Do You Believe? (John 16:30-33)
After Jesus explains His coming death and resurrection, the disciples all proclaim their faith in Him. Do you believe? Jesus’ immediate reaction was to question their faith. Talk is cheap. We can easily deceive ourselves into believing that we have a strong faith in Jesus Christ. The disciples are going to be running from Jesus and abandoning Him in just a few short moments. Jesus maintained His relationship with the Father Jesus was not concerned with His disciples abandoning Him…
Pursuing Marriage – What A Relationship Should Look Like
If the parents approve of a relationship, what should it look like? Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of…
True Feminism (Titus 2:3-5)
The professing church is losing her children at an enormous rate. We are also constantly being bombarded with a false understanding at what it means to be a woman. Although these things may not seem related they are linked. Our culture has pushed careers so hard that our children have been left with a giant relationship void. The young people of today long for meaningful lives, answers to hard questions, and almost above all a mentoring relationship with someone older…
Pursuing Marriage – The Woman
If the parents are to oversee and approve the process and the man is to seek out the woman and initiate the relationship, what role does the woman play? He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:John 1:11-12 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there…
Permanent Joy (John 16:16-30)
The disciples are confused because Jesus keeps telling them that in a little while they will not see Him and then in a little while they will see Him again. Jesus explains that this is about His upcoming death and resurrection. The disciples will experience sorrow Jesus is very clear that the disciples will experience immense pain, suffering, sorrow, and loss by watching Him die. To add to this pain, the world will rejoice at the crucifixion of Jesus. As…
Pursuing Marriage – The Man
Jesus’ marriage to His bride was planned by His Father. What is the next thing we can learn from the Gospel concerning the pursuit of marriage? For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.Luke 19:10 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my…
The Holy Spirit Glorifies Jesus (John 16:12-15)
Jesus continues discussing the work of the Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit guides us into all truth There are many things that we are unable to understand until we have walked with the Lord for many years. There are some things that are meat, and we cannot receive them until we have matured. The Holy Spirit will guide us into all truth. This process is gradual but sure. He will help us to discern truth from error and to understand…
Pursuing Marriage – The Perfect Process (Part 1)
The Bible only portrays one perfect “courtship,” the marriage of Jesus to His bride, the church. From this narrative, we can learn much about the process we should follow in pursuing marriage. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in…
The Work of the Spirit (John 16:4b-11)
Jesus has been talking with the disciples about the persecution they will receive for following Him and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Jesus leaving the disciples was for the benefit of the world Jesus’ physical body could only be in one place at one time. However, the Spirit indwells every believer across the globe. This means that the body of Christ is now able to be around the entire world at the same time. As Jesus said, “Where two…