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THEN THEY WILLINGLY RECEIVED HIM

“When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take Him by force, to make Him a king, He departed again into a mountain Himself alone.  And when even was now come, His disciples went down unto the sea, and entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum.  And it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them.  And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew.  So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid.  But He saith unto them, It is I; be not afraid .  Then they willingly received Him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went .” (John 6:15-21).   The sixth chapter of the Gospel of St. John tells the story of the miraculous feeding of above 5,000 people when Jesus multiplied two small fish and five small loaves of bread.   We find that account in the first 14 verses of the chapte...
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WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO

“For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit” (Romans 8:3,4).   It is necessary for every Christian to understand the part that the divine Law plays in God’s great plan for mankind.  There are things that the Law can and does do in the lives of the citizens of the world, and there are things that it cannot do.  Oddly enough, one of those things that the Law cannot do is to make men more righteous.  It isn’t because of any flaw in the Law itself for the Law is “holy, and just, and good” (Romans 7:12), but the problem lies with man because the human flesh has an inherent weakness that renders him incapable of keeping all of the Law no matter how willing he may be to do so.  “ Therefore by the deeds of the Law there shall no fles...
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I HAVE NO MAN

In Jesus' day, there was a pool in Jerusalem which in Aramaic was called Bethesda, meaning "house of mercy."  Once in a while, an angel would enter the pool and stir the waters up so that they visibly moved.   It was discovered that anyone who first entered into the pool after the water was stirred would be healed of whatever was afflicting them.   For this reason there was always a large number of people who were blind, sick, crippled, etc. who would wait all around the pool for their chance to be healed.     A story like this may seem strange to us today.  Many modern Christians and theologians would rather dismiss what they don't understand than to believe the witness of God's Word.  Even several of the more popular modern Bible translations have entirely removed the text of John 5:4 from their editions, choosing to skip verse four altogether and go directly to verse five from verse three!  I say, let God be true and every man a liar. ...
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