Message Notes

January 25, 2026
Teacher: Paul Mermilliod

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John 20:30-31
Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; [31] but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

BIG TRUTH:
JESUS IS THE REVELATION OF GOD, THE TEMPLE IN THE FLESH 

John 2:11
This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.

John 2:13-22
The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. [14] In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. [15] And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. [16] And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade.” [17] His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

[18] So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?” [19] Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” [20] The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” [21] But he was speaking about the temple of his body. [22] When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

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Why Is The Temple Significant? 

• The temple was the place of worship for God’s people.
• The temple was the place of atonement for God’s people.
• The temple was the place of God’s presence for His people.

Big Idea:
Jesus is the true and better temple.

John 2:19, 21
Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up”… But he was speaking about the temple of his body.

Big Idea:
In Jesus we now have access to God. 

John 1:9-12
The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. [10] He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. [11] He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. [12] But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

Big Idea:
In Jesus we now are alive to God. 

John 1:4, 12-13
In him was life, and the life was the light of men… But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

Big Idea:
In Jesus we now experience the presence of God. 

John 1:14, 16-18
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth… [16] For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. [17] For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. [18] No one has ever seen God; God the only Son, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.

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this week: John 2:1-25

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