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Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is John 4:1-14.  Let’s go!

John 4:1-3 (NIV) 
1  The Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John,
2  although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples.
3  When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.

On verses 1-3:  Notice that Jesus was intentional and careful in his movements.

John 4:4-6 (NIV)
4  Now he had to go through Samaria.
5  So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
6  Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

On verses 4-6:  On his way from Judea to Galilee, Jesus goes through Samaria.  The people living in Samaria, called Samaritans, were a people of mixed Jewish and Gentile blood.  The fact that Jesus was tired from the journey speaks to his humanity.  Interestingly, it was Jesus’ humanity that led him to this divine encounter in the verses that follow.

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is John 3:9-21.  Let’s go!

John 3:9-13 (NIV) 
9  “How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.
10  “You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and do you not understand these things?
11  I tell you the truth, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony.
12  I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things?
13  No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven–the Son of Man.

On verses 9-13:  Nicodemus was known as “the teacher of Israel” (v10 ESV, NKJV).  Yet here Israel’s teacher is unable to understand what Jesus, the Son of Man, was saying.  It shows that Jesus, the Son of God and Son of Man, had wisdom and experience that Israel’s greatest teachers could not match.  Teachers like Nicodemus were mere men reaching for heaven, whereas Jesus is the one who “came from heaven” to reach for men on earth.

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is John 2:13-25.  Let’s go!

John 2:13-17 (NIV) 
13  When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 
14  In the temple courts he found men selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. 
15  So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 
16  To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father’s house into a market!” 
17  His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

On verses 13-17:  Here we read of Jesus going to Jerusalem, visiting the temple courts and driving out those who had turned the temple courts into a marketplace. 

Hi GAMErs,

let’s get into today’s GAME passage, Joshua 24:22-33.  Let’s go!

Joshua 24:22-28 (NIV) 
22  Then Joshua said, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the LORD.” “Yes, we are witnesses,” they replied. 
23  “Now then,” said Joshua, “throw away the foreign gods that are among you and yield your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel.” 
24  And the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the LORD our God and obey him.” 
25  On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he drew up for them decrees and laws. 
26  And Joshua recorded these things in the Book of the Law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak near the holy place of theLORD. 
27  “See!” he said to all the people. “This stone will be a witness against us. It has heard all the words the LORD has said to us. It will be a witness against you if you are untrue to your God.” 
28  Then Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.

On verses 22-28:  Here Joshua leads the Israelites in making a covenant, a legally binding agreement, between the Israelites and God where the Israelites commit to serving God and obeying Him.  He uses a large stone as a witness (i.e. a reminder) of the commitment that the people have made.  After this Joshua sends the people home.

Hi GAMErs,                   

Today’s passage is Joshua 24:1-10.  Let’s go!

Joshua 24:1-10 (NIV) 
1  Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges and officials of Israel, and they presented themselves before God. 
2  Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your forefathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the River and worshiped other gods. 
3  But I took your father Abraham from the land beyond the River and led him throughout Canaan and gave him many descendants. I gave him Isaac, 
4  and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I assigned the hill country of Seir to Esau, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt. ……

On verses 1-10:  Here is Joshua’s final address to the entire nation of Israel.  Here in these verses Joshua recounts the history of the nation of Israel, beginning with their forefathers Terah (v2), Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (v3-4), whose lives preceded Joshua’s time.  Then Joshua recounts how Moses and Aaron led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt with incredible miracles such as parting the Red Sea (v5-7) and into the desert where the Israelites wandered for a long time (v7b).