Eye-Opening Light: Seeing through Shame

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Speaker: Dave Royes
Scripture: John 9:1-9 & 35-41
April 27, 2025

Sermon Notes

Outline:

1. Intro: “What’s your story?”

2. Main point

3. The reasons for shame

• Our own sin

• The sins of others

• God’s work

4. The redemption displayed

• Jesus cleanses him

• Jesus exhibits him

• Jesus shepherds him

5. The reversal of sight

Eye-Opening Light: Seeing at Night

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Speaker: Dave Royes
Scripture: John 3:1-21
April 13, 2025

Sermon Notes

Outline:

1. Main point

2. A Religious Man (with a hidden problem)

• A man with wealth and influence

• A man with spiritual curiosity, but cultural hindrance

3. The Triune God (with an unbelievable plan)

• The Spirit gives life

• The Son is lifted

• The Father loved

4. All people (with ultimate beliefs)

• Whoever

• Response to the Light

• Empty living vs. eternal living

Eye-Opening Light: Seeing His Signs

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Speaker: Dave Royes
Scripture: John 2:1-11
March 16, 2025

Eye-Opening Light: Seeing His Glory

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Speaker: Dave Royes
Scripture: John 1:1-18
March 9, 2025

Sermon Notes

2 Chronicles 26: 15-16: “The Lord, the God of their ancestors, sent word to them through his messengers again and again, because he had pity on his people and on his dwelling place. But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his words and scoffed at his prophets until the wrath of the Lord was aroused against his people and there was no remedy.”

Outline:

1. His climatic coming

• God called out to His own

2. His sober diagnosis

• We naturally hide

• We easily misunderstand

• We quickly reject

3. His unbelievable message

• God adopts all who receive Him

4. Applications

”When we approach Him in the intensity of worship, we gather up all the sweetness involved in Fatherhood and all the tenderness wrapped up in sonship; when calamities overcome us and troubles come in like a flood, we lift up our cry and stretch out our arms to God as a compassionate Father; when the angel of death climbs in at the window of our homes and bears away the object of our love, we find our dearest solace in reflecting upon the fatherly heart of God; when we look across the swelling flood, it is our Father’s House on the light-covered hills beyond the stars which cheers us amid the crumbling of the earthly tabernacle.” — Robert Webb