John chapter 8 is where I had you turn
John chapter 8. Let's look at verse 36 through 30 through 47
Verse 36 says if the son therefore shall make you free you shall be free indeed
I know that you're Abraham seed
But you seek to kill me because my word hath no place in you
So the fair, you know, he's doing battle with the Pharisees as he did many times in the Gospels
It's over and over again
They're always trying to come and trip him up and have him say something that he shouldn't say so they can try to kill him
And he just flat-out tells him you seek to kill me. I mean, can you imagine how these you know?
This isn't just words of a book this stuff actually happened and Jesus is sitting there
You know, he's preaching and the whole time
I mean, you know, sometimes you get people give you weird looks when you're preaching like, you know
But Jesus had this all the time. They followed him everywhere
He went and these scribes and Pharisees would come and try to trip him up and you know
They were ready to kill him at any moment. You could just you know
But anyway, let me keep reading it says but you seek to kill me because my word has no place in you
I speak that which I have seen with my father and you do that which you have seen with your father
So his father is God and they have their own father. They answered and said unto him Abraham is our father
Jesus saith unto them if you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham
But now you seek to kill me a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God
This did not Abraham. So
these guys
Were seeking to kill him a man that's told him the truth
They want to kill him because he's he's telling them the truth
You do the deeds of your father then said they to him we be not born of fornication
We have one father even God
Jesus saith unto them if God were your father you would love me for I proceeded forth and came from God
Neither came I of myself, but he sent me
Why do you not understand my speech even because you cannot hear my word?
So they these guys they couldn't hear his word because they were wicked
They were sons of the devil and they could they couldn't understand it because they're they were already blinded
God had already hardened their hearts and it says Europe in verse 44
You're of your father the devil and the lust of your father you will do
He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not on the truth because there is no truth in him
When he speaketh a lie
He speaketh of his own for he is a liar and the father of it and because I tell you the truth
You believe me not which of you convinced of me of sin and if I say the truth, why do you not believe me?
He that is of God heareth God's words. He therefore hear them not because you're not of God
so
They can't hear God's Word because they're not of God
And you know, so that's that's the religious leaders
That's the ones at the time that Jesus came that generation of people when Jesus grew up
You know, he was born in Bethlehem and when he grew up at 30 years old
he started to preach and he started to
go and teach all these doctrines and heal people and raise people from the dead and
You know heal lepers and all those kinds of things, you know, but this generation that he's dealing with here
They're you know, they're wicked and it wasn't just the leaders and the religious leaders that were there were wicked
It was the people also
You know, not all the people that that he preached to believed on a lot of people just followed him around because they wanted to get
What he could give them