CV Community Church

The biggest problem facing Australians, and especially young people, is having a purpose and vision for their lives. In this section of John 18, Jesus' earthly ministry comes to a close. But from Him, we learn what it is to live for the glory of God, for the love of God and the love of His people. This is what compels Jesus to face the cross as He did. We can learn from this and take from Jesus an...

In John 17, Jesus gives us His High Priestly Prayer, praying first that He would bring glory to the Father and that the Father would return Him to the glory that He had before the world began. Second, Jesus prays for His disciples, their mission and their unity that they would be one. And finally, Jesus prays for all of those who would come to believe the message that the disciples would take out...

CV Community Church will be reviewing again the laws that Christ has laid down, the commands that Christians must follow. The first is this, that we believe upon Jesus and the second is that Christians love one another as Christ has loved us. This will be a defining feature of our love for Jesus. Disobedience, Jesus goes as far as to say, is to not love Him. And so, we take these commands and give...

In the last section of John 16, Jesus will give a final group address to His disciples, preparing them for His crucifixion and ascension to go back to be with His Father. The disciples are still in a bit of confusion and so Jesus speaks very plainly to them, telling them that He came from the Father, entered the world and now He is leaving the world and going back to the Father. The disciples feel...

The Lord Jesus knows what lays ahead for His disciples. The world will hate them because they first hated Him. The world has no room in their heart for the Lord Jesus or for His Father. And so, Jesus speaks to His disciples, to encourage them and also to warn them of the trials that lay ahead. Trials so hard that even people will look to harm and kill them, thinking that they are doing God's w...

Jesus describes Himself as a vine, and that His father is the gardener. We will discuss today what this means, but also how it is that we remain in Him, connected into the vine that we may bear much fruit. And the way we would do this and the way Jesus asks us to remain in Him is through obedience to the commands, His teachings that have run all the way through the book of John. The teachings are...

What is a nation without leadership? So it is for God's people, the church. Jesus is telling His disciples He will soon return to be with His father, but before that time, He promises that we will not be left without leadership and that we would also have the power of God, to seal us, teach us, advocate for us - this is the Holy Spirit. Jesus, in John 14, introduces this help that comes from G...

It really hurts when we open our lives up to people and love them but they feel like we are holding back from them. Maybe this has happened to you, or you've done that to somebody else. You had a wrong intention towards someone who only had good things for you. Well, Jesus is being questioned by the disciples, after three to three and a half years with Him, they still ask things like, "ho...

As the time draws closer to Jesus going to the cross, He has commanded His disciples to be servants to one another and to love one another as He has loved them. But now, in John chapter 14, Jesus begins by preparing the disciples for His going to be with the Father. Interestingly, Jesus doesn't want them to focus on Him being separated from them physically. All of us at times may have felt thi...

Jesus has finished washing His disciples' feet in the upper room, and He now goes on to give a new command. Unlike the old command "love your neighbour as yourself", this new command is one by which Christians must love one another as Christ has loved us. This includes both the sacrificial service that we were taught with the foot washing, but also a love that very much resembles the...

Jesus, now finishing his public ministry, joins the disciples in the upper room to have a final meal with them before His betrayal and being taken to the cross. During the meal, Jesus does something very out of the ordinary – He dresses up as a servant, take some water and cloths, and begins to wash the feet of the disciples. His first teaching is He reminds Peter that if Jesus does not serve us,...

At this time, Jesus will give His last public address to the people of Israel in Jerusalem and from John's perspective, things have not gone well. Many do not believe and those that do believe, will not stand with Jesus for fear of the Pharisees and them being kicked out of the synagogue. Jesus will go on and give His last appeal for the reasons why they should believe and not just believe, bu...

Jesus, the King of the world, comes riding into the city of the great King, Jerusalem, on a donkey. This is not normal because kings would normally come on the finest war horses, and the people in Jerusalem, even laid down palm branches for Jesus as if He was a King who had won a great battle. In John 12: 12-36, Jesus is going to remind us that His time for glorifying the Father is coming up so ve...

Today we see many people who make decisions based off hidden motives or underlying intentions. And it was no different at the time of Christ. In this section of Scripture, we will see how some Jews will hand Jesus over to the Pharisees, to try and get Him in trouble for raising Lazarus from the dead. Others in power will be scared to lose the temple, their nation and their hold of power and so wil...

There are many difficulties and struggles in this life, and Jesus, like the good shepherd that He is, will lead us through each and every one of them. But, the greatest difficulty, an enemy that we have, is the power of sin and the penalty and death for that sin. Can we trust Jesus here also? Today, in John 11, we are going to see a chapter that should terrify Satan - he has the power of death, an...

Today's sermon will be on John chapter 10. In this section, Jesus will continue to look at the divide between those who belong to Him and those who do not. As the Pharisees and legal experts are still looking for a way to kill Him, Jesus boldly continues to speak up in the presence of these people. He informs them that He is the true shepherd of the sheep, that is, God's people and that He...

So few have received Jesus as Israel's Messiah, the Christ. All Jesus has been doing is healing, and saying wonderful truths of God. Yet, not many come to believe in Him. But, in today's sermon, we see a man whom Jesus healed, though he was born blind, he now can see. This is the power of God through Christ Jesus. And in this particular miracle, we will discover from the Old Testament that...

In John Chapter 8, Jesus will have His evidence, authority and even identity attacked by the Pharisees. As He moves through speaking to them, they become more and more aggressive as He reveals more and more about who He is, and what He has come to do in saving humanity. This is how Jesus treats those that are hard-hearted towards Him. He doesn't fight back, but instead just speaks of greater h...

Today we will take a look at John 8:1 -11 and discover that hundreds of years after the apostles had given their account of what they had seen and heard of the Lord Jesus Christ, some tried to add various stories into the Bible. Most of these have been caught and pulled out but even today, there are even a couple that remain, this being one of them. We will analyse how we have come to trust the Sc...

A toddler in their family home feels loved and valued, but if that same toddler gets lost at a shopping centre, that value and that love evaporates and turns into fear. So, it is with humanity when we place our value or our greatness in the things of this world. These things are not going to last forever. It is as though we are in the wrong place because our place is with God through the Lord Jesu...

People don't knowingly go into a situation to be ripped off,nor do they enter a competition when they know that it is rigged. Yet, all across this world and every day, people hand their lives over to the things of this world that they cannot take with them into the next life. It is so important to understand this part of Jesus' ministry - Jesus is calling people to have eternal life in Him...

John 6 continues with much of the same. The crowds continue to grumble, and even sharply dispute against the Lord Jesus. The Lord has offered them the bread that comes down from heaven, the bread of life and drink that if they do consume, they will never thirst again. Yet as they bicker and complain against the Lord, the Lord talks in more literal terms. Instead of bread and drink, He turns to usi...

After Jesus announces to the crowd that they have only come to Him because of the five loaves and two fishes that He had broken to feed thousands, He goes on to give them a very clear description of what it is the Father requires for they to have eternal life. The answer that He gives is that all who come to Him, He will give that life. Sadly, in this exchange, the crowd does not receive Jesus by...

At this point in Jesus’ ministry, He goes away to spend time alone while the disciples hop back into the boat and head eastward along the Sea of Galilee. As they do, the boat is buffeted by waves and they strain at the oars. Yet, in all three gospel accounts of this time in Jesus’ ministry, the disciples are not afraid of the waves and the water. No! It is when Jesus meets them out on the water, w...

As Christians, once we place our faith in the Lord Jesus, there are two types of faith that we must encounter at times in our life. The first one is when we are put in impossible situations, and we must grit and hold fast to Jesus and this will be next week’s sermon. As for this week, it is about trusting the Lord Jesus for the day to day. In this passage, Jesus goes on to do the impossible, askin...