The feeding of the 5,000 is evidence of Christ’s humility and hospitality to a people who would call for His death, undeserved. For the believer, Jesus not only provides for our physical wants, but also our spiritual needs. He is both our provider and  protector.

In John’s first epistle, the beloved disciple helps the believer to know that they have eternal life. In today’s message, Brother Tim prayerfully selects three questions from the book which we must ask ourselves in order to have assurance of our salvation.

What do we hate? What do we love? Who do we know?

When Jesus made the defense for His deity in John 5, He didn’t just stop at His own personal claims. In accordance with Levitical law, He also provided 3 witnesses: John the Baptist, His works, and Scripture.

There are two types of people in the world: those who are dead in sin, and those who are alive in Christ. Your perspective of Jesus is evidence of which one of those people you are. 

Have you ever thought about the correct way to respond to God’s miraculous workings in your life? In our text this morning we look at how the man at the pool of Bethesda, and the Jewish elite, responded in the wrong way to Jesus’ physical healing.

Biblical faith is not based solely in the works of God. Although physical miracles may lead us to Him, they shouldn’t be our only concern. Likewise, although the Word of God leads sinner’s to a saving faith, we must be rooted in more than just words on a page. Genuine faith, a faith which desires to grow, is based on the evidence of God’s works, and God’s Word, and the Person of God. Without an understanding of who God is, we can never full appreciate what He does and what He says.

John’s account of the Samaritan woman at the well reminds us that there is no single person outside the reach of God’s saving grace; from the top of the social “Tower of Importance” to the lowest rung. 

C.S. Lewis once said, “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.”

The truest mark of conversion is humility. A man humbled by the saving grace of God will desire to obey God’s Word. And a man obedient to the Word of God, will live by the words of John the Baptist, “He must increase, but I must decrease.”

God loved the world in this way, He gave His Son to die a death that we deserve. The love of God extends to the outer parts of the world and into the vilest of hearts. Join us as we look at the redemptive relationship between the love of God, the work of Christ, and the responsibility of man.

In order to be saved, you must first be born again! What does it mean to be born again, and what does it mean to be born of water and the Spirit? Join us as we take some time to wrestle with one of the great mysteries of the Bible. The doctrine of regeneration.