The Most Important Decision You Can Make

The Most Important Decision You Can Make

John 1:4-13

1. Understand Who Jesus is

Verses 4-9

Luke 1:79-“give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death.” 

Luke 2:32-“A light to bring revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of Your people Israel.”

John 8:12-“I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” 

John 12:46-“I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness.” 

John 10:10-“I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” 

John 11:25-“I am the resurrection, and the life.”

John 14:6-“I am the way, the truth, and the life.”

John 1:29-“Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”

2. The choice of rejecting Jesus

Verses 10-11

Isaiah 53:3-“He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.” 

Romans 5:12-“sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned.” 

3. The choice of receiving Jesus

Verses 12-13

Romans 10:9-“ that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”

1 Timothy 2:3-4-“ For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”

2 Peter 3:9-“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”