Sunday Sermon Series John 1:35-51

Hello everyone. Today I have an illustration I created last Sunday in church. We have been working our way through the gospel of John. In this sermon Jesus calls his disciples to follow him. You can view the full sermon here.

The week before John introduced us to Jesus. He was the voice crying out in the wilderness, preparing the way of the Lord. Pointing everyone to Jesus, just as we should be doing. In the selected scripture this week Jesus extends an invitation to some of the disciples to follow him.

The disciples were not nuetral or undecided on Jesus, they dropped what they were doing and followed Him as He began His ministry. They left life long occupations, family and friends, comfort and established lives to follow the messiah. So begins the roughly three year journey to the cross. Imagine hiking along with Jesus for 3 years, seeing miracles, listening to His teaching, seeing Him crucified, and then raised again, and then His ascension!

Here we see Jesus, I've been pretty good lately about staying "on character" which means my drawings of Jesus look like the same character each time. I'm planning on my next book project being a Jesus picture book. I want to do some resesarch and see what kind of knapsacks they used in those days. I know they didn't have extensive wardrobes like we do, but it seems like they would want to carry previsions of some kind.

Here we have the disciples. One is dropping a fishing net, so I suppose that is Andrew, or James or John. I already have a character model for Peter. I was seriously channeling Chevy Chase when I drew the one on the far left. Remember in the movie Fletch, where Fletch is undercover on the beach, as a roller skating hippy dude. hahaha... yeah, I know, back to the point.

I hope that you have enjoyed my synopsis of the sermon, and my illustration. Please go and listen to the sermon by Pastor Ryan there is good truth revealed in this scripture about following Jesus. I hope that you are challenged or encouraged by my post. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me, if I don't have the answer I'll ask my pastor and get back to you. May God richly bless you my friends, until next time.--Ryan