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)