PB Devotions

The Jewish leaders were increasingly hostile toward Jesus. There is a lot the Jewish leaders didn’t like about Jesus, but their most intense, murderous fury was directed toward him because he believes “I am” (the Christ, the Son of God), and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven”

As Jesus’s reputation as a healer and miracle worker spreads, the crowds come to him in larger and larger numbers, prompting the elites to despise him more and more.  As a general rule, Jesus was popular with the masses (the exception being in his hometown of Nazareth), and as his popularity increased with the crowds, so did the opposition from the Jewish leaders.

The Jewish leaders disliked, and eventually grew to hate, Jesus for many reasons. They were angry with him for upsetting their traditions and the law. They looked down on him for eating with sinners and associating with those deemed unclean or unworthy. But most of all, they hated Jesus because he claimed to be from God, and as time went on, dared to make himself equal to God.

Are people mad at you for identifying with Christ? Are they mad at you for sharing in His authority? Are they mad at you for truly believing that you’ve been grafted into the Beloved? Keep moving forward with God!!

Focus Your Focus!! It’s by Christ Alone!!

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