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John 20:31 · BSB
20:31 But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.
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…for the fact that they, that he would go to the cross. He was building them up. John includes in his gospel, his own reason for writing the gospel.John chapter 20, verse 31. But these things have been written so that you may believe Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.…
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…the book of Acts which uses that phrase that you may believe nine times. But here in John, it is used 46 times. And what is his purpose? We read inJohn chapter 20, verse 31, These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. We're…
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…you don't get a handle on it. I want you to, it's not just my burden. I want you to listen to what John's burden was. He closes out his gospel inJohn chapter 20, verse 30 through 31by saying this. Now, Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book, but these are written. In…
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…of the Gospel of John is making an argument that Jesus is the Messiah who opens up the fullness of life. And that's the thesis that we find inJohn 20 verse 31. But the story is also confronting the beliefs from the world in which it comes. So why don't we pull up a little pool chair and look around…
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…amazing is this is the same John who wrote the Gospel account in the Gospel of John and you know what he says near the end of that book, right? AndJohn 20:31. He says, but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ. So that it's an Evangelistic text. Look at the deity of this man.…
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…Word of God is that the Bible, this Bible was written for you. It’s written for you. God gave us this book and He wrote these things. It says inJohn 20:31, “These things are written that you might believe.” And then 1 John 5 it says, “These things I’ve written to you that you may know.” And in the…
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…mountain, but Jesus is God speaking to them from the mountain, and he's speaking for a purpose. Remember John's reason why he recorded these signs?John chapter 20, verse 31. These signs are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. So…
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…household believed. That's the happily ever after moment because that's where the sign is pointing to. So, all the signs in John's gospel point to,John chapter 20, verse 31. What's the goal of John's gospel in recording these signs so that we might believe that Jesus is Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing,…
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…to a close, let's think very briefly, how should we respond to this great sign? Well, remember John tells us why he writes each of these signs.John 20, verse 31. These are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Savior, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His…
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…particular moment. The only thing that ever amazed Jesus was either the amount of someone's faith or the lack of it. I want us to read a section ofJohn chapter 20, verses 24 through 31, and you'll see in this, Just how much God values faith. What's happened at this point is Jesus has been crucified and he's been resurrected and…
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…particular moment. The only thing that ever amazed Jesus was either the amount of someone's faith or the lack of it. I want us to read a section ofJohn chapter 20, verses 24 through 31, and you'll see in this, Just how much God values faith. What's happened at this point is Jesus has been crucified and he's been resurrected and…
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…and the resurrection. All the way along, we've been reminding ourselves of John's conclusion to why he chose to have these signs in his gospel. InJohn chapter 20 verse 31, these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. In other…
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…the fruitful life of his own people. And how does a person have a fruitful life? So that is what the purpose of John is writing, as he read inJohn 20, verse 31. So he said, But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing, you may have life.…
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…He goes, What do you mean Bible's sufficient? You may be here today thinking, well, I think the Bible's a great thing, it's a, but it's sufficient.John chapter 20, verse 31, he says, these things, Jesus did many things that are not written in this book. Okay? It's not a blow-by-blow description of the life of Jesus…
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…for me, also tells us why he wrote the book of John. And it follows this kind of claim and then reaction model that we see. So if you look inJohn chapter 20, verse 30 to 31, he flips it around here. So he says how he wants us to react and then says what the claim is that we're reacting to. But that's the same type of…
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…need anybody. I got in the car and I was like, and this little voice said, This is what life is like in somebody else's name. And I thought aboutJohn 20, verse 31. These things have I written unto you that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and by believing, you can have life in Jesus'…
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…the significance of this is that this is, again, something that is verifiable and objectively true. And the whole point of the Gospel of John, fromJohn chapter 20, verse 31, is that it's written so that you may believe and have life. He's saying, I want you to know that these things are not just things that you dream…
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…but John the Baptist, where he designates some titles, some names for Jesus. Now we know that John is written for a very specific purpose becauseJohn chapter 20, verse 31, tells us what that purpose is. It was written so that you and I might believe, and by believing might come to have life. In other words, the…
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…knows enough to know that life lies with Jesus. And interestingly also, when you look at the bigger picture, step right back, big picture stuff,John chapter 20 verse 31, John gives us his one reason for writing the whole record, and it's almost identical words to which, to that, to those which he puts in Martha's,…
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…life after death and the only hope for life now. This is the whole purpose of the book that we have in front of us, this book of John's gospel. InJohn chapter 20, verse 31, the writer says this, all of this is written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have…
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