A Daily Devotional – Personal Faith – Personal Meditation
Comment: It is one matter to reject
authority as we looked at yesterday, but when authority rejects authority, it
is entirely a different problem. I am not focused, at the moment, on the
political corruption within our own government here in the United States of
America; but I could not let this opportunity go by without making that
comparison. Reminding us that our current matters of freedom are not controlled
by the Constitution of the United States, but by a certain sect of leaders (not
those currently in office) who reject the given law of our ancestors and create
for themselves laws that seek a new or enlightened wisdom, but who are fools.
Devotional: Okay,
back to our text in John 7:45-52. “Then the officers came to the chief priests
and Pharisees” This statement requires the reader to question who these officers
are. Are they Roman soldiers, the answer is ‘no’, if they were Romans, they
would have arrested Jesus and completed their mission. These officers are
Levites who knew the Law given to Moses. They also heard Jesus speaking to the
crowd.
These men returned to the chief priests and Pharisees
without Jesus because Jesus spoke “spiritually” to the crowd within the context
of the Law. One brief look at John 7:16-24 which are the words that Jesus spoke
to the crowd reveal this truth that the Law was given to Moses by God, but
Grace and Truth came by God through Jesus Christ, His Son. The Levite officers
of the guard heard this message and said to the unbelieving leaders (The Sadducees
and Pharisees) “No man ever spoke like this man!”
The discourse between the unbelieving leadership and
Levite guard goes critical. “Are you also deceived? Have any of us (Sanhedrin
Counsel) or us Pharisees believed Him? Yet, you along with the crowd that does
not know the law is accursed.” We need to notice… religion is always deceptive
in that it uses the Law of God to establish the law of man. Religion also
overlooks Truth, but those who seek to know the Truth, will be set free from
religion, notice!
Nicodemus, who being a Pharisee and a leading Rabbi, came
to Jesus during the night (see John 3:1-21) said. “Does our law (Mosaic Law)
judge a man before we, the leaders hear Him and understand what He is doing?”
This question stunned his colleagues (the members of the Sanhedrin counsel) and
their reply to Nicodemus is a bit absurd. “Are you also from Galilee. Search
and look for no prophet has risen out of Galilee.” Their response is emotional
and incorrect for Jonah, Hosea and other prophets came out of Galilee.
The Prophet (Teacher) and Priest (Sacrifice) came out
of Galilee to preach that the kingdom of heaven is at hand, the Christ/Messiah/King
came out of heaven, born of the seed of David, born in Bethlehem. The
Christ/Messiah died and rose again, He returned to heaven and one day soon; THE
PROPHET, THE PRIEST, THE KING will return. To see Him Come Again, you must
believe that He is, who He says He is and that He had you in mind when He died
for the sin of all mankind.
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