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Redeeming Grace Fellowship
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The sermon podcasts of Redeeming Grace Fellowship in Maysville, Kentucky. Connect with us to learn more about our Savior Jesus and our church fellowship. rgfmaysville.com
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Hosanna – John 12:12-19
Why would a king ride a donkey? On the Sunday before his death, crowds in Jerusalem hailed Jesus as king, yet he chose a borrowed colt over a war horse. John 12:12-19 explains why: centuries earlier, the prophet Zechariah promised a king who would arrive humble, bringing salvation and peace to…
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Killing Witnesses – John 12:9-11
Why do people respond so differently to Jesus? In John 12:9-11, a man named Lazarus is alive after being dead, and the crowds come to see him. The religious leaders' on the other hand plot to kill him. Why? Because his living presence was leading many people to believe in Jesus. Those leaders...
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Preparation – John 12:1-8
Why would someone pour out a year's wages on a single act of devotion? In John 12:1–8, a woman named Mary does exactly that by anointing Jesus's feet with expensive perfume just days before his death. One of Jesus's own followers objects, framing his complaint as concern for the poor. But Jesus...
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One for the Many Part 2 – John 11:45-57
Have you ever spoken better than you knew? In John 11:49-57, Caiaphas, the high priest, does exactly that. Alarmed that Jesus' miracles will provoke Rome, he argues that it is better for one man to die for the people than for the whole nation to perish. His motive is self-preservation; his…
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One for the Many Part 1 – John 11:45-57
What would it take to convince you? Lazarus had been dead four days. Now he was alive, walking, breathing—witnessed by a crowd of mourners who had no reason to lie. So what happened next? In John 11:45-48, we find out. Some believed. Others walked straight to the religious authorities to report...
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Come Out – John 11:38-44
Death is the one certainty no one escapes, and no religion, philosophy, or technology has ever reversed it. Every culture in history has developed its own way of coping with mortality: rituals to honor the dead, philosophies to make peace with the end, medical advances to delay it a little…
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Anger and Grief – John 11:28-37
How close is the God you worship? Some people imagine Jesus as distant, unmoved by what's happening in their lives. In John 11:28-37, we return to Bethany, where Mary falls at Jesus's feet in grief over her brother Lazarus, and where Jesus himself is "deeply moved" and troubled. Then comes one of...
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Resurrection and Life – John 11:25-27
Every culture has chased the same impossible dream: a way to outlast death. The Fountain of Youth. The Holy Grail. Today it's gene therapy and anti-aging supplements. Humanity has never stopped looking for an escape from mortality and has never found one. In John 11:25-27, Jesus makes an amazing...
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Rise Again – John 11:17-24
Everyone eventually asks the question this sermon addresses head-on: what happens when someone we love dies, and is there any real hope beyond the grave, or is grief the final word? John 11:17-24 puts that question in the mouths of two grieving sisters and gives Jesus's answer directly. This is...
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For Your Faith – John 11:7-16
Why would anyone walk deliberately toward people who'd just tried to kill him? That's the strange choice Jesus makes in John 11:7-16, heading back toward Jerusalem after escaping arrest and execution, because his friend Lazarus has died. This short passage raises a question worth reflection: what...
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Loving Lazarus – John 11:1-6
Everyone eventually asks this question: if God is good, why do the people he loves still suffer? John 11:1-6 walks through the opening of one of the most searching stories in the Gospel of John: the illness of a man named Lazarus, whose sisters send an urgent message to Jesus, "Lord, the one you...
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Receiving the Word with Action – James 1:22-25
A common critique of Christianity is that it's all talk: people who attend church, nod along, and live no differently than anyone else. James 1:22–25 makes the same critique. Merely agreeing with good teaching, even religious teaching, changes nothing if it doesn't change you. It's like looking…
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Receiving the Word with Humility – 2 Kings 22:8-20
What happens when someone finally reads something that exposes what's wrong in their life? In 2 Kings 22:8-20, a young king named Josiah discovers a long-lost copy of God's law buried in his own temple, and when he hears it read aloud, he doesn't shrug it off. He tears his clothes, seeks answers,...
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Receiving the Word with Care Part 2 – Luke 8:4-18
Every soul is known to God before a word is even on the tongue. In Luke 8:4-18, we trace Jesus's teaching that nothing hidden will remain so not our thoughts, our motives, nor the true state of our hearts before him. This is a truth meant to strip away every pretense of self-sufficiency and drive...
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Receiving the Word with Care Part 1 – Luke 8:4-15
Why do people hear the exact same sermon and respond in completely different ways: one moved to lasting change, another unaffected? Jesus' Parable of the Sower (Luke 8:4-15) opens a short study on what it actually means to receive God's word. The answer: hearing is not the same as hearing.…
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Unbreakable Scripture – John 10:31-42
Is it arrogant for Jesus to claim to be the Son of God? His opponents thought so, and they were ready to kill him for it. But in John 10:31-42, Jesus doesn't simply assert his identity; he defends it. He points to his works: healings, restoration, life given where there was none. He argues from...
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One Purpose – John 10:22-30
Most people assume that religion works like this: you make a choice, you maintain that choice through moral effort, and whether you end up in good standing with God depends largely on your consistency. Jesus, in John 10:22–30, proposes something far more radical and far more honest about the…
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The Shepherd’s Death – John 10:14-21
In John 10:14–21, Jesus identifies himself as the Good Shepherd who knows his sheep with the same intimacy that exists between the Father and the Son. This knowledge is not abstract. It drives him to action: he lays down his life for his sheep. And the scope of his mission extends beyond the…
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Hired Hand – John 10:11-13
Have you ever been let down by someone who was supposed to protect you? A leader who disappeared when things got hard, a guide who turned out to be in it for themselves? Jesus speaks directly into that disappointment in John 10:11-13. He describes himself as the Good Shepherd, not a hired hand…
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The Door to Life – John 10:7-10
Jesus makes a claim in John 10 that polite religion finds deeply uncomfortable: every other path to God is theft. Not an alternative route but theft. That's not the language of tolerance, and it wasn't meant to be. This sermon from John 10:7-10 takes that claim seriously and asks why Jesus speaks...
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The Shepherd and the Sheep
There is something deeply comforting about being known: not just recognized in a crowd, but known by name, known in your weakness, known before you had anything to offer. That is exactly what Jesus promises his people in John 10. He is the Good Shepherd. He does not manage his flock from a...
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Blind Judgment – John 9:35-41
If you've ever been put off by religious institutions, their politics, their gatekeeping, their self-assured certainty, you might find an unexpected ally in John 9. In John 9:35-41, the religious establishment had excommunicated a man for telling the truth about his own experience. They had the...
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Reviling Sight – John 9:30-34
A man who was born blind and healed by Jesus stands before the most educated religious authorities of his day and dismantles their position with a simple argument: God does not work spectacular miracles through sinners. In John 9:30–34, this unnamed man—dismissed, disqualified, and ultimately…
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Disciples
There's a man in John 9 who keeps getting called back into the room. He's already answered their questions. He's already told them what happened. But the religious leaders keep pushing: because they don't like his answer. What's remarkable isn't their hostility. It's his composure. He has nothing...
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But Now I See
What do you do with a miracle you can't explain? The religious leaders in John 9 had a problem: a man who had been blind from birth was now seeing. Their solution wasn't investigation: it was denial, intimidation, and institutional pressure. In John 9:18-25, we examine that response and ask why...
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Sabbath Controversy
Most people are willing to call Jesus a good teacher or a fascinating historical figure. But John 9 won't let you stay comfortable there. In John 9:13-17, a man who was born blind and healed in an instant by Jesus is hauled before the religious authorities and interrogated. They want him to deny...
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Once Was Blind
Something happened in Jerusalem that stopped the neighborhood. A man who had been blind from birth—known to everyone as the beggar at the gate—came home seeing. The people who passed him every day could not decide if it was even the same person. Even as he kept insisting: I am the man. What do…
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Who Sinned?
Have you ever sat in a waiting room, stood at a graveside, or stared at a ceiling at 2am wondering what you did to deserve this? You're not alone, and you're not the first. The disciples asked Jesus the same question when they passed a man who had been blind since birth: who sinned? Jesus's…
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Good Friday
At the ninth hour, as the Passover lamb was being offered, Christ cried out from the cross: "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?"This was no cry of despair, but of covenantal anguish: the sinless Son bearing the full weight of divine wrath for his people's sin. The eternal union of Father and Son was…
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Before Abraham
If someone tells you Jesus never claimed to be God, take them to John 8:58. In six words—before Abraham was, I AM—Jesus invokes the divine name of Exodus 3, claims existence before the patriarchs, and leaves his audience with only two possible conclusions: blasphemer or Lord. There is no middle...
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Demon Possessed
The Jewish leaders in John 8:48-53 were religious, temple-going, Scripture-possessing people; and they were spiritually dead. When Jesus declared that those who keep his word will never see death, they mocked him. Abraham died. The prophets died. Who does he think he is? The answer the Gospel of...
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The True Father: Part 2
Jesus looked at the most religious people in the holiest place in Israel and told them their father was the devil. This was not reckless provocation. It was diagnostic precision. In John 8:42-47, Jesus draws a line that cuts through every form of outward religion and lands on a single, sovereign...
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The True Father: Part 1
We all bear a family resemblance. In looks, in habits, in the way we handle anger or show grace: children reflect their parents, for good or ill. In John 8, Jesus turns that ordinary observation into one of the most piercing questions in all of Scripture: Who is your father? The religious leaders...
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For Freedom
The serpent's oldest lie is that God has you enslaved, that true freedom means breaking free from him. But the freedom the serpent promised was an illusion. It made us slaves to a far crueler master: sin itself. Are you truly free? Most people assume they are. The crowds surrounding Jesus in John…
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Obedient to the Point of Death
By every outward measure, Jesus's crucifixion looked like defeat. The religious leaders won. The supposed Messiah died. in But John 8:25-29, Jesus tells us something stunning: the crucifixion will actually prove his identity as the Christ. In this sermon, we examine two movements in the text....
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Unless You Believe
What sin will send you to hell without recourse? In this sermon from John 8:21-24, we examine Jesus's sobering confrontation with religious leaders who face eternal judgment despite their outward righteousness. Jesus declares a devastating truth: "You will die in your sin." The deadly sin isn't...
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Witness of Light
In John 8:12-20, Jesus makes a stunning claim: "I am the light of the world." Using God's own name—I AM—Jesus declares he is the glorious Light who leads his people to safety, just as the pillar of fire guided Israel through the wilderness. Those who follow him escape the darkness of sin and…
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Forgiven Sin
In John 7:53-8:11, we confront the gospel's paradox: grace and holiness held in perfect tension. The religious leaders drag a guilty woman before Jesus, not seeking justice but setting a trap. They assume He'll either abrogate Moses's Law or lose His reputation as a friend of sinners. Jesus…
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Who Is This Man?
In John 7:40-52, we examine the profound division Jesus creates among those who encounter Him. The crowds at the Feast of Booths are split: some declare Him the Prophet, others the Christ, while many reject Him based on superficial knowledge and unexamined assumptions. Even the officers sent to...
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Living Water
At the Feast of Booths, while thousands performed empty religious rituals, Jesus stood and cried out: "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink." In John 7:37-39, we find that our deepest thirst is not for physical water, but God himself. The world promises satisfaction through countless...
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Christ’s Leaving
In John 7:32-36, religious leaders dispatch officers to arrest Jesus as He teaches openly in the temple. But Christ calmly announces His imminent departure to a place His opponents cannot follow. This isn't mere geographical relocation: it's eternal separation. Jesus warns that those who reject…
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Christ’s Coming
In first-century Jerusalem, confusion swirled around Jesus's identity. The crowds thought they knew Him—the carpenter from Nazareth, whose parents they recognized. But their assumptions blinded them to the truth standing before them. In John 7:25-31, Jesus confronts their false confidence: "You...
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Right Judgment
We're quick to judge others while excusing our own failures. Jesus confronts this hypocrisy in John 7:19-24, exposing the religious leaders who condemned Him for healing on the Sabbath while ignoring their own lawbreaking. Jesus reminds them that circumcision supersedes Sabbath traditions. If...
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God’s Teaching
Why would the Jewish religious leaders reject Jesus despite his obvious mastery of Scripture? In John 7:14-18, we discover the answer: they failed to recognize that Jesus's teaching came directly from God the Father. When Jesus taught openly at the Feast of Booths, the crowds marveled. How could...
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A Hated Spectacle
In John 7:1-13, as Jesus approached Jerusalem for the Feast of Booths, even those closest to him failed to understand his mission. His own brothers urged him to go public and "show himself to the world." But John tells us why plainly: they did not believe in him. Meanwhile, the religious leaders...
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The Offensiveness of Jesus
What happens when Jesus says something that offends you? In John 6:60-66, hundreds of disciples walked away from Jesus because his teaching became too hard to accept. They were looking for bread and a political messiah, but Jesus offered them his flesh and blood, a repulsive suggestion. But Jesus...
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Eating Flesh, Drinking Blood
Jesus scandalized his audience by declaring, "Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you." This shocking imagery points to a spiritual reality: salvation comes only through feeding on Christ by faith. In John 6:51-59, we explore what it means to truly...
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Eternal Life
Do you sense eternity tugging at your heart? That longing for something beyond our brief 70 or 80 years isn't wishful thinking: it's God-given awareness that we were made for more than this world. In John 6:47-51, Jesus confronts us with the most urgent question we'll ever face: Will you have...
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Bread from Heaven
Can you make yourself believe in Jesus? In John 6:41-46, Jesus confronts religious leaders who thought they knew Him too well to believe His claims. His response reveals an uncomfortable truth our culture desperately needs to hear: "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him."...
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Coming to Jesus
Many Christians wrestle with the question, “Am I really saved?”, especially when sin, doubt, or failure seem to cloud our faith. In John 6:36–40, Jesus gives us unshakable assurance: our salvation doesn’t rest on our strength or sincerity, but on God’s will and work. In this passage, Jesus…
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The sermon podcasts of Redeeming Grace Fellowship in Maysville, Kentucky. Connect with us to learn more about our Savior Jesus and our church fellowship. rgfmaysville.com
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