Posts by Lucas Bitter

This is the end result of following a grace-filled religion ““ of following Jesus, the Way and the Truth and the Life. You don’t have to wonder if you did enough to make it to the Good Place. (As a matter of fact, you definitely didn’t!) But you have a Savior who did. He has gone there to prepare a place for you, and somebody soon he will come back to take you with him so you also may be where he is.

Normally when I preach on it, I talk about the sheep and I sing songs like “I am Jesus’s little lamb.” But this time as I was studying the text, I saw something that I hadn’t noticed before… in these eight verses, Jesus repeats himself three times. Three times Jesus says that the Good Shepherd “lays down his life”. Because he loves you… even though he knows you… to save you.

When Jesus brings you out of your grave, it will be to a world that is finally operating the way that it should be. No more death, no more mourning, no more crying, no more pain. Physical, spiritual, and eternal life all at the same time. . . this is what Jesus meant when he said, “Whoever lives by believing in me will never die.”

Living in a sin-darkened world is difficult and scary and dangerous. But what if somebody could give you a flashlight? What if somebody could take off your blindfold? What if somebody could light up your world so you can see what’s going on around you, and see where you’re going, and stop blindly crashing into people but rather see them as God sees them? That’s exactly what Jesus has done…