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Weekly Guide：Week 96
November 24, 2019
Week 96 Day 1: Spirit and Truth ⇧ ⇩
Foreword
We continue to read the Gospel of John this week. This book starts with God’s word and His love to us through the word that became flesh. God intends to communicate to us not just through an imaginary concept but in a way that we can comprehend. God gave us something intangible, no longer hidden, to show that He would be with us and live in this world with us. He gave us His word, let many hear, see, and touch Him through the real human flesh of Jesus, the Son of God. He had shown us that He can embrace us, converse, walk, and even cry with us, forever. This was truly a turning point in human history for God has never revealed to human in such way.
May you all be renewed in God’s word each day!
Question
How may we worship God the father?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Jesus said to the Samaritan woman, will you give me a drink?
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Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.
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Jesus pointed out the woman have had five husband and the man she had was not her husband.
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The true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
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My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
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Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
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Once more Jesus visited Cana in Galilee and there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. Jesus said to him: “Go, your son will live.”
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - Jesus said the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth. How may I worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth? Have I reflected on the Spirit and truth in my heart?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 96 Day 2: Rise to Live ⇧ ⇩
Question
Why those who believe in Jesus will rise to live?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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In Bethesda, Jesus cured a person who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
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The day was a Sabbath, and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed: “The law forbids you to carry your mat.” They also accused Jesus for breaking the Sabbath.
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The Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.
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Whoever hears my word and believes Him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.
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Jesus said, you study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me.
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Jesus said, if you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.
Meditation: My Story
- Fidelity - Jesus can do nothing by Himself; He can do only what He sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the He also does. We make Jesus our example which includes how He follow the will of the Father. What does this passage remind me of?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 96 Day 3: Bread from Heaven ⇧ ⇩
Question
Why does Jesus say His is the bread of life?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Jesus feeds five thousand with two small barley loaves and two small fish with left over filled twelve baskets.
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Jesus walks on the water.
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Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life.
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Jesus says, I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
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The Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
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The words Jesus has spoken-they are full of the Spirit and life.
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Many of His disciples turned back but Simon Peter knew Jesus has the words of eternal life, is the Holy One of God.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - Jesus teaches, do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life. How do I understand this? How does it affect my daily life?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 96 Day 4: The Living Water ⇧ ⇩
Question
Where does the river of living water Jesus mentioned come from?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Jesus said: “My time is not yet here.”
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Not until halfway through the festival did Jesus go up to the temple courts and begin to teach. My teaching is not my own. It comes from the one who sent me.
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Stop judging by mere appearances, but instead judge correctly.
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You know me. I am not here on my own authority, but he who sent me is true.
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The chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple guards to arrest him.
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On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”
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Thus the people were divided because of Jesus. Some wanted to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - Jesus’ teaching is not His own. It comes from the one who sent Him. Whoever speaks on their own does so to gain personal glory, but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him. Reflect on my own conduct. Is it based on God’s word or my own experience and judgment?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 96 Day 5: Light of Life ⇧ ⇩
Question
Why did Jesus say He is the light of life?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery to test Jesus. Jesus said: “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”
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Jesus did not condemn her and told her to leave her life of sin.
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Jesus said: “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
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Jesus said: “You will die in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come.”
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To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said: “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
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Jesus said: “If you were Abraham’s children, then you would do what Abraham did.”
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Jesus said: “If God were your Father, you would love me.”
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Jesus said: “Very truly I tell you, before Abraham was born, I am!”
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - Jesus said, “If I glorify myself, my glory means nothing.” It is the Father who glorifies Him. Do I work for my glory or God’s glory? How does the Holy Spirit remind me of God’s glory?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 96 Day 6: The Good Shepherd ⇧ ⇩
Question
What does it mean that Jesus said He is the gate for the sheep?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Jesus used His saliva mixed with mud on the eyes of a blind and cured him. The day was a Sabbath.
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The Pharisees were divided on Jesus’ curing of the blind on Sabbath.
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The blind believed Jesus as the Son of Man.
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Jesus said, I am the gate for the sheep, whoever enters through me will be saved.
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I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
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I and the Father are one.
Meditation: My Story
- Fidelity - Jesus says His is the good shepherd and would lay down His life for the sheep. Reflect on my love, how willing am I to lay myself down for others?