20/20 Focus on JESUS

20/20 Focus on JESUS
Each day we need to keep our eyes focused on JESUS - 20/20! I am sorry that I did not continue this blog into the beginning of 2021. Nine months passed by before I was convicted to return to this blog and encourage us to look at JESUS, with clear vision, via a daily scripture reading. Yellow highlights are names/descriptions of JESUS that we'll add to the list on the right.

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

2020 for JESUS - Day 78: JESUS is the WAY to being saved - SALVATION...


As we have read through John 3 and head into John 4, please note here that one is baptized to become a disciple of JESUS!  

John 4:1-3

1-  Now JESUS learned that the Pharisees had heard that HE was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John 

2- although in fact it was not JESUS who baptized, but HIS disciples. 

3- So HE left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.

Later on, Peter, one of JESUS' disciples, had specific things to say about baptism:

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Tuesday, March 17, 2020

2020 for JESUS - Day 77: JESUS is THE ONE... ABOVE ALL...


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As we finish reading John 3, I am struck by the power and strength of these words...

31- "THE ONE who comes from above is ABOVE ALL; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. THE ONE WHO COMES FROM HEAVEN is ABOVE ALL. 

32- HE testifies to what HE has seen and heard, but no one accepts HIS testimony.

33- Whoever has accepted it has certified that GOD is TRUTHFUL. 

34- For THE ONE WHOM GOD HAS SENT speaks the words of GOD, for GOD gives the SPIRIT without limit.

35- The FATHER loves THE SON and has placed EVERYTHING IN HIS HANDS.

36- Whoever believes in THE SON has ETERNAL LIFE, but whoever rejects THE SON will not see LIFE, for GOD'S wrath remains on them."

Monday, March 16, 2020

2020 for JESUS - Day 76: JESUS was and is THE CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD... LIFE... THE LIGHT OF ALL MANKIND...

An 8 year old took notes during yesterday's Sunday sermon.  As Steve encouraged us to believe in and trust JESUS through the "Coronavirus Pandemic", the 8 year old wrote these things, in part:

"hAVING CONTROl.......

....SOMETIMIS YOU FORGET TO PRAY TO GOOD WHEN YOU'RE OUT OF CONTROl.

KORONA VIRIS CONTROl...
The KORONA VIRIS GET,S US OUT OF CONTROl. THEN WE FORGET TO PRAY TO GOD FOR SAFETy..."

Steve reminded us that it was a "National Day of Prayer" and that we should continually trust in JESUS, being in prayer about all things.  

As we listened to the sermon, Steve led us in looking at JESUS through the perspective of John 20:30-31,  



Power point is NASB; below is NIV



30-  JESUS performed many other signs in the presence of HIS disciples, which are not recorded in this book. 

31- But these are written that you may believe that JESUS is THE MESSIAH, THE SON OF GOD, and that by believing you may have LIFE in HIS name.



And don't forget that today is 3/16:
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Sunday, March 15, 2020

2020 for JESUS - Day 75: JESUS is GOD's ONE AND ONLY SON... ETERNAL LIFE... LIGHT... THE TRUTH...

Did you know that tomorrow is 3/16/2020?

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John 3:16 is a very well know verse of scripture:

  • What has always puzzled me is when people say "all you have to do is believe"!  Does belief not include some kind of action?  If my house is on fire, do I just stand there and say, "I believe I will be saved!"?  
  • I do know that I believe that JESUS is my only way to ETERNAL LIFE!  I need to know how I should put that belief into action!


Are you aware what the verses before and after John 3:16 say?

The last 2 days we've looked at John 3:1-15...

Day 73:
  • 3:3  JESUS replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of GOD unless they are born again.”
  • 3:5-7 JESUS answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of GOD unless they are born of WATER and the SPIRIT. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the SPIRIT gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again. 
Day 74:
  •  3:13-15  No one has ever gone into heaven except THE ONE WHO came from heavenTHE SON OF MAN.  Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so THE SON OF MAN must be lifted up, that everyone who believes may have ETERNAL LIFE in HIM.


Dau 75

John 3:16-21

16-  For GOD so loved the world that HE gave HIS ONE AND ONLY SON, that whoever believes in HIM shall not perish but have ETERNAL LIFE. 

17- For GOD did not send HIS SON into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through HIM. 

18- Whoever believes in HIM is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of GOD’s ONE AND ONLY SON. 

19- This is the verdict: LIGHT has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of LIGHT because their deeds were evil. 

20- Everyone who does evil hates the LIGHT, and will not come into the LIGHT for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 

21- But whoever lives by THE TRUTH comes into the LIGHT, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of GOD.


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Saturday, March 14, 2020

2020 for JESUS - Day 74: JESUS is THE ONE... THE SON OF MAN... ETERNAL LIFE...


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After JESUS told Nicodemus (in John 3:1-10) that he must be born again to have ETERNAL LIFE, HE continued by saying,

11- Very truly I tell you, 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 heavenTHE SON OF MAN.

14- Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so THE SON OF MAN must be lifted up,

15- that everyone who believes may have ETERNAL LIFE in HIM.


Friday, March 13, 2020

2020 for JESUS - Day 73: JESUS is RABBI... TEACHER... FROM GOD...

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John 3 

1- Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. 

2- He came to JESUS at night and said, “RABBI, we know that you are a TEACHER who has come FROM GOD. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if GOD were not with him.”
3- JESUS replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of GOD unless they are born again.”
4- “How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”
5- JESUS answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of GOD unless they are born of WATER and the SPIRIT. 

6- Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the SPIRIT gives birth to spirit. 

7- You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again. 

8- The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the SPIRIT.
9- “How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.
10- “You are Israel’s teacher,” said JESUS“and do you not understand these things?

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Thursday, March 12, 2020

2020 for JESUS - Day 72: JESUS was HIS FATHER's HOUSE... THE TEMPLE OF GOD...

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John 2:

13- When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, JESUS went up to Jerusalem.

14- In the temple courts HE found people 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 courts, 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! Stop turning MY FATHER’s HOUSE into a market!” 

17- HIS disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for YOUR HOUSE will consume ME.”


18- The Jews then responded to HIM, “What sign can YOU show us to prove YOUR authority to do all this?”
19- JESUS answered them, “Destroy THIS TEMPLE, and I will raise IT again in three days.”
20- They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and YOU are going to raise it in three days?” 
21- But THE TEMPLE HE  had spoken of was HIS BODY. 
22- After HE was raised from the dead, HIS disciples recalled what HE had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that JESUS had spoken.
23-Now while HE was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many people saw the signs HE was performing and believed in HIS name.
24- But JESUS would not entrust HIMSELF to them, for HE knew all people. 
25- HE did not need any testimony about mankind, for HE knew what was in each person.

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