Episodes
Tuesday May 19, 2020
05-19-20 Kevin Goins - Church's Ministry of Healing, John 9:8-9, part 3
Tuesday May 19, 2020
Tuesday May 19, 2020
“Anatomy of an Illness: The Church’s Ministry of Healing”
John 9:8-9 (Part 3)
I First, sickness gets our attention and it gets the attention of Jesus (9:1).
II Second, sickness makes us uncomfortable (9:2).
III Third, sickness is caused by alienation (9:2).
IV Fourth, oftentimes our best theological or commonsense explanations for sickness are not good enough (9:3a).
V Fifth, sometimes sickness happens for a good reason, so that God can be glorified in our life (9:3b).
VI Sixth, all believers in Jesus are called to help sick people find health (9:4).
VII Seventh, sickness is a work of the kingdom of darkness; healing is a work of the Kingdom of light (9:5).
VIII Eighth, the how of healing is very important (9:6).
IX Ninth, sickness can be overcome by divine healing, but healing does not happen without some action on our part (9:7).
X Tenth, divine healing will always arouse doubt (9:8-9).
A. The first thing this text teaches us is that miracles that transform people’s lives get noticed and these miracles arouse either faith or doubt.
B. The second thing this text teaches us is that when a miracle arouses doubt, Jesus can seem to be far away.
C. The third thing this text teaches us is that when a miracle occurs, some will believe.
D. The fourth thing this text teaches us is that when a miracle occurs some will ___________ believe.
1. The neighbors said, “This man who can see _____________ be the man who was blind from birth.”
2. Why did they make the statement, “It only looks like him,” without even bothering to ___________ the man ___________ he was?
3. The people who are giving the most critical assessments of the Bible today are most often the people who have the _____________ knowledge of the Bible.
4. If you want to witness creative thinking in the extreme, show someone the evidence for a miracle and watch how their mind works to e___________ it all a________.
5. What is true for c________________ is also true for m_______________, there will always be people who will not believe.
E. Lastly, this text teaches us that despite the fact that some believe and some do not, the one who experiences a miracle of healing has the opportunity to be an i_______________ w_____________ for Jesus.
1. If a miracle had not occurred, no one would have been saying that the man born blind was _______ the man born blind. They only said that because if this man who can now see was the man born blind, then they would have to a_____________ that a miracle had actually occurred.
2. The blind man was, on this occasion, the only one who could speak as an e______________.
3. This man offered proof that a miracle had taken place, and he did not have to be a s_______________ or a p_______________ or a religious expert to do that.
4. We do not have to ____________ scientifically that God does miraculous things in our world today. We do not need to ___________ that there is philosophical justification for believing that God does miracles. We do not have to q____________ Bible verses to support the fact that God does today what people would call miracles. All we have to do is to _______ our story of what Jesus did for us.
5. John says that when this man acted as a witness to the miracle-working power of Jesus, it was as if he was s________________ in the s_________ of Jesus.
6. When the “I am” saves us or heals us or delivers us in some way, we should do as the Psalmist says: We should proclaim his salvation from __________ to __________.
Friday May 15, 2020
05-15-20 Kevin Goins - The Church's Ministry of Healing, John 9:8-9 Part 2
Friday May 15, 2020
Friday May 15, 2020
“Anatomy of an Illness: The Church’s Ministry of Healing”
John 9:8-9 (Part 2)
I First, sickness gets our attention and it gets the attention of Jesus (9:1).
II Second, sickness makes us uncomfortable (9:2).
III Third, sickness is caused by alienation (9:2).
IV Fourth, oftentimes our best theological or commonsense explanations for sickness are not good enough (9:3a).
V Fifth, sometimes sickness happens for a good reason, so that God can be glorified in our life (9:3b).
VI Sixth, all believers in Jesus are called to help sick people find health (9:4).
VII Seventh, sickness is a work of the kingdom of darkness; healing is a work of the Kingdom of light (9:5).
VIII Eighth, the how of healing is very important (9:6).
IX Ninth, sickness can be overcome by divine healing, but healing does not happen without some action on our part (9:7).
X Tenth, divine healing will always arouse doubt (9:8-9).
A. The first thing this text teaches us is that miracles that transform people’s lives get noticed and these miracles arouse either faith or doubt.
B. The second thing this text teaches us is that when a miracle arouses doubt, Jesus can seem to be f____________ a_______________.
1. This seems strange to us, but, at this point in time, Jesus is n__________________ to be found.
2. This is important because if Jesus had not disappeared the chapter would have been completely d______________.
3. What we are going to see is that the once blind man becomes a r_________________, a v___________ for Jesus.
4. Jesus _________ came back to defend the formerly blind man against the accusations of the religious leaders.
5. And, what is so important about this is that this situation is often played out in o_______ o______ lives.
6. Jesus’ purpose for our life is not to makes things __________ for us, but to put us into situations that will enable us to ____________.
C. The third thing this text teaches us is that when a miracle occurs, some ________ believe.
1. It is important for us to be clear about what is taking place in verses 8 and 9: This is not a question of i________________.
2. What the crowd is really debating is this: Is it p____________ that any man born blind could suddenly have eyes that can see?
3. And, notice, this crowd, which includes the man’s neighbors, is d___________________.
4. A miracle speaks very loudly, so loudly that it will inevitably d_______________ people.
5. When I accept the possibility of miracles I am also making a claim that there must be a power greater than _______, greater than h___________ b______________.
6. My desire to be the only lord of my life, the only director of my life, also makes it necessary for me to ____________ the healing miracles of Jesus.
Saturday May 02, 2020
05-02-20 Kevin Goins, John 9:7, Part 3
Saturday May 02, 2020
Saturday May 02, 2020
“Anatomy of an Illness: The Church’s Ministry of Healing”
John 9:7 (Part 3)
I First, sickness gets our attention and it gets the attention of Jesus (9:1).
II Second, sickness makes us uncomfortable (9:2).
III Third, sickness is caused by alienation (9:2).
IV Fourth, oftentimes our best theological or commonsense explanations for sickness are not good enough (9:3a).
V Fifth, sometimes sickness happens for a good reason, so that God can be glorified in our life (9:3b).
VI Sixth, all believers in Jesus are called to help sick people find health (9:4).
VII Seventh, sickness is a work of the kingdom of darkness; healing is a work of the Kingdom of light (9:5).
VIII Eighth, the how of healing is very important (9:6).
IX Ninth, sickness can be overcome by divine healing, but healing does not happen without some action on our part (9:7).
-This verse makes four key points:
A. First, Jesus told this man to go.
B. Second, Jesus told him to ____________.
-What is the significance of this instruction by Jesus?
1. First, some believe that what Jesus is doing here is simply to repeat an _________ ________________ miracle of healing.
a. N_______________ went to see E______________ in 2 Kings chapter 5.
b. While there is some s______________ between the Old Testament miracle and John chapter 9, the circumstances in our text are too d_____________.
i. First, Jesus is not a _______________ like Elisha, he is M________________.
ii. Second, the man born blind is not a _______________, as Naaman was.
iii. Third, Naaman ___________ to be healed.
iv. When the man born blind is told by Jesus to go and wash in the Pool of Siloam, he does not ___________ at all.
2. Second, some believe that Jesus sends this man to wash in order to symbolize being _____________ from _______.
a. The Bible has a lot to say about the cleansing power of ______________.
b. This would mean that Jesus is not only planning to heal the man’s b______________, but he is also going to heal the man’s s____________.
c. But that does _______ fit here:
i. First, Jesus has already made clear in the f_________ three v_____________ of this chapter that the man’s blindness has nothing to do with sin.
ii. Second, if the washing symbolizes being cleansed of sin, and the need to be washed is because Jesus put _______ in the man’s eyes, that would make Jesus the s_____________ of the man’s sin.
3. Third, the washing could represent what we would call c_______________ or r______________ cleansing.
a. Ritual cleansing is using water to represent something which is true in the _________________ world.
b. Ritual cleansing was very important to Nazirites. A Nazirite was a person who was consecrated, or s_________ a__________, to serve God in a specific _______ for a specific period of _______.
c. I believe this man is told by Jesus to immerse himself in the Pool of s______-ness. He is to leave behind his old life, a life in which he did n___________ but sit and beg all day.
d. This man becomes, not just a happy healed person, but a powerful a_________________ for Jesus.
e. This miracle shows us that we must stress the fact that Jesus does not heal us simply to make us f__________ g___________ again.
f. We need to remind people that when God heals, he heals to take us from a place of l_____________ availability for service to a place of g_________________ availability for service.
Saturday Apr 04, 2020
04-04-20 Kevin Goins - The Church's Ministry of Healing, John 9:5 pt 2
Saturday Apr 04, 2020
Saturday Apr 04, 2020
“Anatomy of an Illness: The Church’s Ministry of Healing”
John 9:5 (Part 2)
I First, sickness gets our attention and it gets the attention of Jesus (9:1).
II Second, sickness makes us uncomfortable (9:2).
III Third, sickness is caused by alienation (9:2).
IV Fourth, oftentimes our best theological or commonsense explanations for sickness are not good enough (9:3a).
V Fifth, sometimes sickness happens for a good reason, so that God can be glorified in our life (9:3b).
VI Sixth, all believers in Jesus are called to help sick people find health (9:4).
VII Seventh, sickness is a work of the kingdom of darkness; healing is a work of the Kingdom of light (9:5).
This verse makes 4 very important points:
A. First, Jesus came to this world to be our light.
B. Second, healing is a work of the kingdom of _____________.
1. If we looked at all the occasions in the Gospels when Jesus healed the blind, we would be doing Bible study for ____________.
2. Some argue, not without reason, that Jesus actually spent _______ time _____________ than doing anything else.
3. If healing was a major component of the work of the Kingdom of Light 2,000 years ago, it must ___________ be a major component of the work of the Kingdom of Light ___________.
4. What we need to state clearly is how _______________ the work of “faith healers” is from what Jesus did.
For example:
a. Jesus healed ________________ individuals. There is a tremendous difference between “___________ healing” and _____________ healing.
1. Divine healing is healing that is carried out by __________ in accordance with his ________. “Faith healing” is healing instigated by a human being who claims to somehow be the _________ of God in healing people.
2. Divine healing depends on the power of _________, while “faith healing” is said to depend on ___________.
b. Jesus never asked a person to stand and give a testimony about a healing that had _______ _______ happened.
c. The people Jesus healed never had to worry about their sickness _____________________.
d. Jesus never attempted a healing which was __________________.
e. Jesus never ____________ or asked for ___________ to heal people.
5. There is a d________ s__________ to the ministry of healing. Or, there is a dark side to the _________________________ ministry of healing.
6. For everything that is real and genuine, there will always be the ______________________.
7. We should not put our hope in ______________; we should put our hope in __________.
Tuesday Mar 03, 2020
03-01-20 Kevin Goins - Anatomy of An Illness, part 2
Tuesday Mar 03, 2020
Tuesday Mar 03, 2020
“Anatomy of an Illness”
John 9:1-38
Last Sunday we said that John 9 gives us an anatomy of illness. An anatomy is a study of how something works. This chapter shows us how sickness works and how people respond to it. What does John 9 teach us about sickness?
I First, sickness gets our attention and it gets the attention of Jesus (9:1).
II Second, sickness makes us uncomfortable (9:2).
III Third, sickness is caused by _________________________ (9:2).
A. Alienation comes from the word alien which means s____________ or o____________. Alienation is the act of ____________ someone into a stranger or an “other.”
B. There are _________ forms or kinds of alienation that we see in Genesis:
1. First, there is ________________ alienation.
a. Why was there a tree of the knowledge of good _____ evil? Why didn’t God __________ allow them to know good?
b. To be good you must be able to choose good, but you cannot choose good unless you can also choose __________.
c. Because of their sinful choice, Adam and Eve were __________ from the Garden of Eden, which was the place where God used to walk and talk with them.
2. Second, there is __________________ alienation.
-What does social alienation do? It creates ______________; it leads to crime and war and hatred and racism and acts of violence, and it endangers our _____________.
3. Third, there is _________________ alienation.
a. Before the fall Adam and Eve didn’t fight animals or eat animals – instead they ______________ the animals.
b. Now, because of sin we are alienated from the ___________ kingdom and from the _____________ earth, and that alienation has made us __________.
4. Lastly, there is _______________ alienation.
Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
02-23-20 Kevin Goins - Anatomy of An Illness
Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
“Anatomy of an Illness”
John 9:1-38
In 1979 Norman Cousins wrote a groundbreaking book entitled, Anatomy of an Illness. He wrote that book because he was suffering from a connective-tissue disease which had crippled him and he had to try and make sense of it. We may not be at the mercy of such a disease, but sickness is so common that we must make sense of it. The Bible can enable us to do that.
I John devotes an entire chapter to the healing of a blind man so that we can see an illness in all its d________________.
A. You and I cannot afford to see the healing miracles of Jesus in a shallow and superficial way because sickness is a terrible _____________ to everyone.
B. Two decades ago the U.S. ranked eleventh in terms of life expectancy, but we have now fallen to __________-_____________ in the world.
C. There is another statistic we cannot ignore: the mortality rate, and the mortality rate still stands at ___________ percent.
II What do we learn about sickness in this chapter?
A. First, sickness gets our __________________ (9:1).
1. The disciples noticed the blind man, but what John emphasizes in verse one is that Jesus noticed ___________.
2. Why would Jesus go to the trouble of noticing another sick person? Because that was his God-given _______________.
3. According to Isaiah, the work of Jesus in saving us from sin, and his work as healer, are somehow ____________ _________________.
4. That means that just as Jesus could not help but notice s____________, so also he could not help but notice the s___________.
B. Second, sickness makes us ________________________ (9:2).
1. The disciples needed an explanation for the man’s blindness that could keep them from seeing him as a _____________.
2. We are so threatened by the idea that terrible imperfection can exist in our world that we try to find someone to ____________.
3. We feel that something is wrong with a world in which people are born blind and children die of cancer, and the Bible says we are _________.
Tuesday Sep 24, 2019
09-22-19 - Kevin Goins - My Grandpa Was a Baptist Preacher, part 2
Tuesday Sep 24, 2019
Tuesday Sep 24, 2019
“My Grandpa Was a Baptist Preacher!” John 8:37-59
What is it that people who do not have Jesus in their life depend on to make themselves feel secure about Judgment Day? One of the things people lean on is their pride in their godly ancestors. In our text today
Jesus lets us know that our forbearers, as wonderful as they may have been, cannot save us from the consequences of our sin.
I Jesus says that actions speak louder than our family tree (8:37-38).
II Jesus says we all have an ancestor in our family line we would rather ignore (8:39-41).
III There is a spiritual ______ test which can determine whether we are truly children of God (8:42-59)
A. There is the l_______ test (8:42).
B. There is the b__________ test – Can we ______ God speak to us through his Word? (8:43, 47).
C. There is the t________ test (8:44-47).
1. Whatever language we learn first becomes f__________ to us.
2. When we are born the language of s________ l______ is our native and natural language.
3. When we experience new birth by trusting Jesus, we can then begin to speak and comprehend the language of s_________ t_______.
4. Those without the ________ of _______ in them cannot grasp or recognize spiritual truth.
D. Lastly, there is the J_________ test (8:48-59).
1. Stoning was the penalty for b__________, which means the religious officials understood Jesus was claiming to be _____ in the _______.
2. The Pharisees allowed what o___________ them about Jesus to blind them to who he really was, and the same thing happens today.
3. If you are a real child of God then you ______ Jesus for _____ he is.
Tuesday Sep 24, 2019
09-15-19 Kevin Goins - My Grandpa was a Baptist Preacher
Tuesday Sep 24, 2019
Tuesday Sep 24, 2019
“My Grandpa Was a Baptism Preacher!” John 8:37-59
What is it that people who do not have Jesus in their life depend on to make themselves feel secure about Judgment Day? One of the things people lean on is their pride in their godly ancestors. In our text today
Jesus lets us know that our forbearers, as wonderful as they may have been, cannot save us from the consequences of our sin.
I There are some expressions which people think are m_________. One of these is “I believe in _________!”
A. People also feel safe saying, “I’m not perfect, but I try to live the _____ life I ______.”
B. Another expression people believe will save them on judgment day is: “My mother was a real _________.”
C. One thing many are counting on to save them from God’s judgment is their Godly a___________ - But it is _____ enough.
II Jesus says that _______ speak louder than our family _______ (8:37-38)
A. Jesus begins by saying, “I know you are the s_________ of Abraham – You have godly _____.”
B. In the ancient world they put a great emphasis on ___________ - they believed you could never be __________ than your ancestors.
C. Many today want a family tree they can be ________ of.
III Jesus says we all have an ancestor in our family line we would rather ____________ (8:39-41).
Jews in that day thought Abraham had earned a vast treasury of m_______ in God’s eyes and his descendants could d_______ on that merit.
B. But in verse 39 Jesus says it is not just about being the o___________ of Abraham, it is about d_______ the things Abraham did.
IV There are two problems with this truth:
A. First, many do not believe in the _________.
B. The second problem is that while many do not believe in the devil, we do believe in ___________.
Wednesday Aug 28, 2019
08-25-19 Kevin Goins - The Truth About the Truth that sets us free, conclusion
Wednesday Aug 28, 2019
Wednesday Aug 28, 2019
“The Truth about the Truth that Sets us Free” (Conclusion) John 8:30-36
John 8:32 has been used by all sorts of people to promote all sorts of ideas. But a biblical text cannot mean whatever we want it to mean. What is the truth about the truth that sets us free?
I First, the truth that sets us free isn’t only for the believer. In fact, it’s actually directed at the non-believer (8:30).
II Second, there is a truth that can set us free (8:31a).
III Third, to be set free by the truth, we must use our head (8:32).
IV Fourth, the truth is a person (8:31-32).
V Fifth, being set free by the truth can be ______________ to people (8:33).
A. When Jesus says he has a truth that can set them free, they get offended, for _____ reasons:
1. First, it offends their __________ pride.
2. Second, it offends their ____________ pride.
B. They were offended by something Jesus said and so they refused to __________ in him.
VI Sixth, the freedom which the truth brings is freedom from the _________ of ______ (8:34).
A. In verse 34, for the twelfth time in John, Jesus begins a statement with “________, ________.”
B. The truth Jesus is stressing is that ____ makes us ________.
C. Sin is not simply an ______, sin is a ________.
D. Sin is a power which stirs up the desire to find pleasure ___________ God.
VII Seventh, the only truth-teacher who can set us free is the ______ (8:35-36)
A. In the ancient world families consisted of two kinds of people: _______ and __________, with all the rights of family members, and _________, who had no permanent place in the family.
B. It was a tradition in Roman households in biblical times for the _______-______ son, when he became a man, to release all the slaves he had grown up with.
VIII Jesus is the one who gives us freedom, but there is something we need to _________ this freedom.
A. First, to be free you need d___________.
B. Second, to be free you need a__________.
C. Third, to be free you need o_____________.
D. Fourth, to be free you must have a h________ e_________.
Wednesday Aug 28, 2019
08-18-19 Kevin Goins - The Truth About The Truth That Sets Us Free, part 2
Wednesday Aug 28, 2019
Wednesday Aug 28, 2019
“The Truth about the Truth that Sets Us Free” (Pt 2) John 8:30-36
John 8:32 has been used by all sorts of people to promote all sorts of ideas. But a biblical text cannot mean whatever we want it to mean. What is the truth about the truth that sets us free?
I The truth that sets us free isn’t only for the believer. In fact, it’s actually directed at the non-believer (8:30).
II There is a truth that can set us free, but many are skeptical of this (8:31a)
III Third, to be set free by the truth, we must use our _________ (8:32).
A. Verse 32 does ____ say what we Bible-believing Christians should ___________ it to say.
-Over and over the Bibles says we must _________. Yet here Jesus says we must __________.
B. One of the greatest issues of the Christian life has always been the relationship between f________ and f___________.
The Bible does not take an _____-intellectual approach to the Christian life because it was God who created our ________ as well as our spirit.
D. An anti-intellectual approach to the Bible is actually more in keeping with the __________ approach to the Bible.
IV The truth is a __________(8:31-32).
A. The truth that sets us free is objective fact, but these facts are not about ________; these facts are about a __________.
B. You cannot know the truth without being a disciple of Jesus, and you cannot be a disciple of Jesus without having a p___________ c____________ with him.
C. If truth is focused on a __________, then we need that _________ to know the truth.
V We Evangelicals aren’t comfortable talking about ________.
-When we act as if faith is all we have, that there is nothing we can know, we drive ___________ __________ out of the church and we face our culture with ________.