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The peace of God, John 14:27-31      

Apr

13

2025

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The two biggest themes of the 60’s generation, aka, the hippie movement, were peace and love.  When you look at images from that era, whether they be concerts or sit ins, or protests, or whatever, you often see them holding signs professing their desire for both. In fact, it was trendy in those days to espouse both of those as ideals.  I remember very well as a teenager holding up two fingers in a peace sign and saying “Peace, man,” in place of the usual hello and goodbyes. It was the thing to do. Young people drew peace signs everywhere.

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The Helper, the Spirit of Truth, John 14:16-26  

Apr

6

2025

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In today’s passage we are continuing our study of what is called the Upper Room Discourse.  It spans several chapters, and yet it all occurs in just one evening; Christ’s last evening with His disciples before He is crucified.  In this talk that Jesus gives, He tells His disciples that He will be leaving them very soon, and that where He is going they cannot now come. Of course, they are very troubled by this revelation.  And Jesus knows that they are upset over this. So He says to them not to be troubled, but that He will return for

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Obedience, the link to fulfillment, John 14:14-17

Mar

30

2025

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In several of my past sermons, I have established the principle that the Christian’s relationship with Christ is like that of a husband and wife in marriage. Paul says in  Ephesians 5:31, “FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND SHALL BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH. This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.”  So marriage, as defined by God, is an illustration of the church’s relationship with Christ. In any marriage relationship, the foundation is love. I’m sure that everyone here

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Three Comforts of Christ, John 14:7-14 

Mar

23

2025

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Jesus said God is Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in truth. I quote that verse here almost every week.  But I think that we need to elaborate on this doctrine that God is Spirit.  The Greek word for spirit is pneuma. Pneuma is the root word from which we get our word pneumatic. It means air, or a breath of air.  So a spirit is like the air.  A spirit is unseen.  It isn’t composed of matter that you can touch or see.  The best way we can describe it is a spirit

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The Comfort and the Caution of Christ’s promise, John 14:1-6 

Mar

16

2025

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When I was a boy, I remember my Dad, who was the pastor of our church, saying that his favorite song was “Mansion over the Hilltop.”  I guess it’s what’s called Southern Gospel and Elvis Presley, of all people, really popularized it by recording it in the early 60’s. I say it’s Southern Gospel because the lyrics use the word “yonder.”   My dad wasn’t a very good singer, but when the church would sing that song, he really seemed to enjoy it. The lyrics were not the most doctrinally correct perhaps, but the sentiment was sound.  It went something

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A new commandment given to the church, John 13:31-38

Mar

9

2025

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Imagine if you knew that you had 12 hours to live.  What would you want to say to your loved ones?  Well, that’s the exact situation that is facing Jesus in this passage.  He knows that He will be delivered up to be crucified the next day, and He has many things that He wants to tell His disciples while He still has an opportunity. In today’s passage, we are continuing in our study of Jesus’s Upper Room discourse.  There are five chapters in John which are dedicated to this one final evening of Christ’s ministry.  Five chapters of last

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Judas, an example of rebellion, John 13:18-30 

Mar

2

2025

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Last week we looked at the washing of the disciples feet as what I called an animated parable of Christ-like love, or sacrificial love.  And according to Christ, that kind of love is supposed to be the defining characteristic of the church.  Jesus said in vs.35 that “By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” And I would suggest to you that this Upper Room Discourse is really a message on the foundational doctrines of the church. The disciples at this point constitute the church. Jesus is no longer publicly

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An animated parable about love, John 13:1-17

Feb

23

2025

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What we have presented to us in the first 17 verses of this chapter, is what I have called an animated parable. A parable is a story that is given to illustrate a spiritual truth.  And so what Jesus is doing by washing the disciples’ feet is providing a living illustration, or an animated parable, in order to teach a spiritual truth.   Now that is important to understand.  Because the illustration is not the object of our attention, but the illustration serves to present a lesson.  There are some that take from this text the idea that we need

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The last invitation, John 12: 36-50  

Feb

16

2025

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Just a couple of months ago I was driving behind a great big John Deere combine tractor which was going down the road, moving from one field to another, and it reminded me of a verse of scripture, which to my mind is one of the saddest verses in the Bible.  It is found in Jeremiah 8:20 which says,  “Harvest is past, summer is ended, and we are not saved.” Every year around the end of fall it seems that this verse comes to mind.  Once Labor Day passes, it is obvious around this town that the summer season has

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Glory through suffering, John 12:(23-26)27-37

Feb

9

2025

thebeachfellowship

The Bible says that God’s ways are not our ways.  Nor are His thoughts our thoughts.  And in John’s gospel we see ample evidence of that.  In fact, John shows that what man might think is logical,  natural, and common sense, may not be the truth of God. The truth of God is often counterintuitive.  A classic example of this is found in verse 25, as Jesus says, “He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal.”  Jesus said that same statement slightly differently in Mark 8:35

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