SUNDAY CELEBRATION SERVICE

Purpose For John’s Gospel

But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have

life in his name. John 20:31

John 5-8:1-11

• Jesus enters into a new season of opposition

– from the Jewish authorities (5:16-18)

– from his own family (7:1-5)

– from his disciples (6:60-66)

• Location : Jerusalem (John 5), Galilee (John 6), Jerusalem (John 7-8)

John 1:14 , 16-17

• Jesus full of grace and truth (v.14)

• From the fullness of his grace, we receive one blessings after another (v.16)

• Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ (v.17)

Opposites

• GRACE < > LAW (legalism, religiosity, forms etc) - Mark 2:27

• TRUTH < > LIES, FALSEHOOD

Healing at the pool on the Sabbath

John 5:1-15

v. 6 Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition

for a long time. Do you want to get well ?

Woman caught in adultery

John 8:1-11

v.10-11 ‘Woman, where are they ? Has no one condemned you?’

No one, sir. ‘Then neither do I condemn you. Go now and leave your

life of sin.’

Lessons

• Grace is extended freely to everyone

• Grace intervenes /invades, lives impacted

• Everyone needs God’s grace (John 8:1-11)

• Grace does not condemn the sinner neither does grace condone sin (Rom 2:4, 6:1 , 2 Pet 2:22)

I AMthe BREAD of LIFE.

He who comes to me

will never go hungry.

John 6:35

If ANYONEis thirsty, let him come to me and drink.

Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within Him John 7: 37-38

JOHN NEWTON 1725 - 1807

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,That saved a wretch like me.I once was lost but now I'm found,Was blind, but now I see.

'twas Grace that taught,my heart to fear.And grace, my fears relieved.How precious did that grace appear,the hour I first believed.

“Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.”

John Newton