John: Who is this Man?
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John: Who is this Man?
The fourth Gospel holds peculiar significance to me for many reasons, but especially because it is written by the disciple closest to our Lord. When you read the Gospel of Matthew, you are reading the record of our Lord as seen through the eyes of a devoted disciple. Mark and Luke, of course, were...
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Who is Jesus? (John 1:1-4)
This morning we are beginning studies in the Gospel according to John. This gospel was written by the disciple of whom it was said, "Jesus loved him."...
Hello Darkness (John 1:5-13)
In the prologue to the Gospel of John, the apostle is setting forth a summary of who Jesus really is. Last week we looked at who Jesus is eternally, a...
The Stranger of Galilee (John 1:14-18)
Who was Jesus -- visibly? What did men see when they looked at him, when they heard him teach, when they followed him and lived with him? A great many...
Call the First Witness! (John 1:19-34)
A remarkable religious phenomenon broke out in the United States in the year 1948. It started in a tent near the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, under...
The Man who Knew Men (John 1:35-51)
Next year is election year. Political drums are already beating. Already banners are beginning to fly, and the politicians are beginning to spout as w...
Water to Wine (John 2:1-11)
In the second chapter of John's gospel we have the account of the first miracle of our Lord. The scene has now shifted from Judea, where John the Bapt...
The Temple Cleanser (John 2:12-25)
We are coming to that dramatic moment in the Gospel of John when our Lord first cleansed the temple. This may seem a rather strange passage for Mother...
Born of the Spirit (John 3:1-16)
Everyone today is familiar with the term "born again." It has become so popular that it is used for all kinds of situations that have nothing to do wi...
The Best Possible News (John 3:16-36)
The section in the Gospel of John to which we come this morning begins with the world's best known Bible verse. I have been in meetings where people w...
The Man Who Understood Woman (John 4:1-42)
The story of Jesus and the woman at the well of Samaria helps us deal with many modern issues. Here Jesus crosses the barrier of race prejudice and in...
Faith's Encouragement (John 4:43-54)
We last saw the Lord Jesus in the Gospel of John in Samaria, where he had that amazing encounter with the woman at the well which eventuated in a grea...
Do you Want to Get Well? (John 5:1-17)
I picked up the latest issue of Time Magazine last week and found that the entire issue was devoted to a celebration of Time 's sixtieth year in publi...
The Secret of Jesus (John 5:18-20)
In three verses in the fifth chapter of the gospel of John we have Jesus' own explanation for that incredible life which he lived among us. Studying t...
He's Got the Whole World in His Hands (John 5:21-30)
In the fifth chapter of John's gospel we have been watching Jesus at the pool of Bethesda with a great multitude of blind, lame and paralyzed people....
The Credentials of Jesus (John 5:31-47)
In the fifth chapter of John's gospel Jesus makes amazing claims about himself. He claims to be "the Son of God," "the One sent by the Father," "the S...
The Testing of Faith (John 6:1-15)
It is no coincidence in God's program I am sure, that this Sunday which has been set aside as World Food Day is also the day we come to the account in...
The New Resource (John 6:16-21)
I have been listening to some of the commentators review the past year and almost all of them were negative on 1983. They felt it was a bad year for t...
What are You Working For? (John 6:22-40)
The sixth chapter of the Gospel of John is the setting for one of the great discourses of our Lord, his word on the "bread of life." Bread, of course,...
Life with God (John 6:41-59)
When Jesus announced to the crowd at the synagogue at Capernaum that he was the "bread which had come down from heaven," they must have been very star...
To Whom shall We Go? (John 6:60-71)
We have come to that point in John's gospel where many of Jesus' disciples drew back and no longer followed him. This is a turning point in our Lord's...
Is Jesus for Real? (John 7:1-24)
More than nineteen hundred years ago there was a Man born contrary to the laws of life. This Man lived in poverty and was reared in obscurity. He did...
For Those who Thirst (John 7:25-52)
It's ten months until November and I confess I am already tired of the faces I am seeing and the facts I am hearing about all the candidates for Presi...
The Breakthrough Point (John 8:12-30)
Everything that occurred during the Feast of Tabernacles was designed to remind the Israelites of the time their forefathers spent in the wilderness....
Straight Talk from Jesus (John 8:31-47)
I grew up on the great words of American freedom. As a boy in school I was required to learn Patrick Henry's wonderful address, delivered at the House...
The Choice (John 8:48-59)
We have reached the conclusion of the remarkable words of Jesus in his dialogue with the Jewish leaders in the temple courts in Jerusalem at the end o...
Believing Is Seeing (John 9:1-39)
Our Lord's encounter with a man who was born blind, and the question put to him by the disciples concerning the man's blindness, is a wonderfully help...
The Shepherd and His Sheep (John 10:1-21)
No part of Scripture is better loved than the 23rd Psalm. Many Christians have read it in times of pressure and of danger. The Lord is indeed our Shep...
Mad Man or God-Man (John 10:22-42)
We are resuming our studies in the Gospel of John after a lapse of almost three months. Strikingly, John also resumes his account in Verse 22 of Chapt...
God's Strange Ways (John 11:1-16)
I want to talk this morning about the hardest problem to handle in the Christian life. It would be interesting to poll the congregation here as to wha...
Death's Conqueror (John 11:17-44)
One of the strange delusions of our day is the quite unwarranted belief of many that medical science is making great strides in conquering disease and...
What's Going On? (John 11:45-54)
One of the great controversies that has raged in the church for many centuries is the disagreement between Christians about whether we really have fre...
Worship Or Waste? (John 11:55 - 12:10)
This morning we heard from one of our missionaries about a woman whom she had met in Poland. This woman's husband had been imprisoned for his faith by...
Triumph Or Tragedy? (John 12:12-26)
John's account of our Lord's so-called triumphal entry into the city of Jerusalem is very brief:
Faithful Belief and Fatal Unbelief (John 12:27-50)
Many have noted that the Gospel of John does not have an account of the struggles of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. There are gnarled, ancient oli...
Servant Authority (John 13:1-17)
One of the striking characteristics of our day is the passionate concern which we frequently see expressed over who is to blame for certain disasters...
The One Commandment (John 13:18-38)
At times I grow tired of the ugliness of our world. Sickening reports of violence, rape, murder, drug traffic, pornography and child abuse are flung a...
The Cure for Heart Trouble (John 14:1-14)
I am fascinated by the discourse of Jesus in the Upper Room. There are truths here that simply stagger the imagination. Surely this is one of the grea...
That Other Helper (John 14:15-31)
One of the social phenomena of our times is the seminars in human achievement that are being offered every weekend. In many parts of the country this...
The Vine and the Fruit (John 15:1-11)
In the 15th chapter of John's gospel our Lord uses the beautiful symbol of the vine and its branches. We who live in California are surrounded by vine...