Today, almost none of us knows real hunger or thirst. But, in a desert country where the sun was scorching, where sand and wind storms were frequent, thirst was man’s constant companion. To such a world, hunger meant the hunger of a starving man, and thirst, that of a man who would die without water.

Do you think of Jesus was weak? He fasted forty days and forty nights alone in the wilderness with wild beasts. Just envision a picture of Jesus making a whip and driving the money changers out of the temple. Does a weak person stand up against the majority? No, the weak person always gives in to the majority. They just choose to go along in order to get along, whether it is right or wrong.

The followers of Jesus are to be different, different from both the nominal church and the secular world, different from both the religious and the irreligious. Here is a Christian value-system, ethical standard, religious devotion, attitude to money, ambition, life-style and network of relationships—all of which are totally at variance with those of the non-Christian world. And this Christian counter-culture is the life of the kingdom of God.

True worship comes only from spirits made alive and sensitive by the quickening of the Spirit of God.” - John Piper

Worry is just the opposite of faith. Worry says, “God, you’re lying. You say you will take care of me, but I don’t trust you, so I will worry about it.”

Fear is sand and Faith is oil in the machinery of life. Fear just grinds away at us, mentally and physically. Some fear is protective, in a moment of crisis. But if it is an ongoing generalized fear, it harms and paralyzes us.

As long as we see God’s will and listen, when He speaks to us: We do not have to just flounder around and come to the end of our lives, regretting choices we have made! God has a plan for every area of our life, not just our church. He has plans for our education, our business, our marriage, our reactions, everything. God has a plan for our lives.

This is not a funeral, it’s a feast. The first Lord’s Supper took place on the night of the Passover feast. This is not a moment of silence for a dead friend. It is a meal of celebration with Someone

The Passover lambs, being raised by the priests in the fields of Bethlehem, were out there when Jesus was born. And over here is born Mary’s Lamb, a sinless man, who will be examined by the Sadducees and the Pharisees and the Herodians and the scribes and the Roman officers. They were trying to find some fault in the Lord Jesus. But Pilate had to confess, “I find no fault in him.” John 19:4, 6 He was the perfect Lamb.

Although mankind in all of our scientific advancement has made the world very complex, John breaks down the entire universe into two things: God and not God. The mystery is compounded by the fact that between that which is God and that which is not God is a great and impassable gulf. The mystery is how the infinite can become the finite, and how that which has no limit deliberately imposes upon Himself limitations.