Equipped 2024 - 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