Jesus: The Sufficiency for Every Life Challenge

1. "Jesus is preparing the unprepared he is getting them ready for what's about to take place he is equipping them and he's going to further equip them and he is speaking words of comfort to their troubled heart and he does this all through this chapter that's really what he like I said he's continuing to do it so even the text today we read that in verse 1 let not your heart be troubled you believe in God believe also in me and so he begins to tell them why you should not be troubled that is going to prepare you and in preparing you I am making that place ready for you." [57:02] (57 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "Jesus says I am the way the truth and the life no man comes to the father but by me this world wants to know the father I believe that I was reading a statistic and I forget what it was now it was like 92 or 98 percent of people in general believe there is some form of a higher power now that may not be the Christian God you know I mean in the jungle somewhere they've got some little statue and they bow and worship this little statue but why because they want to believe in a God they want to believe in an all powerful creator or I should say they do believe in it but they're seeking to satisfy I believe this natural phenomenon that is in man the Bible says that God has placed eternity in the hearts of man." [58:24] (58 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "There is something inside the human heart that seeks to know God it longs to see and to know its creator because God has set eternity in their hearts we see this even in the Old Testament Moses Moses you remember between Moses and God what was Moses longing for I want to see you God he says Moses God you know says you're going to go into the land and I'm going to drive out the Hivites and the Hittites and all the others and Moses says if your presence go not with me then don't carry us up I'm not going if you're not going for wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in your sight is it not that you go with us so shall we be separated I from the people from all the people that are upon the face of the earth." [01:01:18] (55 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "There is something about a personal experience with an almighty God that'll change a man or a woman it isn't good enough hear me it isn't good enough to have a second hand experience it's not good enough to hear people say oh I remember the good old days oh I remember the good old days oh I remember back when when this happened at church I remember the good old days when this happened no no no that's not good enough we've got to have a first hand experience with God show me that glory." [01:04:31] (40 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "See something something takes place when a man or a woman has a face to face meeting with God amen and I believe as Philip is thinking about about Moses and Jacob and Joshua and Christ you you know you you know him if knew me you would have known my father also and from henceforth you know him and you have seen him and Philip just kind of bust out you know he's talking about the father's house and you've seen the father and Philip just cries out oh show us show us the father then us a sign isn't that what he's saying give us some proof show us something." [01:07:36] (70 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6. "Jesus says Philip do you not understand do you not see the relationship that we have do you not know me because if you had known me you had known you would understand this when I am present with you the father is present with you you want to know what God the father looks like he looks like Jesus that's what Jesus is telling Philip Philip you want to know what the father looks like look at me he looks like me now not physically we understand he's not talking physically God is a spirit a spirit does not have a body God does not have a body we're talking his character his character if you really want to know God the father you want to understand God the father then understand Jesus because he is making God known get to know the son get what Jesus is really saying to Philip is this Philip I am enough and my question for you is is Jesus enough." [01:10:35] (89 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7. "Is he enough to satisfy every longing of your heart is he enough to comfort the trouble of your heart is he enough to calm your anxious spirit is he enough when when your world doesn't seem to be going right is he enough when when the healing doesn't come is he still enough when things aren't quite working out like you wanted it to Jesus answer is I am enough I am enough so that he is all in all you know what the devil would like you to believe the devil would like you to believe that if you become a Christian you'll never have a care in the world that's what Christianity does for you this is the devil's lie that's what Christianity does for you you become a Christian you'll never have a care in the world you become a Christian your bills will always be paid God's just going to write a check and send it to the mortgage company to your auto loan God just you know you're if you become a Christian you're going to be healthy you're going to be wealthy but you can't fix stupid so we don't know about y'all had to be here in Sunday school you get it." [01:12:08] (110 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8. "The message of the gospel isn't that in following him everything will go right but that he is enough no matter what happens he's enough for your salvation he's enough for your sanctification he's he's enough for your justification he's everything that you need he's all I need he's all I need Jesus is all I need." [01:16:30] (39 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


9. "Jesus says to us today I am enough if you will accept it and you must accept it you know why you because there's nothing else he's enough or you don't have anything blaze y'all probably have heard the quote about the the void that man has a God shaped void in his life anybody heard that quote and only God can fill it raise your hand if you've heard it okay okay a couple well that quote originally it's not a quote it's not a direct quote but it's a it's a paraphrase Blaise Pascal great scientist said this what else does this he's talking about the craving the man's craving to know God what else does this craving and this helplessness proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace." [01:17:39] (67 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


10. "I'm right in front of you the words I speak they're his words the works that I do they're his works I am the reflection of God I am the visible representation of the invisible creator God I am the perfect instrument of the divine will of God he speaks loving tenderness authoritative commands prophetic threatenings it's the speech of God so what does that tell us about God well this is the kind of God that wants to give sight to the blind so that they may see again this is the type of God that wants to raise the dead so that they might live again this is the type of God that wants to heal the crippled in order that they might walk again this is the type of God that is in the business of restoration restoring that which has fallen back to its original state and Jesus is enough to answer all of man's longings all man's longings transcendental desires in other words those that are above this world those that those that nothing in this world can satisfy Jesus is enough to satisfy that." [01:20:29] (108 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)