Let's Get Him!
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· 1 viewBig Idea: Recognizing Jesus Christ's unshakeable authority challenges both our understanding of faith and our daily living, inviting us to respond to Him with faith rather than skepticism. Summary: This passage recounts the heated debates about Jesus' identity and authority during the Feast of Tabernacles, showcasing the division among the people as some recognize Him as the Messiah while others seek to arrest Him. Application: This sermon can help Christians and others confront their own questions about who Jesus is. In a world filled with differing opinions about faith, individuals can find clarity and courage by understanding the authority of Christ and how it impacts their personal lives and decisions.
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The Unshakeable Authority of Christ
The Unshakeable Authority of Christ
Bible Passage: John 7:32–52
Bible Passage: John 7:32–52
1. Prophetic Pronouncement
1. Prophetic Pronouncement
The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
Jesus then said, “I will be with you a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.
You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come.”
The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? Does he intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?
What does he mean by saying, ‘You will seek me and you will not find me,’ and, ‘Where I am you cannot come’?”
2. Provision of Living Water
2. Provision of Living Water
On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.
Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ ”
Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
3. Perception Divides
3. Perception Divides
When they heard these words, some of the people said, “This really is the Prophet.”
Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “Is the Christ to come from Galilee?
Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”
So there was a division among the people over him.
Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.
4. Pressure to Conform
4. Pressure to Conform
The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why did you not bring him?”
The officers answered, “No one ever spoke like this man!”
The Pharisees answered them, “Have you also been deceived?
Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him?
But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.”
Nicodemus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them,
“Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?”
They replied, “Are you from Galilee too? Search and see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”
