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Encounters With Jesus

Benjamin Ng

Jesus’ Encounter With The Devil

Jesus’ Encounter with the First Disciples

Jesus’ Encounter with Philip and Nathanael

Jesus Encounter at the Wedding Feast

Jesus’ Encounter with Nicodemus

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman at the Well

Jesus’ Encounter With The Centurion

Jesus Encounter with the Blind Man Near Bethsaida

Jesus’ Encounter with the Man by the Pool of Bethesda

Jesus’ Encounter with the Man Sick of Palsy

Jesus’ Encounter with the Disciples in the Storm

Jesus’ Encounter with the Blind, Dumb Demoniac

Jesus’ Encounter with the Demoniacs of the Gadarenes

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman with the Issue of Blood

Jesus’ Encounter with the Five Thousand

Jesus’ Encounter with John the Baptist

Jesus’ Encounter with the Disciples on the Sea

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman Caught in Adultery

Jesus’ Encounter with Martha and Mary

Jesus’ Encounter with the Man Born Blind

Jesus’ Encounter with the 10 Lepers

Jesus’ Encounter with the Rich Young Ruler

Jesus’ Encounter with Blind Bartimaeus

Jesus’ Encounter with Zacchaeus

Jesus’ Encounter with the Woman with the Spirit of Infirmity

Jesus’ Encounter at Simon’s Feast

Jesus’ Encounter with Peter and His Denial

Jesus’ Encounter with Pilate

Jesus’ Encounters at the Cross

Jesus’ Encounter on the Road to Emmaus

Jesus’ Encounter with Peter at the Sea of Tiberias

Father in heaven, thank you so much for your watch care over us this past week.

As we're about to start our time together now, just ask for your Spirit to lead and guide us.

Help us, O Lord, that we might understand Your Word.

Fill us with Your Spirit and speak to our hearts so personally, so tenderly, that we might hear Your voice speaking to us as well.

This evening we are continuing our studies on the encounters with Jesus.

So last series that we looked at was Hebrews 11.

If you not had a chance to listen to that series, you can go back, whether you're listening to this from YouTube or Facebook, there is a playlist there just for those studies that we've had together on Friday nights.

But this evening, we're going to be looking at Jesus' encounter with Philip and Nathaniel.

And so, you know, last week we studied about the calling of the first disciples.

4 people were called to leave their fishing nets to follow Jesus.

And Jesus, He's not done yet with the calling of the disciples.

And we are going to start there in John chapter 1 verses 43 to 44.

The Bible says this, The day following, Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and findeth Philip, and saith unto him, follow me.

Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.

So very clearly here Jesus goes forth into Galilee, he finds Philip and he makes a direct call straight to Philip.

And the first thing that Philip does is, he goes, well, the background is he's from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.

And you know, we don't know whether they knew each other, whether they're fishermen together, we don't know much about his background at all.

When Jesus calls him, he doesn't just get up and leave and go follow Jesus.

Verse 45 of John chapter 1, Philip findeth Nathanael and saith unto him, We have found him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth the son of Joseph.

Philip goes and finds Nathanael And who is Nathanael?

We don't know whether they're brothers or not, whether they're related in any way, but they're definitely good friends, seeing that Philip goes and looks for Nathanael straight away.

So he doesn't just get up and follow Jesus, but he goes and looks for his friend, Nathaniel.

I mean, Luke chapter 6, if we go there and start reading in verse 13, it actually talks about the 12 disciples, and look what it says.

And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples, and of them he chose 12 whom he also named apostles.

Simon whom he also named Peter, and Andrew his brother, James and John.

Those are the first 4 that we've already looked at.

But then it says Philip and Bartholomew, Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon called Zealots, and Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot which also was the traitor.

What I want you to see here is notice that Philip, whom we've already seen in John chapter 1, and Bartholomew are put together.

And then notice what it says in John 21, verses 1 and 2.

After these things, Jesus showed himself again to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias, and on this wise showed he himself.

There were together Simon Peter and Thomas Caldinemus and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and 2 other of his disciples.

Here we see the disciples and Jesus appears to them and Nathanael is mentioned again as 1 of those disciples and we didn't see Nathanael mentioned back in Luke chapter 6 when it listed out the 12 disciples but we do see Bartholomew.

What we can definitely link together is most likely Bartholomew was Nathaniel, okay, who would eventually become 1 of the disciples of Christ.

Look, What lessons can we learn here from Philip though?

He was actually excited about finding someone that matched the description of whom the Bible spoke about.

That would be the Messiah that was soon to come.

Philip was actually a student of the Word of God, of the Bible.

He actually went to his friend Nathaniel and said, hey I found somebody that Moses in the law and the prophets did write about.

He was talking about the Old Testament, but he was a student of the word of God.

That when Jesus came walking along, he saw in him the fulfillment of what the Bible had spoken about.

We need to be searching our scriptures today, friends.

Because we need to see how the Bible will reveal itself in how prophecy is being fulfilled today, such as this pandemic.

It is a big sign to tell us, to wake us up, to shake us, not just because we lost a job, not just because our studies have been totally different as in previous years, not because we've had to change job or change our studies or change whatever it is, not because there's been major shift in our life, but because there's a major fulfillment of prophecy that we have never seen before.

Sure, we talked about pandemics such as AIDS and the swine disease and the mad cow's disease, the swine flu, sorry.

You know, we've seen all of those things, but not at this scale before.

We've got to be students of the Word, not just for the sake of, oh, it's got to change my heart and my life, but to see how prophecy is being fulfilled today.

And look, the people that were living before the times of Christ, even though they only had the Old Testament, they had enough evidence of his first coming as we do today with the Old and the New Testament of his second coming.

Not only was Philip a student of the Bible, he was sharing his faith with his friends.

When he sought fulfillment, he went looking to share his faith with probably his best friend or his brother.

You know the importance of sharing what you find in the Bible is necessary to growth in faith.

But today we also need to be searching the Scriptures, not just for God help me to be a better person, God help me to know your will and your way, but to see how today things are being fulfilling Scripture to show us the nearness of Christ's second coming.

Philip comes to him and says, Hey, I found this man.

He's the person that Moses and the law and the prophecies have been talking about.

John chapter 1, 46, And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?

Nathanael replies, can anything good come out of Nazareth, such a wicked city?

The Messiah would come from a place that is notoriously known for being so wicked?

Nazareth really was famous for all the wrong reasons, or infamous as we should say.

Surely a Messiah would not come from such a wicked place, right?

Jesus, though, never made an excuse for his background, where he came up, grew up from.

He never pointed to others saying that they had an unfair advantage.

The spotless Lamb of God, He was brought into a wicked part of the city and that's where he grew up.

And not only that, he was from a poor family.

You know, I think we need to learn to be content.

I hear so many people, they say, if only, or Ben, you don't understand how I grew up.

And we like to point to our past as to why we are allowed to act a certain way today.

You know, we like to tell people, oh, I grew up like this in such a family, that's why I'm like this.

We tell people, oh, I was poor so that's why I act this way.

And you know, they'll tell you, oh, you never grew up like me.

You never had, you know, such poverty in your place.

So that's why you're not, you don't understand, Ben.

He had to help his dad in the workshop from a young age.

He had chores to fulfill because the dad was working hard and he had to help both mom and dad at home and at work.

But friends, Jesus, he never made an excuse as to why he might have sinned.

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Encounters With Jesus

Jesus’ Encounter with Philip and Nathanael

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