John 6: 46
” No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father.”
There He goes again! Talking about heaven like he has been there!! Who does this Jesus guy think he is??
Time and time again Jesus speaks as if he is from a different planet, but in fact, he is from a different reality altogether. A spiritual reality. A reality invisible to our eyes of flesh but something we can glimpse with our heart if we try.
Imagine being a Pharisee who is vested in maintaining the status quo. Imagine that this Jesus guy comes along and turns your world upside down by apparently breaking religious laws about the Sabbath (supposedly from God, but in fact from men) and doing things like touching the unclean. (Of course, an unclean person would be “clean” after Jesus touched them!) As a Pharisee, you are looking at a nobody, an itinerant Rabbi from the backwoods of Nazareth. An un-pedigreed bumpkin followed around by a bunch of hayseed backwoods sheepherders. Continue reading “Jesus Guy”