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TRU-23
121028AM
Short Clip
No one understands the Gospel better than our Lord & Savior, the Author & finisher of our faith, Jesus Christ.
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Today we continue on our journey through the Gospel recorded by the Apostle John.
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As we open to John 5 we are listening and watching the eyewitness record of John who was closest of all the Apostles to Jesus.
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The Holy Spirit uses that proximity and loving eye and ear of young John, to give the most unique of all the four Gospel accounts.
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But before we dive into these verses, we need to remember why we have the Gospels opening the New Testaments, open before us this morning.
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The Four Gospels are For Christ’s Church
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The Four Gospels, and their powerful presentations of Christ’s gospel messages, were written:
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ā¢ FOR Christ’s Church;
ā¢ TO Christ’s Church; and
ā¢ BY the Apostles of Christ’s Church.
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The Four Gospels were each written after the birth of Christ’s Church in Acts 2.
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The Four Gospels were written for those who were being saved and trained in Christ’s Church.
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The Four Gospels were written during the very era when Paul and the Apostles were taking the Good News into all the world, and to every creature.
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The Four Gospels should be the richest treasure trove to us in Christ’s Church; and we should be mining the very words of Christ, as He speaks to every heart, laden with sin.
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The Gospels are so powerfully the voice to us the Church, of God the Son, the Savior of the world.
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So as we open to read together from John 5:24-30, remember that John captures the content of the Gospel of Jesus Christ that was sweeping the Roman Empire.
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When the Holy Spirit of God moved upon John the Apostle to write, God was writing down the Gospel According to Jesus.
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Christ’s Word is the Only Pathway to Eternal Life