His Love Ministries
Episodes
Wednesday Apr 25, 2018
30 SECOND DEVOTIONAL 1 JOHN 2:2 THE PAYMENT FOR SIN
Wednesday Apr 25, 2018
Wednesday Apr 25, 2018
1John 2:2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world
1 John 2:2 says He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. This means Jesus Christ died on the cross so that anyone who believes He died in their place, took their hell, and paid the penalty for their sins can go to heaven. The word propitiation means satisfaction and Jesus satisfied the legal demands that someone had to be punished and die for our sins. That is why when Jesus died, He said it is finished, it means He paid our sin debt in full and anyone who will call on Him for forgiveness in repentance and faith will be saved.
Sunday Apr 22, 2018
JOHN 2:11-22 THE CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE BY JESUS
Sunday Apr 22, 2018
Sunday Apr 22, 2018
John 2:12 After this He went down to Capernaum, He, His mother, His brothers, and His disciples; and they did not stay there many days. 13 Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the moneychangers doing business. 15 When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers' money and overturned the tables. 16 And He said to those who sold doves, "Take these things away! Do not make My Father's house a house of merchandise!" 17 Then His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up." 18 So the Jews answered and said to Him, "What sign do You show to us, since You do these things?" 19 Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." 20 Then the Jews said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?" 21 But He was speaking of the temple of His body. 22 Therefore, when He had risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this to them; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.
In this weeks message we will see two of the three reasons in this section of Scripture why Jesus is God. Remember John’s Gospel is proving to us that Jesus is God come in human flesh. The first reason we will see is that Jesus had zeal for his fathers house and only He had the authority and right to regulate worship. Secondly we will see that Jesus is God because only He can rise from the dead and live again forever. This is a great section of scripture that starts the conflict with the religious authorities and will culminate with them killing him on the cross as the Bible predicted many hundreds of years ago. The Pharisees as you will notice here and throughout the Gospels always want a sign from Him, but He never gives into their request, but always gives basically the same answer to them.
Wednesday Apr 18, 2018
30 SECOND DEVOTIONAL 1 JOHN 2:1 THE FREEDOM OF FORGIVENESS
Wednesday Apr 18, 2018
Wednesday Apr 18, 2018
1 John 2:1 My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
The last part of 1John 2:1 says And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. If we are Christians we don’t look at salvation as a license to sin, but if we are truly saved, as we continue to follow Christ we will sin less and less as the pattern of our life. But He also tells us that when we do sin that Jesus is our Advocate, our ally, our intercessor who defends us before an accusing devil and a Holy God that He paid for that sin on the cross and it can never be held against us ever again.
Sunday Apr 15, 2018
JOHN 2:5-11 THE FIRST MIRACLE OF JESUS PART 2
Sunday Apr 15, 2018
Sunday Apr 15, 2018
John 2:5 His mother said to the servants, "Whatever He says to you, do it."6 Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the manner of purification of the Jews, containing twenty or thirty gallons apiece.7 Jesus said to them, "Fill the waterpots with water." And they filled them up to the brim.8 And He said to them, "Draw some out now, and take it to the master of the feast." And they took it.9 When the master of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom.10 And he said to him, "Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!"11 This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory; and His disciples believed in Him.
In this message we will finish the section of scripture we started last time. We begin with a little refresher on what was said last time and then we begin to see how religion cannot save, only Christ. We also see the role of Mary, she is not someone we pray to, but someone who needed a Savior just like we do. We will also learn some more principles of how to live the Christian life in our daily walk with the Lord. Then finally we see the miracle itself and how Jesus is God because He is able to turn ordinary water into wine and He doesn’t need grapes or time to do it. It is an instantaneous miracle done for a select few He chose to see it.
Wednesday Apr 11, 2018
30 SECOND DEVOTIONAL I JOHN 2:1 THE FREEDOM FROM SIN
Wednesday Apr 11, 2018
Wednesday Apr 11, 2018
1 John 2:1 My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
The first part of 1 John 2:1 says My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. This says that if we know Christ as our Lord and Savior then we do not have to sin because God has given us the Holy Spirit to overcome sin, suffering, and temptation, but we sin because we are weak and want to. If you have not been saved, you are like Mic Jagger who says he is free, free to do whatever he wants. But I say to you and anyone else who believes this, you are not free to not do what you want to do and no matter how hard you try you will never be able to change or break those bad habits without Christ and you definitely will not make it heaven
Sunday Apr 08, 2018
JOHN 2:1-5 THE FIRST MIRACLE OF JESUS
Sunday Apr 08, 2018
Sunday Apr 08, 2018
John 2:1 On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding. 3 And when they ran out of wine, the mother of Jesus said to Him, "They have no wine." 4 Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does your concern have to do with Me? My hour has not yet come."5 His mother said to the servants, "Whatever He says to you, do it."
In this great section of scripture we begin to see Jesus as He does His first miracle revealing yet another facet of who He is. He is God over Nature and God over time. Only God can make wine out of water. He is revealing more of who He is to His disciples, His mother, and the servants who see the miracle. Even though this is His first miracle, it is a private one for only a privileged few who get to witness it. These verses reveal some principles we are to use as we seek to please Him and live our life as an obedient and productive Christian.
Wednesday Apr 04, 2018
30 SECOND DEVOTIONAL 1 JOHN 1:10 SAYS IF WE SAY WE HAVE NOT SINNED
Wednesday Apr 04, 2018
Wednesday Apr 04, 2018
1 John 1:10 says If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us. Many people think they have never done anything wrong, or at least nothing that would send them to hell. James 4:17 says Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin. We live in a day of tolerance that defines sin, as what we think is right or wrong, but the Bible is our standard. If we realize we are not good enough on our own to get into heaven we can trust Jesus Christ and God will save us. Otherwise we are calling God a liar and rejecting His Holy Word.
Sunday Apr 01, 2018
JOHN 1:43-51 THE REVEALING OF JESUS TO PHILLIP AND NATHANIEL
Sunday Apr 01, 2018
Sunday Apr 01, 2018
John 1:43 The following day Jesus wanted to go to Galilee, and He found Philip and said to him, "Follow Me." 44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. 45 Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found Him of whom Moses in the law, and also the prophets, wrote--Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." 46 And Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see." 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him, and said of him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!" 48 Nathanael said to Him, "How do You know me?" Jesus answered and said to him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you." 49 Nathanael answered and said to Him, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!" 50 Jesus answered and said to him, "Because I said to you, 'I saw you under the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things than these." 51 And He said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man."(NKJV)
In this section of Scripture Jesus actually goes out to find Phillip and when He does Phillip immediately goes to find his brother Nathaniel. Have you noticed that every time Jesus calls a disciple they immediately go and find someone else and bring them to Jesus? This is a great principle; we should all be bringing people to Jesus. Nathaniel is a bit of a skeptic and takes some convincing. Jesus then begins to talk to Nathaniel and tell him all the things he was doing and thinking and Nathaniel is thoroughly convinced. Jesus goes on to tell Nathaniel that the Son of Man is the only way to Heaven and the ladder that Jacob saw was actually a picture of Jesus. This is a really great passage that begins to open up all the things about Jesus that we need to know and have you noticed all the names and titles that they have been given to Jesus beginning back in verse 29 of this Chapter. There are about 16 of them, see if you can find them and see what they all mean.
Following Jesus Means He leads you in a new direction v43-44
Initiative Evangelism - you take the initiative
The disciples of John were not the only men who began following Jesus. Andrew continued to bring other friends to Jesus. This incident preceded Jesus' formal appointment of the Twelve, but it shows Him preparing those who would become His disciples.
Everyone else in this chapter who came to Jesus came on the invitation of someone other than Jesus. Moreover John seems to have been stressing the importance of witnessing for Jesus. Andrew found Philip (a Greek name meaning "lover of horses") somewhere along the way or, most likely, in Galilee. Philip was from Bethsaida Julius in the region of Galilee (12:21). Having come to Jesus on Andrew's invitation, Philip accepted Jesus' invitation to follow Him. Verse 43, “The next day He purposed,” this is Jesus I believe. Some think Andrew. I think its Jesus. “The next day He purposed to go to Galilee, and He found Philip, eureka. Jesus said to him, ‘Follow Me.’” Philip is going one way, Jesus is going to pull him another. This one he sort of goes after, if you will. Philips means a lover of horses. That’s about all we know about Philip. What is significant is that God meets Philip where he is.
Now, you know, we, we say that axiom sometimes too much; God meets us where we are; and that can be inaccurate, can’t it. But there’s a profound spiritual truth as well in that statement that God does meet us where we are. One of the most profound passages in my spiritual journey has been Romans 5:8, “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” I hope you never get over that verse. I hope you never tire of reviewing the fact that you and I were sinners in a sinful condition when we met Jesus Christ. We did not have to get a little more good, a little bit better, clean up our lives, and then trust Christ. He meets us while we are in our sinful condition. So, in a sense, He does meet us where we are, doesn’t He? And He meets Philip where he is. Where are you? Doesn’t matter ‘because that’s where He’ll meet you.
Following Jesus Results in a new comprehension of who Jesus is v45-49
Apologetic Evangelism
Philip then brought his friend Nathaniel (meaning "God has given" or "given of God," modern Theodore) to Jesus. Some commentators identify Nathanael with Bartholomew (cf. Matt. 10:3; Mark 3:18; Luke 6:14).
However there is no good reason to equate these two men. The witness continued to spread through the most normal lines of communication, namely, friend to friend, as it still does. The prophecies to which Philip referred may have included Deuteronomy 18:15-19; Isaiah 53; Daniel 7:13; Micah 5:2; and Zechariah 9:9. These and
others spoke of the Messiah. This suggests that the early disciples understood messiahship in the light of the Old Testament background rather than only in a political sense.98 Philip described Jesus as Joseph's son, which is how people knew Him before they learned that He was the Son of God (v. 49). "In one sense it is legitimate to view Jesus' disciples in the gospel of John (with the exception of Judas Iscariot) as believers in Him from near the beginning of His public ministry. In another sense, however, it is also clear that the disciples' faith in Jesus grew and developed as they observed the progress of His public ministry. The course of this development may be traced in the gospel of John."99
Ge 28:8-19 And he called the name of that place Bethel (House of God); but the name of that city had been Luz (Means Wilderness or Separation) previously.
V49 The fig tree is interesting. It’s brimming with meaning. Jesus saw him previously. There are two things going on here. One is historical and one is prophetic. He saw him sitting under this fig true. That’s the historical part. But there’s a prophetic notion with it as well for in the Old Testament, if you were under any tree, you were meditating. We might call it quiet time in our vernacular. If a good Jew was under a tree, he was having a quiet time in our terminology. So he saw Nathanael having this devotion under the tree.
Psalm 139 says, “God knows everything about you.” It’s exciting and scary to read that Psalm. He knows everything about you. Every crevice in your heart, every guilty conscience, every sin hid away, every motive of love, everything He’s changed, He knows every little thing about you and me. We think about videotapes of our lives. Think about a holographic 3D re-enactment imagery of your life. Jesus knows every motive and whim. So Nathanael is found out, if you will, when Jesus says of him, “Look, there’s no deceit in that guy.” Well, this is enough to push Nathanael over the edge. He says, “You are, Rabbi, the Son of God. You are the King of Israel.”
Jesus' simple statement elicited the most dramatic reaction from Nathaniel. He concluded that the only way Jesus could have seen him when he was under the fig tree was if Jesus had supernatural knowledge.
Evidently Nathanael knew that he was completely alone and that no one could see him when he was under the fig tree. Nathanael's reaction appears extreme at first since even prophets had knowledge of things other people knew nothing about. Why did Nathanael think Jesus was the Son of God and not just a prophet? The answer seems to be that even the title "Son of God" did not mean deity to all the Jews in Jesus' day. It meant that the person in view bore certain characteristics of God (cf. Deut. 3:18; 1 Sam. 26:16; Ps. 89:22; Prov. 31:2; Matt. 5:9; John 17:12). Nathanael appears to have regarded Jesus as the Messiah who had supernatural knowledge (cf. v. 45; 2 Sam. 7:14; Ps. 2:6-7; Isa. 11:1-2). However, Nathaniel spoke better than he knew. Jesus was the Son of God in a fuller sense than he presently understood. 100Bruce, p.
Following Jesus Is only a beginning v50-51
He’s saying, “If you believe ‘because you think I’m clairvoyant, you're going to see a whole lot more than this that’s going to push you over the edge of belief.”
Now, if you connect Verse 48 with Verse 51 this fig tree devotion and what Jesus says in 51 about this angels descending and ascending, we go back to Genesis 28:12 where Jacob, the supplanter, the deceiver had the dream and he saw the angels going up and down the ladder, remember? If that’s true I think what’s happening here, I think it is true, Jesus is saying, “I saw you under the fig tree. You’re not a deceiver.” There’s the word. Jake, I was just thinking about Jacob the deceiver under the tree and those angels going up and down the ladder. He says, “You’re not a deceiver and you think you saw angels? I’m here,” Jesus says. “You’re going to see the angels descend and ascend out of me. You don’t need a ladder. You don’t need a conduit. I am God in flesh.” So he blows Nathanael away with His insight not only into his soul but into what He knew about his heart.
Re 8:4 And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel's hand.
Angel’s carry blessings down to us and burdens up to God for us.
How can all these people come up with all these designations about Christ when they meet Him? Because when you have an encounter with Jesus Christ and you meet Him your life is dramatically changed and the dots start to come together. When you follow Jesus Christ He is asking for you to be His disciple and Him to be the master
At least 16 different names and titles of Jesus appear in chapter one: the Word (vv. 1, 14),the light (vv. 4,7-9), the only begotten of the Father (v. 14), Jesus Christ (v. 17), the only begotten God (v. 18), the Lord (v. 23), the Lamb of God (vv. 29, 36), a man (v. 30), the Son of God (v. 34), Rabbi (Teacher, vv. 38, 49), Messiah (v. 41), Jesus of Nazareth (v.45), the son of Joseph (v. 45), the Son of God (v. 49), the King of Israel (v. 49), and the
Son of Man (v. 51).
Lessons:
He is the master, you are the follower (disciple)
Now, there are two lessons I want us to conclude on this message and the first is very simple and I’ve already said it a number of times. If you are a believer in Christ, He is to be your master. You are to be His disciple. John sole’s mission in life was to point other people to Jesus and he’s content with stepping out of the light and letting Jesus take the light and letting his friends follow Jesus, and he’s happy with that. Let me apply that in a question. Is there any master from which you need to detachment? Some tentacles from another master still in your soul holding on to your heart and your time?
Maybe you’ve heard it dozens of times, maybe hundreds of times; if you do not embrace Jesus Christ as your Lord, as your King, as your Savior, and your Master, you’re playing with Him, you’re toying with Him. You going to be a follower? If you’re going to follow Jesus Christ, it will fundamentally change the purpose of your life. It cannot not change the purpose of your life. If it doesn’t it you’ve not embraced who He is.
Jesus Christ is saying to you I’m the teacher, you are the student, and oh by the way, you’re always going to be a student. Jesus Christ is saying to you I’m the Rabbi, you’re the disciple, oh by the way, you’re always going to be a disciple. You’ll never be a Rabbi. This generation arches its back against submission like no generation ever has before. We hate submission.
2. If you’re going to follow Me then follow me. Don’t play with Me. Obey Me no matter what anybody tells you, obey me.” Well, it’s tough, it’s hard. I mean, gee, whiz Lord. I had this sexual orientation. I think I’m gay, I think, you know, I’m living with my girlfriend, I’m living with my boyfriend, I’m sleeping around and I --. You know, your Bible says that’s wrong but that Bible, it’s an old book. Come on, Lord. Everybody says this is okay. I’m the Master, you’re the child.
Jesus Christ wants followers, not fans. He wants committed students, not a crowd of spectators. Do you think Jesus Christ, the Sustainer, the Creator of the world and the universe is a Master worthy of your obedience? And if so, what area do you lay down and give to Him?
Mt 4:19 Then He said to them, "Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men
If you don’t know who Jesus Christ is, Jesus Christ is standing in front of you today in your soul, in your heart and your mind, and just like those first two guys that started walking about Him He’s turned on His heels, He’s locked eyes with you, and He’s saying, “What do you want?” What are you coming to me for? What are you looking for in this life?” And on the authority of the Word of God and Jesus Christ that question still stands men and women. What do you want?
And, if you’ve never come to know who Jesus is, He is God. He lived, He died, He was buried and came back from the dead, and He says, “Anyone who believes in me, I give eternal life. You want to know what it is, come follow Me.” “All you have to do is come and follow Him,”