In John 10:5 and 8, Christ teaches that his sheep do not plunge themselves into strange teachings. Just to clarify—this teaching is not denying the reality of different maturity and discernment levels and seasons of growth, but instead, that if someone is attracted to...
In Mark 7:14-23, Jesus teaches that it’s the heart one is born with that defiles every person. The Bible is crystal clear about this, especially in Jer. 17:9 The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it? In light of that,...
In shining forth the light in John 9, the healing of the blind man magnificently illustrates spiritual salvation since there is a link between this man’s blindness from birth and man’s spiritual state from birth. The Apostle Paul writes in Rom. 5 that when God’s love...
The Jews certainly catch the gravity of what Jesus taught in John 8:51 and because they don’t find any truth in it, they consider it audacious he would speak such words. Reason being, Abraham was the father of the faith and kept God’s word and yet he couldn’t escape...
Unlike his hearers’ responses, Jesus responds directly to their assertion in John 8:42 and the original grammar assumes both parts of the conditional statement to be untrue—If God were your father (but he’s not), then you would love me (but you don’t). This is...
