Read: John 10; Luke 13:22-14:24
Jesus gave the people a parable about the spiritual realm. The people who sneak over the wall are people who get into the sheepfold or the spiritual realm another way other than coming through the door which is Jesus. We see these people popping up everywhere. They are the psychics and the shamans and the people who tell the future for money. They have found a way into the spiritual world but they do not come through Jesus. They are of the devil who is the thief and the robber. Stay away from anyone who wants to heal you or pray for you who doesn’t pray through Jesus and doesn’t believe that Jesus is the Son of God and the only way to salvation. If you know the Father’s voice, you won’t have to worry about being deceived.
When the people begged him to say that he was the Messiah, Jesus refused to tell them because they weren’t his sheep. If they had have been, they would have known who he was. When he said that the Father and him were one, they wanted to stone him. No wonder he didn’t want to come out and say he was the Messiah. They tried to arrest him but he walked away unharmed. It was not his time.
Jesus went back to where his ministry began at the river where John baptized him. The ones that had followed John knew that Jesus had fulfilled everything John said about him so they became Jesus’ followers. Others, Jesus explained would try to get into the Kingdom of God and not be able to because they never really knew him.
The Pharisees tried to scare Jesus from their towns saying Herod was looking for him so he could kill him. Jesus told them to tell Herod that he was going to keep casting out devils and doing miracles till his time was over.
Jesus was invited to another Pharisee’s house to eat and a man walked in with obvious health issues. Of course, it was the Sabbath. They were trying to trap Jesus but Jesus turned it on them and shut them down. He also gave them a lesson on humility and who were the most likely to get into the kingdom. I’m sure this did not go well with them.
Lord, help us to be bold about truth and humble in spirit.
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