Category: Walk Through the Gospels
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Old Time Religion
And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth. For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb. And many of the children of Israel shall…
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Thy Prayer Is Heard
And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his course, According to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord. And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the…
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Bad Things Happen to Good People
There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. And they had no…
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That’s Jesus
No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. – John 1:18 This final verse of the opening to the Gospel according to John is a true gem. We have record of people like Moses seeing God in the Old…
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He Giveth Power
In my two previous posts, we learned something very important about the power of Jesus and the power of sin. We learned that Jesus is the source of all life for creation and mankind in particular. However, we also learned that sin has such a detrimental effect on man that he cannot even recognize God…
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Ignorant Darkness
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. – John 1:5 Satan lies! He lies every time he speaks. He lies today, and in particular, he lied to Adam and Eve in the Garden. He told them that they would become like gods knowing good and evil. What he did not…
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Life & Light
John 1:1-18 The next major theme that we find in these opening verses of John’s gospel teaches us that Jesus is the source of all things and the natural life in man. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. – John 1:3 All creation owes…
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The Witness
John 1:1-18 In the first eighteen verses of John 1, we are told about two cousins. One is called the Word or the Light. The other is called the witness of the Light, and his name is John. This article will cover what these few verses say about this man John. This is a different…
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Jesus Is The Eternal God
In the opening verses of the Gospel according to John, we learn about two cousins. One was the Word or Light. This is Jesus. The other was witness to that Light. This is John the Baptist. The first three verses present a lot of doctrine about the eternal nature of Jesus and the Trinity. In…
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John’s Perspective
John desires that his readers have a full understanding of the deity of Christ so that they may live a life of liberty in Jesus.