1 Personal Note and 2 Quick Thoughts on Today's Reading

Happy Thanksgiving!

One of the things I’m thankful for is that you folks actually read these little posts every day. There’s just one month left—let’s finish strong!


“To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, ‘If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.’”

-John 8:31-32

Notice the reoccurring theme?

  1. True disciples are those who actually do what Jesus said;

  2. If you do what he says, then you’ll know the truth.

Obey first, and gain insight second.


Very truly I tell you,’ Jesus answered, ‘before Abraham was born, I am!’ At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds.”

-John 8:58


The reason they get so angry is because “I Am” is how God identifies himself to Moses on Exodus chapter 3. Jesus is here claiming to be Israel’s God, which the Jews take to be blasphemy.

Here’s the question:

If you had been a devout Jew at the time of Jesus, how would you have responded to him?

 

Today’s Scripture

John 8:31-59

"Go and Sin No More"

Jesus’s words to the woman caught in the act of adultery remind me of John 3:17:

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

Jesus knows that if the woman persists in sin, it will go badly for her, and his desire is that she would have eternal life.

He wants the same thing for you, which is why he also wants you to turn away from sin and toward him.

What sin can you turn aside from today?

 

Today’s Scripture

John 7:53-8:11