The saints in Christ are all “alive together with Christ” (Eph. 2:5) and nothing could be more valuable to our spiritual wellness that to know more about Jesus which is what we have been doing since this year began. We started in John chapter one and are now in chapter 7 and we have come to know wonderful and powerful things concerning our Lord and Savior Jesus. In this lesson Jesus, who was in secret at the feast in Jerusalem, hears among the crowds, “much complaining among the people concerning Him” (v.12).    At verses 14 and 15 we read, “Now about the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and taught. 15 And the Jews marveled, saying, “How does this Man know letters, having never studied?” This lesson picks up at verse 25 where we learn the answer to the question, could this be the Christ?

From John’s record in John chapter 7 we see that, God is Always There (vs.10-13), Everything Taught in the Bible is from the Father (vs.14-16), We Must Strive to Do God’s Will Not Ours (vs.17-18), and Judge with Righteous Judgement (vs.19-24)…

Jesus is now in Galilee and the Feast of Tabernacles is at hand. Jesus isn’t going directly to the feast and for good reasons one of which is the fact that He knows the Jews are seeking to kill Him (John 5:16, 7:1).John by the Spirit mentions the Feast of the Tabernacles, which has three significant points of interest for us today, Also, there are the brothers of Jesus who don’t believe in Him and selfishly try to push Jesus into doing something at the feast to “show off” His abilities, but Jesus tells his brothers, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready”  (7:6) from which we observe two important points of contrast between the heart of those brothers, and the Lord’s purpose which was predetermined before by God…

In these two verses Peter speaks volumes:  He acknowledged that Jesus alone has the words of eternal life – John 6:68b. He also confesses their faith in Him as the Christ, the Son of the living God – John 6:69. — His question is one that we do well to ask today. So many are looking for the answers to our true purpose and mission in life. To find the words of eternal life, There are many places they could turn to, indeed many do turn to, but they are not the right ones…

Jesus teaches a needed lesson to those disciples who, continually thing in physical, temporal terms. He wants them to understand there are two types of food, physical and spiritual. One will leave you hungering and thirsting, the other will fill you so that you will never hunger or thirst again. To this point Jesus taught, “Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him” (John 6:27).

Our focus for this year is from Ephesians 2 and verse 5 which says God, “even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)”. Nothing could be more important to us who are alive together with Christ than to know more about Jesus.  When we think on the words “alive together with Christ”, we know that spiritually “together” means there is a union between us and Christ that we have been added to the body of Christ—and no longer walk the course of this world (Eph. 2:1-7).  Together is a power theme found all throughout God’s word, “faith was working together” with Abraham’s works, and “and by works faith was made perfect” (James 2:22). In a lawful marriage a man and woman are “joined together” by God (Mark 10:9) and in the resurrection the dead in Christ will be joined together with those who are alive in Christ and “shall be caught up together” to meet the Lord in the air (1 Thess. 4:17). But the real togetherness does not come by osmosis, or by accident, but by consuming the Bread of Life, “the words of eternal life” (John 6:63, 68)– this is the only possible way to think spiritually…

From The feeding of the 5,000 we learn never to Underestimate Jesus. I would suggest that we learn to compare our problems to the loaves and fish and not the multitudes. When you feel like the problem is overwhelming you—like it is consuming you, when you feel as though there’s just no answers—no way out—if you are heavy laden, think about what Jesus did with the 5 loaves and 2 small fish. Remember His power never diminishes and yes, cast all your cares upon Jesus (1 Pet. 5:7), and let Him give you rest (Matt. 11:28). Let Jesus handle the big things. What the Lord did with 5 barely loaves and two small fish demonstrated His power and divinity…

Recorded In John chapter 5 is a miracle that Jesus did on the Sabbath day when He healed a man, “who had an infirmity thirty-eight years” (v.2), and afterword the man told the Jews that, “it was Jesus who had made him well.” Truly remarkable is the reaction by some Jews. Instead of being amazed, they were enraged, and at verse 18 we read “the Jews sought all the more to kill Him”. In this lesson we’ll relate this to current day people who, just like those Jews, regardless of facts, truth and compelling evidence refuse to to say Jesus – I believe…

Now we see Jesus the Great Physician from a different perspective. Not from the physical sense but from the spiritual. Luke records of Jesus, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me [a]to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are [b]oppressed; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.” (Luke 4:18-19). Now we see Jesus standing at the door of penitent sinners, knocking. But what Jesus sees on the other side of that door may surprise you…

This whole year we have been teaching from the book of John, learning things that Increase our Faith. We’ve seen Jesus as the Word of God, Who is God (1:1), Jesus as our Creator (1:3, 10), Jesus as the Emanuel “God with us” (1:14), Jesus as the Lamb of God (1:29), Jesus as a miracle worker (2:9), Jesus our Master a teacher come from God (3:2), Jesus as the Messiah (4:25-26), and now in this 2 part lesson we’ll see Jesus as the “Great Physician” powerful, and able to heal in an amazing way. We will look at three things in the account of the healing of the Nobleman’s Son (John 4:46-54). 1) Jesus Has Power Over Distance, 2) That the Nobleman “heard” and 3) The man Believed and Went…