A New Life of Imitation (John 5:19-29)
Jesus has just declared that God is His Father and that as the Son of God He has the right to work on the Sabbath. He explains further: Jesus only follows His Father’s example Jesus does not choose what He does. He simply follows the example of His Father and does His will. His Father loves Him and shows Him what He is supposed to do. His Father will be doing greater things than healing the sick on the Sabbath…
The Flood and the Institution of Human Government
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days;…
Jesus Works so that We Might Rest (John 5:1-18)
Jesus has healed the man from his infirmity and commanded him to pick up his bed on the Sabbath day. The Jews are enraged that Jesus would break the Sabbath by healing the man and telling him to carry his bed. Jesus responds by saying that His Father is still working so He will keep working. From this we see: The Sabbath is an illustration of salvation God did not rest on the seventh day because He was tired. He…
Clothing and the Line of Seth
God has cursed mankind and left them with only one hope, the Seed of the woman. Now we see God clothe Adam and Eve. Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them. Genesis 3:21 Just as God created man, created woman, and created marriage, now God creates clothing. Because there is only a married man and woman on the earth we see that clothing was not created to stop sexual…
There is Something Worse (John 5:1-16)
Jesus here encounters a man who is unable to walk. He found him setting beside a place of miraculous healing, but the man was still unable to walk. The man is incapable of moving himself for healing No matter how much the lame man desires to walk or how powerful the healing in the pool may be, the man is simply unable to move himself to be healed. This illustrates how we are completely incapable of attaining our salvation. We…
God’s Remedy: The Gospel
Up until this point we have seen that God created man for His glory. We looked at the idea of dominion, masculinity, femininity, marriage, children, etc. We saw that Adam and Eve completely failed God at every single point when they sinned. We then saw how sin has completely affected every aspect of human existence. The point of the first three chapters of Genesis is to expose the complete failure of Adam and all those who inherit his nature. We…
Sin’s Effects
The choice to sin was in reality a choice by Adam and Eve to know and experience both good and evil. Up until this point all they had ever known was good; now they begin to know evil. The moment they ate the fruit, they died spiritually. From here we can see the effects of sin. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves…
Salvation by Faith (John 4:43-54)
A nobleman comes to Jesus for the healing of his son who is at the point of death. He begs Jesus to come and heal his son. Jesus speak of signs, wonders, and unbelief Jesus’ response seems very calloused if we believe that temporal, physical well-being is the highest good. However, if we believe that the state of the soul is of infinite more importance than the state of the body Jesus’ response makes sense. Jesus is here pointing out…
Sin
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? Genesis 3:1 Sin begins with the temptation to not believe God. All sin is born out of unbelief. And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the…
The Age of the Earth
Our guest speaker this week was creation evangelist Eric Hovind, speaking on the Age of the Earth, and how to answer skeptics concerning the biblical account of creation.
Seek Him for Yourself (John 4:39-42)
The Samaritan woman now goes into the village to tell people of her encounter with Jesus. Many people believed in Jesus because of the woman’s testimony The Samaritan woman tells people about her encounter with Jesus. Her testimony is that Jesus exposed all of her sin. This teaches us two things about believers openly confessing their sins when they share the Gospel. One, people need to have their sin exposed, and many times the best way to do that is…
Marriage
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Genesis 1:27 God created man and woman in His image. The man and woman were united in a covenant called marriage. This covenant relationship between man and woman is one of the greatest displays of God’s glory. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and…