Embrace your Scriptures

You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.  I do not receive glory from people.  But I know that you do not have the love of God within … More Embrace your Scriptures

October 17 John 5:31-47

October 17  John 5:31-47 (ESV) 31 If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not deemed true. 32 There is another who bears witness about me, and I know that the testimony that he bears about me is true. 33 You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. 34 Not that the testimony … More October 17 John 5:31-47

October 16 John 5:16-30

October 16  John 5:16-30 (ESV) 16 And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. 17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.” Jesus Is Equal with God 18 This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, … More October 16 John 5:16-30

October 15 John 5:1-15

October 15  John 5:1-15 (ESV) The Healing at the Pool on the Sabbath 5:1 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic [1] called Bethesda, [2] which has five roofed colonnades. 3 In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, … More October 15 John 5:1-15

October 14 John 4:43-54

October 14  John 4:43-54 (ESV) 43 After the two days he departed for Galilee. 44 (For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.) 45 So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For they too had gone … More October 14 John 4:43-54

Without the Holy Spirit we are spiritually blind and dull and unresponsive

Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?” —John 4:31-33 (4:27-42 is our reading for today) John Piper: For the fourth time in this … More Without the Holy Spirit we are spiritually blind and dull and unresponsive

October 13 John 4:27-42

October 13   John 4:27-42 (ESV) 27 Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” 28 So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a … More October 13 John 4:27-42

His glorious sufficiency as water, prophet, savior, and Messiah.

The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”  Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”  The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no … More His glorious sufficiency as water, prophet, savior, and Messiah.