Download Lesson: 10.19.25 Class Notes – John 13 v21-38
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Love among Christians must be the vanguard of all that we are about. If we fail in this endeavor, then the world will be given the right to deny that we are disciples of Christ. Our love for one another will be the distinguishing mark of authenticity that we truly follow Christ.
Download Lesson: 10.12.25 Class Notes – John 13 v1-20
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We today, just like the disciples that night, desperately need this lesson on humility. The church is filled with a worldly spirit of competition and criticism as believers vie with one another to see who is the greatest. We are growing in knowledge, but not in grace (see 2 Peter 3:18). “Humility is the only soil in which the graces root,” wrote Andrew Murray. “The lack of humility is the sufficient explanation of every defect and failure.”
Download Lesson: 10.5.25 Class Notes – John 12 v20-50
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We are the ministers of this reconciliation. If human hatred, cruelty, and injustice could be healed by education or culture it would have been done long since. No, the problem is too deep in the humankind. A power outside ourselves must bring us together. A person, not a force, must change us.
We, through John, have seen the signs of Jesus. He was Lord of creation, provider of food, source of light, restorer of life. Fragmented mankind is hopeless without his personal touch. To this end we have been entrusted with his message, his good news: “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.”
Download Lesson: 9.28.25 Class Notes John 12 v1-19
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The perfume Mary used was an expensive luxury item for herself, but she selflessly used it as devotion to Jesus. That she poured it on the feet of Jesus was an act of humility, for attending to the feet of another person was the work of a servant. Wiping the oil with her hair was also unusual, for respectable women did not unbraid their hair in public. Mary exhibited unrestrained love and devotion to Jesus that went against personal cost and concern for perception. How are we showing our humility and love for Jesus on a daily basis?
Download Lesson: 9.21.25 Class Notes – John 11
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When we find ourselves confronted by disease, disappointment, delay, and even death, our only encouragement is the Word of God. We must live by faith and not by sight. Their situation seemed hopeless, yet the sisters knew that Jesus was the Master of every situation. The promise in Psalm 50:15 finds a parallel here: “And call upon Me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me.”