The Book of John: The Power of the Word. - Meet John
Old Testament temple housed the place where God lived in the earth.
Solomon built and dedicated the temple....He asked the question “but will God really dwell on the earth?
1 Kings 8:27
This is the question that I would like you to ask yourself and I will also answer that question
today.
“Will God Really Dwell on the Earth?”
The tabernacle and the temple became the symbol of the place that god occupied
People having a particular place that they could go to ad assembly to meet God.
Isaiah prophesied Isaiah 7:14
Then we come to the New Testament and we find God dwelling on the earth in the person of Jesus. John 1:15 word became flesh.
Tabernacles with us Incarnation of Christ dwelling within us
This story of such an individual that it takes 4 different writers to pin the life of Christ.
Matthew Mark Luke and John—-table of contents
Why are there 4writers.
Not one can express His glory, majesty and express image of His father!
Illustrations: A Quartet - it is like the Holy Spirit is the director of a string quartet
Harlem Quartet
1. Bass 2. Tenor 3. Alto 4. Soprano
Matthew Mark Luke and John are singing there parts and the Holy Spirit is directing and you
hear 4 voices but it sounds like one voice or four instruments but they sound like one.
A compass - it is like the Holy Spirit is the red magnetic needle pointing
1. North 2. South 3. East 4. West
Mathew Mark Luke and John are coming from 4 different directions but if you follow the Holy
Spirits leading each one of them will point you to Jesus
A director making a movie and needing 4 different camera angles
each one getting the four different angles on the same scene
( unlike the musical theatre view or I love Lucy one shot)
The director of the Holy Spirit getting four different views from Matthew Mark Luke and John
but when the gospels is being read it s like you are walking the dust roads of Nazareth or
fishing in the Sea of Galilee
I love the gospel of John, it is usually the Gospel that I point new believers to read first.
Matthew’s gospel was written for Jewish people. Where we find the word fulfilled or that it
might be fulfilled. It was written to help the Jewish people see all of the Old Testament
prophesies being fulfilled.
Marks gospel was written more to a Roman audience. It is a gospel of action. It moves quick
and has lots of actions. It about doing and getting the job done in a short amount of time.
Luke seems to be writing to the gentile audience. He being a Greek physician. He has more
medical reference to the healings and miracles. His scholarly insight gives more detail to most
of the highlights. Speaking more of the perfect man hood of Jesus.
To other Greek philosophers they would have wanted that perspective as all the Greek gods
where mostly very manly.
Johns gospel does not seem to be just the Jews, just the Romans, or just the Greeks. It seems
that Johns gospel audience is to the world. Speaks of Jesus of the son of God or God himself.
Matthew is what Jesus said
Mark is what He did
Luke is how He felt
John is who He was
Matthew Mark and Luke are what we call the synoptic or similar gospels like a snap shot. A
trio.
John is very different in his approach more like a study portrait.
“We beheld His glory’ John 1:14
