NOT YET

I AM PASTOR DEB

English - March 27, 2021 10:00 - 16 minutes - 11.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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In John 7, Jesus is traveling through Galilee, while the Jewish leaders were looking for a way to kill Him (John 7:1). When the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near, Jesus’ brothers said to him, ‘Leave Galilee and go to Judea, so that your disciples there may see the works you do. No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world’” (verses 2–4).

Jesus’ reply to His half-brothers is curious: “My time is not yet here; for you anytime will do. The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its works are evil. You go to the festival. I am not going up to this festival, because my time has not yet fully come” (verses 6–8). The Lord then stayed in Galilee for a while, but “after his brothers had left for the festival, he went also, not publicly, but in secret”

We may look at the scripture and say why one did Jesus refuse to go to the festival with his brothers, but then turned around and went. Sometimes there is no time and a waste of air to explain all the details to unbelievers, which John 7:5 tell us that Jesus’ brothers were. We have to as believers yield to the timing of God and not move caught up in emotions, peer pressure or trying to validate ourselves.

See essentially Jesus’ brothers were telling Him to go to Jerusalem, where the crowds were, and put Himself on public display. They were saying, in effect, “If You are who You say You are, prove it in the way we say you should.”

Jesus response to His half-brothers was clear: He was not going to the Feast of Tabernacles with them. Twice, Jesus uses the words not yet (John 7:6, 8). Jesus then makes the point to His brothers that God’s timing is precise.

Jesus’ actions are not based on whatever time they seem to think appropriate. I love what Jesus says in verse 6, “For you anytime will do,” He tells them (verse 6). He goes on to tell them The Messiah will accomplish God’s will in God’s time, not theirs: and repeats “My time has not yet fully come” (verse 8).

Jesus did indeed travel to Jerusalem to teach and reveal more about His mission and identity. He made His public appearance halfway through the Feast of Tabernacles, but He did so according to the timing of God, not man.

I say to everyone listening to this recording, do make a move without clearance from God. If you do it according to his timing, His favor will be upon you, but don’t expect God to bless what he didn’t ordain.