7. “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” (Luke 23:46) Jesus willingly gave his life. Jesus faced the incredible task of laying down his life as a ransom for the world. This task was traumatic and overwhelming, but Jesus accepted it willingly. After hanging on the cross for ...
Ben’s question “what do you think of men?” led me to a place of clarity as to how I see the men in my life. More importantly, my reflections gave me an even greater love for the God/Man, Jesus/Yeshua. As I thought of my own failures as a human being and their cost to tho...
This was the counsel which Jesus gave, denoting the stumbling block which lay in the way of the ruler's endeavours after perfection. He was voluntarily to deprive himself of the earthly thing to which he fondly clung, his wealth, and to embrace a life of poverty and hardship. Give to ...
Jesus as the Overseer of our souls. "Overseer" (NIV), "bishop" (KJV), "guardian" (NRSV) translate the Greek nounepiskopos, originally "one who has the responsibility of safeguarding or seeing to it that something is done in the correct way, guardian."[136]Jesus gave his life for us....
/ And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,Philippians 2:9-11Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name above all names, / that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the...
10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. 11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. 12 But he that is an hireling, and not the ...
(Revelation 1:5). I surrendered to the urging of God’s spirit and gave Him my life to be directed by Him (John 16:8). In return, He gave me His righteousness, and I found peace and trust in Him (Isaiah 26:3). I was born again (John 3:3,1 Peter 1:23). I began to ...
With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.” (John 19:28-30) Jesus’ life and death completed many prophecies, which we find throughout the Old Testament. Even when Jesus was in a place of agony and close to the point of death, he remembered every prophecy written and ...
Heaven’s Son gave up his wealth and emptied himself by becoming poor to reach the poor. As Joseph’s son, he was born dirt poor. Follow his steps and you will see that he deeply cared for the poor, inferior, marginalized, and unclean. He lived as a vagabond to bring good news to...
But be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”1 John 4:...