The Author of Life

The next day John saw Jesus coming towards him and said; 'Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world'. Jn 1:29

 John had been questioned the day before by the Pharisees regarding his identity. They wanted to know who gave him authority to call people to repentance and baptise them.

John was wise enough and humble enough to know exactly why he was there and walk in his calling. To know Jesus was the 'Lamb of God' he would have studied the scriptures under his father who was a high priest, but unlike all other students of the scripture he had found the truth and the life. Verse 32-34 tells us that God had spoken to John: 'I would not have known Him except that the one who sent me to baptise with water told me "The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is he who will bapise with the Holoy Spirit." I have seen and testify that this is the Son of God.''

I grew up in a church system that did not know relationship with the author of life, it only knew ritual. Last night I watched a movie called The Mission, a story about the Jesuit priests in South America who resisted the Catholic church and were all killed because of envy. Both sides only knew ritual and religion, they did not know Christ, whom they assumed to represent.

Religion without life is dead. Spending a life to honour a church is a waste of time, it is Christ who we follow and if we gather in a church let it be one that honours Him and lives by His standards not church dogma and liturgy.

Jesus said; 'I have come that you might have life and life abundantly', He also said; 'No man comes to the Father but by Me.' Jesus is the source of life, not church, not saints, not ritual. He alone forgives sin and sets captives free. Amen!