They were indignant. “Our father is Abraham!” Jesus said, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would have been doing the things Abraham did. And yet here you are trying to kill me, a man who has spoken to you the truth he got straight from God! Abraham never did that sort of thing. You persist in repeating the works of your father.” They said, “We’re not bastards. We have a legitimate father: the one and only God.” “If God were your father,” said Jesus, “you would love me, for I came from God and arrived here. I didn’t come on my own. He sent me. Why can’t you understand one word I say? Here’s why: You can’t handle it. You’re from your father, the Devil, and all you want to do is please him. He was a killer from the very start. He couldn’t stand the truth because there wasn’t a shred of truth in him. When the Liar speaks, he makes it up out of his lying nature and fills the world with lies. I arrive on the scene, tell you the plain truth, and you refuse to have a thing to do with me. Can any one of you convict me of a single misleading word, a single sinful act? But if I’m telling the truth, why don’t you believe me? Anyone on God’s side listens to God’s words. This is why you’re not listening—because you’re not on God’s side.” (John 8:39-47 MSG)
Have you ever had to stand your ground, because of your faith?
The Pharisees were standing their ground because they thought they were right. They were thrown off by Jesus because they could not see Him in the scriptures. They knew what they had been taught but they followed it blindly. They turned off their intellects, and just took what they had been told on blind faith. Yet is that what God wants?
God spoke through Jeremiah about the new covenant that is written on their hearts. How the law of the Lord will be written by God on their hearts. But the heart in Jeremiah’s time is not the seat of emotion, but the intellectual center of the body. The part where we think about things…
We are. It to blindly follow the disciples before us. If we do we will miss what God is telling us anew, or refreshing what He told us. If we blindly follow what others think instead of what God is leading us to we are fallowing the father of lies, and leading others astray…
Listen to God and do what He is leading you to do, even in the face of those who say you are going against the true faith…
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