MAKE YOUR CHOICE

FEAST OF TABERNACLES OR BOOTHS……1 OF 3…PASSOVER AND PENTECOST

Remember dwelling in tents 40 years

2 years in wilderness. Set them apart, give them the law of Moses,

2 yr bible college….forgot who they were in egypt

Remind them who they were and the promises god had. REMIND THEM he had the promise land waiting For them to RECIEVE BY FAITH.

FAILURE OF FAITH…..2 of 12 spies

WHY WOULD GOD WANT THEM TO REMEMBER THIS TIME OF UNBELIEF!!! COMMEMORATE THEIR ancestors LACK OF FAITH….WHY!!!!!

LESSONS IN REMBERING….REMEMBERING RESULTS IN REFLECTION

2 LESSONS:

FAITHLESSNESS HAS CONSEQUENCES!

Hebrews 11:6 “And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.”

James 1:6–7 “But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;”

GOD IS FAITHFUL…

EVEN IN OUR UNFAITHFULNESS!!

REMEMBER HIS GOODNESS. HIS PROVISION. HIS MERCY AND FORGIVENESS!!!

John 7:1–13 “After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him. Now the Jews’ Feast of Booths was at hand. So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing.

For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.” For not even his brothers believed in him. Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here. The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.

You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come.” After saying this, he remained in Galilee. But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private.

The Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying, “Where is he?” 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.” Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him.

John 7:1–5 “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.”

MAP GALILEE AND JUDEA

HALF BROTHERS

Matthew 13:55–56 “Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? And are not all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?””

BORTHER OF JESUS SO HARD!! HE’S NEVER WRONG!!!

WHY DON’T YOU CLEAN YOUR ROOM LIKE JESUS!!! NOT FAIR HE JUST SPEAKS

EVEN PARENTS PROBABLY A LITTLE ANNOYED!!!! JESUS LEAVES THE DOOR OPEN, AND MARY’S LIKE, JESUS, WERE YOU BORN IN A BARN…..JESUS “KINDA”

HIS BROTHERS: MAYBE GIVING HIM A HARD TIME….DAN HOLDING ME DOWN SPIT

MAYBE HAD POLITICAL AGENDA

ULTIMATELY: DANGEROUS UNBELIEF……..HIS OWN BROTHERS……sit write here every Sunday, and still not have saving BELEIF!!!

BIBLE PROOF!!! Integrity…..not how you would write it!!!! James and Judas….Jude

Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here. The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil. You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come.” After saying this, he remained in Galilee. But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private.

JESUS CONFRONTS THE WORLD………

John 15:18 ““If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.”

WE ARE CALLED TO TAKE A STAND, NOT CALLED TO STAND ON THE SIDELINES!!!

THEN he also went up…..so not with the crowd!

11 The Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying, “Where is he?” 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.” Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him.

Jesus has always divided people

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell.

You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”

― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Jesus is either a liar, a lunatic, or LORD OF LORDS!!!

YOU MUST MAKE A DECISION.