Study Desk

God kept the two from recognizing Jesus.

When they sat down to eat, Jesus took the bread and gave thanks to God for it. He broke it and handed it out.

And for a long time, they stayed at the main church. They continually thanked God for all he had done.

Before anything else, the Word existed. The Word was right there with God and not just that, but the Word was God.

He rode with God at the start of all things.

When God opened his mouth, it was the Word that spoke and made all things. Nothing is made without the Word of God.

God sent a cowboy named John to tell us about this light.

God gave John a message to give to everyone else so that they would become believers.

When a cowboy becomes one of God's kids, nothing really happens to them physically. The transformation occurs in their soul. They are branded and marked for eternity by God himself.

So the Word of God put on a human body and rode among us. We saw his magnificence. This bright light that shone from him, a light that only the soul can see, was a gift from the Father to his only Boy. God's Son rode with a love that wouldn't quit and a faithfulness that could not be snuffed out.

No one has ever laid eyes on God, but his Top Hand, who is God himself, has seen him and knows him. And it's Jesus who has shown us who God really is.

The next day John saw Jesus riding toward him. John yelled out, "Will everyone just look at that! Here is the Lamb of God who will be sacrificed for the forgiveness of all the world's sins.

I didn't know who he was at the time. But God told me, 'when you see the Spirit of God come down from heaven and rest on a cowboy, that is who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.'

When Jesus walked by, John said, "Look, boys! Right there is the Lamb of God—the final sacrifice to save all mankind."

But Jesus's actions stirred up the Jewish leaders. They asked him, "Who do you think you are? If God gave you authority to do this, then give us a sign to prove it, cowboy."

He didn't want anyone to see him talking to Jesus, so one evening after dark, he sought him out and said, "Hey boss, we all know you are from God because of the miracles you can do."

And this is why they will be judged harshly, God shined a light down into this dark world to show people the way to him, but people were more interested in the dark than the light. They like things that happen in the dark.

John replied, "No one has anything unless God gives it to 'em.

That's because God sent him and he speaks with God's words. The Top Hand is given the Spirit without any limitations.

Jesus replied, "If you had an inkling of the gift God has given, you would ask me for a drink, and I would give you living water."