Jesus' Final Week According to All Four Gospels - Part Twelve

The 14th day of Abib (Passover), continued.

Note: Click the links below for downloadable PDF files for you to read along.

Jesus' final week according to the four gospels:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v40ahh3n6EAy18t4tNNMIJiPUVSJrVVv/view?usp=sharing

Scriptures for reading:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yy-JobGdxH9Aewi-deYMOlaIvhXWfAYd/view?usp=sharing

Highlights:

* Every one of the disciples was uncertain as to whether or not he was the one who would betray Jesus, because every one of them had entertained thoughts of turning away from Jesus.

* We have been no better.

* But be of good cheer. We're all in good company, with Peter, James, and John. I survived my foolishness and pride, and you can, too.

* Nobody can occupy two bodies at the same time. Satan could not enter into Judas' body while he was in his own body; he had to abandon his body in order to enter into Judas.

* Judas is the only person in history that Satan abandoned his perfectly beautiful body to possess -- that body of which he was so very proud.

* ... that tells us something, because nothing except the expectation of some extremely great compensation would have motivated Satan to leave his body.

* The Son of God, hidden from the beginning of the world from all men and heavenly beings, was, during the Temptation, still hidden, but this time inside a fleshly body.

* It never pleased God for an angel to abandon his body to possess a man or an animal's body. And once an angel did that, he could never return to his original home, or as Jude calls it, his "domain", or his "proper abode".

* Jesus knew from the start that Judas would betray him (Jn. 6:64), but he loved Judas, and treated him with such respect that the other disciples did not even suspect Judas. They suspected themselves before they suspected Judas!

* My father used to say that Jesus never gave his disciples a commandment they could keep. This (in Jn. 13:34) is one of them.

* It was impossible for Jesus' disciples to love one another as Jesus had loved them because the kind of love Jesus had was the love of God, and Paul said,

"The love of God is poured out within our hearts by the holy Spirit which is given to us" (Rom. 5:5). And the Spirit had not yet been given to them.

* What does it tell us, that Jesus told both his disciples and his enemies that they did not know him or his Father? But he also told his disciples they did know him and his Father.

* The life we have in Christ is an impossible life.

* What men call impossible is the norm in the kingdom of God.

* There is no such thing as a "miracle" to God.

* Let's expect God to be God for us!

* Pastor John's credentials -- his testimony --- of what Jesus created him to be.