Sermon About Grace and Truth
1. How can we best see God’s grace and truth?
We need both grace and truth balanced in our lives [read Randy Alcorn, The Grace & Truth Paradox, 9-15].How can you balance grace and truth in your life?
How can we best see God’s grace and truth? The best way was for God to become one of us! Jesus was eternal God made man to show the Father as full of grace and truth.
The Gospel of John was primarily written to help Christians to be more effective in evangelism. John sought to prove that Jesus Christ was God made human so that people might believe in Him and receive eternal life. John wrote a prologue to present Jesus Christ as God revealing Himself, and in the rest of the Gospel, he backed it up with testimonies of Jesus’ miracles, discourses, death and resurrection as evidence of His deity.
Passage will show us that God’s grace and truth has been seen by eyewitnesses and by each of us too.
Let’s watch The Gospel of John movie that will review the entire prologue for us… [play John 1:1-18].
(God’s grace and truth has been seen by two major groups of people. The first group that saw God’s grace and truth lived in the time of Christ where…)
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2. Eyewitnesses saw God’s grace and truth when Jesus became human (1:14-15).
A.Many people saw Christ balance grace with truth when he became a man (1:14a).
B.John the Baptist was a key witness to Christ’s eternal nature (1:15).
3. We also see God’s grace and truth in Jesus (1:16-18).
A.All of our blessings ultimately come from Christ (1:16).
B.Grace and truth come from Christ (1:14b, 17).
C.Jesus helps us see the God we cannot see (1:18).
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Conclusion
.Jesus was eternal God made man to show the Father as full of grace and truth [MI].
- a)Eyewitnesses saw God’s grace and truth when Jesus became human (1:14-15).
- b)We also see God’s grace and truth in Jesus (1:16-18).
2.Christians…
- a)We should be like John the Baptist to bravely proclaim the good news of God’s grace and truth by salvation in Christ.
- b)We should imitate him by balancing grace and truth in our lives.
3.Non-Christians, you can know God and trust Him for salvation because Jesus is the best reflection of God you will ever know.
a)John 14:9; Hebrews 1:2
- b)Imagine the privilege of having the one who built you car repair it for you – he knows all about your car.
- c)Since Jesus has shown Himself as God, we can trust His saving message, His redemptive work on the cross and be assured of His salvation.
