At the end of John chapter 8, we catch a glimpse of the amazing glory of Jesus. He makes three offers to us. Each is a tough reality that we must face. We are far worse off than we think. Jesus is far better than we realize, and there's more at stake than we can imagine.
Today, we see Jesus as the Great I Am. From Chicago, this is The Moody Church Hour, a weekly broadcast of worship and teaching with Pastor Philip Miller. Today, join us for another in a long series of messages from the Gospel of John, a series we're calling Loved by Jesus. Our focus, the I am. Here now is Pastor Philip, along with worship leader Tim Stafford.
Well good morning everybody and welcome to The Moody Church. We're so glad you've joined us today. In the book of John, Jesus declares I am. Before Abraham was, I am. He's claiming in this statement.
To be the God of the Old Testament, the great I Am, who revealed himself to Moses, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It's an audacious, bold, and unmistakably clear claim from the lips of Jesus, who is none other than the Son of God come to rescue us. We need to see this Jesus in all of his clarity and all of his wonder and glory today. Let's pray that he would show himself to us. Would you bow and pray with me?
Father, you sent us Jesus to disclose your heart, your nature, all of your divine life. to us. Help us see Jesus today. We pray this in His matchless name. Amen.
Sure, the Word of God the Father, from before the world began, every star and every planet has been fashioned by your hand. All creation holds together by the power of your voice. Let the skies declare your glory, let the land and seas rejoice. Holy Author, all creation. You're the Lord of every man, and your cry of hour rings out across the land.
And you led the gaze of angels came to see and save the lost, and exchange the joy of heaven for the anguished love of God. We were brave there free, with a word you prophecy. And how silently you suffer that the guilty may go free. Journey of the hungry nations, joining the Lord, You're the Lord of Happy Man, and your fire comforts up across the land. You shall be victorious, resting victory from the grave, and ascending into heaven, leading captives in your way.
Now you stand before the Mother, interceding for you all. From each trial and condemnation, you are leading sinners all. You're in all the creation. You're the Lord of Happy Man. Amen.
And your cry of hour rings out across the land. You're beyond the creation. You're the Lord of Mary Man. When your cry of love rings out across the land I am so free, I am so free. I am before there was love, walked across the pages of time.
He who made every living thing behold him, he who heard him and at his right left his throne. To wig as a child, he became like the least of us. Behold Jesus, Son of God, the Lamb, the Rev, home and behold, He who died with sinners and saints, healed the blind, the lost, and the even now he is in us. Behold. He who chose a crippled man, paid with blood to settle highlight, buried them as he rose to lie.
Behold Him Jesus, Son of Manza, the Lamborghini. Wisdom and behold Him Jesus, our one and only our God is and saved him and behold Him. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God almighty Worthy worthy worthy to receive Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God almighty Worthy to receive Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy is the Lord God almighty. He might be worthy to receive our hands Jesus, Son of the Messiah, the Lamp and behold Him. Jesus, the one and only are God's Lega and behold Him there behold Him.
We will glorify the King of Kings, we will glorify the Lamb, we will glorify the Lord of Lords, who is the great I am Lord Jehovah reigns in majesty. We will bow before his Lord We will worship Him in righteousness, we will worship Him. He is Lord of heaven, Lord of earth, He is Lord of all, He is Lord of all praise to Him we give Hallelujah to peace, Hallelujah to land Hallelujah to the Lord of hearts, who is the praising of peace, Hallelujah, to land. We exalt you, Lord, this morning. You are the Lord of eternity past, the self-existent one.
We worship you. Lord Christ. True God. And true man, help us to behold you afresh today in Jesus' name. Amen.
Yesterday, at the end of the snowstorm, I don't know if you saw it, but the clouds sort of thinned out and the sun broke through and all at once there was this glorious dazzling beam of light that came down. It was almost blinding. It's amazing how bright the sun is off the fresh snow, isn't it? And something like that. happens here at the end of John chapter 8.
Today we're looking at John chapter 8 verses 31 to 59. And up until this point, Jesus has been relatively subtle and discreet, sort of hinting at who he is through analogy. He said, I am the bread of life. I have living water for you. I am the light of life.
These analogies that help us understand who Jesus is. But at the end of John chapter 8, the clouds roll back and the sun, the S-O-N, shines through in brilliance, in unmistakable glory. It's as if Jesus pulls back the veil and there is piercing clarity about who he is. And who he has come to be. There are three successive waves here, if you will, of self-disclosure, one glorious offer after the other.
And I want to show them to you this morning. These three glorious offers, Jesus first offers freedom. Then he offers a father. And finally he offers forever. And we're going to use that as our outline as we work through this today.
Now, each of these glorious offers from Jesus have a catch. They have a catch. There's a contingency, a tough reality we have to face if we are to get to the other side and receive the glories that He has for us. And in Jesus' day, it was simply, for many of the people, too much. As a matter of fact, at the very end of this passage, a group of them will pick up stones in order to kill Jesus.
Um Because friends, when the sun breaks through You're either drawn to that Brilliance, or you are blinded by the light, and there's really no middle ground. left.
So I want to pray for us this morning as we see this passage, that we would see Jesus in all of his glory and brilliance, and that we would not be those who pick up stones, but those who fall on our knees at the feet of Jesus in worship. Let's pray together. Father, Help us see Jesus. and help us respond. Send your Holy Spirit now.
to work in our hearts that we might not resist what we hear here. That we might not harden ourselves or get angry with Jesus, but that we might allow him to pierce through and show us who we are. And in dealing with those things, Father, would you. Help us embrace these glorious offers. from your son.
For it's in his name we pray. Amen. Amen. The first glorious offer here from Jesus is the offer of freedom. Jesus offers.
Freedom. And look with me at John chapter 8, verse 31.
So Jesus said to the Jews who believed him, who had believed him, Pause for just a moment here. Recall the setting where this takes place. Jesus is at the feast of booths or tabernacles or sukkot, the feast in the fall that celebrated, commemorated the pilgrimage of the Jewish people through the wilderness from Egypt to the promised land. And they lived in tents and tabernacles, booths in the wilderness during that time. And so they did during this seven-day feast.
feast. And all throughout the feast, Jesus has been revealing himself. To be the fulfillment of this feast. As they poured out the water offering, which commemorated the water from the rock in the wilderness, Jesus cried out, If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. When they lit the lamps in the evening, commemorating the pillar of fire that led them through the wilderness, Jesus said, I am the light of the world.
Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the lights of life. And John tells us in chapter 8, verse 30: as he was saying all of these kinds of things, many believed in him.
So many people are drawn to Jesus. They're coming close. They're leaning in, trusting in who He is. But, you'll recall, there's also opposition in the crowd. The Pharisees are there and they're looking for an excuse to arrest him, to kill him, to get rid of him.
And so there's a mixed audience here, and Jesus will speak to different portions of that audience in this dialogue. But right here, he addresses the many who are believing in him.
So 8 verse 31 says, So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, if you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples. And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. Free. He says, listen, I know I can tell my words have caught your attention. You're leaning in.
You believe, and yet I want more than this. I want you to abide. In my word. I want you to settle down and make your home In my word. I want you to dwell in it.
I want you to reside in it. I want you to live in it. I don't want you just browsing, you know, my word on Zillow, you know, looking for a home, possibly just kind of shopping online. I don't want you just going to the open house. I want you to move in.
I want you to settle down. I want you to take up residence. Just as you are abiding in these tabernacles during the feast, I want you now to abide in my word. And if you do... You will be my true Disciples.
You will be authentic. and real. You will know the truth, and the truth, my word is truth, and that truth will set you free. This feast. Is all about freedom, remember?
The freedom as God takes the people of Israel out of Egypt, through the wilderness, to the promised land. And Jesus is saying here, listen, I can give you even greater freedom, a true and greater freedom if you will settle down and dwell in the truth of my word, my promises, my teaching. You can be free.
Now the skeptics in the crowd object. And so here we have Verse 33. They answered him. and said, we are offspring of Abraham. and have never been enslaved to any one.
How is it that you say you will become Free. They go, Jesus, we're not slaves. Jesus, we're the children of Abraham here. We're the freest people on the planet. We have the law of God.
We're God's chosen people. What are you talking about, Jesus? Verse 34, Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave. Sin. He says, I'm not talking about physical chains here.
I'm talking about spiritual bondage. I'm talking about the sin. that leads to slavery, the slavery of Sin, everyone who practices sin. is a slave. The Sen.
You you think you're free. But you're not. Sin has its tentacles wrapped around you. You need to be liberated.
Now he shifts the metaphor here. He says, now if you're a slave, you have a status problem. Verse 35. The slave does not remain in the house forever. the sun remains forever.
So if the sun sets you free, you will be free. Indeed. See, slaves were temporary householders, right? They just lived for a season. They didn't have rights and privileges.
But the sun, the sun is a permanent residence of the household. He says, look, you think you're sons of Abraham, and you are. but you're also slaves. And you need the sun, the true sun, to set you free so that you might be free indeed. And stay for Forever.
But right now you're not. Verse thirty-seven. I know that you are offspring of Abraham. Yet you seek to kill me. Because my word finds no place in you.
I speak of what I have seen with my father, and you do what you have heard from your Father. He says, Look, you are the offspring of Abraham. That's true. But you're not free. And how do I know that?
Because you're seeking to kill me. The sin of murder. has you in its grip. And you're not free. Because my word finds no place in you.
If it Did you would be free because you would know the truth, and the truth would set you free. But you're not truly my disciples because you are not abiding in my word. And so, friends, don't you see here? Jesus is offering freedom. to those who will admit their bondage.
Jesus is offering freedom to those who will admit their. Bondage. There's two groups of people here. There are those who will admit that they are sinners, that they are slaves, and they look to Jesus, and Jesus will set them free. And on the other hand, there's another group of people who are in denial about their bondage to sin.
They insist that they're actually free when they're not. And they remain. Trapped. And friends, sin always looks like freedom. Until it's too late.
Sin always enslaves us in the very end.
Now we see this very obviously in sins that, for example, break the law, right? And you end up actually in prison. for your sin. We see this clearly in sins of addiction. Right?
Where we see people who for whatever reason have been swallowed up into an addiction and now they can't say no, they're stuck. And of course everyone can see it's bondage, it's slavery, except for the person who's in it. And so we see the bondage of those kinds of sins, but what about just, you know, sort of average everyday sins, you know, like the little white lies and the things that. Everybody does. What about those?
Do those lead to bondage?
Well, let's talk about lying for a second. Think about what happens when you lie. You speak an untruth, you create a false narrative, and you play it out with somebody. And then, after that, you have to remember, don't you? You have to remember who you said it to and exactly what details you gave them, so that next time you see them, you can play into the same narrative and reinforce the story and not violate what you've already done.
You have to distinguish between what really happened in your mind and what you've made up now, and you have to keep the narrative going. Going right, and the longer you go, and the further you go in playing out the narrative, the more trapped you are in the narrative. And here's the most dangerous thing: one day you may come to believe the narrative you have told yourself. And then you are trapped, friends, in an alternative reality, in a denial of the way the world really is, and you can't step away from it. And then you're trapped.
There's no escape. Or take the Pharisees here. Yeah, how did the Pharisees get so seething and mad?
Well, Jesus cleared the temple, remember, and their pride was wounded. And they nursed that wound and they grew jealous and resentful. And then he showed up on the Sabbath and he healed that guy and caused a confrontation. And when they pointed it out, he didn't back down, and they were more wounded and more threatened. And they became seething and angry and murderous in their intent, blind to all that he was telling them, vengeful.
And don't you see how this sin has now taken hold of them and they cannot stop themselves? They are on a path to murder the Son of God. They cannot hear what he says. They're threatened and they are trapped now in a pattern of behavior and they don't know how to stop it. Friends, you want proof of how deadly your sin is?
Just look at how quickly it's convinced you that it's no big deal.
So Jesus comes and he offers Freedom. From sin. But there's a catch. Because you've got to admit you're in bondage. You've got to admit you're in bondage.
Don't you want to be free? The second glorious offer here. is that Jesus offers a father. Jesus offers a father. In verse 38, which we just read, Jesus said, I speak of what I've seen from my Father, and you do what you've heard from your Father.
So my Father versus your Father, they pick up on this in verse 39. They answered him. Abraham is our father. Father. I don't know who you think our father is, Jesus, but our father's Abraham.
Let's make that very clear. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children. you would be doing the works. Abraham did. But now you seek to kill me.
A man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did. You are doing the works. Your father did. Wait a minute.
Wait, what's going on here? In verse 37, Jesus said, I know you are the offspring of Abraham. Right? He said that. He'll say it again at the end of the chapter.
In verse 39, though, here, he says, If you were his Abraham's children, You'd do what he did. You would welcome the truth of God when it comes, but that's not what you're doing.
So, implication? You're not the children of Abraham. What are you doing, Jesus? Jesus is making a distinction here. He's saying it's not enough just to have the right bloodline.
That the heritage that God counts on and looks for is the heritage of faith. Abraham's true children are those who believe God. And who believe in his word, and who believe in his messengers, in this case, in Jesus Christ, whom he has sent. And yet their murderous disbelief. Memes that they are not true children of Abraham.
who is the father of all who believe. And they resent him for pointing this out. Look at verse 41. They said to him, We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one father.
Even God.
Now this is probably a jab at Jesus. They know the gossip concerning Jesus' parentage that. His mother had an unwed pregnancy. Of course, we know that is by the Holy Spirit. This is the virgin birth of Christ.
And yet the rumors have gone. wild. And so they're saying here, unlike you, Jesus, We have no sordid past. In our origin story, we have one father. God Himself.
Oh, the irony. Verse 42, Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, you would love me. For I came from God. And I am here. I came not of my own.
But he sent me. Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear. to hear my word. You are of your father.
The devil. And your will is to do your Father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning. And he does not stand in the truth. Because there's no truth.
in him. when he lies, He speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar. the father of lies. But because I tell the truth You do not believe me. Which one of you convicts me of sin?
If I tell the truth, Why do you not believe me? Whoever is of God hears the words of. God. The reason you do not hear them is that you are not of God. Friends, these are massively.
Indicting words. Not only are you false children of Abraham. Because you you don't believe me sent from God You don't believe the word of God. But you are not even children of God. Because you're trying to kill me.
That's the devil's agenda. And he's working his way in your heart right now. Like father, like son. The devil is full. of murderous lies.
And you're just like him. It doesn't get any more in your face than this. Does it? But we have to remember. Jesus did not come into the world to condemn the world.
but that the world might be saved through him. And so these strong words, it's a warning, but it's not a condemnation yet. It's an offer. Would you see what's happened in your heart? And see me and believe me, and I can save you even from as far down this path as you've gone.
See, Jesus is offering a father to those who will own their devilry. Jesus offers a father to those who will own their devilry. In all of this, friends, Jesus is making an appeal. He says, you're living in enslavement to sin. You're under the power of the devil himself.
This is more than bad habits. Satan has you under his thumb and he's taking you down with him. But I'm here that you might have life. I'm here that you might be free. I'm here that you might no longer be slaves, but that you might be sons.
I'm here to bring you home. I'm here that my father might be your father. And Jesus offers a father, don't you see? But there's a catch. There's a catch in it's we have to own our own Devilry Now, I don't know about you, but that's a hard pill to swallow.
But if we're honest... We know deep down. That not only are we sinners, But we have joined the rebellion against God. And in doing so, we have aligned ourselves. not with light, but with darkness.
Not with God. But with Satan. Not with heaven. but with hell. And Jesus is offering a Father.
His father. to those who will own their devilry. Don't you want God? What is your father? Don't you want him?
The third glorious offer here is forever. Jesus offers forever. Look at verse 48. The Jews answered him. Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan?
and have a demon. Friends, this is a racial. Slur. Um Samaritans, the Jews hated them. They were half Jews, half breeds, they thought.
These dirty Samaritans with their false Bible and their false religion, false temple. And they play this a little bit further: this jab at Jesus. We were not born of sexual immorality, you were. And we don't even know who your father is. Maybe it was one of those Samaritans.
Oh, and by the way, you have a demon too. Just for good measure. You call us sons of the devil. All right, well then you're you're possessed by the devil. And it escalates kind of quickly, doesn't it?
Verse 49. Jesus answered I do not have a demon. But I honor my father. And you dishonor me. Yet I do not seek my own glory.
There is one who seeks it. And he is the judge. Like My job is to honor the Father. The Father's job is to honor me. He seeks it.
He seeks it above all else, and he's the judge. His opinion matters most in the end. He is the final judge, and you do not want to be on the wrong side of the judge. You do not want to be dishonoring the electus. Not when the Father's ambition is to honor me above all else.
You do not want to be on the wrong side of the judge. Judgment will fall. and there will be hell to pay. Oh, is there no way out? Of all this sin, of all this.
Devilry of all of this condemnation? Are they just trapped? Verse 51. Truly, truly I say to you. If anyone keeps my word, He will never see Death.
He will never see Death. Huh. Remember what Jesus said in John 5, verses 24 and 25? Just a few chapters ago, truly, truly, I say to you: whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming and is now here. When the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will. Live. If you will Keep my word. If you will abide in my truth, if you will live in all that I have promised you, Jesus says, not only will I free you.
From enslavement to sin, and give you a father who will emancipate you from the devil. You will enjoy forever life because you will never see God. Death. You will never see it. Oh, your bodies will die.
But you will never see death. Death will not come for you. The Father will come for you and bring you into life eternal. And when you breathe your last, you will immediately be ushered into the presence of God. And don't you see the three great enemies of our souls here, friends?
They're right here. Since Satan and death. And Jesus can free us from them all. Verse 52, the Jews said to him, Now we know you have a demon. Abraham died.
As did the prophets, and yet you say, if anyone keeps my word, he will never taste. Death? You greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets who died? Who do you make yourself out to be?
No one has ever been this presumptuous. This proposition. Presterous. Everyone sees death. Everyone tastes its sting.
No one escapes. No patriarchs, no prophets, no persons. Who do you make yourself out to be? Verse fifty-four. Jesus answered.
If I glorify myself. My glory is nothing. It is my father. Who glorifies me? Of whom you say he is our God.
But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I don't know him. I'd be a liar like But I do know him. And I keep his word.
Your father. Abraham rejoiced. That he would see my day. He saw it. And was glad.
So finally, Jesus tells us who his father really is. You see it? He connects the dots. He says, my father is the one that you say. He is our God.
I am the Son of God. That's what he's saying. And he says, your father Abraham, he rejoiced that he would see my day. And he saw it and was glad.
Now Bible scholars have no idea what he's talking about Okay, you go back to the life of Abraham and it's like there are many possible points where Abraham might have got a clue about Jesus and his coming and all of this. We don't know.
Okay? But the point is... at some point. Abraham foresaw at some level that Christ would come. and usher in all the days of promise.
And Abraham was excited. He rejoiced. He was glad when he saw it. Unlike these Pharisees. who actually see the day of Jesus.
and are filled with. Rage. Verse fifty-seven. You're not fifty years old. And have you seen Abraham?
Oh, Jesus, we have a small chronology problem.
Okay, Abraham lived like 2,000 years ago. You're not even like 50. How on earth? Verse 58. Jesus said to them, Truly, truly I say to you, before Abraham was.
I Am so they picked up stones. to throw at him. But Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple. Friends. This statement.
is one of the most massive Theological detonations of truth in all of the scriptures. Jesus, listen, if all Jesus was trying to communicate was that he was pre-existent. before Abraham.
Okay? He would have said before Abraham was, I was. That would have been audacious enough. But that's not what he said. What he says is even more radical.
He says, before Abraham was. I Um I am. And they immediately pick up stones to throw at him because they know what this means. They know exactly where that comes from. This comes from Exodus 3, verses 13 and 14, where God is appearing in the blazing of the burning bush and speaks to Moses.
And Moses wants to know, he's commissioned to rescue the people, and he says, Who shall I say sent me? What is his name? And God says, I am who I am. Should I? Say this to the people of Israel: I am has sent.
You. This is the proper name. for the covenant keeping God, four letters, the tetragrammaton, it's called the Yod He Vav Hei Yahweh. I am who I am. Friends, Jesus could not have been more audacious or clear.
He is saying, I am. the God of Israel. All of a sudden, don't you see the clouds part? and the sun shines through the clearer. And we see why.
Why Jesus can be the one to liberate us from sin and Satan and death? It is because Jesus is the great. I Jesus offers here. Forever. to those who will honor his deity.
Jesus offers forever to those who will honor his deity. Truly, truly, I say to you. if anyone keeps my word. he will never see. Yeah.
And once again, there are two groups. There's those who believe. After all, the disciples are there, right? Those who are believing in Jesus and honoring him as Lord and as God. As Thomas will say at the end of the book, my Lord and my God.
And then there are those with stones in their hands. See, this blaze of radiant glory. takes away all the middle ground. They can either crucify him or bow at his feet in worship, but there's no. In between.
And forever hangs in the balance, friends. Don't you want to live forever? Don't you want to live? Forever? Three takeaways in closing.
First, friends, we have to remember we're far worse off than we think. We're far worse off than we think. As human beings apart from divine grace, we are in a desperate world of hurt. Sin lures us in under the pretense of freedom. And it defrauds us.
Mocking us as we struggle in vain surprise against the very shackles with which we willingly adorned ourselves. We come to love and hate our sin. as we love and hate ourselves. And Satan holds dominion over us. In oppression and torment, hostages held ransom by a terrorist hell-bent on destroying all that God holds dear.
And deaf. That sinister and inexorable enemy. that swallows our hope, devours our happiness. harrows our days and haunts our nights. As Ernest Becker wrote in his Purlitzer Prize-winning book, The Denial of Death.
The irony of man's condition is that The deepest need is to be free from the anxiety of death and annihilation. But it is life itself which awakens it. And so we must shrink from being Fully Alive. Friends, without Jesus, sin. Satan and death are our slave masters.
And we are their captive. And no amount of self-help or good advice or Therapy will solve this problem. No, we need rescue. We need salvation. But the good news is that Jesus is far better than we realize.
Jesus is far better than we realize. Hebrews chapter 2 verses 14 and 15 say, Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, that would be us, He himself, Jesus, likewise, partook of the same things. He gave him flesh and blood like us, that through death He might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is the devil, and deliver all of those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery. Friends, Jesus, the divine Son of God. Took on human flesh and blood so that he might die in our place and for our sake to rescue us.
Truly man, He could be our representative, truly God. He could be our infinite sacrifice. to redeem us from our sin debt. To ransom us from Satan, to reconcile us with God, to rescue us from the power of death. Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting? Jesus is the resurrected king. He alone is our Savior. Why? Because he is the great I am.
This This blaze of radiant glory. We have to do something with Jesus, friends. Don't you see that? Don't you see that? C.S.
Lewis wrote this in Mirror Christianity. I'm trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about him. I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept his claim to be God. That's the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things that Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher.
He would either be a lunatic On the level of the man who says he's a poached egg. or else he would be the devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was. And is the Son of God.
or else a madman. Or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool. You can spit at him and kill him as a demon. Or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God.
But let us not come with any of this patronizing nonsense about his being a great moral teacher, a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. See, friends, there's far more at stake than we realize. There's far more at stake than we imagine.
If Jesus is who he said he is. The contrast could not be starker. Don't you see that? Freedom. or bondage.
A father. Or a devil. Forever. Or deaf. Don't you want to be free?
You've got to admit your bondage. Don't you want God as your Father? Gotta own your devilry. Don't you want to live? Forever.
You've gotta honor his deity. Won't you admit you're a sinner? Won't you believe that Jesus is enough? Won't you commit your life to him? Truly, truly, I say to you.
before Abraham was. I am O Father. Help us see Jesus. May this light. draw us near.
and not blind us. Father, I want to pray for all of those who are hearing this now. Would you draw them to you? Let the light of Christ shine upon their hearts so that they might believe. That you are who you say you are.
and that Jesus is the one you have sent. And there is life. In His Word, teach us. to keep your word. to believe your word.
to abide. in your word. that we might be free. that we might know you as Father. And how we might laugh.
Forever. It's in Jesus' name we pray. On today's Moody Church hour, we heard Pastor Philip Miller with another message in a series he's calling Loved by Jesus, the book of John. We heard about the I Am. Jesus, whose glory is now being revealed in chapter 8 of this amazing gospel.
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