Special Topic for Morning Revival

Life in the Gospel of John

Week 5: The Need of the Dead—Life’s Resurrecting (John 11)

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++ for those who want to dig deeper into this material.

Monday, August 15

John 11:3-4, 11, “The sisters therefore sent to Him saying, Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick. But when Jesus heard it, He said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, in order that the Son of God may be glorified through it….He said these things, and after this He said to them, Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going that I may wake him out of sleep.” 1 Thes. 4:13-14 and note on 4:13
+ John 11:1-10; notes on 11:1, 8
++ Life-Study of John, msg. 23, sec. I (all), pp.273-276

Tuesday, August 16

John 11:12-15, “The disciples then said to Him, Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover. But Jesus had spoken about his death, but they thought that He was speaking about taking rest in sleep. So Jesus then told them plainly, Lazarus has died. And I rejoice for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe; but let us go to him. ” note on 11:14
+ John 11:11-19; Mark 5:39-42
++ Life-Study of John, msg. 23, sec. II, II.A, pp. 276-279

Wednesday, August 17

John 11:23-26, “Jesus said to her, Your brother will rise again. Martha said to Him, I know that he will rise again in the resurrection in the last day. Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes into Me, even if he should die, shall live; and every one who lives and believes into Me shall by no means die forever. Do you believe this?” note on 11:24
+ John 11:20-29; notes on 11:27, 28; 10:10b and note
++ Life-Study of John, msg. 23, sec. II.B, pp. 279 bottom-281 top

Thursday, August 18

John 11:39-40, “Jesus said, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him who was deceased, said to Him, Lord, by now he smells, for it is the fourth day that he is there. Jesus said to her, Did I not tell you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?” Luke 24:26 and note; 24:46
+ John 11:30-40; note on 11:35
++ Life-Study of John, msg. 23, sec. II.C-F, pp. 281 top-282 middle

Friday, August 19

John 11:41-44, “Then they took the stone away. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. And I knew that You always hear Me; but because of the crowd standing around, I said it, that they may believe that You have sent Me. And when He had said these things, He cried out with a loud voice, Lazarus, come out! And he who had died came out, bound hand and foot with cloths, and his face was bound about with a handkerchief. Jesus said to them, Loose him and let him go.” note on 11:41
+ John 11:41-44; 1 John 5:10-12 and notes
++ Life-Study of John, msg. 23, sec. III-III.C, pp. 282 middle-284

Saturday, August 20

John 11:51-54, “But this he did not say from himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was to die for the nation, and not for the nation only, but that He might also gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. From that day therefore they took counsel to kill Him. Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness.…” note on 11:52
+ John 11:45-57; 10:14-16 and notes
++ Life-Study of John, msg. 24, sec. IV-end, pp. 293-296

++ Life-Study of John, message 24, beginning to just before section IV, pp. 285-293
++ Changing Death into Life, chap. 9, and The Path of Our Growth in Life, chap 5, both in CWWL, 1950–1951, vol. 3
++ The Conclusion of the New Testament, message 282, Experiencing and Enjoying Christ in the Gospels and in Acts (18), section 62 (all), pp. 2897-2900 middle

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Week 4: The Need of the Thirsty—Life’s Quenching (John 7)

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+ read these verses, footnotes, and Life-study page if you want to expand the core reading.
++ for those who want to dig deeper into this material.

Monday, August 8

John 7:6-7, 10b, 14, “Jesus therefore said to them, My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify concerning it, that its works are evil….He Himself also went up [to the feast], not openly, but as it were in secret….But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and began to teach.” notes on 7:1, 6

+ John 7:1-9; note on 7:2
++ Life-Study of John, msg. 18, sec. A-E, pp. 213-215 bottom

Tuesday, August 9

John 7:16-18, “Jesus therefore answered them and said, My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me. If anyone resolves to do His will, he will know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God or whether I speak from Myself. He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who seeks the glory of Him who sent Him, this One is true, and unrighteousness is not in Him.” note on 7:15

+ John 7:10-18; notes on 7:10, 15
++ The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg 280, “Experiencing and Enjoying Christ in the Gospels and in Acts (16)”, sec. 58 (all), pp. 2879-2882 middle

Wednesday, August 10

John 7:21, 23-24, “Jesus answered and said to them, I did one work, and you all marvel….If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with Me because I made an entire man well on the Sabbath? Do not judge according to appearance, but judge the righteous judgment.” notes on 5:9

+ John 7:19-24; Life-Study of John, message 18, page 215 (section E)
++ The Fulfillment of the Tabernacle and the Offerings in the Writings of John, chapter 21, CWWL, 1982, volume 2

Thursday, August 11

John 7:26-28, “And look, He is speaking openly, and they say nothing to Him. Have the rulers, perhaps, really recognized that this is the Christ? But we know where this man is from; yet when the Christ comes, no one knows where He is from. Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, You both know Me and know where I am from; and I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you do not know.” 6:63 and note 1

+ John 7:25-36; note on 7:28
++ Psalm 36:8-9 and notes

Friday, August 12

John 7:29-31, “I know Him [the Father], because I am from Him, and He sent Me. They sought then to seize Him, yet no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come. But many out of the crowd believed into Him and said, Will the Christ, when He comes, do more signs than this man has done?” 20:31 and note

+ John 7:37-44; notes on 7:37-39, 41; Mk 8:11 and note 3
++ Life-Study of John, msg. 18, sec. III-III.C, p. 215 bottom-219 top

Saturday, August 13

John 7:37-39, “Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes into Me, as the Scripture said, out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water. But this He said concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed into Him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.” notes on 7:37-38

+ John 7:45-52; Isaiah 12 and notes
++ Life-Study of John, msg., 18, sec. III.D-end, pp. 219-223

++ Life-Study of John, message 17
++ Changing Death into Life, chapter 6, CWWL, 1950–1951, volume 3
++ Drinking the All-inclusive Spirit for the Practice of the Church Life…, chapter 1, CWWL, 1970, volume 2

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Week 3: The Need of the Hungry – Life’s Feeding (John 6)

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+ read these verses, footnotes, and Life-study pages if you want to expand the core reading.
++ for those who want to dig deeper into this material.

Monday, August 1

John 6:26-29, “Jesus answered them and said….Work not for the food which perishes, but for the food which abides unto eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you; for Him has the Father, even God, sealed. Then they said to Him, What shall we do that we may work the works of God? Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that you believe into Him whom He has sent.” note 1 on 6:28, note 1 on 6:29
+ John 6:1-15; notes on 6:1-13
++ Life-Study of John, message 15, plus message 16, pages 191-192

Tuesday, August 2

John 6:32-33, 35, “Jesus therefore said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Moses has not given you the bread out of heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread out of heaven. For the bread of God is He who comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world. Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me shall by no means hunger, and he who believes into Me shall by no means ever thirst.” notes on 6:35
+ John 6:16-31; Life-Study of John, message 16, pages 192 bottom-193
++ The Two Trees in the Christian Life, chapter 3, CWWL, 1969, volume 3

Wednesday, August 3

John 6:37-38, 40, “All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and him who comes to Me I shall by no means cast out. For I have come down from heaven not to do My own will but the will of Him who sent Me….For this is the will of My Father, that every one who beholds the Son and believes into Him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up in the last day.” note 1 on 1 Cor. 6:17; note 1 on Col. 2:6
+ John 6:32-40; Life-Study of John, message 16, page 194
++ Hymn 814

Thursday, August 4

John 6:43-45, “Jesus answered and said to them, Do not murmur among yourselves. No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up in the last day. It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught of God.’ Every one who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.” note 1 on John 5:17
+ John 6:41-51a; Life-Study of John, message 16, pages 194 bottom-195
++ message 16, pages 200-204

Friday, August 5

John 6:47-50, “Truly, truly, I say to you, He who believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.” note 2 on 3:16
+ John 6:51b-59; notes on 6:51-57
++ Life-Study of John, message 16, pages 196-197

Saturday, August 6

John 6:51, “I am the living bread which came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he shall live forever; And the bread which I will give is My flesh, given for the life of the world.” notes on 6:51
+ John 6:60-71; notes on 6:62-63
++ Life-Study of John, message 16, pages 197 bottom-200 top

++ The Conclusion of the New Testament, message 279, Experiencing and Enjoying Christ in the Gospels and in Acts (15)
++ Lessons for New Believers, chapter 6, CWWL, 1959, volume 3
++ The Tree of Life, chapters 4, 5, 6, CWWL, 1965, volume 2

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Week 2: The Need of the Immoral – Life’s Satisfying (John 4)

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++ for those who want to dig deeper into this material.

Monday, July 25

John 4:5-7, “So [Jesus] came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of land that Jacob gave to Joseph his son; and Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from the journey, sat thus by the well; it was about the sixth hour. There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, Give Me something to drink.”
+ John 4:1-8
++ Life-Study of John, message 11

Tuesday, July 26

John 4:9-10, “The Samaritan woman then said to Him, How is it that You, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, who am a Samaritan woman?…Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God and who it is who says to you, Give Me a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
+ John 4:9-14; note on 4:13
++ Life-Study of John, message 11

Wednesday, July 27

John 4:13-14, “Jesus answered and said to her, Everyone who drinks of this water shall thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall by no means thirst forever; but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into eternal life.” note on 4:13
+ John 4:15-26; notes on 4:16, 18, 20, 26
++ John 20:31 and note; Basic Lessons on Service, chapter 6, CWWL, 1979, volume 2

Thursday, July 28

John 4:16-20, “[Jesus] said to her, Go, call your husband and come here. The woman answered and said, I do not have a husband. Jesus said to her, You have well said, I do not have a husband, for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband….The woman said to Him….Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, yet you say that in Jerusalem is the place where men must worship.” notes on 4:16, 18, 20
+ John 4:27-34; notes on 4:28, 29; note 1 on 8:5 and 9:2
++ Life-Study of John, message 12

Friday, July 29

John 4:21, 23-24, “Jesus said to her, Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father….an hour is coming, and it is now, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truthfulness, for the Father also seeks such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truthfulness.” notes 2 and 4 on 4:24
+ John 4:35-42; all notes on 4:24
++ Life-Study of John, message 12

Saturday, July 30

John 4:28-32, “Then the woman left her waterpot and went away into the city, and said to the people, Come, see a man who told me all that I have done. Is this not the Christ? They went out of the city and came to Him. In the meantime, the disciples urged Him, saying, Rabbi, eat. But He said to them, I have food to eat that you do not know about.” notes on 4:28, 29, 32
+ John 4:43-54; note on 4:54
++ Life-Study of John, message 13

++ Genesis 2:9, 16-17 and notes
++ Life-Study of Exodus, message 44; Life-Study of John, message 18
++ Changing Death into Life, chapter 3, CWWL 1950-1951, volume 3

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Week 1: The Need of the Moral – Life’s Regenerating (John 3)

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++ for those who want to dig deeper into this material.

Monday, July 18

John 3:1-3, “But there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This one came to Him by night and said to Him, Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher, for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him. Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless one is born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” notes on 3:2
+ John 2:23-3:5; notes on 3:1, 3; John 1:12-13 and notes
++ Life-Study of John, message 8; Crystallization-Study of the Gospel of John, pages 122-124 (message 12, sections I, A-H)

Tuesday, July 19

John 3:4-5, “Nicodemus said to Him, How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born, can he? Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” notes on 3:5
+ John 3:6-13; notes on 3:8, 12; 1 Peter 1:3 and note 4
++ Life-Study of John, message 8; Titus 3:5 and note 4

Wednesday, July 20

John 3:6-8, “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, You must be born anew. The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from and where it goes; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” notes on 3:6
+ John 3:14-21; notes on 3:14-16; Romans 8:16 and notes
++ Life-Study of John, message 9

Thursday, July 21

John 3:9-12, “Nicodemus answered and said to Him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said to him, You are a teacher of Israel, and you do not know these things? Truly, truly, I say to you, We speak that which we know and testify of that which we have seen, and yet you do not receive our testimony. If I told you of the things on earth and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you of the things in heaven?” note on 3:12
+ John 3:22-26; 1 John 5:11-13 and notes
++ Life-Study of John, message 9

Friday, July 22

John 3:13-15, “And no one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that every one who believes into Him may have eternal life.” notes on 3:14, 15
+ John 3:27-30; note on 3:30
++ Life-Study of John, message 10

Saturday, July 23

John 3:16-17, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that every one who believes into Him would not perish, but would have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.” notes on 3:16
+ John 3:31-36; notes on 3:31; notes 1, 3 on 6:63
++ Life-Study of John, message 10; Crystallization-Study of the Gospel of John, pages 62-63 (message 5, sections I, J, K)

++ Life Lessons, volume 4, lesson 42, Regeneration

++ Basic Lessons on Life, lesson 7, The Definition of Life and lesson 8, Regeneration

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