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Today's sermon concludes John 8 by going through verses 31-59. This is the section where Jesus and some of the Jewish people argue about what it means to be Abraham's son, and at the end they try to stone Jesus.
Elise told me afterwards that she couldn't quite figure out the point I was trying to get at; that the sermon was a bit too technical. I was afraid that might be the case. I thought I emphasized the key points I was trying to communicate, but apparently it did not come through as well as I had hoped.
The key points of the four sections that I broke up today's passage is as follows:
- Abiding (verses 31-37)
- Imitating (verses 38-41a)
- Belonging and Identity (verses 41b-47)
- The previous three illustrated (verses 48-59)
And the primary point of the whole sermon was to emphasize that #1, abiding, is the key to everything else that follows.
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