1. TBN
  2. Programs
  3. grace today lawson perdue
  4. Episodes
  5. Lawson Perdue - Freedom (Part 3)
Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue

Lawson Perdue - Freedom (Part 3)

September 3, 2025 | S25 E3604 | 29:55

Lawson Perdue - Freedom (Part 3)
Pastor Lawson Perdue from the Charis Christian Center outreach speaks to viewers across the globe about the practical message of Jesus Christ
#inActive #Freedom #Redemption #Salvation #Grace #Belief #Christianity #RelationshipwithGod #WalkwithGod #TrustGod

Closed captions

Show Timecode
Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue | Lawson Perdue - Freedom (Part 3) | September 3, 2025
  • (uplifting music)
  • 00:00:00.009 --> 00:00:04.080
  • - praise the lord, friends, and welcome to the broadcast.
  • 00:00:05.247 --> 00:00:07.583
  • I'm so glad that you're here today.
  • 00:00:07.583 --> 00:00:09.085
  • We're gonna be sharing from john 8.
  • 00:00:09.085 --> 00:00:12.121
  • We're talking about jesus.
  • 00:00:12.121 --> 00:00:14.824
  • Who is jesus christ?
  • 00:00:14.824 --> 00:00:18.727
  • Did you know what?
  • 00:00:18.727 --> 00:00:19.695
  • Eternity rests on this question.
  • 00:00:19.695 --> 00:00:23.165
  • Jesus asked it to his disciples,
  • 00:00:23.165 --> 00:00:25.434
  • "who do men say that i, the son of man am?"
  • 00:00:25.434 --> 00:00:29.271
  • And then he repeated it to them personally,
  • 00:00:29.271 --> 00:00:31.774
  • "who do you say that i am?"
  • 00:00:31.774 --> 00:00:34.710
  • (uplifting music)
  • 00:00:34.710 --> 00:00:53.696
  • Friend, i'm so glad that you're with us today.
  • 00:00:54.630 --> 00:00:56.599
  • It's good to have aaron. we're sharing on john 8.
  • 00:00:56.599 --> 00:00:59.335
  • We've been talking about
  • 00:00:59.335 --> 00:01:01.237
  • Having freedom through christ.
  • 00:01:01.237 --> 00:01:04.540
  • And first of all,
  • 00:01:04.540 --> 00:01:05.808
  • We talked about freedom through forgiveness,
  • 00:01:05.808 --> 00:01:07.710
  • And then we talked about freedom
  • 00:01:07.710 --> 00:01:10.146
  • Through the life of god,
  • 00:01:10.146 --> 00:01:12.414
  • The nature of god in you.
  • 00:01:12.414 --> 00:01:14.216
  • When you believe on jesus,
  • 00:01:14.216 --> 00:01:16.051
  • Jesus comes to live his life through you.
  • 00:01:16.051 --> 00:01:19.855
  • - yeah, we're gonna keep going on in john 8 here,
  • 00:01:20.789 --> 00:01:23.559
  • Starting in verse 21.
  • 00:01:24.059 --> 00:01:25.494
  • You know, i love john 8.
  • 00:01:25.494 --> 00:01:27.062
  • It's a powerful chapter in the bible.
  • 00:01:27.062 --> 00:01:29.198
  • It just really shows who jesus really is.
  • 00:01:29.198 --> 00:01:31.433
  • - yes. - and there's kind of this
  • 00:01:31.433 --> 00:01:32.735
  • Just constant confrontation going on,
  • 00:01:32.735 --> 00:01:35.037
  • This constant battle between him and the pharisees,
  • 00:01:35.037 --> 00:01:38.974
  • Scribes and pharisees, these religious leaders,
  • 00:01:38.974 --> 00:01:42.444
  • You know, and it really comes down to
  • 00:01:43.212 --> 00:01:44.747
  • You're either gonna believe in jesus or you're not.
  • 00:01:44.747 --> 00:01:47.116
  • - yeah. - he's either lord
  • 00:01:47.116 --> 00:01:48.417
  • Or he isn't.
  • 00:01:48.417 --> 00:01:49.251
  • He's either lord,
  • 00:01:49.251 --> 00:01:50.653
  • Or he's a lunatic or a liar.
  • 00:01:50.653 --> 00:01:53.289
  • - yeah. - and you know,
  • 00:01:53.289 --> 00:01:54.723
  • Some people received him as lord,
  • 00:01:54.723 --> 00:01:56.225
  • They believed him.
  • 00:01:56.225 --> 00:01:57.493
  • They believed the words that he spoke,
  • 00:01:57.493 --> 00:01:58.527
  • But some people didn't. - right.
  • 00:01:58.527 --> 00:02:00.229
  • - you know, a lot of people think,
  • 00:02:00.229 --> 00:02:01.697
  • Well, i can just be tolerant and accepting of everything,
  • 00:02:01.697 --> 00:02:04.333
  • But jesus, he's either true or he is not.
  • 00:02:04.333 --> 00:02:08.771
  • - yeah. you know, and john. - there's no.
  • 00:02:08.771 --> 00:02:10.039
  • There's no gray area with what jesus says
  • 00:02:10.039 --> 00:02:12.274
  • Concerning himself, concerning truth.
  • 00:02:12.274 --> 00:02:14.343
  • - in john 14:6 he says, "i am the way, i am the truth.
  • 00:02:14.343 --> 00:02:18.781
  • And i am the life.
  • 00:02:18.781 --> 00:02:20.583
  • No man comes to the father except by me."
  • 00:02:20.583 --> 00:02:23.519
  • There's only one way to get to god,
  • 00:02:23.519 --> 00:02:26.188
  • And that's through jesus.
  • 00:02:26.188 --> 00:02:28.090
  • And all these other roads do not lead to life.
  • 00:02:28.090 --> 00:02:32.027
  • And jesus is the only one who was god,
  • 00:02:32.027 --> 00:02:34.763
  • Who became a man, who lived sinless, holy, perfect, pure,
  • 00:02:34.763 --> 00:02:38.200
  • Who died on the cross for our sins,
  • 00:02:38.200 --> 00:02:39.935
  • Who god raised from the dead
  • 00:02:39.935 --> 00:02:42.037
  • And jesus christ is coming again.
  • 00:02:42.037 --> 00:02:44.139
  • And we need to totally surrender
  • 00:02:44.139 --> 00:02:46.875
  • To the life and the lordship of jesus.
  • 00:02:46.875 --> 00:02:49.044
  • - yeah.
  • 00:02:49.044 --> 00:02:50.346
  • And we really see who he truly is here in john 8,
  • 00:02:50.346 --> 00:02:52.514
  • We see that he is lord, that,
  • 00:02:52.514 --> 00:02:54.450
  • You know, even when we get to the end of john 8 he says,
  • 00:02:54.450 --> 00:02:56.819
  • "before abraham was, i am." - i am.
  • 00:02:56.819 --> 00:03:00.122
  • - and they try to kill him for saying that.
  • 00:03:00.122 --> 00:03:01.757
  • So he's saying that he is lord.
  • 00:03:01.757 --> 00:03:03.492
  • You know, some people even today,
  • 00:03:03.492 --> 00:03:05.394
  • Question the deity of jesus.
  • 00:03:05.394 --> 00:03:07.663
  • - yeah. - that's actually
  • 00:03:07.663 --> 00:03:08.797
  • A foundational doctrine of christianity
  • 00:03:08.797 --> 00:03:10.733
  • Is that jesus is lord. - yes.
  • 00:03:10.733 --> 00:03:13.402
  • - and it's very clear to see in john's gospel.
  • 00:03:13.402 --> 00:03:15.971
  • - yes. - so.
  • 00:03:15.971 --> 00:03:17.072
  • Here in verse 21, john 8, it says,
  • 00:03:17.072 --> 00:03:20.809
  • "jesus said to them again,
  • 00:03:20.809 --> 00:03:23.312
  • 'i'm going away and you'll seek me
  • 00:03:23.312 --> 00:03:25.047
  • And will die in your sin.
  • 00:03:25.047 --> 00:03:27.349
  • Where i go, you cannot come.'
  • 00:03:27.349 --> 00:03:30.252
  • So the jews said, 'will he kill himself
  • 00:03:30.252 --> 00:03:32.221
  • Because he says, where i go, you cannot come.'
  • 00:03:32.221 --> 00:03:35.357
  • And he said to them, 'you are from beneath, i am from above.
  • 00:03:35.357 --> 00:03:38.961
  • You are of this world, i'm not of this world.'"
  • 00:03:38.961 --> 00:03:42.831
  • And verse 24 is huge.
  • 00:03:42.831 --> 00:03:45.167
  • He says, "therefore i said to you
  • 00:03:45.167 --> 00:03:47.703
  • That you will die in your sins,
  • 00:03:47.703 --> 00:03:49.738
  • For if you do not believe that i am he
  • 00:03:49.738 --> 00:03:53.575
  • You will die in your sins."
  • 00:03:53.575 --> 00:03:55.244
  • - yeah, we must believe that jesus is the son of god
  • 00:03:55.244 --> 00:03:58.414
  • If we're gonna be saved.
  • 00:03:58.414 --> 00:04:00.082
  • There's only one name given, acts 4 says,
  • 00:04:00.082 --> 00:04:05.287
  • Under heaven whereby we must be saved,
  • 00:04:06.088 --> 00:04:07.923
  • The name of jesus is the only name
  • 00:04:07.923 --> 00:04:12.494
  • That can save us from our sins.
  • 00:04:12.494 --> 00:04:14.763
  • Jesus is the only one again,
  • 00:04:14.763 --> 00:04:16.832
  • Who was god and became a man, who never sinned.
  • 00:04:16.832 --> 00:04:20.869
  • Jesus lives sinless, perfect and pure,
  • 00:04:20.869 --> 00:04:23.639
  • And then died on the cross,
  • 00:04:23.639 --> 00:04:25.140
  • Really taking our place.
  • 00:04:25.140 --> 00:04:26.542
  • He was our substitute,
  • 00:04:26.542 --> 00:04:28.410
  • And he died so that we can have life.
  • 00:04:28.410 --> 00:04:30.879
  • - well, and he just made it very clear.
  • 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:32.748
  • You know, he just basically said,
  • 00:04:32.748 --> 00:04:34.316
  • If you do not believe in me, you're gonna die in your sins.
  • 00:04:34.316 --> 00:04:37.986
  • You know, one of our favorite verses,
  • 00:04:37.986 --> 00:04:39.722
  • Pretty much most christians know this verse,
  • 00:04:39.722 --> 00:04:42.858
  • It's very popular.
  • 00:04:42.858 --> 00:04:44.126
  • Even athletes write 3:16 on their cheeks
  • 00:04:44.126 --> 00:04:47.162
  • Under their facebook mass.
  • 00:04:47.162 --> 00:04:48.297
  • And everyone knows john 3:16.
  • 00:04:48.297 --> 00:04:49.965
  • But it's great to read it in context,
  • 00:04:49.965 --> 00:04:52.167
  • 'cause it relates to what he's saying here.
  • 00:04:52.167 --> 00:04:54.470
  • Like, if you don't believe in me,
  • 00:04:54.470 --> 00:04:56.438
  • You are condemned. - right.
  • 00:04:56.438 --> 00:04:58.140
  • - and john 3:16 says,
  • 00:04:58.140 --> 00:05:00.409
  • "for god so loved the world
  • 00:05:00.409 --> 00:05:02.044
  • That he gave is only begotten son,
  • 00:05:02.044 --> 00:05:03.812
  • That who ever believes in him should not perish,
  • 00:05:03.812 --> 00:05:06.749
  • But have everlasting life."
  • 00:05:06.749 --> 00:05:09.218
  • And if you read on a few verses, it says,
  • 00:05:09.218 --> 00:05:11.487
  • "for god did not send his son into the world
  • 00:05:11.487 --> 00:05:13.856
  • To condemn the world,
  • 00:05:13.856 --> 00:05:16.158
  • But that the world through him might be saved."
  • 00:05:16.158 --> 00:05:18.827
  • So we see this in john 8,
  • 00:05:18.827 --> 00:05:20.095
  • You know, jesus wasn't there to condemn
  • 00:05:20.095 --> 00:05:22.564
  • That woman caught in the act of adultery.
  • 00:05:22.564 --> 00:05:24.933
  • He wanted to save her. - right.
  • 00:05:24.933 --> 00:05:27.035
  • - and she'd be saved by believing on him.
  • 00:05:27.035 --> 00:05:29.738
  • But verse 18, he says, john 3:18,
  • 00:05:29.738 --> 00:05:32.107
  • "he who believes in him is not condemned,
  • 00:05:32.107 --> 00:05:36.211
  • But he who does not believe is condemned already,
  • 00:05:36.211 --> 00:05:39.715
  • Because he has not believed
  • 00:05:39.715 --> 00:05:41.683
  • In the name of the only begotten son of god."
  • 00:05:41.683 --> 00:05:45.020
  • - right. - so it's very clear,
  • 00:05:45.020 --> 00:05:47.089
  • You have to believe on jesus.
  • 00:05:47.089 --> 00:05:48.357
  • That is the only way to be saved,
  • 00:05:48.357 --> 00:05:49.958
  • If you haven't believed you're already condemned.
  • 00:05:49.958 --> 00:05:52.928
  • - right. - it's not that
  • 00:05:52.928 --> 00:05:54.396
  • You're gonna be condemned, you already are condemned.
  • 00:05:54.396 --> 00:05:55.998
  • - well, john 3:36
  • 00:05:55.998 --> 00:05:58.467
  • If you just jump forward to the end of that chapter,
  • 00:05:58.467 --> 00:06:01.036
  • Jesus actually, john says this,
  • 00:06:01.036 --> 00:06:04.406
  • But he says, "he who believes on the son
  • 00:06:04.406 --> 00:06:06.775
  • Has everlasting life.
  • 00:06:06.775 --> 00:06:08.243
  • And he who does not believe the son of god
  • 00:06:08.243 --> 00:06:11.513
  • Shall not see life, but the wrath of god abides on him."
  • 00:06:11.513 --> 00:06:16.819
  • You know, the scripture actually talks about this
  • 00:06:17.820 --> 00:06:19.021
  • In the epistles.
  • 00:06:19.021 --> 00:06:20.589
  • But if you don't believe that you are treasuring up wrath
  • 00:06:20.589 --> 00:06:24.193
  • Against the day of wrath,
  • 00:06:24.193 --> 00:06:25.561
  • I believe that's romans 2:5 says,
  • 00:06:25.561 --> 00:06:28.497
  • You're treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath.
  • 00:06:28.497 --> 00:06:31.467
  • So if you don't believe on jesus,
  • 00:06:31.467 --> 00:06:33.569
  • You are just waiting for judgment.
  • 00:06:33.569 --> 00:06:36.305
  • And it's not that god has already paid for the world's sin.
  • 00:06:36.305 --> 00:06:41.009
  • The bible says in 2 corinthians 5:19,
  • 00:06:41.009 --> 00:06:44.346
  • That god was in christ, not imputing, not calculating,
  • 00:06:44.346 --> 00:06:48.684
  • Not keeping a record of our sin.
  • 00:06:48.684 --> 00:06:52.221
  • Not imputing our trespasses to us
  • 00:06:52.221 --> 00:06:55.290
  • And has committed to us, those of us who believe,
  • 00:06:55.290 --> 00:06:58.093
  • The word of reconciliation.
  • 00:06:58.093 --> 00:06:59.895
  • The word of reconciliation says
  • 00:06:59.895 --> 00:07:01.930
  • That god has already reconciled your sins
  • 00:07:01.930 --> 00:07:04.900
  • In the person of jesus christ.
  • 00:07:04.900 --> 00:07:06.435
  • He's already paid for your sins.
  • 00:07:06.435 --> 00:07:08.237
  • He's already made you right with himself through jesus.
  • 00:07:08.237 --> 00:07:11.473
  • But to receive it, you must believe it.
  • 00:07:11.473 --> 00:07:15.043
  • So you can't take those scriptures apart
  • 00:07:15.043 --> 00:07:16.979
  • From other scriptures.
  • 00:07:16.979 --> 00:07:18.680
  • And so jesus paid for everybody to be forgiven.
  • 00:07:19.681 --> 00:07:24.152
  • He paid for every person from adam,
  • 00:07:24.152 --> 00:07:26.555
  • The first man created and his sin
  • 00:07:26.555 --> 00:07:29.525
  • In the garden to armageddon,
  • 00:07:29.525 --> 00:07:31.126
  • To the last people on the planet.
  • 00:07:31.126 --> 00:07:33.729
  • Jesus paid for our sin.
  • 00:07:33.729 --> 00:07:35.631
  • But if you're gonna receive it, you gotta believe it.
  • 00:07:35.631 --> 00:07:38.367
  • You know, we have this new saying in our church,
  • 00:07:38.367 --> 00:07:40.202
  • "jesus changes everything."
  • 00:07:40.202 --> 00:07:41.770
  • That's really our logo.
  • 00:07:41.770 --> 00:07:43.305
  • But it's really believing jesus that changes everything.
  • 00:07:43.305 --> 00:07:47.843
  • And it says right here,
  • 00:07:47.843 --> 00:07:49.244
  • He who believes on the son has everlasting life,
  • 00:07:49.244 --> 00:07:51.813
  • And he who does not believe the son of god
  • 00:07:51.813 --> 00:07:54.683
  • Shall not see life,
  • 00:07:54.683 --> 00:07:56.752
  • But the wrath of god abides on him.
  • 00:07:56.752 --> 00:07:58.820
  • And actually, if you read that again,
  • 00:07:58.820 --> 00:08:00.722
  • You take the scripture in context with the scripture.
  • 00:08:00.722 --> 00:08:03.659
  • But romans 2, i'll just go over there
  • 00:08:03.659 --> 00:08:06.662
  • And read this in romans 2
  • 00:08:06.662 --> 00:08:09.932
  • So you can understand it.
  • 00:08:09.932 --> 00:08:11.333
  • After the hardness, he's talking to unbelievers here,
  • 00:08:11.333 --> 00:08:14.169
  • He's actually talking to religious unbelievers,
  • 00:08:14.169 --> 00:08:17.172
  • Which jesus was dealing with.
  • 00:08:17.172 --> 00:08:19.007
  • "after the hardness and impendent heart,
  • 00:08:19.007 --> 00:08:21.843
  • You treasure up to yourself wrath against the day of wrath
  • 00:08:21.843 --> 00:08:27.182
  • And the revelation of the righteous judgment of god."
  • 00:08:28.283 --> 00:08:29.918
  • There is a day of judgment that is coming.
  • 00:08:29.918 --> 00:08:33.221
  • And if you don't believe on jesus,
  • 00:08:33.221 --> 00:08:35.023
  • You are treasuring up wrath
  • 00:08:35.023 --> 00:08:37.326
  • And waiting for the day of the righteous judgment of god.
  • 00:08:37.326 --> 00:08:40.629
  • God is going to judge all men through jesus christ.
  • 00:08:40.629 --> 00:08:45.133
  • So we've gotta make a choice, are we gonna believe jesus?
  • 00:08:45.133 --> 00:08:47.436
  • Or are we gonna reject jesus?
  • 00:08:47.436 --> 00:08:49.338
  • And god's not gonna make you believe him,
  • 00:08:49.338 --> 00:08:51.873
  • It's your choice because god gives us,
  • 00:08:51.873 --> 00:08:54.009
  • You know, he doesn't want rebellion in eternity.
  • 00:08:54.009 --> 00:08:57.245
  • So believe on jesus.
  • 00:08:57.245 --> 00:08:59.381
  • - and i like what, you know,
  • 00:08:59.381 --> 00:09:00.682
  • As he's just saying these
  • 00:09:00.682 --> 00:09:02.718
  • Just incredibly important things that it says,
  • 00:09:02.718 --> 00:09:04.553
  • You have to believe on me,
  • 00:09:04.553 --> 00:09:05.654
  • Otherwise you'll die in your sins.
  • 00:09:05.654 --> 00:09:07.522
  • You know, you have to believe that i am he.
  • 00:09:07.522 --> 00:09:10.525
  • You can tell, you know, they just,
  • 00:09:11.293 --> 00:09:13.762
  • They're just fishing for things.
  • 00:09:14.396 --> 00:09:16.098
  • They're trying to get him in a trap.
  • 00:09:16.098 --> 00:09:18.367
  • Verse 25 they just say to him, "who are you?"
  • 00:09:18.367 --> 00:09:21.637
  • And he gets to it by the end of the chapter,
  • 00:09:22.537 --> 00:09:26.575
  • "before abraham was, i am." - right.
  • 00:09:26.575 --> 00:09:29.211
  • So he's telling them that he is the eternal god.
  • 00:09:29.211 --> 00:09:31.713
  • He is god manifest in the flesh.
  • 00:09:31.713 --> 00:09:34.416
  • - and it's just building and building up
  • 00:09:34.416 --> 00:09:35.917
  • Until the end of the chapter,
  • 00:09:35.917 --> 00:09:36.952
  • They just ask him, who are you?
  • 00:09:36.952 --> 00:09:38.854
  • "and jesus said to them,
  • 00:09:38.854 --> 00:09:40.422
  • 'just what i have been saying to you from the beginning.'"
  • 00:09:40.422 --> 00:09:42.824
  • He said, i haven't been hiding anything,
  • 00:09:42.824 --> 00:09:44.126
  • I've been saving all this from the beginning.
  • 00:09:44.126 --> 00:09:46.628
  • "i have many things to say to you,
  • 00:09:46.628 --> 00:09:48.797
  • And to judge concerning you,
  • 00:09:48.797 --> 00:09:50.632
  • But he who sent me is true.
  • 00:09:50.632 --> 00:09:53.001
  • And i speak to the world
  • 00:09:53.001 --> 00:09:54.536
  • Those things which i heard from him."
  • 00:09:54.536 --> 00:09:57.372
  • - again, jesus was doing his father's works.
  • 00:09:57.372 --> 00:10:00.375
  • Jesus was speaking his father's words.
  • 00:10:00.375 --> 00:10:03.245
  • He told that to philip in john 14.
  • 00:10:03.245 --> 00:10:07.449
  • Philip said, "show us the father and it'll be sufficient."
  • 00:10:07.449 --> 00:10:09.785
  • He said, "he that's seen me, has seen the father.
  • 00:10:09.785 --> 00:10:11.953
  • Have you been so long with me, philip,
  • 00:10:11.953 --> 00:10:13.855
  • And say, show us the father?
  • 00:10:13.855 --> 00:10:16.124
  • I'm in the father and the father's in me.
  • 00:10:17.025 --> 00:10:18.560
  • The words that i speak, they're my father's words.
  • 00:10:18.560 --> 00:10:20.729
  • And the works that i do are my father's works."
  • 00:10:20.729 --> 00:10:25.400
  • Praise god. so jesus demonstrated who god was.
  • 00:10:25.400 --> 00:10:28.437
  • You know, john 1:18 says this.
  • 00:10:28.437 --> 00:10:30.505
  • It says, "no man has seen god at any time,
  • 00:10:30.505 --> 00:10:32.974
  • But the only begotten son
  • 00:10:32.974 --> 00:10:34.843
  • Who is from the bosom of the father, he has declared him."
  • 00:10:34.843 --> 00:10:38.980
  • He has revealed him. he shows us who god is.
  • 00:10:38.980 --> 00:10:43.118
  • If you wanna see god,
  • 00:10:43.118 --> 00:10:44.319
  • Look at matthew, mark, luke, and john.
  • 00:10:44.319 --> 00:10:46.388
  • Just if you wanna know who god is,
  • 00:10:46.388 --> 00:10:48.657
  • If you wanna know the will of god,
  • 00:10:48.657 --> 00:10:50.225
  • If you wanna know what god does,
  • 00:10:50.225 --> 00:10:52.260
  • Just look at what jesus does, and it shows you.
  • 00:10:52.260 --> 00:10:54.996
  • He forgives sinners, he heals sick people,
  • 00:10:54.996 --> 00:10:57.699
  • He feeds hungry people.
  • 00:10:57.699 --> 00:10:59.267
  • He casts out devils.
  • 00:10:59.267 --> 00:11:00.635
  • He gives life.
  • 00:11:00.635 --> 00:11:02.337
  • That's jesus. that's god.
  • 00:11:02.337 --> 00:11:05.707
  • - so he's speaking these things and said in verse 27,
  • 00:11:05.707 --> 00:11:09.344
  • "they did not understand
  • 00:11:09.344 --> 00:11:10.679
  • That he spoke to them of the father.
  • 00:11:10.679 --> 00:11:12.748
  • Then jesus said to them, 'when you lift up the son of man,
  • 00:11:12.748 --> 00:11:17.152
  • Then you'll know that i am he,
  • 00:11:17.152 --> 00:11:19.387
  • And that i do nothing of myself,
  • 00:11:19.387 --> 00:11:21.556
  • But as my father taught me, i speak these things.'"
  • 00:11:21.556 --> 00:11:24.760
  • So he's saying.
  • 00:11:24.760 --> 00:11:26.328
  • He's prophesying of his own crucifixion, when you lift up.
  • 00:11:26.328 --> 00:11:29.264
  • - right. right.
  • 00:11:29.264 --> 00:11:30.465
  • - the son of man, you're gonna know.
  • 00:11:30.465 --> 00:11:32.367
  • - you know, and they crucified him.
  • 00:11:32.367 --> 00:11:34.603
  • It turned dark,
  • 00:11:34.603 --> 00:11:36.371
  • You know, in the middle of the day.
  • 00:11:37.105 --> 00:11:38.607
  • - well, even that roman soldier said,
  • 00:11:38.607 --> 00:11:40.475
  • "surely this is the son of god."
  • 00:11:40.475 --> 00:11:41.843
  • - yeah. - he knew
  • 00:11:41.843 --> 00:11:43.245
  • When they lifted up the son of man, that that.
  • 00:11:43.245 --> 00:11:45.647
  • He said who he said is. - yeah.
  • 00:11:45.647 --> 00:11:46.648
  • Jesus said, if i be lifted up,
  • 00:11:46.648 --> 00:11:47.716
  • I will draw all men to myself.
  • 00:11:47.716 --> 00:11:50.018
  • That's talking about his death on the cross
  • 00:11:50.018 --> 00:11:52.654
  • In john 12.
  • 00:11:52.654 --> 00:11:53.889
  • But it's also saying this,
  • 00:11:53.889 --> 00:11:55.757
  • I'm gonna take the judgment of the entire world.
  • 00:11:55.757 --> 00:11:59.027
  • Jesus took the judgment for every man.
  • 00:11:59.027 --> 00:12:02.030
  • He was the just, peter says, dying for the unjust,
  • 00:12:02.030 --> 00:12:05.767
  • Being put to death in the flesh,
  • 00:12:05.767 --> 00:12:07.636
  • But justified in the spirit.
  • 00:12:07.636 --> 00:12:09.938
  • So jesus, the just one,
  • 00:12:09.938 --> 00:12:12.274
  • Who never sinned, died for our sins.
  • 00:12:13.041 --> 00:12:16.311
  • Paul says, this is what we're preaching,
  • 00:12:16.311 --> 00:12:18.046
  • In 1 corinthians 15,
  • 00:12:18.046 --> 00:12:19.748
  • Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures
  • 00:12:19.748 --> 00:12:23.485
  • That he was buried
  • 00:12:23.485 --> 00:12:24.920
  • And that he was raised again the third day
  • 00:12:24.920 --> 00:12:27.222
  • According to the scriptures.
  • 00:12:27.222 --> 00:12:29.224
  • Jesus fulfilled the scriptures.
  • 00:12:29.224 --> 00:12:32.027
  • - and he said, when you lift up the son of man,
  • 00:12:32.961 --> 00:12:35.897
  • You'll know that i am he, and that i do nothing of myself,
  • 00:12:35.897 --> 00:12:38.633
  • But as my father taught me, i speak these things.
  • 00:12:38.633 --> 00:12:42.270
  • And here we're kind of getting a shift to,
  • 00:12:42.270 --> 00:12:44.539
  • You know his word.
  • 00:12:44.539 --> 00:12:46.107
  • - friends, i'm so glad that you've been watching.
  • 00:12:47.108 --> 00:12:49.211
  • I trust that you have been enjoying this teaching
  • 00:12:49.211 --> 00:12:52.113
  • From john 8.
  • 00:12:52.113 --> 00:12:54.049
  • But we have so much more teaching available to you.
  • 00:12:54.049 --> 00:12:57.719
  • It's free of charge,
  • 00:12:57.719 --> 00:12:59.454
  • Downloadable audio, downloadable video on our website.
  • 00:12:59.454 --> 00:13:03.925
  • And we actually have 21 teachings
  • 00:13:03.925 --> 00:13:06.895
  • On the gospel of john,
  • 00:13:06.895 --> 00:13:09.030
  • Downloadable audios, downloadable videos.
  • 00:13:09.030 --> 00:13:12.434
  • They're for you and they're free.
  • 00:13:12.434 --> 00:13:14.169
  • Check it out.
  • 00:13:14.169 --> 00:13:16.037
  • - you know, if you're gonna know the father,
  • 00:13:16.037 --> 00:13:17.939
  • You're gonna have to believe the word of jesus.
  • 00:13:17.939 --> 00:13:20.141
  • - yeah. - the word of god
  • 00:13:20.141 --> 00:13:22.277
  • And jesus are one and the same.
  • 00:13:22.277 --> 00:13:24.379
  • - yeah, in the beginning was the word.
  • 00:13:24.379 --> 00:13:26.081
  • John begins with that.
  • 00:13:26.081 --> 00:13:27.082
  • And that word was with god.
  • 00:13:27.082 --> 00:13:28.550
  • - and john, you know, there's actually two words,
  • 00:13:28.550 --> 00:13:29.985
  • Two greek words for word.
  • 00:13:29.985 --> 00:13:32.821
  • - right. - there's logos
  • 00:13:32.821 --> 00:13:35.023
  • And there's rhema.
  • 00:13:35.023 --> 00:13:36.458
  • So whenever you see w-o-r-d in scripture
  • 00:13:36.458 --> 00:13:39.594
  • In the new testament, it's either coming from rhema
  • 00:13:39.594 --> 00:13:41.496
  • Or from logos.
  • 00:13:41.496 --> 00:13:42.631
  • - right. - logos means scripture.
  • 00:13:42.631 --> 00:13:45.200
  • - right, the written one. - it means like a,
  • 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:46.468
  • The written word of god,
  • 00:13:46.468 --> 00:13:47.636
  • It means like a teaching, a doctrine.
  • 00:13:47.636 --> 00:13:50.639
  • Rhema is like a command, a living,
  • 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:53.909
  • A now word. - right.
  • 00:13:53.909 --> 00:13:57.012
  • - and both come from jesus.
  • 00:13:57.612 --> 00:14:00.315
  • He is the logos and the rhema.
  • 00:14:00.315 --> 00:14:01.216
  • - yeah. - john says,
  • 00:14:01.216 --> 00:14:02.250
  • In the beginning was the word
  • 00:14:02.250 --> 00:14:03.251
  • He's talking about logos.
  • 00:14:03.251 --> 00:14:04.519
  • He's talking about jesus.
  • 00:14:04.519 --> 00:14:05.687
  • Jesus is the fulfillment of scripture.
  • 00:14:05.687 --> 00:14:07.656
  • He's the fulfillment of the law.
  • 00:14:07.656 --> 00:14:09.057
  • - he's the word made flesh.
  • 00:14:09.057 --> 00:14:10.058
  • - fulfillment of prophecy.
  • 00:14:10.058 --> 00:14:11.626
  • And he's saying, you know, if you want to know the father,
  • 00:14:11.626 --> 00:14:14.329
  • You have to believe the word of jesus.
  • 00:14:14.329 --> 00:14:17.632
  • - yeah, in the beginning was the word,
  • 00:14:17.632 --> 00:14:19.467
  • And the word was with god.
  • 00:14:19.467 --> 00:14:20.602
  • The word was god.
  • 00:14:20.602 --> 00:14:21.870
  • The same was in the beginning with god.
  • 00:14:21.870 --> 00:14:23.004
  • All things were created by him,
  • 00:14:23.004 --> 00:14:24.839
  • Without him was not anything made that was made.
  • 00:14:24.839 --> 00:14:27.776
  • And he goes on to say,
  • 00:14:27.776 --> 00:14:29.144
  • In him was life and the life was the light of man.
  • 00:14:29.144 --> 00:14:31.012
  • And the light shined in the darkness,
  • 00:14:31.012 --> 00:14:32.714
  • And the darkness did not overcome it.
  • 00:14:32.714 --> 00:14:35.250
  • - that's what. - thank god.
  • 00:14:35.250 --> 00:14:36.518
  • - we see here. - he's speaking of jesus.
  • 00:14:36.518 --> 00:14:37.719
  • - john 8 talking about,
  • 00:14:37.719 --> 00:14:38.653
  • I am the light of the world.
  • 00:14:38.653 --> 00:14:39.754
  • I'm the light of life.
  • 00:14:39.754 --> 00:14:41.156
  • - yeah, and then jesus says, the word was made flesh
  • 00:14:41.156 --> 00:14:43.024
  • And dwelt among us, or john says,
  • 00:14:43.024 --> 00:14:44.592
  • And we beheld his glory,
  • 00:14:44.592 --> 00:14:46.127
  • The glory as of the only begotten of the father,
  • 00:14:46.127 --> 00:14:48.697
  • Full of grace and truth.
  • 00:14:48.697 --> 00:14:51.166
  • And we see this in john 8,
  • 00:14:51.166 --> 00:14:54.169
  • We see jesus, first of all, as the grace of god,
  • 00:14:54.169 --> 00:14:57.372
  • Forgiving the woman caught in adultery.
  • 00:14:57.372 --> 00:14:59.908
  • They said the law says stone her.
  • 00:14:59.908 --> 00:15:01.543
  • What do you see?
  • 00:15:01.543 --> 00:15:02.544
  • They didn't care about the woman.
  • 00:15:02.544 --> 00:15:03.812
  • They were trying to get jesus in a trap.
  • 00:15:03.812 --> 00:15:06.214
  • And so jesus bends over, writes in the dirt,
  • 00:15:06.214 --> 00:15:08.383
  • Probably wrote from deuteronomy 17 like you're saying,
  • 00:15:08.383 --> 00:15:11.186
  • But you know, and then they,
  • 00:15:11.186 --> 00:15:14.656
  • And then looks up and says,
  • 00:15:14.656 --> 00:15:16.091
  • Well, whoever hasn't sinned, cast the first stone.
  • 00:15:16.091 --> 00:15:19.027
  • And they leave from the oldest to the youngest
  • 00:15:19.027 --> 00:15:21.129
  • Being convicted by their own conscience.
  • 00:15:21.129 --> 00:15:23.665
  • And then after they all leave,
  • 00:15:23.665 --> 00:15:25.700
  • Jesus looks up, nobody's there but the woman.
  • 00:15:25.700 --> 00:15:27.635
  • He said, where are your accusers?
  • 00:15:27.635 --> 00:15:28.703
  • No man, lord.
  • 00:15:28.703 --> 00:15:29.904
  • He says, neither do i.
  • 00:15:29.904 --> 00:15:31.172
  • Jesus is the only one who can condemn us
  • 00:15:31.172 --> 00:15:33.808
  • Because he's the only one who's never sinned.
  • 00:15:33.808 --> 00:15:36.511
  • But not only is the grace of god,
  • 00:15:36.511 --> 00:15:38.513
  • The word was made flesh and dwelt among us,
  • 00:15:38.513 --> 00:15:40.849
  • And we beheld his glory,
  • 00:15:40.849 --> 00:15:42.117
  • The glory as of the only begotten of the father,
  • 00:15:42.117 --> 00:15:43.852
  • Full of grace and truth.
  • 00:15:43.852 --> 00:15:45.854
  • He's the truth.
  • 00:15:45.854 --> 00:15:47.155
  • So when they begin to ask him who he is,
  • 00:15:47.155 --> 00:15:49.491
  • He's gotta tell the truth.
  • 00:15:49.491 --> 00:15:51.693
  • And i am the son of god.
  • 00:15:51.693 --> 00:15:54.229
  • And he gets to this in a long process
  • 00:15:54.229 --> 00:15:57.632
  • Here in john 8, like you said.
  • 00:15:57.632 --> 00:15:59.868
  • But you know, he says, when you have lifted up, in verse 28,
  • 00:15:59.868 --> 00:16:03.071
  • The son of man, jesus is the son of man.
  • 00:16:03.071 --> 00:16:06.741
  • The son of god became the son of man.
  • 00:16:06.741 --> 00:16:10.378
  • The word god became flesh and dwelt among us.
  • 00:16:10.378 --> 00:16:15.984
  • He says, "then you will know,"
  • 00:16:16.618 --> 00:16:18.219
  • And this is in verse 28, john 8:28,
  • 00:16:18.219 --> 00:16:21.022
  • "that i am he, and that i do nothing of myself,
  • 00:16:21.022 --> 00:16:24.192
  • But as my father has taught me, i speak these things."
  • 00:16:24.192 --> 00:16:28.797
  • You know, jesus says this, you were talking about this,
  • 00:16:28.797 --> 00:16:30.899
  • Aaron, the logos, the written word and the rhema,
  • 00:16:30.899 --> 00:16:34.536
  • But in john 6:63 the scripture says this,
  • 00:16:34.536 --> 00:16:38.206
  • Jesus says this, "it is the spirit that quickens,
  • 00:16:38.206 --> 00:16:41.643
  • The flesh profits nothing.
  • 00:16:41.643 --> 00:16:43.745
  • The words that i speak to you, the rhema."
  • 00:16:43.745 --> 00:16:47.115
  • See, this is what happens when you study the word of god.
  • 00:16:47.115 --> 00:16:50.552
  • When you study the logos,
  • 00:16:50.552 --> 00:16:52.253
  • God will take a word from the logos
  • 00:16:52.253 --> 00:16:54.389
  • And make it rhema to you.
  • 00:16:54.389 --> 00:16:56.357
  • And i've had god speak to me from genesis.
  • 00:16:56.357 --> 00:16:59.294
  • I've had him speak to me from exodus.
  • 00:16:59.294 --> 00:17:01.629
  • I've had him speak to me from leviticus.
  • 00:17:01.629 --> 00:17:03.965
  • I've had him speak to me from numbers.
  • 00:17:03.965 --> 00:17:06.167
  • I've had him speak to me from deuteronomy.
  • 00:17:06.167 --> 00:17:08.436
  • I've had him speak to me from job
  • 00:17:08.436 --> 00:17:10.371
  • And from psalms and isaiah,
  • 00:17:10.371 --> 00:17:13.007
  • And jeremiah and malachi.
  • 00:17:13.007 --> 00:17:14.976
  • I've had god speak to me all through the scriptures,
  • 00:17:14.976 --> 00:17:17.378
  • From matthew.
  • 00:17:17.378 --> 00:17:19.180
  • I've had god speak to me from romans and revelation.
  • 00:17:19.180 --> 00:17:22.617
  • But the word it's a now word.
  • 00:17:22.617 --> 00:17:25.553
  • You know, when you study, the word never grows old,
  • 00:17:25.553 --> 00:17:28.690
  • But jesus said, he says,
  • 00:17:28.690 --> 00:17:30.225
  • "it's the spirit that gives life, the flesh profits nothing
  • 00:17:30.225 --> 00:17:33.895
  • But the words that i speak to you,
  • 00:17:33.895 --> 00:17:36.097
  • They are spirit and they are life."
  • 00:17:36.097 --> 00:17:37.732
  • And if you'll begin to study the word of god,
  • 00:17:37.732 --> 00:17:41.336
  • The spirit of god will cause the word
  • 00:17:41.336 --> 00:17:43.438
  • To become life to you.
  • 00:17:43.438 --> 00:17:46.241
  • - i love, yeah, what he says in verse 29 here,
  • 00:17:47.142 --> 00:17:50.044
  • "and he who sent me is with me.
  • 00:17:50.044 --> 00:17:51.846
  • The father has not left me alone,
  • 00:17:51.846 --> 00:17:54.449
  • For i always do those things that please him."
  • 00:17:54.449 --> 00:17:58.086
  • - amen. - and as he's speaking,
  • 00:17:58.086 --> 00:17:59.654
  • It says, "as he spoke these words, many believed in him."
  • 00:17:59.654 --> 00:18:03.825
  • And tomorrow we kind of get into
  • 00:18:03.825 --> 00:18:05.593
  • What he starts saying to believers,
  • 00:18:05.593 --> 00:18:07.829
  • - yes, it's powerful. - there's a distinction
  • 00:18:07.829 --> 00:18:09.964
  • Between believing and not believing.
  • 00:18:09.964 --> 00:18:11.633
  • So then he starts speaking to believers directly.
  • 00:18:11.633 --> 00:18:15.103
  • - right. - those ones
  • 00:18:15.103 --> 00:18:16.204
  • Who just started believing on him,
  • 00:18:16.204 --> 00:18:17.438
  • From what he's saying here,
  • 00:18:17.438 --> 00:18:18.540
  • That me and my father are one.
  • 00:18:18.540 --> 00:18:21.676
  • Everything i do, it's because he taught me to do it.
  • 00:18:21.676 --> 00:18:24.546
  • Everything i say, it's because he told me to say it.
  • 00:18:24.546 --> 00:18:27.215
  • He's saying, you know, if you wanna know the father,
  • 00:18:27.215 --> 00:18:30.385
  • It is through me.
  • 00:18:30.385 --> 00:18:32.320
  • And people believed.
  • 00:18:32.320 --> 00:18:33.688
  • - there's only one way to know god,
  • 00:18:33.688 --> 00:18:35.223
  • And that's through christ.
  • 00:18:35.223 --> 00:18:37.091
  • Again, john 17,
  • 00:18:37.091 --> 00:18:38.860
  • "this is eternal life that they may know thee."
  • 00:18:38.860 --> 00:18:40.862
  • God wants you to know him, right.
  • 00:18:40.862 --> 00:18:44.465
  • That they may know thee, the only true god.
  • 00:18:44.465 --> 00:18:47.101
  • There's only one true god
  • 00:18:47.101 --> 00:18:49.270
  • And jesus christ, whom thou has sent.
  • 00:18:49.270 --> 00:18:52.941
  • - and i love the people here who believed on him too,
  • 00:18:52.941 --> 00:18:55.877
  • Because in john 8 you notice that there wasn't like a
  • 00:18:55.877 --> 00:19:00.248
  • Miracle necessarily that occurred.
  • 00:19:00.248 --> 00:19:02.884
  • - no. - from the people that,
  • 00:19:02.884 --> 00:19:04.419
  • You know, gathered around the temple to hear him teach.
  • 00:19:04.419 --> 00:19:06.387
  • They might have heard about the miracles or seen,
  • 00:19:06.387 --> 00:19:08.289
  • But in this instance, it's just his word.
  • 00:19:08.289 --> 00:19:10.658
  • So the people who come to believe right here in john 8,
  • 00:19:10.658 --> 00:19:13.795
  • They're believing just through the word.
  • 00:19:13.795 --> 00:19:15.763
  • - it's awesome. - they're trusting
  • 00:19:15.763 --> 00:19:16.764
  • The word of jesus.
  • 00:19:16.764 --> 00:19:17.966
  • They probably saw. - that's amazing,
  • 00:19:17.966 --> 00:19:19.367
  • - that woman caught active adultery get set free,
  • 00:19:19.367 --> 00:19:22.604
  • But they didn't see like a demon get cast out.
  • 00:19:22.604 --> 00:19:25.673
  • They didn't see him walk on water.
  • 00:19:25.673 --> 00:19:27.175
  • They didn't see him multiply.
  • 00:19:27.175 --> 00:19:29.277
  • - he'd just done all those things in john 7.
  • 00:19:29.277 --> 00:19:31.379
  • - here they believed because of the word.
  • 00:19:31.379 --> 00:19:34.382
  • And ultimately you have to,
  • 00:19:34.382 --> 00:19:35.750
  • You know, and people saw the miracles.
  • 00:19:35.750 --> 00:19:37.852
  • There's still people who saw miracles and didn't believe.
  • 00:19:37.852 --> 00:19:40.655
  • - right? - i remember when i was 18,
  • 00:19:40.655 --> 00:19:41.823
  • I went to college in pittsburgh
  • 00:19:41.823 --> 00:19:44.025
  • And i had a friend there at carnegie mellon
  • 00:19:44.025 --> 00:19:47.095
  • Who was a classical guitar player from china.
  • 00:19:47.095 --> 00:19:48.830
  • And he was the first like really true atheist i'd ever met.
  • 00:19:48.830 --> 00:19:52.100
  • And i was talking to him,
  • 00:19:52.100 --> 00:19:53.301
  • And i just, i like got to this point.
  • 00:19:53.301 --> 00:19:56.237
  • I asked him, "if you saw a miracle,
  • 00:19:56.237 --> 00:19:57.739
  • Like just this incredible miracle,
  • 00:19:57.739 --> 00:19:59.340
  • Someone got up from the dead
  • 00:19:59.340 --> 00:20:02.076
  • Who'd been dead for several days, would you believe?"
  • 00:20:02.076 --> 00:20:05.246
  • And he said, "i wouldn't believe."
  • 00:20:05.246 --> 00:20:07.148
  • - oh, that's terrible. - and then just same thing
  • 00:20:07.148 --> 00:20:08.816
  • During jesus time, people saw miracles,
  • 00:20:08.816 --> 00:20:12.186
  • But they didn't believe,
  • 00:20:12.186 --> 00:20:13.421
  • Even today similar things can happen.
  • 00:20:13.421 --> 00:20:15.723
  • - aaron, i'm gonna tell you, there are no true atheists.
  • 00:20:15.723 --> 00:20:19.227
  • The bible says in romans 1 about verse 20,
  • 00:20:19.227 --> 00:20:21.996
  • That every created being knows its creator.
  • 00:20:21.996 --> 00:20:25.300
  • And recently we had a man who came here.
  • 00:20:25.300 --> 00:20:28.469
  • He is been coming here to observe his grandkids,
  • 00:20:28.469 --> 00:20:30.371
  • And he claimed to be an atheist for a long time.
  • 00:20:30.371 --> 00:20:32.373
  • But most people who claim to be atheists are mad at god
  • 00:20:32.373 --> 00:20:37.712
  • Because they think god did something negative.
  • 00:20:38.613 --> 00:20:42.016
  • And god's not the author of death.
  • 00:20:42.784 --> 00:20:44.686
  • He's not the author of destruction.
  • 00:20:44.686 --> 00:20:46.087
  • He's not the author of disease.
  • 00:20:46.087 --> 00:20:48.790
  • And you recently had one of the youth get born again
  • 00:20:48.790 --> 00:20:52.927
  • In the youth group,
  • 00:20:52.927 --> 00:20:54.228
  • And it was her first time coming to youth.
  • 00:20:54.228 --> 00:20:56.197
  • And she said, "my mom was, you know,
  • 00:20:56.197 --> 00:20:58.866
  • Mad at me for coming to church,
  • 00:20:58.866 --> 00:21:00.468
  • Because my mom's mad at god."
  • 00:21:00.468 --> 00:21:02.837
  • And i ask her, "why's she mad at god?"
  • 00:21:02.837 --> 00:21:04.872
  • "well, she's mad at god
  • 00:21:04.872 --> 00:21:06.374
  • Because god's taken all these people from us."
  • 00:21:06.374 --> 00:21:09.177
  • Well, when you study the scripture,
  • 00:21:09.177 --> 00:21:11.245
  • You find out that god's not the author of death.
  • 00:21:11.245 --> 00:21:14.182
  • The wages of sin is death.
  • 00:21:14.749 --> 00:21:17.385
  • Satan is the author of death.
  • 00:21:17.385 --> 00:21:19.620
  • Satan comes to kill.
  • 00:21:19.620 --> 00:21:20.855
  • Jesus said this in john 10:10.
  • 00:21:20.855 --> 00:21:22.290
  • - the devil is a murderer.
  • 00:21:22.290 --> 00:21:23.524
  • Jesus tells 'em here in john 8,
  • 00:21:23.524 --> 00:21:24.959
  • You guys are murderers.
  • 00:21:24.959 --> 00:21:26.594
  • - you're of your father the devil.
  • 00:21:26.594 --> 00:21:27.528
  • - the devil's a murderer.
  • 00:21:27.528 --> 00:21:29.030
  • You know, our heavenly father is not a murderer.
  • 00:21:29.030 --> 00:21:32.667
  • So i love that he just speaks these words
  • 00:21:32.667 --> 00:21:34.769
  • And many believed in him.
  • 00:21:34.769 --> 00:21:36.137
  • - man, jesus just tells the truth.
  • 00:21:36.137 --> 00:21:37.505
  • - just from the word.
  • 00:21:37.505 --> 00:21:38.973
  • And ultimately you have to believe the word of jesus.
  • 00:21:38.973 --> 00:21:41.476
  • - awesome. - you know, i think we should,
  • 00:21:41.476 --> 00:21:44.178
  • You know, desire to see miracles and experience miracles.
  • 00:21:44.178 --> 00:21:46.948
  • But ultimately you have to believe the word of jesus.
  • 00:21:46.948 --> 00:21:49.684
  • Because there are people even who see miracles,
  • 00:21:49.684 --> 00:21:52.053
  • But they just won't believe.
  • 00:21:52.053 --> 00:21:54.655
  • - they were in jesus' days.
  • 00:21:55.256 --> 00:21:56.624
  • There are people that, you know, they followed him
  • 00:21:56.624 --> 00:21:58.793
  • Because of the miracles.
  • 00:21:58.793 --> 00:21:59.894
  • And then jesus, this is in john 6,
  • 00:21:59.894 --> 00:22:02.096
  • He's got thousands of people following him.
  • 00:22:02.096 --> 00:22:04.332
  • And then jesus said, well,
  • 00:22:04.332 --> 00:22:05.733
  • You didn't follow me because you want to know me.
  • 00:22:05.733 --> 00:22:08.102
  • You follow me 'cause you got your belly full.
  • 00:22:08.102 --> 00:22:09.904
  • - and i love earlier too, that jesus said,
  • 00:22:09.904 --> 00:22:13.107
  • We talked about this yesterday,
  • 00:22:13.107 --> 00:22:14.409
  • But he basically said, "my witness is true
  • 00:22:14.409 --> 00:22:17.745
  • Because i'm the witness and my father's a witness."
  • 00:22:17.745 --> 00:22:20.314
  • He's not saying the miracles are a witness.
  • 00:22:20.314 --> 00:22:22.316
  • The, you know, my crowds,
  • 00:22:22.316 --> 00:22:24.452
  • The multitudes are the witness.
  • 00:22:24.452 --> 00:22:25.787
  • So he's saying, me and the father,
  • 00:22:25.787 --> 00:22:28.790
  • We are the two witnesses.
  • 00:22:28.790 --> 00:22:31.092
  • Like he. (lawson laughing)
  • 00:22:31.726 --> 00:22:33.361
  • - so he's telling 'em who he is, right.
  • 00:22:33.361 --> 00:22:36.531
  • And you need to get to know who jesus is.
  • 00:22:36.531 --> 00:22:38.232
  • He's the son of god.
  • 00:22:38.232 --> 00:22:39.834
  • He's the son of man.
  • 00:22:39.834 --> 00:22:40.835
  • He says that right here,
  • 00:22:40.835 --> 00:22:42.570
  • When they lift up the son of man, he's the man of sorrows.
  • 00:22:42.570 --> 00:22:46.140
  • Jesus fulfills isaiah 53
  • 00:22:46.140 --> 00:22:49.677
  • When he dies on the cross.
  • 00:22:49.677 --> 00:22:51.879
  • And isaiah prophesied of christ's death on the cross
  • 00:22:51.879 --> 00:22:55.116
  • Some six to 700 years before it happened.
  • 00:22:55.116 --> 00:22:58.619
  • And it happened just like he said.
  • 00:22:58.619 --> 00:23:01.155
  • It's amazing how accurate the prophets are
  • 00:23:01.155 --> 00:23:04.425
  • And these different things that they saw,
  • 00:23:04.425 --> 00:23:06.227
  • They, you know, they came to pass.
  • 00:23:06.227 --> 00:23:08.763
  • He goes on and he says this, "he who sent me is with me."
  • 00:23:08.763 --> 00:23:12.166
  • God is with me.
  • 00:23:12.166 --> 00:23:13.868
  • Best of all, god is with us.
  • 00:23:13.868 --> 00:23:16.537
  • You know, a few years ago, god told me,
  • 00:23:16.537 --> 00:23:19.040
  • In the end of 2021 he told me that, you know,
  • 00:23:19.040 --> 00:23:22.677
  • I asked you that day, actually, when we were in the office,
  • 00:23:22.677 --> 00:23:25.847
  • It was in december, 2021.
  • 00:23:25.847 --> 00:23:27.982
  • I said, "hey, what do you see?"
  • 00:23:27.982 --> 00:23:29.484
  • 'cause you and your mother are both pretty prophetic
  • 00:23:29.484 --> 00:23:31.819
  • And you hear god very well.
  • 00:23:31.819 --> 00:23:34.121
  • And you said, "i don't know, dad, go ask god."
  • 00:23:34.121 --> 00:23:36.724
  • And that evening, i was actually sitting on the couch,
  • 00:23:36.724 --> 00:23:38.993
  • Later that evening, and god actually spoke to me.
  • 00:23:38.993 --> 00:23:42.196
  • I was just meditating
  • 00:23:42.196 --> 00:23:43.764
  • You know, just thinking about god, thinking about things.
  • 00:23:43.764 --> 00:23:47.201
  • And the lord just dropped it in my spirit,
  • 00:23:47.201 --> 00:23:48.970
  • He said, "2022 will be a year of great miracles."
  • 00:23:48.970 --> 00:23:52.139
  • We had people, you know,
  • 00:23:52.139 --> 00:23:54.208
  • We had a man who quit, his heart stopped.
  • 00:23:54.208 --> 00:23:58.312
  • We had two people that had nursing background,
  • 00:23:58.312 --> 00:24:01.616
  • Took his pulse and it wasn't there.
  • 00:24:01.616 --> 00:24:03.718
  • And yet our prayer team all gathered around him
  • 00:24:03.718 --> 00:24:06.254
  • And we prayed for him, and his heart started.
  • 00:24:06.254 --> 00:24:09.190
  • Sot this happened right after
  • 00:24:09.190 --> 00:24:11.192
  • We had a big old meltdown at one of our leadership meetings.
  • 00:24:11.192 --> 00:24:15.162
  • And it was just god just showing me
  • 00:24:15.162 --> 00:24:16.964
  • That he hadn't left me, that he was still with me.
  • 00:24:16.964 --> 00:24:19.634
  • But god told me, he said,
  • 00:24:19.634 --> 00:24:21.068
  • "you're gonna have great miracles in 2022."
  • 00:24:21.068 --> 00:24:23.237
  • But he said, "there's gonna be a separation."
  • 00:24:23.237 --> 00:24:26.240
  • And we saw separation,
  • 00:24:26.240 --> 00:24:28.042
  • But now we're in a time of restoration.
  • 00:24:28.042 --> 00:24:30.945
  • Jesse duplantis came at the end of 2022,
  • 00:24:30.945 --> 00:24:33.414
  • I didn't tell him anything at the end of the service.
  • 00:24:33.414 --> 00:24:36.284
  • He said, listen, he told the church,
  • 00:24:36.284 --> 00:24:38.819
  • "church, don't worry about the people that have left,
  • 00:24:38.819 --> 00:24:41.222
  • A lot of 'em are gonna come back."
  • 00:24:41.222 --> 00:24:42.557
  • You know, we've seen a lot of 'em come back.
  • 00:24:42.557 --> 00:24:45.726
  • But there were we found out lies that were spoken
  • 00:24:45.726 --> 00:24:48.262
  • And different things
  • 00:24:48.262 --> 00:24:49.564
  • That were just totally ludicrous and crazy.
  • 00:24:49.564 --> 00:24:51.966
  • You know, the devil is a liar.
  • 00:24:51.966 --> 00:24:54.502
  • But you know what?
  • 00:24:54.502 --> 00:24:55.436
  • We can have peace in jesus,
  • 00:24:55.436 --> 00:24:56.938
  • And, you know, god's still with us, he hasn't left us.
  • 00:24:56.938 --> 00:24:59.840
  • And that's, you know, that's the best thing.
  • 00:24:59.840 --> 00:25:03.344
  • You know, they persecuted john wesley.
  • 00:25:03.344 --> 00:25:05.780
  • He was the father of the methodist church,
  • 00:25:05.780 --> 00:25:08.883
  • And the wesleyan church, you know,
  • 00:25:08.883 --> 00:25:11.185
  • And the holiness movement.
  • 00:25:11.185 --> 00:25:12.987
  • And they made laws
  • 00:25:12.987 --> 00:25:14.355
  • That he couldn't come with him five miles of town.
  • 00:25:14.355 --> 00:25:17.291
  • His favorite scripture was 1 corinthians 1:30.
  • 00:25:17.291 --> 00:25:20.661
  • But you know, he said.
  • 00:25:20.661 --> 00:25:22.430
  • They would throw him in jail but he said,
  • 00:25:22.430 --> 00:25:24.899
  • "best of all, god is with us."
  • 00:25:24.899 --> 00:25:27.468
  • And you know what? you need to know that god's with us.
  • 00:25:27.468 --> 00:25:30.805
  • And god's with us in jesus.
  • 00:25:30.805 --> 00:25:32.039
  • If you need prayer, give us a call.
  • 00:25:32.039 --> 00:25:34.809
  • Check out our website,
  • 00:25:34.809 --> 00:25:36.310
  • I have all this teaching on john,
  • 00:25:36.310 --> 00:25:38.579
  • 21 actually sermons on john,
  • 00:25:38.579 --> 00:25:41.582
  • Downloadable video, downloadable audio,
  • 00:25:41.582 --> 00:25:43.951
  • One from every chapter of john.
  • 00:25:43.951 --> 00:25:45.820
  • And you can go there,
  • 00:25:45.820 --> 00:25:46.954
  • Get all that absolutely free of charge.
  • 00:25:46.954 --> 00:25:48.956
  • But if you need prayer
  • 00:25:48.956 --> 00:25:50.391
  • Or if you wanna become a partner, please give us a call.
  • 00:25:50.391 --> 00:25:52.994
  • We would love to hear from you today. god bless you.
  • 00:25:52.994 --> 00:25:55.930
  • - [announcer] experience the gospel of john,
  • 00:25:56.831 --> 00:25:59.033
  • The vision of jesus as only john could see.
  • 00:25:59.033 --> 00:26:01.602
  • Pastor lawson perdue breaks down the book of john
  • 00:26:01.602 --> 00:26:04.438
  • In 21 lessons,
  • 00:26:04.438 --> 00:26:05.973
  • Exemplifying the grace and love of jesus in a personal way.
  • 00:26:05.973 --> 00:26:09.644
  • Knowing jesus changes everything,
  • 00:26:09.644 --> 00:26:11.846
  • And you can know more with this teaching.
  • 00:26:11.846 --> 00:26:14.582
  • Normally $69, yours free at charischristiancenter.com,
  • 00:26:14.582 --> 00:26:19.220
  • Through the generosity of our monthly partners.
  • 00:26:19.220 --> 00:26:21.856
  • Download your copy today.
  • 00:26:21.856 --> 00:26:23.991
  • (uplifting music)
  • 00:26:24.425 --> 00:26:27.895
  • Friend, we here at charis christian center
  • 00:26:28.763 --> 00:26:30.765
  • And grace for today believe in being good stewards
  • 00:26:30.765 --> 00:26:34.368
  • Of the resources that god has given us.
  • 00:26:34.368 --> 00:26:37.638
  • So we pay a professional service
  • 00:26:37.638 --> 00:26:40.374
  • That's actually available to help you do that
  • 00:26:40.374 --> 00:26:43.577
  • In a couple of ways.
  • 00:26:43.577 --> 00:26:45.112
  • Number one, you can make a will absolutely free of charge
  • 00:26:45.112 --> 00:26:49.717
  • With professional legal help.
  • 00:26:49.717 --> 00:26:51.786
  • And number two, you can go to tax smart ways of giving.
  • 00:26:51.786 --> 00:26:56.023
  • You can find them all on our website.
  • 00:26:56.023 --> 00:27:00.795
  • - [announcer] thanks for watching grace for today.
  • 00:27:01.829 --> 00:27:03.898
  • This broadcast has been made possible
  • 00:27:03.898 --> 00:27:05.666
  • By our faithful partners.
  • 00:27:05.666 --> 00:27:07.301
  • If you would like to become a partner,
  • 00:27:07.301 --> 00:27:08.803
  • Need prayer or have a question,
  • 00:27:08.803 --> 00:27:10.938
  • Please call us at 719-418-4000.
  • 00:27:10.938 --> 00:27:15.042
  • Or to partner online, go to charischristiancenter.com/give.
  • 00:27:15.042 --> 00:27:19.747
  • You can write us at p.o. box 63733,
  • 00:27:19.747 --> 00:27:23.651
  • Colorado springs, colorado, 80962.
  • 00:27:23.651 --> 00:27:27.354
  • See you next time on grace for today.
  • 00:27:27.354 --> 00:27:27.354