THE BLINDNESS OF THOSE ACCUSING OTHERS OF BLINDNESS The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why did you not bring him?” The officers answered, “No one ever spoke like this man!” The Pharisees answered them, “Have you also been deceived? Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him? But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.” Nicodemus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them, “Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?”  They replied, “Are you from Galilee too? Search and see that no prophet arises…

BE FAITHFUL IN THE MIDST OF THE EVIL WORKS OF THE WORLD! Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here. The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil. —John 7:6-7             Why does the world hate Jesus?  It hates Him because He testifies “about it that its works are evil.”  The system of this world does evil works.  So, let us not be surprised at the evil work the world does.  We are not sent by Jesus to change the world, but to be witnesses and disciple-makes of His.  That is our…

JESUS ONLY HAS THE WORDS OF ETERNAL LIFE! But there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.) And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.” After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. So Jesus said to the Twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?” Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come…

LOOK, BELIEVE AND RECEIVE ETERNAL LIFE! 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 6:28-29 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.” —John 6:40 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. —John 6:44 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes…

JESUS ONLY OR SYNCRETISM And the statutes and the rules and the law and the commandment that he wrote for you, you shall always be careful to do. You shall not fear other gods, and you shall not forget the covenant that I have made with you. You shall not fear other gods, but you shall fear the LORD your God, and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.” However, they would not listen, but they did according to their former manner.  So these nations feared the LORD and also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children’s children—as their fathers did, so they do…

LIVE RIGHT IN THE EYES OF OUR LORD! And Jehoash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all his days… —II Kings 12:2 And they did not ask an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to pay out to the workmen, for they dealt honestly. —II Kings 12:15             Doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord is what really counts.  “Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account” (Hebrews 4:13).  So may we do what is right in His sight according…

THE SON OF GOD SAVES! This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God. —John 5:18 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             The Jews were seeking to kill Jesus.  Why?  Because, according to their line of thought, He was breaking the Sabbath by healing on that day and encouraging the invalid to get up and…

OUR FOCUS 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?” Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest.” —John 4:31-35             To Jesus, what was more important than physical food?  Jesus said to them, “My food is to do…

THE GREATEST GIFT Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” —John 4:10 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.” —John 4:13-14             The gift of God is available to whoever asks to receive it— Living water “On the last…

 BE FAITHFUL WITH WHAT GOD HAS GIVEN YOU! “As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” —II Kings 2:4  And Elisha said, “Please let there be a double portion of your spirit on me.” —II Kings 2:9 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.” —John 3:21 John answered, “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven. —John 3:27             It is so important to cling to a mentor, one who is clinging to the Lord.  Elisha stuck with Elijah…