The entire Gospel of John chapter 17 is devoted to and records Jesus’ praying His last prayer before being crucified. The Lord prayed in this way because He wanted something from God the Father. What was this that He wanted?   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

Warm greetings to you the saints of God! As you know Easter is not too far off, and so since last week I have been preaching about ‘the passion of Jesus’. So as I continue today, I would like to continue preaching on John chapter 17.Jesus said in the previous chapter: “Indeed the hour is coming, yes, has now come, that you will be scattered, each to his own, and will leave Me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me. These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world” (John 16:32-33). This is what Jesus told His disciples before His impending death on the Cross. We need to realize here that Jesus knew that He was going to be seized and killed on the Passover Day, the greatest festival of Israel, and that He mentioned these things to His disciples beforehand in order to plant peace and faith in them.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

This summer is expected to go through some extreme fluctuations in weather patterns due to the abnormal climatical changes caused by the greenhouse effect. Although the world is filled with such worrisome developments, I am sure that everything we do will go well, for God is truly with us.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

We are leading very complicated lives in this world. We struggle with many issues, events, problems and the worries that arise from them to further complicate our lives. So when we worship God, we entrust our troubled minds to the Lord. It’s a tough world out there. As there are so many complicated events happening, we are constantly worried and vexed. A human being is like a tree facing the wind. As a tree sways back and forth in different directions depending on which direction the wind blows, so does everyone also swing left and right depending on his circumstances, thoughts and environments. As everyone lives in this world, everyone is influenced by its affairs.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

I just returned here this morning from traveling to Inje Discipleship Training Center to take care of some business. It was nice to be in Inje as it was cool despite the recent heat wave. Easter is just around the corner. Although we don’t observe Christian holidays strictly as we consider it hypocritical, nominal Christians observe them rigorously and religiously. As this week is the Passion Week, the last week of Lent according to the Christian calendar, I’d like us to ruminate on John 18:1-14 and ponder on Judas Iscariot’s life.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

It was on Friday in today’s term that our Lord was crucified to death. Friday is the day when the Jewish people prepare for the Sabbath. The Sabbath Day is set from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset, and on this day the Jews were not supposed to do anything. So if Jesus’ dead body was not taken care of right away, it would have been left alone on the Cross.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

Today’s Scripture passage describes Jesus’ trial in the court of Pilate, and we can realize here just how much the Lord loved all of us. As described in the passage, Jesus was unjustly interrogated and tried in the court of Pilate, and through all these things we can experience the love of God in both body and spirit.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

In today’s Scripture reading we see how Jesus went through terrible suffering to show us His love, and that water and blood came out from the side of Jesus when He was pierced with a spear.Pilate sought to release the Lord Jesus first, but after hearing the yelling of the crowd he delivered Him to them to be crucified.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

Today is Easter Sunday. At our daytime service I preached on the topic “We should thank God who gave us new life.” Brothers and sisters a glorious new life is waiting for the righteous who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. As for the righteous, life on earth is not everything, but there is new life, a glorious new life after the resurrection of our physical bodies.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

Over a period of one year, Easter will only last for one week. During the so-called Lent we think about the passion of Jesus for forty days, and we observe the week where Jesus died on the Cross and was resurrected in three days. Although we don’t observe Easter by boiling eggs etc, like others do, we instead strengthen our faith during this time by meditating on the meaning of Jesus’ passion and resurrection. At Easter many people boil eggs and then write on the eggshell phrases such as ‘Easter Celebration’ or ‘Jesus Has Risen.’ Those who eat much will eat four and those who overfeed will even eat thirty. They think that by eating them in this way they can pay tribute to the resurrection of Jesus.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

As I write this, Easter has come around the corner. By being baptized by John the Baptist, Jesus took upon all the sins of the whole world, and He went to the Cross and died there. His death solved the problem of our own death. And His resurrection has given new life to you and me. When Jesus was crucified, we, too, were crucified with Him. That we were thus crucified and resurrected with Jesus Christ means that we have become one in perfect harmony with our Lord by faith. In our thoughts, minds, bodies, and all things, Jesus Christ and we have become one. That Jesus Christ rose from the dead means that He has given new life to you and me.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

God created the universe and everything in it, and then only did He create human beings according to His own image. He had created human beings only after having firstly created a safe and comfortable environment for them to live in. He had granted the entire creation of the universe to human beings and said, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth” (Genesis 1:28).   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35