I'm thinking today of a verse in John chapter
8, verse 43. In this translation it says, Why
is my language not clear to you? Because you
are unable to hear what I say. Hmm. Jesus was
talking to them about having Satan as their father,
having the devil as their father rather than
God. And of course they claim that's not true.
But they just can't. It doesn't say they won't,
it says they can't. hear the words of jesus they
can't understand them that's the situation that
we're living in now if you are a child of god
and someone else is a child of the devil and
everyone who's not a child of god is a child
of the devil and that's just the way it is you're
surrounded by lost people in this world the truth
is that they are unable to hear the teachings
of christ and yet and yet The disciples were
told that they were free both to hear and understand
the teachings of Christ and to go out and deliver
those teachings to a lost and dying world. And
that Jesus would eventually come again and take
them to be there with him where he was going.
So that's us too. So we are supposed to share
whatever we possibly can with anyone we possibly
can. John wrote it this way. He says, proclaim
what you have seen and heard. We proclaim what
we have seen and heard. And so the hope is that
their fellowship would be with us. But until
their fellowship is with us, they won't be able
to understand exactly what it is that we're talking
about if we're speaking the teachings of Christ.
They're just not able. Have pity on them. They're
just not able. But we have a job to do, and we
know where we're going when we get that job done.
And praise God for it. We'll keep at it.