Daily Devotions
My Song In The Night (Gospel of John)
我夜间的歌曲 (约翰福音）
An Attempt to Correct Misconceptions
Text: John 7: 28-29
AN ATTEMPT TO CORRECT MISCONCEPTIONS
Jesus knew what His hearers were struggling with. They had seen His miracles. They had heard Him preach about the Kingdom of heaven. They were struggling with misconceptions and thus they could not come to full faith in Him as the Messiah. He sought to address these problems.
“Then Jesus cried out, as He taught in the temple, saying, ‘You both know Me, and you know where I am from; and I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you do not know. But I know Him, for I am from Him, and He sent Me.’”
John 7:28-29
1. “Then Jesus cried out, as He taught in the temple”
a. The misconceptions had to be addressed.
b. If they were not corrected, these errors would remain.
c. Doubts would continue to hinder faith.
d. Worse, others would be led into error.
e. Salvation in Christ would then not be possible.
2. Addressing the question of knowing Jesus
a. They do know Him.
b. Their knowledge of Jesus and His earthly parentage was not wrong.
c. But that was not the main thing to know!
3. The more important issues
a. Who was the One who sent Jesus?
i. This was the more important piece of knowledge to obtain.
ii. The prophets of old always claimed that God was the One who sent them.
iii. Jesus had always made the same claim – that God the Father had sent Him.
iv. His authority came from the Lord God Himself.
v. He had not sent Himself.
vi. The problem was His hearers did not know God as well as they think they do.
b. “But I know Him, for I am from Him, and He sent Me”
i. This was the really important thing to know.
ii. Jesus knew His Father who had sent Him as the Messiah.
As long as they did not really know or believe in God, they would not be able to have true faith!
经文：约翰福音 7：28-29
试图纠正误解
耶稣知道听律法的众人正在挣扎着什么。他们见过祂的神迹。他们听过祂宣扬天国。他们在误解中挣扎，因此他们不能完全相信祂是弥赛亚。祂试图解决这些问题。
“那时，耶稣在殿里教训人，大声说：‘你们也知道我，也知道我从哪里来。我来并不是由于自己，但那差我来的是真的，你们不认识他。我却认识他，因为我是从他来的，他也是差了我来。’”
《约翰福音 7：28-29》