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Here at North Hills we are more than Sunday and we say that because we have a school and preschool that meets here daily, Monday through Friday.
Now when you have several hundred students, things can be a little loud.
But it’s always amazing to me, that if Florence stands in front of the room without raising her voice, she just has to say, “If you can hear my voice clap once.”
Everyone claps.
If you can hear my voice clap twice.
everyone claps twice.
And by the 3rd time she says, If you can hear my voice clap three times and at the end of of those 3 claps, the room is silent and Florence can speak.
It’s fun, its participatory.
If I’m there I clap to.
Its the principle of mulitplication.
Florence never raises her voice, but as more people hear her and clap in response, the number of people listening multiplies and all eyes are on Florence, even if you don’t care what she has to say.
Now this only works if those who can hear at the beginning respond and it gets passed on.
Imagine what would happen, if those nearest to her said, I can hear you fine but I don’t want to disturb those who aren’t listening.
I’m here say, what you need to say.
Number one, you’ll be distracted by those around you not paying attention and probably more importantly you aren’t doing what she asks.
Now bear with me for a minute.
This is the way that Jesus has chosen to get His message out to the world.
The message that he is the Messiah, the son of God who came to this earth and died on the cross for our sins.
For those of that can hear His voice are called to respond that others might listen up…even if they don’t care what He has to say.
Turn in your Bibles to John Chapter 10.
Scripture Introduction:
So much of John’s
The purpose of John’s gospel is to beg the question is, “Are you listening?”
But also to ask, “Do you believe what you are hearing?”
Can you hear Jesus speaking in your life?
Can you hear?
When Jesus begin His ministry, people loved his new way of teaching.
They loved the miracles that He did.
They loved how He called out hypocrites and Pharisees.
But over time, His message got stronger and harder to follow.
People in power, sought to use that power to silence Him.
People, even those who followed Him, were growing colder and colder towards Jesus.
As he was approaching His time, people were growing more and more tired of Jesus’ desire for response in the form of total sacrifice..
Many people followed Jesus.
Many people were interested in Jesus.
But let’s be real, true believers in Jesus (just like today) were a minority in that day.
So in life there are so many voices telling you what to believe....what not to believe…criticizing our beliefs…distorting our belief…arguing minor points of our beliefs.
Sometimes that voice is entirely inside our own heads.
Jesus tells us to follow Him and put aside any other voices.
We are called to listen and we are called to respond and spread the message.
john 10:22-
Big Idea: Listen up.
Believe.
Respond.
Let’s read
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What everyone wanted to know is, “Jesus are you the Messiah?” Tells us!
1. Jesus has spoken in words and actions.
Jesus had told them that he was the messiah both in words and in actions.
The first question is are we listening?
Now a couple things here.
Jesus didn’t often say, “I am the messiah.”
The work I do, in my father’s name, bear witness about me.”
WHY????
Because the Bible has spoken.
The OLD TESTAMENT IS A BOOK ABOUT JESUS!
Jesus is quoting the prophet Isaiah.
No Jesus didn’t even tell John the Baptist, “Yes, I am the messiah.”
He quoted of the OT that told what the messiah would be like and said, “What do you hear?” Scripture cannot be broken.
Jesus quoted or referred to the Old Testament 64 times and every time He did, he spoke to it’s authority to govern our lives.
Jesus had a very high view of scripture and we should have the same view scripture.
Illustration:
There are few things as frustrating as having to answer the same question over and over again by the same person.
“I already told you!”
Many peopleare like, “Why doesn’t God just speak to me?!?!?!”
And God is like, “WHY DON’T YOU READ WHAT I ALREADY SAID!?!?!?
Unbelief looks for excuses not reasons.
The question is are you reading and listening?
Let’s keep reading.
John 10:
2. Believe what you have seen and heard.
Jesus says that His sheep here His voice and follow Him.
They believe.
And are given eternal life and then Jesus makes the claim that He is God.
It’s one thing to believe in Jesus the rabbi.
It’s one thing to believe in Jesus the teacher....Jesus the Good man.
But will you believe in Jesus as God.
And again this isn’t knew, the Old Testament spoke of this.
But when you’re face to face with it, will you believe.
What you have heard.....
It’s one thing to hear the words of Jesus whether you are reading the Bible or at that time, actually hearing the words of Jesus; it’s quite another thing to actually believe them.
The second question is “Do you believe what you are hearing?”
In many cases, we like some of the words of Jesus, but we don’t like all of them.
There are no red letters in my Bible.
Why?
Because John tells us that it is Jesus who is the Word.
The letters in red are the words Jesus spoke on earth, but the word in black is still his word.
That changes the way we approach the Old Testament or even the words of someone like the Apostle Paul who was inspired to write more than half of the New Testament.
And while we don’t have time to do so here, many of you know that we are going to have to wrestle with some things that are hard to comprehend.
But the call is to believe what you have heard in Scripture.
What you have seen...
The first thing that we have seen as followers of Jesus is the history of the church.
2,000 years of talking about a crucified rabbi.
Why are we still talking about Jesus?
Is it a great conspiracy to control us?
Considering that the first Christians died for what they believe, that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me.
All of the disciples and apostles died.
Believe what you have seen in history.
For me, I’ve also seen what the gospel has done for people now.
It is difficult to argue with a changed life.
We also have to believe what we see.
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