Jesus was overly generous to provide FIVE testimonies for the key life-or-death question facing all who are doomed to die: Who IS this Jesus?! All five witnesses agree…

The destruction of Sodom is one of the hardest passages in Scripture, displaying man’s great wickedness and God’s great wrath against sin. Yet it also displays God’s great mercy toward those He will save, even for a compromised believer like Lot who resists God’s commands to flee. Set your face toward Christ, and He too will drag the Sodom out of your heart.

Jesus knows the spoken & secret judgments of Israel’s religious leaders against Him, but He presses the matter of His unique relationship with God His Father, and the divine powers of life and judgment they share. Our application? Come to Jesus!

Most impressive (and encouraging) about the Trinity is their full & perfect unity in their planning and working. What seems like a limitation (Jesus can do nothing but what His Father desires) is a great strength in their union and for all who love God.

Friends are willing, even eager, to share what is going on beneath the surface, even to let us in on deep, relational matters. Here, Jesus begins to tell us about His unique, one of a kind relationship with His Father, because He loves us and wants us to behold our God.

If God had not called us out of the world, we would have become like Sodom and Gomorrah. But just as Abraham intercedes on their behalf - not for God to ignore their sin, but for God to not destroy the righteous alongside the wicked - Christ will intercede for us so long as the Church remains on Earth. Receive the Holy Spirit that destroys the Sodom in your heart now before the time of judgment comes!

Jesus intentionally healed the paralytic on the Sabbath Day … to tear down idolatrous abuse of that good day, to prioritize this poor man’s day of salvation, and to remind us that Jesus is the God who is always working so we can rest.

Much of Scripture comes to us through the theme of promise and deliverance, with the Old Testament characterized by the former and the New the latter. The resurrection of our Lord Jesus from the dead matches that grand theme.

When Jesus healed the paralytic who had found no help or mercy by the pool of Bethesda, He was calling the man to look away from self, systems, stuff, and society … to find wholeness in Christ alone.

When God tells Abraham that his wife Sarah would bear him a son at 99 years old, his first response is to laugh - not because he is in disbelief, but because he is overjoyed that God can overcome all worldly obstacles and that He is faithful to fulfill His promises.