The Beauty of the Cross - Bill Johnson Full Sermon | Bethel Church
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- In this full sermon, Bill Johnson talks about the beauty of the Cross and what it means for us in our Christian life. The Cross reminds us of the victory we have in Christ, but also the call to lay our lives down, taking up our own cross and surrendering our desires. God wants to bless us more than we can ask or imagine, but our desire for Him and His Kingdom must come first.
“If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.” Matthew 16:24-25 NKJV
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Scripture References:
Matthew 26
1 Corinthians 1: 18
John 12
Philippians 3: 18
Matthew 16: 21-26
Matthew 6: 33
Proverbs 10: 22
1 Corinthians 13
Originally shared at Bethel Church, Redding California, on January 29, 2023.
Bill Johnson is a fifth-generation pastor with a rich heritage in the Holy Spirit. He is senior leader of Bethel Church in Redding, California, and is passionate about seeing Revival and God’s Kingdom established and revealed in the lives of individuals, families, communities, and nations. Bill’s teaching on the Kingdom of Heaven, hosting the Presence, and the renewed mind has helped thousands around the world to step into their true identity in Christ, God given purpose, and walk in a supernatural lifestyle displaying both purity and power.
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It never stops amazing me how I can chew on just one sentence from his sermons for a week!!
Right! I'll listen and think....That was so over my head, I have to listen again.
Ditto
So true!
Profound. As always..how good is God that He poors out His wisdom for those who hear. Thank you Bill for hearing and sharing.
Going through my second time today because the first time just blew me away how powerful it was! I am so grateful for your teaching! I am so privileged! Thank you!♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Everyone listening to this worship song will make it in life in Jesus Mighty Name..
Pastor Johnson. I listen to you daily sometimes multiple times. You and your message and anointing have changed my life. Roxanne Watts
Man, this was one powerful, wonderful message. You could feel the anointing and the presence of Jesus. Really loved this! Thank you!
Thank you for teaching the whole gospel. The appealing parts and the hard parts; the ones that seem unappealing at the time, but are the ones that can bring us more and more into the image of Christ. You do that so incredibly well. 💝
"The 'yes' to God no matter what." ❤
Majestic Heavenly Father God so Eternally Beautiful Magnificent Hallowed Be Thy Name Forevermore in the Name of King of Glory Jesus Your Only Son Eternally Radiant Matchless Splendor by the Power of the Holy Spirit... for it's not by Might Nor by Power but by Your Spirit says The Lord
We agree for Apostle Bill Johnson and the Apostolic Teams at Bethel Church Global Movement Stream for the pouring out of the Holy Spirit upon the nations that Bethel Church Global Movement Stream is growing in !
I listen to your thought provoking & God seeking messages more than any other. I can never thank you enough. 😊
My prayer is that the Lord would restore me back to the pulpit.
Thank you Pastor Bill. Beautiful message of God's love and importance of discipleship.
I receive that grace and psalms 20 Amen Jesus.
This has made me cry all the way through! And laugh some.
Thank you Bill, I needed this word today.
Thank you for teaching hard truths with such love.
Bill always teaches me. Thank you Holy Spirit.
I loved listening to this on this Good Friday, here in Cambodia
God bless you in Abundance Pastor Johnson.Thank you to you & to the entire team for making every effort to understand the DEPTHS OF GOSPEL.LOADS OF LOVE & RESPECT FOR BETHEL CHURCH
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Job well done sir.
Thank you for always shining the light on a Glittering Gospel
I love this man so much.
Thank you Bill Johnson for sharing a powerful word i needed to hear and i receive.
Amen
Thank you Bill ....!!!
Bill I often listen to u but it take me sometime to understand this. Soo deep
Wonderful.
Many thanks!
Regarding the death of Jesus on the cross.
Bill Johnson said “Jesus couldn’t resurrect himself”
Jesus said in John 10:18 “ no one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.”
It seems Jesus says himself that He has authority for taking up His life again.
The purpose of the cross was to pay for the sins of those who place their faith in Christ.
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I think he didn't have the fear of the Lord is why he gave Him up..
5:25
Can someone please explain to me what he means by “Jesus couldn’t resurect himself, the only one who can bring resurrection is the believer?”
The only one who can bring resurrection is the Father
So is he saying Jesus is not God? Because He is, Jesus himself claimed this many times in scripture, not to mention that we know that the trinity is 3 in one so Jesus is God as is the Holy Spirit. Also, very confusing because then he said that the believer is the one who resurrects him, he didn’t say God did.. ?
John 10:30, John 1:18, john1:1, John 10:17-18
@@bethanybuse4532No he is not saying Jesus is not God. Please don’t misunderstand and confuse this. A lot of people miss this. Jesus was God, eternally, never stopped being God ever. Never took on godhood or anything like that. That’s an ancient heresy which Bill and Bethel do not teach.
Regarding your question, what Bill is saying is that Jesus lived as a man, meaning that he functioned as a man who was yielded to the Father. He lived out the days of his flesh as a believer. Yes he was God and messiah, and his message and ministry pointed people to that fact. But the way in which he operated was as a man who was reliant upon the grace of God and not with the special advantages of being God. Hence why he calls us to follow him.
The answer to your resurrection question is that the Father raised Jesus from the dead. Jesus went to the cross with the faith which the Father supplied believing that he would raise him from the dead. The point is that Jesus is modeling a life of grace through faith and not self-reliant works of power. Much like how it says in Hebrews 11 how Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac believing that God would raise his son from the dead, so did Jesus go to the cross believing that his Father would raise him after three days being in the grave.
The Father, figuratively speaking, (Bill is speaking figuratively here), was the believer who raised Jesus from the dead.
Jesus was the believer who raised Lazarus from the grave. The Father was the “believer” who raised Jesus from the dead.
@@camgalloway691 thanks for your response, and we certainly don’t have to go back and forth with this.. it just sounds like when we say things like Jesus “believed” that God would raise Him from the dead that Jesus was not in fact truly man and truly God while He was here on earth. It sounds like we are making Him more man than God which is not the case. Yes He willingly gave up of His glory by taking the body of a man but He was still truly God. So Jesus would not need to “believe” anything because He is all knowing, He knew what was needed to be done for our sins and He willingly laid down His life for us but He also knew that He would be and had to be raised again in order to save us, without His resurrection His dying alone would not save us. He had to conquer death. Maybe the wording “believe” is just what is throwing me off and sounds like we are belittling who Jesus is even in His earthly form. Abraham was a full man so he had to “believe” that God would raise issac or that he would do something to still fulfill His promise through Isaac. Just not sure why we compare Jesus to an actual fallen man. Gods word is clear that the Trinity all played a role is Jesus’s resurrection as they can not act inseparable. John 2:19-21 John 10:18 Rom 8:11 Gal 1:1 1 Pet 3:18b
Anyway thank you for your time. ❤️
@@bethanybuse4532 Yes, exactly. Jesus said "no one takes my life, I lay it down and I raise it back up".
is it possible to meet Bill Johnson?
But Jesus said Himself this…
19 Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."
20 The Jews then said, "It took forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?"
21 But He was speaking of the temple of His body. (John 2:19, NASB)
So who is right? Jesus or Bill?
Amen! This type of theology that makes Jesus the same as us and us able to be Jesus is just crushing law. I have to surrender, I have to give and give up snd seek...a whole sermon on the cross without preaching the gospel. CHRIST did all that perfectly for me and through Him and His Spirit I can die to self become new every day. Really sad!
Amen