The God Who Cares and Knows You: John
By Kay Arthur and Pete De Lacy
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Kay Arthur's life-changing New Inductive Study Series has sold more than 1.2 million copies. This exciting series brings readers face-to-face with the truth of God's precepts, promises, and purposes—in just minutes a day. Ideal for individual study, one-on-one discipleship, group discussions, and quarterly classes.
With this inductive study of the Gospel of John, readers will discover the God who longs for His people to deeply know Him. As they learn to observe, interpret, and apply the text themselves, readers will come to a fresh understanding of God's incredible love and intimate knowledge of them, and the assurance that they can trust Him to lead and guide their lives with mercy and grace.
Kay Arthur
Kay Arthur is a four-time Gold Medallion award-winning author, member of NRB Hall of Fame, and beloved international Bible teacher. She and her husband, Jack, cofounded Precept Ministries International to teach people how to discover truth through inductive study. Precept provides teaching and training through study books, TV and radio programs, the Internet, and conferences in over 180 countries and 70 languages.
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WEEK ONE
FROM DEATH TO LIFE
Do you ever feel dead? You know what I mean. You know you’re physically alive, but on the inside you feel dead. You feel as if no life is there, and you wish there were. Perhaps you feel absolutely numb—nothing can make you happy, nothing gives you a high, nothing even gives you a low—as if you were in a state of anesthesia.
You can have hope, Beloved. A Light is shining that can lead you out of that deadness and into life.
Some books of the Bible clearly state why they were written—this one, for example! So let’s begin our study by reading John 20:30-31 and recording its purpose.
Now read John 1, noting the main characters. Which two are mentioned most?
You’ll see the author emphasize subjects by repeating key words and phrases. You’ll be marking many of these words and phrases throughout John, so a good technique is to record them and how you plan to mark them on a 3 × 5 card and use this as a bookmark. Doing this from lesson to lesson will help you mark consistently and save time.
Now read through John 1:1-18 again and mark Word.
Now read John 1:1-18 again, marking pronouns referring to the Word the same way you marked Word. Read carefully to make sure the pronouns refer to the Word, not someone or something else! (Pronouns substitute for nouns—in this context you’ll see words like Him, His, He, and in other places, it.)
Read John 1:1-18 again, this time marking synonyms for Word. (Synonyms are words that mean the same thing.)
Today observe the verses in which you marked Word and its pronouns and synonyms in John 1:1-18. Make a list of what you learned from the text.
Now let’s relate what we learned so far to John’s purpose (20:30-31), which you read on day one. Has God given any signs to show that Jesus is the Son of God—that is to say, that Jesus is God? What does John 1:1-18 say about Jesus that you can relate to John 20:30-31?
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Now list everything that you learned about him.
Read John 1:19-51 and mark every reference to Jesus Christ the same way you marked Word. Don’t miss pronouns and synonyms like Lamb of God and man.
Now read John 1:19-51 again and mark every reference to John.
Today, add all you learned in 1:19-51 about Jesus and John to the lists you made from verses 1-18.
Finally, think about all you have seen this week and determine the main subject of this chapter. Write this out as a theme for John 1 and record it on JOHN AT A GLANCE in the appendix.
Store in your heart: John 1:1,14
Read and discuss: John 1:1-27; 20:30-31
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION OR INDIVIDUAL STUDY
What is the purpose of the Gospel of John?
What evidence do you see in John 1:1-18 that Jesus is the Son of God?
Discuss how to become a child of God. What is the result of believing?
Who is the witness in John 1:1-27? What function does witnessing involve?
What’s the significance of signs being done in the presence of the disciples (20:30)?
What application can you make to your own life? Are you a child of God? How do you know?
How does this week’s study motivate you to share what you learned with others?
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
Perhaps you’re unhappy and feel trapped by circumstances in your life. Nothing in life excites you. You just feel dead. And the thing is, you may actually be spiritually dead. You need to know that being spiritually dead in this life is like hell because you keep looking for something that’s going to make you happy, something that’s going to touch you, something that’s going to make you come alive. But you don’t realize that it’s some One.
Maybe you’ve gone to psychologists or even psychiatrists seeking answers but haven’t found them. Maybe you’ve tried killing the numbness with pills, alcohol, or drugs. But even these don’t take away the deadness, the feeling of no answers, no hope.
John says he wrote his Gospel so that we might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, and that believing we might have life in His name. That life is the only life with true hope. When you and I believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, we get life. Before this, if we feel dead, it’s because we are. We were all spiritually stillborn because of trespasses and sins (Ephesians 2:1). So if you haven’t been made alive in Christ, feeling dead is legitimate. And if you have been made alive but still feel dead, Jesus says there’s more to the life you have; there’s abundant life (John 10:10). Whatever’s missing, leaving us feeling dead, He supplies.
To achieve his purpose, John is going to show us signs that Jesus performed in the presence of His disciples. Not every sign, but the signs that the world needs to see in order to know that Jesus is the Christ.
John 1:1 tells us that the Word has always been—He was in the beginning. We also learn that He was with God—so we know He’s distinct in some way from God. And what else is He? The Lamb of God, according to verse 29. And there we learn His name—Jesus.
And He is life. So if you feel dead, where do you find life? In Jesus Christ. And what is that life? It’s the Light that enlightens every man. In other words, everyone is born with some sort of a hope for eternal life. People know somebody is out there
apart from them—some source of light and life. They know they need to bow to someone. You say, "Not me! I don’t believe in a God. I believe I’m god!" Then you do believe there’s a god, and that god is you—and that will cause