The Disciple Maker

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The Disciple Makers PrayerPart 3Time for
Testimonies

• John 1725-26

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John 1725-26

• 25 O righteous Father! The world has not known
  You, but I have known You and these have known
  that You sent Me.
• 26 And I have declared to them Your name, and
  will declare it, that the love with which You
  loved Me may be in them, and I in them.

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What was he thinking?
RodinsThe Thinker
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La Porte de L'Enfer Rodin
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What Was He Thinking?

• He was thinking about lost people in hell!
• It really matters that we live our lives
  according to the perspective of ETERNITY
• A perspective of an eternal heaven
• A perspective also of an eternal hell
• What really matters is where people will spend
  eternity
• If you are headed for heaven, Jesus anxiously
  awaits your arrival
• Think about those who are not headed in that
  direction and ask God to use you for the eternal
  good of leading them to Christ

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Review

• What God Gave to His Son (John 171-8)
• Glory to Reflect (v. 1, 5)
• Authority to Save (v. 2-3)
• Work to Do (vv. 4, 6a)
• Men to Build Up (vv. 6b-7)
• Words to Declare (v. 8)

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Review

• What a Disciple Maker Does for His Disciples
• Manifests the Father (v. 6)
• Gives Them Gods Word (vv. 8, 14)
• Keeps Them in the Name of the Father (v. 12)
• Sends Them into the World (v. 18)
• Sanctifies Self for Their Sakes (v. 19)

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Review

• What a Disciple Maker Asks for His Disciples
• To keep them safe from the world and the evil one
  (vv. 9-12, 15-16)
• To make them one (v. 11)
• To have Christs joy fulfilled in them (vv.
  13-14)
• To sanctify them by Gods truth (vv. 17-19)
• To multiply them (vv. 20-23)
• To bring them to be with Jesus in heaven (v. 24)

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John 1725-26

• There are no petitions
• Jesus simply testified to His Father about the
  ministry in the world
• The Testimony of the World
• The Testimony of Jesus
• The Testimony of Believers

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I. The Testimony of the World

• The World has not known God v. 25a
• O Righteous Father, the world does not know
  you..........
• More than a statement of fact
• Also a statement of emotion
• Think for one moment if you did not know God
  how would you have dealt with life this week?
• How would you have coped with the stress that
  life brought this week?
• How would you have responded to bad news or
  difficult circumstances?
• Imagine a moment without God and you can imagine
  what Jesus is feeling for those who have not yet
  believed.

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The World Has Not Known God

• The world has many opportunities to get to know
  the Father
• But it prefers to go on in blindness and hardness
  of heart
• The world does not know the Father
• But we believers know Him because the Son has
  revealed the Father to us
• Our task as Christians
• To bear witness to the lost world
• To share the good news of Gods salvation

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The World Does Not Have Eternal Life

• What is eternal life?
• John 173 - And this is eternal life, that they
  may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ
  whom You have sent
• It is knowing God personally
• Not just knowing about Him, but having a personal
  relationship with Him through faith in Jesus
  Christ
• Since they do not know God, they do not have
  eternal life!

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The World Does Not Have Eternal Life

• John 146-11 - We cannot know the Father apart
  from the Son
• It is not enough simply to believe in God -
  this will never save a lost soul from eternal
  hell
• The demons also believe, and tremble - James
  219
• Eternal life is not something we earn by
  character or conduct
• Eternal life is a gift Ephesians 28-9
• We receive it by admitting we are sinners,
  repenting, and believing on Jesus Christ

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II. The Testimony of Jesus

• He has known the Father
• Jesus knows what the Father desires in His heart
• That is what Jesus asks for in His last request
  in verse 24
• God created us with a goal and purpose in mind
  to know Him and His infinite love and to be with
  Him forever
• The only way to God is now revealed in the One
  who has known Him His Son, Jesus
• If a person wants to see exactly who God is and
  what God is like, he must look at Jesus Christ
• Jesus Christ is the perfect revelation of God

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II. The Testimony of Jesus

• He Has known the Father
• He has revealed the Father to us
• Jesus had revealed Gods name
• name means the whole character and nature of
  Godall that God is
• A phenomenal claim! Claim to be the very
  revelation of God to men
• The supreme revelation of Jesus Christ is that
  God is love - John 316
• And a God of love is bound to reveal the way, the
  truth, and the life in the most perfect picture
  possible

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II. The Testimony of Jesus

• A God of love would never leave man in the dark,
  ever seeking, and never able to find and to know
• Jesus Christ is THE WAY
• Jesus Christ is THE TRUTH
• Jesus Christ is THE LIFE
• John 1245 - And he that sees me sees him that
  sent me
• John 1410 - Do you not believe that I am in the
  Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I
  speak to you I do not speak on My own authority
  but the Father who dwells in Me does the works
• John114 - And the Word became flesh and dwelt
  among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as
  of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace
  and truth

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II. The Testimony of Jesus

• He Has known the Father
• He has revealed the Father to us
• He has sent us into the world
• John 1718 - As You sent Me into the world, I
  also have sent them into the world
• Jesus had come into the world to bring men back
  to God through reconciliation
• His disciples and those they discipled, all the
  way down to us have been set apart to the same
  task.

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He has sent us into the world

• We are set apart, sanctified
• Not for the purpose of selfish enjoyment or
  boasting
• But so that we might re-present Christ to this
  world that does not know Him
• That by knowing Him they might know the Father
  and have eternal life!
• As we share our lives with Jesus and He pours His
  life into us
• We begin to see the world the way He does
• We begin to desire that they too would spend
  eternity with Jesus

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III. The Testimony of Believers

• We know He was sent and that He has sent us to
  others
• The scenario
• The world doesnt believe but I know you and
  those who believe know you
• I will commit myself to making You known Father
  so that the love that is in us will be in them
  and so also in the world!!
• Jesus desire is for His disciples and those they
  disciple to be the place where the world finds
  God
• We must be different by showing the world the
  love of God
• We must become the vessel through which the Holy
  Spirit shows the world that they can come to know
  God in their lives
• Can the world see the difference eternal life
  makes in your life?!?!?

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III. The Testimony of Believers

• We know He was sent and that He has sent us to
  others
• We know His name and we are to manifest it to
  others
• Believers know Gods name (nature) and even share
  in that divine nature
• If we know God, and His Son Jesus Christ (have
  eternal life), we must share Him with others!
• Being connected to God in every way possible
  should make us love others in a way that spills
  out into the lives of those that do not believe
• One day we will stand before the Judgment Seat of
  Christ and give our final report
• I have glorified You on the earth I have
  finished the work which You gave Me to do - John
  174

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III. The Testimony of Believers

• We know He was sent and that He has sent us to
  others
• We know His name and we are to manifest it to
  others
• We know His love and we are to share it with
  others
• The last thing Jesus He mentions is that His love
  might be in our hearts and in our lives
• We talk much about grace and about faith, and
  rightly so, yet the great desire of His heart is
  that His love should be manifested in the lives
  of those whom He has redeemed

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III. The Testimony of Believers

• 2 Corinthians 514-15
• For the love of Christ compels us, because we
  judge thus that if One died for all, then all
  died and He died for all, that those who live
  should live no longer for themselves, but for Him
  who died for them and rose again