12/22/2024 Midtown Church Elk Grove
“Breaking News: The Word On the Street”
Pastor Tyronne Gross
BREAKING NEWS
Biblical Background:
How do we respond to the breaking news that Jesus has come—and why does this news still matter today?
1.The Breaking News is About Jesus – God in Human Form (John 1:1-3)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
BIG QUESTIONS:
2.The Breaking News Brings Light and Life (John 1:4-5)
4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
What does it mean to live in the light and life of Jesus?
3.The Breaking News Requires a Response (John 1:10-13)
10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
Breaking news doesn’t just inform—it demands a response.
FINAL THOUGHT:Breaking News – We Can Start Living Like God is Here, Because He Is (John 1:14-18, 35-39)
14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
15 (John testified concerning him. He cried out, saying, “This is the one I spoke about when I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’”) 16 Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given. 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.
35 The next day John was there again with two of his disciples. 36 When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”
37 When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus. 38 Turning around, Jesus saw them following and asked, “What do you want?”
They said, “Rabbi” (which means “Teacher”), “where are you staying?”
39 “Come,” he replied, “and you will see.”
So they went and saw where he was staying, and they spent that day with him. It was about four in the afternoon.
Here’s the good news for us today: