2015WHAT IS GOD SAYING TO US ?

JOHN 3:30

JOHN 3:30

JOHN 3:30

JOHN 3:30

JOHN 3:30

JOHN 3:30

JOHN 3:30

JOHN 3:30

JOHN 3:30• So are YOU ready to get a TATOO?

• Proverbs 3:3 Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

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•Before we get started?• Big picture to small picture.

• You need to get the whole to understand the significance of the sum of all the smaller parts.

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•Before we get started?• Big picture of John.

• John’s account of the life of Jesus is different from the other “synoptic” gospels.

• It’s different because John’s relationship with Jesus. "the disciple whom Jesus loved"? John 13:23,19:26, 21:7 & 21:20

• John had a very intimate relationship with the Messiah and so he expresses truths the other’s do not. John 13:23

• Like a husband knows a wife more intimately, deeper, sweeter John knew Jesus.

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•Before we get started?• What is the central truth to John’s gospel?

• When you love Jesus as much as John then you get to know Father.

• John uses the reference to Father God 120 times in his account of the life of Jesus. More than any of the other gospels.

• The central truth to John’s gospel is Father God.

• John 13:23 There was reclining on Jesus' bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved.

• John 15:19-20 "The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do . . . the Father . . . sheweth him all things that himself doeth"

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•Before we get started?• The son came to redeem mankind and set us free from every bondage.

• The son also came to reveal Father God.

• I have finished what you sent me to do I have revealed you. John 17:1~6

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•Before we get started?• The son is the way to the Father .

• Is your faith a journey or a destination?

• John 14:6~7 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also.[d] From now on you do know him and have seen him.”

• If you know the Father it will be enough. John 14:8~9

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•Before we get started?• The son is the exact representation of the Father .

• John 5:19~20 19 Jesus told them, “Truly, I tell all of you[a] emphatically, the Son can do nothing on his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing, What the Father does, the Son does likewise. 20 The Father loves the Son and shows him everything he is doing, and he will show him even greater actions than these, so that you may be amazed.

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•Before we get started?• Can you be a child of the Father and not know the Father? John 14:8-9

• Children of God who don’t know the Father are dysfunctional.

• I know Jesus , but I’m an quittance of the Father = dysfunctional .

• If you don’t know the Father you can’t do the greatest thing Matthew 22:36-40

• We love because He first loved us. 1 John 4:19