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Intro
What do you want?
What do we all want?
People want a lot of things.
We live in a dark world, full of evil people doing evil things.
A dark world full of sickness, and decay.
Decay.
Everything is going down hill.
There are moments when things seem to improve, but ultimately, things are deteriorating.
Our nation.
Our families.
Our health.
As we gather with family at Thanksgiving, it is a great blessing to be together.
But, how quickly when we gather do the thoughts and conversations turn to the hurts, the difficulties of this world and our lives?
What I love about Thanksgiving is that while we gather, and know the hurts of this world, the nature of the holiday is to remember the blessings, the good things which are also there.
The things with which God blesses us, and reminds us that we are not alone!
The book of John is a great source of encouragement, as well, because it is a reminder that though we live in a dark world, there is hope.
There is light!
Jesus, the Light, the Life.
We need light and life today.
John came as a witness to the light.
The way we know something is true, is because someone who knows shares it with us.
John knew.
He had the Holy Spirit within him from the womb.
He was given signs from God himself.
He saw those signs, and knew beyond the shadow of a doubt who Jesus was; the savior of the world!
The lamb of God who would finally take away the sin of everyone in the world!
John came as a witness so that people would believe through his witness.
And, so that anyone who believes would become none other than a child of God! Wow!
The Creator of all, the Lord of All is the Father of those who believe in Jesus!
Today’s passage tells us of two that heard John’s witness, John’s testimony, and believed.
Prayer
“Look, the Lamb of God!”
This passage is the next in a series of days.
The first day recorded by the Apostle John in this, his gospel narrative, was when priests and Levites were sent by the Jewish leaders of Jerusalem to determine who John was.
John did not fail to testify, give witness, that he was not the Messiah, nor the prophet, nor Elijah.
He drew attention to the fact that a great one was already among them.
The next day, or the second in this sequence of days as recorded by the Apostle John, was when John the Baptist declared, “Look!
The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”
Then, he goes on to explain the sign God gave him, and how he knew beyond the shadow of a doubt, that Jesus was God’s chosen one, the savior of the world!
Now, the next day after that, John the Baptist again sees Jesus, and once again, declares, “Look, the Lamb of God!”
I believe the Apostle John was one of the two disciples that heard John the Baptist declare this.
He likely was an eyewitness to each of these days, and now, he and Andrew once again hear John’s declaration about Jesus being the Lamb of God.
A disciple is someone who attaches them-self to a particular teacher to learn from them.
John and Andrew had attached themselves to John the Baptist.
This guy had won them over.
They believed he had something to teach them, and they wanted to learn.
Finally, on the third day of him referring to Jesus as the one he came to point out, because Jesus is greater than he is; Jesus is the one God had chosen to save the world.
Jesus is the Messiah!
Finally, they realize, John wants point them to Jesus, not to make them followers of himself.
John was all about pointing out Jesus, so people would believe in Jesus, not John.
Ah-hah!
The light bulb goes on, and what do Andrew and John do?
They followed Jesus
What does it mean that they followed him?
The word ‘to follow’ is used in many instances as a synonym for a disciple.
One who follows after.
One who learns from, and imitates the one they are learning from.
We are all followers.
We may idealize the person who is their own.
We may idealize the independent one.
But, really, we are all followers.
Pie example.
We all follow.
We don’t even realize we are followers most of the time.
We think we are doing our own thing, when the reality is we are followers.
We have learned from someone.
We follow that example.
We live like the one we follow.
Galatians 5:16-26 talks about how we follow one of two leaders.
“What do you want?”
This is when Jesus asked them what they wanted.
You see, people follow different leaders for different reasons.
Jesus had this as well.
Remember when he fed the 5000?
You can find an account of that in John 6.
People went out to Jesus.
He taught them, and then he fed them miraculously.
He provided food for them in the wilderness as a sign of who He was—the very God who provided for their ancestors in the wilderness.
That night, Jesus went to the other side of the lake.
In the morning the people followed him.
He called them out because they were following him for food for their bellies.
He challenged them to want more that just temporal, physical nourishment.
He reminded them that their ancestors ate the manna and died.
The real need is not just for the physical life in this world, but for eternal life!
Life with God now, and for eternity!
Jesus knows that people follow for a lot of reasons.
Most of them temporally-minded, not eternity-minded.
So, Jesus asks these two men who are following him, “What do you want?”
“Rabbi, where are you staying?”
They called him, “Rabbi.”
John explains that this means ‘teacher’.
They recognized there was something about Jesus.
John had said he was the ‘Lamb of God’.
What is that all about?
Who is this guy that John says was before him?
Who is this that John says is greater than he is?
Who is this that John would say he was not even worthy to untie the thong of his sandal?
They came to Jesus, and the thing they wanted was to learn.
They wanted him to teach them.
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