Taking from just a few selections of the meat found in this section of Scripture, I want to hone in on a couple major points.Let's look at Jesus being the light of the world. The language is very remi...  Read More

Well there is a lot to cover in this passage. Jesus is in the temple, speaking with the Pharisees and you have two sides juxtaposed to one another. On one side, you have Jesus. He is making some extre...  Read More

12 Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”13 The Pharisees therefore said to Him, “You bear wit...  Read More

I do sincerely hope that this time of prayer has been taken seriously and that you have developed a stronger prayer life through my encouragement last week. I want to continue on that trend.Today, tak...  Read More

When it comes to dealing with sin in our lives, it is easy to get focused on the wrong things. Let me give a simple fitness analogy. Let's say I was wanting to run faster. I recognized that I have sla...  Read More

Let's zero in on a specific phrase that Jesus uses."Go and sin no more." -John 8:11bThe instruction to sin no more is not only found in this place. It is also found in John 5:14. These are instruction...  Read More

Considering that this narrative was likely passed by way of oral tradition, we can examine it by way of the themes found in the text. The theme that most would recognize is the fact that Jesus is the ...  Read More

Admittedly, the connection and context is a little difficult to ascertain here. Bible scholars will tell you that John 7:53-8:11 is a little bit controversial, and most Bibles will tell you as much. T...  Read More

In this section, we have a very interesting narrative that has caused a lot of question marks for a lot of scholars and raised a lot of speculation on everything that transpires in this text.To begin,...  Read More

But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2 Now early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him; and He sat down and taught them. 3 Then the scribes and Pharisees broug...  Read More

This may serve as a secondary application, and I am going to take advantage of it. Get your calendars and planners out and block out a section of time each day where you are devoted to the Lord in pra...  Read More

As I weigh the questions from yesterday, I consider something serious. I find that I do thirst, but that it has been increasingly easier for me to quench that thirst with things other than Christ. The...  Read More

Just as the invitation was extended to them, so the invitation is also extended to me. A convicting question occurs to me. Before I share the question, I want to highlight the prerequisite that Jesus ...  Read More

A mentor of mine helped me to see something extremely important throughout the Gospels. Jesus extends a simple invitation. He does not make demands and insist. He invites. And here, we see that invita...  Read More

Bible scholars have long made the connection with Jesus' statement with what is occurring at that time with the Feast of Tabernacles. It has been well established that the Biblical feasts give strong ...  Read More

Jesus is continuing in Jerusalem at the Feast of Tabernacles. In this passage, it is now the final day of the feast and Jesus stands and announces prophetically something about Himself.37 On the last ...  Read More

37 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. 38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his he...  Read More

As we discussed, the most important thing for us to do in this matter is to humbly submit ourselves to the Lord. Let us first do that and then let us pray for those that we have a hard time with. Mayb...  Read More

Given the fact that I do have a natural tendency to quickly pass judgment, I have two things that I practice to get past the surface. First, I challenge my position. Second, I ask a lot of questions.F...  Read More

We have all heard the saying, "Don't judge a book by its cover." What is the saying trying to get us to do? It is wanting us to look beneath the surface. We may see an individual who is upset and just...  Read More

It is essential in our reading not to just look upon the connections and the contexts, but actually analyze what the texts were saying. At the heart of this passage, there is a lesson that is incredib...  Read More

There is a very important connection to the broader context as a whole. Coming out of John 6 and this earlier section in John 7, we have seen a lot of rejection of Jesus and very little belief taking ...  Read More

Jumping right in from the previous section, Jesus now is in Jerusalem for the Feast of Tabernacles. He makes His way up into the temple and begins teaching. This led to the Jewish leaders to marvel at...  Read More

14 Now about the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and taught. 15 And the Jews marveled, saying, “How does this Man know letters, having never studied?”16 Jesus answered them and said,...  Read More