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Grace Messages is a series of Bible-based, Christian messages that include everything from topical messages, to verse-by-verse studies through various books of the Bible. Our messages focus on expository, dispensational Bible teaching from a free grace perspective.
Each podcast is from a sermon preached at our home church in Newnan, Georgia! Listen to these messages in order, or just choose one that sounds most interesting to you!
For easier topic navigation, visit www.gracenewnan.org/messages Even the Verse-by-Verse studies can be listened to in or out of order.
About the church: Grace Community Fellowship is a Bible-church in Newnan, Georgia, pastored by Pastor John Clark.
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Today, Joshua Miller fills in for Pastor John and discusses how to stand firm in your faith with truths from Ephesians in this sermon. Learn how to stay grounded and unwavering in your beliefs no matter what challenges come your way.
Today the religious leaders learn that Jesus is the Good Shepherd. He is not only the gate, but the gate keeper. The blind man’s excommunication from the synagogue and Jesus’ pursuit of him in John 9 gives us the reason Jesus uses the illustration of the sheep and the shepherd in John 10. The shepherd’s life was commonly understood in Jesus’ day, but as we saw last week, the Jewish religious leaders did not get what Jesus was saying. This morning, Jesus begins to circle back and explain what He intended to communicate with this illustration
“How good is good enough to go to heaven?” This morning, we want to answer this question from the Scriptures by using the story of Zacchaeus to answer it. Often, religious thinking is as short-sighted with their answer to this question as Zacchaeus was in his physical stature.
As we turn the page into chapter 10 of John, we are still on the same trip to Jerusalem that Jesus started in John 7. The account we pick up this morning is just a few days after the Feast of Tabernacles, and immediately after the healing of the blind man. In a sense, the chapter break here is unfortunate. The blind man was cast out of the synagogue for his faith, and he was thrown into the arms of the good shepherd – thus the teaching and illustration in John 10 is really a commentary on the conflict of John 9.
Today we finish the story of the incredible healing of a blind man by Jesus. In John Chapter 9, we have been considering John’s sixth hand-selected SIGN chosen to convince His readers to put their faith in Jesus Christ. That sign was an UNDENIABLE divine miracle, as Jesus gave sight to a man who was born blind. As the Jewish religious leaders finished their investigation, they cast the blind man out of the synagogue and right into the arms of Jesus! This is when the REAL miracle occurred – this blind man was given spiritual sight; he was born again!
In this morning's message, Pastor Carl Greene talks about the incredible value of humility, as found in the Bible, and the seemingly paradoxical nature of being humble.
Today, Pastor Carl Greene speaks on how God whispers to us through His word and through creation. Discover the beauty and meaning behind His whispers and how we can listen to and obey them more.
In John Chapter 9, we have been considering John’s sixth hand-selected SIGN chosen to convince His readers to put their faith in Jesus Christ. That sign was an UNDENIABLE divine miracle, as Jesus gave sight to a man who was born blind. However, Jesus had performed this healing on a Sabbath day, which caused a conundrum for the Jewish religious leaders. They now had a responsibility to address this situation for the people, and thus they began their investigation and interrogation of the parties involved last week. This morning, they will finish their investigation, which will conclude with the blind man being cast out of the synagogue!
Last week, we looked at John’s sixth hand-selected sign, which was an UNDENIABLE divine miracle - Jesus gave sight to a man who was born blind. This type of healing had never been accomplished in the history of the world, but Jesus had healed this man on a Sabbath day. This fact alone threw the Jewish religious leaders into a tailspin because of their interpretation of the Sabbath regulations. Because of the nature of the miracle itself, the Jewish religious leaders had a responsibility to investigate the situation and provide answers to the people. We will consider those interrogations the next two weeks.
As we pick up this morning, Jesus has just finished an intense and heated conversation with the Jewish religious leaders which ended with His miraculous deliverance from their attempt to stone Him. Now, you would think that following this interaction, Jesus would leave Jerusalem and get some distance between Him and His enemies, but He does not do that! Jesus sees a blind man, and NOT just any blind man – a man who was “born” blind and a man whose healing was on Jesus’ divine schedule. John’s sixth hand-selected sign in his book to convince and persuade his audience to believe in Jesus (John 20:30-31) is an undeniable divine miracle!
We continue with Jesus’ heated conversation with the Jewish religious leaders and Jesus has been dropping truth bombs consistently that His audience is not taking well. Last week they committed the unpardonable sin, and they do it again this week. But, when Jesus tells them that He is the I AM, they pick up stones to stone Him.
We continue with Jesus’ heated conversation with the Jewish religious leaders and in our study last week Jesus dropped an absolute bomb on His audience by telling them that the Devil was their father. His audience did not take this well, and they will commit the unpardonable sin (like Matthew 12:22-24), by accusing the Son of God, who is doing prophesied Messianic miracles, of being demonically empowered and possessed. This TOO is an attack on Jesus’ origins and patriarchy.
As Jesus continues His heated conversation with Jewish religious leaders in Jerusalem following the Feast of Tabernacles, they continue to push back! Last week, the conversation turned into a discussion of patriarchy and heritage and these topics were no joking matter to a first century Jew. Jesus’ comments in this section infuriates this already murderous group, and this morning He provides an absolutely scathing comment regarding their heritage and patriarchy.
Last week, Jesus turned to a subset of the crowd who had believed and provided a quick teaching on discipleship, but something He said did not sit right with the Jewish religious leaders, and this morning they continue to push back! Eventually, the conversation turned into a discussion of patriarchy and heritage and these topics were no joking matter to a first century Jew. Jesus’ comments in this section will infuriate this already murderous group.
As we pick up this morning, Jesus is still in Jerusalem, immediately following the Feast of Tabernacles – this is the same trip He made at the beginning of chapter 7, and this trip will continue into chapter 10. Jesus is in the middle of a conversation with the Jewish religious leaders, and others in the crowd are listening in. He is desperately trying to communicate with this audience, and the reason for this is because ideas have consequences! What a person believes affects what a person does! What a person believes (as it relates to salvation) affects a person’s eternal destiny.
As we reflect on this Christmas season, in the light of so much gift giving and receiving, we want to stop and reflect on all the good gifts that God has given us. We have so many good gifts from God!
Last week Jesus was once again providing strong, courtroom-like, testimony as to His identity, just as He had in John 5 with this same group of people. This morning, He is going to start getting even more direct. Even though the Jewish religious leaders hate Him, Jesus loves them and He does NOT want any of them to die in their sin (of unbelief)! Jesus is going to articulate the ONE and ONLY ONE condition that they must meet in order to NOT ”die in their sin”…
As we continue this morning, Jesus is still in Jerusalem, immediately following the Feast of Tabernacles. In fact, this is the day after the feast is over, and is the same day as Jesus' interaction with the woman caught in adultery. One interesting connection from 7:52 to 8:12 is what the Jewish leaders said in 7:52 about a prophet coming out of Galilee and what Jesus says in 8:12 (See Isaiah 9:1-2). In His conversation with the religious leaders, Jesus is now going to re-introduce some of His argumentation from John 5 regarding witnesses to His identity.
The Feast of Tabernacles is over – the Jews who have traveled to Jerusalem from out of town are probably getting ready to head back home, and yet because of the BUZZ created by Jesus, many have probably stayed a little bit longer, hoping to get some more time with Him. This morning, we will look at an event that transpired the day after the feast. We will cover an amazing passage – it is a passage that many people throughout the ages have thoroughly enjoyed because of the Grace, Mercy, and Truth that Jesus extends to the woman in this story.
Jesus has been teaching in the Temple and interacting with multiple groups within the crowds. The setting again is the Feast of Tabernacles and one group in the crowd – the religious leaders – have had enough, and they set a plan into motion to take Him into custody. To make matters worse from a human perspective, Jesus just stole the show and made some pretty bold claims (See v37-v39)! This morning, we are going to look at the aftermath of Jesus’ bold declaration! There is a great schism between the varied groups in His audience.
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