![]() ![]() To those who believed, He took it a step further. Others, however, began to believe in Him. When our identity gets challenged, it offends us to the extreme, and we are lost and hopeless. Yet it is the most difficult to address because we cling to our identities more than anything in this world our racial, national, political, gender, sexual, religious designations are the place from which we understand everything else. Identity is the most central and revolutionary truth we must wrestle with if we are to go from bondage to freedom. ![]() The teaching continues, and Jesus makes the two different perspectives clear-“I’m from above and you’re from below.” (v.23) Jesus is from Heaven and they are from the Earth, this world of corruption and death.īecause of the vastly different perspectives (can’t get any further apart), the Jews are more confused and ask an important question-Who are you? We’ve all been in that situation, haven’t we? One side can’t seem to make out what the other is saying, their perspective, even though they are using the same language, and there’s no communication. It’s like they’re having two different conversations. As happens throughout the Gospels, the Jews question Him. What Does the Truth Shall Set You Free Mean?īeginning in John 8:12, Jesus teaches in the Temple treasury, beginning with the declaration that He is the light, and the people walk in darkness. What follows in John 8 is disturbing to our ideas about ourselves and our identity (as Jesus disturbed the Jews that originally heard it), which are the most difficult truths to address, yet Jesus is explaining what it takes to be set free. It sounds nice with words like truth and freedom, but there’s an implication within what Jesus says that confronts us at our very core. Jesus states in John 8, “And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
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