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Apr 24, 2022

John - Fullness of Joy

Passage: John 3:22-30

Speaker: Brian Land

Series: John: Come and See

Category: Grace Brevard

Keywords: pride, joy, humility

THEME: “He must increase, I must decrease.” - Yet on the cross, Christ decreased that we might increase. This is the marital relationship we have with him, each sacrificing and elevating the other. Clearly we as the Bride are the ones that truly benefit as Jesus the Groom’s sacrifice redeems us from the empty ways of life and into an inheritance that will never perish, spoil or fade.

THEME: “He must increase, I must decrease.” - Yet on the cross, Christ decreased that we might increase. This is the marital relationship we have with him, each sacrificing and elevating the other. Clearly we as the Bride are the ones that truly benefit as Jesus the Groom’s sacrifice redeems us from the empty ways of life and into an inheritance that will never perish, spoil or fade.

 

CALL TO WORSHIP

LEADER: I will exalt you, my God the King; I will praise your name for ever and ever.
ALL:  2 Every day I will praise you and extol your name for ever and ever.
LEADER: 3 Great is the LORD and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom.
ALL: 21 My mouth will speak in praise of the LORD. Let every creature praise his holy name for ever and ever.

 

CENTRAL TEXT: John 3:22-30

22 After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he remained there with them and was baptizing. 23 John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized 24 (for John had not yet been put in prison).

25 Now a discussion arose between some of John’s disciples and a Jew over purification. 26 And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you bore witness—look, he is baptizing, and all are going to him.” 27 John answered, “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven. 28 You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.’ 29 The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete. 30 He must increase, but I must decrease.”