Island ECC Podcast

Jesus's last week on Earth is the most important week in our history. So much happened and the Gospel of John gives us great detail about it. In Jesus's final words to His disciples, He helps them understand that things are going to be tough for them, but that they are not to lose hope.

Perhaps the greatest battle Jesus ever fought in His earthly ministry was the battle of Gethsemane, where He battled His sorrow. We currently live in a broken and hurting world that causes us to feel immense sorrow, and the problem is that we don't know how to handle that sorrow. This sermon explores what we can learn from Jesus and how we can find hope in prayer.

If we misunderstand or misapply the message of the gospel, we will find ourselves distant from God. Like Peter, who shocked himself by not even admitting he knew Jesus, we too can be overconfident and underestimate our own weakness.

We've all done it: made promises to God if He'll get us out of a mess, reminded God of our good behaviour so we can get a prayer answered, and so on. It's natural, but it's not healthy – and it never works.

In the sixth sign miracle in the gospel of John, a man is healed of blindness, while the lack of vision in those that see is exposed for what it is.