“YOU WILL KNOW THE TRUTH!”

 John 8:31-45                        (ESV)

“[31] So JESUS said to the Jews who had believed HIM, “If you abide in MY WORD, you are truly MY disciples, [32] and “YOU WILL KNOW THE TRUTH”, and THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE.” [33] They answered HIM, “We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that YOU say, ‘You will become free’?”

[34] JESUS answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, EVERYONE WHO PRACTICES SIN IS A SLAVE TO SIN. [35] The slave does not remain in the house forever; the SON remains forever.

[36] So if the SON sets you free, you will be free indeed. [37] I KNOW THAT YOU ARE AN 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.”

JESUS was, is, and always will be GOD.  HE knew that just because these people challenging HIM were “of Abraham” did not mean that they were HIS CHOSEN.  As a matter of fact, JESUS told these Jews that they desired to kill HIM in verse 40!  They may not have even known they were inclined to be against their CREATOR, but they were so caught up with what they were told to believe that they were unable to SEE TRUTH when HE was in their midst!  Simply being “an offspring of Abraham” wasn’t the redeeming value for these people, they had to have their EYES OPENED and SEE their “lostness” and their need for a Savior!

We are no different today.  We must exhibit total FAITH IN JESUS.  When we depend on our own abilities for money for survival, for good health and long life, for our posterity, basically for the very breath we breathe (Isaiah 42:5), we have begun down the path of self-sufficiency.  When OUR EYES are looking anywhere other than JESUS, they are missing the mark.  Even though these “Jewish” people were from the physical bloodline of Abraham, their EYES were yet to be OPENED to THE TRUTH of HIM being GOD, something that many of us are missing as well!

JESUS is, was, and always will be GOD IN FLESH!  HE came to live LIFE PERFECT and HOLY (Romans 3:25-26) so that HIS PERFECT and HOLY LIFE could be imputed to THE CHOSEN of GOD.  FAITH in the matchless work of JESUS is what is required to enter Heaven. “YOU WILL KNOW THE TRUTH” is not something that we can find by doing “good works”!  “YOU WILL KNOW THE TRUTH” can only come when our EYES ARE OPENED TO THE TRUTH!!!