John 18:37 KJV
Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
The first thing that strikes the attention when I read this is the purpose for which Jesus said He came, "...to bear witness unto the truth." But the thing that I want to try to think about is this phrase, "Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice."
It seems very obvious to me that not everyone hears the voice of Jesus Christ. There are so many different views and opinions and etc about Jesus. It can even be seen in the bunch involved in His capture and trials....
Caiaphas and his crowd were blinded by their religion to Jesus Christ.Their concern wrapped up in thinking they did God service (so said Paul) was not for the glory of God, but for the good of their system. In this case, God became the obstacle to their established faith.
Judas Iscariot had walked with Christ three and a half years.
Yet he had no problem betraying Jesus with a kiss.
Pilate seemed sympathetic to Christ.
Not that he was interested in saving faith, but that he was not that interested in putting a man to death merely at the whim of the Jews.
In the end, though, none of them heard His voice.
There was one though. Peter had followed the Lord all of those years, and in a crucial moment had denied Christ. As the cock crew, Peter remembered the words of Jesus and God did something in his soul. There was a process of time that brought Peter through first his denial, then the devastation that Christ was dead, then the shock that He had risen, and finally, Peter was filled with the Holy Ghost and never denied the Lord again.
The fact is we can never make someone who is not of the truth hear the voice of Jesus. But there are some, who might have to go through a process before it bears fruit, but who hear His voice and follow Him.
Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
The first thing that strikes the attention when I read this is the purpose for which Jesus said He came, "...to bear witness unto the truth." But the thing that I want to try to think about is this phrase, "Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice."
It seems very obvious to me that not everyone hears the voice of Jesus Christ. There are so many different views and opinions and etc about Jesus. It can even be seen in the bunch involved in His capture and trials....
Caiaphas and his crowd were blinded by their religion to Jesus Christ.Their concern wrapped up in thinking they did God service (so said Paul) was not for the glory of God, but for the good of their system. In this case, God became the obstacle to their established faith.
Judas Iscariot had walked with Christ three and a half years.
Yet he had no problem betraying Jesus with a kiss.
Pilate seemed sympathetic to Christ.
Not that he was interested in saving faith, but that he was not that interested in putting a man to death merely at the whim of the Jews.
In the end, though, none of them heard His voice.
There was one though. Peter had followed the Lord all of those years, and in a crucial moment had denied Christ. As the cock crew, Peter remembered the words of Jesus and God did something in his soul. There was a process of time that brought Peter through first his denial, then the devastation that Christ was dead, then the shock that He had risen, and finally, Peter was filled with the Holy Ghost and never denied the Lord again.
The fact is we can never make someone who is not of the truth hear the voice of Jesus. But there are some, who might have to go through a process before it bears fruit, but who hear His voice and follow Him.
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