The High Calling of God

John 7:53-8:20 Continuing with Jesus' "I am" statements, in this reference He is stating that He is the Light of the World. In John 8:12 He makes another bold statement that left His skeptics and critics in an uproar. He said: "I am the light of the world . He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life." John the Baptist had already witnessed to the fact that Jesus Christ would be the true light in John 1:4-9, and in Luke 2:25-32 Simeon prophesied that Christ was "a light to bring revelation to the Gentiles." Light means “to shine or make manifest; esp. by rays; (1) and d arkness is defined here as "spiritual depravity or moral darkness, emblematic of sin, as a condition of moral or spiritual depravity."   (2). The unregenerate man can not understand the spiritual things. He has to be regenerated from within by the Spirit of God.   From the very beginning God separated the darkness and the light. It w

John 6: 22-63   John 6:51 Jesus is saying: "I am the living bread, which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world."   The disciples had no clue what Jesus was talking about. He had just performed a miracle by feeding 5,000 people with five loaves of barley bread and two fish. ( John 6:1-14 ). But when Jesus made this statement a little later they did not understand. Sometimes even Christians have a hard time understanding this, but it has to be understood in the spirit and not the natural mind. Verse 63 in this text states : "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life." We must understand scripture in the spirit, we can not understand it in our own natural mind. Jesus wasn't talking about literally eating His flesh and blood, and even when we take commu

What kind of pudding do you prefer- instant or the kind you have to cook on the stove? I have had a thought lately that I can't get out of my mind. It is this: there are two types of Christians and they are like these two types of pudding.   First, there are the "Instant Pudding Christians". They want everything NOW! They don't want to have to go through any process (dealings with the Lord)- they just want to do and be everything now. Think about it. What is instant pudding like? It is runny and lumpy. It doesn't have much of a flavor and it has almost no consistency. It doesn't take much effort to make- just pour the box into some milk, whip it up and ta-da- you have it! But just what is it?  In my opinion the only thing to do with instant pudding is to dump the box into something else like cakes or pies or other desserts. It isn't much good on its own merit.   Then you have the "Cook and Serve Christians". They are willing to be put on