OUR FATHER WHO IS PLEASED BY THOSE WHO FOLLOW WHAT HE SHOWS THEM

John chapter 8 verses 21 - 30 records the  Lord Jesus telling the people that He was about to depart and that if they did not believe in Him, they would die in their sins. When they tried to understand who He was, He told them that He was the Son of Man whom they would lift up and when they did that, they would know that He was of the Father in heaven and that everything He did was taught to Him by the Father.

21 Then Jesus said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek Me, and will die in your sin. Where I go you cannot come.”

22 So the Jews said, “Will He kill Himself, because He says, ‘Where I go you cannot come’?”

23 And He said to them, “You are from beneath; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. 24 Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”

25 Then they said to Him, “Who are You?” And Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning. 26 I have many things to say and to judge concerning you, but He who sent Me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I heard from Him.”  27 They did not understand that He spoke to them of the Father.

28 Then Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things. 29 And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him.” 30 As He spoke these words, many believed in Him.

The words that Jesus spoke drew many people and they believed in Him because He testified that the Father stayed near Him because the things He did always pleased the Father.

The people themselves wished they could please the Father and Jesus was declaring that He pleased the Father because His words and deeds were always those that pleased the Father and this was a pattern that many people wanted to emulate in their own lives.

Amen.

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