Main point: Whether one would accept Jesus and His teaching was based on who is their father, God or the devil? The content of Jesus’ teaching has no problem. It was the problem of the hearers.
Questions: v.47The 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.” (PNTC) If even the genuine disciples were once members of the fallen and rebellious world, until ‘chosen out of the world’ by Jesus (15:19), how did they come to believe the truth at a time in their lives when the truth itself would have evoked unbelief? The passage does not say; the answer has in fact been provided in John 6...What was necessary was that the Father draw them (6:44), that they be given to the Son (6:37), that they be taught by God (6:45)...this...strips away any ground of boasting or arrogance from those who do believe, while it challenges and threatens unbelievers at the very core of their being, insistently demanding that they reconsider the direction and entire array of values that have stamped their life to this point.
Reflection: 猶太人, 不愛耶穌也不接受他的話v. 42-43. 因為他們的父是魔鬼 , 即是說他們跟隨魔鬼所行的, 心裏沒有真理, 他們不接受真理, 就算耶穌所講的是真的, 他們的心裏也容不下 v. 44. 如果是屬神的必聽神的話 v. 47. 所以一個訊息, 從我們聽到,心裏有沒有接受到, 聽不聽從, 是一個很重要的步驟, 去證明自己是否是屬於神, 神是否我們的父. 當然, 今天我們因為相信耶穌是我們的救主, 我們是屬乎神的, 那麼我們便要接受耶穌的話, 並且行出來. 聽道而不行道, 不是一個選項, 而是一個出於神的人, 必定會行的事.
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