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Dear
Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Friday, January 26, 2024
Today's Passage : Today's Passage :John 5:31-40 (ESV) Bible Verse:Testimony to Christ "If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not true. There is another who bears witness about me, and I know that the testimony that he bears about me is true. You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. Not that the testimony that I receive is from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved. He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me. And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen, and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent. You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. " Message:
This passage illustrates, or even summarizes, the distinctive goals of John’s Gospel compared to the synoptics. Christ does not accept the testimony of men, although he encourages it because it might help lead men to salvation. However, Christ does not accept it. It does not move Christ himself to believe he is the Son of God.
This is something it might not occur to you to ask: How did Christ know, how was he totally convinced, that he was the Son of God? We are not really told, but here, Christ does tell us what he considers to be the linchpin proof of his divinity: the miracles he performed or which occurred around him. These are the signs which he considers most important.
John numbers seven miracles that he considers the critical “signs” of Jesus’ divinity. We have seen two of them so far: 1) The wedding at Cana, where he turned water into wine, and 2) healing the sick man at the Pool of Bethesda, in Jerusalem.
Jesus also says that the Father himself has testified, but he does not tell us exactly what he means. John does not recount the voice from the heavens at Jesus’ baptism, although John the Baptist’s vision of the Holy Spirit descending in the form of a dove is told in John 1.
In addition, Jesus leans upon the word as received in the Bible -- i.e., the Old Testament -- which foretold his coming. Many circumstances of his birth and life were prophesied, especially in Isaiah, and Christ expects us to lean on them as a foundation of our faith.
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