Text: John 5:39-47
John 5 is a glorious unveiling of the Lord Jesus and the final verses of the chapter provides no let up whatsoever as Jesus’ indictments against the religious leaders are stunning and penetrating. At the last judgment, the one who will bring accusations against them is Moses himself, their hero in the faith. Yet the question before each of us is this: Do you believe Moses?
John 3:19-21: “This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.”
In every true conversion, a lover of Darkness and a hater of the Light, is given a new heart and nature to want what he once hated. It is a breathtaking miracle of new creation performed by the power of God alone.
Spiritual blindness is our moral, fallen condition (in Adam) and this is no more apparent than in the reaction of the Jews to Jesus’ cleansing of the temple. And yet, without the work of the Holy Spirit, all of us are also blind to the truth, even when the truth is standing right in front of us.
Text: John 2:18-22
Text: John 2:1-11
In the Gospel of John, the signs (miracles) Jesus did point beyond themselves to a greater reality. This first sign in Jesus’ public ministry involved turning somewhere between 120 and 180 gallons of water into wine at a wedding party, and it points to something far beyond mere physical supply.