South Union Sermons

Bottom line: Believe Jesus and you will have life eternally. Know Jesus more and more and you will experience life abundantly.

John wrote his gospel to prove that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and that by believing we would have eternal life. But if we know Jesus more and more as the Word of God, the Creator, the Light of Life, the Son of God, the Lamb of God, the Messiah, the King, we will experience life more abundantly.

Bottom line: The sign of the resurrection proclaims we should believe in and be faithful to Jesus, the Son of God.

The resurrection of Jesus is the cornerstone of our faith and should be rocket fuel for our faithfulness. After the disciples knew Jesus to be the "Resurrection and the Life," their faith never failed, floundered, or wavered. And their faithfulness to follow Jesus, serve Jesus, and fulfill the commission was a faithfulness unto their own death, if need be.

Bottom line: When I believe in the Resurrection and the Life, I receive resurrection to life.

The miracle of raising Lazarus from the dead is a precursor to Jesus' own resurrection and a picture of the resurrection we can experience when we believe and trust in Jesus.

Bottom line: I see the Light as Jesus gives me sight. And Jesus comes into sight when I see the Light.

In John 9, Jesus declares that He is the Light of the World, and then He performs a miracle that demonstrates He is spiritual light. He is not only the source of light; He is the One who gives the ability to receive and see the light.

Bottom line: The experience of storms is not meant to batter us but to better us.

God will use the storms of perfection to test, grow, and stretch our faith. He wants us to believe in WHO He is and trust Him what He will DO. In the storms of perfection we can experience extraordinary moments with Jesus, genuine worship of God, and encouragement from His successes.

Bottom line: Jesus can provide for our every need, and He is the provision for our greatest need.

Every miracle has a message, and the message of the feeding of the 5,000 is that Jesus is the true bread of life. He doesn't just sustain physical life, He provides and gives eternal life. We must feed on him (i.e. believe and trust in him) and appropriate his life and sacrifice to ourselves personally. When we believe on Him through faith, He saves us and gives us eternal life. He is the provision for our greatest need (salvation).

Bottom line: Only God's grace can change us and give us true life.

Every miracle has a message. The message of the healing of the man at the pool of Bethesda is that only God's grace can change us and give us life. Jesus healed this man totally by grace. Jesus sought to woo this man to place faith in Him as Savior. Just as this man could do nothing heal himself physically, he could do nothing to heal himself spiritually from sin. He needed Jesus (the true Pool of Grace) to make him whole spiritually just as He had done physically.

Rules, regulations, dos, and don'ts won't make us right with God. Only God's grace poured out on us through the finished work of Jesus can make us right with God. He does it all. We simply receive it as a gift by faith.

Bottom line: Jesus grows our faith to believe in Him beyond the limitation of what we believe about Him.

Jesus grew the Nobleman's faith from believing in something, to believing in something more, to believing in someone (i.e. Himself). He moved his faith from believing in the "do" of Jesus to the "who" of Jesus. This man became a believer in Jesus as Messiah. The thing the Nobleman most wanted corrected (his son's illness) became the means of his greatest correction.

Bottom line: Joy results from the change made by Jesus. 

The first miracle (changing water into wine) declared that Jesus came to change things. His mission is a mission of change. He changed water to wine. He came to change Law to Grace, ritual and religion to relationship. He came to change you.