Memory Verse for the Week: John 7:18 (ESV)

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INTRO: When have you been questioned over your credentials?

JESUS’ TRUE AUTHORITY
What constitutes true legitimacy?

INCONSISTENT & ANTAGONISTIC
How did the Jewish religious leaders overlook such obvious inconsistencies in their own lives?

YIELDED TO A TRUE SAVIOR
Why does yielding to the Father lead to faith in Jesus?

YOU CAN PRAY WITH US …

1. Worship the LORD for His Holy authority as our Maker. Praise Him, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, that He is uniquely true, faithful, and legitimate to define us – and all reality.

2. How have you lived questioning or openly doubting Jesus’ legitimacy? Confess your pride and unbelief to Jesus, asking Him to forgive you and to recalibrate your heart to be truly His.

3. Give thanks to Jesus for how He utterly yielded His life to His Father to save us from our ugly, foolish rebellion. Thank Him for bearing our hypocrisy by His death and giving us His righteousness by His obedient life.

4. Who do you know who lives cynically or doubtfully about Jesus’ legitimacy? Pray for them, asking the Lord to open their eyes to His surpassing worth compared with every competing allegiance and the false hopes of this world.

5. Ask the Holy Spirit to bear in you His fruit of love and goodness. Pray that He would secure you in Jesus’ work that you’re free to call yourself what you are (in your failures) and call Jesus what He is (the Savior of sinners like us).