Afleveringen
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âDo not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 My Fatherâs house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going.â
5 Thomas said to him, âLord, we donât know where you are going, so how can we know the way?â
6 Jesus answered, âI am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.â
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18 âI am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfill this passage of Scripture: âHe who shared my bread has turned[a] against me.â[b]
19 âI am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am who I am. 20 Very truly I tell you, whoever accepts anyone I send accepts me; and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.â
21 After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified, âVery truly I tell you, one of you is going to betray me.â
22 His disciples stared at one another, at a loss to know which of them he meant. 23 One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to him. 24 Simon Peter motioned to this disciple and said, âAsk him which one he means.â
25 Leaning back against Jesus, he asked him, âLord, who is it?â
26 Jesus answered, âIt is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish.â Then, dipping the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. 27 As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him.
So Jesus told him, âWhat you are about to do, do quickly.â 28 But no one at the meal understood why Jesus said this to him. 29 Since Judas had charge of the money, some thought Jesus was telling him to buy what was needed for the festival, or to give something to the poor. 30 As soon as Judas had taken the bread, he went out. And it was night.
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Zijn er afleveringen die ontbreken?
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As we look at this famous story of Jesus washing the disciples' feet, we try to gain a new appreciation for the significance of what's taking place.
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As we celebrate the resurrection, where he emerged victorious over the power of death and darkness, we look at the Kingdom that was founded on that day - The Kingdom of God. This Kingdom operates in an entirely different way from the kingdoms of this world. While the kingdoms of this world operate on fear and produce entropy and chaos, the Kingdom of God operates on hope and produces New Creation.
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37 Even after Jesus had performed so many signs in their presence, they still would not believe in him. 38 This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet:
âLord, who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?â39 For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says elsewhere:
40 âHe has blinded their eyes
and hardened their hearts,
so they can neither see with their eyes,
nor understand with their hearts,
nor turnâand I would heal them.â41 Isaiah said this because he saw Jesusâ glory and spoke about him.
42 Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they would not openly acknowledge their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue; 43 for they loved human praise more than praise from God.
44 Then Jesus cried out, âWhoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me. 45 The one who looks at me is seeing the one who sent me. 46 I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.
47 âIf anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very words I have spoken will condemn them at the last day. 49 For I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me to say all that I have spoken. 50 I know that his command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say.â
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20 Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the festival. 21 They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request. âSir,â they said, âwe would like to see Jesus.â 22 Philip went to tell Andrew; Andrew and Philip in turn told Jesus.
23 Jesus replied, âThe hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24 Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. 25 Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26 Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.
27 âNow my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? âFather, save me from this hourâ? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour. 28 Father, glorify your name!â
Then a voice came from heaven, âI have glorified it, and will glorify it again.â 29 The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him.
30 Jesus said, âThis voice was for your benefit, not mine. 31 Now is the time for judgment on this world; now the prince of this world will be driven out. 32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.â 33 He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die.
34 The crowd spoke up, âWe have heard from the Law that the Messiah will remain forever, so how can you say, âThe Son of Man must be lifted upâ? Who is this âSon of Manâ?â
35 Then Jesus told them, âYou are going to have the light just a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, before darkness overtakes you. Whoever walks in the dark does not know where they are going. 36 Believe in the light while you have the light, so that you may become children of light.â When he had finished speaking, Jesus left and hid himself from them.
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John 11:25 Jesus said to her, âI am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; 26 and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?â
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John 10:22-41
22 Then came the Festival of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter, 23 and Jesus was in the temple courts walking in Solomonâs Colonnade. 24 The Jews who were there gathered around him, saying, âHow long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.â
25 Jesus answered, âI did tell you, but you do not believe. The works I do in my Fatherâs name testify about me, 26 but you do not believe because you are not my sheep. 27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Fatherâs hand. 30 I and the Father are one.â
31 Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him, 32 but Jesus said to them, âI have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?â
33 âWe are not stoning you for any good work,â they replied, âbut for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.â
34 Jesus answered them, âIs it not written in your Law, âI have said you are âgodsââ? 35 If he called them âgods,â to whom the word of God cameâand Scripture cannot be set asideâ 36 what about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, âI am Godâs Sonâ? 37 Do not believe me unless I do the works of my Father. 38 But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.â 39 Again they tried to seize him, but he escaped their grasp.
40 Then Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing in the early days. There he stayed, 41 and many people came to him. They said, âThough John never performed a sign, all that John said about this man was true.â 42 And in that place many believed in Jesus.
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John 10:22-41
22 Then came the Festival of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter, 23 and Jesus was in the temple courts walking in Solomonâs Colonnade. 24 The Jews who were there gathered around him, saying, âHow long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.â
25 Jesus answered, âI did tell you, but you do not believe. The works I do in my Fatherâs name testify about me, 26 but you do not believe because you are not my sheep. 27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Fatherâs hand. 30 I and the Father are one.â
31 Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him, 32 but Jesus said to them, âI have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?â
33 âWe are not stoning you for any good work,â they replied, âbut for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.â
34 Jesus answered them, âIs it not written in your Law, âI have said you are âgodsââ? 35 If he called them âgods,â to whom the word of God cameâand Scripture cannot be set asideâ 36 what about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, âI am Godâs Sonâ? 37 Do not believe me unless I do the works of my Father. 38 But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.â 39 Again they tried to seize him, but he escaped their grasp.
40 Then Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing in the early days. There he stayed, 41 and many people came to him. They said, âThough John never performed a sign, all that John said about this man was true.â 42 And in that place many believed in Jesus.
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John 10:1-21
âVery truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. 2 The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. 5 But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a strangerâs voice.â 6 Jesus used this figure of speech, but the Pharisees did not understand what he was telling them.
7 Therefore Jesus said again, âVery truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. 8 All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep have not listened to them. 9 I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture. 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
11 âI am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. 13 The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.
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Mat 18: 21 Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, âLord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?â 22 Jesus answered, âI tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times. 23 âTherefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. 24 As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand bags of gold[b] was brought to him. 25 Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt. 26 âAt this the servant fell on his knees before him. âBe patient with me,â he begged, âand I will pay back everything.â 27 The servantâs master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go. 28 âBut when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred silver coins.[c] He grabbed him and began to choke him. âPay back what you owe me!â he demanded. 29 âHis fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, âBe patient with me, and I will pay it back.â 30 âBut he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt. 31 When the other servants saw what had happened, they were outraged and went and told their master everything that had happened. 32 âThen the master called the servant in. âYou wicked servant,â he said, âI canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. 33 Shouldnât you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?â 34 In anger his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed. 35 âThis is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother or sister from your heart.â Luke 6:35 35 But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. Matthew 5:13-16 (Live a life that Shines) 13 "You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how * can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men. 14 "You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot * be hidden; 15 nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. 16 "Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
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Deut 6
4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.Deut 11:
13 So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you todayâto love the Lord your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soulâ 14 then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and olive oil. 15 I will provide grass in the fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied. 16 Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them. 17 Then the Lordâs anger will burn against you, and he will shut up the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce, and you will soon perish from the good land the Lord is giving you. 18 Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 19 Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 20 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates, 21 so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.Num 15:
37 The Lord said to Moses, 38 âSpeak to the Israelites and say to them: âThroughout the generations to come you are to make tassels on the corners of your garments, with a blue cord on each tassel. 39 You will have these tassels to look at and so you will remember all the commands of the Lord, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by chasing after the lusts of your own hearts and eyes. 40 Then you will remember to obey all my commands and will be consecrated to your God. 41 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord your God.ââ -
3 Parables about prayer
Persistent Widow
Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. 2 He said: âIn a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. 3 And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, âGrant me justice against my adversary.â
4 âFor some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, âEven though I donât fear God or care what people think, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she wonât eventually come and attack me!ââ
6 And the Lord said, âListen to what the unjust judge says. 7 And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? 8 I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?â
Audacious Neighbor:
Luke 11:5-12
5 Then Jesus said to them, âSuppose you have a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say, âFriend, lend me three loaves of bread; 6 a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I have no food to offer him.â 7 And suppose the one inside answers, âDonât bother me. The door is already locked, and my children and I are in bed. I canât get up and give you anything.â 8 I tell you, even though he will not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity he will surely get up and give you as much as you need.
9 âSo I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
11 âWhich of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13 If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!â
The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector: Humility
9 To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: 10 âTwo men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: âGod, I thank you that I am not like other peopleârobbers, evildoers, adulterersâor even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.â
13 âBut the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, âGod, have mercy on me, a sinner.â
14 âI tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.â
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Acts 17:10-15
10 As soon as it was night, the believers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went to the Jewish synagogue. 11 Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true. 12 As a result, many of them believed, as did also a number of prominent Greek women and many Greek men. 13 But when the Jews in Thessalonica learned that Paul was preaching the word of God at Berea, some of them went there too, agitating the crowds and stirring them up. 14 The believers immediately sent Paul to the coast, but Silas and Timothy stayed at Berea. 15 Those who escorted Paul brought him to Athens and then left with instructions for Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible. -
John 4:
Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than Johnâ 2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 3 So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.
4 Now he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacobâs well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.
7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, âWill you give me a drink?â 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
27 Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, âWhat do you want?â or âWhy are you talking with her?â
28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, 29 âCome, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?â 30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him.
31 Meanwhile his disciples urged him, âRabbi, eat something.â
32 But he said to them, âI have food to eat that you know nothing about.â
33 Then his disciples said to each other, âCould someone have brought him food?â
34 âMy food,â said Jesus, âis to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. 35 Donât you have a saying, âItâs still four months until harvestâ? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. 36 Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. 37 Thus the saying âOne sows and another reapsâ is true. 38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.â
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In John 15, Jesus gave us a great metaphor for what it means to be In Christ, for the love of God to flow through our lives in such a way that we produce fruit that endures. But what does it mean? How do we truly abide in Christ?
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As a recipient of God's generous grace in Jesus, I will seek to be generous in showing grace to others. I will be the first to forgive, extending the generous grace of Jesus I have received to those around me. It doesn't matter if they deserve my forgiveness, because I didn't deserve God's forgiveness when He gave it to me. Because I have experienced God's redemption firsthand, I believe in redemption in all things. I believe in redemption for others and our world. I will forgive as I have been forgiven.
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As a recipient of God's generous grace in Jesus, I will seek to be generous in showing grace to others. I will be the first to forgive, extending the generous grace of Jesus I have received to those around me. It doesn't matter if they deserve my forgiveness, because I didn't deserve God's forgiveness when He gave it to me. Because I have experienced God's redemption firsthand, I believe in redemption in all things. I believe in redemption for others and our world. I will forgive as I have been forgiven.
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As we continue on this journey towards purple faith, we stop to take a look at God's Kingdom. We are citizens of heaven, ambassadors of the Kingdom of Light, but are we being good representatives of God's Kingdom? Are we worshipping God or idols of our own making?
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In part 2 of our teaching on being judgemental, we wrap up the 4 types of judgment in scripture and add 5 practical steps we can take today to be less judgemental.
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