Don’t You Know Me?
Nick Defore
Claim to Know • Sermon • Submitted • Presented
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· 14 viewsOpening sermon in a series to discuss who God claims to be, what we can know about his Character, and how that needs to shape us.
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Introduction
Image from campus life a few months ago- discussion of the difference it makes when we here about someone’s character, verses experiencing it first hand
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“But you,” he asked them, “who do you say that I am?”
“But you,” he asked them, “who do you say that I am?”
Peter answered him, “You are the Messiah.”
“But you,” he asked them, “who do you say that I am?”
Peter answered, “God’s Messiah.”
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, drive out demons in your name, and do many miracles in your name?’ Then I will announce to them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you lawbreakers!’
If you know me, you will also know my Father. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
“Lord,” said Philip, “show us the Father, and that’s enough for us.”
Jesus said to him, “Have I been among you all this time and you do not know me, Philip? The one who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
“ ‘This is what the Lord says:
The wise person should not boast in his wisdom;
the strong should not boast in his strength;
the wealthy should not boast in his wealth.
But the one who boasts should boast in this:
that he understands and knows me—
that I am the Lord, showing faithful love,
justice, and righteousness on the earth,
for I delight in these things.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
The Lord came down in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed his name, “the Lord.” The Lord passed in front of him and proclaimed:
The Lord—the Lord is a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and abounding in faithful love and truth, maintaining faithful love to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, rebellion, and sin. But he will not leave the guilty unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ iniquity on the children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation.
This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and the one you have sent—Jesus Christ.
