Archive | April 2025

3. Journey to The Cross – Jesus Sanctifies

For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
John 17:19 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.17.19.NASB1995

Sanctified by Jesus’ great love . . .

Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.15.13.NASB1995

Made clean by the Word . . .

You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
John 15:3 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.15.3.NASB1995

which has come to you, just as in all the world also it is constantly bearing fruit and increasing, even as it has been doing in you also since the day you heard of it and understood the grace of God in truth;
Colossians 1:6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/col.1.6.NASB1995

🌹We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
1 John 3:16 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1jn.3.16.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

2. Journey to The Cross – Jesus Came Down From Heaven

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
John 6:38 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.6.38.NASB1995

Jesus *said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work.
John 4:34 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.4.34.NASB1995

“I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
John 5:30 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.5.30.NASB1995

🌹Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent.”
John 6:29 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.6.29.NASB1995

Do you believe? Why or why not?

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

1. Journey to The Cross

The Lord’s Supper with His Disciples

Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end (to the uttermost or eternally) .
John 13:1 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.13.1.NASB1995

Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come forth from God and was going back to God, *got up from supper, and *laid aside His garments; and taking a towel, He girded Himself.
John 13:3-4 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.13.3-4.NASB1995

Jesus graciously picks up a towel and washes His disciples feet. What a demonstration of love, compassion and a wonderful act of service. He knows what He is about to face yet takes time to draw the disciples to unify together for each others good. Wash each others feet. (John 13:14) Look out for one another. Be humble before one another. They were going to need one another because…

🌹And Jesus *answered them, saying, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
John 12:23 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.12.23.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org