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Oakwood Community Church

11209 Casey Rd, Tampa, FL 33618, USA

Sunday 7:00 AM

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”
“Fair is foul and foul is fair…”
“Look down, look down, don’t look ‘em in the eye…”
“This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.”
“The year that Buttercup was born, the most beautiful woman in the world was a French scullery maid named Annette .”
“A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…”
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
“In the beginning was the Word.”
John 1:1
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
John 1:1
“He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.”
John 1:2-3
“In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
John 1:4-5
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“Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.”
John 20:30-31
“Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.”
John 21:25
Three Claims of Christ:

1. Light: “I am the light of the world.”

“As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?’”
John 9:1-2
Three Claims of Christ:

1. Light: “I am the light of the world.”

“Jesus answered, ‘It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.’”
John 9:3
Three Claims of Christ:

1. Light: “I am the light of the world.”

“Night is coming, when no one can work. As long as I am in the world,
I am the light of the world.”
John 9:4-5
Three Claims of Christ:

1. Light: “I am the light of the world.”

○ As he opened the eyes of a blind man, so Jesus can show us the Truth about God.

“No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.”
John 1:18
Three Claims of Christ:

2. Love: “I am the good shepherd.”

“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.”
John 10:10
Three Claims of Christ:

2. Love: “I am the good shepherd.”

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.”
John 10:11
Three Claims of Christ:

2. Love: “I am the good shepherd.”

“When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, ‘Do you want to be healed?’”
John 5:6
Three Claims of Christ:

2. Love: “I am the good shepherd.”

“Jesus said to him, ‘Get up, take up your bed, and walk.’ And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.”
John 5:8-9
Three Claims of Christ:

2. Love: “I am the good shepherd.”

“Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, ‘See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you.’”
John 5:14
Three Claims of Christ:

2. Love: “I am the good shepherd.”

○ As he healed a crippled man, so Jesus can change our Hearts and lives with His grace.

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.”
John 10:11
Three Claims of Christ:

3. Life: “I am the resurrection and the life.”

“Martha said to Jesus, ‘Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.’”
John 11:21
Three Claims of Christ:

3. Life: “I am the resurrection and the life.”

“I am the resurrection and the life… Everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
John 11:25-26
Three Claims of Christ:

3. Life: “I am the resurrection and the life.”

○ As he raised Lazarus from the dead, so Jesus can save us from Sin and death forever.

“I lay down my life that I may take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again.”
John 10:17-18
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“But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.”
John 20:31
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