Intro Thank you all for being here. Thank you especially to our Mother’s here today That includes Stepmother’s Grandmother’s Expectant Mother’s Thank you to anyone who came because you Mother asked you to come. John said, I have no greater Joy than to see That my children walk in truth And I know our…

The Bread of Life Last week ended our lesson in John 7:36 And Jesus had just told the Pharisees That they wouldn’t be able to find him where he was going And he was certainly talking about when he later ascends to heaven We jumped ahead to chapter 14 Where Jesus tell his disciples that they WOULD be…

Intro [Title "Take Offense" is on the screen. You don't read it aloud yet.] You can be seated, I’ll read my scripture shortly. You know, we live in a world where people are offended by just about everything. They even get offended on behalf of other people. Even when if has nothing to do with themselves…

The Bread of Life Last week completed chapter 6 We looked at, what is typically called, The Bread of Life Discourse And in was in that Discourse That many disciples quit following Jesus So, let’s pick back up in Chapter 7 Where Jesus has left those people The scene changes He’s no longer talking to the…

Introduction Over the last two weeks we have been walking through the story of Gideon and we have been calling this series The Making of the Mighty. In Part 1, we found Gideon hiding in a winepress — afraid, weak, and surrounded by the enemy. And that's exactly where God showed up and called him a Mighty…

Introduction I felt led of the Lord to continue last weeks sermon We found Gideon hiding in a winepress, afraid, while Israel had been oppressed by the Midianites for seven years — and that's where God showed up and called Gideon a Mighty Man of Valor. Remember, God calls you what you will become, not…

The Feeding of the Five Thousand Last week we covered the end of John 5 , Where Jesus made it clear that he and the Father are not two separate persons of equal status But that he IS the Father — manifested in the flesh The Jews understood this and wanted to kill him And Jesus provided four witnesses…

Text Judges 6:11-16 Now the angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites. And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, “The Lord is with you,…

We stopped last week on John 5:18 18 This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God. This is huge. When Jesus claimed to be able to work on the Sabbath And that God was…