19, 2024 - Friday 11:00AM MPR 4 Speaker

Speaker: Barry Grider

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

Duration 42:23

April 19, 2024 - Friday 11:00AM Auditorium Speaker

Speaker: Hiram Kemp

Eternal Life

5 Realities that must be true if you want eternal life:

• You must have a new birth - John 3:1-8, Heb 4:13

• Modern often charismatic term is “born again”

• Jn 3:9-15

• Jn 3: 16-21

• Realize Jesus’ place of preeminence

• Jn 3:22-30

• Receiving Jesus’ Testimony and Obeying

• Jn 3:31-36

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_SJ2cmStbM

Duration 40:06

April 19, 2024 - Friday 10:00AM MPR 4 Speaker

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FjC_AoNMM4

Duration 43:30

April 19, 2024 - Friday 10:00AM MPR 1 Speaker

Speaker: Kristy Woodall

Submitting to His Lordship like Mary, the Mother of Jesus

Lk 1:38

Faith that made her willing

Servant of God

Lk 2:35

She would suffer

Lk 2:48

Was she angry?

Lk 2:51

Cherished and committed to memory

Acts 1:14 devoted to prayer with the disciples after his ascension

Three things to consider when submitting to His Lordship – it is so much more than just baptism. There is a burden, a benefit, and a bargain

• The Burden

• The burden of Biblical submission – arranging yourself under another’s authority is very difficult for most to do. We cannot be our own boss and submit.

• 1 John 5:11 eternal life

• Bargain

• If we agree to and abide by the “burdens” mentioned it still wouldn’t be enough.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugJY9PNHx7w

Duration 38:08

April 19, 2024 - Friday 10:00AM Auditorium Speaker 

Speaker: Steve Higginbotham

Looking at John chapter 2

2 On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. 3 When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” 4 And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” 5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

6 Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.[a] 7 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. 8 And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it. 9 When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom 10 and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.” 11 This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.

12 After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and his brothers[b] and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.

13 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. 15 And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. 16 And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a house of trade.” 17 His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

18 So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?” 19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” 20 The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple,[c] and will you raise it up in three days?” 21 But he was speaking about the temple of his body. 22 When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing. 24 But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people 25 and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man.

Have you ever wished to witness some of Jesus's miracles. The book of John was written to show the reader that Jesus was the true messiah because of the signs ( or miracles) he performed and fulfilled.

In chapter 2 we see two of these signs which give evidence of his authority but also shows his mission.

Although it was not the fullness of time, still Jesus assisted with a small matter of life by the changing of the wine.

Jesus cleanses the temple of distractions, such that worship was the primary focus.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_ia_VSTTH8

Duration 37:34

April 19, 2024 - Friday 9:00AM MPR 4 Speaker

Speaker: Gale Nelson 

The power of interpersonal skills

• don’t take it personally it’s just business

Pursuit of peace

• Heard don’t burn any bridges. Do you know any people that have burnt a bridge at work, home, or church?

Example of Jesus

• He don’t compromise the message

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh3uu3pe4f4

Duration 43:47