566 FBCWest | Testimony Concerning Jesus

Proclamation of the Word

Message by Pastor Joe

Sermon Notes

John 5:31 Jesus acknowledges if He only testifies that is not proof

John 5:32 There are others who have testified about Jesus

John 5:33 – 35 John the Baptist (The Testifier) testified

John 5:36 Jesu’s works testifies who He is

John 5:37 & 38 The Father testified, but they haven’t heard Him

John 5:39 & 40 The Scriptures testified who Jesus is

John 5:41 – 43 They didn’t receive Jesus because He came in the Father’s name

John 5:44 – 47 Moses, not Jesus, accuses their unbelief

565 FBCWest | The Dead Will Hear His Voice

Proclamation of the Word

Message by Pastor Joe

Sermon Notes

John 5:24 If you hear Jesus’s words and believe God who sent Him, you have eternal life

John 5:25 The dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and live

John 5:26 & 27 The Father who has life granted the Son to have life and further gave Him authority over judgment

John 5:28 & 29 There are two resurrections

John 5:30 Jesus does nothing on His own initiative, but since He seeks God’s will He judges justly

564 FBCWest | Jesus Equal with the Father

Proclamation of the Word

Message by Pastor Joe

“Jesus Equal with the Father”

Sermon Notes

John 5:18 Religious leaders wanted to kill Jesus for breaking the Sabbath and claiming to be equal with God

John 5:19 The Son’s activities are restricted to what the Father is doing

John 5:20 The Father loves the Son and is showing Him all things and even will show Him greater works so people will marvel

John 5:21 Just as the Father raises the dead so will the Son

John 5:22 The Father has assigned judgment to the Son

John 5:23 If you do not honor the Son, you do not honor the Father

Philippians 2:5 - 11 Confessing the Son glorifies the Father

Proclamation of the Word

Message by Pastor Joe

“Working on the Sabbath”

“Holy Forever”

Benediction “There Is Freedom”

Sermon Notes

John 5:1 Jesus in Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews

John 5:2, & 5 Many sick were at the pool of Bethesda hoping to get well

John 5:6 – 9 Jesus heals a man on the Sabbath

John 5:10 & 11 The man was told it was not permissible to carry his pallet on the Sabbath. His response the man who healed him said to do it

John 5:12 & 13 They ask who that was, but he did not know

John 5:14 Jesus meets the man again and tells him not to sin anymore so that nothing worse happens to him

John 5:15 & 16 The man tells the Jews it was Jesus and they start persecuting Jesus because He healed on the Sabbath

John 5:17 Jesus’ response the Father and Him are working

562 FBCWest | Your Son Lives

Proclamation of the Word

Message by Pastor Joe

“Your Son Lives”

Sermon Notes

John 4:39 – 43 Many of the Samaritans believed in Jesus

John 4:44 Jesus says a prophet is without honor in his own country

John 4:45 Jesus arrives in Galilee and the people received Him because they saw what He did in Jerusalem

John 4:46 & 47 Jesus goes to Cana and a royal official from Capernaum meets Him to ask that Jesus come with him to heal his son

John 4:48 Jesus says “Unless you people see a sign, you will not believe”

John 4:49 The royal official is persistent

John 4:50 Jesus tells him “Go his son lives” and the father starts in his belief

John 4:51 & 52 A slave meets the father and tells him his son wass living and there is a conversation when the son was healed

John 4:53 The father and his whole family come to faith

John 4:54 A second sign

561 FBCWest | Food

Proclamation of the Word

Message by Pastor Joe

“Food”

PRAYER TIME / Time of Reflection

“Way Maker”

Benediction “There Is Freedom”

Sermon Notes

John 4:27 & 28 Jesus’ disciples return and the woman leaves without her waterpot

John 4:29 & 30 The woman tells the men of the city to see of the One she met is the Messiah and they respond

John 4:31 Disciples try to get Jesus to eat

John 4:32 Jesus says I have food you don’t know about

John 4:33 The disciples are confused by His statement

John 4:34 Jesus say My food is to do the will of the Father and to accomplish His work

John 4:35 – 38 Look up the harvest is ready – Participate in the labor joyfully regardless of your part

560 FBCWest | Living Water

Proclamation of the Word

Message by Pastor Joe

“Living Water”

Sermon Notes

John 4:1 – 6 Jesus travels through Samaria going to Galilee

John 4:7 – 9 Samaritan woman questions Jesus why He would speak to her since He is a Jew

John 4:10 Instead of answering – Jesus says if you knew who I am you would ask for a drink of living water

John 4:11 & 12 Woman wants to know where the living water comes from and asks is He greater than their father Jacob

John 4:13 & 14 The living water Jesus gives springs up into eternal life

John 4:15 She wants the water, but misinterprets Jesus

John 4:16 – 18 Jesus and the woman have a conversation. about her life

John 4:19 & 20 Woman says Jesus is a prophet and outlines the differences of where they worship

John 4:21 – 24 Jesus responds that worship is how not where

John 4:25 & 26 Woman knows that Messiah is coming – Jesus says that is He

You can determine what a person actually believes by how they conduct themselves in their acts, actions, and their words. Regardless of the circumstances, whether it's good times or bad, John, who we call the Baptist. Is going to be consistent in his testimony and his. Ministry, regardless of the circumstances and we'll see that in his ministry, and we hope to. Reflect it in all.

Proclamation of the Word

Message by Pastor Joe

“John’s Consistent Testimony”

Sermon Notes

John 3:22 – 25 John & Jesus baptizing

John 3:26 John’s disciples are concerned that people are going to Jesus and not John

John 3:27 – 30 John again confirms his ministry

John 3:31 – 35 John testifies Jesus is above all and those who receive the witness of Jesus and confirm it – God gives the Spirit without measure

John 3:36 He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but those who do not believe the wrath of God sets on them

558 FBCWest | Saving Faith

Proclamation of the Word

Message by Pastor Joe

“Saving Faith”

Sermon Notes

John 3:16 God loved, God gave, whoever believes shall not perish

John 3:17 God did not send Jesus to judge the world, but to save it

John 3:18 If you believe your are not judged, if you do not believe you are judged already

John 3:19 Judgment – The Light was sent, but people love darkness

John 3:20 Those who love evil hate the Light and will not come to it

John 3:21 Those who practice the truth come to the Light so that they may be shown created in God

557 FBCWest | Born Again

Proclamation of the Word

Message by Pastor Joe

Sermon Notes

John 3:1 & 2 Religious leader comes to Jesus at night, but with wrong assumption

John 3:3 Jesus tells him that unless born again no one can see the kingdom of God

John 3:4 Nicodemus asks how cant that happen, it essentially is impossible

John 3:5 – 8 Jesus repeats that you must be born again

John 3:8 Nicodemus still does not understand

John 3:10 – 13 Nicodemus is criticized for being a teacher and does not understand. Jesus does because He came from above

John 3:14 & 15 Jesus reminds him from the Scriptures –

it’s about faith

Numbers 21:6 - 9 Looking at the bronze serpent allowed people to live