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has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.’” Jesus
             said, “Anyone who is taught of God, who has heard from the
             Father, comes to Jesus.”  How do you know if what you hear is
             from  God?    You  know  it’s  from  God  if  it  leads  to  Jesus.
             Everyone who is taught of God comes to Jesus.


                    Heavenly Father, we thank You for the indwelling Holy
             Spirit.  You put a Bible Teacher in our heart.  We pray that You
             would unveil Jesus to our hearts.  We thank You, Lord, for
             every part of Your word.  In a special way tonight we thank You
             for John chapter one.  Show us Christ in a living way.  We ask
             in Jesus’ name.  Amen

                    We are looking at the great fundamentals of our faith
             and  I  think  one  of  the  greatest  fundamentals  is  revelation.
             Another way to say that is, “How can we see Jesus when we
             study the Bible?”  We believe that Jesus is the theme of the
             Bible.  Luke 24:27, “And beginning with Moses and with all
             the  prophets,  He  explained  to  them  the  things  concerning
             Himself in all the Scriptures.”  That was on the road to Emmaus.
             He  opened  the  Scriptures  and  showed  things  concerning
             Himself.  John 5:39&40, “You search the Scriptures, because,
             you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is these that
             bear witness of Me; and you are unwilling to come to Me, that
             you  may  have  life.”    They  searched  the  Scriptures  but  they
             didn’t come to Jesus.  John 6:45, “It is written in the prophets,
             ‘And they all shall be taught of God.’  Everyone who has heard
             and learned from the Father, comes to Me.”
                    I hope the Lord has begun to teach you that you never
             study the Bible to know the Bible.  God didn’t give us the Bible
             to know the Bible.  You study Genesis to know Jesus.  You
             study Joshua to know Jesus.  You study Psalms to know Jesus.
             Every book in the Bible reveals the Lord in a different way.  The
             only way to know Him personally is to see Him in the word of
             God.
                    Jesus gave a great word to Peter in Matthew 16:16&17,
             “And Simon Peter answered and said, ‘Thou art the Christ, the
             Son of the living God.’  And Jesus answered and said to him,
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