The exhortation to continue to walk in Christ is an implied warning not to fall away from Christ. We are to continue to walk in Christ, 1) just as we received Him as Lord, 2) rooted and built up in Him, 3) strengthened in the faith as we were taught, and 4) overflowing with thankfulness.
Read Colossians 2:6-7
The feast of Tabernacles was a celebration of the harvest which included thanksgiving for rainfall. The idea of rainfall and fruitful harvests was used by the prophets as imagery to describe the future outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the blessed results of that. Jesus in this passage calls people to himself to receive the fulfillment of the prophetic promises.
Read John 7:25-52
This passage deals with the idea of leadership over God’s people. It teaches that human leadership over God’s people must be shared leadership exercised by men who are both capable and godly.
Read Exodus 18:13-27
This passage is all about the way in which the body of Christ is built up. Christ is the One who builds his body through his gifts and power. Among the gifts he gives are pastor teachers who task it is to equip “God’s people for works of service, so that the body may be built up.”
Read Ephesians 4:7-16
This story in which Jethro, who is Moses’s father-in-law and a priest of Midian, hears about God’s mighty acts and praises him, is part of a theme in the bible that shows God’s plan is not only for Israel to know him, but also the nations. This theme is fulfilled in Christ and through him in the New Testament church.
Read Exodus 18:1-12
In this passage, Jesus exposes the sins of those who oppose him. The references to Jesus’ “time” not yet having come powerfully convey the truth that Jesus was deliberately heading to the cross where he would pay for the sins of his people.
Read John 7:1-30
In this passage many of Jesus disciples left him because they were offended by his claims and demands. By nature we are no different and it is only through the drawing of the Father that we confess with Peter in verses 68-69 “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We believe and know that you are the Holy One of God.”
Read John 6:35-71
In this passage Israel is attacked by the Amalekites and fights against them. She wins by God’s power. We are at a different point in the history of salvation, but the battles that we fight against our spiritual enemies have the same significance and they are won only through Christ who has won the victory on the cross.
Read Exodus 17:8-16
In this passage the people of Israel accuse Moses of a capital crime by endangering their lives in the wilderness. By doing this they are putting God to the test. In his grace God “stands before” Moses and instructs him to strike the Rock upon which He is standing with the rod of God’s judgment. God symbolically receives the punishment that Israel deserves and in that way provides the water of life.
Read Exodus 17:1-7
Responding to people who were fascinated by his miracles, Jesus warns not to live for things that will pass away but to live for what will last forever. It is by coming to Jesus as the Bread of Life that we live for what endures to eternal life.
Read John 6:22-36
