by Matthew Borgstrom | Mar 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
1.Never come to God’s word as an intellectual exercise; ie. a mere gathering of information about God (1 Cor. 1:21, 2:10-16). 2.Never come to God’s word looking for it to affirm your fullness, but instead, come to the word needy and poor in spirit (Matt. 5:3)....
by Matthew Borgstrom | Mar 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
In John 12:35, Jesus instructs the crowd to walk while they have the light. And presumably he is commanding them to walk in the light, since the opposite disposition at the end of the verse is walking in the darkness.Walking is a way of describing the course of one’s...
by Matthew Borgstrom | Mar 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
In John 12:28, Jesus prays to the Father with his overarching disposition of his entire ministry–Father, glorify your name. With the exaltation of the Father in front of him, he pressed on in obedience to the Father all the way through death. Keep in mind that...
by Matthew Borgstrom | Mar 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
In John 12, there were multitudes of people who had traveled to Jerusalem, along with residents from within, who were flocking to see Jesus. However, the motive was not worship, nor was it based on the truth of what Jesus taught or what was written of him in the OT....
by Matthew Borgstrom | Mar 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
Now even though John records in John 12:6, Judas’ disdain for Mary’s actions were primarily motivated by monetary greed, there is another way to engage in action towards the poor for selfish gain and that is with the motive of self-exaltation. There’s nothing wrong at...
