John Chapter 7 - January 28, 2009

7:4-5 - Even his brothers doubt that Jesus is anything special and they try to get him to perform more miracles as proof - they had seen Jesus as a awkward teenager and carpenter. It is often hardest for those who knew you "before" (family, friends, etc.), to accept the real life change that Jesus brings to our own lives.

7:7 - Th reason the world hates Jesus so much is because his message and life bring to light exactly how flawed and off-base their own lives are. People hate to be shown the error of their ways and the way of Jesus so the error of every way besides his!

7:23 - Again and again the Pharisees cannot get over the fact that Jesus healed a man on the Sabbath. I is just absurd. They would perform the ritual of circumcision on Sabbath - a sign of the covenant and the cutting away of the sinful self...why would Jesus not be able to ring healing to a mans body? Is there anything in modern Christian times that we gt hung up on like this?

7:38 - Foreshadowing of the Holy Spirit - the Spirit of God brings a life within us that is so rich and real that we do not have to depend on the ideals and things of this world to create a fake sense of life that is constantly letting us down. True life comes from Gd within, no the world without.

7:46 - I think people should also be shocked and blown away by the lives that Christians live everyday. We should live in such a way that people say things like this, "I have never seen somebody that lives like that!" "I have never heard somebody speak like that!" "I have never sen somebody that lived with such graciousness." Would you agree, this is who we should b to the world?