How Jesus overcame the world through His obedience to the Father when He died on the cross.

Reviewing chapter 4, we see it is important to test the spirits and also to love one another. This is a difficult balance to maintain but necessary.

Starting out the first journey. Paul and Elymas the sorcerer. Elymas was blinded and Sergius came to see.

Jesus told Pilate that His kingdom was not of this world. A kingdom has a king, people who are subject to the King, a domain, and an administration. This message looks at the features of Jesus' kingdom.

Testing and checking for truth in all things that come at us. The truth is that God showed His love for us by sending His Son into the world to deal with our sin. If the message you hear doesn't have this foundation, it isn't from God.

The last message looked at how the chief priests were trying to get rid of Jesus, but Jesus was telling people He was leaving. If we believe that the crucifixion was Jesus leaving, then there are big implications to our lives. We should follow Him because He is the one from God.

What does it mean to follow Jesus?

What was the message the apostle John was conveying through his selection of events and method of telling the crucifixion story?

How the church began to branch off from Jerusalem. Jerusalem had been the center of the people of God since the days of David. God was removing the natural bramah and grafting in a wild branch. God gathered people to the name of the Lord, not as extensions of an organization. This was the first church started without the apostles. Barnabas encouraged these people to continue with the Lord, not attach themselves to Jerusalem.

Jesus asked the soldiers who they were looking for and they said, Jesus of Nazareth. But the way John recorded the story showed that Jesus was more than a man from Nazareth. He was the One who would deliver God's people from the enemy by becoming like a lamb.

Characteristics of a believer