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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 collecting daily manna), 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.

Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Today's Passage : Today's Passage:Subjecta:Jesus at the Feast of Tabernacles (Feast of Booths) [2]

Bible Verse:John 7:10-16 (ESV)

"But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private. The Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying, “Where is he?” And there was much muttering about him among the people. While some said, “He is a good man,” others said, “No, he is leading the people astray.” Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him. About the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching. The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?” So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.”"

Message: Yesterday, we read a discussion between Jesus and his brothers about whether or not he should go to the Feast. He told them he wasn’t going. His time to die had not yet arrived and apparently he knew that an announced appearance would result in his arrest and execution. But he knows that, if he goes in secret, he will be able to teach for a while without being arrested. John emphasizes more strongly than the other gospels that Jesus knew, fairly early in his ministry, the minute details of his future. In John’s Gospel, there is considerably more emphasis on Christ as a fully-realized personage of God, with full and infinite knowledge of all things past and future. We might glean from Matthew, Mark or Luke that Jesus’ full realization as the personage of God comes in stages as he matures. But in John, Christ really appears fully formed as God incarnate. In fact, John is really the only gospel to fully show Christ as an aspect of God that existed from the beginning of time. Compare the opening verses of John to the opening verses of Matthew. Matthew emphasizes Christ as the Messiah of the Jews, by giving his earthly lineage and showing that his birth accords with the Hebrew messianic prophesies. John also gives Christ’s lineage, but the lineage traced by John is directly to God and the beginning of time and existence. John’s picture of Christ thus emphasizes his role as the savior of all humanity, while the synoptic gospels take his role as the Hebrew Messiah as their starting point.