1. JOHN 10

2. Lay Down Your Life

3. Lay Down Your Life

4. Lay Down Your Life

5. Lay Down Your Life Jesus Laid Down His Life
Difference between a thief and the shepherd…

6. Lay Down Your Life Jesus Laid Down His Life
Difference between a thief and the shepherd…
John 10:1-18
John 15:12-13
John 19:1-2
John 19:17-18
John 19:28-30

7. Lay Down Your Life How Do You Respond to God’s Love?
Romans 5:6-8 “For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward, us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
2 Corinthians 8:9 “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.”

8. Lay Down Your Life How Do You Respond to God’s Love?
You respond by laying down your life for Him!
WORD STUDY: Look at 3 Greek words to help us know how we are to lay down our lives.
tithemi = to lay down (your life for the Lord)
apotithemi = to lay apart/aside; put away/to death
paristemi = to present or give (your life to God)
All 3 of these refer to what we should do in response to Jesus giving His life for us.

9. Lay Down Your Life How Do You Respond to God’s Love?
1. The Greek Word tithemi
John 10, 15, 19 about Jesus laying down His life for us.
John 19: Joseph took down the body of Jesus and laid Him in his own new tomb.
John 20:1-2 Early Sunday morning Mary Magdeline telling Peter, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him.”
John 20:13 She told the angels, “They’ve taken away my Lord, I don’t know where they have laid Him.”

10. Lay Down Your Life How Do You Respond to God’s Love?
1. The Greek Word tithemi
John 13:37 Jesus told His followers that He would soon be leaving, and they would no longer be able to follow Him. Peter said, “Lord, why can I not follow You right now?

11. Lay Down Your Life How Do You Respond to God’s Love?
1. The Greek Word tithemi
John 13:37 Jesus told His followers that He would soon be leaving, and they would no longer be able to follow Him. Peter said, “Lord, why can I not follow You right now? I will lay down my life for You.”
1 John 3:16 “We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.”
There were many who did… And still many today…

12. Lay Down Your Life How Do You Respond to God’s Love?
1. The Greek Word tithemi
Faith of our fathers living still,
In spite of dungeon, fire, and sword;
O how our hearts beat high with joy
Whene’er we hear that glorious word.
Faith of our fathers, holy faith!
We will be true to Thee till death!

13. Lay Down Your Life How Do You Respond to God’s Love?
1. The Greek Word tithemi
Our fathers, chained in prisons dark,
Were still in heart and conscience free;
How sweet would be their children’s fate,
If they, like them, could die for Thee!
Faith of our fathers, holy faith!
We will be true to Thee till death!

14. Lay Down Your Life How Do You Respond to God’s Love?
1. The Greek Word tithemi
Faith of our fathers! We will love
Both friend and foe in all our strife;
And preach Thee too, as love knows how,
By kindly words and virtuous life.
Faith of our fathers, holy faith!
We will be true to Thee till death!

15. Lay Down Your Life How Do You Respond to God’s Love?
1. The Greek Word tithemi
Yes, you may be called to lay down your life in DYING.
But we are all called to lay down our lives in LIVING!
When you were baptized, what did you promise?
Did you promise to commit ALL your life to Him?
Or just part?
Just a couple
hours a week?

16. Lay Down Your Life How Do You Respond to God’s Love?
2. The Greek Word apotithemi

17. Lay Down Your Life How Do You Respond to God’s Love?
2. The Greek Word apotithemi
This word very well depicts that way in which we are to lay down and die for the Lord.

18. Lay Down Your Life How Do You Respond to God’s Love?
2. The Greek Word apotithemi
This word very well depicts that way in which we are to lay down and die for the Lord.
Romans 13:12 “Let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.”
Ephesians 4:22 “Lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit.”
Ephesians 4:25 “Laying aside falsehood, speak truth each one of you with his neighbor.”

19. Lay Down Your Life How Do You Respond to God’s Love?
2. The Greek Word apotithemi
Colossians 3:8 “Put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth.”
Hebrews 12:1 “Let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us.”
James 1:21 “Therefore, putting aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness...”
1 Peter 2:1 “Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander...”

20. Lay Down Your Life How Do You Respond to God’s Love?
2. The Greek Word apotithemi
This word very well depicts that way in which we are to lay down and die for the Lord.

21. Lay Down Your Life How Do You Respond to God’s Love?
2. The Greek Word apotithemi
This word very well depicts that way in which we are to lay down and die for the Lord.
Lay aside your sins!
Romans 6:3-7
Romans 6:11
Romans 8:13

22. Lay Down Your Life How Do You Respond to God’s Love?
3. The Greek Word paristemi

23. Lay Down Your Life How Do You Respond to God’s Love?
3. The Greek Word paristemi
This word conveys the idea of presenting or giving your life to God and submitting to His will.

24. Lay Down Your Life How Do You Respond to God’s Love?
3. The Greek Word paristemi
This word conveys the idea of presenting or giving your life to God and submitting to His will.
Luke 2:22 Shortly after Jesus was born (in fact 40 days after, as commanded in the Law of Moses), Joseph and Mary brought Him to Jerusalem, to the temple, “to present Him to the Lord.”
Romans 6:13, 16, 19; 12:1 “Present yourselves to God, to obedience, and to righteousness.”

25. Lay Down Your Life How Do You Respond to God’s Love?
3. The Greek Word paristemi
Ephesians 5:27 “That He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.”
Colossians 1:22 “Yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach.”
2 Timothy 2:15 “Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed.”

26. Lay Down Your Life How Do You Respond to God’s Love?
3. The Greek Word paristemi
There is another way we will be presented to God.
2 Corinthians 4:14 “Knowing that He who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and will present us with you.”
If you have that hope of being presented to the Lord for all eternity, then you need to be giving and presenting your life to Him now.

27. Lay Down Your Life Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus
How Do You Respond to God’s Love?
3. The Greek Word paristemi
This word is also translated 13 times as stand (by).
Romans 14:10 “For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.”
If you hope to stand before the throne ready to meet the Lord, you need to be standing up for Him now.
Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus

29. Jesus laid down His life for you.

30. Will you lay down your life for Him?