Sermon Tone Analysis

What We Experience When We Come to Christ

John 1.2

John 1.40-41

John

When we come to Christ what are some common experiences?

What do you expect?

The apostle John turns now from the faithfulness of John the baptist’s testimony to a consideration of the fruitfulness of that testimony.

Some of the Lord’s earliest disciples had previously been disciples of John the baptist.

John the apostle was one of these.

The greatness of John’s fruitfulness is seen in two phrases,

“They heard him [John]” and “they followed Jesus” (1:37).

That should be the primary objective of every evangelist, soul-winner, pastor, teacher, deacon, and elder.

When people hear us, they should follow Jesus[1]

Some Experiences have predictable results:

Example:

1 st Child

Excited and tell everyone

Maturity sets in for the couple they now have someone that will depend on them

They now have a tax deduction for a dependent

Military Boot Camp

Up early at 5:00 am

Told what to do and where to go 24/7

Scheduled eating time

Sleeping quarters /living space is dictated

Learning something new every day

Child Off to College

decisions of sleep and study are yours

scheduling you day is yours

finances is yours

no more mom and dad to hold your hand

That being said there are some typical experience we should have we we come to Christ

When we come to Christ :

I We Have a Confirming Relationship

John 1:35-

Text exegesis - vs 35-39 each verse

It was “the next day,” the third day in a series of days shortly before the Passover.

On the first day in the series we have a delegation, the representatives of the Sanhedrin, questioning and challenging John the baptist.

On the second day we have a declaration, John the baptist formally presenting Jesus as lamb of God and Son of God.

Now on this third day we have a decision.

Two of John the baptist’s followers leave him in order to become followers of Jesus.

It was John the baptist who promoted this move.

He saw Jesus walking nearby.

The word for “looking upon” Jesus is emblepo, which means “to fix one’s gaze upon” or “to give a penetrating look.”

John’s gaze was accompanied by an exclamation: “Behold the Lamb of God!” That was all.

The public declaration of the preceding day now became a personal direction to his disciples.

Two of them instantly transferred their allegiance to Jesus (1:37), won to him, significantly, not by a declaration of his deity but by a declaration of his death and atoning sacrifice.

One of the two is identified as Andrew.

The other remains unnamed, though there can be little doubt it was John himself, the author of this gospel.

He never names himself except in the book of Revelation.

The Lord, knowing that he was being trailed, turned around and confronted these two.

Andrew spoke for both of them; he addressed Jesus as “Rabbi” (Master).

“Where dwellest thou?”

He wanted a more personal and private setting.

Where could he find this wondrous messiah again?

Already he had someone in mind he wanted to bring to Jesus.

The Lord responded with an invitation: “Come and see” (1:39) or “Come and ye shall see.”

The two men responded at once.

In any case they spent the rest of the day with Jesus and left determined to waste no time in bringing others to Christ.[1]

Jesus’ words of invitation were, Come … and you will see.

A person must first come to Him; then he will see.

In addition to their seeing where He stayed, these words may possibly also have a deeper theological implication.

The two disciples remained with Him that day, beginning at the 10th hour.

That hour was 4 p.m. or 10 a.m., depending on whether the Fourth Gospel counted days from 6 a.m.

(as the Synoptics customarily did) or from midnight or noon.

The 10 a.m. times seems better and was the official Roman usage

Application - when Andrew and John came to Christ they wanted to spend time with Him.....

They went to his quarters and spent an entire day with him - wow

When we come to Christ :

We should want to spend time with our savior

The word

Prayer

Corporate Church

I questions can someone have a redeeming experience with Christ and not have a desire to spend time with Him?

Wanting to learn - discipleship

getting off the Milk onto the meat as Paul says

Illustration - here a person

Illustration - iphone 11 - pull out phone

learn the ios system

go to a free training

talk to others about the new features

poot of FB pictures and what the phone can do ...

When we come to Christ we should grow .....

When we come to Christ :

II We are Concerned fpr Our Family

II We are Concerned about Family

When we come to Christ :

john 1.40-42

exegete vs 40-42

One can picture Andrew and John hurrying away from this momentous meeting.

Andrew is saying, “I must tell Simon.”

II WE Have Concern for Our Family

John is saying, “I’m going to get James.”

This is implied by the next verse: “He [Andrew] first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messiah” (1:41).

“And he brought him to Jesus,” John says, characteristically telling us about Andrew’s convert rather than his own.

Andrew’s convert became the first messenger of the church; John’s convert became the first martyr among the apostles.[1]

“And he brought him to Jesus,” John says, characteristically telling us about Andrew’s convert rather than his own.

Andrew’s convert became the first messenger of the church; John’s convert became the first martyr among the apostles.[1]

The Lord looked searchingly at Andrew’s big blustering brother.

He identified him at once and then gave him a new name which completely eclipsed the old one: “Thou art Simon, the son of Jona [an Aramaic form of the name John]; thou shalt be called Cephas [the Aramaic form of the name Peter].”

The word for “Peter” is petros meaning a movable stone, not a rock (petra).