THE WORLD CANNOT HATE YOU BUT IT HATES ME JOHN 7:1-52

The Right Time has not Come John 7:1-9

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Jesus travelled in Galilee; he did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jewish authorities there were wanting to kill him. The time for the Festival of Shelters was near, so Jesus’ brothers said to him. “Leave this place and go to Judea, so that your followers will see the things that you are doing. 4 No one hides what he is doing if he wants to be well known. Since you are doing these things, let the whole world know about you! 5 (Not even his brothers believed in him.)

Jesus said to them, “The right time for me has not yet come. Any time is right for you. 7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I keep telling it that its ways are bad. You go on to the festival.  I am not going to this festival, because the right time has not come for me.” He said this, and then stayed in Galilee. Psalm 13

HARD TEACHING JOHN 6:60-71

LORD TO WHOM WOULD WE GO?

Many of his followers heard this and said. “This teaching is too hard. Who can listen to it?”

Without being told, Jesus knew that they were grumbling about this, so he said to them. “Does this make you want to give up?

Suppose, then, that you should see the Son of Man go back up to the place where he was before? What give life is God’s Spirit human power is of no use at all.  The words I have spoken to you ring God’s life-giving Spirit.

Yet some of you do not believe” (Jesus knew from the very beginning who were the ones that would not believe and which one would betray him.) And he added “This is the very reason I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father makes it possible for him to do so.”

60 Because of this many of Jesus followers turned back and would not with him anymore. So he asked the twelve disciples, “And you – would you also like to leave?”

68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom we would go? You have the words that give eternal life. And now we believe and know that you are the Holy One who has come from God.”

JESUS THE BREAD OF LIFE, THE EUCHARIST, THE COMMUNION JOHN 6:25-59

Jesus the Bread of Life

I am telling you the truth 26

I am telling you the truth 32

I am the Bread of Life 35

I am the bread that came down from heaven 41

I am telling you the truth he who believes has eternal life 47

I am the bread of life 48

Your ancestors ate manna in the desert but they died. 49

I am the living bread that came down from heaven; if anyone eats this bread he will live forever 51

I am telling you the truth, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood; you will not have life in yourselves. 53

Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood live in me, have eternal life, and I raise them to life on the last day 54

For my flesh is the real food; my blood the real drink 55

Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood live in me, and I live in them.56

 

“The living Father sent me, and because of him I live also.  In him the same way whoever eats me will live because of me. This then is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread that your ancestors ate.  They later died, but those who eat this bread will live or ever.”

Jesus said this as he taught in the synagogue in Capernaum. 57-59

Lord Jesus Christ, make me truly one as you and the Father are one.  Let me know and experience the power of your love. Help me understand the mystery of your teaching that you are the Bread of Life that came down from haven. LORD give me yourself that I may live. H.G.

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WHY DO I SEEK JESUS CHRIST

WHAT IS YOUR PURPOSE IN SEEKING JESUS CHRIST ? JOHN 6:22-24

Psalm 62

Next day the crowd which had on the other side of the lake realized that there had been only one boat there. They knew that Jesus had not gone in it with his disciples, but that they had left without him.  Other boats, which were from Tiberias, came to shore near the place where the crowd had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.  When the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they got into those boats and went to Capernaum, looking for him.

Why am I searching for Christ? Is my search Spiritual that will lead me to eternal life. Am I searching for Him to give me earthly and material comfort?  Lord Jesus Christ my Master. You said to seek your Father’s Kingdom first, and every other thing will be mine.  Help me realize the importance of God’s will in my life.  Lead me on the right path. I need material comfort, it should not be my priority for search of you my Lord and Master.

DON'T BE AFRAID

When evening came, Jesus disciples went down to the lake, got into a boat, and went back across the lake towards Capernaum. Night came on, and Jesus had not come to them.  By then a strong wind was blowing and stirring up the water. 

The disciples had rowed about five or six kilometres when they saw Jesus walking on the water, coming near the boat, and they were terrified.

"Don't be afraid", Jesus told them, "It is I!" Then they willingly took him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached land at the place were heading for.
John 6:16-21

Heavenly Father, you are God of the living. Jesus Christ your Son our LORD came to ransom us from death. Draw us closer to Jesus. We know that Jesus is ever present and with us in every storm. Help us to realize the your wondrous plan for us. H.G.    

Psalm 12

THE PEOPLE TESTIMONY OF CHRIST DIVINITY

SURELY THIS IS THE PROPHET JOHN 6:14-15

Seeing the miracle that Jesus had performed, the people there said.
"Surely this is the Prophet who was to come into the world" Jesus
knew they were about to come and seize him in order to make him
king by force, so he went off again in the hills by himself.

This is very touching. Christ Kingship was not of this world. 

If it were us, we would have been carried away. 

This was not the way Christ want to save us. 

 He must obey the Father's will. 

Dying on the Cross and shedding

His Blood to save us.  

"He went off again in the hills by HIMSELF." John 6:1-15

My God Accept my Heart this day

THE FATHER’S TESTIMONY, JESUS AND JOHN’S TESTIMONY

 NOTHING OF MY OWN AUTHORITY

“I can do nothing of my own authority. I judge only as God tells me, so my judgment is right, because I am not trying to do what I want, but only what he who sent me wants.

If I testify on my own behalf, what I say is not to be accepted as real proof.  But there is someone else who testifies on my behalf, and I know that what he says about me is true. John is the one to whom you sent your messengers and he spoke on behalf of the truth.  It is not that I must have a human witness, I say only in order that you may be saved.

John the Burning and Shining Lamp

 35 John was like a lamp, burning and shining, and you were willing for a while to enjoy his light. But I have a witness on my behalf which is even greater than the witness that John gave: what I do, that is, the deeds my Father gave me to do, these speak on my behalf  and show that the Father has sent me.

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CHRIST SON OF GOD AND AUTHORITY BY THE FATHER

CHRIST SON OF GOD AND AUTHORITY BY THE FATHER  JOHN 5:19-29

Please note that from 19-47 He alone was speaking trying to make them understand he is from God so the inverted comma was open from 19 and closed in verse 47.  He used the word I AM and I in verses 19, 24, 25, 30, 41, 45,  to lay emphasis on his identity as the Son of God.

 

So Jesus answered them, 19“I am telling you the truth: the Son can do nothing on his own; he does only what he sees his Father doing.  What the “Father does, the Son also does. For the Father loves the son and Shows him all that he himself is doing.  He will show him even greater things to do than this; and you will all be amazed.  Just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, in the same way the Song gives lie to those he wants to. Nor does the Father himself judge anyone. He has given his Son the full right to judge so that all will honour the Son in the same way they honour the Father.

Whoever does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him.

DO YOU WANT TO GET WELL

DO YOU WANT TO GET WELL?  JOHN CHAPTER 5

After this, Jesus went to Jerusalem for a religious festival.  Near the Sheet Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool with five porches. In Hebrew it is called Bethzatha.  A large crowd of sick people were lying in the porches – the blind, the lame,  and the paralyzed.

 

A man was there who had been ill for 38 years.  Jesus saw him lying there, and he knew that the man had been ill for such a long time; so he asked him, “Do you want to get well? 6

The sick man answered, “Sir, I have no one here to put me in the pool when the water is stirred up, while I am trying to get in, somebody else gets there first.”

Jesus said to him, “Get up, pick up your mat, and walk,” Immediately the man got well, he picked up his mate and started walking.

The day this happened was a Sabbath, so the Jewish authorities told the man who had been healed, “This is a Sabbath, and it is against our Law for you to carry your mat.

He answered, “The man who made me well told me to pick up my mat and walk”11

They asked him, “Who is the man who told you to do this?” But the man who had been healed did not know who Jesus was, for there was a crowd in that place, and Jesus had slipped away.

Afterwards, Jesus found him in the Temple and said, “Listen, you are well now, so stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”14

Then the man left and told the Jewish authority that it was Jesus who had healed him. So they began to persecute Jesus, because he had done this healing on a Sabbath.

 Jesus answered them.  “My Father is always working, and I too must work.” 17

This saying made the Jewish authorities all the more determined to kill him, not only had he broken the Sabbath law, but he had said that God was his own Father and in this way had made himself equal to god.   John 5:1-18

SENSITIVITY TO GOD'S GREATNESS AND GOODNESS

"COME WITH ME BEFORE MY CHILD DIES"

Then Jesus went back to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. A government official was there whose son was ill in Capernaum. 

When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea in Galilee, he went to him and asked him to go to Capernaum and heal his son, who was about to die. Jesus said to him, "None of you will ever believe unless you see miracles and wonders." 

"Sir," replied the official, "come with me before my child dies." Jesus said, "Go, you son will live.

The man believed Jesus' words and went.  On his way home his servants met him with the news, 'Your boy is going to live.'

He asked them what time it was when his son got better, and they answered.  It was one o'clock yesterday afternoon when the fever left him. 

SENSITIVITY TO GOD'S GREATNESS AND GOODNESS

"COME WITH ME BEFORE MY CHILD DIES"

Then Jesus went back to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. A government official was there whose son was ill in Capernaum. 

When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea in Galilee, he went to him and asked him to go to Capernaum and heal his son, who was about to die. Jesus said to him, "None of you will ever believe unless you see miracles and wonders." 

"Sir," replied the official, "come with me before my child dies." Jesus said, "Go, you son will live.

The man believed Jesus' words and went.  On his way home his servants met him with the news, 'Your boy is going to live.'

He asked them what time it was when his son got better, and they answered.  It was one o'clock yesterday afternoon when the fever left him.