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		John 8:31-59

JOHN 8:31-59
The Truth Will Make You Free

I. TRUE BELIEF AND ITS RESULTS 8:31-32

True _______ begins with Jesus, _______ with Jesus and ends with Jesus.

If you say you believe in Christ, but do not _______ in His word, then you are not a _____ disciple of Christ no matter what you say. 1 John 2:4

It is only by continuing in Christ’s word that you will know the ______ and be truly set _____ to please God in every way.

II. BONDAGE TO SIN AND FREEDOM IN CHRIST 8:33-36

These Jews considered themselves _______ because they were descendants of ________, with whom God had made His covenant.

Jesus says, every one who commits sin is a _____ of sin, that is, everyone who is constantly _________ sin (present tense), who lives in sin, is a slave of sin.

The one who _______ sin has not _____ the Lord, and does not know Him.

Only Abraham’s _____ children (those who _______ on Christ) will remain in His household and enjoy its privileges permanently.

In Christ we are free from the _______ of sin, we are being set free from the _______ of sin, and we will be set free from the _______ of sin.

III. TRUE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM 8:37-40

These physical descendants of Abraham were seeking to ______ the very One to whom Abraham longed to see!

There is a contrast between Christ’s _______ and the father of those who _____ Him and seek to kill Him. Christ’s father and their father are not the same.

Abraham _______ God’s commands, welcomed God’s messengers and rejoiced in the coming of _______.

Abraham did not _______ God’s messengers the way these Jews were rejecting _______.

IV. CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL AND CHILDREN OF GOD 8:41-47

Because these Jews hated the Son, they must also have hated His Father and were therefore not _____ children.

These Jews were spiritually _____ in trespasses and sins and unable to __________ what Jesus was saying.

___________, these Jews were children of Abraham; but spiritually and morally they were the children of the _______.

These Jews were constantly desiring, (_______ tense), to carry out the desires of the devil; so the devil must be their _______. The devil desires to kill and to lie, and so did they.

Between the devil and the truth there is absolutely no __________: the two are ________.

All _______ doctrine can be traced back to the _______.

Because they would not be able to convict Jesus of any ____ the inescapable conclusion would be that He always and without exception speaks the _______.

V. JESUS GREATER THAN ABRAHAM 8:48-59

How can one who _______ the Father in all He does and in all He says have a _______?

These Jews on the other hand sought to honor themselves and dishonor the Father by their _______ desire to _____ His Son.

To keep the word of Christ means to accept it by ______, obey it, and stand guard over it.

The Father was always _________ His Son, yet the Jews did not know the _______.

Abraham saw Jesus by _______ in God’s promise of a Seed, “singular”, through whom all the nations of the earth would be _______.

Jesus jolted these Jews with one of His most powerful claims to _______ when He said: Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I AM.

Jesus, therefore, reaffirmed His _______, timeless, absolute essence as the great I AM. Leviticus 24:16, John 14:23-24