David Journal

Tag: John

  • God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.

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    When John says that have not the Spirit by measure to Christ it means that Christ received unlimited access to the spirit. When Christ says “say not there are yet four months and then cometh the harvest” we can infer that they were about for months before that year’s harvest at the time. It is…

  • “Come and see…Come and see.”

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    I never noticed before the besides summarizing the ministry of John the Baptist the guest chapter if John recounts the gathering of four of the apostles. I also never noticed how clearly John declared to the pharisees that his baptism was a preparatory baptism.

  • A student of students

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    An effective teacher (especially where the gospel of Christ is concerned) begins as a student studying those they teach first—coming to know, understand and love them—before being an instructor.

  • Focus on people

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    If someone wanted a simple way to be more like Christ those three words are probably the most direct path to do so. If we focus on people we will naturally be inclined to make choices following the same patterns as Christ. Not that we would always get it right, but the odds of getting…

  • Two aborted deaths

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    It had only been about a week since Jesus has raised Lazarus from the dead. I believe Mary Magdalene was there to witness that. With that memory fairly recent, how different did it feel to see Jesus risen from the dead without someone to raise him? Did it feel at all the same or did…

  • Close to Christ

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    I would have loved to notice the invitation earlier to study the actions of Mary Magdalene and put myself in her place. The first thing I noticed was the comment “there is a direct correlation to the time we spend listening to His words and learning from Him to how close we are to Him.”…

  • Ascending to heaven

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    It seems to me that ascending to heaven is more than merely vertical travel. I wonder how it must look for those who witness it. What do they see to convey the destination of travel?

  • The prints of the nails

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    Is it universally true that whoever Jesus appeared to as Himself after His resurrection, He showed the prints of the nails and the wound of the spear? He didn’t when he appeared to the disciples on the road to Emmaus, although he didn’t reveal his identity to them either. As far as I can tell,…

  • Speaking apparently

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    For all the talk of men not seeing the face of God – the promise of there that the Lord will speak to those who accept his covenant “apparently, and not in dark speeches.” While we may not see his face He promised that there should be no need to struggle to understand him. Jesus…

  • The premortal Messiah

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    How critical is it to our faith that Christ was preeminent before mortality and not simply when He came to earth?