FBC Gibsonville Sermons: Recent Episodes
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As Jesus' death is drawing near, he leaves his disciples with this command: "Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another."
What are the implications of the gospel for relationships across cultural and ethnic boundaries? How should we Christians respond to the ethnic/cultural diversity that we see in the world?
Jesus admits that he is equal to the Father, but insists that he is not independent from the Father. Where we have sinfully declared independence from God, Jesus fully relied on the Father and accomplished all his will.
The Jewish leaders seek to persecute and kill Jesus because he was making himself equal to God. Their problem is our problem... we want to hold on to our own authority, but all authority belongs to Jesus.
Jesus reveals himself to a sinful Samaritan woman as the Messiah, the one who gives living water and satisfies every longing heart.
John the Baptist testifies that Christ must increase, but he must decrease. All too often we have a "me-first" attitude. But Christ put himself in last place to lift us up to God. And now, more than ever, in all things Christ deserves the first place.
God loves the greatest sinners, so he gives the greatest gift to accomplish the greatest salvation.
In this passage Jesus tells Nicodemus that he and the Jews must be born again. This new birth is a work of God wrought by the Spirit through the proclamation of Christ, who was lifted up on the cross, raised up in his resurrection, and exalted at the right hand of God.
In Jesus' zeal for the pure worship of the Father, he cleanses the temple. And in his zeal he offered his body, the true temple which would be destroyed and raised, to cleanse us from idolatry and impure worship and bring us to God.
Jesus manifests his glory by turning water into wine, turning the bridegroom's shame into joy.
John's testimony is not about himself, but about Jesus, the Messiah, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
John writes his Gospel so that we might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing we might have life in his name. But who is this Jesus in whom we must believe? And why did he come?
God's warning to Pharaoh and to all those whose hearts are hardened towards him: I will win!
God is not hindered by human limitations and independent from our obedience. He is independent.
Even on the darkest days, God is in control working for his glory and for the good of his people.