A key component in following Christ, or in a right relationship to Christ is following Christ no matter what and not evaluating and discerning your own worthiness or your own faithfulness or your own role by comparing yourself with somebody else.

FAITH is not about what Happens or doesn’t happen to us! Faith is about believing God and remaining focused on HIM. NOT our life circumstances. FAITH sees a PURPOSE! God’s PURPOSE!

The Gospel is not in the first instance about something God has done for me, but about something God has objectively done in history. It is about Jesus, especially about His death and resurrection.

Jesus Himself is the truth and now His Spirit of truth will lead the disciples into all the implications of the truth. There is no other foundation for truth: the notion of “guidance” is understanding God as He has revealed Himself, and aligning with and obeying that revelation

Jesus handed over His spirit, no-one took His life from Him. He had the authority to lay it down of His own accord, the culmination of total obedience.

Every individual in the world loves his own things. The world does not really love each other; it is that each individual in the world loves himself and the things that are his. They only love others when it will bring an advantage to them. In the world, there’s no pure love for the sake of love, as God’s love is rejected. This world system loves only to pacify its conscience, or to gain an advantage

God remains among and in His people by renewing them with His life, with His Spirit, and through making His presence known in them and among them 14:16. They remain in Him by obeying His commands.

A good pruning tool is suffering, trouble, or problems. Much pruning must be done with a knife. Valuable lessons of suffering and heartache are what awaken us to what is not necessary in our lives, what matters, or needs removal.

If He had done nothing to deserve death, then why doesn’t Jesus stop Satan from slaying Him? Jesus said, ‘I’m doing it because God designed it, because that’s God’s plan and I am going to show the world that I love the Father by obeying the Father.’

People too often play games with the idea of love between people, God’s love, and what true love does. There are three main areas of misunderstanding concerning salvation, God’s love, and man’s love.