This passage presents Jesus Christ as the Passover Lamb who brings life for his people. The miracle of the feeding of the five thousand points to the abundance of the provision of life that Jesus gives. Jesus is also presented as the prophet/king who is not an earthly king, but one who has come to suffer and die to bring the life that is offered in the gospel.
Read John 5:1-15
In this passage, the Lord leads his people into a situation of difficulty, thus testing them. The people fail the test by grumbling. In his grace God delivers them by making bitter water sweet. He calls them to obedience and promises to be their healer.
Read Exodus 15:22-27
In this passage, Moses and the Israelites sing praise to God for saving them from Pharaoh and his army. The content of their song gives us insight into the kinds of themes that should be included in our songs of praise.
Read Exodus 15:1-21
In this passage, Jesus describes the conditions on earth in the period between his time on earth and his return. He also gives specific instructions about how his people are to live in the light of these conditions.
Read Matthew 24:1-14
In this text Jesus deals with the unbelief of the Jews and as he does so he gives us some important insights into the whole matter of faith and unbelief and the role of evidence. He presents a number of testimonies to his identity as the Son of God and the Saviour of world which should have brought the Jews to faith. His point is that there was plenty of evidence in these testimonies to persuade people that Jesus was the Christ and the Son of God, and that the unbelief of the Jews did not lie with problems with the evidence, but rather with the Jews themselves.
Read John 5:31-47
The Lord intentionally led Israel to a place where they would be trapped between the Red Sea and Pharaoh’s army to teach them to trust in Him even in situations that seem to be hopeless. He leads his people today in a similar way.
Read Exodus 14:1-31
This passage shows that God guides his people and that he often leads them in ways that they do not expect. There is comfort in the fact that he know what is best for us and that he promises to be with us.
Read Exodus 13:17-22
The leaders of the Jews were evaluating Jesus on the basis of their man-make rules about the Sabbath. In response to their challenge Jesus teaches that he is God, that he has come to bring life and that he is the Son of man who is going to judge the world.
Read John 5:16-30
God claimed all the firstborn sons of his people as a reminder that the whole people belonged to him because he had redeemed them from slavery in Egypt. As those delivered from spiritual slavery by the blood of Christ we also belong to God. This has profound implications for our lives.
Read Exodus 13:1-16
This passage shows Jesus showing mercy to a very unpleasant person. We will meet people like that in our evangelism and mercy ministry. We need to understand that because of or sin we are like this man in some ways and be motivated by the love of Jesus to us.
Read John 5:1-15
