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When God Speaks
Illustration Seri
But this means I usually ask Siri to text for me.
Siri doesn’t always listen well.
Sometimes, Siri simply gets it wrong.
Once, I wanted to text a friend that I was grateful for the love of Jesus, and Siri translated that I was grateful for olives and cheese sauce.
Siri heard, but didn’t understand.
Seri somtime gets it all wrong - text Caleb
But to get it right the algorithm remembers what you previously said and it gets closer and closer...
And Lord forgive me, but sometimes I’m just like her.
Sometimes I hear, but don’t understand.
There are times I believe God is trying to tell me something, but I filter His words through my own feelings or personal motives.
We often do this with stories we’ve read in Scripture.
This morning I want to speak about God speaking to us
No not audibility
But through his word, circumstances and the holy spirit.
Dont miss vs 17
God spoke identified Christ - this was all John had been waiting for:
Background
About six weeks before, Jesus had been baptized by John in the Jordan.
Right afterward, he had gone into the wilderness where his temptations took place.
John makes no mention of that.
The period of temptation was forty days, a little under six weeks.
Having routed the devil and recuperated from his prolonged fast, Jesus now returned to the Jordan.
On the day John had seen and recognized him in the crowd.
It was now the next day, and the arrival of Jesus (1:29a) took place.
When God Speaks :
I We Identify Christ
Identification - The Lamb of God!
John saw Jesus coming toward him.
This is the Lord’s first appearance in this gospel.
He had come to be publicly announced by his herald to the nation.
The day before, the delegation from the Sanhedrin had questioned John about whether or not he himself was the messiah.
The time had come to remove all doubt.
The Passover feast was approaching, a feast that commemorated the exodus of Israel from Egypt, the birth of the Hebrew nation, and the demonstration of redemption by the blood of the lamb.
We can be sure that Jesus chose this moment unerringly for his formal presentation to the nation by his now famous herald.
From John’s first words we can see that he had the approaching Passover in mind.
We have seen the arrival of Jesus and now we hear the announcement of John (1:29b–34).
John the baptist’s announcement revolved around a proclamation and a problem.
First, we have a proclamation (1:29b–30).
“Behold,” he cried, “the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.”
John did not introduce Jesus to the nation as the Son of God, nor as the holy one of God, nor as the Christ of God, nor as the word of God.
He went right to the heart of Israel’s need, of the whole world’s need.
He proclaimed Jesus to be the lamb of God.
Although John’s baptism had confronted people with the need for repentance, they needed much more than repentance.
They needed redemption.
No amount of water could remove the stain of sin; that required blood.
And not the blood of bulls and goats, which could never take away sin (Hebrews 10:1–4), not the blood of an ordinary lamb.
It called for the shedding of “precious blood,” for redemption made possible by the lamb of God.
When God spoke - John identified jesus as the lamb of God!
How do you identify Jesus ?
A sacrifice for your sins?
A sinless sacrifice for your sins?
The great question in the Old Testament was voiced by Isaac on his way to Mount Moriah: “Where is the lamb?” (Genesis 22:7).
Abraham’s answer was equally great: “God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering.”
Now that great Old Testament question is matched by an even greater New Testament answer:
“Behold the Lamb or God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”
Can you identify Christ?
When God Speaks :
II We are Enlightened
John was enlightened - he understood
God spoke and identifies him as the Christ ....
Teaching glazed over eyes
Not caring
Auburn University - professor said the last class is optional you don't have to come....
However those that showed up were privileged to have the entire test put on the board.
ladies and gentlemen God is talking and whats you to understand.....
John was not sure who the Messiah was but that he would come.
Even though he had been called to announce the coming messiah to Israel, he did not know who he was.
First we see the problem stated (1:31): “I knew him not,” he says.
The day before, he had said to the delegation from the Sanhedrin and to those standing around that the messiah was right there, in their midst, one “whom ye know not” (1:26).
He was going to need special revelation from God to show who it was, who was the true messiah.
He had this assurance, however, that “he should be made manifest to Israel” (1:31).
On the strength of this assurance he had proceeded with his mission: calling the nation to repentance and baptizing his converts in the Jordan.
We see the problem solved (1:32–34) when the time came.
When Jesus showed up to be baptized some six weeks before, God had given John the long-awaited sign (1:32–33).
It had been made known to John that he would recognize the messiah by seeing the Holy Spirit descend on him and remain on him.
What form the Holy Spirit would take remained to be seen.
But as soon as Jesus came up out of the water at his baptism, John’s doubts dissolved: “I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him” (1:32).
When God speak we are enlightened....
Wow John Got it - a voice from heaven !!!!!
Illustration - God speaking to me!
prayer - IRS issue
salvation - the graves at Normandy
work - denial of a project
Health - laying in a bed a St. Vincent's
in every case God speaks and i am enlightened.
What is God saying to you now about your life?
When God Speaks:
III We Witness
The word record mans to testify to bear witness.
John say six weeks ago i did not know who the Christ was.....
But God spoke....,.
Having told people about the sign, John the baptist boldly introduces his listeners to the Son (1:34).
“And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.”
The Jews were looking for a messiah, but they thought that a human person might be that messiah.
The messiah was, literally, “the anointed one.”
In the Old Testament, prophets, priests, and kings were anointed with oil.
Jesus was anointed with the Holy Spirit.
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