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This sermon, based on John 1:29-42, emphasizes the transformative power of bringing people to Jesus Christ, highlighting the "miracle of miracles" that occurs when individuals encounter Him, leading to profound personal change and a life of purpose.
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you are listening to the teaching and
preaching of Dr Warren weby this message
was recorded while he served as pastor
of Calvary Baptist Church in Covington
Kentucky or the Moody Church in Chicago
Illinois for additional resources please
visit tofit you.com that's the number
two p r o p h tu.com and now Dr Warren
weby we read the word of God from from John
John
1 verse 29 through verse [Music]
[Music]
42 the next day John seeth Jesus coming
unto him and sath Behold the Lamb of God
who taketh away the sin of the
world this is he of whom I
said after me cometh a man who is
preferred before me for he was before me
me and I knew him not but that he should
be made manifest to Israel therefore am
I come baptizing with
water and John bore witness saying I saw
the Spirit descending from heaven like a
dove and it Abode upon him and I knew
him not but he that sent me to baptize
with water the same said unto me upon
whom Thou shalt see the spirit
descending and remaining on him the same
is he who baptizeth with the Holy
Spirit and I saw and bore witness that
this is the Son of
God again the next day John stood and
two of his
disciples and looking Upon Jesus as he
walked he sath Behold the Lamb of
God and the two disciples heard him
speak and they followed Jesus
then Jesus turned and saw them following
and SE unto them what seek
ye they said unto him Rabbi which is to
say being interpreted Master where dwellest
dwellest
thou he Seth unto them come and
see they came and saw where he dwelt and
Abode with him that day for it was about
the 10th
hour one of the two who heard John speak
and followed him was and Simon Peter's
brother he first findeth his own brother
Simon and Seth unto him we have found
the Messiah which is being interpreted the
the
Christ and he brought him to
Jesus and when Jesus beheld him he
said Thou Art Simon the son of
John Thou shalt be called
sephus which is by
interpretation a stone
and he brought him to
Jesus may this word bring many to Jesus [Music]
and he brought
Jesus those simple words from John 1:
42 describe for us the greatest
privilege and the greatest miracle that
anybody could
experience and he brought him to
Jesus he Andrew brought him Simon to
to
Jesus and little did Simon realize that
day that this would be the beginning of
Miracles for
him over in John Chapter 2 we have the
miracle of the Turning of the water into
wine and the writer says this beginning
of miracles did
Jesus and it was the first of his public
Miracles but back in John chap 1
a miracle had taken
place and he brought him to
Jesus and Simon experience that Miracle
of Miracles which is the beginning of
Miracles and little did he realize that
he'd have a miracle life from then on
that he would see miracles in his
home that he would see miracles in his
business he would experience miracles of
Deliverance and miracles of pro
protection and miracles of
provision and best of all miracles of
character for Jesus Christ was going to
take a piece of clay named
Simon and turn him into a rock and
that's a great
miracle Simon was going to become a
living miracle and he was going to reach
out and touch other people and they
would experience the miracle this is
what the Christian life is all about and
he brought him to
Jesus now I'm sure that each of us here
today is interested in Sharing in the
miracle working of
God God still performs
Miracles God is still in the miracle
working business in homes and in
businesses he still has miracles of
protection and provision and guidance and
and
salvation I don't want to live an
ordinary life I want to live an
extraordinary life life is too short to
be spent in some kind of a boring
parenthesis I want life to be filled
with power and abundance and blessing
from the hand of God I'm not talking
necessarily about material things I'm
talking about spiritual
things Peter was never a wealthy man he
said to a beggar one day silver Gold
Have I None but such as I have give I
unto thee in the name of Jesus Christ of
Nazareth stand up and walk and a miracle
took place and I would rather go through
life touching the lives of people and
sharing a
money you and I can experience the
miracle of God perhaps if we look at
Simon and an Andrew and Jesus we will
understand what it means to experience
the miracle of God and he brought him to
Jesus there were three persons involved
in this miracle and if we examine these
three persons I think we will understand
what it means to be a part of the
miracle working of God three persons
first there was Simon The
Sinner and then there was Andrew the
soul winner
and then there was
Jesus the
Savior now the names may change this
morning except that Jesus won't it may
not be Simon and Andrew it may be two
other persons but it'll always be Jesus
and he brought him to Jesus let's look
at him Simon The
Sinner many people have a false view of P
P
pet because uh during a crisis in his
life he
cursed and he denied the Lord Jesus
there are people who have the idea that
Simon Peter was always
always
a worldly minded
impetuous rough cursing fisherman and
that's not
true you wouldn't judge Abraham because
twice told a lie about his wife Abraham
is the man of
Faith you wouldn't judge um
David because David committed
adultery David was a great man of
courage and
victory you certainly wouldn't judge
Moses because one day he lost his temper
my Bible tells me Moses was the meekest
of all men on the face of the Earth and
so don't move in on Peter and say hey
Peter in the garden when you were under
pressure you cursed and swore so all of
your life you must have been a cursing
swearing fisherman no
no when you read the record you discover
that Simon was a
devoted obedient
Jew Simon kept a kosher
home in Acts chapter 10 when Simon was
up on the top of the house waiting for
them to fix some dinner and the lord
gave him that vision of that great sheet
that was let down remember that in that
sheet were all kinds of living creatures
and God said to Peter rise Peter kill
and eat and Peter said not so Lord for I
have never eaten anything that's common
or unclean he kept the Old Testament
law don't get the idea that Simon Peter
was a rough worldly
worldly minded
minded
sinful disobedient Jewish fisherman Oh
no just the opposite is true Simon Peter
knew the Old Testament law and he obeyed
the Old Testament law and when Andrew
came to get Simon he was laying hands on
a man who was obedient to the law he was
not an irreligious man he was a religious
religious
man but you know Simon Peter had
discovered something about that law he
couldn't keep
it in Acts chapter 15 when the Jewish
Council the church is getting together
and meeting about whether or not
Gentiles have to become Jews before they
can become Christians Peter gave
testimony Peter said you remember how
God chose me to go to the Gentiles and
open to them the door of Salvation now
says Peter in Acts 15 why should we put
on the Gentiles a yoke which we
ourselves could not bear now you put
acts 10 and acts 15 together and you see
what Peter was like before he was saved
an obedient religious kosher Jew wearing
a yoke of bondage that was ging him and breaking
breaking
him but you see the law served its Purp
purpose in Simon's life Galatians 3:24
tells me that the purpose of the law was
to be a school Master to bring us to
Christ and that's exactly what it did
with Simon all of these years he had
been studying the law and trying to obey
the law he was crushed under the burden
of the Yoke of the law but you know what
that law did that law prepared him so
that when Jesus Christ came Simon was
ready to meet him and Andrew came and said
said
Simon you and I have been trying to keep
this law all of our lives and we can't
do it but we found the Messiah we have
found the one that we've been studying
about we found the one that we've been
searching for and he brought him to
Jesus and it was there that
Simon discovered a different yoke Jesus
Christ had said come un to me all ye
that labor under heavy laden and I will
give you rest take my yoke upon on you
and learn of me for I am meek and lowly
in heart and ye shall find rest under
your souls and Simon said that's what
I've been looking for rest and he took
off the Yoke of bondage and religion and
law and by faith he put on the Yoke of Jesus
Christ and he was
saved and Jesus gave him a new
name Jesus said now I know your name is
Simon that means a hearer it's the Old
Testament word Simeon to
hear and you've heard and faith comes by
hearing and hearing by the word of God
but I'm going to give you a new name Peter
Peter
sephus a rock
I suppose if anybody from his business
had been there other than his brother
they would have smiled and said a
rock this hunk of clay a rock this this
Sand Dune a
rock but that's what Jesus said a new
name signifying a new
nature something had happened down in
Peter now my friend the Lord prepares
people to come to Christ he prepared
Simon I I don't know how he's preparing
you sometimes people go through a stricken
stricken
conscience sometimes there are those
whose consciences are just beating at
them the judge is sitting behind the
desk pounding the gavel and saying
guilty guilty
guilty now if that's your situation my
friend God is saying what you need to do
is to come to Jesus the way Simon
did sometimes God prepares people with
great blessing
someone has said that they feel sorry
for atheists because when they have
something to be thankful for they have
no one to
thank and sometimes God brings blessing
to people the goodness of God leads us
to repentance and I have met people who
have said God has been so good to me and
I have not been good to him what must I
do to be
saved sometimes God takes people through
sorrow or tragedy or
emptiness life just seems so empty and
so dry and so baren and instead of
living in a paradise we're crawling
through a desert and that's God's saying
you need to come to Christ I don't know
how God prepares you but he prepared
Simon he wants to prepare you to meet
the Lord Jesus Simon The
Sinner and he came to
Jesus now let's look at Andrew the soul winner
winner
I appreciate this man
Andrew poor fellow always had to take
second fiddle to Simon Peter his brother
it's never Andrew Peter it's always
Peter Andrew in fact it's Peter Andrew
James John philli Barth but always Peter
Peter's first that didn't make any
difference to uh to Andrew whenever you
find Andrew in the Gospel of John he's
always doing the same thing he's always
bringing someone to Jesus you ever
noticed that
some years ago over in England they had
a program called operation
Andrew I don't think we'll find any
sermons from Andrew in the Bible we
don't have any records of his preaching
we do Peter we have two or three long
sermons from Peter but not from Andrew
we don't have any details about Andrew's
life but we know this about Andrew
whenever you find him in the Gospel of
John he's got someone in tow and he's
bringing that person to Jesus he brought
his brother to Jesus in John chap 6 he
brought that lad to Jesus who had the
Loaves and the fishes they were
wondering what are we going to do to
feed 5,000 people and and uh they said
well there's a lad here and Andrew
brought that lad to Jesus over in John
12 some Gentiles showed up and they
wanted to talk to the Lord and they came
and told philli and Philip told Andrew
and it was Philip and Andrew who brought
them to Jesus you know when we yet on
the other
side when we exchange the smog of
Chicago for the glory of
Heaven the one thing that's really going
to count is did we bring someone to
Jesus I appreciate Andrew the soul
winner you say well can I be a soul
winner yes I don't have any record here
that Andrew took any special courses we
have the privilege of taking courses and
we ought to I don't see here that Andrew
read any special books or listen to any
lectures but there was something in
Andrew's life that made him a soul
winner now what was it well I think
first of all he was a converted man he
had met the Lord Jesus Christ and he had
something to talk about after all a
witness a soul winner is not a
prosecuting attorney who goes out to
argue with
people Andrew didn't go and argue with
Simon he would have gotten nowhere Simon
would have talked him right down no
Andrew just simply went and said we have
found the Messiah that's all he said he
didn't sit him down some preach a
three-point sermon no he said we have
found the Messiah I have found something
Simon you and I for years have been
looking for something and we have found
it we have found the Messiah we have
found the
Savior Andrew had been listening to John
the Baptist preach you know God wins
people in different
ways John and Andrew were won through
the preaching of John the Baptist some
people are won through preaching Simon
Was Won through the personal witness of
his brother Andrew later on in this
chapter Jesus goes and talks to a man
personally and doesn't even use another
person to win him God wins people in
different ways but those of us who are
going to share Jesus Christ had better
have something to share this was the
problem John Wesley had John Wesley came
over to the United States to convert the
Indians and he himself needed to be
converted and when he get got back to
London and went to that meeting in
Aldersgate Street and discovered that he
had never trusted
Christ Andrew is a converted man Andrew
and John are listening to John the
Baptist preach and Along Comes Jesus you
see John the Baptist had a job to do and
that was to get get rid of his followers
and make them the Lord's followers you
beware of anybody who wants you to be
his follower God never called us to make
disciples for ourselves he called us to
make disciples for the Lord Jesus and
here comes Jesus walking and John the
Baptist says Behold the Lamb of God and
he lost two of his best disciples he
didn't care that's why he was there and
these men went and followed the Lord
Jesus and Jesus turned around and he
asked two question he asked a question
he said what are you seeking
that's a good question what are you
looking for why are you following me do
you want material gain do you want a
better job do you want physical healing
do you want F what do you want why are
you following
me why do you want to follow the lord
Jesus I hope you want to trust him
because you know you are a sinner
needing a savior and Jesus said to them
uh what are you looking for what are you
seeking and they said where are you
dwelling that's a good question where
does God
dwell back in Exodus he dwelt in a
Tabernacle in Kings he dwelt in a
temple when Jesus Christ was born on
this Earth God Came In the Flesh John
1:14 the word was made flesh and
tabernacled Among Us where do you dwell
Isaiah had a good answer to that
question over in Isaiah 57:1 15 where
God says he dwells with that person who
is of a contrite and a humble
heart I suppose our Lord had a little
booth someplace where he was living
because he really had no place where he
could lay his head and Jesus said to
them come and see first there was
interrogation what are you looking for
then there was invitation come and
see John likes this word come in John 1
it's come and see in John 7 it's come
and drink in John 21 want it's come and
dine and Jesus said come and see and so
they came I think that John uses Roman
time and it would have been 10:00 in the
morning and they had all day to
fellowship with the Lord but Andrew said
you know this is too good to keep to
ourselves John you've got a brother
named James you go get him I've got a
brother named Simon I'm going to go get
him let's go get our brothers let's
start at home and let's share what we
have and Andrew first found Simon and
then John found James and they brought
him to
Jesus you see he was a converted man
you've got to be a converted person a
saved person if you're going to share it
with somebody
else I appreciate the fact that he was a
communing man he communed with the Lord
it says here that they Abode with him
for it was about the 10th hour that word
abide was going to take on deeper
meaning for Andrew and for John abide if
you abide in me and my words abide in
you you shall ask what ye will and it
shall be done unto you abide in me as
the branch cannot bear fruit of itself
except it abide in the vine neither can
you except you abide in me if you abide
in me my father will come and dwell with
you and will make your life our
home they Abode with him this is the
kind of a person God uses to win
somebody else he was a man who was
converted he was a man who was communing
in fellowship with the Lord Jesus Christ
after all witnessing is not something
that we do witnessing something God does through
through
us something else I noticed about
Andrew he was a man of compassion a man
of concern as he was sharing the
blessings of the Lord he said you know
I'm my brother's
keeper now Cain had asked that question
in derision am I My Brother's Keeper and
the answer to that question is yes
yes God said to Andrew you know you've
got a brother who needs to be
saved what are you going to do about it
and because of the concern of his heart
he went and found his brother and he
brought him to
Jesus you see our problem friends is
that we enjoy spiritual blessings so
much we don't think about other people
I'm grateful for those in the Moody chur
Church who are
concerned who have a deep compassionate
concern to share Jesus Christ with other
people we're going to have many
opportunities in these days to come to do
do
that we have found the Messiah the Greek
word is
Eureka that's what uh our medes said
wasn't it when he discovered his famous
law Eureka I have found it but what
happened in the city of Chicago with
hundreds of people were going around
saying Eureka I have found it what have
you found oh we're going to find that
out we have found the Lord
Jesus Andrew the soul
winner Andrew is never going to go down
in history is a great
Theologian he's not going to go down in
history as a great preacher
but Andrew has gone down in history as a
man who was concerned about reaching other
other
people which leads us to the third
person involved in this miracle Jesus
Christ the Savior and he Andrew the soul
winner brought him Simon The Sinner to
Jesus Jesus the Savior now when he
brought him to Jesus to whom was he
bringing him he didn't bring bring him
to John the Baptist he didn't say Simon
what you need to do is meet John the
Baptist oh no no he brought him to Jesus
didn't bring him to the Jordan River uh
Peter was baptized but that's not why he
brought him he brought him to Jesus
didn't bring him to Moses he brought him to
to
Jesus to whom did he bring him it's
beautiful to walk into the Gospel of
John and you you right away you meet
Jesus in the beginning was the word and
the word was with God and the Word was
God all things were made by him Simon
here is your
creator Simon here is the light in him
was life and the life was the light of
man and the light shineth in the
darkness and the Darkness cannot put it
out Simon I want you to step out of the
darkness into the light Simon here is
the one who has Grace what does John say
for the law was given by Moses but Grace
and Truth came by Jesus Christ and of
his fullness have all we received and
Grace upon Grace Simon I want you to
step out of the darkness into the light
I want you to step out of law into Grace
I want you to step out of that yoke of
salvation he brought him to the Lamb of
God oh what a
Ser John the Baptist said Behold the
Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of
the world they've never heard a message
like that before millions of lambs had
been slain in Old Testament days but not
a one of them was the Lamb of God they
were Lambs brought to God but here is
the Lamb of God back in the Old
Testament there there were many lambs
here is one lamb back in the Old
Testament the lamb died for Israel but
here is one who dies for the world in
the Old Testament the blood of the Lamb
could never take away sin all it could
do was cover sin but here is one whose
death takes away sin no wonder John the
Baptist was excited Behold the Lamb of
God that taketh away the sin of the
World Simon I want you to meet
Jesus he'll take away your
sin now that's what you need that's what
need he said
Simon I want you to meet the Son of God
can you imagine
that the Son of God Simon you and I are
dead in trespasses and sins but here is
the Son of God who can give give us life
and light and
Liberty and he brought him to Jesus now
what did Jesus do when Simon came to him
what will Jesus do when you come to him
well first of all he's going to receive
you our Lord didn't hang a sign out and
say um not
available later on in this gospel Jesus
is going to say this all that the father
giveth me shall come to me
and him that cometh to me I will in no
wise cast out he didn't say you're too Wicked
Wicked
no he received
him now when you come to the Lord Jesus
Christ he'll receive you regardless of
how you come or who brings you he'll
receive you then having received Simon
he looked at him my Bible said he beheld
him that word means he looked right
through his eyes and right down into his
his heart that's what some people don't
like they want to stay hidden they want
to masquerade Simon stood there and
Jesus just looked at him and he saw what he
he
was I know you you're Simon he knows who you
you
are he knows the house you live in he
knows what street it's
on he knows all about you Simon I know
you I see what you are
but I also see what you can be thou art
Simon Thou shalt be a
rock whenever I read that little verse
I'm reminded of something that John
writes over in verse
12 but as many as received him to them
gave he the power to become the children
of God take that little phrase power to
become authority to become that's what
happens when you're saved first there's
a crisis and you're born into God's
family then there's a process you start
becoming what he wants you to become I
know you you're Simon but you shall be a
rock now rocks are made out of sand and
clay and it takes a lot of pressure and
a lot of heat to turned clay into a rock
and that's what Peter went
through throughout Matthew Mark and Luke
and John and act you find the Lord Jesus
applying the pressure and the Heat and
he's making a
rock it wasn't easy but it was
wonderful Miracle after miracle and
Peter would be in some tight situation
and the Lord would come in with his
Miracle power and he'd rescue him and
make a little more solid rock out of
him you know the last time Peter is
referred to in the Bible is not in second
second
Peter the last time he's referred to is
in the Book of
Revelation John is looking at that Holy
City and he said on the
foundations are the names of the
Apostles of Jesus
Christ and in those
foundations are embedded beautiful
Stones how about that thou art Simon a
hunk of clay I'm going to make you into
Peter a rock and when I'm finished with
you you're going to be one of my Jewels
up there in that Heavenly City it takes
a lot of heat and pressure to make a
jewel but God did
it and God can do it for
you there are people here in this Moody
church congregation today who years
ago were the dirtiest possible
clay and they came to
Jesus and he began to work on them first
he saved them took them up out of the
mey clay and then he began to work on
them and he's turning them into Jewels
his jewels oh there's been pressure and
there's been heat and there's been difficulty
difficulty
but there's been polishing and pressing
and molding by the gracious hands of God
there's been Miracle after Miracle after
miracle and today they are the jewels of
God only Jesus can do
that I know who you
are but I know what you can
be a drunken Barber wandered into the
and a miracle took place in his life and
Mel trod went up and down this country
Christ a successful ball player gave his
heart to Jesus Christ and Billy Sunday
went up and down the country winning
thousands of people to Jesus Christ and
God can take you and God can take me a
hunk of clay and mold us into a rock
something he can build upon and by the
time we get to Glory that rock is going
to be a
jewel shining forth for
him and he brought him to
Jesus that's the greatest privilege and
the greatest miracle that anybody could
miracle have you come to
Jesus we we sing in one of our songs
come to the savior make no delay here in
his word he shown us the way here in our
midst he's standing today tenderly saying
saying
come if you have come to Jesus are you
others that's what Chicago
needs people who will wake up in the
morning and say father make this a
miracle day
give me the privilege of helping
someone to come to
Jesus and he brought him to
Jesus would you come to the Savior today
and let him save you and would you make
yourself available to the Savior
today that he might use you in a miracle
ministry of touching the lives of
others we're thankful our
father that as weak as we are as
ignorant as we are you can still use us
we want to be stronger and we want to be
smarter we want to be better
Witnesses and we make ourselves
available now oh
Lord that we might share in this
wonderful privilege of bringing people to
to
Jesus I pray now father for any here
without the Savior those who need to
come give their Hearts to Christ help
them to
come I pray for any of your people
father who have gotten cold critical
Hearts who have been
been
careless about this matter of trying to win
win
others oh Lord we have found the Lord
Jesus and he has found us and all around
us are people who need to be found
please help us to touch their lives Lord
make our lives a miracle may we day
after day experience the miracle power
of the holy spirit in our lives for Jesus
Jesus sake
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