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General Outlines of the Spiritual Lessons of the
Book
The Name of Jesus
1. Word (1:1-2)
2. God (1:1)
3. Light (1:5,9; 3:19; 8:12; 12:35-36)
4. Christ (1:17; 7:41-42)
5. Prophet (1:21; 4:19; 6:14; 7:40; 9:17)
6. The Lord (1:23; 4:1; 6:23; 11:2; 13:13-14;
14:5; 20:28; 21:7)
7. The Lamb of God (1:29, 36)
8. Rabbi (1:38, 49; 6:25; 9:2; 11:8); Teacher
(11:28; 13:13); Rabboni (20:16)
9. The Messiah (1:41; 4:25)
10.
11. The King of
12. The Only Begotten
Son (1:18; 3:16,18); the Son of God (5:25;
9:35-37); the Son of Man (1:51; 3:13-14; 5:27; 6:27,53,62; 8:28; 12:23,34;
13:31-32); the son of Joseph (1:45; 6:42)
13. The Bridegroom (3:29);
14. The Savior of the world (4:42; 12:47)
15. The Holy One of God (6:69)
16. I AM (8:24, 28; 13:19; 18:5-6)
17. The Shepherd (10:2, 11)
18. The Way (14:6)
19. The Truth (14:6)
20. The Life (14:6)
To Know the Word
(logos)
1. The Word is the God who exists in the
beginning (1:1-2).
2. The Word became flesh (1:14).
3. The Word is in the Scripture and the words
that Jesus has spoken (2:22; 4:41,50; 5:24; 12:38; 15:25; 18:9,32; 21:23)
4. The Word is true (4:37).
5. The Word exists in the witness that men bear
of the Lord and the words that men say about the Lord (4:39; 17:20).
6. The Word abides in men because of men’s
believing (5:38).
7. The Word is hard sometimes (6:60; 7:36, 40;
10:19).
8. He who keeps the word of the Lord is the
disciple of the Lord (8:31, 51; 10:35; 17:6, 14).
9. He who can not hear the word of the Lord is
the enemy of the Lord (8:37, 43).
10. The word shall judge men in the last day
(12:48).
11. He who keeps the word of the Lord must be
loved by the Lord (14:23)。
12. The word of the Lord is the word of the
Father (14:24).
13. The word purifies men (15:3).
14. Believers should remember the word of the
Lord (15:20).
15. The word is the truth (17:17).
16. The word remains in the words of the law
(19:7-8).
The Divinity of
Jesus
I. His Ubiquity ---- Who Is Not Restricted
by Space:
1. He is with God (1:1-2).
2. He is in the place where true believes stay
(1:47-48).
3. He came down out of heaven, and
is in heaven (3:13).
4. He is in the believers (6:56; 14:20; 15:4).
5. He is in the place where believers are
assembled (20:19, 26).
II. His Omniscience ---- Who Is Not
Restricted by Time:
1. He knows what is in men (1:47; 2:24-25;
5:42; 6:64; 8:37; 13:11).
2. He knows all things men
have ever done
(4:18, 29).
3. He can prophesy things in the future
(13:19; 14:29; 16:1-4, 33; 21:18-19).
III. His Omnipotence ---- Who Is Not
Restricted by Anything:
1. He creates all things (1:3). He calls the things which are not as they were (21:9).
2. His power of transformation (2:1-11;
6:4-11).
3. His power of healing (4:46-54; 5:2-9;
9:1-7).
4. His power of resurrection (11:17-44).
5. His power of super-nature (6:16-21).
The Deity of Jesus
1. The Word is God (1:1).
2. The Word became flesh and has declared God
(1:14, 18; 12:45; 14:9).
3. He is sent by the Father and walks on the
earth on behalf of God (5:17-26).
4. He, having neither beginning of days nor
end of life, exists from
eternity to eternity (8:24, 28, 58; 13:19; 18:5-6).
5. He and the Father are one (10:30).
6. He is equal with
God (10:33; 12:45; 14:1, 26; 17:10).
The Divine Authority
of Jesus
1. All things and the world received being through him (1:3,10).
2. God has given all things in his hand (3:35; 13:3).
3. The Father gives the Son the right of judgment
(5:27).
4. The power of life is in His hand. He has power to lay it down, and has power to take it again (10:18).
5. The Father has given the Son authority over all flesh, that all that the Father has given to him, the Son should give them life eternal (17:2).
To Know the Life
1. Life is in Christ, and the life is the light
of man (1:4).
2. He who believes the Son has life. This life
is life eternal (3:15-16, 36).
3. There is living water in this life that one
may not be thirst, and fruit that one shall be full (4:14, 36).
4. He who has life eternal shall not come into judgment,
but is passed out of death into life
(5:24).
5. As the Father has life in himself, so he has given to the
Son also to have life in himself
(5:26).
6. There is life in the word of God (the
Scripture), for it bears witness of Christ (5:39).
7. One should come to Christ when he is reading
the Scripture that
he might have life
(5:40).
8. Work not the food which
perishes, but the food which abides unto life eternal (6:27).
9. Christ is the bread of life: he that comes to Him shall never hunger, and he that believes on Him shall never thirst at any time (6:35, 47-48, 51).
10. Unless one shall have eaten the flesh of the Son of man, and drunk
his blood, he has
no life in himself (6:53-54).
11. The words which the Lord has
spoken to us are spirit and are life (6:63).
12. Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of life eternal (6:68).
13. He who
follows Christ shall not walk in
darkness, but shall have the light of life (8:12).
14. I am come that they might
have life, and might have abundantly
(10:10).
15. Those who have the life given by the Lord shall never perish,
neither shall any man pluck them out of the Lord’s hand (10:28).
16. Christ is the resurrection. Christ is the
life (11:25).
17. He that loves his life
shall lose it, and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it to life
eternal (12:25).
18. The commandment of the Father is life
eternal (12:50)
19. Jesus says, I am the way,
and the truth, and the life (14:6).
20. He gives life
eternal to all that He has given to the
Son (17:2).
21. This is eternal life, that
they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent (17:3).
22. He who believes
that Jesus is the Christ and the Son of God may have life in his name (20:31).
To Know the Light
1. Light is the function of life (1:4).
2. The light shines in the darkness, but the
darkness does not receive the light (1:5).
3. That was the true Light,
which lights every man that comes into the world
(1:9).
4.
For every one that does evil hates the light and does not
come to the light (3:19-20).
5. But he that practices the truth comes to
the light, that his works may be manifested that they have been done in God (3:21).
6. He who
follows Christ shall not walk in
darkness, but shall have the light of life (8:12).
7. The Lord is the light of the world (9:5).
8. If any one walks in the
day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. But if any one walks in the night, he stumbles, because
the light is not in him (11:9-10).
9. While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light (12:35-36).
10. Jesus says, I am come into the world light, that
every one that believes on me may not abide in darkness (12:46).
To Know the World
1. The world had being through him, and the world did not know
Him (1:10).
2. He who comes down out of
heaven and gives life to the world
(6:33).
3. Jesus says, I am the light of the world
(8:12).
4. Men in the world are of this world, but the Lord is not of this world (8:23).
5. Jesus said, For judgment am
I come into this world (9:39).
6. The Lord is the One who should come into the world (11:27).
7. He that hates his life in this world shall keep it to life
eternal (12:25).
8. Now is judgment of this
world; now shall the prince of this world be cast out (12:31).
9. The Lord is not come that I might judge the
world, but that I might save the world
(12:47).
10. The ruler of the world has nothing
in the Lord (14:30).
11. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because we are not of the world, on
account of this the world hates you
(15:19).
12. The ruler of this world is judged (16:11).
13. Believers have peace in the Lord. In the world they have tribulation. But be of good courage: the Lord has overcome the world (16:33).
14. The Lord does not demand that the Father should take them out of the world, but that He should keep us
out of evil (17:15).
15. Believers are not of the world, as the Lord is not of the world (17:16).
16. As the Father has sent the Lord into the world, the Lord has also sent us
into the world (17:18).
17. The Lord’s kingdom is not from the world (18:36).
To Know “Believe”
I. The Significance of Believing ---- as many as received him, to those that
believe on his name (1:12)
II.The Effect of Believing:
1. To those who believe Him,
the Lord gave them right to be children of God (1:12)
2. Every one who believes on him may have life eternal (3:15).
3. They that believed on him were to receive the Holy Spirit (7:39).
4. He that believes on me,
though he has died, shall live (11:25).
5. He who believes
on the light may become sons of light (12:36).
6. He that believeth on me,
the works that I do shall he do also.
And greater
works than these shall he do (14:12).
III. The Cause of Believing:
1. Because of the witnesses of believers ---- many of the Samaritans of that city
believed on him because of the word of the woman who bore witness (4:39; 12:11).
2. Because of the word of the Lord ---- more a great deal believed
on account of the Lord’s word (4:41, 50).
3. Because of seeking the glory of God ---- How can one believe if he does not seek the glory which from God alone (5:44)?
IV. The Content of Believing ---- that Jesus
is Christ and the Son of God (11:27; 20:31).
V. The True Believing ---- blessed those who have not seen and have believed (20:29).
The Status of
Believers
1. The Children of God (1:12)
2.
The disciples (2:2; 13:35)
3.
Those who believe Him (3:15, 16)
4.
Those who walk in truth (3:21)
5.
The bride (3:29)
6.
he that sows and he that reaps (4:36)
7.
The sheep of the Lord (10:3)
8.
Those whom the Lord loves (11:3,5; 13:1)
9.
The people of God (11:53)
10.
The Sons of light (12:36)
11.
The servants and he who has sent them
(13:16)
12.
The branches of the true vine (15:5)
13.
The friends of the Lord (15:14)
14.
The men whom the Father gives the Lord out of the world (17:6)
15.
Children (21:5)
Three Stages of
Christians’ Growth
I. The Stage that They Have Grown up in Life (chap 1-7):
1.
They have been born of
God (1:13).
2.
Except any one be born anew he cannot see the
3.
He that believes on the Son has life eternal (3:36).
4.
Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life (6:35).
5.
The words which I have spoken unto you are spirit and are
life (6:63).
6.
He that believes on me shall
flow rivers of living water out of his belly (7:38).
II. The Stage that They Have Walked in Light
(chap 8-12):
1. Jesus spoke to them,
saying, I am the light of the world; he that follows me shall not walk in
darkness, but shall have the light of life (8:12).
2. He went therefore and
washed, and came seeing (9:7).
3. My sheep hear my voice, and
I know them, and they follow me (10:27).
4. If a man walks in the day,
he stumbles not, because he sees the light of this world (11:9).
5. I am come into the world
light, that every one that believes on me may not abide in darkness (12:46).
III. The Stage that They Are Perfected in Love
(chap 13-21):
1. Having loved His own that were in the world, He
loved them unto the end (13:1).
2. By this shall all know that
you are disciples of Mine,
if you have love among
yourselves (13:35).
3. He that has My commandments and keeps them, he it is that loves Me. But
he that loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will manifest Myself to him
(14:21-22).
4. As the Father has loved me,
I also have loved you: abide in my love (15:9).
5. And I have made known to
them your name, and will make known. That the love with which you have loved me may be in them and I in them (17:26).
6. Because of the love of Mary Magdalene toward the Lord, the risen Lord could not
but manifest Himself to her before His ascension (20:11-18).
7. The Lord thrice asked Peter, do you love Me?
And then He entrusted His sheep to Peter (21:15-17).
To Know the Truth
1. The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth (1:14).
2. Grace and truth came
through Jesus Christ (1:17).
3. But he that practices the
truth comes to the light, that his works may be manifested that they have been done in God (3:21).
4. The true worshippers shall worship the
Father in spirit and truth (4:23-24).
5. John the Baptist has borne witness to the truth (5:33).
6. The true disciples shall know the truth, and
the truth shall set us free (8:32).
7. The Lord has spoken the truth to us, which He has heard from God (8:40, 45-46).
8. The devil does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him (8:44).
9. Jesus says to him, I am the
way, and the truth, and the life
(14:6).
10. The Comforter is the spirit of the truth (14:16-17; 15:26).
11. The Spirit of truth shall guide us into all the truth (16:13).
12. God sanctifies
us by the truth,
and His word
is truth (17:17, 19).
13. The Lord has
come into the world for the truth, that He might bear witness to the truth. Every one that is of
the truth hears the Lord’s voice (18:37).
14. Men of the world do not understand the
truth (18:38).
To See the Book of John From the Book of Psalms, Chapter 23
1. Jehovah is my shepherd ---- who became flesh and
dwelt among us, full of grace and truth (1:14)
2. I shall not want ---- who turned water to wine (2:1-11).
3. He makes me to lie down in green pastures ---- we will not fear the wrath of God (3:36).
4. He leads me beside still waters ---- those who drink He gives shall never thirst
(4:14).
5. He restores my soul ---- a man who had
been suffering
under his infirmity thirty and eight years took up his couch and walked (5:2-9).
6. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake ---- Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of life eternal (6:68).
7. Yea, though I walk through
the valley of the shadow of death
---- Is not
this he whom they seek to kill? (7:25)
8. I will fear no evil ---- If the
Son shall set you free, you shall be really free (8:36).
9. For you are
with me ---- the blind man was cast out by them, but the Lord
took him up (9:35-38).
10. Your rod ---- no one shall seize them out of my hand (10:28).
11. Your staff ---- if any one walk in the day, he does not stumble (11:9).
12. They comfort me ---- there came a voice out of heaven (12:28).
13. In the presence of mine enemies ---- Jesus knew him that delivered him up (13:11).
14. You prepare a table before me ---- and whatsoever you shall ask in my name, this will I do (14:13).
15. You has anointed my head with oil ---- and your joy be full (15:11).
16. My cup runs
over ---- when the Spirit of truth is come, he
shall guide you into all the truth
(16:13).
17. All the days of my life ---- Holy Father, keep them in your name which you have given me (17:11).
18. Surely, goodness ---- those whom you have given me, I have not lost
one of them (18:9).
19. And loving-kindness shall
follow me ---- the Lord even
arranged the future life for His mother before His death (19:26-27).
20. And I will dwell in the house of
Jehovah ---- my Father and your Father,
and my God and your God (20:17).
21. For the length of the days ---- until I come (21:22-23).
The Ministry of
Jesus on the Earth
I. He is the Priest
1. The lamb that bore sins ---- behold the Lamb of God, who
takes away the sin of the world (1:29, 36).
2. The sacrificial oblation ---- the Son of man be lifted up (3:14; 8:28; 10:15, 17-18; 12:32;
19:17-18).
3. The intercessory patron ---- I will demand of the Father for you (16:26; 17:9).
II. He is the Prophet
1. To speak in the name of God ---- for he whom God has sent
speaks the words of God (3:34; 7:16).
2. To prophesy the future ---- I tell you now before it
happens, that when it happens you may believe (13:19; 14:29).
3. To reveal the will of God ---- I know that Messiah is coming.
When comes he
will tell us all things (4:25-26).
III. He is The King
1. He is confessed by men ---- you are the
king of
2. He reigns and exercises His authority
---- neither
does the Father judge any one, but has given all judgment to the Son (5:22, 27, 30).
3. He declares that He is the King ---- you
say that I am
a king. I have been born for this
(18:37).
To Know the Holy
Spirit
1.
The
Holy Spirit is like a dove (1:32) ---- gentle and single-minded
2. The Holy Spirit bears witness that Jesus is the Son of God (1:33-34).
3. Except any one be born of
water and of Spirit, he cannot enter into the
4. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit (3:6).
5. Men only know the Holy Spirit is working,
but do not know how the Holy Spirit works (3:8).
6. God does not give the
Spirit by measure (3:34).
7. God a spirit. And they who worship him must worship in spirit and truth (4:23-24).
8. The words which I have
spoken to you are spirit and are
life (6:63).
9. He that believes on me shall flow rivers of living water out
of his belly. But this he said concerning
the Spirit, which they that believed on him were about to receive (7:38-39).
10. The Spirit of truth is the Comforter, who abides with the disciples and shall be in disciples (14:16-17).
11. The Comforter shall
teach the disciples all things, and bring to them remembrance all that the Lord said to them (14:26).
12. The Spirit shall bear
witness concerning Christ (15:26).
13. The Comforter will reprove the world of
sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment (16:7-11).
14. The Spirit of truth shall guide believers into all the truth (16:13).
15. The
Lord breathed
into the disciples after His resurrection, and said to them: “Receive
Holy Spirit” (20:22).
To Learn the
Personal Evangelism From the Book of John
1. The teacher preached the glad tidings to the
students (1:35-37).
2.
One family member
preached the glad tidings to another family member (1:40-42).
3.
To preach the glad
tidings to passersby (1:43)
4.
Friends preached the
glad tidings to friends (1:45-46)
5.
Men shall preach the
glad tidings in any time and at any place (4:5-6).
6.
Men shall preach the
glad tidings to anyone (4:7-9).
7.
Men shall preach the
glad tidings through any topic (4:7-26)
How to Bear Witness
of the Lord?
1. Andrew (1:41) ---- who started from his
relatives
2. Philip (1:45-46) ---- who led men to
experience Christ personally.
3. The woman of
4. The noble man (4:51-53) ---- who brought his
family to believe the Lord.
5. The man who had been suffering under his
infirmity thirty and eight years
was healed (5:13-15) ---- who immediately told others.
6. Nicodemus (7:47-51) ---- who reasoned rationally.
7. The man blind from birth was healed (9:30-33) ---- who declared his
personal experience.
8. Lazarus (11:44-45; 12:9-11) ---- who
displayed the fact of resurrection.
He Was Tempted in
All Things
1. Be despised ---- Can anything good come out of
2. Be worried ---- The zeal of thy house devours me (2:17).
3. Be wearied ---- Jesus was wearied with the way he
had come (4:6).
4. Be thirst ---- Jesus says to the woman of
5. Be hungry ---- The disciples asked Jesus saying, Rabbi, eat (4:31).
6. Be persecuted
---- The Jews
persecuted Jesus (5:16; 15:20).
7. Be rejected ---- From that many of his disciples went
away back and walked no more with him
(6:66).
8. Be betrayed ---- Judas, being one of the twelve, was about to deliver Jesus up (6:71; 13:2, 18).
9. Be hated ---- The world cannot hate you, but me it
hates (7:7; 15:18, 25).
10. Be accused ---- But this they said proving him, that
they might have to accuse him (8:6).
11. Be blasphemed ---- You are a Samaritan and has a demon (8:48; 10:20).
12. Be attacked ---- They took up therefore stones that they
might cast at Him (8:59).
13. Be misunderstood ---- Lord, if you had been here, my brother had not died (11:21, 32).
14. Had groaned ---- Jesus was deeply moved in spirit (11:33, 38).
15. Had wept ---- Jesus wept (11:35).
16. Be troubled ---- Having said these things,
Jesus was troubled in spirit (13:21; 11:33).
17. Be alone ---- You shall be scattered, every man to his
own, and shall leave me alone (16:32).
18. Be bound ---- The officers of the Jews took Jesus and
bound him (18:12, 24).
19. Be denied ---- Peter denied Him (18:17-18,
25-27).
20. Be slapped ---- But
as he said these things, one of the officers who stood by gave a blow on the
face to Jesus (18:22; 19:3).
21. Be scourged ---- Then Pilate therefore took
Jesus and scourged (19:1).
22. The crown of thorns ---- The soldiers having plaited a crown of
thorns put it on his head (19:2, 5).
23. Be teased ---- The soldiers put a purple
robe on him (19:2, 5).
24. Bore His cross ---- Jesus went out, bearing His cross (19:17).
25. Be crucified ---- Where they crucified him (19:18).
26. His garments were parted ---- They parted my garments
among them, and upon my vesture did they
cast lots (19:23-24).
27. Be mocked ---- Having filled a sponge with vinegar,
and putting hyssop round it, they put it up to his mouth (19:29; see Luke 23:36).
28. Be pierced ---- But one of the soldiers pierced his
side with a spear, and immediately there came out blood and water (19:34).
Every Chapter of
This Book Manifests the Divinity of Jesus
1. Nathanael confessed: “you are the Son of God”
(1:49).
2. The sign of changing water to wine: “manifested his glory” (2:11).
3. “He who believes the Son has life eternal”
(3:36).
4. Jesus says to her, I who
speak to you am ---- the Messiah (4:26).
5. But also said that God was his own Father, making himself
equal with God (5:18).
6. Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of life eternal (6:68).
7. This he said concerning the Spirit, which they that
believed on him were about to receive
(7:39).
8. Jesus said to them, Verily,
verily, I say to you, Before Abraham was, I
am (8:58).
9. And Jesus said to him, You has both seen him, and he that speaks with you is he (9:37).
10. I and the Father are one (10:30).
11. Yea, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God (11:27).
12. But Jesus cried and said,
He that believes on me does not believe on me, but on him
that sent me (12:44).
13. You call me the Teacher and the Lord, and
you say well, for I am (13:13).
14. He that has seen me has
seen the Father (14:9).
15. But when the Comforter is
come, whom I will send to you from the Father (15:26).
16. All things that the Father
has are mine (16:15).
17. That they may be all one,
as you, Father, in me, and I in you (17:21).
18. Jesus answered, you say, that I am a king. I have been born
for this (18:37).
19. JESUS OF
20. Thomas answered and said to
him, My Lord and my God (20:28).
21. Lord, you know all things (21:17)
Jesus “Most
assuredly Says to You”
1. Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you
shall see heaven open and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the
Son of Man (1:51).
2. Most assuredly, I say to
you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the
3. Most assuredly, I say to
you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the
4. Most assuredly, I say to
you, We speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and you do not
receive Our witness (3:11).
5. Most assuredly,
I say to you,
the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever
He does, the Son also does in like manner (5:19).
6. Most assuredly, I say to
you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life,
and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life (5:24).
7. Most assuredly, I say to
you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the
Son of God; and those who hear will live. (5:25).
8. Most assuredly, I say to
you, you seek Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves
and were filled (6:26).
9. Most assuredly, I say to
you, Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the
true bread from heaven. (6:32).
10. Most assuredly, I say to
you, He that believes on me has everlasting life (6:47).
11. Most assuredly, I say to
you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have
no life in you (6:53).
12. Most assuredly, I say to
you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. (8:34).
13. Most assuredly, I say to
you, If any one shall keep my word, he shall never see death (8:51).
14. Most assuredly, I say to
you, Before Abraham was, I am (8:58).
15. Most assuredly, I say to
you, He that does not enter in by the door to the
fold of the sheep, but mounts up elsewhere, is
a thief and a robber (10:1).
16. Most assuredly, I say to
you, I am the door of the sheep (10:7).
17. Most assuredly, I say to
you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone;
but if it dies, it produces much grain. (12:24).
18. Most assuredly, I say to
you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater
than he who sent him (13:16).
19. Most assuredly, I say to
you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me
receives Him who sent Me (13:20).
20. Most assuredly, I say to
you, one of you will betray Me (13:21).
21. Most assuredly, I say to
you, the rooster shall not crow till you have denied Me three times (13:38).
22. Most assuredly, I say to
you, He that believes on me, the works which I do shall he do also, and he
shall do greater than these, because I go to the Father (14:12).
23. Most assuredly, I say to
you, that you shall weep and lament, but
the world shall rejoice. And
You will be grieved, but your grief shall be turned to joy (16:20).
24. Most assuredly, I say to
you, Whatever you shall ask the Father in my
name, he will give you (16:23).
25. Most assuredly, I say to
you, When you were young, you grid yourself, and walked where you
desired. But
when you shall be old, you shall stretch forth your hands, and another shall
gird you, and bring you where you do not desire (21:18).
The Personal
Comparison of Jesus
1. The ladder to the heaven (1:51)
2.
The house of God
(2:21)
3.
The serpent of brass (3:14)
4.
The fountain of
living water (4:14; 6:35; 7:37)
5.
The bread of life
(6:35, 48, 51).
6.
The light of the
world (8:12; 12:46)
7.
The gate of the
sheep (10:7)
8.
The good shepherd
(10:11)
9.
The way (14:6)
10.
The truth (14:6)
11.
The life (14:6)
12.
The true vine (15:1)
Meanings of the
Eight Signs in the Book of John
1. To turn water to wine (2:1-11) ---- His life
is able to transcend the usual quality.
2. To heal the son of the noble man (4:46-54)
---- His life is able to transcend the space.
3. The man who had been suffering under his
infirmity thirty and eight years was healed (5:2-18) ---- His life is able to
transcend the time.
4. To feed five thousands man full (6:1-14)
---- His life is able to transcend the quantity.
5. To stand on the sea (6:16-21) ---- His life
is able to transcend the nature.
6. The man who was blind from birth (9:1-41)
---- His life is able to transcend the destiny.
7. To make Lazarus rise (11:1-45) ---- His life
is able to transcend the death.
8. To fish in
Jesus Christ Can
Meet the Needs of Various Men
1. He can meet the need of the men of high degree (3:1-18).
2. He can meet the need of the men of low degree (4:3-42).
3. He can meet the need of the infirm men
(5:2-17).
4. He can meet the need of the hungry men (6:1-14, 24-37).
5. He can meet the need of the thirsty men
(7:37-39).
6. He can meet the need of the sinful men (8:1-11).
7. He can meet the need of the blind men
(9:1-10:21).
8. He can meet the need of the dead men
(11:1-53).
To Know the “Words”
(rhema)
1. For he whom God has sent
speaks the words of God (3:34).
2. He who believes the Scripture shall believe
the Lord’s words (5:47).
3. The words which I have
spoken to you are spirit and are
life (6:63).
4. There is life eternal in the words of the
Lord (6:68).
5. He that is of God hears the
words of God (8:47).
6.
He
does not receive the Lord’s words shall be judged (12:48).
7.
The Father works in
the Lord’s words (14:10).
8.
If
we abide in the
Lord and the Lord’s words abide in us (15:7).
9.
He who has received the Lord’s words has known truly that the Lord came out from God (17:8).
How to Pray?
1. In spirit and in truth ---- God is a spirit. And they
who worship him must worship in spirit and truth (4:23-24).
2. In the name of the Lord ---- whatever you shall ask in my name, this will I do, that the Father
may be glorified in the Son (14:13).
3. Man shall have the Lord’s words that abide
in him ---- If
you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you
will and it shall come to pass to you
(15:7).
4. Man shall bear more fruit ---- I have set you that you should go and you should bear fruit, and
your fruit should abide, that whatever you
shall ask the Father in my name he may give you (15:16).
5. Man shall ask the Father directly ---- Whatever you shall ask the Father in my name, he will give you. Ask, and you shall receive (16:23-24).
Jesus ---- the
Example of the Servant of God
1. Who keeps the will of God and does the work
of God ---- do
the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work (4:34).
2.
Who works diligently
---- Jesus answered, My Father has been working until now, and I
have been working
(5:17).
3.
Who works according
to the way of God’s working ---- Jesus said to them, the Son can
do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does,
the Son also does in like manner
(5:19, 30).
4.
Who does what God
has entrusted to Him ---- for
the works which the Father has given Me to finish--the very works that I do (5:36).
5.
Who seeks the word
of God ---- Jesus said, My doctrine is not mine, but of him that has sent
me (7:16; 8:26).
6.
Who does not walk in
Him ---- Jesus said, I
do nothing of Myself. I always do those things
that please Him (8:28-29).
7.
Who spoke according
to what had heard and seen from God ---- I speak what I have seen with My
Father (8:38, 40).
8.
Who has not spoken from Himself ---- I have not spoken from
myself (12:49).
9.
Who hears the
commandments of God ---- as
the Father has commanded me, thus I do
(14:31).
10.
Who keeps the
commandments of God ---- I
have kept my Father's commandments
(15:10).
11.
Who lives for the
glory of God ---- I
have glorified You on the earth, I have
completed the work which you gives me that I should do it (17:4)
12.
Who obeys the arrangement of God ---- the cup which the Father
has given me, shall I not drink it?
(18:11)
Jesus is equal with
God
1. If one honors Jesus, he will honor God ----
one should
honor the Son just as they honor the Father (5:23).
2. If one knows Jesus, he will know God ---- If you had known Me, you
would have known My Father also (8:19).
3. If one has believed Jesus, he will believe
God ---- But
Jesus cried and said, He that believes on me, believes not on me, but on him
that sent me (12:44).
4. If one has seen Jesus, he will see God ---- and he that beholds me,
beholds him that sent me (12:45; 14:9).
5. If one has received Jesus, he will receive
God ---- he
that receives me receives him who has sent me (13:20).
6. If one has glorified Jesus, he will glorify
God ---- Jesus
says, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him (13:31).
7. If one hates Jesus, he will hate God ---- He that hates me hates also
my Father (15:23).
The Seven Witnesses
of Jesus Christ
1. The witness of God the Father (5:34-38;
8:18)
2. The witness of the Son of Himself (8:14;
18:37)
3. The witness of the Son’s works (5:36;
10:24-25)
4. The witness of the Scripture (5:39-47)
5. The witness of John the Baptist (1:6-7;
5:32-35)
6. The witness of the disciples (15:27;
19:34-35)
7. The witness of the Holy Spirit (15:26;
16:13-15)
How to Read the
Scriptures?
1. One shall come to the Lord ---- You search the Scriptures,
for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify
of Me. But you are not willing to
come to Me that you may have life
(5:39-40).
2.
One shall believe
the Scripture ---- if
you do not believe the writings of Moses, how will you believe My words? (5:47)
3.
One shall desire to
keep it ---- If
any one desire to practice his will, he shall know concerning the doctrine,
whether it is of God (7:17)
4.
One shall seek the
spirit and life in the words ---- The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are
life (6:63).
5.
One shall rely on
the teaching of the Spirit ---- the Spirit shall teach you all things, and will
bring to your remembrance all the things which I have said to you (14:26).
6.
One shall abide in
the Lord ---- If
you abide in me, and my words abide in you (15:7).
7.
One shall follow the
guidance of the Spirit ---- the
Spirit of truth shall guide you into all
the truth (16:13).
Seven “I am”s Said
by the Lord Jesus Himself
1.
I am the bread of life (6:35).
2.
I am the light of the world (8:12).
3.
I am the gate of the sheep…I am the gate (10:7,9)
4.
I am the good shepherd (10:11).
5.
I am the resurrection and the life (11:25).
6.
I am the way, the truth and the life (14:6).
7.
I am the true vine (15:1).
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Caleb Huang《Christian Digest Bible
Commentary Series》
Translated by Mary Zhou