David Journal

Tag: John

  • King of saints

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    Pilate inscribed the cross of Jesus calling Him king of the Jews but truly He is King of the saints because the saints recognize his authority to rule.

  • King of Israel

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    Perhaps it was I’m reaction to the fact that Israel he recently rejected the Lord as their king – seeking a mortal king instead – but the psalmists seem to be intent on reminding the people that He is their true king.

  • Judgement is universal

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    People today talk about death and taxes being universal. Judgement by the Savior is more universal than both of them.

  • Jehovah

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    The Lord told Moses that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob didn’t know his name as Jehovah – only as God Almighty.

  • “Feed my sheep”

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    At what point did Peter begun to realize that he was being taught after Jesus began inviting him to “feed my sheep?”

  • He is risen!!

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    The disciples on the road to Emmaus got a foretaste of what Jesus would say and do with the apostles in Jerusalem that He appeared to later that same night.

  • Friendship with Christ

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    Friendship with Christ comes when we can be brought completely into His confidence. In other words, when we have developed the spiritual maturity that He can tell us all that the Father has given for the children of men and we will embrace it. That seems to me to be the dividing line with our…

  • Feeding the people

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    One of the interesting aspects of the feeding of the 5000 was that there was many times more left over after they were fed than there had been when they started. The people were happy to follow someone who would supply them with all the bread they might need but Jesus knew that what they…

  • Sin no more

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    I wonder if part of what Christ was saying to the man He had healed when He said “sin no more” was to warn him against things such as carrying his bed on the sabbath which would attract condemnation from the Pharisees. Jesus’ condemnation of the Pharisees that “I accuse you not to the Father…

  • Thomas

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    I noted before that Thomas was one who demonstrated that righteous manhood could go unheralded until it was derided for having cracked. At the time I thought that was all I would have to say about Thomas and his infamous doubting. I think it is critical to note that righteous manhood is not defined by…