Pastor Tom Beck:
Who Do You Think you are ?
John 8:48-59
48The Jews answered him, “Are we not right in saying
that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?” 49Jesus
answered, “I do not have a demon, but I honor my Fa-
ther, and you dishonor me. 50Yet I do not seek my own
glory; there is One who seeks it, and he is the judge.
51Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he
will never see death.” 52The Jews said to him, “Now we
know that you have a demon! Abraham died, as did the
prophets, yet you say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will
never taste death.’ 53Are you greater than our father
Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do
you make yourself out to be?” 54Jesus answered, “If I
glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who
glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’ 55But you
have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do
not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know
him and I keep his word. 56Your father Abraham rejoiced
that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad.”
57So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years
old, and have you seen Abraham?” 58Jesus said to them,
“Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”
59So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid
himself and went out of the temple.
We know that through the _________ that we have
been given by the Holy Spirit, to believe in Jesus,
the only son of God who died and rose for our
salvation, we will be ____________ and will share
eternity with him and all __________________.
“Human sexuality is an objective biological binary trait. “XY” and “XX” chromo-
somes are genetic markers, not a disorder.” (a copy of the study is available at:
http://www.acpeds.org/the-college-speaks/position-statements/gender-
ideology-harms-children
John 14:6 (ESV) Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth,
and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John 14:15-17 (ESV) “If you love me, you will keep my com-
mandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you
another Helper, to be with you forever,17 even the Spirit of
truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees
him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you
and will be in you.”
Matthew 22:37-39 (ESV) And he said to him, “You shall love the
Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and
with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first command-
ment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor
as yourself.
Isaiah 5:20-21 (ESV) Woe to those who call evil good and
good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! 21 Woe to
those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own
sight!
Jesus told us to __________.
I AM loves us and wants us to _________ others.
As Christians we not only love those who love us, but
we also love our _______________.
Matthew 5:43-45 (ESV) “You have heard that it was
said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your ene-
my.’ 44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray
for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be
sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his
sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain
on the just and on the unjust.
Are you confused about the Christian response
to social issues?
Here is a handy reference guide:
Male – Love them.
Female – Love them.
Unsure – Love them.
Gay – Love them.
Straight – Love them.
Unsure – Love them.
Addict – Love them.
Sober – Love them.
Unsure– Love them.
Believer – Love them.
Unbeliever – Love them.
Unsure – Love them.