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Knowing Jesus, Knowing God

by Rev. Kirby Williams

True knowledge of the "genuine God" can only come through knowing Jesus.

Text: John 7:25-31
Date: 04/09/2017, the Traditional service.
Series: "John: Encountering Love" Part 51
Occasion: Palm Sunday

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As the confrontation between Jesus and the Jews continues in the Temple during the Feast of Booths, the crowd begins to wonder whether Jesus might truly be the Christ. But their consideration lasts only a moment as they fail to make "right judgments" and reason that Jesus could not possibly be the Christ because of a technical detail. In an impassioned evangelistic response, Jesus explains that genuine knowledge of God can only come through belief in the Son who alone truly knows Him and was sent by Him. In this Palm Sunday message, we will analyze Jesus' words and the crowd's reaction, and then ask ourselves the burning questions: "Do we truly know Jesus?" And as a result, "Do we truly know God?"


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I. Introduction
II. Exposition of the text, John 7:25-31.
A. Context
B. The irony of knowing Christ.
1. Public hearsay, vs. 25-26, John 7:12.
a. What the Jerusalemites know, vs. 25, John 7:20.
b. What the authorities know, vs. 26.
i. A confusing situation, John 7:19.
ii. The people's suspicion, John 6:69.
c. An uneasy peace.
i. A super-charged political environment, John 7:13.
ii. A fearful environment.
iii. A vague sense of uneasiness.
2. Making bad judgments, vs. 27.
a. Judgments based on partial information, Matt. 21:11, Mic. 5:2, John 7:52.
b. Judgments based on inaccurate information.
c. Judging on appearances.
d. An elephant in the kitchen!
3. What Jesus knows, vs. 28-29.
a. Apostolic irony, vs. 28.
i. Crying out in the Temple.
ii. Pointing out the irony.
iii. Christ's Apostolic mission, John 5:30, 7:18.
iv. A genuine relationship with the Father.
v. On knowing and NOT knowing God, John 5:37-38, 7:17, 5:46.
vi. The tragedy of bad judgment.
b. Christ's evangelistic outburst, vs. 29, John 3:18.
4. The sovereignty of God, vs. 30.
5. A timid belief, vs. 31, John 10:38.
III. Application
IV. Conclusion

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