Week 19 Day 2

The Daily Take 10

The Gospel of John

Week 19 Day 2

Introduction…No one person or denomination has the corner on God. God can not be put in a neat box, especially one we created for Him. He is sovereign, bigger than our thoughts and will do beyond our imaginations. Our understanding of God cannot divide us from others who have a different view or interpretation of God’s Word. There is so much that should unite us and we must walk humbly before Him while loving others who don’t quite know what we know, especially since we do not know it all.

Read John 7:45-52 “So the officers came to the chief priests and the Pharisees. They said to them: ‘Why did you not bring him here?’ The attendants answered: ‘Never did a man speak as he speaks.’ So the Pharisees answered: ‘Surely you too have not been led astray? Has anyone from the authorities believed in him? Or anyone from the Pharisees? They have not, but the mob which is ignorant of the law and which is accursed believes in him!’ Nicodemus (the man who came to him before) said to them, for he was one of them: ‘Surely our law does not condemn a man unless it first hears a statement of the case from him and has first hand information about what he is doing?’ The answered him: ‘Surely you too are not from Galilee? Search and see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”

Bible Study

• No one ever spoke like Jesus. He was God speaking. Don’t you think it would get your attention? It stunned the officers so much, they could not arrest Him.
• The snobbery of the religious leaders who wanted to control the people and maintain their powerful position caused them to actually and tragically miss the God they were representing even though He was right in front of them. Do you know Him?
  • See Matthew 7:21, “Not everyone that says Lord, Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that does the will of the Father…”
  • 1 Samuel 16:7 and 2 Corinthians 10:7 teaches, “Man looks on the outward appearance but God looks upon the heart.”
• Jesus was not up to their standard or level. Jesus was a Servant Leader. They were all about title, prestige, position and pedigree.
• All throughout Scripture, God used the humble servant and not the obvious, apparent, strong leader…Why?
  • God has chosen the foolish, simple and weak things to confound the wise so that no person can glory, but God.
  • Moses stammered and could not speak without his brother Aaron speaking for him, yet God used him powerfully to lead His people
  • Gideon was hiding and the least in his family and God called him a mighty man of valor and used him mightily.
  • David was the young shepherd boy who God selected as leader and King
  • 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 tells us, “your calling brethren, how not many wise…not many mighty…not many noble are called, but God has chosen the foolish…and weak things to confound the things that are mighty…”
• Jesus came representing the heart of God, who loved the world, not just the upper crust, but especially those who have need, no hope and want God. To God we are truly all equally loved. After all we are all sinners saved by His grace.
  • Serving God is not about position or prestige, “Pure religion and undefiled before God… is visiting the fatherless and widows and keeping ourselves unspotted from world.” James 1:27

Application

• We cannot follow the crowd. The world is lost and going astray. That is why Jesus still calls us, the true believers, His disciples, to follow Him. We need to listen more to Him and less to our doubts. Sometimes it is a lonely road, but He will never leave or forsake us. To whom else can we go? Only Jesus has the words of life.

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