Studies in the Gospel of John - Faith Baptist Church

Studies in the Gospel of John

The Gospel According to

"Believing and Receiving Christ, The Messiah ? Jull of Grace and Truth"

Analytical Notes and Sermon Outlines Chapter-by-Chapter Verse-by-Verse

Compiled by

Gregory F. Kelley

?The Multiplied Harvest

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Studies in the Gospel of John

Chapter One ? The Messiah: Life, Light and Lamb of God ........................................................................... 3 Chapter Two ? Miracles, Merchants and Money-changers ........................................................................... 11 Chapter Three ? The Message of Salvation and the Messiah Sought out .......................................................... 15 Chapter Four ? Living Water, True worship and Healing words .................................................................... 27 Chapter Five ? Healing Waters, the Messiah Revealed and Christ's Witnesses .................................................. 32 Chapter Six ? The Works and Words of Jesus ......................................................................................... 37 Chapter Seven ? The Feast of Tabernacles ............................................................................................ 48 Chapter Eight ? The Light of the World ............................................................................................... 56 Chapter Nine ? A Manifestation of the Works of God (two kinds of blindness) ................................................. 74 Chapter Ten ? The Good Shepherd: I Am the Door .................................................................................. 91 Chapter Eleven ? I Am the Resurrection and the Life ............................................................................... 101 Chapter Twelve ? Declared King of Israel ............................................................................................. 111 Chapter Thirteen ? Jesus, the Servant-King ......................................................................................... 125 Chapter Fourteen ? Jesus Christ: the Way, the Truth and the Life ............................................................... 147 Chapter Fifteen ? Jesus Christ: the True Vine ........................................................................................ 155 Chapter Sixteen ? The Works of the Holy Spirit: I will not leave you comfortless .............................................. 166 Chapter Seventeen ? The Intercessory Prayer of Jesus Christ .................................................................... 178 Chapter Eighteen ? Jesus: Our King Condemned ................................................................................... 186 Chapter Nineteen ? Jesus: Condemned to Die; behold the Man ................................................................... 197 Chapter Twenty ? Jesus Christ conquered Death: From Gloom to Gladness .................................................... 204 Chapter Twenty-One ? Jesus Christ confirms His Disciples: Fishing, Feeding and Following ................................. 223

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Studies in the Gospel of John

Book's Theme: "Jesus Christ, Messiah: Full of Grace and Truth"

Chapters 1-12 o The Prologue ? His Incarnation, 1:1-18 o Introduction - Witnesses to the Word, 1:19-51 Witness of John the Baptist, 1:19-36 Witness of Andrew, 1:37-42 Witness of Philip, 1:43-46 Witness of Nathanael, 1:47-51 o Witness of Works and Words, Chapters 2-12

Chapters 13-17 ?The Witness of Jesus to His witnesses, Upper Room Discourse

Chapters 18-20 ? Witness to the World Chapter 21 ? Epilogue, His Glorification

John 1-12: LIGHT John 13-17: LOVE John 18-21: LIFE

A Straightforward, Simple Outline of the Chapters

"A fourth and final Gospel record outside the Synoptics" is written several years later to (A. D. 85) explain the ONE who came to reveal our Heavenly Father. It has been called the "simple" Gospel. (e.g. 14:20 ? "ye in me and I in you" ? monosyllabic and disyllabic words explaining a profound truth. "Ye in Me" means salvation; "I in you" means sanctification). "Neither the most profound theologian nor the greatest philosopher has ever been able to probe the depths of their meaning."1

John 21:20-25 Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee? (21) Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do? (22) Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? Follow thou me. (23) Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? (24) This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true. (25) And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.

1 J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible with J. Vernon McGee: Volume IV, Matthew ? Romans (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1983), 362

* For a more in depth treatment of the authorship of John's Gospel, read the introduction in D. A. Carson's commentary, The Gospel According to John: The Pillar New Testament Commentary Volumes (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1991), 21-104.

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Studies in the Gospel of John

The Apostle John, the Beloved disciple is traditionally identified as the author. The son of Zebedee and brother of James. Liberals will take you down the "garden path" and inject so many questionable and erroneous views on authorship that quite frankly waste your time. Even the earliest historians attribute the writing of this gospel to John. "Jerome said of John's gospel, `John excels in the depths of divine mysteries.' No truer statement was ever made. Dr. A. T. Pierson put it like this, `It touches the heart of Christ.'"2

John 20:30-31 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: (31) But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name. D.A. Carson states, Verse 31 "not only expresses the purpose of the book, but is the shortest summary of Johannine theology."3 To answer the question of why John wrote this Gospel one might say so that our hearts and understanding would be lifted up. John writes to identify the Messiah, In so doing, he established the faith of Christians in Him. John wrote in order that everyone may know and believe the truth that Jesus, whose portrait has being sketched in this Gospel is the Son of God.

John is the only witness of the 4 Gospels where Jesus calls out of the disciples.

A. His Relationship to the Father (1:1-2)

1. Christ's eternality is declared (1:1a, 2): He already existed in the Beginning. "In the Beginning" refers to when time began because Jesus, the eternal Son of God already existed and had a relationship to our Heavenly Father. I too personally believe that time began some 6000 years ago. "The Word" has eternity behind Him!

2. Christ's deity is declared (1:1b): He is God.

B. His Relationship to the World (1:3-5)

1. He is the sole creator (1:3): Nothing exists that he didn't make. All things "came into being by Him." (NASB)

2. He is light and life (1:4-5): His life gives light to everyone, and the darkness cannot extinguish it (overpower it). Light in creation and light in salvation; life in creation and life in salvation.

2 Ibid. 3 D.A. Carson, The Gospel According to John: The Pillar New Testament Commentary Volumes (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1991), 661.

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A. The Miracle (1:14): God became human and lived on earth among us! The virgin-born Son ? the unique, only one of his kind ? "The man who had no origin is the Son who comes out of eternity."4

B. The Mission (1:10-13): He came to save sinners.

1. Some rejected him (1:10-11): The world and even the people in his own country did not understand him.

2. Some received him (1:12-13): Those who believed become Children of God.

* John 3:16; 1 Peter 1:4 ? "He is precious" ? the precious one. A.T. Pierson ? "A wonderful Ransom that was! It not only delivered us from the bondage of the law and penalty, but from the power and dominion of sin; it freed the slave, and made him a son; it redeemed the victim and criminal, and set him in the high places of the family of God, reconciled and restored."5

C. The Men (1:6-9, 15-51)

1. Christ's faithful forerunner (1:6-9)

a. John the Baptist and the crowds (1:6-9, 15-18): John makes some key statements to the people who followed him.

1)

He is to serve as a key witness of Christ as a forerunner (1:6-9) ? In verses 1:1-5

He establishes Jesus Christ as the Eternal "Word." Beginning with verse six,

we are introduced to John's (the Baptist) witness: the True Light has come.

2) Christ is greater than John or Moses (1:15-17)

b. John the Baptist and the critics (1:19-28): John speaks to the Pharisees who are sent to cross-examine him.

1) John says that he is not the Messiah (1:19-20)

2) John says that he is not Elijah (1:21)

4 Ibid, 363.

5 Arthur Tappan Pierson, The Height of the Gospel (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1978, Foreword by Warren Wiersbe), 106, 107.

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