We should go to the well (the Bible) to be filled, and then spill ourselves out for others.
Just as a tree soaks up water and produces luscious fruit, if we soak up God’s word, we’ll bear fruit. The more we delight in God’s presence the more fruitful we are. If a tree is planted by streams of water, it survives when drought or bad times come. If we “plant our tree” by God’s word, we will survive when bad times come.
Is The Prophet John the Baptist?
What did Jesus write on the ground when the woman caught in adultery was brought to Him? Could it be that Jesus was writing the men's names in the dirt when He bent down the first time? When He wrote the second time, immediately after asking them about their own sins, could He have written down some secret sin they had each committed?
When Jesus said he didn’t condemn her, He also admonished her to go and sin no more. There are conditions to "no condemnation".
“While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
Jesus was the light of the world at the beginning as He will be at the end. “And God said, ‘Let there be light…”
“The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.”
Jesus tells us that while He was walking on this earth, He was the light of the world. He no longer walks on the earth as a human man. When He left earth He promised His disciples He would send them the Holy Spirit. When we have the Holy Spirit living in us, we are the light of the world.
“When he lies, he speaks his native language.”
“I AM” of the Old Testament. Jesus is not the “I was” or the “I will be”. He is the “I AM!” And always will be!
“The watchman opens the gate for him…” God, the Father, is the watchman.
“…He calls his own sheep by name…” He knows us and calls us by name.
“…his sheep follow him because they know his voice…” We know Him and know His voice and follow Him. If we really know Him, we will be able to recognize false teachers and false teaching.
Jesus willingly allowed himself to be arrested and crucified. Are all of us as Christians willing to lay down our own lives in service to Him?
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