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Who are the Pharisees?

John 5: 16-18


16 So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. 

17 In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.” 

18 For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God. 


It's amazing to know that God has always and would not stop working in my life. As I still have things in life that I need God's mercy to change and mold me. In spite of being not perfect, yet I have a perfect and loving God who always there for me. Lift me up in times of down and sad moments.

Every single day, God through His word speaks to me and with His Holy Spirit who convicts and leads me to obey His word. I can't go on serving Him without His grace. 

The powerful response of Jesus in verse 17 destructed  the Jewish leaders a lot which led them to kill Him. It disturbed their ego knowing Jesus, not only He healed sick people on the Sabbath but making himself equal with God.



Therefore, it's no surprise even today there are religious groups who denied Jesus deity. I don't want to name names but we know who are they.

But wait, how about us Christians who believed Jesus as God. Do we not also deny Him by not sharing His love to others? This verse in Matthew 10:33 that says "But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven", really struck me because we think that the Pharisees who are the only ones who denied Jesus as God. Yet, we Christians as well deny Jesus to others by not sharing His gospel. 

When Jesus said, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.”  That does not mean we also have to work by telling people they need Jesus as their Lord and Savior of their lives? How would they know Jesus as God and Savior if we don't tell them? As Paul says in Romans Romans 10:14 "How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?".


Friends, think who are the Pharisees in this generation?



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