https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/podcasts/168807/ The newest sermons from Apologia Church Utah on SermonAudio. Religion & Spirituality Apologia Church Utah http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification https://vps.sermonaudio.com/resize_image/sources/podcast/1440/1440/apologiautah.1707167865.jpg https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/podcasts/168807/ en Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:07:48 +0000 30 Wade Orsini no The newest sermons from Apologia Church Utah on SermonAudio. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/512241746414141 While still on the beach, having just given the disciples a lesson on still needed Jesus to do evangelism, the Lord restores Peter. For each shameful denial of Christ Jesus obliterates them with three restoring questions of love for Peter. And in doing so, Christ shows us the other aspect of the mission He is passing on to the church entails shepherding the flock (caring for the fish) that are gathered (or caught). The Son of God then reveals just as Peter said, He "knows all things" and therefore knows the time and way we die. After Peter fulfills the calling on his life for evangelism and shepherding, his hands will be stretched out in crucifixion, dying a martyr's death. Peter then takes his focus off of Christ and compares himself to John, the beloved disciple. The Lord rebukes him and shows that in all our individual callings from God we shouldn't compare but keep focused on the Lord, His Word, His ways, and His promises. John will remain until he writes the Revelation and sees the page turn on the Old Covenant and open to the New. Finishing up, John writes that all of this is true and ends where he started: with the glory and majesty of Jesus Christ. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/512241746414141 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 12 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:10:43 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/55241832583257 As the disciples await the Gospel mission orders from the risen Christ they go out fishing. This is the final lesson from Jesus to His beloved followers. Fishing at night without the Lord renders the nets empty. But as the sun rises Christ appears supernaturally on the beach. In the light with Christ, following His command, where to go, what to do, how to do it, the disciples fill the net with fish. This represents the fact that to carry on with successful Gospel mission, to "fill the net" the need Him. We need Him. Apart from Christ we can do nothing. They recognize it is the Lord and He has prepared a meal of bread and fish for them. This represents that He gave Himself for them but also that as it is multiplied, as fish are caught, they must share it with others. Before His death He serves them and after His resurrection He serves them. We need Jesus to live this Christian life an fulfill the Great Commission. Whatever you need, He will give it. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/55241832583257 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 05 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:08:18 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/428241739216663 John steps out of the resurrection appearances and tells the reader why these "signs" and all these things were written. On the 7th days of Jesus's ministry, He gave his 1st sign, turning water into wine. The 2nd sign was healing the royal official's son with a word. The 3rd sign was healing the paralytic man at the pools of Bethesda showing Christ is the Lord of the Sabbath. The 4th sign was Jesus providing bread and fish for the 5,000 like the Lord provided food in abundance in Genesis. The 5th sign was Jesus walking on the chaotic sea of Galilee like the Spirit of God hovered over the surface of the waters. The 6th sign was when Jesus, the Light of the Word, taking the man born blind from darkness to light just as when God said "Let there be light." And the 7th sign was Jesus reversing the curse of the fall in the raising of Lazarus. Finally, the 8th sign, on the first day of the week, which is like the 8th day, the new Sabbath, the Lord's day; Jesus was rose again from the dead. He is the Creator and Re-Creator. Our Genesis and Re-Genesis. Our Generation and Regeneration. Our temporal life and eternal life. He is this one and we must believe He is the Christ, the Son of God, and believing we will have LIFE in His name. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/428241739216663 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 28 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:10:57 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/42124205739527 Jesus makes three separate post-resurrection appearances in this section of John. First, He reveals Himself to Mary Magdalene and admonishes her to not cling to His physical body or earthly ministry but she must accept that He has to soon ascend and that is far better for the world. Next, Jesus materializes in a locked room where 10 of the apostles are congregated in fear. They rejoice at seeing their Lord alive and He gives them the Holy Spirit. They must have the Spirit to be regenerate and belief but the Spirit will greatly manifest at Pentecost. He calls them brethren now because they are part of the children of God. And finally, Jesus appears suddenly before Thomas and the other apostles. Thomas had not believe the report of the other 10 and Jesus answers every challenge of the man to touch and see His wounds. In one of the highest Christological confessions in the New Testament, Thomas bows and worships Christ as His Lord (Kurios) and God (Theos). And the important thing is, Jesus receives it. He rejects it not, therefore affirming all the I AM statements. He is God and God is a Trinity. And what Jesus finishes with is a beatitude that shows just because we haven't seen the risen Christ in person does not mean we have an inferior faith. It is better for Christians and the entire world that our Lord rules from His throne today. But we await His return to take us back to the garden state in perfection. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/42124205739527 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 21 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:18:22 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/331242112173124 Pastor Wade continues his sermon series on the Gospel According to John with sermon titled, "Christ Is Risen" going over John 19:31-20:10. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/331242112173124 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:27:35 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/324242041437106 Pastor Wade continues his sermon series on the Gospel According to John with sermon titled, "The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ" going over John 19:16-30. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/324242041437106 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 24 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:10:37 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/317242143595649 Pastor Wade continues his sermon series on the Gospel According to John with sermon titled, "Behold, Your King" going over John 18:38-19:15. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/317242143595649 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 17 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:14:57 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/310242241343484 Jesus has been tried by four different rulers: Annas, Caiaphas, Herod, and Pilate. What they don't realize is they have been tried and found wanting. Each of their actions condemns them on the day of judgment. Christ is the King from the kingdom of heaven. And that kingdom has infiltrated the world and is spreading. Christ is now the multi-dimensional King over all, whether they recognize it or not. And what is striking is that those whom He has pardoned and saved are not any better than Annas, Caiaphas, or Pilate. And this is the truth we need to carry out into the world: this King pardons sinners based on His bearing of their punishments. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/310242241343484 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 10 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:11:29 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/2262452138806 The narrative of Jesus's trial is intertwined with Peter's denial of Him. The faithfulness of Christ is contrasted to the faithlessness of Peter. Courage shines over cowardice. While Peter denies Christ three times, Jesus won't deny His people the sacrifice He is about to make. Peter's sin is therefore paid for on the cross. And so while his sin was great, the grace of God was greater still. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/2262452138806 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 25 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:14:05 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/21924431497325 Jesus is in the Garden of Gethsemane and has made sure He goes to a place Judas remembers and a time that makes it easier for Judas to betray Him. Jesus went forth to the garden. He went forth to face His betrayer and the armed soldiers with Judas. He went forth to the cross. The text says He knew they were coming and knew all that would happen. While everything and everyone else feels in control, Jesus alone is in control of this situation. He is no martyr but a willing sacrifice. No one makes Him go to the cross but He goes freely. Why? For our sakes and His glory. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/21924431497325 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 18 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 0:54:55 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/21224432296033 As Jesus finishes His high priestly prayer to the Father we are reminded that all that He requests will come to pass. His prayer will be answered with certainty. After praying for His own glory, and for the sake of the eleven men in front of Him, He then completes His supplication by praying for all the disciples who have been given to Him; all who will believe. What He prays is that we would have unity together. But the basis of that unity must be in the tri-unity of the Father, Son, and Spirit. And our unity in love will be a reflection of God into the world. Our unity and love are manifestations of Gospel transformation. So that on the flipside, our division breeds unbelief in the world. Jesus then appeals to the Father that He we be with Him, where He is and that we would see His preincarnate glory. To think that God desires our presence is unfathomable. This is total and complete grace. We will see the unveiled splendor of the Son of God for all eternity. Jesus has made the Father known to us. He is the bridge. He is Jacob's ladder leading to heaven. He is the way. He is our conductor, train, and ticket all at once on the ride to heaven. Surely nothing can keep us from this love whence given to us. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/21224432296033 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 11 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:08:34 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/2524124544761 Jesus lifts His eyes to heaven in the presence of His disciples but more so in the presence of His Father. Of all the prayers of Jesus, this one we are all privy to. At the eve of the cross, before He goes back to the Father, Christ will pray for Himself, His disciples, and the future disciples who have yet to be born or believe. Here He prays for His immediate disciples: the eleven men who have remained with Him this whole time. Christ revealed the Father's name to them and guarded them there and so as Jesus departs, He requests that they stay in the name, away from the evil one. The disciples have been chosen out of the world, plucked from it, protected from the evil one in it, and are being sent back now made holy and set apart for God to complete the mission Jesus has set before them. This they cannot do without being sanctified in the truth. This truth is all at once, God's Word but also Jesus Christ Himself. These are the foundation of truth. And since we too, are saved from the world but left in it to deliver the truth as ambassadors of Christ we must pursue holiness. What gains ground in the world for the kingdom of God is not assimilation or isolation but the holiness that God puts into His people. This, with the Gospel, are our tools for seeing many more saved from the world unto eternal life. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/2524124544761 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 04 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:15:17 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/12924442327660 Jesus lifts His eyes to heaven in the presence of His disciples but more so in the presence of His Father. Of all the prayers of Jesus, this one we are all privy to. At the eve of the cross, before He goes back to the Father Christ will pray for Himself, His disciples, and the future disciples who have yet to be born or believe. Here Christ is supremely out for His own glory. These verses are highly trinitarian and also show the deity of Christ is essential to knowing God. The Son shares in the glory of the Father in a way divinely unique. Jesus also possesses authority over all flesh in the matters of eternal life and judgment; another divine attribute. Christ defines eternal life as intimately knowing the Father and Son. This will only elevate for the believer as we reach God's presence in heaven. Jesus affirms He has completed the work assigned to Him by the Father in His incarnation. The cross will then result in Him crying, "It is finished!" And finally, Jesus has glorified the Father and received glory Himself while on earth in His incarnation but He now desires to return to the glory that He possessed with the Father before the world had being; that is, eternity past. His glory in His humanity and divinity compounds into the ultimate and totally glory of the Savior. The glory that will result in every knee bowing to Him in heaven, on the earth, or under the earth and every tongue confessing He is LORD. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/12924442327660 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 28 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:02:45 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/12224417463872 In John 16:16-33, Jesus is speaking to His disciples, foretelling His imminent departure and the subsequent sorrow they will experience. He compares this sorrow to the pain of childbirth but assures them that their grief will turn to joy. Jesus predicts that they will face tribulations in the world but encourages them to take heart because He has overcome the world. The passage emphasizes the disciples' future joy, the transformative power of Jesus' victory, and the importance of faith in navigating life's challenges. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/12224417463872 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 21 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:13:22 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/115245659567 Jesus's disciples are now beginning to have sorrow fill their hearts at the realization of His impending departure. He assures them it is to their benefit that He leaves because the Helper will expand the ministry of Christ from just Him to every corner of the earth. The ministry of the Spirit of Truth will go beyond just the Church and will impact the world. The Spirit convicts the world of sin showing it its condition and need for a Savior. The world was split with the coming of Christ and will continue in that division because some will be saved out of the world while some will remain in it, in unbelief. He convicts the world of its faux righteousness that really just stacks more condemnation on itself. The world needs a righteousness foreign to itself. And lastly, the Spirit convicts the world of a false judgment; one that that judges by appearances or the flesh rather than of righteousness and the Spirit. That false judgment has led them to follow the ruler of this world who is already judged. Nevertheless, the Spirit of Truth's ministry in the world is God's gracious extension of Jesus's work to humanity. And finally, the Spirit's ministry is fulfilled in His guiding and leading of the Church into the truth. And He simply won't bring us to truth but secure us there. All of this is because of the triune unity of our great God, the mutual glory the Father, the Son, and the Spirit gives one another and their love for us. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/115245659567 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 14 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:20:50 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/1124547314699 https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/1124547314699 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 31 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:19:27 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/12182351544280 Jesus continues His farewell discourse with the disciples; now possibly on a slow walk to the garden He will eventually be captured in. In His final I AM statement Jesus tells them He is the divine and true Vine. The people of Israel, who were to be the special grape vine of Vinedresser Father, bore no fruit and have been replaced by Christ and His followers. Some branches (of the old) were cut away and will go to the fire but the branches (of the new) remain. They are fed and upheld by the Vine. Not only that, but the Vinedresser prunes the true branches. The Father trims off the diseased parts of us, the parts that are turning the wrong direction, and He orients us to receive the right light for growth. All of this pruning of the believer is so that we would bear abundant fruit. But in case we think we produce this on our own He confirms that apart from Him we can do nothing. There is not only a mutual abiding but an utter dependance of the believer on his Savior. And the basis of all of this is love. A love from the Father to the Son and the Son to the Father but also their love toward us. And with that we are admonished that because we possess the love and joy of Christ we are love each other in like manner. Slaves aren't loved by their masters; they are simply ordered. But the branches, the followers of Christ are His friends. Friends of God get access to the mind of God just like Moses and Abraham did so long ago. In Christ, our status is so very elevated. But in case any get puffed up He says that we didn't choose Him. He chose us. All that we have, all that were now, is because of Jesus Christ. This is a message of grace. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/12182351544280 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 17 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:13:51 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/121123721235463 Jesus has been seeking not only to inform His eleven disciples of what they need to know after He's left but also comfort them. In the process He has told them the Helper, One like Him who is called the Holy Spirit, is coming to them at His departure. It is here that He indicates how the New Testament Scripture is formed: the Holy Spirit will cause them to remember all that He has told them and will teach them all things. In a similar but different way the Holy Spirit causes us to remember God's promises and allows us to understand what the Word says. Realizing the disciples are still troubled and fearful, Jesus tells them He leaves His peace with them. In Hebrew, peace or 'shalom' was a farewell greeting. The world uses 'shalom' as a parting salutation but Jesus gives real shalom. We lost shalom when Adam and Eve fell in the garden but now we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. And that translates into peace that surpasses all understanding. It can confound the world that a Christian has peace in the midst of some of the worst trials the world has to offer. Why? Because we are no longer in disharmony with God. The God of all peace has given us eternal shalom. The disciples should honestly rejoice at His leave because Jesus goes back to the place where His Father is greater. Heaven is where He is greater as well, in full glory. And going home means Jesus will prepare a place for us there. The disciples did not see this in the moment. Jesus tells them as they are speaking, the ruler of this world, the devil himself is approaching. The adversary has nothing in Jesus and cannot make a single charge against the Lord for He is blameless. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/121123721235463 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 10 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:04:20 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/12423421485154 After Jesus tells His disciples that He is leaving them, He gives them further reassurance. When He departs the Helper (or Paraclete) will come who is the Spirit of Truth. This is none of than the third holy person of the blessed Trinity. We can know that the Holy Spirit is indeed a divine person because He possesses a mind, emotions, and a will. The Holy Spirit thinks and knows (1 Corinthians 2:10). The Holy Spirit can be grieved (Ephesians 4:30). The Spirit intercedes for us (Romans 8:26-27). He makes decisions according to His will (1 Corinthians 12:7-11). And according to our passage and John 15-16 the Holy Spirit comes from the Father and Christ in such a way that is not like a messenger, He is not like an angel; He proceeds forth from God as God. He is spoken about in such a way that gives Him co-equality with God and yet a distinction. The Spirit will not be given to the world, however. He is reserved for those whom love and know Christ and therefore He will be with and in them. Jesus tells them despite the world not being able to see Him after His resurrection, they will. Because He lives again, they and we will live by regeneration. Our new life rises as sure as Christ rose from the dead. And it is at this point after the resurrection and the giving of the Spirit they will finally understand the oneness and triune nature of the Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit. Those whom Christ saves in turn loves Him, and in that love He will disclose Himself to us. By the Spirit, we are truly never left alone. Jesus is always with us. Judas, the son of James, however doesn't understand and asks why the Messiah would only disclose Himself to them and not to the entire world https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/12423421485154 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 03 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:00:33 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/112723440103564 Jesus, just prior to this, told His disciples the way to the Father's house where He will be preparing a place for them. Now Christ assures them that they have known and seen the Father through Himself. There is a complete unity between the Father and the Son. However, Philip and the apostles don't find this sufficient and want an immediate display of God Himself. Jesus responds with a rebuke that is tinged with sadness. They have been with Jesus this long and they still don't see it. Jesus's words, person, and works are not insufficient to show the Father but Philip and the apostle's vision is insufficient to see the oneness of the Father and the Son. They don't realize they have known and seen God this whole time in Christ. He says "Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me." This doesn't simply mean "trust Me." But it means that the Trinity is an absolute must-believe aspect of following Christ. They also ought to believe not just on the basis of His words but His works. And it's not just the power behind the miraculous signs but what the signs also signified about who He is and what He's come to do. He is God in the flesh. And then Jesus speaks of His relationship to His disciples. Those who believe in Him will do greater works. It's not that Christians will have a power greater than Jesus to raise the dead or heal or calm a storm; the key is in the phrase "because I go to the Father." The works are still Jesus's and the disciples of Christ will ask to do them in His name and only what He wants to be done will be done. The works are greater because they are after the cross and resurrection but they are not greater than Jesus's. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/112723440103564 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 26 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:13:17 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/11202341052721 At this point in the Gospel, Jesus has told the apostles He will be leaving shortly. And after learning that Peter, whom they looked up to, would deny Christ three times, all hope seemed lost. Jesus encourages them not to be troubled as He will take their trouble. He anchors this in an imperative to believe in God and believe in Him. Belief will steady their troubled hearts. Jesus then makes a promise to the disciples and even the rest of the church that in His Father's house are many rooms. He's telling the truth that He is going back to the heavenly realm not to simply stay alone with the Father and the angels but to prepare a place for us in His Father's house. Jesus had no where to lay His head in His earthly ministry so that we could have a dwelling with Him forever. Many have left us in our lives and promised they would return but no one can make that promise with the certainty and authority that Jesus makes it. We can face tomorrow because He will come for us and take us with Him. Thomas admitted though they still feel lost. They don't know where Jesus is going or the way to get there. At this moment, Jesus makes one of the most divinely powerful statements He's made in this Gospel. Jesus said to Thomas, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me." First, Jesus claims deity and the power that backs all His promises with saying the holy name for Himself: Ego Eimi. Next, Jesus says that He is the way to the Father's house. He's not 'a' way but 'the' way. And He's not simply the one who blazed this pathway for us. He is literally the pathway for us. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/11202341052721 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 19 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:02:57 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/11132343581149 In the wake of Judas departing into the night to betray Jesus, He knows now will be the time the Son of Man is glorified. What brings Him the most shame is precisely what brings Him the most glory. Likewise, what He is about to endure will be bring great glory to the Father. God is glorious in many ways and without the problem of sin and a need of a Savior we would never see the glory of His grace. Jesus tenderly tells His disciples He is leaving soon and they can't come with Him now. His work is almost finished, theirs is about to begin. Now in the midst of all this consolation Jesus exhorts them with a "new commandment" to love one another as He has loved them. The Mosaic legislation has always been concerned with loving God and loving neighbor but the newness aspect of this is in the qualification Jesus added: "even as I have loved you." The apostles and all of us Christians have now experienced the love of God in a colossal way. What we have received is so significant it necessitates a change in our love toward others. It becomes like the Messiah's. We have an abundance of love and therefore we can freely give it. We look to the example of Christ on how to love. He loves with action. He loved with self-sacrifice. He loved in a way that had tangible results. And so should we. This is such a significant thing that love will be the identifying marker of a follower of Christ. If one doesn't love the Bride of Christ then you offend Him as a husband is offended if his wife is hated. Hatred and bitterness in the body of Christ are faith-destroying and self-polluting. The world looks upon Christian in-fighting and mocks, while the devil laughs. They will know us by our love. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/11132343581149 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 12 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:05:38 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/11623428111063 After washing the feet of the disciples Jesus went back to reclining at the table and instructing the men. Not all of them will receiving the blessing He spoke of in verse 17. Not all of them will so the things He has shown them. One of them will choose himself over others. And he is not one that Jesus has chosen as His own. This man is close to Him and though He served him and broke bread with him, this man will betray Jesus. And He is telling them now before it happens so that when it does, they won't be surprised but also so that they would believe He is the I AM. That means that this horrible treason will lead to something good. Ultimately, Judas has not received Jesus and therefore he does not receive the Father. And no one can receive Jesus through Judas. For he was not truly sent by God. The Lord, greatly troubled, then tells the disciples plainly that one of them will betray Him. The disciples were at a loss of who would do such a thing. But Peter, desperately wanting to protect Jesus from this motioned to John laying at Jesus's bosom to ask Him. John asked and quietly told John it was the one whom He dips the morsel of bread with. And He did that and handed it directly to Judas. Judas took the morsel and ate it. And this symbolizes two things. First, the sovereign hand of God finally allowing Judas to proceed. He couldn't advance in this betrayal until God let him. Jesus then is allowing Judas to be let over to this treachery. And the second thing it symbolizes is the devil entering him. Even though what Jesus did was a kind gesture, Judas won't receive in what Jesus gives; he receives in himself the devil. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/11623428111063 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 05 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:07:52 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/103023411177570 In chapters 13 through 17, Jesus will devote His last day to instructing and encouraging His disciples. This is the farewell discourse that took place right before the Last Supper. In this section we see Jesus put on the slave's towel and perform the most menial task for His disciples. The first thing to notice is that on a day that Jesus might have the right to be self-focused and fretting before His crucifixion, He is pouring into His disciples. And He did this because of love. And not because we first loved Him but because He first loved us. And He loves His own into eternity. In Jesus's divine knowledge He knew Judas was about to betray Him but He also knew His mission was almost complete and it was time to go back to the Father. What this shows is no matter what Satan plans or what man plans, God's plans always prevail. While Jesus was washing their feet, Peter protested knowing who Jesus is and the reality of what foot washing was. The King of kings became like the lowest slave. But with this foot washing act foreshadowing the coming cross, if Peter did not let Him do this, then he couldn't expect to receive the cleansing of Jesus later. And so here, God desires obedience rather than Peter's concern for the Lord's honor. And what is profound in this act, is that at this time no other apostle knew Judas would betray Him. That means, now and for the last several years Jesus treated His enemy the same as the others, with love and mercy. And the Lord Jesus finishes by establishing that all that He just did, we should be willing to do. Do we think we're above what the all-powerful God of the universe was willing to do? We should follow His example always. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/103023411177570 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 29 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:14:12 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/102323331506965 As the final warning before Jesus spends the remainder of His time with His disciples, He will come out of hiding and appeal to the people to believe in Him. John records that despite seeing Jesus's many signs, they did not believe. Just like God's people after Egypt did not have hearts to believe or eyes to see, so do the people of Jerusalem here. This unbelief fulfilled the words of Isaiah in chapter 53 of his prophecy. The Arm of the Lord is Christ and He has appeared before multitudes but He has not been "revealed" to them. In fact, John shows God blinded their eyes and hardened the peoples' hearts. The divine activity of God and a person's faith or lack thereof are directly correlated. However, Scripture makes it clear that even though God is sovereign over belief and unbelief, men are still responsible for their sin. John then demonstrates Isaiah said these things because He saw the glory of God: who was Christ on the throne in the Isaiah 6 vision. The glory Isaiah saw when Christ was on the throne is Isaiah 6 is the glory seen in the miracles Jesus performed for the people. Rejecting the signs of Jesus is rejecting the glory of Jesus, rejecting the glory of Jesus is rejecting the Father. If only the people saw the glory of the Son of God the way Isaiah did. Maybe they too would recognize their sin and need of cleansing from our gracious Lord. Nevertheless, John says ruling men in Judea had some level of belief but they loved the glory of men over the glory of God. And as the glory of God is Jesus as Isaiah showed us, they then love men over the Son of Man, the Messiah. Jesus makes His final appeal to the people to believe in Him because of His Father. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/102323331506965 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 22 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:04:49 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/10162333394303 At the coming of the Greeks, Jesus recognized His hour of crucifixion had come. And despite the predominant theme of the deity of Christ in the Gospel according to John, we see here glimpses of the humanity of Jesus. His soul was greatly troubled. The horror of the cross will be unprecedented in the history of the world. He stands upon the edge of a chasm about to face His fate. Because He became like one of us, He can represent us on that cross and He can sympathize with our weaknesses; He has seen the effects of sin. These qualities make Jesus the perfect Savior. Despite a desire for this cup to pass, His desire for obedience and glory to the Father is supreme. Jesus prays to the Father to glorify His own name. And an audible voice thundered from heaven that even the nearby crowd heard. This was an attestation that Jesus is who He says He is. Now that His mission is about to be fulfilled judgment has come upon the world. Judgment because when Christ dies and rises again, if you are with Him, you are saved, and if you are against Him, you are judged. And thus also begins the casting out of the devil, the ruler of the world. The cross may have seemed like his victory but it was actually Satan's greatest defeat. Because when He is lifted up on the cross, He will draw all types of men to Himself. The eschatological promises of the Messiah begin now and consummate at His second coming. The crowd did not understand why He would have to be exalted and leave them when they see the Messiah as one who establishes an earthly reign that stretches into eternity. Jesus will leave that be for now and tell them their opportunity is in this moment. Believe in the Light now. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/10162333394303 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 15 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:00:01 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/10923217304247 Some Greeks who were going to worship at the Feast in Jerusalem sought out the apostle Philip to arrange a meeting with Jesus. The text is silent on why but we can surmise that they, being Gentile God-fearers, had heard rumors of the Messiah's coming. The Greeks' coming, however, was an indicator of something bigger. Upon hearing of the Greeks, Jesus said the hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. If Gentiles are seeking the Messiah the times of the Gentiles has come; therefore the hardening of the Jews will begin leading up to His crucifixion. To explain this, Jesus gives an illustration. It seems unnatural but for a seed to produce life or produce fruit it must die. In other words, for the children of God to come into existence the unique Son of God must die. And the fruit must follow in the example of the seed. If you love your life in this world you will perish but hating your life in this world will lead one to life eternal. Love and hate contrasts were used in Jewish idioms to establish essential preference, not hatred on some absolute scale. The fact is the love our lives in this world and the love of the Father don't mix. John says if you love this world, the love of the Father is not in you. Jesus finished the seed and life figures of speech by bringing it back to discipleship. If one is a fruit, it comes from the Seed, it follows after the Seed, and therefore Christ desires for His disciples to follow Him. The fruit is to be in the likeness of the seed, they are interconnected. If you are saved by Christ, you will serve and follow Christ. There is no alternative. These things will be the characteristics of a Christian. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/10923217304247 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 08 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:15:00 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/10223441527894 https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/10223441527894 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 01 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:13:33 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/9252347504643 In this section of Scripture Jesus comes back to Bethany, the place where He raised Lazarus from the dead. And the Bethany family is making an honorific meal for Jesus. Martha is serving Christ and giving Him an offering of food while Lazarus is reclining and resting with Jesus. Serving Christ and resting in Christ are two main characteristics of a Christian. Mary then presents her offering and anoints Jesus with costly perfume, something that is worth over a year's salary of a worker, something that was likely her inheritance. She anointed Him like the king in Song of Solomon in humble devotion to her Lord. But Judas Iscariot protested to this use of the nard perfume and gave a falsely pious plea to sell it for the poor. John informs us that Judas was in charge of the money bags for Jesus and the apostles and would steal coins. Deceiving others with false concern and thievery are two main characteristics of a false Christian. Christians can also participate in faux concern for others in the guise of righteousness. We must repent of this. Jesus, however, defends Mary and states this was for His burial. He shows them He is the most important; they will always have the poor to minister to but not always have Him. A mere mortal could not claim such priority and preeminence. This only makes sense in light of who Jesus is according to the Prologue. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. Otherwise, it would be arrogant. All throughout Scripture the LORD God is pleased with soothing aromas; with the sacrifices and offerings presented to Him. Here Martha has the aroma of service as she brings Jesus food. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/9252347504643 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 24 Sep 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:13:03 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/942349392438 https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/942349392438 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 03 Sep 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:06:23 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/828233578268 Jesus is outraged in the innermost part of His being as He looks upon death. The wages of sin have taken a toll on the world He created so long ago and now is the time to reverse the curse. Jesus approaches the cave that Lazarus has been "sleeping" in and commands for the stone covering it to be removed. Although Martha previously expressed faith that Jesus is the Christ, she still doesn't see fully what He can do. The stench of death seems more powerful than the Messiah. Jesus reminds her that if she believes she will see the glory of God. For humans, we often need to see the results of others' promises. But for God, His word alone ought to be enough for us. Upon removing the stone from the cave, Jesus prayed to the Father and thanked Him in such a way as if Jesus had already privately communed with the Father to raise Lazarus. This is a Trinitarian act and many will believe because of it. Jesus shouts with His universe-making voice, the voice that calms the seas, and the voice that commands demons to flee their hosts. His yelling was coupled with His righteous indignation against sin and death. And in all that power, Lazarus came forth. Had Jesus not directed the order to him all of the dead on the earth would rise. The dead man was alive and was unbound from the graveclothes of death. This is just a foretaste of what Jesus will do for Himself and all humanity at His second coming. We too have been raised to new life by the death and resurrection of Christ, right here and now. And we too, will be raised to glorified lives and bodies by the Resurrection and the Life at the sound of the trumpet blast. The question is, as Jesus said, "Do you believe this?" https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/828233578268 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 27 Aug 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:03:37 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/82123418373646 After a purposeful delay Jesus finally arrives to Bethany, the village of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus, His close friends. Lazarus had been dead for four days already. Martha had come out to Jesus, hearing He was near, and demonstrated desperation and grief but also faith. How many times do we do as she did? "God if only you did things differently, this hard circumstance would not have happened." But then she also showed a confidence in Jesus. He is able. He can do all things. Jesus says Lazarus will rise again and Martha thinks He's speaking of the final day. Jesus, however, makes a powerful statement that He is the I AM, the Resurrection and the Life, thereby calling her to transfer her hope from an impersonal theory to the personal Son of God. There is no hope for resurrection and eternal life outside of Jesus Christ. And this eternal life is such a sure thing for those who believe that it's as if that reality were for them now. As if they will never die. They will have salvific life, life in the kingdom of God, life that is everlasting. Martha believes this and therefore anything else pales in comparison to the power of the Christ. Martha then left to bring her sister, Mary, back to Jesus for a private meeting but the mourners in the house followed her out to Him. When Mary saw Jesus, when her eyes met with her Lord, desperation and grief caused her to collapse; she fell at His feet. She said the same thing as Martha but with far more emotion. And so when Jesus saw her and the Jews weeping something happened to Him. He was outraged in His spirit and stirred Himself up. And the reason He was like this was because He had come face to face with His greatest foe: death. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/82123418373646 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 20 Aug 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:10:33 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/81423418144707 : Jesus was beyond the Jordan when He received notice from close friends, Mary and Martha, that their brother Lazarus was sick. By faith, they seek out the only One whom they believe can heal the one "whom Jesus loves." Jesus gives us the cosmological picture in this sickness and says its ultimate end is not for death but to reveal the glory of God; and to reveal the heavenly reality of Jesus Himself. Just like the man born blind, this situation will be for the best outcome of not only Lazarus but the people witnessing it and especially the glory of the Father and Son. Just as John 3:16 revealed to us, now we see the love of Christ towards fallen humanity is what underlies His actions here. This love is based on God's character and not ours, therefore it is pure and unmerited. Jesus then delayed two days longer where He was. This delay is actually God's perfect timing. As if the seconds of the day come to God for instruction and all things carry out what He has ordained, so is His timing ordered. This is not purposeless. Therefore, even we too, can have hope in the midst of waiting on God. At the right time Jesus told the disciples it was time to depart to Bethany. The disciples however saw only peril and danger ahead since going back to Bethany would put Jesus in reach of the murderous Jewish leaders. Jesus then gives a metaphor about walking while it is day as no one can walk in the darkness lest they stumble. In other words, Jesus is safe in carrying out His Father's will. Nothing and no one can harm Him. It would be wrong to quit working prior to the cross. They too, should trust Him and keep laboring. The Light of the World is still among them. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/81423418144707 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 13 Aug 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:14:20 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/7312332162081 Jesus responds with a far more intense statement than what was expected. "I and the Father are one." The will of the Father, the will of Christ, the mission of God, the mission of Christ, the plans and decrees of the Father and those of the Son, they are eternally intertwined. That in reality, ontologically they are one. The Old Testament speaks to this same truth: that God is Triune. For the third time the Jews seek to kill Jesus but He asks His opponents a question. They say they follow the Father but He has performed good works that belong to the Father, of which one will they stone Him? Again, we see their oneness. However, they can only see His humanity despite all His works and power. The charge is blasphemy. Jesus will now exegete Psalm 82 in defense of His statements. Some have speculated the "gods" that will die like mere men in Psalm 82 are angels with authority over the nations; others think they are the people of Israel receiving the law at Sinai; but the true interpretation here is that these so-called "gods" were judges of Israel who failed to perform justice for the weak, needy, fatherless, and widows. They will lose the special honor and title of being called "gods". They are not fit to be called so. This fits the context because these Jewish leaders in Jesus's day failed as shepherds, leaders, priests, and judges. Only Jesus is worthy to be Judge. He is the righteous Judge to do what the judges of Psalm 82 and now the Jewish leaders of the first century could not do. He will serve with equity, grace, and goodness. Therefore Psalm 82:8 is fulfilled in Christ. Men couldn't do it right. God has to come down into His creation and He will do it. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/7312332162081 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 30 Jul 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:02:38 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/72423352147862 Some time has gone by since Jesus revealed He is the Good Shepherd and it is now winter during the Feast of Dedication. While families and synagogues were lighting menorahs to commemorate the rededication of the temple after its glorious recapture from the Seleucids, the Light of the World, Jesus, God in the flesh, walks among His people. It then says the Jews encircled Him hoping for a clearer confession if Jesus thinks He is the Christ. It's not that Jesus has not spoken clearly to who He is; it's that that they refuse to believe it. His mouth, their ears, they both function fine; it's their unbelief. Christ then demonstrates the sovereignty of God over their unbelief, they are not of His sheep. They have no capacity to believe. He reminds us of the characteristics of true and sheep: they hear His voice, He knows them, and they follow Him. Jesus then describes the most glorious benefits of being of His sheep. They have eternal life. They will never perish. They will never be snatched out of His hand. While kingdoms and cities decay, and new ones rise our spiritual existences will only flourish. Perishing was our original conclusion but now, no matter how much it may look like we are close to perishing, Jesus says we never will. Jesus never lets us go. We are in His hands and He has all power. Nothing and one can overcome Him. We are in the safest place we can be, in His hands. And while in His hand we are sent out as arrows; given to others as fragrant flowers; applied to others as balm and medicine; messages and tablets to the world; and as beautiful ornaments that glorify the heavenly Bridegroom. We are preserved in His hands. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/72423352147862 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 23 Jul 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:10:05 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/71723251307078 All that Jesus was alluding to in our passage last week He now declares plainly. He will identify the Shepherd He was describing. He is not just the ultimate example of the Hebrew shepherd on the plains and mountainsides of Israel. He is the cosmological I AM who has come to shepherd His people. And for the first time in history, to save the flock from predators and death He himself must die so they survive. A hired hand is only concerned with himself and at the first sight of danger, the time when he is needed most, he abandons what he considers not his responsibility. A true shepherd is like David who ran towards the lion and bear, slayed them and pried open its jaw to remove the lamb from its mouth. There is a mutual knowledge and intimacy between the Good Shepherd and His sheep. And that is bound in the triune relationship between the Father and the Son. It's as if Jesus is demonstrating to us, as He in no way neglects the Father, He will in no way neglect us. Christ has come to His sheep among the Jews and He will remove them from the flocks of the false shepherds. But this is also the point to which all the prophecies of the Gentiles' salvation will be fulfilled. He has other sheep, not of this Jewish fold that He will take to the rest of the sheep. Making one flock is not even just about putting them together but unifying them in Himself. Christ and Christ alone is our new identity. The Father loves the Son for carrying out their long-planned act of redemption. And in this redemption His resurrection will be as important as His death. His life means we have life. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/71723251307078 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 16 Jul 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:15:32 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/71023429363265 Jesus had just revealed Himself as the Messiah to the healed man and revealed the truth of the Pharisees' blindness. He will now give a "Παροιμία", a figure of speech, in which the Lord will make metaphorical statements with great imagery pointing to a greater truth. In Ezekiel 34, the LORD spoke about the wicked shepherds who did not care for His flock and how He will become a shepherd to them; He will bind them up, heal them, lead them, and love them. And He is sending one like David to watch over the whole flock and gather them. John 10 is Jesus's declaration of that prophecy fulfilled in Him. The thief and robber comes in some other way to steal and kill the sheep. These are the Pharisees who are shepherding the people to death and causing God's people to stumble. But the true Shepherd comes the prescribed and ordained way by God: through the door. Jesus alludes to this Shepherd being Him. He finds no access issues to His sheep. He will lead them out of this sheepfold, leave those that are not His, gather His other sheep (gentiles) from another fold and will make one new sheepfold of which He is the Good Shepherd. The Pharisees cast out God's sheep like the healed blind man but Jesus puts His sheep forth from the pen and goes ahead of them for protection, guidance, and peace. He will lose none that the Father has given Him and cast out none from His presence. All who know Christ's voice will flee from anyone trying to shepherd them away from Him. Jesus then gives a divine statement about His identity. Ego Eimi. I AM the Door. He is the sole means by which a sheep may find salvation and safety and abundant life. There is only one source of truth. One source of life. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/71023429363265 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 09 Jul 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:09:23 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/7323323364116 After the healing of the blind man, his neighbors brought him to the religious leaders in their district so they could speak a word on this incredible miracle. John tells us that Jesus healed the man on the Sabbath thereby breaking the man-made rules of Jewish leaders' Mishnah. All they can see is transgression eclipsing this marvelous wonder from God. The now-seeing man begins to have infant faith in Jesus, understanding He was sent from God. The Pharisees dismiss this and want the man's parents to confirm whether he was blind from birth or not. John pulls us out of the narrative and explains that if anyone confessed Jesus as the Messiah they would be excommunicated. There is already a high cost to follow Christ and the man's parents weren't willing to pay it. The man picks up on the leaders' lack of impartiality and sees an unwillingness to accept the truth. They pit Jesus against Moses, and followers of Christ against followers of Moses, but as Jesus said: Moses wrote about Him. This is a false equivocation. The man, with remarkable logic, establishes that Jesus must be from God and has not sinned otherwise He could not do anything. The Jewish leaders then reject the man and excommunicate him. Jesus then seeks out the man and reveals Himself to him. The man believes on Jesus as the Son of Man and worships Him, recognizing at least in some sense this is the Redeemer from heaven. And Jesus ends this chapter with traits of the seeing and the blind. The spiritually blind don't hold to the truth, they adhere to works-based salvation, they worship a man (Moses), fear other men, oppose those who see the truth, and remain in the sin of unbelief. The seeing are opposite. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/7323323364116 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 02 Jul 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:09:18 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/62623453365261 Homiletical Idea: After leaving the temple when the Jews tried to stone Jesus for claiming divine identity, He saw a man blind from birth. Profoundly, the Creator God, who is in the flesh, sees the one who is ailing. He sees those in need. Jesus's disciples ask him a theological question about the relationship between personal sin and infirmities. Jesus does not disregard sin and fallenness incurring sickness but clarifies personal and individual sin does not always result in sickness. Despite the fall being the cause of this man's predicament, it will be the sovereign purpose of God to display His works through him. Specifically, it will be the shining of the Light of the world that will move through this man and impact many others. And what this means for us is that even our ailments, diseases, and conditions are not realities of futility but opportunities for God's glory, our maturity, testimonies to others of God's sufficient grace, and character-building humility. Jesus then establishes that the Light must work the works of God while it is still day. Night is coming in which He will be betrayed, slain, and although He will resurrect, He will depart back to heaven. However, the Holy Spirit will take up His stead here on earth and the work will continue. We must keep shining the Light of Christ until the end. At this point, Jesus then makes a clay pack with dirt and His saliva, showing He is able to cleanse and heal. The man washed in the Pool of Siloam and gained his sight. This is a foreshadow of the spiritual sight he will gain later in John 9. The man has become a witness of the power of Jesus and showcases Christ's work to all his neighbors who were astonished. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/62623453365261 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 25 Jun 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:15:28 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/61923320311765 Homiletical Idea: This long discourse and confrontation of Jesus and the Jews is coming to a point in chapter 8. He told them they will die in their sins, that they are slaves to sin, that their father is the devil, that they are not of Abraham and worse yet, they are not of God. They keep rebuking Jesus with mocking questions and slanderous statements but He continues to give the truth. Jesus remains firm in His mission to bring salvation to this world and tells them if they keep His word, they will never see death. That is, no experience of death will be had but an experience of eternal life. But in typical fashion, the Jews don't see the spiritual behind the physical and question if Jesus is greater than Abraham and the prophets. The irony is thick as Jesus is indeed far greater than these two but He won't glorify Himself; He came in humility to die for people like these Jews. He does respond that they do not know God and He does. When truth is on the line, Jesus never falters in upholding it. Regarding Abraham, he looked ahead to a Redeemer who would come, the true Seed, in whom all the nations would be blessed. Abraham knew the climax of salvation history was not at all in his day but had faith One was coming to inaugurate this and he rejoiced knowing this. The Jews still see the physical, and knowing Abraham was born over 2,000 years prior, they mock Jesus for such a statement. And that's when Jesus will not only say He was before Abraham but He's the one who made Abraham: He is the I AM. They drew up stones to kill Him knowing the claim He just made is something only God ought to say. And that is the point: He is God. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/61923320311765 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 18 Jun 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:05:37 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/6122335336196 Jesus will spend this dialogue alluding to the Jews' father and then He will outright declare the truth of their paternity. They are in some respect, the seed of Abraham and yet they are not his children. Faith descent, spiritual descent is more real and valid to Jesus than physical descent. He says His word has no movement, no effect on them. Jesus puts them on an opposing side from Himself: they do the deeds of their father while He does the deeds of His Father. They claim their father is Abraham. But Abraham was sensitive to the words of God. He had a heart for God. They don't. Their actions betray the heritage they claim they possess as they seek to kill the One Abraham looked forward to. Jesus denies this paternity for them and therefore makes them out to be like spiritual bastards. They respond they are not illegitimate children and go a step further by saying God is their Father. But their deeds don't correspond with the righteousness of the heavenly Father; they correspond with another. Jesus confirms this as He says if God were their Father, they would love the Son. To hate and reject the Son is to hate and reject the Father. And so the paternity test comes in: they are of their father the devil. The slanderer, the accuser, the liar, the adversary, the Satan, the serpent, the evil one. This is a damning judgment against them. Jesus is life, truth, and divine while the devil is murder, death, lies, falsehood, fallen, and finite. In the garden, our first parents chose to make the devil their father and forsook the LORD our Father which affected us all. It's not that only the sinful Jews had the devil as their father, it's that all of us need God's adoption. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/6122335336196 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 11 Jun 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:04:41 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/652332361892 While in Jerusalem Jesus spoke to crowds of people and specifically in this section, He addresses some of those who previously believed in Him. Our Lord gives the test for true discipleship: if one continues in His Word. Jesus is not concerned about convert numbers but quality of converts. He wants true believers who abide and persevere in His word until the very end. The results of believing and remaining in His word are knowing the truth and being set free. One will be privy to the words of God which come forth from the God of truth and therefore are true. And this is a freedom to something and a freedom from something. A freedom to eternal life and a freedom from the slavery of sin. The problem is this is a slavery in which the people enslaved are deluded enough to think they are their own masters. But Jesus confirms that everyone, without exception, who sins is a slave to it; whether they have a higher or lower proclivity to it— it doesn't matter. The Jews especially have forgotten their merciful Master and gone after other gods. The son of the bond-woman doesn't get the inheritance but the son of the free woman does. Jesus is the seed of the free woman and He offers to purchase us with His blood and bring us into the home with Him forever. And if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. That word 'indeed' in the Greek is 'ontos', which means something pertaining to reality that is actually true, certain, and real. If the Son makes you free, you will be not figuratively free. You will not be sort of free. You will not be possibly free. If the Son sets you free you are actually, truly, really, certainly free. There is a certainty to it. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/652332361892 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 04 Jun 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:10:29 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/52223331304268 As the Lord Jesus was teaching in the temple, He warned the people like the Prophet Ezekiel. If they don't turn from their ways they will die in their sin. And if that happens, they will not go to where Jesus dwells; that is, the heavenly realm. The Jews slandered Jesus and purported He was speaking of suicide. Jesus, however, doesn't address their insults and gives not only a warning but a solution. If they do not believe He is the I AM, equal with the Father, sent from God, the Messiah, they will die in their sins. They question His right to say such a thing but He points to who He has been and what He has said from the beginning of eternity and His ministry. Everything Jesus says will either later vindicate a person or condemn them. It just depends if they are a blood-bought believer or not. Nevertheless, what He speaks is from God and of God. Rejecting Him is rejecting the Father. But they were unaware He was speaking of the Father since they are blinded by the flesh. The Son, however, will be revealed at the cross. Where He is humiliated is also where He is exalted. And the Son does not and cannot act alone from the Father and Holy Spirit. The mission of Jesus is facilitated by the providential will of the Father. And He has never been alone. Just as the three Holy Persons have been in blessed communion from eternity, even now the Father has never left Jesus. And Jesus will always do what is pleasing to the Father. This is a unity in love, actions, roles, and the one will between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And because Jesus did what was well-pleasing to God, we can now also do what is pleasing to God. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/52223331304268 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 21 May 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:16:23 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/515231122573622 https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/515231122573622 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 14 May 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:14:59 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/582333113436 At the height of the Feast of Tabernacles during a water-drawing ceremony in which the people of God are asking the Creator for blessing, deliverance, and washing, Jesus cries out in front of all the crowds and Jewish leaders of all types and says "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink and those who believe in Me will have rivers of living water flowing from inside him." He speaks as if He is the direct answer to their prayer. He is the solution. John demonstrates these living waters are the Holy Spirit that Jesus gives the believer after His glorification. Among the crowds of people, a divide was becoming apparent in which some thought that Jesus was possibly the Prophet or the Messiah not realizing that Jesus will indeed fulfill both. They establish the Christ must be a descendant of David and born in Bethlehem; which Jesus meets both requirements. The temple police that the chief priests sent to pursue Jesus came back and reported their failure to apprehend Him. Their only answer was that no one has ever spoken like this Man before. It was His very words that halted their actions. The Pharisees blame the officers and then the crowd of people saying they are ignorant of the Law and are accursed. Which, ironically, is a correct assessment of themselves. Finally, Nicodemus, the one who came to Jesus in the night for answers on salvation, reminded his colleagues of the law on witness and investigation prior to arrests. In their scorn they mock Nicodemus and lump him in with those of Galilee. They say no prophet arises out of Galilee and they forget Isaiah 9, that the Messiah, the Light who enters the darkness will come forth first from Galilee. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/582333113436 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 07 May 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:07:48 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/512335534750 https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/512335534750 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 30 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:10:23 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/42423315575442 Jesus has not been back to Judea for about a year, doing all His works and ministry up in the Galilee region. The Jews had been seeking to kill Him and it was not yet His hour to go to the cross. It was now the time of the Feast of Booths which during harvest time was the most popular celebrations of all the feasts; many people were flocking to Jerusalem. Jesus' half-brothers, the sons of Joseph and Mary, come to Him after He had lost many of disciples and challenge Him in a mocking command to go to Judea to win more disciples and take Jerusalem over if He is really the Prophet or Messiah. They presume to know the motive for Jesus' ministry and appearance: for popularity and self-grandiose. They have reduced the person and work of Christ down to attention-seeking. John tells us that His brothers were not believing in Him. And then Jesus states the main point of this text. He is under the divine prerogative and timing of God and they are not. Everything He does now must be in step to go to the cross. They can go to the feast now but Jesus will only move when the Father says to move. Jesus reveals why they are not believing, they are of the world; and He testifies of the world. Being around Him is a reminder of their sin. If the world doesn't hate you than it loves you. And if the world loves you what does that say about you? Jesus tells them to go up to the feast but He will not go to "this" feast yet. At the right God-ordained time, Jesus departed for the feast. His brothers were at the Feast of Tabernacles where they would celebrate the coming hope of God on earth but Jesus is literally the Feast of Tabernacles. He tabernacled among us but the people would choose huts. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/42423315575442 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 23 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 0:57:10 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/4172358481737 After finishing His discourse on His flesh and blood, Jesus' disciples start to doubt Him and question His "harsh" words. They begin to grumble just like the other Jews did. They still don't understand that it's not about the flesh but about the Spirit and what will happen as a result of His imminent sacrifice. Jesus supernaturally knows that some of the disciples don't believe in Him. False disciples want to follow Jesus because He's the newest and most popular Rabbi, they want to follow Him to use Him as a platform for their own ideas and doctrine, they want to follow Him because of their greed and hope they can financially gain from their new vantage point, and false disciples follow Him because they are men-pleasers and want status. But He understands why many of the disciples don't believe, they were never given to Him by the Father. And so, after thousands and thousands of people followed Him, the majority of them left Him and never walked with Him again. They were false disciples. And they don't like the word of God. They consider His words harsh and when they can't accept God as He is, or "as they want Him to be", they apostatize. But true disciples remain to the end and the twelve apostles were still there. He challenges them to see if they want to go away. Peter speaks for the men and demonstrates Jesus is the only way and they know it, He has the words of eternal life and no where else can they find them, and they believe and know He is the Holy One of God: the LORD. Jesus knows that only the Father could have revealed that to them and so He speaks of the coming betrayer: Judas Iscariot. Jesus knows what it's like to have people feign loyalty to Him. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/4172358481737 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 16 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:05:21 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/4102351004299 Jesus declares for the second and third time that He is the I AM from heaven. He is the lasting and eternal bread that satisfies forever compared to the manna that rotted in the wilderness and did not keep the Israelites from death. Jesus will then give very vivid metaphorical imagery and change "believe" and "come to Him" with "eat my flesh and drink my blood." Although one may see the Lord's Supper in this, primarily its function is in establishing the need for these people to take Him in, consume Him, abide in Him and He is us. Consumption of the old bread, the old ways will lead to death but consumption the true Bread and true drink will lead to life everlasting. The Jews argue together and come to Jesus with a mocking rebuke of a question, "how can this man give us His flesh to eat?" But He's not simply a man. Every time "Son of Man" has been mentioned by Jesus in John's Gospel it has been associated with something heavenly, not earthly. Something pointing to who He is, where He's truly from, and what He came to do. They are not seeing beyond His figurative speech and seeing the manna reference. Flesh is sarx. John 1 said He took on sarx. The Heavenly has flesh now and He calls it a temple that needs to be destroyed in chapter two, now it is bread, and later it will be a vine, a gate, a sacrifice. And that's also what this points to. We would be mistaken if we thought the body and blood were only spiritual and not alluding to something bigger. This is also a prophetic foreshadow of the cross. His flesh and blood are about to be the most priceless things because upon them the wrath of God will be spent and through them He will give eternal life. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/4102351004299 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 09 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:09:05 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/32723354284940 After finishing Jesus's glorious Bread of Life and I AM statements the Jews listening started to grumble about Him. They reject His claims of being from heaven. Like their fathers before them in the wilderness, so have they also spurned the provision of God. They only see the earthly parentage of Jesus but not the virgin birth or the eternal sonship He has with the Father. The irony is that they actually have no clue who He is. He commands them to stop grumbling. Moses told the people the Lord has heard your grumbling and rebuked them. This time the Lord has heard their grumbling and rebuked them Himself. Jesus then demonstrates that the people following and coming to Him are not actually truly doing so. For "no one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him." Not a single person can come to Jesus apart from the giving and drawing of the Father. This word "draw" in the Greek demonstrates a pulling of an object, a dragging, that is not done of itself. One must drag or draw other than what is being propelled. The Bible makes it clear though that the Triune God is the both the Author and Perfector or Completer of our faith. He who began or started a good work in you will [telos] complete or perfect it until the day Jesus returns. And Jesus reports that those drawn by the Father, who come to Jesus, "hear" and are "taught" by God. This prophecy from Isaiah in verse 45 is being fulfilled real time as Messianic fulfillment in Jesus coming and the Spirit being poured out. And then our Lord makes claim that He is authorized to teach from the Father because He is from God and has alone seen the Father. He will explain the Father as promised in 1:18. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/32723354284940 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 26 Mar 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:10:27 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/32023410567944 After feeding the five thousand and crossing the Sea of Galilee on foot through a storm Jesus ends up in Capernaum. The crowds from the bread and fish feast seek Him out and after finding Him they get challenged. The Galileans have sunk to a new low; not regarding the Sign-Giver nor even His signs, they simply want more bread. They want a Messiah of their own design not how He has revealed Himself. Jesus tells them to seek after the bread that never perishes… eternal life from the Son of Man. They want Him to tell them how to work this out but He demonstrates that's just it, it will be His work alone and they must simply believe in Him by faith. The multiplication of bread across the sea wasn't enough, they want to see a sign greater than Moses with the manna in the wilderness to prove Himself. The Lord Jesus rebukes them as they have idolized Moses far too long, that bread was from God. And He is the I AM, the better and final Bread from God. He is the Bread of Life. What Christ offers will quench one's thirst and satisfy one's hunger forever. The people's unbelief is no obstacle to Him and His mission however. He will indeed keep all who come to Him who are given Him by the Father. From start to finish the sovereign election and grace of God will be what saves anyone. He will preserve those given to Him and raise them up on the final day. Not a soul will be able to say "if only God could have saved more" on the last day. All is the word. All given, come, and are kept by Jesus. This is where our assurance of salvation is anchored: the I AM, the Bread of Life. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/32023410567944 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 19 Mar 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:03:19 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/3132344294963 After the feeding of the five thousand, the crowds went away, the disciples headed for their boat to cross the Sea of Galilee and Jesus shows us what is important after a substantial out-pouring of service: prayer with God. The text draws a link between being alone without Jesus and being in darkness. Without Jesus there is darkness, fear, and chaos. In this particular account, the darkness and chaos come from a violent wind storm that stirred up the waters of the Sea of Galilee. In ancient times and even now, the sea is a place of violence and disorder, where those in it are thrashed around at the will of the waters. However, in one of the most divine miracles of Jesus, He comes treading upon the surging waters with power. Next to Him, the waters look tame while He looks fierce. The disciples are afraid as they see Him walking towards the boat in the middle of the sea. The Creator controls what seems to be uncontrollable creation. Unlike Moses, He can not only part the seas but walk upon them. The statement in verse 20 should remind them of the One True God, the LORD. Jesus tells the disciples to not be afraid. He commands it. The LORD says this phrase numerous times in the Old Testament. The point is, since Jesus can overpower what is considered impervious and since He loves the disciples, they should not fear. And then Jesus backs that up by saying the name of God "ἐγώ εἰμι." "I AM." We are reminded of the Exodus in John 6 because of the manna from heaven and the sacrifice of the Passover Lamb but now we are to think of the parting of the Red Sea and the burning bush passage in which the LORD reveals His name. This confident Water-Walker is the divine Son of God. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/3132344294963 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 12 Mar 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 0:56:21 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/22723512576792 A large crowd has begun to follow Jesus past the Sea of Galilee but they were looking for signs. The Passover sets the stage for the rest of chapter six to demonstrate how Christ is both the bread eaten and the Lamb sacrificed for sin. Jesus sees the people coming and has compassion on them. He knows they are hungry and there is no food. The apostles Philip and Andrew can't see beyond the natural realm; they have yet to understand what all this Messiah can do and came to do. They see an obstacle not the Omnipotent One. A young boy had five barley loaves and two fish which Jesus acquired then offered a blessing to God and like a good host and providing God, He distributes the food to the people. He delegated the call to sit down and make ready for a meal to the disciples but this He does Himself. With great messianic fulfillment, Jesus miraculously provides an abundance of food for 10,000 to 20,000 people with even much left over. This account is reminiscent of Elisha doing the same for the people during a famine. Jesus is greater than the prophet Elisha. The people took the sign and interpreted it the way they wanted and not how Jesus meant it. The sign was about Jesus not a sign for their own desires. And those desires are to take Jesus by force and make Him their king. Jesus knew siege warfare would not ultimately defeat evil. What defeats evil is sacrifice. The King of kings would have to offer Himself for His people. Then His heavenly coronation would take place in heaven. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/22723512576792 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 26 Feb 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:11:50 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/22023410214486 After Jesus' authoritative claims of His deity, rights to Judge, ability to raise the spiritually and physically dead, and the powerful ability to call all people of all time of every nation to rise at the final resurrection, He brings four witnesses to the stand to authenticate His words. He doesn't need to as the self-attesting Logos, Son of God but He graciously demonstrates who He is and how other witnesses affirm Him. The witness of john the Baptist, the person and works of Himself, the Father, and the Scriptures. The Jewish leaders act like the believe John, the Father, and the Scriptures, in fact they say they affirm all that Moses wrote; but if they truly believed they would have believed Jesus. Our duty then, is to believe the witness testimony, believe in Christ, and become a witness of the Gospel to the world. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/22023410214486 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 19 Feb 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:05:04 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/2132342552141 https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/2132342552141 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 12 Feb 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:06:23 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/262355255073 As a result of healing the lame man on the Sabbath Jesus is now being persecuting by the Jewish leaders. As if making His defense, Jesus answers them and says "My Father is working and I am working", thereby equating His work with the Father's. The Jews believed this was a new level of blasphemy: Jesus making Himself equal with God. While the Jews think here that they are defending God they are actually offending Him. Since the Father can do all things and the Son can do all things the Father can do, Jesus' actions are infinitely limitless. Verse 20 explains how the Son can do whatever the Father does. It is because the Father loves the Son and shows Him all things that He does. And for that reason, Jesus can not only heal but can only raise people from the dead and give them life. He can give generative life, regenerative life, and resurrection life. The Bible overwhelmingly speaks to the LORD being the one divine Judge over all things. Besides John 1:1, this has to be one of the most substantial claims of divinity by Jesus. He will judge the living and the dead. A judge is called "your Honor." That title will be Christ's. You see, you honor the Son to Honor the Father. Therefore, if your dishonor the Son, you dishonor the Father. The Jews were right about Jesus making Himself equal with God; He states it powerfully, plainly, and without question as to what He means. And the one who believes all of this will hear the Word of the Son and believe the Father. And nothing short of eternal life will be theirs. This is already and not yet. The believer doesn't have to wait only until the last day but gets to pass out from death into life right now. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/262355255073 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 05 Feb 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:01:18 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/13023435477712 Jesus arrives in Jerusalem at the pool of Bethesda. It was made up of two pools with five colonnades around it. Within this pool were sick people of all types: blind, lame, cripped, and paralyzed people. The Jews, including the man who was sick for 38 years, believed the pool to have healing powers. Jesus goes to this man, aside from all the others, and asks him if he wishes to become well. Three times ginomai/egeneto are used in this passage which points back to the Prologue in which the eternal Word-made-flesh has come to re-create, to heal, and bring salvation. However, this man despite being healed by Jesus and miraculously walking, will still be spiritually paralyzed. Jesus commands him to get up, pick up his pallet, and walk. But the Jewish authorities see this man carrying his pallet which is against the 39 categories of Sabbath prohibitions according to the traditions of the elders. The Jewish leaders are also spiritually paralyzed as they easily overlook a clear supernatural occurrence from God in this man's ability to walk again in one second after 38 years of infirmity. The man blames Jesus for carrying the pallet so the officials would leave him be. Jesus then tells the healed man to sin no more, to leave this spiritual paralysis and unbelief that so ensnares the Jews, lest something worse happen to him. The fact is, temporal healing does one no good if they don't receive eternal healing as well. What this account will eventually unfold into is the fact that these people disregard Jesus as the Messiah, disregard the will of the Father in the works of Christ, and they will affirm their fidelity to superstitious sacred pools and heartless rule-keeping. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/13023435477712 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 29 Jan 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:11:04 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/12323341463392 John brings up a proverbial saying of Christ that was spoken in the Synoptic Gospels that a prophet is not without honor except in his hometown. Now what John is trying to accomplish is developing a contrast between Jesus' own Jewish people of Galilee and Judea opposed to the people of Samaria. The Jews saw Him as a signs and wonders miracle worker but didn't fully believe in Him. The Samaritans believed Jesus based off His word, not a sign, and confessed that He is Savior of the world. The difference is striking. And while He was back in the region a royal official of Herod Antipas heard of Jesus' miracles and came to Cana to ask Him to heal his son. We see desperation in the efforts and words of this man. He would do anything it took to save his son. He didn't realize Jesus could even grant eternal life to avoid the clutches of death altogether. He see only the temporal need. At the imploring to save his son, Jesus gives a rebuke not just meant for this royal official but for the Galileans too: they don't truly believe in Him because they believe on the basis of supernatural signs. Jesus can command healing even miles away; He is not bound by the creation He made. Jesus makes an imperative for the father to "go" and travel home. Here is the start of the man's change. It says he believed the word of Jesus. That's essential. While the father was traveling back, his slave came to him saying his son was well. Wanting to confirm in his heart that it was indeed Jesus as he is believing the slave gave the exact hour of the son getting well as when Jesus declared it. This royal official, this father, this man became a follower of Christ and told his whole family to believe too. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/12323341463392 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 22 Jan 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:10:22 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/11623415455664 Listening to the Word [Jesus] is God's will but so also is acting after hearing. She proclaims to the people of the city that He has supernaturally told her about her deepest secrets and hurts; that the Messiah is by the well. Jesus reveals to the disciples, in the meantime, that although His body is weary for water and food His true food is to do the will of the Father. In that, Christ finds His sustenance. And that's true for us. Man shall not live by bread alone but by every Word of God. And that Word is His will. This moment is an example to all followers of Christ. We will find our true purpose, pleasure, and sustenance in doing the will of God. Forsaking natural and carnal impulses for the desires of God is what's characteristic of the believer. Jesus wants them to wake up and look around. The harvest of eternal life is upon them; the Messianic age of sowing and reaping is here and now… it's time for them to eat their true food and get to work. The people of Samaria come out and ask Jesus to stay with them. Now upon His Word they believe He is the Savior of the world. And that's the point John is making in sharing this account: Jesus is not just a Savior of Jews, He is the Savior from the Jews, who saves Jews, Samaritans and even those to the ends of the earth. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/11623415455664 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 15 Jan 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:07:24 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/121922354284633 Now that the Samaritan woman recognizes this weary traveler as some kind of spiritual authority, a prophet, she is reminded of the most substantial point of contention between Jews and Samaritans. On Mount Gerizim is where the blessings were shouted to the covenant community and the first altar of God that Abraham built and that is where the Samaritans built their temple. But because they rejected God's Word after Deuteronomy, they don't know God spoke and requested His house be built by Solomon in Jerusalem. But Jesus tells her that in no great amount of time all of that won't matter. God won't be worshipped only on mountains or in buildings made by hands any more. Jesus tells her that the Samaritans worship what they do not know and Jews worship what they know but both of them don't worship "who" yet. The "who" is about to reveal Himself. The Jews have carried the oracles of God to the people of the entire world but a day is coming where salvation will go to every nation of the earth. And when it does true worshipers won't make pilgrimage to Jerusalem or Mount Gerizim, they will worship God in spirit and truth. Jesus is the true temple and only through Him can this worship be offered to God. Worship is directed towards the Father, done in the Spirit, and the One, Jesus, who is called the Truth. Men are flesh and visible. God is spirit and invisible. The point is we need Jesus to mediate our true worship and to make us into true worshipers. She doesn't need to wait anymore, the "I AM" Messiah is here and ironically, He is indeed explaining all things to her. She, like all of us, must observe God's Word; what is written and Who has come as the Logos. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/121922354284633 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 18 Dec 2022 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:06:14 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/121222415504543 Jesus leaves the Judean wilderness from where He was gaining followers and baptizing, intending to go north to the region of Galilee. It is divine compulsion that leads Him to tarry in Samaria on the way. Samaritans were considered interbred, syncretistic, and unclean people hated by the Jews. Nevertheless, Jesus was resting at Jacob's well when a lone Samaritan woman comes to draw water in the heat of the day. Jesus breaks all social norms and rabbinical tradition and asks this "unclean" woman for a drink of water. She is surprised as normally Jews don't speak to Samaritans or if they do it is not pleasant. Jesus essentially says if she knew the long-prophesied promise of the Messiah and that He is sitting before her, she would ask for living water. The Old Testament is abundant with pledges of springs of water coming from God. Christ is giving a foreshadow of breaking down the barrier wall between Jews, Samaritans, and Gentiles. Salvation is for all types of men and women. She asks how can He give this water; is He better than Jacob their father? And that's the point the apostle John has been making is that Jesus is in fact, better. And yet, the Jews aren't necessarily better than the Samaritans or the other way around. He brings light to her husband situation and sinful relationship. She, like many who are saved by Christ, has sinned against others and others have sinned against her. She recognizes Jesus is more than just a weary traveler but a spiritual authority: a prophet. The well they have drunk from doesn't fully quench thirst. Jesus will produce a well in us connected to the heavenly source of the Trinitarian God that springs up to eternal life. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/121222415504543 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 11 Dec 2022 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:08:20 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/11212245815615 The time has come for John the Baptist's ministry to be absorbed by the One whom he came to testify of. After a discussion with a Jew concerning purification, John's disciples somehow learned about all the people coming to Jesus who was baptizing at the same time as John. At learning this, his disciples inform him of the rise in Jesus' prominence. It was at this moment that John knew his function that God gave him was diminishing. He would forever until his death and even after it, point people to Jesus Christ but the forerunner has almost finished the race. John tells his disciples that none of those people being given to Jesus as followers could have come to Him apart from the sovereign hand of God in heaven. He reiterates that he came to only testify of the Christ. He is the "I am not" while Jesus is the "I AM." John's disciples ought to be following the others who are going to Jesus at this point. John then gives a parable showing he was never the Bridegroom but the best man. His role has always been to assist the holy Bridegroom while also pointing the Bride (the Church) to her divine Husband. And so at the hearing of Jesus' status elevation, John smiles, he feels an immense sense of joy. His joy is complete because of two things: one, he obeyed God's calling on his life to be the forerunner and he completed the task; and two, he also gets to be a recipient of the forgiveness that the Lamb of God offers. He knows now that Jesus must continue to increase and he must decrease. Jesus is the better Baptist and better witness of God and John knows it gladly. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/11212245815615 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 20 Nov 2022 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:08:46 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/111422514434485 Jesus just finished His discourse with Nicodemus in verse fifteen and now the apostle John gives his own explanatory reflection. The basis on which the Son of Man will be lifted up on the cross like the bronze serpent is God's love. And that love is shocking because it is for the most crude and fallen place: the world. God's love is not some theory, lofty attribute, or floating emotion in heaven, it is tangible; it is seen in its fullest in the giving of the Monogenes Son of God, the unique and only Son. The love in the cross will occur by the greatest hate the world has seen. And all that believe in the Son will experience love in not facing destruction and also in the glorious presence of God in eternal life. Our lives were going to be given for all eternity to pay our debt and now Christ is given as an offering once for all who believe so they inherit this promised life. We find the true mission of Christ in His incarnation and humiliation is to save the world from the condemnation it is already in. And there is no third option: those who believe in Him are not condemned while those who don't believe are condemned already. The verdict is in, according the apostle John… those of darkness are faced with a contrast of the Light and they chose their darkness over Him. The ones of this darkness fear exposure of sin, run from conviction, and evade all forms of correction. While the ones who practice truth move toward the Light not away from it. One does their own dark deeds. The other goes to the Light to show his deeds were accomplished in God. The question is: which will we be? https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/111422514434485 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 13 Nov 2022 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:08:09 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/1172242171671 Jesus continues his dialogue with Nicodemus but at this point Nicodemus has been silenced. Jesus is the exegesis of God and He speaks of what He knows and testifies of what He has seen. But despite seeing and hearing of the wonders of God, Nicodemus and those who he represents have not received it. Jesus tells him, if I tell you of things like being born of water and spirit, which is regeneration, that happens here on earth, how would you believe if I tell you of the coming eternal glories? Jesus quotes from Deuteronomy showing that He is the one who has come down from heaven. He alone has the authority to speak and testify of these things. It's Him, Nicodemus needs to believe on! Jesus then gives a foretelling of His future humiliation. The grumbling, disbelieving, and cursed Israelites in the wilderness were under judgment of God by venomous serpent attack. But God had Moses put a bronze serpent on a pole and those who looked to God's remedy would be saved and given new life. The fact is, Nicodemus, the Jews, all of us are in a wilderness of sin; we are cursed and under God's judgment. Jesus says one must look to Him, when He is lifted up on the wooden pole (the cross), believe on Him, and you will have this new born-again life He is speaking of. And this new life will bring with it, eternal life. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/1172242171671 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 06 Nov 2022 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:19:29 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/10242224543608 A Pharisee and ruler of the Jews named Nicodemus approached Jesus by night. He acknowledges that Jesus is a Rabbi and a teacher from God as no one has done the signs Jesus has done during His time in Jerusalem. What is an acknowledgement or formal nicety will later become a profession of faith. Likely knowing Nicodemus' thoughts, Jesus answers him with His authoritatively revelatory formula, "truly, truly". Whatever the Jews have thought was necessary to see and enter the kingdom of God falls utterly short. One must be born again. This word "again', (ἄνωθεν) has a duel meaning: "again" and "from above." What is clear is this is a new birth that no man can initiate. Jesus then restates verse 3 in verse 5 by parallel: to be "born again" is to be "born of water and spirit." This should draw the reader's mind back to all the passages about the Spirit being "poured out" in the New Covenant; that we will be sprinkled with clean water and given a new heart. Dry bones have received living water and come alive. One must be regenerated and cleansed by the Holy Spirit through Christ's atonement and the Father's election to enter the kingdom of God. The natural, the flesh will only ever produce that of its kind. To become born again, to become a child of God, to enter to the kingdom of God the Spirit must transform a person. The Spirit begets that of the spirit. Just as the wind does whatever whenever, the workings of the Spirit are mysterious. Something supernatural has occurred to the natural. And so Jesus questions Nicodemus on his high credentialed teacher status. What the read finds is Jesus is the true Teacher, the true Ruler of the Jews, and not just Jews but all. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/10242224543608 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 23 Oct 2022 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:06:27 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/101722330173538 Jesus heads up to Jerusalem for Passover as it was customary for Him to go there every year since childhood. But this time is different. Upon entering the Temple court, He finds it buzzing with people talking, animals bellowing, coins ringing, and full-on commerce taking place. This is the first of two temple cleansings in His ministry that fulfills the duty of a priest cleansing a house according to Leviticus 14. The people would come during this time of year and in ease buy an animal to sacrifice to God while the merchants made money in the process. You can't buy and sell the worship of God. Jesus won't stand for such a desecration to his Father's house. He fashions his own whip of cords to drive out both the animals and people. In righteous indignation He flips tables and pours out coins and fiercely rebukes them; that they've made His Father's house a house of business. He was filled with zeal because this was to be a place of prayer, worship, and authentic devotion to God. Some temple authorities question Jesus and seek a miraculous sign to demonstrate His authority. They want a sign; they act like the judge of God. Jesus, however, tells them of the coming sign: they will destroy this temple and in three day He will raise it up. John the apostle makes it clear to the reader that Jesus is speaking of His body. The ultimate Temple cleansing is coming. The actual Passover Lamb is here among you. God Himself is tabernacling among them but they don't see it. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/101722330173538 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 16 Oct 2022 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:12:50 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/101022330327360 Jesus, His disciples, and His own mother are attending a wedding in the town of Cana north of Nazareth and Mary approaches Him to report they have ran out of wine. Jesus answers in a way to put distance between Himself and the will of others. He now has to be about His Father's work. His mission has begun as Jesus has transitioned in a sense from the son of Mary to the Unique Son of God. His hour, which is the climax of His mission, cannot take place now in its fullest measure but He will show through this miracle something deeper than turning water into wine. Six stone waterpots that were used for purification rites and uncleanness were filled with water. Jesus turns the water into wine pointing to the fact that the True Bridegroom is here and He will have the ultimate wedding feast. The change of the wine and the abundance of it points to the messianic age that is arriving. What was once for purification is now for celebration because Christ will purify people with His own blood. Jesus not only provides the solution for this wedding feast but also the solution for sinners to be purified so as to be invited to the divine wedding feast of the holy Bridegroom. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/101022330327360 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 09 Oct 2022 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:05:37 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/1032241186838 The sermon centers on the transformative power of divine initiation, illustrating how Jesus, as the Lamb of God, calls individuals to follow Him, not through human effort but through divine grace. It emphasizes that true discipleship begins with Jesus' personal invitation—'Come and see'—and is marked by a shift from skepticism to faith, as seen in the journeys of Andrew, Peter, Philip, and Nathanael. The passage highlights the theological significance of Jesus as the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy, the only way to God, and the one who opens heaven, making Him the true ladder between heaven and earth. The preacher underscores the call for believers to be 'true Israelites'—those who seek God in faith, reject doubt, and actively lead others to Christ, reflecting the gospel's essential mission of proclamation. Ultimately, the sermon affirms that following Jesus is not a mere human choice but a divine encounter, culminating in the promise of greater revelations to come, especially in the resurrection, where the full glory of Christ will be revealed. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/1032241186838 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 02 Oct 2022 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:16:32 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/927222027193999 The next day after the delegation from Jerusalem left John the Baptist saw Jesus coming. And he makes the most important and most glorious announcement the world has ever heard. The Coming One has arrived. He is Jesus and He is the Lamb of God. The Lamb to indicate the expiation and removal of sins and 'of God' because that is His nature and where He is from. From the garden sacrifice in Eden to clothe Adam and Eve, to the promise of a lamb in place of Isaac, to the Passover lamb whose blood caused death to pass over the Hebrews, and the spotless lamb sacrificed on the Day of Atonement, while the scapegoat is removed from the people along with their sins, and finally, the warrior Lamb of Jewish literature and the apocalyptic writing of the Revelation; Jesus is all those things. John knew Jesus but did not recognize Him as the Christ until the Holy Spirit descended upon Jesus. And the Spirit remained on Him from that moment forward as prophesied by Isaiah in the Servant passages. John's baptism was to prepare the people to meet the Coming One but also to act as an indicator, for after Jesus' baptism the Holy Spirit came down as a dove and the Father proclaimed His endorsement of the Son. Now the activities of God would forever be characterized as trinitarian in nature. Jesus will baptize by the Holy Spirit. Regular water cannot touch the heart or spirit of man. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, will bring cleansing and renewal by the Holy Spirit. He will give to His people what other lambs could never give: permanent removal of sins. https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/927222027193999 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 25 Sep 2022 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:13:37 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/92722203524446 The Prologue was the first introduction of the Word and now this historical account of John the Baptist is to serve as a second introduction of the Word-made-flesh, Jesus Christ. A delegation of priests and Levites is sent from the Pharisees in Jerusalem to investigate who John is. Since even before his birth, it has been prophesied that John would be the forerunner before the coming Lord. And he begins his mission of witness and testimony well by judicially confessing that he is not the Christ. With messianic fervor and eschatological expectation in the air they ask him if he then is Elijah (as prophesied by Malachi) or the Prophet (as expressed by Moses from the Lord). He denies that he is either lest the spotlight come to him, even though he has come "in the spirit and power of Elijah." Knowing the delegation couldn't go back to Jerusalem without a positive answer of something they ask John what he says about himself. He quotes from Isaiah the prophet, "I am A VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS, 'MAKE STRAIGHT THE WAY OF THE LORD." The humility of John the Baptist is only proceeded by the One who comes after him. He was not looking for any fame as he simply calls himself a "voice." They ask him then where does he get the authority or status to baptize the people if he is not one of those figures. The witness of the Messiah, John, then points to the One who is no longer simply coming but to the One who stands among them whom they know not. John then makes one of the most profoundly humble statements toward himself while exponentially exalting toward the One who comes after him. It was a slave's job to remove the sandals from their master and tend to https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/92722203524446 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 18 Sep 2022 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:04:34 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/927222057193062 For the first time since verse one the Word is addressed; bringing us back to the truths of His eternality and deity at the beginning of the Prologue. The Word-God took on flesh. He didn't simply take the form of a man supernaturally but taking on flesh He has flesh, blood, bones, and a soul. All that means to be human the Word assumed in the incarnation. However, the truths of verse one remain. All at once, the Word is God and He is man; with no mixture or fusion of the two natures. He is the God-Man. To save creation, He became as the creation. He tabernacled among us and answered Moses' prayer to God to show him His glory. And that glory is full of grace and truth, the very same glory the LORD displayed in the Old Testament times (Ex. 33-34). The Word is the μονογενής of the Father. This word shows us He is unique, the one and only Son of the Father, unparalleled in His sonship. John the Baptist demonstrates that eternal and creaturely tension as well. The Word-made-flesh came after him in regard to His humanity but was eternally before Him in His deity. Christ is superior in every respect! The Greek says we have all received grace in place of grace. This demonstrates that although the giving of the Law and establishing a covenant with a people was gracious, in Christ grace and truth are more fully realized. We have gone from God who has given to His people to now God who has come to His people. The hard reality is no one has ever seen the invisible God, the LORD almighty. But the One who has been eternally πρὸς τὸν θεόν (face to face with the Father) has also intimately been in the bosom of the Father and is therefore, in a position to reveal Him. The God-Man mak https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/927222057193062 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 11 Sep 2022 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:08:28 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/92722203943141 The Apostle John wrote about the eternal Word who has no point of origin but is the Creator God. Now, in contrast, he says then came into being a man named John who was sent from God to point people to this Word. As the last of the Old Covenant prophets, John the Baptist points to the one called Light so that all might believe in the Light. Although there are many people and even angels that try to say they are the Light, there is a true Light that has come into the world shining across the it at His appearance. The Light in transcendent, far above all things as superior to all and yet He is immanent, knowable, perceivable, and graspable. God has come into the creation and He has intimate knowledge toward the people of that world. But they did not know Him or welcome Him. And more narrowly, the Light came to His own covenant people but they did not receive Him. But He will build an increasing intimacy with a new people from all over the world He made. If His people reject Him, He will make a new people. If the creation rejects Him, He will make a new creation. He gave this new people the right to come back into being but now as children of God. Children because they are dependent, trusting, and weak. They need their Father and He will be. And these children will be born again. They will not be born of natural means; they will not be born of sexual intimacy; they will not be born by any will or desire of man. These children will be born of God, by God, through God, and for God. Those in the Word called the Light, the one Jesus Christ will have a new genealogy. They will have a heavenly Father and an everlasting inheritance that comes with that adoption. Jesus will make https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/92722203943141 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 04 Sep 2022 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:10:40 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/927222051366782 John 1:1-5 Every other Gospel account begins their addresses with the virgin birth of the God-Man, Jesus Christ. But God has sought to take this prologue a step further. Although the synoptics reveal the deity of Jesus through implicit and explicit means, John doesn't want his readers to miss it. In fact, to this writer, inspired by the Holy Spirit, if the divine nature of Jesus is not articulated first, the rest of the Gospel account might as well be blasphemy. To understand the Gospel According to John one must understand who the Word is, first. Jesus is the fullest and most manifest representation of the "word of the Lord." The Greek word, ἦν, is used multiple times in the Prologue in relation to the Logos. It is translated "was" but it is much richer in Greek showing the being of something that has no point of origin. The Word was not simply there "at the beginning" because He was made there (Gen. 1) but has always been in existence eternally. He has been face to face with God showing He is personal and not a force of some kind. And most importantly, the Word (ἦν) has always been God. We see eternality, personalness, intimacy with the Father, and deity. The Word is in a different category than all things that came into being. The Logos is paired with ἦν while all other things that have come into being are paired with ἐγένετο. The Word cannot be a created 'agent of creation' that God used to bring about matter because He is excluded from "all things" coming into being. In Him is life and light, the very things that brought about creation. And life and light foreshadow the great works of redemption that the Word will accomplish. The Light has invaded earth from heav https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/927222051366782 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 28 Aug 2022 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 0:59:46 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/927222053194058 The Fourth Gospel is unique in many ways compared the others. In John we see the "I Am" statements, Nicodemus' visit, the woman at the well, and the high priestly prayer to name a few distinctives. From very early on, although it contains no formal authorship, the accepted belief of the church was that John the Apostle penned the Fourth Gospel. Irenaeus, disciple of Polycarp, a disciple of John understood it was John, the son of Zebedee, who authored this account. John and his brother James were called "Boanerges" which means "sons of thunder." This title is an accurate depiction of these brothers as they were characterized by passion, zeal, and determination. But in John's early days he often acted rashly rebuking the one removing a demon in Jesus' name, trying to call down fire from heaven to destroy Samaria, having his mother ask Jesus if he and James could sit on the Lord's right and left in His kingdom which caused a rift amongst the apostles. But as we see in the Acts and in his three epistles as well as the Revelation that John had matured and grown in the sanctification of the Holy Spirit. John's life is a testament to the fact that Christ actually works on those whom He saves. John was a Jewish eyewitness to the historical events of Jesus of Nazareth. However, he is not merely an eyewitness but in his gospel account, he demonstrates he is one who seeks to define a high Christology. And he defines a high Christology because although Christ did many things that if written all the books in the world could not contain them, his hope is that all would read it and know that Jesus is the Christ. That's John's purpose. This apostolic writer wants the whole world to k https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/apologiautah/sermons/927222053194058 Religion & Spirituality Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:00:00 +0000 Wade Orsini 1:14:19 no Wade Orsini - The Gospel According to John