Transforming Flaws into Strengths: The Journey of John
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1. "So John will refer to himself as the other disciple a lot of times. The next time we see, and I believe it's two different accounts, I don't think they're the same account, but it's in Mark 1, we talked about it with Peter, they're together. So they're fishing, Simon, Andrew, James, and John, they're fishing together, and they haven't caught anything, and they're fishing together, and they're fishing together, and Jesus says, cast your nets on the other side, and it fills up, and they say, you will no longer be fishers of fish, but of people, and of men." [23:41] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "But Jesus tells them to be like a little child, to be humble. And we'll see, he didn't quite learn it there, but we also see John displays some elitism or intolerance, or as we talked about like six weeks ago, jealousy. He can get kind of jealous, but we see that he is passionate and loyal as well." [27:28] (23 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "So we see that John is like, this guy is not one of the 12. He's not part of the inner circle. We, when we were called as apostles, Lord, you gave us power. You gave us authority to drive out demons and to heal the sick. And this guy ain't one of them. But Jesus tells him, calm down. We can see that he's a little, maybe we'll see in a second, hot-headed, but he's very, he's very careful. He's doing this for good reason. He doesn't want falsehood to spread, and we'll see that too. But Jesus says, if anyone is for, is not against us, he is for us." [28:58] (37 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "So we see that. Jesus gives John responsibility at the cross. So he's, Jesus is on the cross. He's next to a couple of women next to Jesus's mother. And Jesus tells him, John, this is to his, to Jesus's mother. This is your mother. And Mary, this is your son. And he's called to, he's entrusted John to take care of his mother. And so there's a special responsibility given to John here." [36:28] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "So we see, like I mentioned that he had boldness and, and acts for it highlights the boldness of John and Peter. They had just proclaimed the gospel. They just healed a disabled man. And now they wanted to prevent this from happening. So the, the leaders that are gathered, they're like, how do we get this to stop? And basically they couldn't, stop them. They didn't do anything wrong. Cause Peter ends up saying we healed a man. Like what's wrong. What's wrong about that?" [42:22] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
### Quotes for Members
1. "So we can get a sense that Christ is a follower you're sitting over there, I just pointed over here, that the Zebedee name was really well known, he was very respected, he looks like he has a fishing business, and so very possible that Andrew, Peter, were working with the father Zebedee, and we see that he leaves them with hired men and follows him. What we do see here too is that John is probably, we don't know exactly, we don't know a lot of things, but we have to say speculations here and there, but John is the youngest apostle out of all of them, and so it's at this time, anywhere between 12, which I don't think is that young, to almost 18, somewhere in this range where he's working, because he's not in school, but he's still at home with his father, and he's working, so he's very young." [24:20] (60 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "We see that John has not grasped the humility that Jesus told him and told the disciples to have. And rather he wants to be raised up and fully believe whether it's his mother, James or John, whoever they all wanted to be raised up to a status next to Jesus. And Jesus rebukes him. And even the disciples are like this guy and they makes him really angry. Well, at the Last Supper, we see John may have a special relationship with Jesus. John is sitting next to Jesus and he's even reclining, it says, on Jesus's side. And in that time when you're eating in the Lord's Supper, it's very common for them to lay down and eat. So it may have just been that he was close to Jesus, but we do see that he was reclining on him." [32:29] (47 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "So we see that John suffered in different ways. He suffered when he was the only one who was present. Why? Because he was watching his savior die. He suffered through that. He was, he was the only he was witnessing the first martyr, which was his brother. He had to suffer through that. And with him being the oldest or the longest living one, he also had to suffer all of his friends, all of his followers, all of his buddies die as well being killed. And I mean, that's takes a lot of strength. That takes a lot of faith and belief in the Lord. The Lord that, Hey, they died for their faith. I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep preaching. And if I die, I die." [41:24] (45 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "So John's writings are very cut and dry. They're very, um, like there's a line drawn and John goes, you're either here or you're here. Um, and a lot of that will, uh, in contrast, we see that he speaks truth and is devoted to truth. And in his writings, he talks about light and darkness, life and death. You're either of the kingdom of God or a kingdom of the devil. You're either children of God or children of Satan. Um, you're either, uh, the, the judgment of righteousness against the judgment of the wicked, the resurrection of life and against the resurrection of damnation. You either receive Christ or you either reject Christ." [46:25] (40 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "So we see that, um, he says in every one of his letters, uh, something about truth. He was adamant about the truth. And as we see in the instance, when he's calling down fire, he, he, he wanted them to know the truth and he used it wrongly. And now here he's able to teach about the truth. He's able to recognize the importance of truth. So John wants us to walk in and the knowledge of truth. Um, but also that in, in these truths of light and darkness, they're very good things to live by. Um, we can't live in a blurred, um, world. It's either cut and dry. You're either a children of God or children of Satan. You're either in the light or in the darkness. And he wants to hammer this home." [48:49] (45 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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1. "So John will refer to himself as the other disciple a lot of times. The next time we see, and I believe it's two different accounts, I don't think they're the same account, but it's in Mark 1, we talked about it with Peter, they're together. So they're fishing, Simon, Andrew, James, and John, they're fishing together, and they haven't caught anything, and they're fishing together, and they're fishing together, and Jesus says, cast your nets on the other side, and it fills up, and they say, you will no longer be fishers of fish, but of people, and of men." [23:41] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "But Jesus tells them to be like a little child, to be humble. And we'll see, he didn't quite learn it there, but we also see John displays some elitism or intolerance, or as we talked about like six weeks ago, jealousy. He can get kind of jealous, but we see that he is passionate and loyal as well." [27:28] (23 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "So we see that John is like, this guy is not one of the 12. He's not part of the inner circle. We, when we were called as apostles, Lord, you gave us power. You gave us authority to drive out demons and to heal the sick. And this guy ain't one of them. But Jesus tells him, calm down. We can see that he's a little, maybe we'll see in a second, hot-headed, but he's very, he's very careful. He's doing this for good reason. He doesn't want falsehood to spread, and we'll see that too. But Jesus says, if anyone is for, is not against us, he is for us." [28:58] (37 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "So we see that. Jesus gives John responsibility at the cross. So he's, Jesus is on the cross. He's next to a couple of women next to Jesus's mother. And Jesus tells him, John, this is to his, to Jesus's mother. This is your mother. And Mary, this is your son. And he's called to, he's entrusted John to take care of his mother. And so there's a special responsibility given to John here." [36:28] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "So we see, like I mentioned that he had boldness and, and acts for it highlights the boldness of John and Peter. They had just proclaimed the gospel. They just healed a disabled man. And now they wanted to prevent this from happening. So the, the leaders that are gathered, they're like, how do we get this to stop? And basically they couldn't, stop them. They didn't do anything wrong. Cause Peter ends up saying we healed a man. Like what's wrong. What's wrong about that?" [42:22] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
### Quotes for Members
1. "So we can get a sense that Christ is a follower you're sitting over there, I just pointed over here, that the Zebedee name was really well known, he was very respected, he looks like he has a fishing business, and so very possible that Andrew, Peter, were working with the father Zebedee, and we see that he leaves them with hired men and follows him. What we do see here too is that John is probably, we don't know exactly, we don't know a lot of things, but we have to say speculations here and there, but John is the youngest apostle out of all of them, and so it's at this time, anywhere between 12, which I don't think is that young, to almost 18, somewhere in this range where he's working, because he's not in school, but he's still at home with his father, and he's working, so he's very young." [24:20] (60 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "We see that John has not grasped the humility that Jesus told him and told the disciples to have. And rather he wants to be raised up and fully believe whether it's his mother, James or John, whoever they all wanted to be raised up to a status next to Jesus. And Jesus rebukes him. And even the disciples are like this guy and they makes him really angry. Well, at the Last Supper, we see John may have a special relationship with Jesus. John is sitting next to Jesus and he's even reclining, it says, on Jesus's side. And in that time when you're eating in the Lord's Supper, it's very common for them to lay down and eat. So it may have just been that he was close to Jesus, but we do see that he was reclining on him." [32:29] (47 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "So we see that John suffered in different ways. He suffered when he was the only one who was present. Why? Because he was watching his savior die. He suffered through that. He was, he was the only he was witnessing the first martyr, which was his brother. He had to suffer through that. And with him being the oldest or the longest living one, he also had to suffer all of his friends, all of his followers, all of his buddies die as well being killed. And I mean, that's takes a lot of strength. That takes a lot of faith and belief in the Lord. The Lord that, Hey, they died for their faith. I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep preaching. And if I die, I die." [41:24] (45 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "So John's writings are very cut and dry. They're very, um, like there's a line drawn and John goes, you're either here or you're here. Um, and a lot of that will, uh, in contrast, we see that he speaks truth and is devoted to truth. And in his writings, he talks about light and darkness, life and death. You're either of the kingdom of God or a kingdom of the devil. You're either children of God or children of Satan. Um, you're either, uh, the, the judgment of righteousness against the judgment of the wicked, the resurrection of life and against the resurrection of damnation. You either receive Christ or you either reject Christ." [46:25] (40 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "So we see that, um, he says in every one of his letters, uh, something about truth. He was adamant about the truth. And as we see in the instance, when he's calling down fire, he, he, he wanted them to know the truth and he used it wrongly. And now here he's able to teach about the truth. He's able to recognize the importance of truth. So John wants us to walk in and the knowledge of truth. Um, but also that in, in these truths of light and darkness, they're very good things to live by. Um, we can't live in a blurred, um, world. It's either cut and dry. You're either a children of God or children of Satan. You're either in the light or in the darkness. And he wants to hammer this home." [48:49] (45 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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