I don’t usually write at night but I just read across something and want to ink some of this out before I go to bed… khesed/grace/mercy throughout the Old Testament is, by definition, costly. that’s the statement I read tonight It also involves hospitality, honor, and covenant. It is something that, when it happens, allows, […]
John 4 and Jesus' Conversation with Oholah
In John 4, Jesus talks to a Samaritan woman that has had 5 husbands. People have always talked about what a sinful woman she was, and how controversial it would be for Jesus to talk to her. Now I know why. In Ezekiel 23, God talks about having two wives that left Him and cheated. […]
Working Hard at Getting Born Again
John 3:3 ESV Jesus answered him,¬†‚ÄúTruly, truly, I say to you, unless one isn born¬†o again [2] he cannot¬†p see the kingdom of God.‚Äù I read in a commentary that the phrase is all passive. It‚Äôs not something that we muster up and do. Just like our first birth, it is something that happens to […]
Jesus' Line in the Sand
V. 35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, ‚ÄúDo you believe in the Son of Man?‚Äù When Jesus asks the man this, the man doesn‚Äôt know who Jesus is, but the man would know that Jesus was a Rabbi (other people approached Him and called Him Rabbi […]
Random Notes on John 9
<<<2009.03.10>>>some random notes:Midrash Rabbah on Song of Songs 1:41 (another later rabbinic work) states that when a pregnant woman worships in a heathen temple the fetus also commits idolatry. This is only one example of how, in rabbinic Jewish thought, an unborn child was capable of sinning. (http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=1318) Genesis Rabbah 63:6 says that Esau committed […]
Singular Experience and The Patient Power to Heal
John 9 (ESV) As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, c ‚ÄúRabbi, d who sinned, e this man or f his parents, that he was born blind?‚Äù 3 Jesus answered, ‚ÄúIt was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but g that the works of God might be displayed in him. […]
What makes you a part of the family?
John 8.34-35 ‚ÄúEveryone who commits sin is a slave to sin. The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever.‚Äù Notice that Jesus didn‚Äôt say ‚Äúa sin‚Äù but ‚Äúsin‚Äù in general. It has to do with a lifestyle of obedience to His word. The Pharisees would have been keeping track of […]
Jesus' Constant Process of Thinning the Herd
John 8.31 So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him…John 8.59 So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple. John 8.31-59 is a single dialogue, with no sign of a change of location or audience. This whole section seems one way […]
Jesus sees WITH the Father and Pharisees hear FROM their father
John 8.38 ‚ÄúI speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard l from your father.‚Äù This statement wraps up one of the biggest differences there is between the children of the world and of God. God is WITH us. The Greek rootword is para, which can mean […]
The Truth as Plain as a Fedex Truck
John 8.31-32 ‚ÄúSo Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, ‚ÄúIf you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.‚Äù‚Äù Today we read that and we only have a figurative understanding of the word free, but to […]
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