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Last study was posted on 10-03-09

“Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. “

Let’s continue.

We have learned that Jesus came from God.

Jesus also said;

” neither came I of myself, but he sent me. “

If you recall in an earlier study we learned that Jesus mentioned already.

“I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. ” John 5:43

Jesus no doubt had in mind the future antichrist when He said:

“if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. “

Certainly this will be the case when it does happen.

The Jews will receive the antichrist as their Messiah and then realize 3 and1/2 years into the 7 year peace treaty that they made a terrible mistake.

Jesus also said later;

“and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not. ” John 7:28

As I have said many times before, to understand everything Jesus said we must understand and believe that Jesus is both God and man¡¦just as He claimed. If we cannot accept Jesus” claim, then we will never understand the fact that He speaks from both His deity and His humanity. I know this is too much for most folk to believe.

I spoke with a friend recently who admitted to me that he thinks Jesus is a liar.

Well, at least my friend is honest in his feelings. I respect a person who, rather than try to argue with me as to why we should not believe Jesus at His word and attempt to use other parts of the Bible to twist and distort the things Jesus said into so called contradictions as they have concluded to be contradictions, would just simply go ahead and tell me that they think Jesus is a liar and be done with it. Bible critics twist the Bible around and this is why world religions re-write their own ‘bible’ calling it     ” another gospel “. 

I told my friend that many people are like him in that they also do not believe Jesus and what He claimed. We either believe Jesus or we do not.

There are religions established and exist for the self pleasure and self satisfaction of making Jesus out to be a liar.

Why? Because like the rest of the world, they are ¡°Jesus haters”.  However, they also hate God whom they believe exists. This is evidenced in the simple fact that they themselves have decided what will happen to them after physical death¡¦ not what God has to say about what will happen to them.

Jesus said anyone who follows Him and believes in Him will be hated by the world.

If we choose to believe Jesus¡¯ claim to be both God and man then we can understand Him when He says things like;

“and I am not come of myself ” John 7:28

“neither came I of myself, ” John 8:42

And as a muslim who asked me -¡± if Jesus is God as He claimed to be then why would He say:

“And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”Mark 15:34

Accepting Jesus as God who became man helps us to understand that as a man Jesus became a servant unto God the Father, setting the example in how we are to live.

In His flesh Jesus became obedient;

“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;

And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,

to the glory of God the Father. ” Philippians 2:5-11

Even though Jesus is God, the plan for salvation is meant to be¡¦God sent His only begotten Son¡¦

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. ” John 3:16-17

Since most folk believe in God or at least God’s existence or some sort of a god - God’s plan for our salvation and entrance to Heaven is to be by believing in God’s Son Jesus as being the only way to Heaven¡¦not one of many ways.

Jesus continued to say to these Jews;

“Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. “

Jesus already knew why they did not believe Him but many times would ask a question to get a response out of them.

He answers His own question;

“even because ye cannot hear my word. “

The Greek word dunasthe translated ” ye cannot ” means simply not able or cannot.

Have you ever tried to tell someone something and they just won’t listen? This is how these Jews were and are today as well as most of the population of the world.

God, whom they claim to believe in has told them already that it is through His Son Jesus that He will speak to us. This is why Paul said later;

“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. ” Romans 10:17

And which, by the way, in the Greek “Christ” is written in the text.

The Greek literally reads;

“Then faith is from hearing and the hearing through a word of “Christ.”

Martin Luther did not translate it “Christ¡ nor did the King James translators do this because they understood Jesus is God and it would not matter if they ended this verse with God or “Christ”.

The writer of Hebrews confirms all this by saying;

“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, ” Hebrews 1:1-2

I will continue with this soon.

Wayne Brown