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We all, at some point or another in our lives, have held a job.
For the most part, most people consider it a blessing to have a job that you don’t really consider - WORK
Every year, our society compiles what it deems - THE BEST PLACES TO WORK...
For this year (2019)...
The list was compiled by analyzing company reviews and ratings from both current job incumbents as well as former employees.
Winners were determined by examining millions of reviews.
Researchers looked at the quantity, quality, and consistency of the reviews to evaluate which companies made the list.
Starting with #10...
10.
Southwest Airlines
9. Lululemon
8. Google
7. Facebook
6. Linkedin
5. Boston Consulting Group
4. Procore Technologies
3. In-N-Out Burger
2. Zoom Video Communications
1. Bain & Company
I feel blessed to be able to work where I work (IMARC Research)...
I hope you feel that way about where you work...
BUT now - why do companies make this list?
They make this list because of - what they OFFER their employees
What are some things that people LOOK FOR in a company?
pay / compensation
benefits
what’s the culture like (empowering, learning, growth)
Is their a path to GROW in the company
is it steady work / longevity
all sorts of things go into this
And we as humans - we PURSUE places that provide the most of these things to us...
TYPICALLY - we VALUE these things…and we PURSUE them!
And if we just view these things in light of Spiritual things...
We can look at these things as - BLESSINGS...
We seek to BE BLESSED!
WHO can bless us - the most...
“OK - I’ll work for you!”
What we’re going to see today in our text…is the BLESSINGS offered to the SHEEP of Jesus Christ!
If the FLOCK of Christ was a - PLACE of EMPLOYMENT - what would be the BLESSINGS He would offer?
THIS is what we’ll be seeing today!
As we’ve seen so far in this chapter 10 of John...
Jesus has been laying claim that HE Himself is the WAY to God...
That if you want to GET TO GOD - then you must GO THROUGH HIM...
And today’s text is no different - Christ continues to beat the SAME DRUM!
And what we see here is - Jesus Christ - distinguishing His followers as - HIS FOLLOWERS...
See the Jewish Leaders at the time - they couldn’t STAND that the people might begin to FOLLOW Jesus!
See these leaders - as we spoke about weeks ago - were NOT AT ALL concerned for the people...
They were only concerned with MAINTAINING the POWER they had over the people!
(if you remember, people were being HEALED by Jesus (lame guy, blind man)…and...
…the leaders couldn’t care less that they were healed...
THEY INSTEAD COMPLAINED that the healing happened on the - SABBATH!
So Jesus here - He’s REITERATING the fact that - YES - these people are beginning to FOLLOW ME...
AND - they’re on the right path to GOD - because ONLY thru Me can mankind get to GOD
REMEMBER what this entire book of John is about...
It’s about ESTABLISHING - WHO JESUS CHRIST truly is...
This is the purpose of this book...
And yet - in v27 Christ takes it even further than that...
The Jewish leaders couldn’t say the same about their FOLLOWERS...
They didn’t KNOW - their followers...
Christ here - is REVEALING the intimate relationship He has with His sheep!!
HE KNOWS - them
And it’s the first BLESSING we’ll see in the next verse...
Here we have the list of BLESSINGS that come with - JOINING the Jesus Team!
Earlier - we looked at the different BENEFITS that people look for in an EMPLOYER...
Well here is our list today - of the BLESSINGS that come with being a part of THE FLOCK of CHRIST!
And the first blessing we see is that IN CHRIST - we receive ETERNAL LIFE...
But I’m going to use the DEFINITION of Eternal Life that Christ gives to us in Scripture...
We might think - Ok - Eternal life means - LIFE that doesn’t end...
Well - it COULD mean that - but according to Christ - it means...
SLIDE: Blessing of the Sheep: Knowing God (Eternal Life)
Blessing of the Sheep
Ok - so Christ tells us that Eternal Life EQUATES to - Knowing God…
but we can’t just nod our heads and say - OK…
We need to dig deeper to understand what - KNOWING GOD means
What does it mean to KNOW GOD?
This isn’t about Head Knowledge,
God clearly has KNOWLEDGE of all men - so this KNOWLEDGE that IS Eternal Life must be something else…
And we see in 1 Cor 1:21 that KNOWING God doesn’t come about through worldly wisdom…
So we don’t THINK our way to God!
You can’t REASON your way to God!
There is a SUPERNATURAL knowing of God that comes ONLY through the TRUTH of God!
Knowing God begins with Spiritual Life
SLIDE: Blessing of the Sheep: To Know God (Made Alive)
Blessing of the Sheep
The Bible makes it crystal clear what our STATE is in this world…
Death is our STATE in this world…apart from Christ…
Let this HIT HOME…
Our family members who don’t know Christ…they’re spiritually dead
Friends….spiritually
dead
Our neighbors…spiritually dead
Co-workers…spiritually dead
This isn’t a SMALL problem!
But for us who are followers of Christ…
When Jesus says to the Jewish leaders in our text today that…
He’s saying He will GRANT us to KNOW God…
By the MERCY of God we come to KNOW God…
Which IS TO SAY - By the mercy of God we receive Spiritual Life…
And I think a GREAT representation of this in Scripture is the story of Lazarus…
Let’s summarize…
We all know the story - how Lazarus got sick…He dies…
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