8:45
When we sin we become enslaved to the father of lies, so we can longer hear the truth. That is one of the greatest dangers of sin. It starts to distort our thinking. Despite our denials, we know we have done something wrong, but instead of repenting the temptation is to seek to justify ourselves. So when someone speaks the truth we don’t believe them. This is what was happening with the Jews and Jesus. It it what happened with us when we said marriage provides the best environment for children, society didn’t believe us. When we said so-called gay marriage is not good, society doesn’t believe us. We need to pray for our society. Our proclamation and presentation of the truth alone will do nothing, it needs our proclamation and presentation along with the grace of God on our society.
8:46,47
Now all this talk of the inability of people to see the truth does not mean we don’t use arguments or logic, it means they are not sufficient. Here Jesus challenges them to prove Him guilty of sin. Of course they could not. Jesus then asks them again, “Why don’t you believe me?”.
Then we get the words if someone does belong to God, then they will believe what God says. The Jewish leaders could not hear because they did not belong to God. So what should they have done at this stage? Given up in despair? No, repented and asked for mercy. If they had done this then they would have received mercy.
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