Daddy Issues

John 8:37–47 ESV

37 I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you. 38 I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.” 39 They answered him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would be doing the works Abraham did, 40 but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did. 41 You are doing the works your father did.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father—even God.” 42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me. 43 Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word. 44 You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. 45 But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me. 46 Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? 47 Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.”

Jesus Separates them from Believing Abraham AND from God - Why?

This stems from their UNBELIEF. They Cannot be “of Abraham” who believed the LORD and he counted it to him as righteousness (Genesis 15:6)

Likewise they cannot be “of God” Since they have rejected the Father by replacing Him with traditions of men, and they have rejected God in the Flesh by calling him a devil among other things...

Christs WORDS are EXCLUDED by personal choice (8:37)

Trust is Misplaced in ETHNIC attachment and an ETHIC of self-righteousness (8:39)

They EXHIBIT Hatred and Lies like their Spiritual Father (8:40-47)

Which Results in

a) Rejection of Christ;

b) Resorting to Murder to ELIMINATE Him and

c) Refusal to see the Truth

Hebrews 3:8 ESV

8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,

Hebrews 3:12–13 ESV

12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.