The Truth Teller & The Lie Giver

The Truth Teller & The Lie Giver

10/03/2021 - Dave Riddle

Key Passage: John 8:30-47

Genuine Discipleship

• Discipleship, in Jesus’ day, had both a spiritual and a physical component.

• John 8:31 - if you continue in my word, you really are my disciples…

• pistueo: to think to be true. To be persuaded of; to place confidence in. To have faith (in, upon, or with respect to, a person or thing). To believe.

• Jesus is offering a clear caution to us so that we understand what it truly means to be his disciples.

  • Continue, abide, remain, stay… in the word of my teaching.

Real Freedom 

• John 8:33: referring to spiritual freedom, not political freedom.

  • Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Greece, Rome…

• Slaves to sin!

  • Only the Son can set you free.

  • John 8:34-36

Actual Identity 

• John 8:37-47

• Jesus: Who is your spiritual father?

  • The crowd: “Our Father is Abraham!”

    • Jesus: “You aren’t responding how he did”

  • The crowd: “Our father is God”

    • Defending themselves and their heritage.

    • Jesus: your father is the devil.

• This passage is helping us see The Truth (singular) and The Lie (singular)

The First Five Disciples

The First Five Disciples

The Gospel of John - Part 3

8/23/20

Key passage: John 1:35-51

What are you looking for?

• John 1:38
  

Come and see

• John 1:39
  

You will be called Peter

• John 1:42
  

Follow me!

• John 1:43

• Follow = akoloutheō 
  

How do you know me?

• John 1:48
  

The Role of “Others”

• Who are the “others” in your life who pointed you to Christ?

  • Who was your John, Andrew, or Phillip?

• Who are you pointing to Jesus?
  

Customized Connection

• He connected with each disciple in an individualized way.

• He wants to connect with you in an individualized way too!
  

Balance of invitation and challenge 

• Come and see - invitation

• Follow me - challenge 

• You will be called “rock” - challenge
  

The Necessity and Power of Revelation

• John knew Jesus was the messiah through the revelation of the Holy Spirit

• Likewise for Andrew, Phillip, and Peter 

In (Our Family)

A Family on Mission – In (Our Family)

Dave Riddle – 6/23/19

God’s Household

A Family on Mission - God’s Household

Dave Riddle - 06/09/19

Key Passages: 1 Timothy 3:15, Matthew 28:18-20, Luke 6:40

Our mission: Helping People Follow Jesus Together!

• A family on mission!

1 Timothy 3:15 - ... I have written so that you will know how people ought to act in God’s household, which is the church of the living God,  the pillar and foundation of the truth.

• Household = oikos (Greek: οἶκος) - an inhabited house, a physical dwelling place. Also, the inhabitants of a house, all the persons forming one family - a household. 

  • In the New Testament: the family of God: Where God has made his home. Us!

Matthew 28:18-20 - Then Jesus came near and said to them, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.  19 Go, therefore, and make disciples  of  all nations,  baptizing  them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember,  I am with you always,  to the end of the age.” 

• Disciples = mathēteuō (Greek: μαθητεύω) -  to be a disciple of another, or to make someone a disciple. 

• mathetes (Greek: μαθητής) - pupil/leaner/student - a disciple. In the New Testament, a disciple is one who not only learns, but accepts and adverse to the instruction given to them, making it their personal everyday way of living .

Luke 6:40 - A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.

• we are called to become like Jesus and help others become like Him too!

Three-Dimensional Discipleship 

1. Up (Father)

   • Reconnect with our Father God through the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ. 

2. In (Family)

   • We are connected. We can’t do this apart from our brothers and sisters. United in Christ. 

3. Out (World)

   • Salt and light, ambassadors and witnesses to the world! We exist to reach out into the world to see them become like Jesus too!