Sermon Notes

“He that has promised pardon on our repentance has not promised to preserve our lives till we repent.” —C. H. Spurgeon

John 8:21-30

21Then he said to them again, “I’m going away; you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I’m going, you cannot come.”
22So the Jews said again, “He won’t kill himself, will he, since he says, ‘Where I’m going, you cannot come’?”
23 “You are from below,” he told them, “I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. 24Therefore I told you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”
25“Who are you?” they questioned.
“Exactly what I’ve been telling you from the very beginning,” Jesus told them. 26“I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the one who sent me is true, and what I have heard from him — these things I tell the world.”
27They did not know he was speaking to them about the Father. 28So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own. But just as the Father taught me, I say these things. 29The one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do what pleases him.” 30As he was saying these things, many believed in him.

Our Greatest Trouble Brought Into Focus (8:21-24)

The condemnation
21Then he said to them again, “I’m going away; you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I’m going, you cannot come.”

The confusion
22So the Jews said again, “He won’t kill himself, will he, since he says, ‘Where I’m going, you cannot come’?”

The clarification
23 “You are from below,” he told them, “I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

The calling
24Therefore I told you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

14God replied to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you.” 15God also said to Moses, “Say this to the Israelites: The Lord, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name forever; this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.
(Exodus 3:14-15)

10 “You are my witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me. 11 I, I am the LORD, and besides me there is no savior. 12 I declared and saved and proclaimed, when there was no strange god among you; and you are my witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and I am God. 13 Also henceforth I am he; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work, and who can turn it back?” (Isaiah 43:10–13)

The Greatest Truth We Find (8:25-27)

Jesus was from the beginning

25“Who are you?” they questioned.
“Exactly what I’ve been telling you from the very beginning,” Jesus told them. 26“I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the one who sent me is true, and what I have heard from him — these things I tell the world.”
27They did not know he was speaking to them about the Father.

Jesus was from the Father
28So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own. But just as the Father taught me, I say these things.

“As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so much the Son of Man be lifted up.” (John 3:14)

SO WHAT?!

30As he was saying these things, many believed in him.