John 7
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STAYING ON THE RIGHT PATH
We live in a world that doesn’t want to follow the right path. I fact it rewards those who wander offtrack. Its harder and harder as believers to stay the course when seemingly people around us get away with so much. But, the race we’re running and the path we’re on is important to Jesus. That’s what this passage tells us about Jesus. His own family wanted Him, challenged HIm to take a shortcut to glory and wlak the path of popularity and prosperity. That means Jesus would have been deterred from the Cross. The very reason why He came.
Some of you realize that its tough going down the narrow path. You’re making decisions wondering whether to go the easy way or the hard way. Just know that whatever path you take is hard. The easy path, the path the world prescribes, has consequences that are hard. But, going down the path of the Gospel is also hard. Yet it reveals peace and joy, something the world cannot provide. So, the question is, which hard do you want? The hard that tears you apart or the hard that leads you into the arms of Christ?
Yes, it’s tough. Believe me I’ve been there. However, there are no shortcuts to walking with God. You either are or you’re not. Jesus has you on your path because it will bring you the most blessing and Him the most glory. Lets look at this passage and see how all this plays out in Jesus.
Jesus at the Feast of Booths
7 After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him. 2 Now the Jews’ Feast of Booths was at hand. 3 So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing. 4 For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.” 5 For not even his brothers believed in him. 6 Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here. 7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil. 8 You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come.” 9 After saying this, he remained in Galilee.
10 But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private. 11 The Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying, “Where is he?” 12 And there was much muttering about him among the people. While some said, “He is a good man,” others said, “No, he is leading the people astray.” 13 Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him.
14 About the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching. 15 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?” 16 So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. 17 If anyone’s will is to do God’s will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority. 18 The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood. 19 Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?” 20 The crowd answered, “You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?” 21 Jesus answered them, “I did one work, and you all marvel at it. 22 Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. 23 If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man’s whole body well? 24 Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”