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05/30/2026

Jesus Christ, Son of the Father

One of the greatest controversies about Jesus Christ
is related to His parentage.

Though He was obviously human,
after all, He was born and did die,
while experiencing life’s difficulties and joys like the rest of us,
He made a claim that He proved true by His actions:
He’s God’s Son and integrally part of Him!

John 10:30
I and My Father are one.

Imagine how startling this was to hear!

Jesus didn’t say this at the beginning of His ministry
when no one knew Him
or had witnessed the miracles He’d done.

No, He declared this after His activities were well known
and the religious leaders themselves were clamoring
for Him to tell them plainly who He was.

Sadly, for them, like so many of us,
hearing the truth inspired their rejection not faith.

John 10:31-32
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. Jesus
answered them, “Many good works I have shown you from My
Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?”

The Jews who rejected Him
didn’t do it because of His miracles.

They’d had numerous holy ones in their history
so God blessing them directly wasn’t beyond belief.

What they refused to accept was that God would come
as a man like Jesus.

Despite their scriptures hinting at this fact from the beginning,
starting with God’s judgment for the first sin
and including references to His birth place and time
so plainly that even religious scholars of other nations
came to worship Him shortly after He was born,
some refused to believe it.

So Jesus challenged them to explain their lack of faith,
demonstrated by their intent to kill Him,
given the abundant evidence He’d presented
before making this claim.

Their response shows their flawed reasoning
and willful disregard of what they should know.

John 10:33
The Jews answered Him, saying, “For a good work we do not
stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man,
make Yourself God.”

Spiritual wisdom can be either received or rejected.

Many things about God can only be known by us
through Him revealing them;
God is so wonderful and beyond our comprehension
that we can’t even begin to understand
the depth of our ignorance about Him.

Here we have Jesus trying to bridge that gap.

John 10:34-36
Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, I said,
“You are gods” ’? If He called them gods, to whom the word of
God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), do you say
of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world,
‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?”

Notice how He doesn’t say “just believe me”
but, instead, points them back to their scriptures.

They claimed to be judging Him based on it
so He used it to justify His statements.

Then, knowing that even this appeal to scripture
might not reach them, He next tried logic.

John 10:37-38
If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; but if
I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that
you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in
Him.

Jesus understood that He was introducing a radical new idea
to the world through His life.

God coming to live with men wasn’t an uncommon concept
but God being 100% God and 100% man at the same time,
while also being in some type of union within Himself,
had never been considered before.

The reality of the Trinity,
hinted at during the creation of everything,
was fully revealed by Jesus Christ’s life and teachings.

Still, only those who’ve been given the faith to believe
can believe and these men reacted somewhat predictably.

John 10:39
Therefore they sought again to seize Him, but He escaped out
of their hand.

It’s so sad to see how often God tries to reach out to us
only to have His love repeatedly spurned.

Jesus patiently explained why He was doing
what He was doing to His closest friends and enemies alike.

He didn’t lie to anyone or deny who He was
to protect Himself.

He could have; we often do.

But, instead, He boldly proclaimed He is God and God’s Son.

That He was able to escape from them once again
despite their desperate attempts to capture Him
proves the truth of His claims.

As He later proved in the Garden,
Jesus Christ was only able to be captured
when He allowed Himself to be,
when it was according to His Father’s will.

And, He was only able to die
when He’d accomplished all He’d come to do
as the only begotten Son of the Father.

Let us never cease to praise Him and glorify Him as such!

05/15/2026

Jesus the Good Shepherd

How can faith in Jesus Christ, a man, save anyone?

This question troubles both spiritual and irreligious people.

After all, as some admit, only God can forgive our sins.

The legal basis is one which God Himself established.

The actions of the first man, Adam, being our family head,
affected all of us, his progeny,
with the taint of his sin.

God’s Son, Jesus,
because of His sinless life and substitutionary death,
became the second Adam, a man who’s also God,
since God, not the first Adam, is His Father;
He adopts those who accept Him as their Lord and Savior
thereby allowing Him to pay for their sins.

If you find this difficult to comprehend,
it may comfort you to learn God knew it would.

To help us understand,
Jesus explained His role in God’s plan of salvation
in a way that simplifies it, leveraging a familiar concept
which David used to describe his relationship to God,
that of God being his Shepherd.

We should remember that Jesus’ original audience
for this discourse was almost entirely Jewish
so many would immediately make this association.

John 10:11
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for
the sheep.

Jesus wants us to know several things about Himself
with these statements.

Everything described about God our Shepherd in Psalm 23
is also true about Jesus.

However, He also introduces a new concept here.

He, as the God man,
intended to die for those who’d follow Him, His sheep.

Imagine their confusion
as the Eternal, Ever-living One declared He’d have to die!

Jesus next contrasted others who claimed to be God,
or put themselves forth as spiritual guides, with Himself.

John 10:12-13
But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not
own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep
and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them.
The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care
about the sheep.

Normally,
a good shepherd assumes a very intimate relationship
with the sheep for which he’s responsible.

He cares for them by ensuring they’re safe from predators,
healing them when they get hurt,
and providing them with the resources needed to survive.

A hireling may do some of this
but will always prioritize his safety over theirs
when threatened.

Unsurprisingly, all who have faith in Jesus will have enemies.

A hireling will, at best, care for the sheep well when it’s safe.

But, when danger comes,
they’ll prioritize their own safety over the sheep’s.

The apparent reason for this difference
between the good shepherd and a hireling
is simply that one cares what happens to the sheep
while the other doesn’t.

Jesus went on to clarify more about His relationship with us.

John 10:14
I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am
known by My own.

God is capable of doing things that nobody else can:
for example, He is able to know everything about us,
past, present and future!

Therefore, He knows our fears, desires and weaknesses
better than we do ourselves.

Happily, those who follow Him in faith
will learn and come to know much about Him too.

Our experiences will teach us about His wisdom and love
in ways that we can’t understand from just reading the Bible.

Jesus anticipated there’d be some confusion about this,
especially about His capabilities versus those of His Father,
and so He clearly stated
how fully He and His Father know each other next.

His audience was accustomed to God knowing everything
about them but no man until Him
had ever been able to honestly claim to know God similarly.

John 10:15
As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay
down My life for the sheep.

Consider the openness and honesty of their relationship.

In human involvements,
it’s common to hide truths about oneself
that you don’t want others to know.

Not so with God:
the Son is privy to all the Father knows
and hides nothing about Himself from Him.

Further, the Son knows everything about His role
in His Father’s plan including it being to benefit the sheep.

However, this good news about God’s remedy for their sins
wouldn’t exclusively be for the Israelites;
as promised throughout the Old Testament,
the Gentiles would reap salvation’s blessings too.

John 10:16
And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I
must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one
flock and one shepherd.

Pride can blind us to the obvious facts of a given situation.

In this case, the Israelites’ pride from being chosen by God
as the people through whom His Son would be born
caused them to believe they’d be the only ones to benefit.

Even though they too were just one family
among all those related to Adam and Noah,
they assured themselves they were more deserving
of God’s mercy and favor
while all others were only deserving of His wrath.

Jesus corrected this misconception often during His time here
but, when one reads the Book of Acts,
one will find that God still had to convince them
that He truly loves all people not just the Israelites.

There will be many sheep but only one flock following Jesus!

What Jesus said next may have shocked them more though.

John 10:17
Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life
that I may take it again.

This brief statement says so much in few words
that we would be wise not just to rush by it.

Firstly, Jesus tells us plainly why His Father loves Him.

And it’s actually the same criteria for us to show we love Him -
our willing, loving obedience to His will.

The Father’s will was for Jesus Christ to die for sinners.

Jesus accepted His will and didn’t disobey Him.

This is what our love for God must be like for it to be real
and acceptable to God.

No matter what’s required of us by Him,
no sacrifice is too great when it’s His will.

Yes, what I’m saying is beyond our natural ability
but this is why we need, and must rely on the Holy Spirit,
to help us.

We cannot do all that God asks of us without His help.

As humbling as this sounds,
it’s comforting to know He knows that about us too.

But, it’s important to note what else Jesus said here:
He would be the one to restore Himself to life!

This is a controversial topic for some but it proves He’s God!

John 10:18
No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have
power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This
command I have received from My Father.

God can do anything and everything He wants.

The impossible is always possible for Him!

He created everything from nothing
so why should we doubt His ability to do anything else?

Jesus Christ allowed Himself to die
and, on the third day, returned to life by His own power.

Still, we must note that Jesus only did this too
because it was His Father’s will.

As our Good Shepherd,
Jesus only ever does what pleases His Father.

As His sheep, let’s always try to do the same.

04/30/2026

Christ came to save sinners

As unlikely as it sounds,
God didn't send Christ into our world
to identify and collect the good or righteous people
to be part of His family.

He sent Him to save sinners.

One delusion we convince ourselves to believe
is that some of us are good or righteous.

In fact, our pride often tricks us, as we look down on others
who we consider worse sinners than ourselves,
to view only them as bad.

But scripture repeatedly echoes a contrary truth:
not one of us, other than Jesus - who's God, is righteous.

And, while this may seem like bad news,
it's not because sinners are the ones God wants to save.

Jesus clarified this happy fact when describing His ministry
to some who took issue with Him casually eating with sinners
shortly after He’d forgiven a man’s sin while healing him.

Matt 9:13
But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not
sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners,
to repentance.

Following His return from the desert after Satan’s temptations,
the pace of Jesus’ ministry only ever seemed to accelerate.

Going from place to place, He taught people and did good.

This often resulted in Him encountering the enemy’s forces
and having to deal with them.

Many people He met were afflicted with sickness and disease
so, moved by compassion, He would heal them too.

Through the events of the aforementioned paralytic’s case,
Jesus revealed something which startled His detractors:
because He’s God’s Son, He has the power to forgive sins.

Even better than this though,
He has the power to free us from sin’s control in our lives!

But, we must admit we’re sinners before He can help us.

Jesus confirmed this with the following story,
“The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector”.

Luke 18:9-14
Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in
themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
“Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and
the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus
with himself, God, I thank You that I am not like other men—
extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector. I
fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.’ And the
tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his
eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful
to me a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house
justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself
will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

When we repeatedly compare ourselves favorably to others,
it can become easy to overlook our own flaws and sins;
one can only effectively see one’s own deficiencies
by looking in a mirror, that is, God’s Word.

God is the source of all goodness
and the only one who’s inherently holy.

Claiming our perceived righteousness is worthy of His praise
overlooks the taint of Adam’s first sin which we all bear.

The best thing we can honestly do is recognize our need
and humbly plead for His mercy.

Exalting ourselves as worthier of honor and praise than God
is the height of arrogance and can take many forms.

Those who refuse to accept that God exists,
as well as those who claim we owe our Creator nothing
in the way of gratitude or obedience,
are like spoiled children
who ignore the reality of how they came to be
and who cared for them
when they were incapable of doing so themselves.

All people can only be categorized as sinners,
so none should be proud of anything we do;
after all, our various abilities are just innate:
we can only improve the gifts and skills we were born with,
we don’t generate them in ourselves.

Still, this limitation can be freeing if we’ll embrace it as such:
when we willingly respond to God,
He will guide us to achieve His purpose for our lives.

We don’t need to strive to do great things;
we just need to do what He wants us to do.

Our humble obedience to Him and His Word
will change us and draw others to Him naturally.

Yet, we need to know that, as our love for God grows,
the sin still living within us will continue to try to defeat us.

Yes, we will be sinning and fighting sin for the rest of our lives.

But, we mustn’t let this discourage us!

Again, God knows that we are sinners
and will always help us to overcome our sins
when we turn from them to Him.

The Apostle John confirmed this in one of his letters
to a group of believers who depended upon the Holy Spirit
guiding him regarding such matters.

1 John 1:9-10
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our
sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that
we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not
in us.

Total honesty with ourselves and God is crucial.

If we try to pretend that the one who sees all and knows all
is blind to who we really are and what we’re doing,
we prove that we’re fools who deserve to reap the results
of spurning God’s gracious offer of unlimited forgiveness.

Pause and rationally consider God’s efforts
and His generosity in even making this offer available to us.

He owes us nothing yet sacrifices everything for us,
including His only begotten Son,
in order to satisfy the requirements of His holiness
without violating His character or standards of righteousness.

Fact: God must punish all sin or else He’s not truly holy.

Although, we’d like for Him to overlook the evil we do,
how can He do so fairly
without overlooking that of everyone else too?

If we reasonably believe that some evil must eventually
face its deserved consequences - as we all do,
then we must also agree that all evil should.

After all, how can one fairly decide
which evil, or sins, should be excluded from punishment?

Fortunately for us, God has humbled Himself to provide
a remedy for what would seem to be an unsolvable dilemma.

I say “humbled” but this description isn’t sufficient
since it neglects explaining His motives for what He’s done.

All of human history exists because He wills it to;
it could very well have ended after Adam first sinned.

Yet it didn’t.

John explained why in Jesus’ own words.

John 3:16-18
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten
Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have
everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to
condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be
saved.
He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does
not believe is condemned already, because he has not
believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

Love is the reason for everything God does
because God is love.

Our righteousness is insufficient to atone for our sins.

Suffering and dying in our places
is the ultimate expression of His love for sinners.

It’s very sobering to know He could have justly condemned us
instead of devising the ingenious plan He has to save us.

The choice of our eternal fate is now ours, we sinners.

Receive Christ Jesus as our Lord and Savior
or condemn ourselves as unworthy of such love.

May God help and enable us to choose wisely.

04/14/2026

Most temptations aren’t sin

Believers often misinterpret the temptations we experience
as all being our fault and, worse yet, sin.

While some definitely are, this is a simplistic perception
which ignores why God allows us to encounter them.

The Apostle James confirmed they also have benefits
and encouraged others to understand why
through a letter he wrote to the believers of his day
clarifying some of them.

Let’s review his counsel and allow him to encourage us too.

James 1:2-3
My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,
knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.

Do we believe God is sovereign?

That’s a fancy way of saying He’s in control of everything.

Well, if we do,
then He must allow our trials and temptations for a reason.

James said they’re meant to produce patience in us
so we should be joyful, not sad, as they’re doing so.

This seems like crazy advice until we think it through:
trials in life come to everyone
and we shouldn’t expect to be exempt from them.

So, if everyone experiences them
and we’re commanded to trust God despite them,
we should be joyful and patiently endure them
because our faith is being tested and shown to be real.

Consider this:
how are others to know believers trust God
if we complain about the same things that they do
and credit as reasons why they don’t believe?

Our joy during this testing will confuse them
while it confirms and strengthens our faith.

And the Holy Spirit will abundantly supply us with His joy
as we ask the Father for it.

James said our responsibility is to let patience, longsuffering, perfect us instead.

James 1:4
But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect
and complete, lacking nothing.

Again, this isn’t what our flesh wants to hear.

We’d prefer that God prevent the trials
we require patience to overcome
rather than for us be improved by them.

But, lest we forget,
Jesus Christ had to patiently trust His Father’s will in all things
so, we, as His disciples, should expect to do the same.

Besides, James pointed out another blessing of doing so next.

James 1:12
Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has
been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the
Lord has promised to those who love Him.

The clear proof of His Father’s approval
of Jesus’ unwavering faith and obedience
is that He’s now seated at the Father’s right hand in Heaven.

Our love for God can only be shown
through a similar faith and obedience in all things
by which we will receive the promised crown of life.

Joyfully enduring temptation will also confirm
that we aren’t deluded as to our relationship with God
and ensure we too will be approved by Him.

Still, before saying anything else, led by the Holy Spirit,
James wisely felt it necessary
to clear up any potential misunderstandings
about the temptations we face.

James 1:13
Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God”;
for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt
anyone.

Many people accuse God
of being the one tempting them to sin
as if He was trying to trick them out of Heaven.

Sadly, even some believers think this, too.

But they’re ignoring a simple truism:
if God is perfectly and always good, how can He ever do evil?

I don’t mean evil from our fallen, worldly perspective;
I mean evil that has malicious intentions as its roots.

These types of temptations, those meant to harm us,
come from God’s chief enemy and his minions.

Yes, God is allowing His enemies to tempt us all
but, as we’ve already learned,
His purpose for doing so is always good.

Further, despite how much he wants to,
Satan can’t force us to sin.

James confirmed that this choice is solely ours!

James 1:14
But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own
desires and enticed.

It’s always been the same ever since the Garden of Eden
where Satan lied to Eve and she believed him instead of God
because what he offered sounded like something she desired.

Once we entertain a temptation
instead of immediately rejecting it,
we risk sinning against God’s will.

James said what happens then is very predictable.

James 1:15
Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin,
when it is full-grown, brings forth death.

The Bible documents countless examples of this cycle
where temptation triggers desire
and surrendering to it ends in sin.

However, the death sin reaps isn’t always realized in this life
though it will definitely happen in the next
when we all face Christ’s judgment.

Because of believers’ faith in Christ Jesus now,
they won’t be judged for their sins then
but everyone else will.

Knowing this, James concluded his thoughts on this topic
with some timely advice for us to heed.

James 1:16
Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren.

Satan is a lying, trickster who wants to rob us of our joy now
and our future with God later.

And, he’ll try relentlessly,
with the aid of the other fallen angels, to achieve his goal.

We can either resist or assist them by our actions.

Let’s defeat them by depending on God’s grace
and help when we need it, as often as we need it.

Precious Heavenly Father,
thank you for allowing our faith to be tested
so we know now whose we truly are
through our faith and experiences
rather than by just relying on our hope in your Word.
Help us to remember
that we’re powerful in your strength and not ours
and to rely on you to enable us
to joyfully endure and resist the temptations we face.

In Jesus’ name, we pray.

Amen.

03/30/2026

Jesus hates our unbelief most

During His ministry and after His resurrection,
the sin Jesus was most critical of was unbelief.

This makes perfect sense if we think it through:
all sins, no matter how bad, are effectively addressed
when we believe in Christ Jesus;
otherwise, we’ll retain them until after we die
and, tragically, receive their requisite punishment.

However, rather than expecting anyone to be convinced
by these few, simple statements alone,
let’s allow scripture to prove their accuracy instead.

There are numerous examples of Jesus forgiving sin
so we’ll start with one before His resurrection
where He doesn’t directly condemn anyone present
for their sins but also doesn’t condone them either.

This notable case includes His reaction to the sin of adultery.

As most know, it violates one of the 10 commandments.

John 8:3-6
Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman
caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst,
they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in
adultery, in the very act. Now Moses, in the law, commanded
us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?” This
they said, testing Him, that they might have something of
which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on
the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear.

It’s obvious the scribes and Pharisees knew the man
who was the woman’s partner in this offense
but hadn’t brought him too.

Why not?

I can think of 2 reasons, at least:
firstly, the sin of adultery didn’t actually offend them
and, secondly, as stated in the recorded account,
they just wanted something to use against Jesus.

But, Jesus didn’t respond as they expected.

John 8:7-8
So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up
and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him
throw a stone at her first.” And again He stooped down and
wrote on the ground.

Those nearest to Him may have been able to see
what He was writing on the ground.

Most believe it was a list of her accusers’ sins.

John 8:9-11
Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience,
went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the
last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the
midst.
When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but
the woman, He said to her, “Woman, where are those
accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?”
She said, “No one, Lord.”
And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin
no more.”

Wait a minute!

Those men leaving without condemning her
is understandable,
after all, Jesus had blatantly exposed their hypocrisy.

But, Him not condemning them or her
is almost too good to be true.

Shouldn’t He have condemned this sin while amongst us?

His next sentence helps make it clear which one He does.

John 8:12
Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the
world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have
the light of life.”

This statement about following Him sparked an argument
with the Pharisees who’d heard it
and resulted in additional heated debate
about His identity and His relationship to God, His Father.

They understood that He was making a claim to divinity
and rejected it immediately, once again showing their unbelief.

Jesus then said they didn’t believe in Him or His Father.

John 8:19
Then they said to Him, “Where is Your Father?”
Jesus answered, “You know neither Me nor My Father. If you
had known Me, you would have known My Father also.”

Notice again,
the only sin Jesus confronted them about was their unbelief.

We can’t claim to believe in God and not believe in Him!

Okay.

Now let’s review an instance from after His resurrection.

It occurred shortly after two apostles and a few women
had gone to His grave and discovered it empty.

One woman had even seen and spoken with Jesus!

Furthermore, two disciples unwittingly spent hours with Him
as He discussed His death and resurrection’s importance
before disappearing from their sight.

And yet, His closest friends didn’t believe any of them.

Mark 16:14
Later He appeared to the eleven as they sat at the table; and
He rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, because
they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had
risen.

Jesus could have criticized the remaining apostles
for abandoning Him in the garden, despite His warnings,
or failing to comfort Him as He died - only John was there.

But He didn’t because their unbelief concerned Him more.

Unbelievably, after most apostles confirmed they’d seen Him,
Thomas still wasn’t convinced.

John 20:24-25
Now Thomas, called the Twin, one of the twelve, was not with
them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said to
him, “We have seen the Lord.”
So he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails,
and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my
hand into His side, I will not believe.”

Imagine the boldness required to say something like this!

It’s an obvious demonstration of God’s mercy and patience
that Jesus came to them again expressly for Thomas’ sake.

John 20:26-28
And after eight days His disciples were again inside, and
Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors being shut, and
stood in the midst, and said, “Peace to you!” Then He said to
Thomas, “Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and
reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be
unbelieving, but believing.”
And Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my
God!”

Given that a resurrection like Jesus’ had never happened,
Thomas’ doubts almost seem reasonable.

But he persisted in doubting
despite the testimony of his peers
who had no reason to lie to him.

Jesus couldn’t allow his unbelief to go unchallenged
since this method of testifying was to be used
to reach others who’d never seen Him.

John 20:29
Jesus said to him, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you
have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet
have believed.”

Jesus would no longer be amongst them soon
and future generations would have to believe
based on their testimony alone and the Spirit’s witness alone.

If His apostles didn’t believe in Him, who would?

If their faith was only sustained by His physical presence,
how successful would the spread of the Gospel be
after His ascension?

They’d been with Him;
they’d heard everything He said
and seen everything He’d done.

This established their belief that He was their Messiah.

Later, the Holy Spirit indwelling them
had given them the boldness and confidence to willingly die
to share these facts with others.

And this salvation is the blessing that’s now available to all,
who despite not having seen Him, also believe in Him
as God and as God’s Only Begotten Son.

May God grant all who hear or read the Bible’s teachings
the faith to believe in Jesus Christ.

In Jesus’ name, we pray.

Amen.

Address

202 Elm Street
Everett, MA
02149

Opening Hours

Tuesday	7pm - 10pm
Sunday	11am - 1pm
	6pm - 10pm

Telephone

+16173879539

Website

http://www.elmstreetbaptist.webs.com/

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