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  EXPOSITORY THOUGHTS ON JOHN - JOHN 8:37-47
  by J.C. Ryle
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"I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. But you want to kill me,
because my teaching makes no progress among you. I am telling you the
things I have seen while with my Father, but you are practicing the
things you have heard from your father."

They answered him, "Abraham is our father!" Jesus replied, "If you were
Abraham’s children, you would be doing the deeds of Abraham. But now
you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from
God. Abraham did not do this! You people are doing the deeds of your
father."

Then they said to Jesus, "We were not born as a result of immorality! We
have only one Father, God himself." Jesus replied, "If God were your
Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I
have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me. Why don’t you
understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my
teaching. You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do
what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does
not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he
lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and
the father of lies. But because I am telling you the truth, you do not
believe me. Who among you can prove me guilty of any sin? If I am
telling you the truth, why don’t you believe me? The one who belongs
to God listens and responds to God’s words. You don’t listen and
respond, because you don’t belong to God."

There are things taught in this passage of Scripture which are
peculiarly truth for the times. Well would it be for the Churches if all
Christians would ponder carefully the matter which it contains.

We are taught for one thing the ignorant self-righteousness of the
natural man. We find the Jews pluming themselves on their natural
descent from Abraham, as if that must of necessity, cover all
deficiencies--"Abraham is our father." We find them going even further
than this, and claiming to be God\

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