Jesus thought, at least in His day, that He was living in an incredible time when a great number of men and women were going to come into the kingdom of heaven. In spite of the fact that Jesus was brutally honest about the world’s evil, He saw a great many hungry people ready to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Jesus was not like the proverbial used car salesperson who tells you whatever you want to hear without dealing with the tough stuff. A genuine encounter is not afraid to deal with the truth of God even when it is hard to hear.
There are so many lessons to be learned from John chapter 4. But today I want us to see a portrait of Jesus. The one who reaches out to us in our alienation from God.
How does any man or woman pray 'Lord let there be less and less of me and more and more of you?' I think the answer to that has everything to do with just how great you think you are and just how great you think Jesus is.
I think that many people never give themselves to what is important in life, because they can’t! To be brutally honest about it, their ego or their pride gets in the way.
Whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. The idea here is that we are perishing until the moment we believe. The difference between perishing and obtaining eternal life comes to but one thing. It is about believing the gospel.
Today in our ongoing study of the life of Christ from the book of John, we are going to take a new look at God’s amazing love for the human race.
When you are born again, or born from above or born of God you will overcome sin and you will be protected from Satan himself. This is indestructible life. It is indestructible because God has placed His life inside of you.
He didn’t come to make admirers. He never came to be a superstar or to seek popularity. He came to transform the human heart.
Human beings will always worship. That’s because your heart was created to worship something or somebody that is greater than yourself. We are all driven to bow down and offer our lives to something greater than ourselves.
According to John’s recounting of Jesus, and the reaction He created in people, John wants us to know that there is believing and then there is really believing. We’ll talk more about that when we study that text in detail today.
The book of John is a book that tells the story of the life of Christ. But it is a unique book. We'll learn why in today's message.
Christians have taken this Psalm about David which celebrates his coronation as king and have rightly pointed out that this Psalm also speaks prophetically of the greatest king who would be a descendant of David. The one to rule the nations
In a world ravaged by sin, Jesus was announcing that He was the great king. His kingdom would destroy not only Satan, wickedness, and sin it would also destroy the effects of sin.
When Jesus began His public ministry, He was keenly aware that, not only would He preach to great crowds, but He would handpick a group of select men whom He would give the title “apostles”. He would train them and to them, He would entrust the task of taking His gospel to the entire world.lic.
Even though Capernaum was not Jerusalem Jesus established himself there so that his preaching ministry would have the largest impact possible. The location was perfect
Satan’s temptations were designed to make Jesus into an evil messiah and evil king. AND if we carefully observe the temptations for what they are we may find they are our worst temptations as well.
The Spirit led Jesus into that place of solitude and prayer so that He might be tempted by the devil.
Jesus will take upon himself the role of a servant. He will stoop down and wash the feet of His disciples. He will say that the son of man came not to be served but to serve. In the end, He will be utterly humiliated as He is slandered, beaten, tortured and killed. His baptism is but the first symbol of His willingness to take the road of humility.
Jesus is right now building a church or raising up a people for himself. He has out of His mercy delayed the day of wrath so that He might extend the hour of mercy.
As Matthew puts it, in those days just before the Messiah, in the days just before the Great King was to step out on a public stage, preparations had to be made. But in this case, it is the everyday people themselves who had to prepare.
How did Jesus go from obscurity to the name which is above every other name? These 2 chapters of Matthew trace the beginning of Jesus’ public ministry.
All Bible believing Christians know that one man is coming who will be the fulfillment of what the Bible calls, the antichrist. But what will he look like? Is it possible to recognize the antichrist when he arises?
In the book of Revelation the great prostitute is the symbol of human civilization, sacrificing everything for money and power.
We are not to think about the events in Revelation as just telling us what’s going to happen. We are to make application. We are to read the book of Revelation as it relates to our lives today and learn what these words mean for our everyday practical lives
In the Bible Armageddon is not the extinction of all life on earth rather it depicts the last great battle. Secondly and interestingly enough it is the battle between the nations of the earth, against the returning Jesus Christ.
With the pouring out of the 7 bowls you will immediately see that even though there are similarities the bowls of God’s wrath are much more severe than what happens when the angels blow the trumpets.
What John wants to communicate is that when the 7 bowls are poured out this event is a sign of the coming final judgment.
The Bible often speaks of harvest as an image of the end of the age. Once the harvest is ripe God sends out his reapers.
The book of Revelation is filled with angels who do the bidding of God.
Here in chapter 14 , the voice from the throne sounds like harps and at the sound of his voice as we will see in verse 3, everyone begins to sing.
The tests for determining the truth from God is to see whether the prophet is speaking words that are in line with the revealed will of God found in scripture.
Revelation 13:1-4 describes the beast. Verses 5-8 now give us a picture of what the beast does, his activities.
When Revelation 12:14 says, the woman (referring to Israel) is given two wings of an eagle we are supposed to be reminded of Gods’ miraculous deliverance of Israel out of Egypt.
I think it really is O.K. not to try to answer the question of when this war arose. The point of the vision is not to identify the point in time when this happened, the point is to identify the great spiritual conflict between Satan and his angels, that is the demons and Michael who has a great military made up of angels.
Like so much of what we read in Revelation we are not to take matters literally but rather see these matters for what they are visions of a spiritual reality.
It should not strike the Christian as strange that right now there is a great and terrible warfare going on in the spiritual realms. It is an invisible war that is unseen to us. But that does not mean the effects of that war are unfelt or not being played out on our soil.
As we move forward we are filled with gratefulness for Theodore Epp a man whose faith in God’s provision kept pushing a daily audio teaching ministry as far as he could take it.
Theodore Epp throughout his life believed in two kinds of faith. Factual faith and appropriating faith. It is the difference between simply believing the facts of our faith to be true and applying or appropriating those facts personally to his life through faith.
Sin no longer has authority over you. I know that some of us have problems with that because that doesn’t seem to square with our experience. But you need a new way of thinking.
For all who have truly renounced their sins and have turned to Christ as their only hope of eternal life the Bible says that this is due to something marvelous that has happened to you. You have been born again.
In Theodore Epp’s day a great many Christians were asking the question, a question we should ask as well how can I know that I have genuinely experienced the new birth?
What a precious moment that was Philip invited Nathanael to come and see Jesus. And that is the story of Christmas. Whether it is the story of Nathanael or the story of the shepherds and wise men or the story of the friend or pastor who invited you to come to Jesus, when you first bowed the knee and surrendered your life into the hands of Jesus you had no idea the adventure that you would yet see
There comes a moment when Jesus actually confronts us. What is it that you want? And our answer will depend upon whether we spend time with him.
If you and I could ever get it into our heads that only Jesus deserves unquestioning loyalty, that we are not worthy to even untie His sandals, we are not worthy to even be mentioned next to Jesus and yet we have been invited to be called His brothers and sisters to be intimate with Him and to be His representative in this world we would learn to be content in following Him.
Who you are has little to do with who you think you are, but rather it has everything to do with God’s calling upon your life. It has everything to do with how God crafted and shaped you.
John 1:14-18 is written to help us see that never has the human race seen more grandeur or splendor then when the Word of God was born in human flesh.
Today's text is one of the great texts of the Bible. In a few short sentences, it captures both the essence of Christmas and the very heart of the good news of the Christian faith.
Jesus is the true light that gives light to every man. Jesus is the only source of true light that anyone has. He is our only teacher. He is the only one who can take us to the Father.
Through the book of John we have numerous examples of witnesses, testimonials and evidence that is properly registered regarding the coming of Jesus.
© 2026. The Good News Broadcasting Association of Canada (GNBAC). All Rights Reserved.
Become a part of what God is accomplishing through Back to the Bible Canada in lives around the world!
For more ways to donate, please give us a call on:
1-800-663-2425
