But there was a man from the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews. This one came to Jesus by night and said to Him, Rabbi, we know that You have come as a teacher from God. For no one is able to do these miraculous signs which You do, except God be …
Then the Jews (Judaens) answered and said to Him, What sign do You show to us, since You do these things? Jesus said to them, Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up. Then the Jews said, This sanctuary was forty six years being built, and do You raise it up …
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Then the Jews (Judaens) answered and said to Him, What sign do You show to us, since You do these things? Jesus said to them, Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up. Then the Jews said, This sanctuary was forty six years being built, and do You raise it up …
After this He went down to Capernaum, He and His mother and His brothers and His disciples. And He remained there not many days. And the Passover of the Jews was near. And Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And He found those selling oxen and sheep and doves in the temple, and the money changers …
After this He went down to Capernaum, He and His mother and His brothers and His disciples. And He remained there not many days. And the Passover of the Jews was near. And Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And He found those selling oxen and sheep and doves in the temple, and the money changers …
Read more “11. Journeying From Cana To Capernaum (Jn 2:12-17)”
And on the third day a marriage took place in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. And Jesus and His disciples also were invited to the marriage. And being short of wine, the mother of Jesus said to Him, They have no wine. Jesus said to her, What is that to …
Read more “10. The First of Signs – Water To Wine II (Jn 2:1-11)”
And on the third day a marriage took place in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. And Jesus and His disciples also were invited to the marriage. And being short of wine, the mother of Jesus said to Him, They have no wine. Jesus said to her, What is that to …
Read more “09. The First Of The Signs – Water To Wine I (Jn 2:1-11)”
The disciples or disciplines of John who represents our natural understanding of the Word, are centred on repentance in terms of our external life, but these disciplines must make a shift to serve repentance as to our inner life so that our focus is not just on how we act, but includes what we will and think, and so opening up the opportunity for the Lord to begin to order our affections, their thoughts and our actions. This internal application of the internal sense of the Word sees a shift in the states of our mind, with the focus of the Word moving from the reformation of our thinking concerning spiritual matters to our actual rebirth or regeneration.
We all begin our spiritual encounter with the Lord through a natural understanding of the Word. John represents this and it is as we are faithful in following John the Baptist by working with the Word and using it as a means of cleansing our outer life through repentance, so the ground is prepared for coming to see its deeper things and in these things come to experience the power of the Lord, or Word, to save us from the life that is our selfishness.
To love the Lord is to be in the effort to live from our understanding of the Word for the Lord is the Word, and when we live from the Word, then we love the Lord, and it is in living from the Word that we learn how we are to love each other. These loves are from heaven, for anything of spiritual substance produced in us by means of the Word must be heavenly, and if heavenly then it must contain the Lord because the Lord Himself makes heaven, heaven.
