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March 31 - John 7 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. Hope you're going well.
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  It is Monday, it's the 31st of March and we are starting a
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  whole new week together. I am not going to be able to do
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  much exclamation today as well. I've, I think I'm just starting
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  to lose that fight. You know how there's a little
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  bit of a bug and you think I'll be fine, I'll be fine.
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  And you push it away and you keep on ploughing on ahead and
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  then it finally catches up with you.
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  Yeah, that was this morning. I woke up and I thought, Oh
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  dear, I'm not going to be able to read the Bible today for the
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  podcast, but here I am. How many?
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  3 cups of tea later and I am ready to rock'n'roll.
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  So we're going to read. And today we continue reading
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  through the book of John and we will be hearing about Jesus in
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  this this festival time when there's lots of festivals in
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  Jerusalem and Jesus is teaching and interacting with people
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  around all the thoughts that come to mind as to celebrate
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  these big moments in their history as the people of Israel.
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  So how about let us read it together, friends, Let us read
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  together John Chapter 7. After this, Jesus travelled
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  around Galilee. He wanted to stay out of Judea
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  where the Jewish leaders were plotting his death.
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  But soon it was time for the Jewish festival of shelters.
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  And Jesus brothers said to him, Leave here and go to Judea,
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  where your followers can see your miracles.
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  You can't become famous if you hide like this.
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  If you can do such wonderful things, show yourself to the
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  world. For even his brothers didn't
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  believe in him. Jesus replied, Now is not the
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  right time for me to go, but you can go anytime.
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  The world can't hate you, but it does hate me because I accuse it
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  of doing evil. You go on.
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  I'm not going to this festival because my time has not yet
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  come. After saying these things, Jesus
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  remained in Galilee. But after his brothers left for
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  the temple, Jesus also went, though secretly staying out of
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  public view. The Jewish leaders tried to find
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  him at the festival and kept asking if anyone had seen him.
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  There was a lot of grumbling about him among the crowds.
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  Some argued he's a good man, but others said he's nothing but a
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  fraud who deceives the people. But no one had the courage to
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  speak favourably about him in public, for they were afraid of
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  getting in trouble with the Jewish leaders.
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  Then midway through the festival, Jesus went up to the
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  temple and began to teach. The people were surprised when
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  they heard him. How does he know so much when he
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  hasn't been trained, they asked. Sir, Jesus told them.
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  My message is not my own. It comes from God who sent me.
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  Anyone who wants to do the will of God will know whether my
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  teaching is from God or is merely my own.
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  Those who speak for themselves want glory only for themselves,
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  But a person who seeks to honour the one who sent him speaks
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  truth, not lies. Moses gave you the law, but none
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  of you obeys it. In fact, you were trying to kill
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  me, the crowd replied, Your demon possessed who's trying to
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  kill you? Jesus replied, I did 1 miracle
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  on the Sabbath, and you were amazed.
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  But you work on the Sabbath too, when you obey Moses Law of
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  circumcision. Actually, the tradition of
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  circumcision began with the patriarchs long before the law
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  of Moses. For if the correct time for
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  circumcising your son falls on the Sabbath, you go ahead and do
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  it so as not to break the Law of Moses.
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  So why should you be angry with me for healing a man on the
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  Sabbath? Look beneath the surface so you
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  can judge correctly. Some of the people who lived in
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  Jerusalem started to ask each other, Isn't this the man
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  they're trying to kill? But here he is speaking in
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  public, and they say nothing to him.
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  Could our leaders possibly believe that he is the Messiah?
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  But how could he be? For we know where this man comes
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  from. When the Messiah comes, he will
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  simply appear. No one will know where he comes
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  from. While Jesus was teaching in the
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  temple, he called out, yes, you know me and you know where I
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  come from, but I'm not here on my own.
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  The one who sent me is true. And you don't know him, but I
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  know him because I come from him.
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  And he sent me to you. Then the leaders tried to arrest
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  him, but no one laid a hand on him because his time had not yet
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  come. Many among the crowds at the
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  temple believed in him. After all, they said, would you
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  expect the Messiah to do more miraculous signs than this man
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  has done? When the Pharisees heard that
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  the crowds were whispering such things, they and the leading
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  priests sent temple guards to arrest Jesus.
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  But Jesus told them, I will be with you only a little longer,
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  then I will return to the one who sent me.
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  You will search for me, but not find me, and you cannot go where
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  I'm going. The Jewish leaders were puzzled
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  by the statement. Where is he planning to go?
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  They asked. Is he thinking of leaving the
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  country and going to the Jews in other lands?
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  Maybe he will even teach the Greeks.
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  What does he mean when he says you will search for me but not
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  find me, and you cannot go where I'm going?
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  On the last day, the climax of the festival, Jesus stood and
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  shouted to the crowds, Anyone who is thirsty may come to me.
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  Anyone who believes in me may come and drink.
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  For the scriptures declare rivers of living water will flow
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  from his heart. When he said Living Water, he
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  was Speaking of the Spirit who would be given to everyone
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  believing in Him. But the Spirit had not yet been
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  given, because Jesus had not yet entered into his glory.
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  When the crowds heard him say this, some of them declared,
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  Surely this man is the prophet we've been expecting.
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  Others said He is the Messiah. Still others said, But he can't
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  be. Will the Messiah come from
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  Galilee? For the Scriptures clearly state
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  that the Messiah will be born of the royal line of David and
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  Bethlehem, the village where King David was born.
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  So the crowd was divided about him.
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  Some even wanted him arrested, but no one laid a hand on him.
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  When the temple guards returned without having arrested Jesus,
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  the leading priests and Pharisees demanded, Why didn't
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  you bring him in? We have never heard anyone speak
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  like this, the guards responded. Have you been LED astray too?
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  The Pharisees mocked. Is there a single one of us
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  rulers or Pharisees who believes in him?
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  This foolish crowd follows him, but they are ignorant of the
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  law. God's curse is on them.
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  Then Nicodemus, the leader who had met with Jesus earlier,
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  spoke up. Is it legal to convict a man
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  before he was given a hearing? He asked.
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  They replied, Are you from Galilee too?
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  Search the Scriptures and see for yourself.
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  No prophet ever comes from Galilee.
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  Then the meeting broke up and everybody went home.
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  My Lord Jesus, there certainly was confusion about who you
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  were. There you were breaking all
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  these rules and people were trying to do what they could to
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  put you in one basket or another.
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  But oh, our mighty God, a wonderful Saviour, a beautiful
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  Lord, you defy any categorization.
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  You are more than we could possibly imagine.
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  And we know that you are the Messiah, you are the Son of God,
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  you are God himself, and we worship you, and we put you at
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  the highest place above every other name, and let our knee bow
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  to no one but you, our wonderful God.
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  So we worship you today and pray all of these things in your
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  precious and holy name. Amen.