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I (Jesus) know Him; (God the Father) because I am from Him, and He sent Me. They were seeking therefore to seize Him; and no man laid his hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.
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Jesus had gone to Jerusalem for the Feast of Booths and in the midst of the feast He went into the temple and began to teach. Now, He recognized the fact that the world hated Him because He exposed its deeds to be evil. {Jn.7:7} It is a good time to remember that the Lord had spoken against the prophets in the time of Jeremiah who failed to expose the iniquity of His people; not for condemnation but to restore them from captivity! Anybody who sins is a slave to sin. {Jn.8:34}

So the people were divided here about the Lord, some now believing Him while others, led by the Pharisees and chief priests, were seeking to seize Him. Today, some two thousand years later, the “people of God” (in quotes for a reason) are still divided about Jesus! And that is still very much about the issue of sin in the world and in the church!

Some of the largest, most ‘successful’ churches in the world today (also in quotes for a reason) refuse to talk about sin. “It’s negative and turns people off” they say. And so their congregations grow explosively—much like the church in Laodicea. {Rev.3:14-22} A situation that will only grow worse as we come nearer and nearer to the close of time as Jesus said. {Mat.24:4-13} It is a scheme of the devil giving birth to licentiousness, which is as Jude put it in his letter, turning the grace of God into a license to sin. {Jud.1:4} May it never be!

Jesus went into the garden and prayed “that we would all be one, just as you, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that You have sent Me.” {Jn.17:21) With that said, we must also recognize that Satan, a liar by nature and the father of lies has always had a desire to take God’s place and make himself the most high god. {Is.14:14}

Today with what is known as the ‘ecumenical movement’ there is a powerful move to unite all church goers—often regardless of what they believe. I recall that the Word says, “Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?” {2Cor.6:14-15}

That is why we are warned so strongly by God’s word through the apostle Paul speaking of the perilous last days:

“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires; and will turn away their ears from the truth, and will turn aside to myths.” (2 Timothy 4:3-4)

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