Sunday's Sermon: Following Jesus

In this, our last look at John's Gospel for a while, we conclude our series by seeing what it means to listen to Jesus voice and follow Him - as all His true disciples (or 'sheep') will do. We learn that the problem with "Christs", those who will save the world, is that they mess around with your life. We far prefer to have Christs who will turn the world rightside up, but who in doing so will leave us alone. Jesus, is not that type of Christ. And those who listen to him must expect to have their lives and agenda and theology rearranged as they follow Him. This was a price too much for the religious leaders to pay. But, as this passage shows, there are glorious promises to hold onto along the way...
Outline slides below, you can listen or download the sermon from here.

I gratefully acknowledge the seed-thought from Ray Ortlund who got me up and thinking along these lines.