{"id":7213,"date":"2015-12-19T00:05:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T08:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=7213"},"modified":"2015-12-18T11:16:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T19:16:17","slug":"7213","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2015\/12\/19\/7213\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"

At this point the Jews him, \u201cNow we know you\u2019re crazy. Abraham died. The prophets died. And you show up saying, \u2018If you practice what I\u2019m telling you, you\u2019ll never have to face death, not even a taste.\u2019 Are you greater than Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you think you are!\u201d <\/p>\n

\tJesus said, \u201cIf I turned the spotlight on myself, it wouldn\u2019t amount to anything. But my Father, the same One you say is your Father, put me here at this time and place of splendor. You haven\u2019t recognized him in this. But I have. If I, in false modesty, said I didn\u2019t know what was going on, I would be as much of a liar as you are. But I do know, and I am doing what he says. Abraham\u2014your \u2018father\u2019\u2014with jubilant faith looked down the corridors of history and saw my day coming. He saw it and cheered.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe Jews said, \u201cYou\u2019re not even fifty years old\u2014and Abraham saw you?\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cBelieve me,\u201d said Jesus, \u201cI am who I am long before Abraham was anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThat did it\u2014pushed them over the edge. They picked up rocks to throw at him. But Jesus slipped away, getting out of the Temple. (John 8:52-59)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\tJesus is not just a man.<\/p>\n

\tThe phrase that Jesus used and applied to himself, \u201cI am who I am,\u201d was a quotation of Exodus 3:14. In using it, Jesus claimed to be the God who spoke to Abraham, who met Moses at the burning bush, and who led the Jewish people out of Egyptian bondage. Moses, belonged to a polytheistic society where many gods were worshiped. When he asked God for a name, he did it so he could let the people of Israel know which god had sent him. God responded by announcing that \u201cI am who I am.\u201d He didn\u2019t need a name since he was the only God.<\/p>\n

\tIn Hebrew, the name Yahweh simply means \u201cHe is.\u201d God told Moses \u201cI am.\u201d So Moses went back to the Israelites and told them that \u201cHe is\u201d sent me. Jewish people later decided to stop using God\u2019s name for fear of \u201ctaking it in vain.\u201d In place of his name, they used the word \u201cLord.\u201d So when Jesus\u2019 disciples and the authors of the New Testament call Jesus \u201cLord\u201d they are identifying him as the God of the Old Testament.<\/p>\n

\tThe religious leaders reacted to Jesus\u2019 claim of being their God by picking up stones to kill him as a blasphemer. In their eyes, Jesus could only be a man. But we know better.<\/p>\n

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At this point the Jews him, \u201cNow we know you\u2019re crazy. Abraham died. The prophets died. And you show up saying, \u2018If you practice what I\u2019m telling you, you\u2019ll never have to face death, not even a taste.\u2019 Are you … 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\/7213"}],"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=7213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7216,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213\/revisions\/7216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}