Dan Lee
John 17:9-13, For the Joy of God's Elect

Jesus’ first petition for His disciples is found in these verses. Jesus prays that the Father would keep them in His name. Jesus prays for a special people, His disciples and He does so because He was about to physically leave His disciples. What He would no longer be able to do in His physical absence, He asks the Father to accomplish. May the Lord grant to us a greater work of His Spirit to draw us to walk in Jesus’ ways and thus live with His joy evermore in our hearts.

Dan Lee
John 17:6-8, Two Realities of Salvation

Jesus describes the salvation of His disciples from two perspectives, one from heaven and the other from earth. In heaven, salvation was the product of the intratrinitarian transaction between the Father and the Son. On earth salvation was the product of divine revelation through the word of God and the hearty response of faith on the part of believers. The heavenly realities evoke worship, humility, and thanksgiving. The earthly realities compel us to take seriously every word of our Lord Jesus Christ and act upon them by faith.

Dan Lee
John 17:3-5, Salvation for the Glory of God ...

In His prayer, Jesus defines eternal life for our benefit. Contrary to popular belief, eternal life according to the Son of God is a reconciled relationship with God that begins in the present and stretches out to eternity. Jesus also reveals to us that He is the God of eternal glory which is demonstrated through the cross which He was about to bear. In the cross of Christ, the glory of God’s grace shines brilliantly so that all the redeemed and all the angelic host would glorify God forever and ever.

Dan Lee
John 17:1-2, Salvation for the Glory of God

Jesus’ prayer in John 17 begins with a focus on the glory of God. Jesus prays that His impending death will ultimately glorify the Father and that this would come about through the granting (gifting) of eternal life to His elect. What Jesus’ crucifixion puts on display is the glory of God’s grace in salvation.

Dan Lee
Deuteronomy 27-34, Two Ways to Live

As Moses closes his final message to the children of Israel, he focuses on the consequences of obedience and disobedience. He does so by setting down before them two pathways: the pathway to life, good, and the blessing, and the other pathway to death, evil, and the curse. Along with these options for their future, he reveals to them their future in apostasy, judgment, and even a restoration afterwards. The Pentateuch closes with an allusion to the prophet like Moses to come, the Lord Jesus, who speaks from the LORD and all the people ought to hear. The call to choose life echoes throughout the ages, calling all to be reconciled and restored to God and to enter into His blessing through the Savior and Lord Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 10:19-27, Three Treasures in Christ (Part 4)

In this final study of this text (vv. 26-27, we consider the severe warning against conscious unrepentance. The dangers of such response (non-response) to the truth of God is to die with no forgiveness of sins and to have God as one’s enemy. This section of Scripture brings up two very important questions. Is this Scripture saying that one can lose their salvation? How about a person who is weak and without self-control, what are they to do to avoid conscious unrepentance? Listen to learn more.

Hebrews 10:19-27, Three Treasures in Christ (Part 3)

With the third treasure in Christ (the gift of the church), God gives us a duty to consider one another (the church) for the purpose of stimulation unto love and good works. There is work for us to do in this life. God saved us from our sins to labor for the Lord, and we hear the calling of our beloved Father to labor alongside each other and ensure that no one is slack in their service to the Lord as we keep our eyes toward the coming of Christ, for whom we want to be ready as a bride for her husband.

Hebrews 10:19-27, Three Treasures in Christ (Part 2)

In this second installment from Hebrews 10:19-27, we consider the second treasure of heaven which Christ has won for us at the cross. We are called to hold fast the confession of our hope (of heaven, that is) without wavering (firmly), for He who promised is faithful. May the Lord grant us wisdom to hold fast this biblical hope of our eternal inheritance in heaven and live as eschatologically minded people.

John 7:40-52, Come to Christ (Part 2)

The second of the Jews’ reaction to Christ was skepticism (7:41b-42). These were people who were only interested in raising objections to the legitimacy of Jesus’ messiahship but not interest in finding the truth. Skepticism must be directed away from the loving and trustworthy God of truth and toward the world and its ideas. May the Lord help us to perceive the biblical logic of love and live as those who wholeheartedly trust in the Lord and His Word.

John 7:40-52, Come to Christ

After the loud invitation of Christ for those who thirst to come to Him, the Jews react and their reactions give us an open window as to how we ought to properly respond to the Lord’s call to come to Him, as well, how we are to relay the message of Christ to others. In this first installment in this series, we look at the confessors of verses 40-41a and their inadequate response to Jesus’ words.

John 7:37-39, Satisfied and Transformed (Part 2)

In this second installment on Satisfied and Transformed, we look more in depth at what John reveals regarding the Holy Spirit’s new covenant work. Believers are to be receptive to the Holy Spirit. In what ways is the Holy Spirit at work in the lives of believers? Listen to find out. May God enable us to be a church of men, women and children full of the Holy Spirit.

John 7:37-39, Satisfied and Transformed

A righted relationship with God through Jesus Christ brings a spiritual satisfaction to the human soul. Jesus calls all those gathered at the feast of Booths to this blessing of God. Jesus offers this spiritual satisfaction as that which is available, conditional and transformative. Are you satisfied in Christ and are you a conduit of His blessing to others? This is what Christ came to bring to everyone who thirsts for the holy God.