NO OTHER GOD! There is none like you, O LORD, and there is no God besides you. —I Chronicles 17:20 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by human hands. They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see. They have ears, but cannot hear, nor is there breath in their mouths. Those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them. —Psalm 135:15-18 See now that I myself am he! There is no god besides me. I put to death and I bring to life, I have wounded and I will heal, and no one can deliver out of…

JESUS TAKES BLINDNESS AWAY! One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.” John 9:25 Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” He answered, “And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?” Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and it is he who is speaking to you.” He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him. Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.” —John 9:35-39             Consider having been born blind and then instantly…

LISTEN TO JESUS! The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” And once more…

DEATH’S HOUR WILL COME So they were seeking to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. —John 7:30             God knows the length of our days (Psalm 39:4).   He knows when we will draw our last breath. We will not die without His determinate time (Deuteronomy 34:5; Luke 12:20). So it was with Jesus. He would not died on the cross until the predetermined time of God (Acts 2:23). But then there would come a time when “Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father” (John 13:1).             So…

ALL FOR GOD’S GLORY So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. If anyone’s will is to do God’s will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority. The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood. —John 7:16-18             Jesus came representing His Father who had sent Him. He was looking to do His Father’s will and not His own (Luke 22:42).   Those who wanted to do God’s will would know…

BREAD OF LIFE— BREAD OF HEAVEN This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”—John 6:58 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life—John 6:63 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.” —John 6:68-69 In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the…

ETERNAL BREAD Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.” Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?” Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.” —John 6:26-29             Jesus had fed the thousands and when He went on the other…

OBEDIENCE BRINGS BLESSING Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little.” One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?” Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place. So the…

FLEE THE COMING JUDGMENT! 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. —John 5:24 Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment. —John 5:28-29 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to…