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2. Disciple-Making in Darkening Days Pastor Joe Pursch Chinese Grace Bible Church Sunday, October 28, 2012

3. Disciple-Making in Darkening Days Pastor Joe Pursch Chinese Grace Bible Church Sunday, October 28, 2012

4. 10.28.2012 4 John 14:1-6 (ESV) 1 “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.

5. 10.28.2012 5 John 14:1-6 (ESV) 2 In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?

6. 10.28.2012 6 John 14:1-6 (ESV) 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. 4 And you know the way to where I am going.”

7. 10.28.2012 7 John 14:1-6 (ESV) 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

8. 10.28.2012 8 I.We Need To Grow In Our Ability To Know He Is _________ There

9. 10.28.2012 9 I.We Need To Grow In Our Ability To Know He Is _________ A. The _________ We Are In There Crisis

10. 10.28.2012 10 I.We Need To Grow In Our Ability To Know He Is _________ A. The _________ We Are In B. The ____________ He Gives Us There Crisis Challenge

11. 10.28.2012 11 John 14:1 (ESV) 1 “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.

12. 10.28.2012 12 John 13:33-38 (ESV) 33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’

13. 10.28.2012 13 John 13:33-38 (ESV) 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

14. 10.28.2012 14 John 13:33-38 (ESV) 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

15. 10.28.2012 15 John 13:33-38 (ESV) 36 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus answered him, “Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow afterward.”

16. 10.28.2012 16 John 13:33-38 (ESV) 37 Peter said to him, “Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”

17. 10.28.2012 17 John 13:33-38 (ESV) 38 Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, the rooster will not crow till you have denied me three times.

18. 10.28.2012 18 John 16:33 (ESV) 33 I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

19. 10.28.2012 19 John 20:29 (ESV) 29 Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

20. 10.28.2012 20 1 Peter 1:8 (ESV) 8 Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,

21. 10.28.2012 21 II.We Need To Grow In Our Ability To Focus On __________ Heaven

22. 10.28.2012 22 II.We Need To Grow In Our Ability To Focus On __________ A. How He _________ Us Heaven Redirects

23. 10.28.2012 23 II.We Need To Grow In Our Ability To Focus On __________ A. How He _________ Us B. How He ___________ Us Heaven Redirects Reassures

24. 10.28.2012 24 John 14:2-3 (ESV) 2 In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?

25. 10.28.2012 25 John 14:2-3 (ESV) 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.

26. 10.28.2012 26 Hebrews 11:13-16 (ESV) 13 These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

27. 10.28.2012 27 Hebrews 11:13-16 (ESV) 14 For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.

28. 10.28.2012 28 Hebrews 11:13-16 (ESV) 15 If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return.

29. 10.28.2012 29 Hebrews 11:13-16 (ESV) 16 But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.

30. 10.28.2012 30 Hebrews 13:11-14 (ESV) 11 For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp.

31. 10.28.2012 31 Hebrews 13:11-14 (ESV) 12 So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood. 13 Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured.

32. 10.28.2012 32 Hebrews 13:11-14 (ESV) 14 For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.

33. 10.28.2012 33 Revelation 3:12 (ESV) 12 The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.

34. 10.28.2012 34 Revelation 21:1-7 (ESV) 1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.

35. 10.28.2012 35 Revelation 21:1-7 (ESV) 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

36. 10.28.2012 36 Revelation 21:1-7 (ESV) 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

37. 10.28.2012 37 Revelation 21:1-7 (ESV) 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

38. 10.28.2012 38 Revelation 21:1-7 (ESV) 5 And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”

39. 10.28.2012 39 Revelation 21:1-7 (ESV) 6 And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment.

40. 10.28.2012 40 Revelation 21:1-7 (ESV) 7 The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

41. 10.28.2012 41 Revelation 21:9-27 (ESV) 9 Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues and spoke to me, saying, “Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.”

42. 10.28.2012 42 Revelation 21:9-27 (ESV) 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,

43. 10.28.2012 43 Revelation 21:9-27 (ESV) 11 having the glory of God, its radiance like a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal.

44. 10.28.2012 44 Revelation 21:9-27 (ESV) 12 It had a great, high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel were inscribed—

45. 10.28.2012 45 Revelation 21:9-27 (ESV) 13 on the east three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates.

46. 10.28.2012 46 Revelation 21:9-27 (ESV) 14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

47. 10.28.2012 47 Revelation 21:9-27 (ESV) 15 And the one who spoke with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city and its gates and walls.

48. 10.28.2012 48 Revelation 21:9-27 (ESV) 16 The city lies foursquare, its length the same as its width. And he measured the city with his rod, 12,000 stadia. Its length and width and height are equal.

49. 10.28.2012 49 Revelation 21:9-27 (ESV) 17 He also measured its wall, 144 cubits by human measurement, which is also an angel's measurement.

50. 10.28.2012 50 Revelation 21:9-27 (ESV) 18 The wall was built of jasper, while the city was pure gold, like clear glass.

51. 10.28.2012 51 Revelation 21:9-27 (ESV) 19 The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every kind of jewel. The first was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald,

52. 10.28.2012 52 Revelation 21:9-27 (ESV) 20 the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst.

53. 10.28.2012 53 Revelation 21:9-27 (ESV) 21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, each of the gates made of a single pearl, and the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

54. 10.28.2012 54 Revelation 21:9-27 (ESV) 22 And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.

55. 10.28.2012 55 Revelation 21:9-27 (ESV) 23 And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.

56. 10.28.2012 56 Revelation 21:9-27 (ESV) 24 By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it,

57. 10.28.2012 57 Revelation 21:9-27 (ESV) 25 and its gates will never be shut by day— and there will be no night there.

58. 10.28.2012 58 Revelation 21:9-27 (ESV) 26 They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations.

59. 10.28.2012 59 Revelation 21:9-27 (ESV) 27 But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.

60. 10.28.2012 60 III.We Need To Grow In Our Ability To Know That He Is _________ Enough

61. 10.28.2012 61 III.We Need To Grow In Our Ability To Know That He Is _________ A. What We _______ We Need Enough Think

62. 10.28.2012 62 III.We Need To Grow In Our Ability To Know That He Is _________ A. What We _______ We Need B. What He _______ We Need Enough Think Knows

63. 10.28.2012 63 John 14:4-6 (ESV) 4 And you know the way to where I am going.”

64. 10.28.2012 64 John 14:4-6 (ESV) 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.