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John 18:37
Excerpted from: Old Testament: Fruit of the Spirit (Part Three)Do we realize what Christ is saying here? There are those who cannot hear the truth. The freedmen that attacked Stephen did not hear the truth. All they heard was an accusation against their pride. Were they of the truth?
I decided to look up a few idioms regarding truth on the Internet, and the possibilities are endless. But I did manage to pick out two. The first one is from a man by the name of W. Clement Stone. I have no idea who he is or when he lived. "The truth will always be the truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance." The second one comes from someone named Tertian and I believe he did live in the first century AD. "The first reaction to truth is hatred." Do we hear the truth, or should I say, can we hear the truth and how do we react?
Maybe the freedmen did hear the truth after all, rejecting it in outright hatred, killing an innocent man. Not everyone can hear the truth or else why would Jesus instruct the seven churches in Revelation, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear." Do we have ears to hear?
John 18:37
Excerpted from: Government (Part 2)Pilate did not grasp the peculiarities of it. He did not realize what he was saying. But he did get the point that Jesus was saying, "Yes, I am a King."
Jesus was, in effect, saying to Pilate, "My Kingdom is better." Mainly, what He is talking about here is the nature of His reign, the nature of His rule. Not its location, or its time. Remember that He refused to give even His disciples an indication of time. He certainly was not going to give it to Pilate. However, that can be included in the understanding of the verse, but it is not primary.
Jesus is concerned about the nature of the Kingdom here. What He was telling Pilate is, "Pilate, My Kingdom isn't political. You have nothing to worry about from Me. I'm not here to overthrow the government and establish a competing power before you." So He is saying then, "I am not a rival. I'm not here for political reasons." If He had been, what would His servants have been doing? They would have been making war.
John 18:37
Excerpted from: Truth (Part 2)I am going to continue the sermon that I began four weeks ago in regard to truth. We are going to go back to John 18, to the very scripture I believe that we began with or was very near to the beginning. Jesus is before Pilate and Pilate said to Him,
What we are going to concentrate on here is, "Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice." Of course that inspired, or got a response from, Pilate because he said, "What is truth?" (verse 38) almost as if he were thinking about responding to the words of Jesus Christ.
But what I want us to see is that the difference between the converted and the unconverted person is the response to truth. "Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice." Another way of putting that might be that the converted person humbles himself before truth.
John 18:37
Excerpted from: Truth (Part 1)Here Jesus is on trial before Pilate just before His crucifixion:
Jesus said that the very reason that He came to the earth was to bear witness, to give testimony on, and to declare truth. He further stated that anyone devoted to truth would listen to Him. That word "listen" means more than just "hear the sound of." It indicates "the use of" as well. The life of the person who is listening to Him would be characterized by submission to truth.
Truth, as it is spoken of in this context, is what we might consider to be ultimate truth—the very things which the life, the death, and the resurrection of Jesus involved. We are talking about the purpose and the plan of God. Another way of saying it is that He is talking about the true knowledge of God.
John 18:37-38
Excerpted from: Truth (Part 1)Jesus said that the very reason that He came to the earth was to bear witness, to give testimony on, and to declare truth. He further stated that anyone devoted to truth would listen to Him. That word "listen" means more than just "hear the sound of." It indicates "the use of" as well. The life of the person who is listening to Him would be characterized by submission to truth.
Truth, as it is spoken of in this context, is what we might consider to be ultimate truth—the very things which the life, the death, and the resurrection of Jesus involved. We are talking about the purpose and the plan of God. Another way of saying it is that He is talking about the true knowledge of God.
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