I. EXORDIUM:
Do you boast in your love for GOD?
II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:
Believers
III. OBJECTIVES:
To persuade us to boast GOD's love on us.
1 John 4:10 (Amplified Bible)
In this is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation (the atoning sacrifice) for our sins.
IV. TEXT:
John 1:31 (Amplified Bible)
And I did not know Him and did not recognize Him [myself]; but it is in order that He should be made manifest and be revealed to Israel [be brought out where we can see Him] that I came baptizing in (with) water.
John 1:33 (Amplified Bible)
And I did not know Him nor recognize Him, but He Who sent me to baptize in (with) water said to me, Upon Him Whom you shall see the Spirit descend and remain, that One is He Who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.
V. THESIS:
Boast of CHRIST's love in us and we'll be victorious.
VI. TITLE:
John, the baptist don't know GOD
VII. EXPLICATION:
A. Author: Apostle Paul
B. Date written: uncertain. Probably late in the first century.
C. Purpose: to inspire faith in JESUS CHRIST as the SON of GOD
D. To whom written: Seekers
E. Main Theme: An encounter with JESUS CHRIST demands a response
F. Keyword: believe
G. Key verse:
John 20:31 (Amplified Bible)
But these are written (recorded) in order that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ (the Anointed One), the Son of God, and that through believing and cleaving to and trusting and relying upon Him you may have life through (in) His name [through Who He is].
VIII. MAIN BODY:
A. John admitted did not know CHRIST
"And I did not know Him and did not recognize Him [myself];"
"And I did not know Him nor recognize Him"
The issue is us not GOD when we "excuse" our not having relationship with the LORD JESUS CHRIST. Take a look at this, John the Baptist, was carefully chosen and position to be CHRIST's messenger, he's born cousin of JESUS CHRIST in the flesh, in the power of Elijah, called messenger of CHRIST but he himself, admitted He did not know CHRIST nor recognized Him.
Matthew 11:14 (Amplified Bible)
And if you are willing to receive and accept it, John himself is Elijah who was to come [before the kingdom].
Malachi 4:5 (Amplified Bible)
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.
John 1:6 (Amplified Bible)
There came a man sent from God, whose name was John.
Malachi 3:1 (Amplified Bible)
BEHOLD, I send My messenger, and he shall prepare the way before Me. And the Lord [the Messiah], Whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple; the Messenger or Angel of the covenant, Whom you desire, behold, He shall come, says the Lord of hosts.
Luke 1:13 (Amplified Bible)
But the angel said to him, Do not be afraid, Zachariah, because your petition was heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you must call his name John [God is favorable].
Our ultimate goal is and purpose in life is to know CHRIST and to enrich our relationship with Him while here on earth.
John 17:3 (Amplified Bible)
And this is eternal life: [it means] to know (to perceive, recognize, become acquainted with, and understand) You, the only true and real God, and [likewise] to know Him, Jesus [as the] Christ (the Anointed One, the Messiah), Whom You have sent.
2 Peter 3:18 (Amplified Bible)
But grow in grace (undeserved favor, spiritual strength) and recognition and knowledge and understanding of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (the Messiah). To Him [be] glory (honor, majesty, and splendor) both now and to the day of eternity. Amen (so be it)!
Colossians 1:9-10 (Amplified Bible)
For this reason we also, from the day we heard of it, have not ceased to pray and make [special] request for you, [asking] that you may be filled with the full (deep and clear) knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom [in comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God] and in understanding and discernment of spiritual things—
That you may walk (live and conduct yourselves) in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him and desiring to please Him in all things, bearing fruit in every good work and steadily growing and increasing in and by the knowledge of God [with fuller, deeper, and clearer insight, acquaintance, and recognition].
Grow in the knowledge of CHRIST, our relationship with CHRIST is our utmost priority in life. The greatest tragedy in this life worst than death, is not to know CHRIST as LORD and SAVIOR of our life.
Mark 8:36 (Amplified Bible)
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life [in the eternal kingdom of God]?
B. He was only there out of duty
"but it is in order that He should be made manifest and be revealed to Israel [be brought out where we can see Him] that I came baptizing in (with) water"
"but He Who sent me to baptize in (with) water said to me, Upon Him Whom you shall see the Spirit descend and remain, that One is He Who baptizes with the Holy Spirit"
We are here because of CHRIST's love for us.
1 John 4:10 (Amplified Bible)
In this is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation (the atoning sacrifice) for our sins.
GOD's love must be our motivator to love and serve Him as a reply or response to what He has already done for us two thousand years ago.
Example of Peter, who boasted of his love for the LORD and failed miserably.
Matthew 26:75 (Amplified Bible)
And Peter remembered Jesus’ words, when He had said, Before a single rooster crows, you will deny and disown Me three times. And he went outside and wept bitterly.
Example of John who boasted about CHRIST's love for Him and ministered unto CHRIST even after His death as the one to take care of JESUS CHRIST's mother in the flesh.
John 19:26-27 (Amplified Bible)
So Jesus, seeing His mother there, and the disciple whom He loved standing near, said to His mother, [Dear] woman, See, [here is] your son!
Then He said to the disciple, See, [here is] your mother! And from that hour, the disciple took her into his own [keeping, own home].
Future of John, the baptist, was beheaded in King Herod's place, died before his time, should die beside CHRIST crucified but He decided he should be in the kingdom not alongside CHRIST who heals the blind and other sick people
Luke 7:20-23 (Amplified Bible)
So the men came to Jesus and said, John the Baptist sent us to You to ask, Are You the One Who is to come, or shall we [continue to] look for another?
In that very hour Jesus was healing many [people] of sicknesses and distressing bodily plagues and evil spirits, and to many who were blind He gave [a free, gracious, joy-giving gift of] sight.
So He replied to them, Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the good news (the Gospel) preached to them.
And blessed (happy—with life-joy and satisfaction in God’s favor and salvation, apart from outward conditions—and to be envied) is he who takes no offense in Me and who is not hurt or resentful or annoyed or repelled or made to stumble [whatever may occur].
Matthew 14:10-14 (Amplified Bible)
He sent and had John beheaded in the prison.
And his head was brought in on a platter and given to the little maid, and she brought it to her mother.
And John’s disciples came and took up the body and buried it. Then they went and told Jesus.
When Jesus heard it, He withdrew from there privately in a boat to a solitary place. But when the crowds heard of it, they followed Him [by land] on foot from the towns.
When He went ashore and saw a great throng of people, He had compassion (pity and deep sympathy) for them and cured their sick.
IX. CONCLUSION:
Boast of CHRIST's love in us and we'll be victorious.
Romans 8:35-39 (Amplified Bible)
Who shall ever separate us from Christ’s love? Shall suffering and affliction and tribulation? Or calamity and distress? Or persecution or hunger or destitution or peril or sword?
Even as it is written, For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long; we are regarded and counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Yet amid all these things we are more than conquerors and gain a surpassing victory through Him Who loved us.
For I am persuaded beyond doubt (am sure) that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things impending and threatening nor things to come, nor powers,
Nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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