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With last Sunday being Father’s Day, and us breaking from this gospel of John that we’re walking through...
I thought it would be wise to revisit, quickly, where we’ve been...
…where we were 2 weeks ago.
2 weeks ago we saw that the WORDS of Jesus are more than JUST WORDS...
We saw that the words of Christ are: SPIRIT and LIFE...
That 99% of the time that Jesus opened His mouth to SPEAK…people who were hearing Him...
were SCRATCHING their heads trying to UNDERSTAND Him!
And we realized that THAT was a theme for Jesus - ALL throughout scripture!
Mankind has ISSUES - and one of the MAIN evidences of THAT ISSUE - is the reality that MANKIND...
…doesn’t GRASP the Spiritual side of life!
If I asked you when you got baptized...
You’d tell me when you got WATER baptized...
If someone asks you if your church is growing...
You’d start counting how many people attend the church...
If someone asks us where our church is located...
We give them the address...
If someone
We don't LIVE in that world...the Spiritual world
we've HEARD of it...we KNOW ABOUT it...
But OUR MINDS STRUGGLE to default to that thinking..
And it's EVIDENCED in how mankind - ALL throughout scripture, respond to Jesus.
And so UNDERSTANDING that...and looking back at what Jesus said several weeks ago...
We begin to see WHAT He said - resulted in what we'll walk through this week.
This section of scripture here is really going to set the stage for what we'll see today.
When people heard what Jesus was saying here - they KNEW He was setting Himself a part as the ONLY way.
Jesus here - was ELEVATING the EXCLUSIVITY of Himself.
They knew He was declaring Himself to be - the ONLY way to God the Father.
Jesus said what - UNLESS you eat MY flesh...you have NO LIFE in you
They heard the EXCLUSIVITY of His claim...but they did NOT understand the deeper MEANING of it.
So on the one hand they knew Jesus was claiming exclusivity,
but on the other hand they THOUGHT they knew what He meant by His flesh and blood comments.
They took Him to be saying - UNLESS you PHYSICALLY eat my flesh...and PHYSICALLY drink my blood, you have no life in you...
And so what was their response?
How did most respond to Jesus here?
What happened here?
It says- MANY of His disciples...
MANY of the people who before this exchange would have said - YES, I follow Jesus...
Many of those SAME people - TURNED BACK...and no longer WALKED WITH Him!
So what does this TELL US?
It's a GREAT WARNING for us...
SLIDE: True Following of Jesus: Entails Spiritually Following Jesus
True Following of Jesus
Listen to this section of scripture...
It is the Spirit who gives life.
The words that Jesus spoke are spirit and life...
People heard Jesus speak the WORDS of LIFE...and YET… - JESUS SAYS...
"But there are some of you who do not believe"
WHY?
Jesus says- This is why (this is why people don't believe) - "no one can come to Me unless it is granted him by the Father"
And THEN we read: After this, many of His disciples turned back, and no longer walked with Him.
At one point these people followed Jesus...BUT THEN - they turned!
and left...
They LEFT ULTIMATELY - because the Father never granted to them the ability to COME to Jesus.
And because this is TRUE..
Because the Father ORIGINATES belief in Jesus...
He actually does something to make this happen - Gives the Holy Spirit
THEREFORE: True Following ofJesus entails Spiritually Following Him
True following of Jesus entails more than physically or mentally following Him.
We can physically follow Jesus...and that doesn't mean that we've ACTUALLY come to Jesus! - believed in Him!
Your presence here today will never be the basis as to why you are JUSTIFIED before God!
Being here simply illustrates that you are minimally- following Jesus physically!
BUT THAT MIGHT BE ALL THAT YOU'RE DOING....following Him physically.
ALSO - Knowing TRUE doctrine will ALSO NEVER be a basis as to why you are JUSTIFIED before God!
Knowing true doctrine in your head simply illustrates that you are - MINIMALLY- following Jesus physically!
The point is= TRULY following Jesus entails (has at it's CORE) the Spiritual following of Jesus!
Remember what Jesus said to the woman at the well?
We worship God in - Spirit and Truth...and NECESSARILY- both!
Without the Spirit in the equation - we're simply establishing our own self-righteousness...and therefore on the path to destruction.
Those who turned and walked away from Jesus in our text - they demonstrated that they had yet to REALLY believe in Jesus!
Do you realize that they could have continued with Jesus....continued WALKING with Him...and STILL not been TRULY following Him?
So this BEGS the question of us!
SLIDE: Question
Am I a true follower of Jesus?
Does my following ENTAIL a spiritual following of Jesus?
Or am i just physically following Him?
And here's a good test for you: IMAGINE THIS...
Imagine that RIGHT NOW - Jesus appeared to us…the clouds parted....and
He came down....
…and SAID TO US - I will be returning - 1 month from today.
(July 23, 2019)
NOW - With that new knowledge...
Would your life change - between now and July 23rd?
Would You Start:
reading your bible?
studying your bible?
telling your family and friends about Jesus?
making church a priority for these last 4 weeks?
OR - is this what your life is like - NOW?
Meaning - Would your life look exactly the same?
If your life would now suddenly - drastically change - COULD IT BE that you’ve been merely following Jesus PHYSICALLY?
But not spiritually?
These people in our text today - THEY LITERALLY walked with Jesus...
They literally HEARD HIM speak...
And yet - they WALKED AWAY!
Was Jesus SURPRISED by them walking away?
NO - not at all! WHY?
Because Christ KNEW the role that God the Father plays in this thing called SALVATION!
Think of what Jesus just said here!
MANY of His FOLLOWERS leave - and He asks the rest of them (the 12) - Do you want to go away as well?!
Think of the mindset of Christ here!
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