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I'm thinking today of a verse in John chapter

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8, verse 43. In this translation it says, Why

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is my language not clear to you? Because you

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are unable to hear what I say. Hmm. Jesus was

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talking to them about having Satan as their father,

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having the devil as their father rather than

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God. And of course they claim that's not true.

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But they just can't. It doesn't say they won't,

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it says they can't. hear the words of jesus they

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can't understand them that's the situation that

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we're living in now if you are a child of god

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and someone else is a child of the devil and

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everyone who's not a child of god is a child

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of the devil and that's just the way it is you're

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surrounded by lost people in this world the truth

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is that they are unable to hear the teachings

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of christ and yet and yet The disciples were

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told that they were free both to hear and understand

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the teachings of Christ and to go out and deliver

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those teachings to a lost and dying world. And

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that Jesus would eventually come again and take

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them to be there with him where he was going.

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So that's us too. So we are supposed to share

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whatever we possibly can with anyone we possibly

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can. John wrote it this way. He says, proclaim

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what you have seen and heard. We proclaim what

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we have seen and heard. And so the hope is that

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their fellowship would be with us. But until

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their fellowship is with us, they won't be able

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to understand exactly what it is that we're talking

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about if we're speaking the teachings of Christ.

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They're just not able. Have pity on them. They're

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just not able. But we have a job to do, and we

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know where we're going when we get that job done.

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And praise God for it. We'll keep at it.