Losing Your Life in Order to Keep It – John 12:25
Jesus tells us to lose, or hate, our life in order to experience eternal life. Let go of this life and instead follow Jesus wherever he leads.
But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. (2 Cor. 4:7 NIV)
Studies from the gospel of John
Jesus tells us to lose, or hate, our life in order to experience eternal life. Let go of this life and instead follow Jesus wherever he leads.
Jesus invites us to take from him living water that will spring up in us to eternal life. It will satisfy, unlike the water of this world.
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Jesus tells us that we are to be known by our love. Not by how good we are, or any other human measure. But by our love for each other.
He must increase while I must decrease. That should be my goal in serving Christ. To deflect attention away from myself and toward him.
As one who has experienced God’s grace, I should extend grace and mercy to others rather than hold them to a legalistic standard of law.
It is only natural to want to compare ourselves with others asking ‘what about him’. But Jesus calls us to follow the plan he has for us.
Jesus’ many signs should direct us to belief and eternal life in him. Will you see and believe, or close your eyes and stumble?
There were three crosses at Calvary that day. Jesus was on the cross of atonement. Is there any significance to the other two?
What is truth? Jesus is the foundational truth on which all others stand. All others should be judged by him and who he is.