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- Welcome to The Rapid Pull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. Sometimes people will bring up John 7, because they'll say that this is a contradiction.
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- You'll hear this from unbelievers. But the issue is, is here is a feast of booths at hand.
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- And we see in verse 3 it says, So his brothers, speaking of Jesus' brothers, said to him, Leave and go to Judea, that your disciples may see the works that you are doing.
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- For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.
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- For not even his brothers believed in him. Jesus said to them, My time has not yet come. Your time is always here.
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- Then you end up seeing, he says, After that, that, in verse 10,
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- But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, Then also he went up, not publicly, but in private.
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- And people say that here he was saying, he would not come, his time has not come. And therefore, you see, he somehow is not supposed to go.
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- But yet he does go to Judea. And some think this is a contradiction. But what do we notice?
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- We notice a key word. The idea is going in secret versus openly.
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- Or going publicly versus privately. That is what we see when we look at the context. So the issue is not whether he was going to go to Judea or not.
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- The issue in the context is whether he is going to go openly to be known by all, or whether to go privately and be known only by his disciples.
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- He went privately, not publicly, and that is the context. This podcast is part of the
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- Striving for Eternity ministry. For more content, or to request a speaker or seminar to your church, go to strivingforeternity .org
