Coming to the Still Waters

The " pickle " of life continues with our passage today.  The only great thing about this " pickle " is that getting " tagged " by one of them is blessing rather than a curse.  You want to get tagged out in this " pickle " by a certain one of the players.  Pilate will have an intimate conversation with Someone he really doesn't know and Barabbas will watch that Someone take his place on a cross.  This is one of those times I wish I could have a conversation with Barabbas after he was released.  Did he just respond like Pilate and walked away from Jesus or did it change his life forever?  I guess we won't know until we get to heaven.  Today's Wednesday in the Word covers John chapter 18 and verses 33 through 40 which read, v.33 - Therefore Pilate entered again into the Praetorium, and summoned Jesus and said to Him, "Are You the King of the Jews?" We move into a tremendous conversation between Pilate and Jesu...

I used the above picture to explain some hermeneutical principles in relationship to the Scriptures.   God is pointing all of time in the direction He has chosen.  The near sight is the history of the Old Testament which leads down the barrel to the far sight as the history of the New Testament and the first coming our Messiah, Jesus Christ.   Beyond the barrel and before the target is a gap of time which we are in right now called the "church age."   The target is the Day of the Lord, the second coming of Christ, and the new heaven and earth.   We look back at the Old and New Testament and research who wrote what we are reading.  We discover who they were writing to, the original audience, and why they wrote it like they did and this usually leads to an application for that time.   Now that we have the proper context, we bring that application forward to our modern time to apply a new application in line with the ol...

We venture into Peter's second and third denials today.  A sin left unconfessed grows on purpose.  As the weight gets heavier, we will either run to the One who can relieve us or run away from Him seeking distance and the comfort of others who are doing the same.  Maybe we can identify with Peter who ran away for a time from Jesus but ended running back to the One he called Master.  He ran away from Jesus after the third denial out into the night but later we will see this same Peter at the break of the day that Resurrection Sunday morning running to the tomb to find it empty.   Today's Wednesday in the Word covers John chapter 18 and verses 25 through 32. v.25-27 - Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself.  So they said to him, "You are not also one of His disciples, are you?"  He denied it, and said, "I am not."  One of the slaves of the high priest, being a relative of the one whose ear Peter cut off, said, "Did I not ...