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Date: 25 Nov 2018
Bible: John 12:27-36
Speaker: Andrew Sach

“A matter of life and death:
the one strangely-exalted”

John 12:27-36

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What is your proudest achievement?

 

What makes you proudest about Grace Church Greenwich?

 

 

 

1. God the Father is most glorified

by the death of his Son (v27-30)

 

 

More even than at Mount Sinai!

(cf. Exodus 33:18-20)

 

 

 

 

More even than in Jesus’ miracles (cf. 2:11; 11:4, 40)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. It’s an upside-down, back-to-front kind of death (v31-32)

 

 

 

 

 

 

The world judges Jesus? No, God judges the world!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The devil enters in (13:27)? No, the devil is cast out!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

People will be repelled? No, all kinds of people will be drawn to Jesus!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. The clock is ticking: we need to respond to Jesus’ death (v33-36)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COFFEE QUESTIONS

What are you most proud of?

Are you proud of Jesus death on the cross?