Jesus is the one…

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Trunk or Treat: Volunteers needed.

Trunk or treat is coming and we will need your help. October 31 Saturday we will be giving out candy and inviting the community to hear the gospel

As students we are going to be the ones helping make sure every trunk has enough candy and is ready to go for every group

Sarah 🤍 and I will also be putting a trunk together and I would like to get some ideas from you guys for what our trunk could be

In previous years, we did a pirate ship. If you have any ideas, please let us know!

High school All-Nighter:

Heading towards game:

Ultimate frisbee, Have 2 L stay back to hang out inside for any students I would like to play games instead

All right Guys Take a seat, grab your Bibles and open up to the book of John…

Tonight in our growth communities we're gonna talk about one of the most important facts in Christianity

Which is Jesus is God

Jesus is not like a God

Jesus is not one of many gods…

He is not a God he is God

Many of you in this room have grown up in the church and many of you in this room have not…

Many of you in this room, go to school many of you go to homeschool groups wherever you are there will be people who try to tell you that Jesus is not God…

The Muslims will say, he never claimed to be God… Mormons would say that Jesus is a God among many

But the Bible explicitly makes clear that Jesus is God…

Before we get into it, let's pray:

Amen…

Like I said, if you have your Bibles, go ahead turn into the book of John

We will be in John chapter 1, and then we're gonna jump all the way to chapter 10

Tonight we're tackling a big topic and my goal is to give you a small snapshot of information

And for us to talk about it in our groups, and if you are wanting more information after that, please look back at today's sermon from Pastor Chuck. He does a good job of explaining this massive truth.

That we can't really explain and fully cover in the time that we have

But like I said, John chapter 1, starting in verse one…

John 1:1–18 ESV

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Step number one is Jesus was in the beginning of creation… Before you and I before this planet before this universe He was…

Jesus is the word he was with God and he was God… When God spoke, Jesus created, it was through him that all things were created, and threw him all things hold together, according to the Bible

But let's keep going

John 1:1–18 ESV

4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. 6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. 8 He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light. 9 The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.

Now we have this picture that Jesus is the light and he is the light that shines in the darkness and darkness cannot overcome it…

And transitions from this idea of OK Jesus is light. He's a word he is God he is light.

And the writer, John, the disciple transitions to talking about a man called John the Baptist…

Or John the baptizer… He says that this man was calling out in the wilderness, pointing to Jesus

Pointing to Jesus as a savior as God

So Jesus is the word he's the creator he is the lightAnd the profit, John the Baptist is pointing into Jesus as the savior

Verse 10

John 1:1–18 ESV

10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

The writer now transitions to this idea that Jesus came to the world he created to the people that he had chosen, and they did not recognize him as Savior

They did not recognize him as God… They did not receive him… But he says that those who do choose to believe in him to receive him as savior

It is those who have become children of God

And this is not something that is done by your own strength… This is not something that we deserve… But it is something that God has given to us

When we repent and believe in him, he signs the adoption papers, and we are born again as his children

And the author transitions from our new birth to Jesus's birth…

John 1:14–16 ESV

14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. 15 (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’ ”) 16 For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.

Jesus has always existed and will continue to exist forever, but this is the point where he being fully God puts on flesh

Becomes fully guard and fully man…

And now that we see this picture, we're gonna jump to verse 24 of chapter 10 again I'm just trying to give us a snippet of who Jesus is

John set the stage and he desires us to know him as God

And we are gonna go to One of the many verses where Jesus claims to be God

Chapter 10, verse 24

Intro:

John 10:24–33 ESV

24 So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.” 25 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name bear witness about me, 26 but you do not believe because you are not among my sheep. 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.” 31 The Jews picked up stones again to stone him. 32 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?” 33 The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.”