February 2015 Blog Posts (3)

John 19 Chapter 12 It's All Falling Together

This chapter holds the end of Jesus' open public teaching. It takes place in the context of the Passover season, His last and 7th sign of Messiahship and His last public appearance. His hour has come, the hour He foretold, the hour of His glory. It was a 'looking forward' time for Him, grim though it was, looking forward to the Cross and beyond. He was looking forward in faith not only for Himself but for all those around Him who never really ever got what He was about. He was looking…

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Added by HKHaugan on February 22, 2015 at 7:37am — No Comments

John 18 Chapter 11 The Seventh Sign

The signs we have seen so far:

1. Jesus changes the water into wine at a wedding feast (Ch.2)

2. Jesus heals an official's son (Ch.4)

3. Jesus heals a crippled man afflicted for 38 years at the Bethesda Pool (Ch.5)

4. Jesus feeds 5000 (Ch.6)

5. Jesus walks on water (Ch.6)

6. Jesus heals a man born blind (Ch.9)

Now we come to the 7th sign. Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead. It doesn't get any deeper or more profound than this. Jesus shows His mastery over…

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Added by HKHaugan on February 21, 2015 at 5:17pm — No Comments

John 17 Chapter 10

We have spent some time looking at Chapters 8 and 9 in which Jesus opens a new door, a spiritual door. He is the light of the world. To make that clear He heals a man born blind. He identifies Himself as the One through whom all Creation came into being by mixing His spit with dirt and placing it on the blind man's eyes as the physical sign of the spiritual reality that enabled his healing. What an enormous statement that was being made right there. This is not the Messiah of cultural…

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Added by HKHaugan on February 5, 2015 at 5:55pm — No Comments

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