“‘No one takes it [life] from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father’” (John 10:18 English Standard Version). Jesus is God. God, thank You for coming down in the form of […]
View More“‘And I have other sheep that are not of this fold [Gentiles, which means anyone not a Jew]. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd. For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it […]
View More“‘I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep’” (John 10:14, 15 English Standard Version). Thank You, Lord, for giving us the perfect Savior! In Jesus’ holy name. Amen
View MoreDuring supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, rose from supper” (John 13:2-4 English Standard Version). Lord, was Jesus grateful that […]
View More“Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end” (John 13:1 English Standard Version). Please, Father, help us to understand better the sacrifice Jesus went through […]
View More“‘For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment—what to say and what to speak. And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me’” (John 12:49, 50 English Standard Version). Lord, please help us […]
View More“‘If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day’” (John […]
View More“And Jesus cried out and said, ‘Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me. And whoever sees me sees him who sent me. I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness’” (John 12:44-46 English Standard Version). Thank You, dear Father, for giving us […]
View More“Isaiah said these things because he saw his [Jesus’] glory and spoke of him. Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue; for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the […]
View More“Therefore they (the crowd) could not believe. For again Isaiah said, ‘He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them.’ Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory and spoke of him” (John 12:39-41 English Standard Version). Lord, […]
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