Text: John 8:30-59<\/p>\n
I. Many began to believe on Jesus<\/p>\n A. Jesus said that if they would live in the words of Jesus, then they would truly be\n his disciples.\n
1. Obedience to his teaching would cause them to know the truth.<\/p>\n
2. Knowing the truth would bring them freedom<\/p>\n
B. From what would a person be freed? What is holding us in captivity?<\/p>\n
1. Christ’s law has set us free from the law of sin and death – Romans 8:2<\/p>\n
2. Satan holds people captive through sin – II Timothy 2:25-26<\/p>\n
3. Paul said sin would not longer be our master – Romans 6:14, 17-18, 22<\/p>\n 4. Notice that freedom is not doing as we please. Why? Because our desires\nwill lead us right back into sin.\n
5. Notice that freedom requires doing God’s will – James 1:25<\/p>\n C. Jesus’ listeners took offense at this idea of needing to be freed. They believed\nthemselves to already be free.\n 1. The confusion again comes from thinking in physical terms and not\nspiritual.\n 2. Notice their statement is wrong. We are Abraham’s offspring and never\nbeen enslaved. They forgot about their captivity in Egypt. They forgot\nabout their captivity in Babylon.\n
D. Jesus explains the type of freedom offered in detail <\/p>\n
1. Sin enslaves a person.<\/p>\n 2. In these days, slavery was a temporary status. A person normal did not\nremain a slave for more than 7 years.\n 3. The Jews were in God’s house on a temporary status. Jesus, as God’s son,\nwould remain in God’s house forever.\n
4. Therefore, if the owner’s son frees someone from slavery, it is permanent.<\/p>\n
E. Jesus proves they are captives of sin, because of their attitude towards him<\/p>\n
1. They are seeking to kill him because they do not like his teachings.<\/p>\n 2. Just as Jesus was obedient to God, the Father, the Jews were obeying the\ninstructions of their father, Satan.\n
II. The Jews protested this idea. Their father, their ancestor, was Abraham.<\/p>\n
A. Jesus said if that was true, then they should act as Abraham did.<\/p>\n
1. Abraham believed God and repeatedly showed his belief<\/p>\n 2. Jesus is bringing God’s word, but these people are attempting to kill him,\nsomething Abraham would not have done.\n 3. Instead, Jesus is saying that they show themselves to have a different\nfather.\n
B. Again, they protest – God is our father!<\/p>\n
1. Notice their change in their story from declaring Abraham as their father.<\/p>\n C. Jesus points out that since he is from God, they should have welcomed him with\nlove and not hatred.\n D. These people did not understand Jesus’ teaching because they were so use to\nlistening to lies, that when someone came telling the truth, they reject the truth.\n
1. Satan is the father of lies. He has always lied. Lies are his language.<\/p>\n 2. Satan is a murderer. He murdered from the beginning (he brought death\ninto the world through his lies).\n 3. Jesus proves his point by showing that they reject him, but not because he\nhas sinned.\n 4. Since Jesus is from God, then their rejection must be because they are not\nof God.\n
III. The audience retaliates. <\/p>\n A. They accuse him of being a Samaritan (half-Jew) and having a demon (out of his\nmind, speaking nonsense).\n
1. These people know that Jesus is a full- Jew from Galilee. <\/p>\n 2. These people know that Jesus is speaking rationally. The reason they are\naccusing him is because they could not meet his arguments.\n 3. This is often the case with people. If they cannot meet a rational argument,\nthey will accuse the messenger of irrational things.\n B. Since Jesus is speaking the words of God, Jesus points out that they are\ndishonoring God by calling his words the irrational words of a demon.\n 1. Jesus is not here to gain their approval but to glorify God and have God’s\napproval.\n
2. If they are to have eternal life, they must accept Jesus’ teaching.<\/p>\n C. Now they believe they caught Jesus mis-speaking. If accepting God’s word brings\neternal life, then why did the prophets of the past die?\n 1. “Who,” they ask, “do you think you are offering something that was never\noffered before?”\n
D. Jesus again states that he is not seeking personal glory.<\/p>\n
1. God has glorified Jesus (“This is my son, in whom I am well-pleased”).<\/p>\n 2. They claim to follow this same God, but they reject the one God stated he\nwas pleased .\n
3. If Jesus claimed not to know God he would be a liar just like them.<\/p>\n
IV. Jesus states boldly that Abraham looked forward to Jesus’ day.<\/p>\n A. This was met with derision. How could Abraham look forward to the day of a\nmere man born thousands of years after Abraham lived?\n
B. “How,” they asked, “do you know so much about what Abraham thought?”<\/p>\n
C. Jesus said that he lived before Abraham was born.<\/p>\n
D. In fact, he called himself “I AM.” The name of the eternal God. (Exodus 3:14)<\/p>\n
E. This is one of many places that Jesus tells us he is God. <\/p>\n F. The Jews understood this. They accepted Jesus’ statement as blasphemy and\nsought to stone him.\n
G. However, Jesus disappeared in the confusion and left the temple.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPrior Lesson\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA Study of John\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNext Lesson\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Freedom of Truth Text: John 8:30-59 I. Many began to believe on Jesus A. Jesus said that if they would live in the words of Jesus, then they would truly be his disciples. 1. Obedience to his teaching would cause them to know the truth. 2. Knowing the truth would bring them freedom B. From what would a person…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21925,"menu_order":23,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-64995","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23876,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/bible-studies\/the-gospel-accounts-a-chronological-harmony\/the-origin-of-jesus\/","url_meta":{"origin":64995,"position":0},"title":"The Origin of Jesus","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"July 16, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The Origin of Jesus Reading Assignment: John 8:12-59 Isaiah 6:9 Did you understand what you read? What did Jesus say to which the Pharisees objected? Why did the Pharisees object to this statement? 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