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Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing. But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man. I have wrestled for a great deal of time with these few verses. Having been raised in Sunday school to trust that

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The totality of the Old Testament and the journey of the nation of Israel had been to demonstrate humanities utter need for a Savior. The stories, the people, the law, and prophesies all hold to this singular end; we need someone to fill the emptiness in our souls.This idea was not lost on the disciples of Jesus as they entered the temple in Jerusalem to celebrate Passover. In fact, everything

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. It is true that the faith of a child is great, but in men and woman it must be built up to this level. As we grow we become more and more hardened to trusting that which we cannot see or explain. For this reason, we must take stock in the small private matters that happen every day over the large "mountain top" experiences that happen only a few times. We must pray for the little things as

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. Everybody’s got a story and followers of Jesus are no exception. John Piper recall’s the immense differences in how every believer comes to faith by citing the stories of Augustine and C.S. Lewis. Augustine had struggled for years with sexual addiction and in utter desperation to be free he tore at himself. In his madness a voice, carried on the wind, called him to the scriptures. C. S. Lewis

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Before the Word made himself known he laid a ground work of prophets who told of his future coming. Their message found its culmination in John the Baptist. He was an interesting and rare man by the standards of any time. An anchorite who was zealous, devout, and constant, the Baptist came out of the desert to announce the coming of the Messiah and to lead the way into the new covenant. There

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~ What tremendous and wonderful things the mysteries of Yahweh are! Eternal, omniscient, just, and merciful are but the simplest of the weighty ideas presented by The Evangelist. John’s first sentence dives into the unfathomable depths of the trinity (that Jesus is God) and lays the ground work for the entirety of his gospel. Everything, the Son of Zebedee writes is to ensure that his readers

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