Week 18 Day 2

The Daily Take 10

The Gospel of John

Week 18 Day 2

Introduction…Still today, people are divided about Jesus. While the vast majority of people polled believe in God, Jesus is the issue that still divides people. Why? Because He claims to be and is the only way, truth and life and no one goes to the Father God, but through the door of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. God’s plan and provision for a sinful world to be redeemed and mankind to be reconciled with God, so that whosoever will, may come to Him, is through the Son of God, Jesus.

Read John 7:10-18 “When his brothers had gone up to the festival, then he too went up, not openly, but as it were, in secret. So the Jews searched for him at the festival and kept saying, ‘where is he?’ And there was many a heated argument about him among the crowds. Some said, ‘he is a good man.’ But others said, ‘no, far from it, he is leading the people astray.’ But no one spoke about him openly because of their fear of the Jews. The Jews were amazed. ‘How,’ they said, ‘can this fellow read when he is quite uneducated?’ ‘My teaching,’ said Jesus, ‘is not mine, but it belongs to Him who sent me. If anyone is willing to do his will, he will understand whether my teaching derives from God, or whether I am speaking from no source beyond myself. The man who speaks from no other source beyond himself is out for his own glory. He who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true and there is no wickedness in him.”

Bible Study

• There were several verdicts on just who was Jesus.
  • Jesus was a fame seeker. This was the thought of Jesus’ brothers. They thought Jesus’ ambition was to ‘wow’ the crowds. Actually untrue since He came to give His life and die for our sin.
  • Jesus was a good man. This is true at first blush, since Jesus elevated the lives of His disciples, forgave, healed, and helped others. The reality is Jesus was not a good man if He wasn’t all that He said He was. He either was the Son of God or a liar!
  • Jesus was a prophet. This is true in part since prophets speak for God and certainly Jesus spoke for God, but prophets were fallible, sinful people and Jesus was not.
  • Jesus was a lunatic and deceiver. The religious leaders who were protecting their place, prominence and prestige promoted this. True Jesus caused many to leave ‘dead’ religion and elevate to a higher calling of a living relationship with loving God.
• The ultimate truth is…Jesus is the Christ, Son of the Living God, Savior of the world, King of Kings. Jesus does not fit into human categories or descriptions.
• To the religious and political leaders, Jesus was uneducated in their system, schools or their normal path. Offended…the leaders discounted Jesus.
• Jesus didn’t quote other rabbis or teachers. He spoke with authority, God’s!
• Jesus made it clear who should come first and take the preeminence in Matthew 10:33-39 where He calls forth true disciples of Christ, “whoever denies me before people, will I deny before my Father in heaven. Think not that I am come to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against His father and the daughter against her mother…he that takes not his cross and follows after me is not worthy of me. He that finds his life shall lose it and he that loses his life for my sake will find it.”
• With Jesus saying He was THE way, THE truth and THE life, THE only way to get to heaven – He was saying, “Its me, God.  I am the only one who has come here to this place for you!  I am the way – the only one who has come for you to make a way for you.”
  • Some view this in the negative as a narrow way to get to heaven and it is narrow.
  • But view it as I believe it was intended.  Out of love, He was telling us that He came for us to give us the way – the only way!

Application

• No one ever came into this world like Jesus. He was born of a virgin. No one ever lived as did He…the miracles, the amazing words and the supernatural acts of God that He did. No one ever came to die for our sin, lay down their life and then resurrect and ascend into heaven. He deserves our love and service as the Lord of our life.  The one who came here for us to rescue us.

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