Exclusive Jesus: Follow Me
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Do we Follow Jesus?
Do we Follow Jesus?
Key Passage:
Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples; And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!
And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto them, What seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou? He saith unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth hour. One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.
The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and findeth Philip, and saith unto him, Follow me.
Introduction
When something is important, we make it a priority.
What fills our hours and our days?
Do we really plan our days to fulfill God’s purpose?
Do we really follow Jesus?
What are we seeking?
Christ is Exclusive!
There is nobody in all of history like Jesus.
He is humble, yet all powerful.
He never forces you to follow Him, yet He deserves full allegiance.
What will you do with Jesus?
What seek ye?
Philip and John followed John the Baptist.
What was John the Baptist’s ministry?
Show the Light
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
3. What was John the Baptist’s Witness?
Christ is Greater
John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
What is John the Baptist’s answer? I am Not, but I am a voice!
And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No. Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself? He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
The Pharisees wanted answers about John
He humbly said that he is not the one they need to seek.
He answered them with Isaiah 40:3
I am a Voice
4. What was John the Baptist’s focus? The Lamb of God!
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
5. What was John the Baptist’s purpose for his disciples? Seek Jesus
Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples; And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!
And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
6. The reaction of the first disciples.
They realized who Jesus was.
They left John the Baptist
They wanted to follow Jesus
Application
Do you want to point people to the Light?
Do you want to follow the Light
Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
3. Do you magnify Jesus?
He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. He must increase, but I must decrease.
4. Are you willing to say, Not I, but Christ?
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
5. Do you focus on the Lamb of God, the Son of God?
He takes away the sin of the world
Are you forgiven?
John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne; And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
6. Do you point people to the Lamb of God?
And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses of these things.