Come and See: Transformative Encounters with Jesus
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"So last week, we began a seven-week journey with Jesus and the three years of his ministry. This is gonna lead us right up to Holy Week and the crucifixion and the resurrection. So we're looking at this series of messages like a journey, kind of like a trip that we're taking with Jesus. And along the way, we're gonna make seven stops. We're gonna take seven stories, seven scenes, or seven, like, snapshots from the life and the ministry of Jesus. And each one of these stops, the goal is the same." [00:00:00] (32 seconds)
"And that is to know Jesus more and to follow him more closely. And so today's stop is a really famous story of Jesus, the calling of his first disciples. And we're gonna be focusing on John chapter one. This chapter starts with really famous lines that refer to Jesus as the logos, as the essence of God, the word of God. So if you've got your Bibles, we're gonna start off with John 1.1." [00:00:33] (26 seconds)
"It says, In the beginning, the word already existed. Jesus is eternal. Jesus was there at the beginning. The word already existed. The word was with God and the word was God. And he existed in the beginning with God. God created everything through him and nothing was created except through him." [00:00:59] (18 seconds)
"The word gave life to everything that was created and his life brought light to everyone. The light shines in the darkness and the darkness can never extinguish it. And this tells us a little bit about John the Baptist. And then John 1.10 goes on to say that Jesus came to the world that he created, but the world didn't recognize him. And even his own people rejected him." [00:01:17] (23 seconds)
"Okay, so this is John 1, 35. The following day, John, this is John the Baptist, was again standing with two of his disciples. So these are followers of John the Baptist. And as Jesus walked by, John looked at him and said, look, there is the Lamb of God. Ding. When John's two disciples heard this, they followed Jesus. They were John's disciples. But as soon as they heard that he was the Lamb of God, they left him and began to follow Jesus." [00:02:48] (26 seconds)
"Jesus looked around and saw him following him. And he asked him, what do you want? So it's a lot of pressure, right? I mean, the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. And you're following. You know, these guys are nervous. And Jesus turns around and he says to them, Yeah, like what do you want and I'm sure they were thinking I want truth you know I want peace I want forgiveness I want purpose I want security I want life I want a relationship with God I want healing I want to be changed but they choked under pressure and they couldn't think of what to say so when Jesus turns around to them and says what do you want look what they say nervously rabbi ding which means teacher um where are you staying like what a stupid thing to say to Jesus right but like that's that's what you got this is your chance to meet the lamb of God where are you staying how about the spurs right they're awesome it's so hot today right so anyway where are you staying and look what Jesus says to them super super important thing Jesus says come and see come and see it's about four o 'clock in the afternoon when they went with him to the place he was staying and they stayed with him for the rest of the day Andrew Simon Peter's brother was one of those men who had heard what John said and then followed Jesus and Andrew went to find his brother Simon and told him we have found the Messiah ding which means the Christ then Andrew brought Simon to meet Jesus and looking intently at Simon Jesus said your name is Simon son of John but you will be called Cephas which means Peter so in Greek this is Petros which means the rock this is really kind of I think an interesting thing this name change deal so Peter or Simon was like Simon was a very common name um in this era very very common name and so you know they didn't use a lot of last last names in the Bible have you noticed that it's always everybody's first name um and I'll tell you why" [00:03:15] (122 seconds)
"And Jesus is changing His name from this incredibly common, average, mundane Simon to the rock, right? He's changing His name. And I think this just points out something so cool about Jesus, and that is that Jesus loves making common people amazing. Jesus loves doing, like, just crazy, extraordinary things through ordinary people." [00:05:52] (32 seconds)
"Philip was from Bethsaida, Andrew and Peter's hometown. And Philip went to look for Nathaniel, and he told him, we have found the very person that Moses and the prophets wrote about. His name is Jesus, son of Joseph, from Nazareth. Nazareth, exclaimed Nathaniel. Can anything good come from Nazareth? So Nazareth, at that time, had kind of a, like, like it was the other side of the tracks, you know, like you would, like nothing good, they would have said, I mean, if the Messiah is coming, surely he's coming from New York, or London, or Paris, or something, right, surely he's coming from Bolverde, or some important place, not Nazareth, right, but I love how, I love how Philip handles this, so he's brought Nathaniel to meet Jesus, and here's Nathaniel, like, putting up a fight, if you're witnessing to friends or family, you might want to remember this, instead of making a debate, instead of making an argument, instead of making a case, he just says to Nathaniel the same thing that Jesus said to those other two, he says, come and see, come and see, as they approach, and I get this picture, here's Philip, he's bringing Nathaniel to Jesus, right, and as they approach, Jesus said, now here is a genuine son of Israel, a man of complete integrity, and Nathaniel asked, how do you know so much about me?" [00:06:32] (91 seconds)
"And I want it to happen to you, but I especially want it to happen to me. They were changed. I mean, their lives and their eternities and their place in history, they were, they were changed. And here's what sticks out to me when I read this story. In fact, this is like, this is the bottom line. Okay. So if you're going to, if you're taking notes, write this down. If you, if you only remember one thing I say today, right, this is the thing." [00:09:10] (27 seconds)
"When our view of Jesus changes, it changes everything. It changes us. When our view of Jesus changes, that changes everything. That changes us. How we see Jesus changes everything. It changes how we see the world. It changes how we see ourselves. It changes where we spend eternity. It changes how we live our lives now." [00:10:05] (28 seconds)
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"And that is to know Jesus more and to follow him more closely. And so today's stop is a really famous story of Jesus, the calling of his first disciples. And we're gonna be focusing on John chapter one. This chapter starts with really famous lines that refer to Jesus as the logos, as the essence of God, the word of God. So if you've got your Bibles, we're gonna start off with John 1.1." [00:00:33] (26 seconds)
"It says, In the beginning, the word already existed. Jesus is eternal. Jesus was there at the beginning. The word already existed. The word was with God and the word was God. And he existed in the beginning with God. God created everything through him and nothing was created except through him." [00:00:59] (18 seconds)
"The word gave life to everything that was created and his life brought light to everyone. The light shines in the darkness and the darkness can never extinguish it. And this tells us a little bit about John the Baptist. And then John 1.10 goes on to say that Jesus came to the world that he created, but the world didn't recognize him. And even his own people rejected him." [00:01:17] (23 seconds)
"Okay, so this is John 1, 35. The following day, John, this is John the Baptist, was again standing with two of his disciples. So these are followers of John the Baptist. And as Jesus walked by, John looked at him and said, look, there is the Lamb of God. Ding. When John's two disciples heard this, they followed Jesus. They were John's disciples. But as soon as they heard that he was the Lamb of God, they left him and began to follow Jesus." [00:02:48] (26 seconds)
"Jesus looked around and saw him following him. And he asked him, what do you want? So it's a lot of pressure, right? I mean, the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. And you're following. You know, these guys are nervous. And Jesus turns around and he says to them, Yeah, like what do you want and I'm sure they were thinking I want truth you know I want peace I want forgiveness I want purpose I want security I want life I want a relationship with God I want healing I want to be changed but they choked under pressure and they couldn't think of what to say so when Jesus turns around to them and says what do you want look what they say nervously rabbi ding which means teacher um where are you staying like what a stupid thing to say to Jesus right but like that's that's what you got this is your chance to meet the lamb of God where are you staying how about the spurs right they're awesome it's so hot today right so anyway where are you staying and look what Jesus says to them super super important thing Jesus says come and see come and see it's about four o 'clock in the afternoon when they went with him to the place he was staying and they stayed with him for the rest of the day Andrew Simon Peter's brother was one of those men who had heard what John said and then followed Jesus and Andrew went to find his brother Simon and told him we have found the Messiah ding which means the Christ then Andrew brought Simon to meet Jesus and looking intently at Simon Jesus said your name is Simon son of John but you will be called Cephas which means Peter so in Greek this is Petros which means the rock this is really kind of I think an interesting thing this name change deal so Peter or Simon was like Simon was a very common name um in this era very very common name and so you know they didn't use a lot of last last names in the Bible have you noticed that it's always everybody's first name um and I'll tell you why" [00:03:15] (122 seconds)
"And Jesus is changing His name from this incredibly common, average, mundane Simon to the rock, right? He's changing His name. And I think this just points out something so cool about Jesus, and that is that Jesus loves making common people amazing. Jesus loves doing, like, just crazy, extraordinary things through ordinary people." [00:05:52] (32 seconds)
"Philip was from Bethsaida, Andrew and Peter's hometown. And Philip went to look for Nathaniel, and he told him, we have found the very person that Moses and the prophets wrote about. His name is Jesus, son of Joseph, from Nazareth. Nazareth, exclaimed Nathaniel. Can anything good come from Nazareth? So Nazareth, at that time, had kind of a, like, like it was the other side of the tracks, you know, like you would, like nothing good, they would have said, I mean, if the Messiah is coming, surely he's coming from New York, or London, or Paris, or something, right, surely he's coming from Bolverde, or some important place, not Nazareth, right, but I love how, I love how Philip handles this, so he's brought Nathaniel to meet Jesus, and here's Nathaniel, like, putting up a fight, if you're witnessing to friends or family, you might want to remember this, instead of making a debate, instead of making an argument, instead of making a case, he just says to Nathaniel the same thing that Jesus said to those other two, he says, come and see, come and see, as they approach, and I get this picture, here's Philip, he's bringing Nathaniel to Jesus, right, and as they approach, Jesus said, now here is a genuine son of Israel, a man of complete integrity, and Nathaniel asked, how do you know so much about me?" [00:06:32] (91 seconds)
"And I want it to happen to you, but I especially want it to happen to me. They were changed. I mean, their lives and their eternities and their place in history, they were, they were changed. And here's what sticks out to me when I read this story. In fact, this is like, this is the bottom line. Okay. So if you're going to, if you're taking notes, write this down. If you, if you only remember one thing I say today, right, this is the thing." [00:09:10] (27 seconds)
"When our view of Jesus changes, it changes everything. It changes us. When our view of Jesus changes, that changes everything. That changes us. How we see Jesus changes everything. It changes how we see the world. It changes how we see ourselves. It changes where we spend eternity. It changes how we live our lives now." [00:10:05] (28 seconds)
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