What God wants is almost irrelevant because of man’s will. The Bible is full of broken Scriptures. So much is in our control. We do what we want to do, which may or may not be God’s will. God does not intervene because of our prayers. We are allowed (and required) to partner with God to affect outcomes in this life. Christians are “more-than” when we develop our relationship with God; not because we say it, but, because we obey. We are afraid of the consequences of being sold out to the Word of God in our ear.
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62: Jesus Is Attacked In Jerusalem
John 10:22-39
Jesus was in Jerusalem for the Feast of the Dedication, which occurred in the winter time. While he walked on Solomon’s Porch, a part of the temple, the Jews came around him and said:
“How long dost thou make us doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.”
Jesus answered them saying:
“I told you, and ye believe not. The works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me. But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. And I give them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. I and my Father are one.”
Those around him picked up stones to hurl at Jesus, who said:
“Many good works have I showed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?”
They answered Jesus:
“For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.”
Jesus replied to them:
“Is it not written in your law, ’I said, “Ye are gods”’? If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken, say ye of him, who the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, ‘Thou blasphemest’; because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’ If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works; that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.”
Thereupon the authorities sought to arrest Jesus, but he eluded them.