What is Insanely Important-Eternal Life
Update: 2016-11-06
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John 6:22-51
Celebration Guide
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Celebration Guide
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- What is insanely important to Crosswalk Community Church?
- (1) The person Jesus Christ
- (2) The gospel: The good news of a new king who will bring good news for everybody
- (3) Eternal life: this word or concept is all throughout this chapter and the whole book of John. John is concerned about 'life' or 'eternal life.'
- In John 6 we see Jesus leading the people, feeding the people, and teaching the people.
- There are 2 primary categories for John 6:
- (1) God's sovereign provision
- (2) Man's appropriation
- Jesus is not ashamed about how great he is. He does not back down to sharing who he really is.
- When Jesus uses the "I am" statements, he is declaring his self-existence.
- Jesus expected people to not only admire him, but to follow him.
- Jesus is not impressed with a crowd, but his agenda is to have followers.
- John's message was 'repent,' Jesus' message was 'follow me,' so why did Jesus not say 'repent?' Because in order to follow Jesus one must repent.
- To this day, many are willing to show up to see what Jesus could provide, but when he tells us to follow him, many walk away.
- Jesus knew that not everyone would be a follower. He ends chapter 6 by talking about Judas.
- (1) God's sovereign provision: Jesus pre-existed before the foundation of the world. When Jesus says, "I am the bread of life" he is meaning that he existed before the foundation of the world.
- God fed the multitude in the wilderness with Moses with manna. So here, Jesus feeds the multitude with bread.
- This is insanely important that Jesus pre-existed before the foundation of the world. He is divine, we are not. Jesus' self existence (vs. 32, 33, 38, 41, 42, 46, 50, 51, 58)
- Jesus also had a divine purpose: his life was not by accident. He came to do the will of the Father (i.e. John 10:27-30)
- No human will can stop the purpose of God. We need to understand that he was not held hostage to what people wanted. We are held hostage by our circumstances and by what people want.
- His purpose was lost in his Father's will. Jesus came not just to accomplish God's will, but to complete it.
- The purpose of the Father: he draws...
- Jesus is to receive them, keep them, and raises them from the dead.
- What is the divine purpose I find in Jesus Christ? John 17:1-5
- What is eternal life? "That they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent." (John 17:3)
- Divine provision also has a divine promise: 10 times in John 6 does Jesus promise 'life.' He promises 'eternal life.' Life is found in union with the living Christ.
- If we don't have eternal life in Jesus, we are heading to death.
- We are eternal beings; we will never stop existing. That's why eternal life found in Jesus is insanely important!
- John 14:20 "In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you."
- "In that day" the day Jesus ascends back to heaven and sits at the right hand of the Father...and then when the Father and Son send the Spirit to live in us.
- Jesus was not satisfied to walk with us, but to live in us!
- Many people will accept Jesus' life, but many will not accept his death.
- (2) Human appropriation: to appropriate is to digest and to take in. It's not enough just to believe that Jesus came from heaven and he is the eternal life, we must appropriate him as the one we feed on and the one who becomes the Source of our life.
- How do we appropriate Jesus?
- (1) Come to Jesus
- (2) See and savor Jesus: "Taste and see that the Lord is good." Psalm 1: The godly man meditates on the word day and night.
- If Jesus is the source of our life, there are divine promises as we appropriate the life of Jesus.
- What does it mean to see? It means to 'gaze upon, to look intently.' We must come and gaze, to study intently, we do this through the Word of God.
- (3) Believe. Believing is eating. We appropriate Jesus by 'eating' him. We eat of his flesh and drink of his blood.
- Jesus says, "Take in my crucifixion and drink of my blood."
- The bread of was nourishment and the blood was cleansing.
- It is not enough to believe in the life of Christ, but we must believe also in the death of Christ.
- How do you and I appropriate the life of Jesus? Through his death, burial, and resurrection.
- The word 'believe' is different from what we think. Believe means to have a desperate dependency on Jesus. He quenches the hunger of our souls!
- Eating is necessary, it is a response to our hunger, it's personal, and it's transformational.
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