Sermons About Spirit
John 4:1-42 - The Outcast Revival
The Samaritan woman that Jesus talked to at the well was an outcast in a society of outcasts yet she was transformed by Christ and used to start a revival in her town. In the same way Jesus can use walking disasters like us to work in people's lives if we are simply willing to share the truth about Christ and how He has changed our lives.
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John 4:23-24 - True Worship
Jesus calls us to worship the Father in spirit and in truth. Worship is not merely singing in church on Sunday morning but daily denying ourselves and presenting our lives as a living sacrifice to God. As we think about all of the ways that God has been merciful to us it motivates us give up our lives, time, and talents for His praise and His glory.
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John 3:27-36 - The Significance of Mission
While baptism is an important event in Christianity the details surrounding it can become the source of a great deal of controversy. As a church it is important that we don't get so bogged down in theological minutiae that we forget about the mission that we are on. This mission is to bring the good news about Jesus Christ to people who don't know Him by sharing our faith and living changed lives that demonstrate His influence as He must become greater and we must become less.
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John 3:22-36 - The Significance of Water
Baptism is an important event in Christianity and it has been the subject of controversy throughout the ages. It is an act of publicly identifying yourself with Jesus as the Messiah, humbly declaring yourself to be dead to your old, empty way of life and that you are now born into a new life with Jesus as your Lord and Savior.
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John 3:16-21 - The Heart of the Matter
God sent His Son into the world to save us from being exiled from God by our pride and sinfulness. The light of this truth exposes our need, and if we love our pride and sin more than God we will reject the truth and run into the darkness so that we can keep on sinning and protect our sense of self-righteousness, causing us to become warped and delusional. Only through humility and owning our sin can we accept the truth and walk into the light of Jesus Christ.
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John 3:1-16 - The Search for Truth
Many people set out in their life on a search for the truth but most get bogged down along the way by their preconceptions and refusal to admit to their sins and change. Nicodemus comes to Jesus in search of the truth and Jesus confronts his preconceptions and teaches him that he must be 'born again' by the Spirit of God so that he can see his sins, repent, and accept Christ's forgiveness and righteousness.
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John 2:12-25 - The Place for Righteous Rage
The city of Jerusalem was precious to the Jewish people as the historical capital as well as the center of religious worship. The center of this worship was at the temple mount. Jesus came to the temple and instead of finding sincere worship and devotion to the One True God He found crass commercialism and greed, leading Him to give a demonstration of righteous rage.
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John 2:1-11 - The God of Nature Revealed in the Best Wine Ever Made
There are aspects of story of Jesus turning water into wine that are difficult for some people to accept. Some try to explain away the miracle, and some try to explain away the wine. Neither of these attempts is faithful to the text. Jesus first displayed his glory by coming to the aid of a wedding party with the best wine ever created.
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John 1:15-34 - A Wild Man in Court
Lawyers are not very well liked in our society because some of them are more concerned with procedures, precedents, and technicalities than they are with people and justice. In the same way, the Pharisees in the first century were more concerned with carrying out the regulations of the law than they were about loving God and other people. John the Baptist understood that the Scriptures were there to point us to the Messiah, 'the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world,' who is Jesus Christ.
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