April 17, 2025, Thursday- Morning Devotional Bible Study: “Holy Week” Especial Edition
For Mithcah bible Baptist Church – Bahrain
Morning Online Bible Study and Prayer Group Meeting
Matthew 27 KJV
[1] When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
35 And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots.
36 And sitting down they watched him there;
37 And set up over his head his accusation written, This Is Jesus The King of The Jews.
The Seven “I Ams” reflecting the Seven Sayings on the cross of JESUS
The “I Am” from the book of John KJV:
1. I am the bread of life (6:35) -He said this after the miracle He did; multiplying the five bread loaves to feed the five thousand men.
2. I am the light of the world (8:12) He said this, after the accusers of the woman caught in adultery left, to whom the LORD said; “neither do I condemn you, but go and sin no more.”
3. I am the door (10:7) He healed the man who was born blind, that the Pharisees could not believe even if the healed man testified it. The blind saw who JESUS is, the rulers didn’t; because they are so focused on their position, that they refused to accept and believe in JESUS. When He said He is the door, He metaphorically use the door for the people to convey to them He is the only Authority a person must pass to enter Heaven.
4. I am the good shepherd (10:11, 14) right after He said “I am the door”, He continued by claiming that He is the good shepherd. For the good shepherd cares for His sheep; that He gave Himself for it.
5.I am the resurrection and the life (11:25) after He raised Lazarus from the dead, who has been buried four days, He plainly told His disciples that He is the resurrection and the life. He claimed that He is the life twice; meaning it is absolute. He resurrected and He is alive, so we who believe will be like Him.
6. I am the way the truth and the life (14:6)These, He confirmed to Thomas who asked His to show to them the Father to suffice them. He is the way to the GOD the Father, the truth about the Father, and the everlasting life with the Father.
7. I am the true vine (15:1) Finally, He as the vine planted by GOD His Father on earth is the Only Living vine to which we should be engrafted to have life in GOD and bear spiritual fruit.
Then the SEVEN LAST STATEMENTS WHILE ON THE CROSS
1) Luke 23:34 (KJV) “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.” While in His agony, while being stripped from Him His Deity, to be in His human form, so that the sacrifice for sins be fulfilled, He prayed for, first, the Roman soldiers who carried out the order of His execution through the worst sufferings, mocked Him and cast lots for His garments after they nailed Him on the cross. Second, for those people who angrily accused Him, mocking Him and watching with joy as He grievously struggled breathing His last hours on that cross. Far from their knowledge that He is the epitome of the Bread of life He said He is; broken for all; but only to whom will come andreceive Him will be saved. -His Forgiving Love is a STUBBORN LOVE
2) “Luke 23:43(KJV) Verily, I say unto thee, today shalt thou be with me in Paradise.” When He said to the adulterous woman, “neither do I condemn you, but go and sin no more.” Then that woman has been converted and became among the faithful disciple of The LORD. Coming to usher and serve the LORD wherever He went. The same to that man on His right side, who humbly acknowledge JESUS and asked Him to remember him when He come to His Kingdom, then JESUS answer to Him with full assurance, that surely, on that very hour he will be with Him in paradise. This confirmed that His second I Am is the symbolical figure of JESUS’ assuring forgiveness as the light of the world; which was what Apostle John has written in John 1
“4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
When our sins are forgiven, we will never walk in darkness of this world. Because JESUS will guide us and will be with us even if we walk through the valley of the shadow of death.
JESUS is the Source of GOD’s SAVING LOVE
3) John 19:26-27 (KJV) “Jesus said to his mother: “Woman, behold thy Son”. Then he said to the disciple: “Behold thy Mother.”
Number 3 “I AM ‘ of JESUS is I am the door; Door is the opening and closing of a secured area; or we can say a house, a building, or a secured place. No one is able to enter unless it is open. This symbolizes the caring and compassionate love of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, He secures His beloveds. He had made sure no harm, nor thief will be able to enter. The more profound picture of His assurance of salvation. No one is able to take His beloveds away for in Him we are fully secured. And unless a wandering soul knock on that door, he or she could not enter in. He knew and made sure that His mother will beproperly and compassionately taken care of by John. For He knew what lies ahead. Not because Mary had never born children after JESUS and remain a virgin just like other religion teaches, for it was written that He has 4 brothers and sisters’ but because The LORD knew; Apostle John will outlive all the apostles and, all the disciples; even His biological siblings who eventually had been converted, will not survived the fierceness of the persecution which is about to come. HE PROVIDED not only for His Mother but for all whom He love this SECURING LOVE
4)Matthew 27:46 (KJV) “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” Quoting as one among the prophetic fulfillment, from what David has written in Psalm 22 when he was pursued by Saul to kill him, this came from Him who came from his seed as GOD’s promised; is this Good Shepehrdbefore Psalm 23, the number 4 “I AM of JESUS: I am the Good Shepherd, He bore alone on His shoulder. His Father turn His face away. The six hours on the cross He felt all of the pain, the anguish and being alone. The Good Shepherd as He said He is, took all the pain that His people should suffer. In His human form, He long for helpand comfort but no one cares. Even His Father’s love He can’t feel. No compassion, no relief was offered. The Good Shepherd took it all and bore everything upon His shoulder. For us not to feel the same way. Giving His life for mine/ours;Heendured on the cross to cover us: Such is HisShielding LOVE
5) John 19:28 (KJV) “I thirst” JESUS suffered extreme thirst and hunger. Since the last supper, when He said He will not drink of the cup and not eat of the bread till He come again, indeed happened. From that time onward till His death, no food nor water enter into His mouth. He greatly suffered thirsty; not only for His physical needs, but also His emotional, spiritual and mental need. For He was stripped off by GOD His Father His Godhead. To become, on that particular moment, the perfect sacrifice of shepherd giving His life for His sheep. Nevertheless, that is only for that time being. He has to endure, and feel that overwhelming thirst; to give way for His Number 5 I Am; I am the resurrection and the life. for how He can prove to us all people, that He indeed felt what we feel? The overwhelming pain , if He will never have been through that isolation, neediness and deprivation. He pleaded for us, because He knew the gravity of the heat one has to endure without Him; This is His way to get our attention, through His SEARCHING LOVE
6) “It is Finished”.John 19:30 (KJV) When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.in Matthew 27: 51 recorded that the temple curtain was torn into two. Scholars interpret this that the barrier between GOD and men was removed. There will be no more sacrificial lamb for sins, offerings and high priest order that will mediate between God and manceased. JESUS finished it when He gave up His ghost. Condemning the hypocrisy of the priests; weaponizing their position to oppress the poor and helpless. Then He took it to Himself, to become the sole High Priest: the Righteous Mediator between GOD and man. Concluding the Number 6 I AM: I Am the way the truth and the life; no man cometh unto the Father but by me. In John 14:6
Hence He gave all to COMPLETE, PERFECTED WITH AN OVERCOMING – SURMOUNTABLE LOVE
7) “Father into thy hands I commend my spirit.” Luke 23:46 (KJV) And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit”: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost. Being in the human form, who have no control over one own’s spirit, because of the fact that His Holy Loving Father remove from Him the Spirit of His Godhead, for Him to be the perfect sacrifice, He exemplified to us our need to always rely on GOD for the assurance of our spiritual destiny. That as His seventh I AM, He said: I am the vine, and my Father is the husbandman, this means that He was planted in this earth 100% perfect man; He became the vine wherein, if wild branch be engrafted to Him as the vine, surely, we will be nourished and bear fruit, for if GOD the Father took care of the vine, all that are engrafted to Him will in no wise be cast away. The blessed assurance we have in JESUS; the precious gift none except through will afford.
SUSTAINING LOVE
The word and works of the LORD have power. He really means every word. It is no nonsense that He made these seven I AMs and Sayings written in the bible. This is the word of life we should meditate day and night. The words and works of GOD which gives us light and life throughout our journey in this world.
Let not the adversary disappoint us in steppingforward according to GOD’s plan, for the Blood of the perfect sacrifice: The Lamb of GOD already poured out to cleanse us from our sins, because of His love for us. Let its purpose serves as guide that we keep on pressing heavenward; and that we bear much fruit continuing The LORD’s Legacy; His passion for the lost, to win more and more souls for CHRIST.
For there will come a time; in GOD’s appointed time, when JESUS: our LORD and Savior will show to each of all the people of this earth who He is, the truth about His words and the judgment He is to pour out to this ungodly world. May the joy of His promise be the reason of our hope that we keep on living for Him, bearing much fruit, for the glory of JESUS CHRIST our Savior and Loving LORD.
Lastly, may we not be complacent to live comfortably, watching people around us die without knowing JESUS. Let His words be known to all whom we still have the capability to reach out.
Whatever, whenever, wherever, let us herald GOD’s LOVE: *Pray to GOD for the lost souls to be save. *Proclaim JESUS’ words from the King James Bible. *Provide for them the means on how they will be engrafted to JESUS CHRIST TheLORD. Be Passionately involved!
Good morning!
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