PASTOR'S CORNER

  John 18:28-38 When people’s hearts become hard, the gospel will fall on deaf ears. People stop listening.   The world we know will not listen easily to the gospel message but what about the Church? Jesus said; He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches...” Rev 2:7.  It’s here that the religious leaders who were to prepare the people for the coming Messiah, is the ones who are trying everything they can to get Jesus put to death.  This is why Paul wrote, “None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him” these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.” 1 Cor 2:8-10.  When someone is said to turn a deaf ear to something, it doesn’t mean that they are deaf ...

  John 18:1-14 Let’s set the scene as Jesus and His disciples enter into the garden to pray because His hour has finally come.   Jesus, has spent the last remaining hours with His disciples; closed off to the world to prepare Himself, and His disciples, and the those who would believe in the future…. that Jesus came from the Father .  This is why John concludes near the end of his letter, “Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.” John 20:30-31.  It is time, for Him to do what He came to do, for sinful man and woman.  We have seen throughout John’s gospel that Jesus said “ my hour has not come.”  Even as early as John chapter 2, when Jesus turned water to wine, he knew, “My hour has not yet come.” John 2:4   But Jesus acknowledged H...