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Jesus made audacious claims, yet He was not seeking His own glory. “There is One who seeks it”. Jesus did not seek His own glory. As Paul says in Philippians 2:6 Jesus did not consider equality with God something to be grasped. Yet He knew that the Father would exalt Him (Phil 2:9). Moreover, God is the judge. God’s “opinion” is of more value than that of the religious leaders!
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It was very much in the people’s interest for people to keep Jesus’ word. For whoever keeps His word will not see death. Likewise with the gospel. We must not water it down. It is in no one’s interest to “believe” a water down gospel, it is very much in a person’s interest to believe the full gospel. We are fools if we back down from the full gospel. As Paul says in Rom 1:16 we would not be ashamed of the gospel for it is the power of God for salvation.
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