HCBC Sunday School -- October 20, 2013 "Friends" Class
Unit 3 -- The Word for Challenging Situations (John 7:1 -- 11:57)
Asking Questions About Jesus? (John 7:1-52)
How can the Bible help me answer difficult questions about Jesus?
1) Is Jesus' Teaching Valid (7:14-18)
a. Suggestion: Review easier questions.
b. Sufficiency of scripture: Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. ~ John 15:15
c. Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. ~ II Timothy 2:15
d. Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. ~ John 8:31-32
2) Is Jesus Really from God? (7:25-31)
a. And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. ~ Matthew 3:17
b. Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. ~ John 20:21
3) How Can We Understand Jesus' Teaching? (7:33-36)
a. ANSWER: By getting saved through faith in Jesus Christ --
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. ~ I Corinthians 2:13-14
b. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. ~ John 14:26