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John 7:28

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Jesus was still teaching in the temple courtyard. He cried out, “Yes, you know me. And you know where I am from. I am not here on my own authority. The one who sent me is true. You do not know him.

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Lord, those who know you will trust in you. You have never deserted those who look to you.

They will not need to teach their neighbor anymore. And they will not need to teach one another anymore. They will not need to say, ‘Know the Lord.’ That’s because everyone will know me. From the least important of them to the most important, all of them will know me,” announces the Lord. “I will forgive their evil ways. I will not remember their sins anymore.”

Jeremiah, you live among people who tell lies. When they lie, they refuse to pay any attention to me,” announces the Lord.

People of Israel, listen to the Lord’s message. He is bringing charges against you who live in Israel. He says, “There is no faithfulness or love in the land. No one recognizes me as God.

“They can’t return to me because they have done so many evil things. In their hearts they long to act like prostitutes. They do not recognize me as the Lord.

“My Father has given all things to me. The Father is the only one who knows the Son. And the only ones who know the Father are the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to make him known.

There he lived in a town called Nazareth. So what the prophets had said about Jesus came true. They had said that he would be called a Nazarene.

At that time Jesus spoke to the crowd. “Am I leading a band of armed men against you?” he asked. “Do you have to come out with swords and clubs to capture me? Every day I sat in the temple courtyard teaching. And you didn’t arrest me.

“My Father has given all things to me. The Father is the only one who knows who the Son is. And the only ones who know the Father are the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to make the Father known.”

Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you. He is the Messiah, the Lord.

Joseph and Mary did everything the Law of the Lord required. Then they returned to Galilee. They went to their own town of Nazareth.

So Joseph went also. He went from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea. That is where Bethlehem, the town of David, was. Joseph went there because he belonged to the family line of David.

Then he went back to Nazareth with them, and he obeyed them. But his mother kept all these things like a secret treasure in her heart.

“Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?” Nathanael asked. “Come and see,” said Philip.

If that is true, what about the one the Father set apart as his very own? What about this one the Father sent into the world? Why do you charge me with saying a very evil thing? Is it because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’?

I did not speak on my own. The Father who sent me commanded me to say all that I have said.

Don’t you believe that I am in the Father? Don’t you believe that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. The Father lives in me. He is the one who is doing his work.

But he comes so that the world may learn that I love the Father. They must also learn that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me to do. “Come now. Let us leave.

They will do things like that because they do not know the Father or me.

“Father, you are holy. The world does not know you, but I know you. Those you have given me know you have sent me.

And what is eternal life? It is knowing you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. We know that God is with you. If he weren’t, you couldn’t do the signs you are doing.”

Anyone who has accepted it has said, ‘Yes. God is truthful.’

There is someone else who is a witness in my favor. And I know that what he says about me is true.

I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me. But if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

They said, “Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph? Don’t we know his father and mother? How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”

Jesus did nothing until halfway through the feast. Then he went up to the temple courtyard and began to teach.

Jesus answered, “Even if I am a witness about myself, what I say does count. I know where I came from. And I know where I am going. But you have no idea where I come from or where I am going.

But if I do judge, what I decide is true. This is because I am not alone. I stand with the Father, who sent me.

Then they asked him, “Where is your father?” “You do not know me or my Father,” Jesus replied. “If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”

“I have a lot to say that will judge you. But the one who sent me can be trusted. And I tell the world what I have heard from him.”

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me. I have come here from God. I have not come on my own. God sent me.

We know that God spoke to Moses. But we don’t even know where this fellow comes from.”

As I walked around, I looked carefully at the things you worship. I even found an altar with To an Unknown God written on it. So you don’t know what you are worshiping. Now I am going to tell you about this ‘unknown god.’

They didn’t think it was important to know God. So God let them continue to have evil thoughts. They did things they shouldn’t do.

Not at all! God is true, even if every human being is a liar. It is written, “You are right when you sentence me. You are fair when you judge me.” (Psalm 51:4)

But just as sure as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.”

God said, “Let light shine out of darkness.” (Genesis 1:3) He made his light shine in our hearts. His light gives us the light to know God’s glory. His glory is shown in the face of Christ.

That belief and understanding lead to the hope of eternal life. Before time began, God promised to give that life. And he does not lie.

When God made his promise, he gave his word. He did this so we would have good reason not to give up. Instead, we have run to take hold of the hope set before us. This hope is set before us in God’s promise. So God made his promise and gave his word. These two things can’t change. He couldn’t lie about them.

Whoever believes in the Son of God accepts what God says about him. Whoever does not believe God is calling him a liar. That’s because they have not believed what God said about his Son.

Eli’s sons were good for nothing. They didn’t honor the Lord.




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