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Intro
I have told this story before that we started the year 2020 with a trip to Disney world.
I have a confession.
I have never gotten the hype behind Disney.
Like I get it I wanted to go as a kid.
But the thought of standing in line in Florida for hours for a 3min ride or a photo sounds like torment.
Friends started sharing tips helping us plan
We went and I loved it.
I was constantly surprised.
We all know this instinctively.
Someone will share something they love and they sell us on it.
How much more do we listen when someone really has experienced life change?
We’re in the midst of a short series asking the question How do I love my neighbor.
Last week we looked at the question who is my neighbor?
Scott Saul’s says it really well:
Your neighbor according to Jesus, is anyone who is near and anyone who is in need.
_Scott Sauls
We looked at the parable of the good samaritan seeing that Jesus has loved and served us and propels us to love others.
Here we are week two in our new neighbor hood…it’s exciting right?
I want to look at Jesus again and see how we are called even more specifically to love our neighbor.
Big Idea: Invite others to come and see the one we follow.
That’s what I want you to really have on the forefront of your mind.
Invite others.
Let’s go to our text and see first we are called to follow
I. Called To Follow (v.43-44)
John 1:43–44 (ESV)
The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee.
He found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.”
Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
As we investigate this call to love our neighbor we have to remember that neighbor love starts and ends with Jesus.
Last week we talked about the reality that Jesus is the better neighbor who pursued and loved us.
What is fascinating about this is context.
In this day to follow after a rabbi you would go and seek them and ask them to follow them, to learn from their teaching.
But Jesus, he is the one doing the calling.
Jesus said to Philip, “Follow me,” and he says the same to every one of us.
Coram Deo there is no Christianity without personal discipleship with Jesus.
There is no neighbor love without following the better neighbor
Far too many people today who give no evidence of following Jesus believe that they are Christians because they had an intense experience or responded to an altar call long ago.
But to be a Christian is to follow Jesus Christ; if you are not following Jesus, then you should not consider yourself a Christian.
All these men became disciples this way: by following Jesus.
They called Jesus “Rabbi” and committed themselves to learn from him.
We must do the same, and when we gather for worship, we must be taught by God’s Word.
So let me ask simply...Are you learning from Jesus?
Again too many professing Christians make little or no attempt to increase their biblical understanding, and resist having their cultural concepts challenged by Christ’s teaching.
What’s the result?
It’s a weak and ineffective church.
To be a Christian is to follow Jesus’ example.
When he says, “Follow me,” Jesus means that we are to follow his manner of life, his attitude toward others, and his submission to the will of the Father.
Indeed, to follow Jesus is to go where he went, to the cross where he died to the world and where we die to sin.
“If anyone would come after me,” Jesus declared, “let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me” (Luke 9:23).
Are you willing to have your lifestyle changed and your priorities turned upside down?
Let me just be really blunt If not, then you cannot be a Christian.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer famously said, “When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”
_Dietrich Bonhoeffer
For Bonhoeffer, that meant standing up to the Nazi regime in the Germany of his day, for which he was put to death.
For believers in the Arab world today, it means the prospect of violent death.
For Americans, it may mean forsaking materialistic self-absorption in order to serve and give.
To be saved, we must follow Jesus, taking up the cross.
Most of all, following Jesus means relying on him for our salvation.
Jesus used the image of a shepherd leading his sheep.
Sheep depend on the shepherd, and we totally depend on Jesus.
We rely on his blood to wash away our sins and on his righteousness to clothe us for glory.
We rely on his Word for truth and his Spirit for power.
We rely on his favor with the Father to make us beloved children.
That is why the cross, though an instrument of death, is in fact a doorway to life.
Jesus declared, “Whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it” (Luke 9:24).
Jesus calls us to follow him.
Coram Deo if we are going to do this thing…if we are going to bring the gospel to this neighborhood, to this county…it starts with bringing the gospel to our hearts.
Search your heart are you following Jesus?
Have you heard his voice through his word calling you?
Do you walk in repentance and faith?
An analogy that has stuck with me is a cheesy one but the point it makes is plan.
THE PLANET Mercury is hot.
Pluto is cold.
Why is Pluto cold and Mercury hot?
Mercury is really close to the sun and Pluto is a long way off.
The farther you get away, the colder things become, but the closer you get, the hotter things are.
You may say that you are not a Pluto Christian or a Mercury Christian.
Maybe you are an Earth Christian where things get hot and cold.
You may be a seasonal Christian who has changes depending on whether it is wintertime, summertime, springtime, or fall.
God is looking for some Mercury Christians.
He is looking for some folks who want to get close and stay hot all the time because they stay close to the Son.
Follow Jesus Coram Deo, that’s where this starts and how we go forward.
Because once you experience the goodness of Jesus you want others to know that truth.
You invite them to come and see and that’s exactly what we see Philip do.
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Come and See (v.45-46)
Look at verse 45
John 1:45–46 (ESV)
Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”
Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
Philip encountered Jesus and once he meets him he has to share it with others.
So he goes and get’s Nathaniel and tells him about Jesus.
Only problem is that Nathaniel…well he is skeptical.
First of all he isn’t a big fan of Nazareth.
It’s like a Chapel Hill vs Durham kinda thing.
Can anything good really come from that place.
Perhaps when you’ve shared Jesus with your friends and they’ve been skeptical for different reasons then where Jesus is from.
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