Sun, Jun 27th - 11:13PM

Bible Study 28 June

^{John 20:19} That Sunday evening^[b] the disciples were meeting behind locked doors because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Suddenly, Jesus was standing there among them! “Peace be with you,” he said. ²⁰ As he spoke, he showed them the wounds in his hands and his side. They were filled with joy when they saw the Lord! ²¹ Again he said, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I am sending you.” ²² Then he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. ²³ If you forgive anyone’s sins, they are forgiven. If you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”

Jesus Appears to Thomas

 ²⁴ One of the twelve disciples, Thomas (nicknamed the Twin),^[c] was not with the others when Jesus came. ²⁵ They told him, “We have seen the Lord!”

   But he replied, “I won’t believe it unless I see the nail wounds in his hands, put my fingers into them, and place my hand into the wound in his side.”

 ²⁶ Eight days later the disciples were together again, and this time Thomas was with them. The doors were locked; but suddenly, as before, Jesus was standing among them. “Peace be with you,” he said. ²⁷ Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and look at my hands. Put your hand into the wound in my side. Don’t be faithless any longer. Believe!”

 ²⁸ “My Lord and my God!” Thomas exclaimed.

 ²⁹ Then Jesus told him, “You believe because you have seen me. Blessed are those who believe without seeing me.”

Purpose of the Book

 ³⁰ The disciples saw Jesus do many other miraculous signs in addition to the ones recorded in this book. ³¹ But these are written so that you may continue to believe^[d] that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing in him you will have life by the power of his name. (NLT)

BELIEVE!!!  We worship an almighty God that hears the prayer of his people.  We worship an almighty God that reveals himself to us in his Holy Spirit and reveals his will for us in his Word.

Wed, Jun 23rd - 1:05AM

Bible Study 23 June

John 17: ⁶ “I have revealed you^a]">[a] to the ones you gave me from this world. They were always yours. You gave them to me, and they have kept your word. ⁷ Now they know that everything I have is a gift from you, ⁸ for I have passed on to them the message you gave me. They accepted it and know that I came from you, and they believe you sent me.

 ⁹ “My prayer is not for the world, but for those you have given me, because they belong to you. ¹⁰ All who are mine belong to you, and you have given them to me, so they bring me glory. ¹¹ Now I am departing from the world; they are staying in this world, but I am coming to you. Holy Father, you have given me your name;^b]">[b] now protect them by the power of your name so that they will be united just as we are. ¹² During my time here, I protected them by the power of the name you gave me.^c]">[c] I guarded them so that not one was lost, except the one headed for destruction, as the Scriptures foretold.

 ¹³ “Now I am coming to you. I told them many things while I was with them in this world so they would be filled with my joy. ¹⁴ I have given them your word. And the world hates them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. ¹⁵ I’m not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them safe from the evil one. ¹⁶ They do not belong to this world any more than I do. ¹⁷ Make them holy by your truth; teach them your word, which is truth. ¹⁸ Just as you sent me into the world, I am sending them into the world. ¹⁹ And I give myself as a holy sacrifice for them so they can be made holy by your truth.

 ²⁰ “I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their message. ²¹ I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me.

 ²² “I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be one as we are one. ²³ I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me. ²⁴ Father, I want these whom you have given me to be with me where I am. Then they can see all the glory you gave me because you loved me even before the world began!

 ²⁵ “O righteous Father, the world doesn’t know you, but I do; and these disciples know you sent me. ²⁶ I have revealed you to them, and I will continue to do so. Then your love for me will be in them, and I will be in them.”

The world hates Christians because Christians’ values differ from the world’s. Because Christ’s followers don’t cooperate with the world by joining in their sin, they are living accusations against the world’s immorality. The world follows Satan’s agenda, and Satan is the avowed enemy of Jesus and his people.

Don’t fall into the trap.  You can’t serve God and the world.  They both represent different values that oppose each other.  The world represents self.  It is all about pleasing self.  Serving God is about being pleasing to God.

Thu, Jun 17th - 10:41PM

Bible Study 18 June

John 13:18: I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.
   19: Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.
   20: Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
   21: When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.
   22: Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake.
   23: Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.
   24: Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, that he should ask who it should be of whom he spake.
   25: He then lying on Jesus' breast saith unto him, Lord, who is it?
   26: Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.
   27: And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.
   28: Now no man at the table knew for what intent he spake this unto him.
   29: For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.
   30: He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night.
   31: Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
   32: If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him.
   33: Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.
   34: A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
   35: By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
   36: Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.
   37: Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake.
   38: Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice.

The world makes a lot of big talk about love but do they truly know love?  Love is not lust.  Love is not expressed through pre-marriage sex.  If you truly loved that person you would marry them. 

Liberals make big talk about loving their fellow man but do they show it?  Being politically correct aint love.  If you truly love someone you would be totally honest with them.  Giving someone a one time handout to make yourself feel good about yourself aint love.  True love provides a way out of their situation.  The only way to experience true love is to experience Christ.  The one that died on the cross for mankind.  That is true love, the love of God.  And if you truly love your fellow man you would want him to experience this true love.

Sun, Jun 13th - 11:44PM

Bible Study 14 June

John 12: 1: Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
   2: There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
   3: Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
   4: Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him,
   5: Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
   6: This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
   7: Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
   8: For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
   9: Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
   10: But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;
   11: Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.

The Jewish leaders tried to write off the plotting of Jesus death as planning the death of a blasphemer but what about Lazarus?  What had he done to deserve death?  He was a simple man that Jesus performed a miracle on, so what had he done to deserve death?  The Jews simply wanted him dead because he was a living witness of the deity of Christ.  With Lazarus alive there was no way to deny a miracle had happened.  Plotting the death of Lazarus showed the true hypocrisy of the Jewish leaders.  Was not murder against the Law of Moses?  So many of the enemies of Christ show their true colors today.  They claim to love and tolerate everyone while at the same time trying to silence Christians and show outright hostility toward God.  Tolerance has become the catch word for persecution of Christianity.  Since they claim Christianity is intolerant of other religions it is ok to attack this “repressive and intolerant religion.”  But just like the Jews they to will find out it is impossible to silence God or destroy the Church of Christ.   

Sun, Jun 13th - 1:07AM

Bible study 13 June

John 11:17: Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already.
   18: Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:
   19: And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
   20: Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.
   21: Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
   22: But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.
   23: Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.
   24: Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
   25: Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
   26: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
   27: She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.
   28: And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee.
   29: As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly, and came unto him.
   30: Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met him.
   31: The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep there.
   32: Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
   33: When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
   34: And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see.
   35: Jesus wept.
   36: Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him!
   37: And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?
   38: Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
   39: Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.
   40: Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
   41: Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
   42: And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
   43: And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
   44: And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.

There is life in only one name, Jesus Christ, for it was only Jesus that gave his life on the cross that we may have life.

Sat, Jun 12th - 2:03AM

Bible Study 12 June

^{John 11:1} A man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany with his sisters, Mary and Martha. ² This is the Mary who later poured the expensive perfume on the Lord’s feet and wiped them with her hair.^[a] Her brother, Lazarus, was sick. ³ So the two sisters sent a message to Jesus telling him, “Lord, your dear friend is very sick.”

 ⁴ But when Jesus heard about it he said, “Lazarus’s sickness will not end in death. No, it happened for the glory of God so that the Son of God will receive glory from this.” ⁵ So although Jesus loved Martha, Mary, and Lazarus, ⁶ he stayed where he was for the next two days. ⁷ Finally, he said to his disciples, “Let’s go back to Judea.”

 ⁸ But his disciples objected. “Rabbi,” they said, “only a few days ago the people^[b] in Judea were trying to stone you. Are you going there again?”

 ⁹ Jesus replied, “There are twelve hours of daylight every day. During the day people can walk safely. They can see because they have the light of this world. ¹⁰ But at night there is danger of stumbling because they have no light.” ¹¹ Then he said, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but now I will go and wake him up.”

 ¹² The disciples said, “Lord, if he is sleeping, he will soon get better!” ¹³ They thought Jesus meant Lazarus was simply sleeping, but Jesus meant Lazarus had died.

 ¹⁴ So he told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead. ¹⁵ And for your sakes, I’m glad I wasn’t there, for now you will really believe. Come, let’s go see him.”

 ¹⁶ Thomas, nicknamed the Twin,^[c] said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go, too—and die with Jesus.”

We don’t always understand why things happen in our lives but if we are a child of God we know we have a loving Father that is watching out for our best interest.  We can rest ensure that he promised to never leave us or forsake us, especially during the tough times.