Jesus Meets Philip and Nathanael (9AM & 11AM)

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Jeremy Norton

Mountainview Church Whitehorse

How I Met Jesus • Sermon • Submitted 7 years ago • Presented 7 years ago • 1:05:13

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When people first hear the Gospel, they respond in different ways. Some respond in immediate acceptance, while others respond with skepticism. Are we willing to embrace the skeptics questions? Do we even know the answers? In John 1, we find the account of two men named Philip and Nathanael, and their individual responses to the meeting Jesus.

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﻿                          Whitehorse Baptist Church 
                             "HOW I MET JESUS" 

      "JESUS MEETS PHILIP AND NATHANAEL" (JOHN 1:43-51) 
                      OUTLINE STYLE: DEDUCTIVE DEVELOPMENT 

INTRODUCTION: 

1. (SLIDE 1) RESPONSES TO THE GOSPEL - IDEA 
       Ø  Is there any real right or wrong? 
       Ø  Is there a real heaven and hell? 
       Ø  Why is there evil in the world? 
       Ø  What about the wars started by Christianity? 
       Ø  Don't all religious lead to God? 
       Ø  What happens to people who don't know Jesus? 
       Ø  Is Jesus really God? 
2. (SLIDE 2-3) SERIES & MESSAGE INTROS 

TEACHING: 

3. (SLIDE 4-6) JOHN 1:43-51 
4. (SLIDE 7) JESUS FINDS PHILIP 
  a) Jesus Calls Philip To Himself 
  b) Philip Responds Immediately (and Evangelically) 
5. (SLIDE 8) PHILIP FINDS NATHANAEL (Bartholomew In Other Gospels) 
  a) Philip Calls Nathanael To Jesus (Using O.T. Writings as evidence!) 
     i) (SLIDE 9) What Writings of Moses? 
       Ø  Gen. 49:1-12: "...8 Judah, your brothers shall praise you...your father's 
          sons shall bow down before you...10 The scepter shall not depart from 
          Judah...to him shall be the obedience of the peoples." 
       Ø  Deut. 18:15-19: "17 And the Lord said...18 I will raise up for them a prophet 
          like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, 
          and he shall speak to them all that I command him." 
     ii) (SLIDE 10) What Writings of the Prophets? 
       Ø  2 Samuel 7:12-16: "12 ...I will raise up your offspring after you...and I will 
          establish his kingdom. 13...I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 
          14 I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son." 
       Ø  Isaiah 9:6-7: "6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the 
          government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called 
          Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 
          Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the 
          throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with 
          justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore." 
       Ø  Isaiah 52:13-53-12: " 13 Behold, my servant shall act wisely; he shall be 
          high and lifted up, and shall be exalted. 14...his appearance was so 
          marred, beyond human semblance...15...Kings shall shut their mouths 
          because of him, for that which has not been told them they see, and that 
          which they have not heard they understand." 
       Ø  Daniel 7:13-14: " 13...behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one 
          like a son of man...14 And to him was given dominion and glory and a 
          kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his 
          dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his 
          kingdom one that shall not be destroyed." 
       Ø  Daniel 9:24-27: "24...decreed about your people...to finish the 
          transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in 
          everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet..." 
       Ø  Zechariah 12:10: " 10 And I will pour out on the house of David...a spirit of 
          grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom 
          they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only 
          child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn." 
          o Jews For Jesus: Top 40 Most Helpful Messianic Prophecies 
            •  JewsForJesus.org/Answers/top-40-most-helpful-messianic-prophecies 
  b) (SLIDE 11) Nathanael's Responds Skeptically 
     i) Nazareth? 
       Ø  In 2003, archeological dig found that the Roman garrison for the province 
          of Galilee was based in Nazareth at that time. 
     ii) (SLIDE 12) Another Valid Reason Why: 
       Ø  Micah 5:2: "But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be 
          among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to 
          be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days." 
6. (SLIDE 13) JESUS FINDS NATHANAEL 
  a) Jesus Calls Nathanael To Himself 
     i) "How do you know me?" (He saw him before Philip ever found him.) 
  b) Nathanael Responds Prophetically: "Rabbi, you are the Son of God!" 
APPLICATION: 

7. (SLIDE 14) REACHING SKEPTICS 
  a) Do we have the answers? 
      Ø Plug "Problem of God" by Mark Clark. 
  b) How much do our friends mean to us? 
      Ø Are we willing to leave the safety and security of our Christian 
        communities to reach those who don't know Him? 
        o  Philip left Jesus to find his friend! 
  c) What about friends with other theistic beliefs of God but not Jesus? 
  d) Is believing in God enough? 
        o  Do we believe Jesus is God? 

CONCLUSION: 

8. (SLIDE 15) COMMUNION (1 Corinthians 11:23-26) 

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