Let There Be Light: Jesus meets us in our failures (John 18:12-27) - Richard Rieves

Downtown Church: Memphis, TN

Today's Scripture: John 18:15-27

“My most common prayer request these days is that God would give me consistent, uninterrupted sleep, because in the middle of almost every night, I lay awake for several hours wrestling. I wrestle with preoccupation, with self-doubt, with the dissatisfaction of unmet expectations and unrealized goals and dreams, with pressure that I put on myself or that I fear others will put on me, with the burdens of the day behind me and the day ahead of me, and with the sense that my work is never going to be satisfactory or complete. In other words, I wrestle over the unique calling of leadership—which is both an unspeakable privilege and a burden that must be carried, often alone...” Scott Sauls

Main Idea: Jesus uses our sin and betrayal to draw us deeper into His love. Jesus doesn’t abandon us in our betrayals, He actually uses them for His glory and our good.

I. Sin exposes in us the object of our real and authentic trust.

(Jeremiah 17:9-10)

(John 13:36-38)

(Romans 1:16-17)

(Hebrews 11:1, 17-19)

II. Sin is always an issue of identity.

(Galatians 2:11-14)

(Galatians 5:14-15)

III. Jesus is the way to and the essence of acceptance and love!

(John 6:38)

(John 3:35)

(John 5:20)

(John 10:17)

(John 15:9)

(John 17:24)