Walking with Jesus for a week
Week 9
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.Today we take a bit of a detour. We leave Matthew’s Gospel, just for this Sunday, and turn to the precious Gospel of Saint John. You could say that we are going on a kind of Retreat. Through John’s precious Gospel we will spend a week with Jesus Christ. In John’s Gospel, we find an abundance of names and titles for Jesus. However, in my eagerness, let me first tell you about St. John.
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The Gospel according to Saint John, the beloved disciple of Jesus Christ, is known as the precious Gospel. For seventy years John had thought of Jesus.
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Day by day the Holy Spirit had opened out to him the meaning of what Jesus said. So when John was near the century of life and his days were numbered, he and his friends sat down to remember. Perhaps someone held the pen to write for his master, John the apostle; and the last of the apostles set down, not only what he had heard Jesus say, but also what he now knew Jesus had meant.
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He remembered how Jesus had said: "I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth" There were many things which seventy years before he had not understood; there were many things which
in these seventy years the Spirit of Truth had revealed to him.
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These things John set down even as the eternal glory was dawning upon him. When we read this gospel let us remember that we are reading the gospel which of all the gospels is most the work of the Holy Spirit, speaking to us of the things which Jesus meant, speaking through the mind and memory of John the apostle. Behind this gospel is the whole church at Ephesus, the whole company of the saints, the last of the apostles, the Holy Spirit, and the Risen Lord Jesus Christ.
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In the very first chapter of John we find titles galore or glorious titles for Jesus. Jesus is the Word of God, He is God, He is Lord, He is the Light of the World, He is the True Light, the Only Begotten of the Father, He is the Christ, Lord, Rabbi, Master. He is Jesus of Nazaerth; Jesus, Son of Joseph; Jesus, Son of God; King of Israel, Son of Man, Messiah. Throughout John’s precious Gospel, Jesus is the Bread of Life, He is the Light of the World; He is Gate to Eternity; The Good Shepherd, The Resurrection, and the Life. The Way, the Truth and the Life. He is the Vine and we are the branches. Oh, that we see as John saw. May our hearts and minds and souls and bodies be set on fire by the Holy Spirit.
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Day by day the Holy Spirit had opened to John meaning of what Jesus said. May the Holy Spirit open to you, day by day, as you read God’s Word, and reveal to you, in the same way, as the Spirit did for Saint John - the ‘beloved’ disciple..
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M. JOHN 1:1-19 THE WORD OF GOD BECOME FLESH.
T. JOHN 1:19-34 THE FIRST & SECOND DAYS OF A WEEK WITH JESUS
W. JOHN 1:29-42 THE THIRD, FOURTH & FIFTH DAYS WITH JESUS
T. JOHN 12:1-11 JESUS SPENT A LOT OF TIME HERE IN BETHANY
F. JOHN 2:1-11 THE SEVENTH DAY - A DAY OF CELEBRATION.
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The Gospel according to Saint John, the beloved disciple of Jesus Christ, is known as the precious Gospel. For seventy years John had thought of Jesus.
.
Day by day the Holy Spirit had opened out to him the meaning of what Jesus said. So when John was near the century of life and his days were numbered, he and his friends sat down to remember. Perhaps someone held the pen to write for his master, John the apostle; and the last of the apostles set down, not only what he had heard Jesus say, but also what he now knew Jesus had meant.
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He remembered how Jesus had said: "I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth" There were many things which seventy years before he had not understood; there were many things which
in these seventy years the Spirit of Truth had revealed to him.
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These things John set down even as the eternal glory was dawning upon him. When we read this gospel let us remember that we are reading the gospel which of all the gospels is most the work of the Holy Spirit, speaking to us of the things which Jesus meant, speaking through the mind and memory of John the apostle. Behind this gospel is the whole church at Ephesus, the whole company of the saints, the last of the apostles, the Holy Spirit, and the Risen Lord Jesus Christ.
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In the very first chapter of John we find titles galore or glorious titles for Jesus. Jesus is the Word of God, He is God, He is Lord, He is the Light of the World, He is the True Light, the Only Begotten of the Father, He is the Christ, Lord, Rabbi, Master. He is Jesus of Nazaerth; Jesus, Son of Joseph; Jesus, Son of God; King of Israel, Son of Man, Messiah. Throughout John’s precious Gospel, Jesus is the Bread of Life, He is the Light of the World; He is Gate to Eternity; The Good Shepherd, The Resurrection, and the Life. The Way, the Truth and the Life. He is the Vine and we are the branches. Oh, that we see as John saw. May our hearts and minds and souls and bodies be set on fire by the Holy Spirit.
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Day by day the Holy Spirit had opened to John meaning of what Jesus said. May the Holy Spirit open to you, day by day, as you read God’s Word, and reveal to you, in the same way, as the Spirit did for Saint John - the ‘beloved’ disciple..
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M. JOHN 1:1-19 THE WORD OF GOD BECOME FLESH.
T. JOHN 1:19-34 THE FIRST & SECOND DAYS OF A WEEK WITH JESUS
W. JOHN 1:29-42 THE THIRD, FOURTH & FIFTH DAYS WITH JESUS
T. JOHN 12:1-11 JESUS SPENT A LOT OF TIME HERE IN BETHANY
F. JOHN 2:1-11 THE SEVENTH DAY - A DAY OF CELEBRATION.