Now that the Holy Spirit is living in you, you have a resident teacher of truth. In the Old Testament time the people of God did not have the resident Holy Spirit. Israel had a problem remembering the truth, they vacillated back and forth, repeatedly

When it is time for us to go, the Lord does not send someone to get us. He will come and get us in person, to take us home

When Christ was made a curse on that tree, God had to turn His back on the sin and Jesus cried out in agony, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?” Never did God so manifest His hatred for sin as in the suffering of the death of His own Son.

God is in control. So believers need not fall apart when Christ is crucified, Judas turns out to be a rotten hypocrite, and the whole world seems to be collapsing.

The foot washing symbolizes the cleansing that is the result of Christ’s impending cross-work.

Moses sought God with all of these difficulties, but even that is not all there is to success in this life.

This is one way we proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes. This is not something we are going to continue to do in eternity. When the new heaven and the new earth finally dawn, no one will be celebrating the Lord’s Supper, no one.

This is only until he comes.

In Jesus Christ we have the provision, the only suitable provision, for the Forgiveness of our sin. In and with that provision, God issues a call for US to forgive others.

The gift of the law was a gracious thing, a good and wonderful gift from God to show man his real need. This grace was not in the display of glory to Moses in a cave but in the display of Jesus and the bloody sacrifice on the cross. The cross was a fulfillment of the law and provided the way for Jesus to introduce a new covenant, the ultimate grace and truth.

If we are committed to God, we can learn from one another, but we are not to live life in fear of what others fear.

Those driven by fear cannot see God’s hand in events.