Sword of the Spirit: Recent Episodes
Pastor Adrian B. Kong
Jesus tells His disciples that He is going away to prepare a place for them. He promises them that He will send them the comforter after He leaves who will teach them all things.
Jesus receives word that Lazarus is sick. He tells His disciples that they will go back to Judaea. The disciples are reluctant since they had just fled the area but they follow regardless. In Bethany Jesus raises Lazarus who had been dead 4 days. As a result, many believe in Jesus.
Jesus returns to Bethany for the Passover feast, Judas is reproved by Jesus after faulting Mary for anointing Jesus with very expensive ointment that he claimed should have been sold and proceeds given to the poor. The believing Jews and Gentiles alike all welcome Him with palm branches proclaiming the prophecy in Zechariah 9:9. They cry, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Jesus washes His disciples feet and commands them to love one another. He tells them that one of them will betray Him. Peter is told that he will deny Jesus after telling Jesus he will lay his life down for His sake.
Jesus returns to teach at the temple in the morning when a woman caught in adultery is brought before Him for judgment. He reproves the accusers and they leave convicted. Jesus being the only one righteou to judge sets the woman free.
Jesus no longer walk in Jewry. His brethren don't believe Him. He goes to the feast secretly to do the fathers work. The Pharisees send officers to catch him but they are unsuccessful.
Jesus preaches to the Pharisees about the sheep who hears His voice after the blindman is cast out of the synagogue. The Jews try to stone Jesus when He makes Himself equal to God.
Jesus heals the blindman who washes at the pool of Siloam and receives sight. The Jews bring him before the chief priests since he healed on the sabbath. He proclaims his healer as a prophet despite the teachers calling him a sinner. Jesus later reveals Himself as the Son of God to the blindman who them worships him.
The disciples are instructed by Jesus to feed the multitude after asking Jesus to send them away. Both Philip and Andrew come up with reasons why this would not be possible due to means available. Jesus prays and the multitudes are fed with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fishes, Jesus and His disciples head to Capernaum. The men that ate of the miracle seek Jesus to make Him king. Jesus tells them to labour for the bread that leads to eternal life and that they must eat His flesh and drink His blood to receive eternal life after telling them that He is the bread of life. Many of Jesus' disciples walk with Him no more.
Nicodemus comes to Jesus under the cover of night acknowledging that He is from God because of the mighty works he performed. Jesus tells him that one needs to be born again to enter into the kingdom of God. Nicodemus has trouble understanding Jesus' words. The contradiction in Nicodemus is found in John the baptist who glorifies Jesus as the Christ.
Jesus preaches to the woman at the well who finds comfort and solitude at Jacobs well. He declares himself to be Christ when she mentions the Messiah who will come and tell them all things. Many Samaritans believe firstly from the words of the woman and then from the words of Jesus.
The woman at the well finds refuge in visiting Jacob's well in the heat of the day when no others are present. Jesus speaks to her.
Like Nicodemus she asks questions but unlike Nicodemus she grows in her understanding and by the end she accepts Jesus's claim to be Christ. Many are saved because of her testimony
Nicodemus comes to Jesus under the cover of night proclaiming Jesus's ministry and that God is with Him yet he cannot get past his own understanding of being born again. His antithesis is seen in John the Baptist who acknowledges Jesus as the Christ
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Jesus was with God the father from the beginning. He made all things