your one true Master; ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - John

“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends (John 15:13).”

about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. 14 For all those who died before that time will be raised from the earth, their spirits being joined and Sadly, though, as we read yesterday , not all people will join Christ in His Kingdom.

abandoned until the time when she who is in labor bears a son, and the rest of his brothers return to join Moses says that God “created the world”; and John says that “all things were created by the Word,” which

among you. 13  Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles. s 14 But all people are obliged to join and unite with it, keeping the unity of the church by submitting to according to God’s Word, to separate themselves from those who do not belong to the church, in order to join And so, all who withdraw from the church or do not join it act contrary to God’s ordinance. as our Confession puts it, "separate yourself from those who do not belong to the church in order to join

A second part of this phrase is also joined with this request over and over, giving the purpose for the WITH GOD'S WILL: Pray that you will be sanctified by the truth, for God’s Word is truth and life (John

Summary Today's Summary and Dig Deeper posts are paraphrased from John Calvin's commentary on this passage

Today: John 17

Today: John 15

above worldly gain; ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - John