Who
is Jesus!
The
Great “I AM”
John 8:12–19 (ESV)
12Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the
world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the
light of life.”
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Why do we continue
to want to walk in darkness?
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Jesus has given us
the light that never goes out!
13So the Pharisees said to him, “You are
bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.”
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And they always
question him!
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So do we!
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We become our own
type of Pharisee (religious)
14Jesus answered, “Even
if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I
came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where
I am going.
15You judge according
to the flesh; I judge no one.
16Yet even if I do
judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the
Father who sent me.
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Jesus could stike us
down
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But he choses to
give us life if we just seek the light!
17In your Law it is
written that the testimony of two people is true.
18I am the one who
bears witness about myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness about me.”
19They said to him therefore, “Where is your
Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my
Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
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They couldn’t even see who he was!
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And my fear is there are a lot of Christians who
don’t see him because
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They alone want to be judge and jury
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They alone want to hold judgment over everyone
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But the problem is that is our own Sin get in
the way!
Jesus is saying I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
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Jesus is saying that He is the light that the
world needs
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He is the everlasting Hope of a dark world
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He is the one we have all been waiting for
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And He is the light that now one can hide from!
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Have you ever been in a dark room where you
don’t know where anything is? And it that room is something you need to do but
you just need the light to expose it?
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And then you turn the light on, how good it
feels to see everything and deal with what ever needs done?
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That light is Jesus and the world is our sin!
Jesus in Matthew 5:14 hands the torch to us and say we
are now the light of the world, and we need to carry his light to everyone we
can so we can expose sin and turn people to the light! This year we need to
carry that light farther in to a Dark world and let people find the one light
that will expose and cleanse them!
Lets set it up!
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Jesus was
away when his friend Lazarus died
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The rule
was after 3 days you couldn’t be raised
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So jesus
came in knowing he had been dead for 4 days to prove his point “I am the Great
I AM”
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John 11:21–27 (ESV)
21Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been
here, my brother would not have died.
22But even now I know that whatever you ask
from God, God will give you.”
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I think she was
fishing
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She was asking Jesus
to lift her brother from the tomb, with out asking!
23Jesus said to her, “Your
brother will rise again.”
24Martha said to him, “I know that he will
rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”
25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life.
Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,
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Jesus uses this to
make his point!
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I am the great “I
AM”
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The only way any of
us will ever be raised is through the blood of our savior JESUS
26and everyone who
lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
27She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I believe that
you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world.”
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Its through faith
that we will be raised just like Lazarus
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Faith in Jesus and
Jesus alone
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Jesus is the Great
“I AM”
JESUS IS THE GREAT “I AM”
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But
Jesus explains “ I AM” the resurrection, I am the life by which all knees will
bow and all tongues confess
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Its
only through faith in Jesus that any of us has a chance to live a eternal life!
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To
those that believe in Jesus Christ,
o
To
those that consent to,
o
And
confide in,
o
Jesus
Christ as the only Mediator of reconciliation and communion between God and man,
and have faith that he is the only person who can forgive sin will be
resurrected and live forever in the Kingdom of heaven!
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