READ JOHN 6:16-27
16-23) The disciples got into a boat to cross the sea. John does not tell us why, but Mark does, they were told to by Jesus to get in the boat and go across to the other side of the sea from Bethsaida (Mk. 6:45). John is telling us that they were headed for Capernaum.
STORM: As evening came strong winds erupt about 3-4 miles out and they see Jesus walking toward them. (Mark tells us that Jesus was intending to walk by them. Mk. 6:48-50 and Matthew records that this is the time when Peter walks on water. Mt. 14:24-33) The emphasis in John's gospel is not on the disciples, but on the multitudes and Jesus teaching on being the Bread of Life.
The multitudes had seen the disciples leave, but Jesus had not gone with them. He stayed to dismiss the multitudes and then go off by Himself. The next day the multitudes notice that Jesus in no longer with them and some how figured out that Jesus was on the other side of the sea with the disciples. They immediately get into their boats and follow.
The multitudes wanted to know how Jesus got to Capernaum, but Jesus exposed to them the real reason why they followed Him. They were hungry and wanted to be fed. Jesus' instructs them to not work for food that is perishable, but for the food that is imperishable. What kind of food is imperishable?
1) It endures to eternal life.
2) Son of Man gives it.
3) Sealed by God through Jesus (Sealed means to confirm, authenticate, place beyond doubt; to prove by one's tesimony to a person that he is what he professes to be.) In other words Jesus is truely who He says He is and you can trust Him explicitly.
FATHER, THANK YOU FOR JESUS WHO IS THE BREAD OF LIFE AND IN HIM WE CAN PLACE OUR TRUST WITHOUT FAIL. AMEN.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Monday, February 19, 2007
FEEDING THE FIVE THOUSAND
READ JOHN 6:1-15
The theme of this chapter is that Jesus is the Bread of Life. First we will look at the feeding of the 5,000.
1-9) SETTING: Answer the question below.
Where are they?
What was the time period?
Who was there?
Why was the great multitdue there?
What is Jesus' test for the disciples?
What was the disciples answer to the problem?
10) JESUS SOLUTION:
Jesus has the people sit down (people here is the GK word "anthropos" designating "human beings", male and female), but then it says the men (GK word "aner" designating "a male")sat down. We know from this narrative that there were 5,000 men who had followed Jesus to this Galilean setting. How many women and children is unknown. It is a blessing that Jesus recognized that there were woman and children there and included them in the blessing of the food. He had all the people sit down, it was the custom of those days for the men to sit first and eat and the women served, then ate, but Jesus served them all with the help of His disciples. What a glorious Saviour we have!
11-13) MIRACLE:
Jesus gives thanks for the loaves and fishes and they are distributed so that all could eat as much as they wanted and were filled.
How many baskets were left over? 12 baskets filled with fragments. God the Father does not hold back in giving abundantly. Look up the following verses, what do you learn? Exodus 34:6-7; Isaiah 55:6-12; Jeremiah 33:6-9; Eph. 3:20-21; I Tim. 1:12-15; I Peter 1:3-5.
14-15) REACTION OF THE CROWD:
They called Him a prophet who was to come into the world. The belief in the Prophet comes from Deut. 18:15 and was a popular eschatological personage, but they were believing in Him as a deliverer, but in the wrong way. They wanted a physcial king who would overthrow the Roman Government, in like manner that Moses delivered the Jewish people from the Egyptian Government, not a Savior who would save them from their sins.
FATHER, THANK YOU FOR YOU ABUNDANT GIVING. NOT ONLY IS JESUS THE WATER OF LIFE WHERE OUR SPIRITUAL THIRST IS QUENCHED FOR ALL TIMES, BUT HIS IS ALSO THE BREAD OF LIFE AND OUR SPIRITUAL HUNGER IS ALSO QUENCHED FOR ALL TIMES. AMEN
The theme of this chapter is that Jesus is the Bread of Life. First we will look at the feeding of the 5,000.
1-9) SETTING: Answer the question below.
Where are they?
What was the time period?
Who was there?
Why was the great multitdue there?
What is Jesus' test for the disciples?
What was the disciples answer to the problem?
10) JESUS SOLUTION:
Jesus has the people sit down (people here is the GK word "anthropos" designating "human beings", male and female), but then it says the men (GK word "aner" designating "a male")sat down. We know from this narrative that there were 5,000 men who had followed Jesus to this Galilean setting. How many women and children is unknown. It is a blessing that Jesus recognized that there were woman and children there and included them in the blessing of the food. He had all the people sit down, it was the custom of those days for the men to sit first and eat and the women served, then ate, but Jesus served them all with the help of His disciples. What a glorious Saviour we have!
11-13) MIRACLE:
Jesus gives thanks for the loaves and fishes and they are distributed so that all could eat as much as they wanted and were filled.
How many baskets were left over? 12 baskets filled with fragments. God the Father does not hold back in giving abundantly. Look up the following verses, what do you learn? Exodus 34:6-7; Isaiah 55:6-12; Jeremiah 33:6-9; Eph. 3:20-21; I Tim. 1:12-15; I Peter 1:3-5.
14-15) REACTION OF THE CROWD:
They called Him a prophet who was to come into the world. The belief in the Prophet comes from Deut. 18:15 and was a popular eschatological personage, but they were believing in Him as a deliverer, but in the wrong way. They wanted a physcial king who would overthrow the Roman Government, in like manner that Moses delivered the Jewish people from the Egyptian Government, not a Savior who would save them from their sins.
FATHER, THANK YOU FOR YOU ABUNDANT GIVING. NOT ONLY IS JESUS THE WATER OF LIFE WHERE OUR SPIRITUAL THIRST IS QUENCHED FOR ALL TIMES, BUT HIS IS ALSO THE BREAD OF LIFE AND OUR SPIRITUAL HUNGER IS ALSO QUENCHED FOR ALL TIMES. AMEN
Thursday, February 15, 2007
CORRECTING A MISTAKE!
TO ALL WHO READ THIS BLOG!
I have to correct a mistake I made in Chapter 5. I had thought that the feast of the Jews that Jesus went to Jerusalem for was the 2nd Passover. It is not. It is not known what feast this was, but the 2nd Passover is mentioned in Chapter 6. Sorry for this mistake, I also have to be a good Berean (Acts 17:11) and check my own work with the truth of the Bible.
Chapter 6 is coming soon!
I have to correct a mistake I made in Chapter 5. I had thought that the feast of the Jews that Jesus went to Jerusalem for was the 2nd Passover. It is not. It is not known what feast this was, but the 2nd Passover is mentioned in Chapter 6. Sorry for this mistake, I also have to be a good Berean (Acts 17:11) and check my own work with the truth of the Bible.
Chapter 6 is coming soon!
Thursday, February 08, 2007
CONFRONTING UNBELIEVE
READ JOHN 5:31-47
Jesus' works are a witness to who He is, but that alone does not make His witness true.
31-36) John's witness: his work to prepare the way for Jesus bore witness that Jesus is true. The Father's witness: He who had sent Jesus bore witness of who Jesus is, "...for the works which the Father has given Me to accomplish...bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me."(v.36) Jesus is affirming that God is participating in His works and He was sent by God with complete authority of God. "The statement "You have neither heard his voice nor seen his 'form'" recalls Num. 12:8 (the Greek text of John is virtually identical to the OT Greek translation of Num. 12). This refers to God's "form," or outward appearance ("seen him face to face," CEV,NLT). The statement fits the general point made in John that Jesus is the outward and visible revelation of the Father (1:18;14:9)" (The Bible Knowledge Key Word Study)
38-47)The Unbeliever's Guilt
A) Do not believe His word. They search the scriptures which bear witness of Him, yet refuse to come to Him.
B) Do not love God, but look for glory in man. Glory comes from one source and one source only, God, the Father.
C) Refused to believe the writings of Moses, who wrote of Jesus. If they did not believe Moses, how will they believe the words of Jesus?
The Old Testament and the New Testament complement each other and are parts of a whole. You cannot understand one without the other.
FATHER, JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY TO YOU AND THE WITNESS TO HIS WORTH IS ABUNDANT. HELP US WHEN OUR BELIEVE WEAKENS, KEEP US ANCHOR IN JESUS THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH. AMEN.
Jesus' works are a witness to who He is, but that alone does not make His witness true.
31-36) John's witness: his work to prepare the way for Jesus bore witness that Jesus is true. The Father's witness: He who had sent Jesus bore witness of who Jesus is, "...for the works which the Father has given Me to accomplish...bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me."(v.36) Jesus is affirming that God is participating in His works and He was sent by God with complete authority of God. "The statement "You have neither heard his voice nor seen his 'form'" recalls Num. 12:8 (the Greek text of John is virtually identical to the OT Greek translation of Num. 12). This refers to God's "form," or outward appearance ("seen him face to face," CEV,NLT). The statement fits the general point made in John that Jesus is the outward and visible revelation of the Father (1:18;14:9)" (The Bible Knowledge Key Word Study)
38-47)The Unbeliever's Guilt
A) Do not believe His word. They search the scriptures which bear witness of Him, yet refuse to come to Him.
B) Do not love God, but look for glory in man. Glory comes from one source and one source only, God, the Father.
C) Refused to believe the writings of Moses, who wrote of Jesus. If they did not believe Moses, how will they believe the words of Jesus?
The Old Testament and the New Testament complement each other and are parts of a whole. You cannot understand one without the other.
FATHER, JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY TO YOU AND THE WITNESS TO HIS WORTH IS ABUNDANT. HELP US WHEN OUR BELIEVE WEAKENS, KEEP US ANCHOR IN JESUS THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH. AMEN.
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