Let’s begin today’s journey by reading in John 3:22-36 in your favorite translation of the Bible while I continue to use the English Standard Version although there are others that I like to use also. Read it out loud or listen to it on an Audio version of the Bible.
John 3:22- 30 ESV
After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he reminded there with them and was baptizing. John (the Baptist) was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized. [for John had not yet been put into prison]. Now a discussion arose between some of John’s disciples and a Jew over purification. And they came to John and said to him, ‘Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you bore witness-look, he is baptizing, and all are going to him’. John answered, ” A person cannot receive one thing unless it is given him from heaven. You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him. The one who has the Bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is complete. He must increase, but I must decrease.”
Were John the Baptist’s followers jealous that Jesus and his disciples were baptizing and Why?
Read Leviticus 26 and list all the commands that the LORD gave to the people of Israel on Mount Sinai through his servant Moses.
What were the blessings given the people who obeyed the Lord’s commands and instructions. List them.
What was the punishment and consequences for the people who disobeyed the Lord’s commands and instructions? List them.
List the ways in which you could surrender and decrease in importance so that Christ could exalted or increased in your own life?
John 3:31-36
He who comes from above is above all. He who is of earth belongs to the earth and speaks in an earthly way. He who comes from heaven is above all. He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony. Whoever receives his testimony sets his seal to this that, God is true. For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for He gives the Spirit without measure. The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand. Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
List all references to the Lord in this passage and list all the pronouns for the mention of each member of the Godhead.
What is the command of the Lord given in this passage and what is the blessing one receives for obeying? What is the result of not obeying the Lord in the passage?
Close, today’s journey in the gospel of JOHN with a time of giving thanks for what the LORD is showing you today through this passage and ask the LORD how you can surrender and exalt Christ in your life this day.
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