{"id":7210,"date":"2015-12-18T00:05:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T08:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=7210"},"modified":"2015-12-17T16:32:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T00:32:02","slug":"hide-and-seek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2015\/12\/18\/hide-and-seek\/","title":{"rendered":"Hide and Seek"},"content":{"rendered":"

He said to them again, \u201cI\u2019m going away; you will look for Me, and you will die in your sin. Where I\u2019m going, you cannot come.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tSo the Jews said again, \u201cHe won\u2019t kill Himself, will He, since He says, \u2018Where I\u2019m going, you cannot come\u2019?\u201d <\/p>\n

\t\u201cYou are from below,\u201d He told them, \u201cI am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. Therefore I told you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.\u201d <\/p>\n

\t\u201cWho are You?\u201d they questioned. <\/p>\n

\t\u201cPrecisely what I\u2019ve been telling you from the very beginning,\u201d Jesus told them. \u201cI have many things to say and to judge about you, but the One who sent Me is true, and what I have heard from Him\u2014these things I tell the world.\u201d <\/p>\n

\tThey did not know He was speaking to them about the Father. So Jesus said to them, \u201cWhen you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own. But just as the Father taught Me, I say these things. The One who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what pleases Him.\u201d <\/p>\n

\tAs He was saying these things, many believed in Him. (John 8:21-30)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\tThe reason we don\u2019t understand some of what Jesus tells us isn\u2019t because he\u2019s not clear. It\u2019s because we can\u2019t hear him over the shouts of our own ideas. Jesus\u2019 words were often enigmatic for those who first heard him. But from our perspective, his words are perfectly clear.<\/p>\n

\tJesus told his critics that he was going to be crucified, die, and return to his Father in Heaven. They did not share his destiny in heaven since they had refused to believe him. When John writes \u201cthe Jews\u201d he does not mean the Jewish people as a whole, but rather some of their religious leaders. Sadly, the Gospel of John has been frequently twisted by anti-Semites who attempt to blame the Jews for Jesus\u2019 death and the world\u2019s problems. John was Jewish, the disciples were Jewish, and the overwhelming majority of early Christians were Jewish. Jesus directed his criticism at the religious leadership of Israel, not the Jewish people as a whole.<\/p>\n

\tQuiet your mind, lay aside the concerns and questions you have, and try to hear Jesus on his own terms. Discover his questions and his concerns and make them your own. Find out what matters to Jesus, not just what matters to you.<\/p>\n

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He said to them again, \u201cI\u2019m going away; you will look for Me, and you will die in your sin. Where I\u2019m going, you cannot come.\u201d So the Jews said again, \u201cHe won\u2019t kill Himself, will He, since He says, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[18,17,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7212,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7210\/revisions\/7212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}