A Daily Devotional – Personal Faith – Personal Meditation
Comment: A little background about the apostle
John and others, before we look at his gospel. John is the first cousin of
Jesus, his mother’s name is Salome, one of the sisters of Mary the mother of
Jesus. These men were called to follow Jesus, they knew Him prior to His
calling them. Friends and relatives, by trade they were fishermen. Do you
remember reading Matthew’s gospel concerning that day when Jesus walked on the
shore of the Sea of Galilee, two of these men on the shore mending their nets
and Jesus said, “Follow Me and I will make you fishers
of men”? First the LORD Jesus saw Peter and Andrew on the shore, then a
bit further in His walk He saw His two cousins James and John, working in a
boat with their father, Zebedee; see Matthew 4:18-22. This is the beginning of
the public ministry of The Messiah/Christ on earth.
Devotional: We
will not cover the gospel of John chapter by chapter; our focus will be on the
Ministry and Mission of The Messiah Jesus who is The Christ Jesus. Now I know I
have said this before that both Messiah and Christ are the same words. Messiah is
Hebrew and Christ is Greek, both words agree that Jesus is the Father’s Anointed
One. To deny this Truth is to reject the gospel (Truth) that God gave His Son
as the sacrificial Lamb of God for the sins of the entire world; see John
1:29-34.
Why did the Father do this? See John 3:16 “For God (The Father) so loved
the world that gave His only begotten Son (Messiah/Christ) that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have
eternal life”. We will see as we travel through John’s gospel and other
passages that The Father loves YOU, accepting this Truth by personal faith,
satisfies God and removes the condemnation from you that is over the world
which is under the penalty of sin; see John 3:17-21 and John 3:36.
Why would God do this? The answer is the entire record
of the Holy Bible, since we do not have the time, or as the apostle John writes
the last words of his gospel we read this. “And there are also many other things
that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one. I suppose that even the
world itself could not contain the books that would be written. Amen”; John
21:25. The Gospel is all about the LOVE of God, if we do not understand this as
His children we will not understand that we are eternally saved by the grace of
God. We are not saved by any other means.
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