“Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.” (verse 25)
“Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.” (verse 25)
Blindness in the bible equates to spiritual blindness, that is not understanding the truth of God the Father and His Son, Jesus. In this passage, Jesus heals a blind man.
Maybe you come to church not really seeing Jesus. What Jesus is promising in this account in John is that we will have life through Him.
Jesus has delivered what he promised. He urges us to have life through Him.
The structure in the church enables discipline to restore, protect and forgive.
Jesus has just healed a man on the Sabbath against the Jew’s interpretation of God’s laws and they are angry with him. Jesus speaks to them and tells them he works on the Sabbath doing the same works as his Father and they hate him even more.
John writes so that we would believe that Jesus is the Christ. In this account he tells us about the healing at a pool called Bethesda.
In this passage, a royal official begs Jesus to heal his son. Jesus tells him that his son will live. John tells us that this was the second miraculous sign that Jesus performed.
God has made his Son, Jesus Christ, the head of the church. Prophecies describe him as being the Cornerstone of the church.
We need a new heart and we need to be born again.