8:40
Instead of believing God, the religious leaders were planning to kill Jesus. Jesus had told them the truth, and it was the truth He had heard from God. Someone might say “how would they know it was the truth from God”. Reason cannot get you everywhere, you have to start from some basic assumptions, and a most basic assumption is that Jesus is the Son of God and speaks the truth. Faith is the beginning of reason. Notice that making reason fundamental puts man at the centre. This will never work. In what Jesus says He puts God at the centre. If we belong to God, if He draws us then we will believe.
8:41
Jesus then goes further in expounding on the sorry state the religious leaders were in. They demonstrated that the devil was their father by what they did. Again not surprisingly they objected, saying they were not illegitimate children. They were proud of their religious heritage. God was their Father, or so they claimed. Some wishy-washy Christians speak of all of us being children of God. This is unbiblical nonsense.
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