Category: John
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Are you sure?
John 5:24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.” There are many people who say that you can’t know if you have eternal life. These are religious people, people that attend a church somewhere,…
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Carried
John 5:17-26 “On one of those days, as He (i.e., Jesus) was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with Him to heal.And behold, some men were bringing on a bed a man who was…
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A message wonderfully repeated
John 4:18 “You have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband.” John 8:11 “And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.” John 15:11 “These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy…
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Do you thirst?
John 4:13-14 “Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” Have you ever been in a situation where someone…
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The wrath of God
John 3:36 “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.” One of the things that I’ve heard people – including preachers – say to encourage other people is “God isn’t mad at you!” I’ve heard this said as a…
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Eternal life
John 3:36 “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.” Do you realize what eternal life is? It is not something in the far away future that we are waiting for, although that may be where our…
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How’s your love life?
John 3:19 “And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.” Have you ever had a friend ask you “So, how’s your love life?” It’s a way of asking a person if there’s anyone else in their life…
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Kept in the dark
John 3:19 “And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. “ Do you like to be “kept in the dark” about things that are important for your life? Have you ever been aggravated because people in authority were making decisions…
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The whole truth
John 3:18 “Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.” Do you like to be told half-truths? When there’s both good news and bad news which is part of a story, do you like…
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The Healer
John 3:17 “For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him.” It was nearly seven years ago that my father was diagnosed with lung cancer. As I’ve learned since his diagnosis, one of the most significant problems with lung cancer is…
To Encourage You 