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Seven Signs, Seven Days: A Devotional Companion to John’s Gospel is on sale for the first time! The ebook is just .99 for a few days. This is my newest book! I loved writing through John’s Gospel and sharing thoughts along the way. One reviewer wrote this:
What a wonderful, thoughtful, companion journey through a delightful gospel! So glad I had the opportunity to survey this devotional companion. I have been looking for a thoughtful, thorough and yet concise and easy to read book through John’s gospel - and this meets all the markets! I look forward to using this in my own studies, but also with my family! —Richard Beadle
Ed Bradley Carman read the book and had this to say:
In Seven Signs, Seven Days, John Dobbs has given both the first-time reader and the experienced reader of John’s Gospel a companion volume that offers an engaging and practical guide for the reader to hear the message about Jesus of Nazareth in the way I think the disciple whom Jesus loved would want one to hear it and apply it. I encourage you buy, read Seven Signs, Seven Days and fall in love with the Messiah about whom both John the Apostle and John Dobbs point us to. You will be blessed. – Brad Carman
I’m so thankful for those kind words! If you read the book, I would appreciate a nice review on Amazon! It helps people make up their minds to buy the book. Share the sale with your friends!
I want to share the a chapter with you!
Night Visit, Chapter Six in Seven Signs, Seven Days.
The meeting at night with Nicodemus is the precursor to the world’s favorite Bible verse. Quoting John 3:16, we can forget the setting and who is having a conversation with Jesus.
After dark one evening, he came to speak with Jesus. “Rabbi,” he said, “we all know that God has sent you to teach us. Your miraculous signs are evidence that God is with you.” Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot see the Kingdom of God.” —John 3:2-3
We can only assume that Nicodemus comes to Jesus by night because he doesn’t want to be in conflict with his Pharisee brothers. He confesses a belief among the Pharisees that God sent Jesus to teach them. The miraculous signs are indisputable. Only John told us about the wedding feast miracle. This is just a reminder that John is not presenting a play-by-play biography of Jesus. He is telling us about Jesus in various settings that demonstrate his Divinity.
The conversation that follows is likely as well-known as any in the New Testament. Jesus talks about being born again of water and Spirit, and Nicodemus appears to be confused. I love how Jesus speaks to him as a fellow Jew, well-versed in the stories of the Hebrew scriptures. He uses an episode in Moses’ life to tell Nicodemus that God has the power to give eternal life if we believe. Then he appeals to Nicodemus to believe.
“For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.” —John 3:16-17
John revisits the image of Jesus as the light of the world (from Chapter One) and urges Nicodemus to see that coming to the light is the only way to be saved.
John leaves us there. Nicodemus appears again later, at the end of the Gospel, but John said what he wanted to say at this point. I guess Nicodemus continued to follow the Master from the edges and the shadows.
Light and Dark. Good and evil. Believe or reject. Life or death. Sin or salvation.
Jesus is clear with Nicodemus and, through John’s Gospel, with us. I like that this happens in the night. That is when my mind ruminates over my life, my past, my present, and my future. In the darkening shadows, I am not distracted by all the activity and anxiety of the day. It is in the night I repent of the failures, confess the ways I did not love God as I should, and appeal to the promise of renewal that “everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.”
I hope this book will bless your next journey through John’s Gospel! Let me know what you think! Just .99 - don’t miss it!
