Sermon Series: Spiritual Warfare in the Modern World
Sermon Text: John 21:1-19
Sermon Title: “Jesus: Our Medic on the Battlefield”
Sermon Slides:
SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide
SLIDE 2 – Today’s Big Idea: Jesus is Not Only Our Captain … But Our Medic in this War.He Wants to Heal Us … then Help Us Return to the Fight.
SLIDE 3 – Point 1: Jesus Visits the Battlefield … Our Captain and Our Medic (vv. 1-14)
SLIDE 4 – John 20:22-23 – “And … he breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.’”
SLIDE 5 – Luke 5:4-6 – “[Jesus] said to Simon, ‘Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.’ And Simon answered, ‘Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.’ And when they had done this, they enclosed a large number of fish, and their nets were breaking.’”
SLIDE 6 – Luke 9:12-17 – “Now … the twelve came and said to him, ‘Send the crowd away to go into the surrounding villages … to find lodging and get provisions, for we are here in a desolate place.’ But he said to them, ‘You give them something to eat.’ They said, ‘We have no more than five loaves and two fish’ … And taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing over them. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd.”
SLIDE 7 – John 18:17-18, 25-27 – “The servant girl at the door said to Peter, ‘You also are not one of this man's disciples, are you?’ He said, ‘I am not.’ Now the servants and officers had made a charcoal fire, because it was cold … Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. So they said to him, ‘You also are not one of his disciples, are you?’ He denied it and said, ‘I am not.’ One of the servants of the high priest … asked, ‘Did I not see you in the garden with him?’ Peter again denied it, and at once a rooster crowed.”
SLIDE 8 – 1 John 1:8 – “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.”
SLIDE 9 – “We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.” – Pastor Tim Keller
SLIDE 10 – Point 2: Jesus Heals Peter’s Wounds … to Return to Christ (vv. 15-17)
SLIDE 11 – Surgical Kit Picture (See Attached Picture)
SLIDE 12 – Point 3: Jesus Helps Peter Up … to Return to Battle (vv. 18-19)
SLIDE 13 – Five Uses of This Sermon for Your Life
SLIDE 14 – If You Don’t Get Your Wounds Treated … They Can Kill You.
SLIDE 15 – To Overcome Sin … We Must Avoid Self-Pity and Pursue Self-Denial.
SLIDE 16 – There’s a Time to Deal with Sin, and a Time to Move On with God.
SLIDE 17 – Wounds Will Still Leave Scars.
SLIDE 18 – What is God Calling You to Do? Call for a Medic, Help Someone Up, or Storm a Stronghold?
