Walking Through The New Testament

Jesus lived a sinless life…completely void of all sin.

John 8:1-11 (NIV)
1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4 and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” 6 They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.

But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.

9 At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. 10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”

11 “No one, sir,” she said.

“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”

The only one without sin, to have never sinned, was Jesus. He was the only one left standing with the woman. He then showed great Mercy and Grace as He pardoned her and forgave of this sin. But, He left the choice with her.

Jesus was a brilliant teacher and person. He was God in the flesh. He is a direct reflection of the love that God has always had for us, even in the beginning. He has so much love for us, that without fail He will make a single decision that is good and perfect  for millions. That is who He is. That is God the Father.

Let me ask you a question. Are you saved? Are you going to Heaven when your heart stops beating and you are no longer breathing? Of your answer is, “I don’t know.”, that’s ok. Then my question be, “Would you like to know?” I bet I know your answer. I am saved. I was saved in 2003, and just surrendered last year. Read this with me:

God in heaven, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I acknowledge to You that I am a sinner, and I am sorry for my sins and the life that I have lived; I need your forgiveness.

I believe that your only begotten Son Jesus Christ shed His precious blood on the cross at Calvary and died for my sins, and I am now willing to turn from my sin.

You said in Your Holy Word, Romans 10:9 that if we confess the Lord our God and believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead, we shall be saved.

Right now I confess Jesus as the Lord of my soul. With my heart, I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. This very moment I accept Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior and according to His Word, right now I am saved.

Thank you Jesus for your unlimited grace which has saved me from my sins. I thank you Jesus that your grace never leads to license, but rather it always leads to repentance. Therefore Lord Jesus transform my life so that I may bring glory and honor to you alone and not to myself.

Thank you Jesus for dying for me and giving me eternal life.
Amen.

Welcome to the family. He will answer your call. Begin to read. Start where I did in the New Testament and the Gospels. Enjoy Him. He is coming for you. #JesusSaves

Amen
DK

We are forgiven…

John 7:45-52
45 Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and the Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him in?”

46 “No one ever spoke the way this man does,” the guards replied.

47 “You mean he has deceived you also?” the Pharisees retorted. 48 “Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him? 49 No! But this mob that knows nothing of the law—there is a curse on them.”

50 Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who was one of their own number, asked, 51 “Does our law condemn a man without first hearing him to find out what he has been doing?”

52 They replied, “Are you from Galilee, too? Look into it, and you will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee.”

“A mob that knows nothing of the law. There must be a curse on them.”, that was the statement from the religious knowledge base present as Jesus spoke at the festival. From what I have gathered, I would rather rely on Jesus than the law. Grace and Mercy have certainly saved my life and the life of my family. There is only death in law.

One Pharisee that did know that Jesus was the Messiah is Nicodemus. This man begins to allow God to grow in him and a relationship is being birthed. He knows that Jesus is special and that He has something no other “prophet” had. He brought truth and confirmation found in the Old Testament.

As believers in Christ’s finished work on the cross, we no longer lol lol to law to be qualified. Jesus has qualified us, and as such the Holy Spirit lives in us and is our basis for all action. It is our standards, values, and principles. With this being true, we need not worry about the law for the reason that if we believe and Hoky Spirit is in is, then we will not concern ourselves with the law. We are all destined to sin. When son becomes a roadblock preventing us from acting in the Will of God, Mercy and Grace step in. A free unearned and unmeroted gift from God in the form of Jesus Christ. #JesusSaves

Amen
DK

John 7:14-24
14 Not until halfway through the festival did Jesus go up to the temple courts and begin to teach. 15 The Jews there were amazed and asked, “How did this man get such learning without having been taught?”

16 Jesus answered, “My teaching is not my own. It comes from the one who sent me. 17 Anyone who chooses to do the will of God will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own. 18 Whoever speaks on their own does so to gain personal glory, but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him. 19 Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?”

20 “You are demon-possessed,” the crowd answered. “Who is trying to kill you?”

21 Jesus said to them, “I did one miracle, and you are all amazed. 22 Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision (though actually it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs), you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath. 23 Now if a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me for healing a man’s whole body on the Sabbath? 24 Stop judging by mere appearances, but instead judge correctly.”

His ability, knowledge, and all that made Him a great teacher came from God, the one who sent Him. He knew where His gifts cane from, and He knew that they were given to I’m to glorify the Father. The gifts that are given to us, which are manu, are not meant to place you in high esteem among man, rather they are given to you to glorify God.

As the people chose to pick on Jesus’ great work on the Sabbath, they failed to notice that they had done the same many times before. They could not see their own faults and wrongdoings because they were stuck on law and trying to please man. Trying to please each other.

In this world it is commonplace to rely on the judgement of man, and base our understanding of what is right on the judgement of our peers. What we are supposed to do is weigh what we do against the way that Jesus lived His life. As you know, we will always find someone that will agree with us even when we are hurting ourselves or those that we love. We need His example to live by. It is is given to us in the Bible and it needs to be read…daily. #JesusSaves

Amen
DK 

All in Gods time, not ours…

John 7:1-13
After this, Jesus went around in Galilee. He did not want[a] to go about in Judea because the Jewish leaders there were looking for a way to kill him. 2 But when the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near, 3 Jesus’ brothers said to him, “Leave Galilee and go to Judea, so that your disciples there may see the works you do. 4 No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.” 5 For even his own brothers did not believe in him.

6 Therefore Jesus told them, “My time is not yet here; for you any time will do. 7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its works are evil. 8 You go to the festival. I am not going up to this festival, because my time has not yet fully come.” 9 After he had said this, he stayed in Galilee.

10 However, after his brothers had left for the festival, he went also, not publicly, but in secret. 11 Now at the festival the Jewish leaders were watching for Jesus and asking, “Where is he?”

12 Among the crowds there was widespread whispering about him. Some said, “He is a good man.”

Others replied, “No, he deceives the people.” 13 But no one would say anything publicly about him for fear of the leaders.

Jesus always acted on the direction of the Father. He did not take any action unless it came directly from God. The reason for this is that this world can ensnare all of us, and Jesus was to live the perfect and blameless life so that our sins would be taken to the cross. He is the Messiah.

Those that were fearful of speaking about Jesus were fearful because they did not yet fully believe in Him. Even His own brothers did not. Jesus understood that, and loved them all the same. Their disbelief did not change His love for them. Many of them thought He was a good man. Many of them thought He was deceptive. Nonetheless, Jesus would remain steadfast and strong in His journey.

Jesus is our example to live by. Our standard. We can never love the perfect life that He did, but because of Him we do not have to. It should be our goal to give the perfect effort in trying to live up to the standars that Jesus set for us. He knows we will stumble and fall, and He does not hold that against us. As a matter of fact He uses the stumble to bless others. It’s a wonderful equation in the end, but it’s difficult when we try to work it out ourselves.

Today, let us focus on today. Not tomorrow. Not yesterday. Not next week. Today! Ask God to reveal exactly what He wants from you today. There is something He can do for others through you. As for that. #JesusSaves

Amen
DK