Words From the Brothers Servants of the Word

Our brother, John Yocum, gave the following presentation for our Easter celebration last Sunday. Take a listen or download by clicking the button below. Download mp3 Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.

For today’s installment of our 40 Days Meditation series, our brother John Yocum provides commentary on Matt 27: 50 -54. Take a listen or click here to download. And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit. And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split. The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many. When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!” Matt 27:50 – 54

For today’s installment of our 40 Days Meditation series, our brother John Yocum provides commentary on Matt 26: 36 – 46. Take a listen or click here to download. Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I go over there and pray.” And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.” And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.” And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. And he said to Peter, “So, could you not watch with me one hour? Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” Again, for the second time, he went away and prayed, “My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done.” And again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy. So, leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same words again. Then he came to the disciples and said to them, “Sleep and take your rest later on. See, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise, let us be going; see, my betrayer is at hand.” Matt 26:36 – 46

For today’s installment of our 40 Days Meditation series, our brother John Yocum provides commentary on 1 Pet 1:18-20. Take a listen or click here to download. knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you 1 Pet 1:18-20

For today’s installment of our 40 Days Meditation series, our brother John Yocum provides commentary on 1 Jn 2:1-2. Take a listen or click here to download. My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. 1 Jn 2:1-2

For today’s installment of our 40 Days Meditation series, our brother John Yocum provides commentary on Heb 2:9, 14-15. Take a listen or click here to download. But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery. Heb 2:9, 14-15