Apr 17, 2025 … Dying To Live …
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in this song with music and lyrics with Matt Papa singing … Christ Our Hope In Life and Death, showing the confident hope for eternal life we have … which is found in our belief in Christ’s death and His resurrection.
Highlight Passage: …John 12:24 … [NLT] …
24 I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone. But its death will produce many new kernels—a plentiful harvest of new lives.
… Jesus predicts the effects of His death to bring all who believe in Him to eternal life.
Highlight Passage (in context):… John 12:20-27 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus tells His followers of His having to die to give life to any/all who believe in Him as Messiah.
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Reference Passage: …Psalms 23:4 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… King David sings of not fearing death because He follows the Good Shepherd.
Reference Passage: … John 5:24 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus tells HIs followers that those who believe in Him as the true Messiah will be saved from their sins and have eternal life.
Reference Passage: … Romans 6:23 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul teaches fellow Christians that they (we) find eternal life when we die to self by believing that Jesus is Lord.
Reference Passage: … Galatians 2:20 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… The Apostle Paul witnesses to his new life of faith in Jesus as The Christ.
Reference Passage: … Revelation 21:4 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… The Apostle John reveals the glory all true Christians will experience in their (our) eternal home.
My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - Kenneth Petersen … AT THIS LINK … uses the story of Fyodor Dostoevsky, the famous author, who faced a firing squad but was saved at the last moment by the Russian Czar. But thru it all, Dostoevsky didn’t fear death because he knew and believed in Jesus’ declarations of eternal life for all those, including himself, who believe in Him as The Messiah. And Dostoevsky, in the epigraph to his famous epic novel, The Brothers Karamazov, quotes John 12:24. today’s Highlight passage, showing his confidence in eternal life because of his belief in Christ as Lord and Savior.
The question which arrises from today’s ODB entry, the linked song, and all the Scriptures shared above, is do ANY and ALL of us believe that Jesus was Who He said He was … and will give eternal life to any who declare that His was - and IS - The Messiah, … the One Who died that all believers in Him will have eternal life. That’s me!! … How about you? If so, I’ll see you on the other side!
My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for dying that I might live with You forever.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray, … again today, … that all reading here will join me, … to be reborn to live with You forever, Lord, … because You died that we, who believe in You, would be with You in Heaven … AMEN
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1 comment:
Amen! Happy Easter time! 😀😀
Kjetil
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