After finishing His discourse on His flesh and blood, Jesus' disciples start to doubt Him and question His "harsh" words. They begin to grumble just like the other Jews did. They still don't understand that it's not about the flesh but about the Spirit and what will happen as a result of His imminent sacrifice. Jesus supernaturally knows that some of the disciples don't believe in Him. False disciples want to follow Jesus because He's the newest and most popular Rabbi, they want to follow Him to use Him as a platform for their own ideas and doctrine, they want to follow Him because of their greed and hope they can financially gain from their new vantage point, and false disciples follow Him because they are men-pleasers and want status. But He understands why many of the disciples don't believe, they were never given to Him by the Father. And so, after thousands and thousands of people followed Him, the majority of them left Him and never walked with Him again. They were false disciples. And they don't like the word of God. They consider His words harsh and when they can't accept God as He is, or "as they want Him to be", they apostatize. But true disciples remain to the end and the twelve apostles were still there. He challenges them to see if they want to go away. Peter speaks for the men and demonstrates Jesus is the only way and they know it, He has the words of eternal life and no where else can they find them, and they believe and know He is the Holy One of God: the LORD. Jesus knows that only the Father could have revealed that to them and so He speaks of the coming betrayer: Judas Iscariot. Jesus knows what it's like to have people feign loyalty to Him.
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Wade is Pastor/Elder of Apologia Church in Utah since it was founded in October 2021. He was raised up by the Elders at Apologia Church in Arizona for over 6 years. God saved Wade in 2012 and since then he has been committed to following Christ and getting the Gospel out into...
