Week 28 Day 3

The Daily Take 10

The Gospel of John

Week 28 Day 3

Introduction…Missionary to Africa, E. Stanley Jones is quoted saying, “The call of the Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.” Living life for God, our Creator, with the courage to be different, with the willingness to swim upstream while the world floats and swims downstream is extraordinary. Christians should have the inner strength and boldness to be different. Yes, being different can be uncomfortable and even dangerous, but no person can be a disciple of Jesus Christ unless they accept that risk.

Read John 15:24-27  “If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have no excuse for their sins. He who hates me hates the Father too. If I had not done deeds among them, which no one else had ever done, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have seen and they have heard both me and my Father. But it has all happened that the word which stands written in their law might be fulfilled. They hated me without a cause. When the Helper comes, the Helper whom I will send to you from my Father, I mean the Spirit of Truth who comes forth from the Father, he will be a witness about me. And you will be witnesses about me because you have been with me from the beginning.”

Bible Study

• God expects us to live up to the light, the understanding we have been given.
  • What is expected from a child is less than an adult who knows better.
  • What is expected from a primitive Aborigine is less than that of a priest or pastor who is knowledgeable of God and His Word.
  • At the same time, God is just. He will judge us according to the knowledge, to the light we have been given.
  • Romans 1 tells us God reveals Himself to all people of all times with the purpose of giving them the opportunity to respond to Him.
• All Jesus did and said while on earth precisely exposed who God is and expects of us and fully manifested God’s love for us.
  • Jesus exposed sin. He told, taught, explained and showed the way to live.
  • Jesus remedied sin. He opened the way to forgiveness for sinful mankind.
• People rejecting Jesus Christ are refusing God and His love.
  • The person rejecting Jesus is rejecting God’s diagnosis of sin and certain death and only cure through acceptance and belief in Jesus.
  • Rejecting Jesus is man’s prerogative, but it will become God’s judgment.
  • “They hated me without a cause,” was prophesied by David in the Psalms 2x in Psalms 35:19 and 69:4 and it was fulfilled with Jesus.  Think of it…what is the cause of hating Jesus? There truly is none!
• The Holy Spirit repeats, yes He plays back to us what Jesus said until the truth dawns upon us. The Holy Spirit…
  • Moves us to respond to God’s drawing…”come unto me” says Jesus. “Behold I stand at the door and knock. If any man open, I will come in.”
  • Nudges us back to God when we go astray. “If you confess your sin, I will forgive and cleanse you,” says God

Application

• It is our honor to work with God, our task given to us as disciples of Jesus Christ and privilege to be co laborers with Him to be witnesses of Jesus Christ…
  • From many years of fellowship with Him. We have known Him with personal intimacy for years and found Him totally faithful and true. We can say factually and convincingly as witnesses, “I know Him.”
  • From an inner conviction of the Holy Spirit that speaks to us. Telling us this is the way, right from wrong, and counsels us to do the right things and do them the right way.
  • From what we outwardly state as a testimony of our faith and life in Christ. We want to let others know of His faithfulness and truth. Since we are forgiven and found the way, we share the secret, the way, with others.

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