Author: David Ellis

Jay: In the story of Lazarus we discussed last week were two verses concerning the glory of God: … when Jesus heard [that Lazarus was ill], He said, “This sickness is not to end in death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it.” (John 11:4)…

Don: Jesus’ statement: “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die” (John 11) is the great reversal, the promise of restoration, the break in the chain of cause and effect, the demonstration of God’s…

Don: Last week, in discussing Jesus’s statement that he is “the resurrection and the life” Jeff noted that resurrection marks the dispensation—the end—of natural law. Mankind was created as part of a supernatural world, and to that world we shall return upon the restoration of our relationship with God. The two trees in the Garden…

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. It was the Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. So the sisters sent word to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.”…

In Genesis, we hear four voices: God’s, Adam’s, Eve’s, and the serpent’s: Then the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?” He said, “I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.” (Genesis 3:9-10) Then to Adam…

Don: When Jesus’s sheep hear the voice of the shepherd—God—what does it sound like? If we tell people God told us to do something, they are usually sceptical. But we all tend to think that if we do hear directly from God, our lives will be richer, better, and easier. Your ears will hear a…

Don: Scripture has many references to door. The only legitimate way into the sheep pen is through its door. Any other entry is illegitimate—the way of the thief and robber. “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other…

Don: The brevity of the I Am statements belies their complexity and ambiguity. They caused confusion even among Jesus’ contemporary audience: This figure of speech Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand what those things were which He had been saying to them. (John 10:6) This only goes to reinforce that God does…

Don: We pause from our discussion of the “I Am” statements that tell us about the nature of God as described in 2,000-year-old scriptures, to reflect on what they might mean to people of the distant future—say, a thousand years from now (assuming Armageddon does not come first). What if this class were still running…