This is the 3rd part of a 6-week series on the 7 Signs that Jesus is the Messiah in the book of John. In this sermon, you will learn about the 4th Sign.

FOR FURTHER STUDY

SERIES CHALLENGE: Look up every time the word Sign is used in the NT (77x in the ESV).

Exodus 3.1-12; 12; 16; Deuteronomy 18.15; Psalm 31. 19; Isaiah 55. 8-9; Matthew 14. 13-21; 15. 32-39; Mark 6. 30-44; 8. 1-10; Luke 9. 10-17; John 2. 1-11; 4: 46-54; 5. 1-15; 1 Peter 5.7

SIGNS DEFINTION: A ____________ work of Jesus that reveals His ____________ identity, points people toward ____________ in Him, and discloses the deeper ____________ reality of who He is and what He came to ____________.

SCRIPTURE BREAKDOWN | John 6. 1-15

John 6:1–2 (ESV) After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick.

1. The Crowd follows Jesus because of His _____________, not because He is the _____________

1st Sign:

2nd Sign:

3rd Sign:

John 6:3–7 (ESV) Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to get a little.”

2. The Disciples try to _____________the problem rather than relying on the _________________________

John 6:8–13 (ESV) One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?” Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, about five thousand in number. Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated. So also the fish, as much as they wanted. And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, “Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost.” So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten.

3. Jesus reveals He can bring _____________from our _____________

4th Sign:

John 6:14–15 (ESV) When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, “This is indeed the Prophet who is to come into the world!” 15 Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.

4. The Crowd recognizes that Jesus is the ____________________

5. Jesus refuses to be made ___________on human terms

APPLICATION

COMMIT______________________________________________________

CONSIDER ___________________________________________________

TRUST_______________________________________________________

DISCERN_____________________________________________________

This is the 2nd part of a 6-week series on the 7 Signs that Jesus is the Messiah in the book of John. In this sermon, you will learn about the 3rd Sign.

FOR FURTHER STUDY

SERIES CHALLENGE: Look up every time the word Sign is used in the NT (77x in the ESV).

Matthew 12. 1-14; Mark 1.29-31; 2. 23-28; 3.1-6; Luke 4.38-39; 4. 31-37; 6. 1-11; 13. 10-17; 14. 1-6; John 2. 1-12; John 4. 46-54; 20. 30-31; Ephesians 1.18; 4.4 Hebrews 11.1; 6. 18-19

SIGNS DEFINTION: A ____________ work of Jesus that reveals His ____________ identity, points people toward ____________ in Him, and discloses the deeper ____________ reality of who He is and what He came to ____________.

1st Sign:

2nd Sign:

SCRIPTURE BREAKDOWN | John 5. 1-15

John 5:1–3 (ESV) After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed.

· Up to Jerusalem:

· BETHESDA: A Place of _______________________

John 5:4–8 (ESV) One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.”

1. The Invalid’s situation was humanly __________________

2. Jesus asks a penetrating, __________________-clarifying, question

John 5:9–14 (ESV) Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.” But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’ ” They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?” Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place.

3. The Invalid exhibits __________________-filled, obedient faith.

4. The invalid’s _________________-confronts the __________________-of legalism.

3rd Sign:

John 5:14-15 (ESV) Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you.” The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.

5. Jesus confirms that true __________________-comes from

Salvation, not merely physical __________________

APPLICATION

SURRENDER__________________________________________________

PRACTICE ___________________________________________________

CONSIDER____________________________________________________

This is the 1st part of a 6-week series on the 7 Signs that Jesus is the Messiah in the book of John. In this sermon, you will learn about the 1st two Signs.

FOR FURTHER STUDY

SERIES CHALLENGE: Look up every time the word Sign is used in the NT (77x in the ESV). Matt 8.5-13; 13: 58; 15.21-28; Mark 6: 5-6; 7.24.30; Luke 7. 1-20; John 2. 1-12; John 20. 30-31

The Book of John: Prologue: John 1:1 – 1:18 Book of ____________ John 1:19–12:50
Book of ____________ John 13. 1-20:31

SCRIPTURE BREAKDOWN | John 4.46-54

John 4:46–47 (ESV) So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill. When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.

Cana in Galilee | Capernaum to Cana | Judea to Galilee

John 4:48,54 (ESV) So Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe…” This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.

SIGNS DEFINTION: A ____________ work of Jesus that reveals His ____________ identity, points people toward ____________ in Him, and discloses the deeper ____________ reality of who He is and what He came to ____________.

1st Sign =

2nd Sign =

John 4:49–53 (ESV) The official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way. As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was recovering. So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, and all his household.

1. Official attempts to ___________________ Jesus

2. Jesus asks for ___________________

3. Official shows ___________________ and ___________________

4. Official confirms ___________________: ___________________ and ___________________

5. Official ___________________ Jesus is the ___________________

APPLICATION

SURRENDER _________________________________________________

PRACTICE ___________________________________________________

TRUST _______________________________________________________

KEEP ________________________________________________________