Tuesday: W16, M2

Training: Rest


Daily Reading
John 5-8

1.) Facts:

• Jesus performed many miracles and preached of repentance and faith. The Jews and religious leaders of the time were upset because many of these miracles were done on the Sabbath. Christ rebuked them saying that God has given Him all authority, over heaven and earth. In John 5:39, Christ rebukes the religious leaders for their unbelief and lack of understanding in the scriptures. The Jews and leaders are divided on who they believe Christ is. Christ teaches in the temples and continues to preach. No one can stop Him because His time has not yet come.

2.) Lessons:

• 5:27 - Christ has all authority from the Father.
• 6:29 - “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
• 6:34-37 - Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.
• 6:64 - Shows and proves the omniscience of Christ.
7:18 - Whoever speaks on their own does so to gain personal glory, but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him.
• 7:24 - We must stop judging by outward appearances.
• 7:38 - If we believe, rivers of living water will flow from us.
• 8:7 - “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone"
8:11 - “Go now and leave your life of sin.”

Applications:

• Do not merely study the scriptures as the religions leaders of the time did. We must study them, believe and put them into practice. If we do this, Christ will use us in amazing ways and rivers of living water will flow from us. We must be careful not to speak for our own personal glory, but for the glory of Christ. Do not be like the Jews and religious leaders who did not believe simply because they did not understand. We must not be afraid of the power and authority of Christ. If we are to live a life of faith, we must go and leave our life of sin and eat of the bread of life.

Daily Meditation: 

• 8:11 - Go now, and leave your life of sin.