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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