Series: The Jesus Way

Title: We Journey Like Jesus

John 14:5-15

5Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” 6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7If you had known me, you would have known my Father also.d From now on you do know him and have seen him.”

8Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” 9Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. 11Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.

12“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. 13Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14If you ask mee anything in my name, I will do it.

Who is Jesus?

He wasn’t white, he was a brown skinned-middle eastern Jew born to a working class family. He never owned a home. Never got a college degree.

But Jesus was God’s level of listening and responding to humanity.

Jesus was born in a part of the world that touches Africa, Asia, and Europe. He wasn’t a white man like me.

Don’t ever say it’s a white man’s religion. It’s a world’s religion because Jesus belongs to the world!

COMPASSION WITHOUT ACTION IS ONLY OBSERVATION

God refused to observe, he stepped into our world to take action against sin!

1st Century Complexities:

Roman occupation, Racial Tension, they would abuse the Jewish people and misuse their authority

Classism, people struggling financially, broken social systems

Jewish tax collectors who betrayed their own people, and temples that swindled people on the conversion to purchase necessary items

Samaritans living in close proximity, you’re not supposed to interact with “those people”

Leprosy running rampant, the only solution for leprosy is social distancing

In the midst of the complexities Jesus is God’s level of listening. I heard your cry for an answer---Here is the way

2,000 years later:

21st Century Complexities:

It’s no longer leprosy, it’s COVID 19, Social Distancing and an on going, global pandemic

Meanwhile, large scale protest that can potentially spread the disease

Meanwhile, riots and looting breakout, Meanwhile reports of outsiders, ANTIFA and others infiltrating the riots

In the midst of the complexities Jesus has released His spirit into you and me,and now we must show the world the Jesus Way!

When you meet the person, you get the full plan

Jesus is the person, HE IS the plan.

You can abolish laws, but only Jesus can truly reform the human heart.

Where there are Fathers, there is no true failure

Fathers are present even if they’re not perfect.

Jesus said, OUR FATHER. If he could teach them to deal with the complexities of life by journeying with a father

1 John 4:18 “There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.”

Many Pastors afraid to talk, but we aren’t speech writers, we are called to be spiritual fathers

We love because we are loved

John 1:10-13 10He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. 11He came to his own,b and his own peoplec did not receive him. 12But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

“The closer the people of all races get to Christ and His cross, the closer they will get to one another.” —Billy Graham