Sermon Media & Review
John 8:31-59, Part 3
- Pastor Tim Potter
- Category: The Gospel of John
- June 4, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
What Are Genuine Disciples?
Paul talks a lot about the sons of faith and being the spiritual father of some. What he is describing is the discipleship relationship. The analogy of sonship is common in the New Testament. A son is one who is in Christ and is adopted into the family of God.
John 8:31-59, Part 2
- Pastor Tim Potter
- Category: The Gospel of John
- May 28, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
Our Relationship with the Word of God.
The timing of this text is during the end of the week of the Feast of Tabernacle, about a half year before Jesus goes to the cross. Jesus is in a debate with religious unbelief, confronting their own sin. He identifies for them what true belief is and what saving faith looks like in the believer’s life. Jesus presents three tests of genuine saving faith for unbelief to consider: the test of fatherhood, the test of the use of God’s Word in a believer’s life, and the test of the works of God’s children.
John 8:31-59 focuses on the truth of the Word of God. The second test of genuine saving faith and of true discipleship is evidenced in our relationship with and responsibility to the Word of God in our lives.
2 Thessalonians 3
- Pastor Tim Potter
- Category: Holidays & Special Services
- May 21, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
Our 75th Anniversary Celebrating God's Faithfulness.
Mother's Day: 1 Timothy 5:1-2
- Pastor Tim Potter
- Category: Holidays & Special Services
- May 14, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
The Dignity of Biblical Womanhood
It is the nature of godly women to nurture and nest in their homes, and this carries over into the church body with eternal significance. Our church appreciates all the care, provision, prayer, and teaching consistently worked by each of our godly ladies. Their willingness to allow God’s faithfulness to be demonstrated through them is a blessing. Their loyalty to the Lord, to their families and homes, and to the purpose of God in Christ Jesus here at Grace Church provides for us godly examples and establishes a spiritual legacy. Ladies, when progress seems fleeting and insignificant, remain faithful -- for God is faithful.
John 8:31-59
- Pastor Tim Potter
- Category: The Gospel of John
- May 7, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
True Confessing Faith
As Jesus continues to teach from the temple during the Feast of Tabernacle, He interacts with religious unbelief. We learn from John 8:30-31 that some have proclaimed faith in Jesus. The life of a true believer will bear forth the fruit of repentance. While some profess faith in Christ, others confess faith in Him. This passage in John helps us discern between profession and confession. Earlier in this book, we read how some professed faith in Jesus as King, trying to forcibly crown Him. However, these people did not confess Him as Savior and Lord. John writes his gospel with the purpose of proving that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, so that we might believe, and in believing, that we might have life through His name, not just professing but confessing Him as Lord.
John 8:12-20
- Pastor Steve Sindelar
- Category: The Gospel of John
- April 30, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
Jesus is the Light of the World.
What is your cause?
People follow causes that appear to be good. However, in Proverbs 21:2, it says that every man does what’s right in his own eyes. In the book of John, the cause of a group of righteous leaders appears to be right. Yet Jesus assesses their cause completely differently and condemns them.
John 8:1-11
- Pastor Tim Potter
- Category: The Gospel of John
- April 23, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
It probably took Noah 75-100 years to build the Ark. Even though God was sorry He made man, Noah found grace in His eyes. Noah preached, but no one turned to God. If any of them came to God, even in the last hour, they would have received God’s grace. Grace is unmerited favor from heaven, something offered to us that we don’t deserve.
John 7:25-52
- Pastor Mike Hixson
- Category: The Gospel of John
- April 16, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
We apologize for the audio recording issues this week. The notes below give a synopsis of the sermon.
The Chapter of Assessment.
We have been assessing who is the Messiah in the book of John. Where is he from and what is he like? In John 7:25-52, those observing Jesus had the same questions.
Resurrection Sunday: Luke 24:33-49
- Pastor Tim Potter
- Category: Holidays & Special Services
- April 9, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
Resurrection Sunday
Luke 24:33-49 happened about half a day after Jesus rose from the tomb. Jesus had already appeared to some disciples after His death and burial in the tomb. All the disciples were in a living room, eating dinner behind a locked door, fearing for their lives. They believed the Jewish leaders may seek to kill them as well.
The disciples were discussing reports that Jesus had risen from the dead. The witnesses explained their stories of seeing Him risen. Was this really Jesus? Was it a ghost? The ones who had not seen Jesus may have wondered why Jesus appeared to others but not to them?
The disciples were tired from the recent events of His death. They were grieving and confused about what to do next. Some of you today may be in this same position of anguish and uncertainty. Just as Jesus calmed the hearts of His disciples in this passage, He does the same today.
John 7:14-24
- Pastor Tim Potter
- Category: The Gospel of John
- April 2, 2023
- Audio Video Notes
Knowledge, Love, and Obedience.
John 7 is a chapter full of assessments as people try to figure out who Jesus is and Jesus continues to make statements of Himself and His divine authority. It occurs in the middle of the week-long festival of booths, just 6 months before He would be tortured and crucified for our sin.
