Category: John
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Will you believe the truth?
John 3:3 “Jesus answered him, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.’” One of the marks of the Hebrew language that was spoken by the Jews when Jesus walked this earth was its use of repetition. It was a means of emphasizing a thought. We see it in the…
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Eternity . . .
Hell . . . is . . . forever Heaven is as well Jesus spoke often of both places. Do you have ears to hear what He said? (Luke 16:19-31; Matthew 25:31-46; John 3:1-21; John 14:1-6)
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No Greater Gift
John 1:1-5, 14 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of…
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So What About Him?
John 21:20-22 “Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them, the one who also had leaned back against him during the supper and had said, ‘Lord, who is it that is going to betray you?’ When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, ‘Lord, what about this man?’ Jesus said to him, ‘If it my will that…
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He Said, She Said
John 20:30-31 “Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; 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.” We’ve all heard of the “he said, she said” situations…
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Seeing is Believing: Really?
John 3:3 “Jesus answered him, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.’” We’ve all heard the saying, “Seeing is believing.” It’s one of those old sayings that has just been passed down through the years. However, like some other old sayings that people seem to take for granted as…
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Absolute Sovereignty
John 19:28-30 “After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), ‘I thirst.’ A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth.When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, ‘It is finished,’ and he bowed his…
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To Embrace or Reject?
John 21:20 “. . . the disciple whom Jesus loved . . .” One of the thoughts that I had as I reflected on John’s description of himself in the phrase from John 21:20 above, was that although this was an expression that was unique to the apostle John, it could have been used by…
To Encourage You 