Shalom to you all. We are studying together, dear brothers and sisters, the Book of John, the Gospel of John. This is a wonderful book, the Fourth Gospel, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and Yochanan, that is John, presenting before us the deity of our Lord Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah. This is such an amazing book that helps us to grasp the fact that the Messiah whom we have come to believe on is none else but God, the Son who became a man. And he is, for us, became the Redeemer, the Messiah, the Goel. The Redeemer shall come to Zion and shall deliver Jacob out of all his needs and his problems.

But this Deliverer was, at his first coming, was rejected and despised. And now we are living for a long time since his death some 2,000 years ago. And we live in a time where we anticipate his return, where the same Deliverer who came out of Zion will come now to Zion and ultimately Israel will accept him as the Promised Redeemer. But in the meanwhile, the Gospel of the Grace of God is reaching out to all the nations of the world. And God is building the ecclesia, the assembly, the called out one. And here we are, as we are studying together the Word of God, we enjoy to see the many, many, many lessons that we can learn from the life of Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, before he died on the Roman cross.

And here we are, beloved brothers and sisters, reading now in the 7th chapter. We have arrived to John chapter 7 to read the first 13 verses with us all for this ministry meeting. And so we read in verse 1, John 7:1 "After these things, Jesus walked in Galilee. For he would not walk in Jewry or in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles, feast of Sukkot, was at hand. His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest. For there is no man that doest anything in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly.

If thou doest these things, show thyself to the world. For neither did his brethren believe in him." Then Yeshua said unto them, "My time is not yet come, but your time is always ready. The world cannot hate you, but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil. Go ye up unto the feast. I go not up yet unto the feast, for my time is not yet full come." When he had said these words unto them, he abode still in Galilee. But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.

Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?" And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him. For some said, "He is a good man." Others said, "Nay, but he deceiveth the people." "How bit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews." Well, my dear friend, as we are continuing in our study of the Gospel of John, we have arrived to chapter 7. And again, you can see in this seventh chapter, how our Lord Yeshua, the Messiah, is dealing with various situations that he was facing here upon the face of this earth. So, to remind you, he have already, have been ministering among the people of Israel.

He have turned the water unto wine, in John chapter 2, at the feast in the north of Israel, in Cana, in the Galil. He have also ministered to this amazing leader in Israel, the ruler of our people, of all the people of Israel, by the name of Nicodemus, in chapter 3, Nakdimon. And he, Nakdimon, was amazed, he was overwhelmed. And he said to Yeshua, "No man have done this miracle which thou doest." And then in chapter 4, he met Shomronit, the Samaritan woman, and he ministered to her. And she said, "Come and see a man who has told me all that I ever have done. Is not this the Mashiach, the Messiah?" And of course, as we have already covered in chapter 5, this amazing miracle for the man that was sick for 38 years.

And Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, said to him, "Rise, take up thy bed and walk." And he healed that Jewish man in Beit Chazda, by the pool of Beit Chazda, next to the temple in the city of Yerushalayim. And he was now, he rose up, he took up his bed, and he walked, and it happened to be on a Shabbat day. In chapter 6, we have learned that this same Yeshua was the eternal Son of God and became a man, and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. In chapter 6, he fed the multitude using the five loaves and two fish of a boy that gave his all.

And Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, used this little bit that this boy had to minister and to feed 5,000 men alone. And as we have looked towards the end, he claimed to be the bread of life. And there, as he confessed and proclaimed that he is the bread of life, he had this opposition from the spiritual leaders of Israel, who, if you remember, they opposed him and did not want to acknowledge that he was that Messiah. Though many did, but the vast majority of the Pharisees and the Sadducees did not accept that he was that Messiah. And there was that constant conflict and constant challenge that he was facing by the Jewish leaders because he, Yeshua, came from heaven, and he was sent by God the Father to come down to this world in order to provide redemption for mankind.

And by the time that he came, Israel, our people as a nation, were not ready for his coming. As Isaiah, the prophet, had already prophesied this some 750 years before the Messiah came. When he proclaimed, Isaiah, that Israel will not acknowledge that the Messiah is indeed Yeshua at his first coming. And you remember this amazing passage in the prophet Isaiah in chapter 53, which we all are aware where we read, "Who has believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, as has a root out of a dry ground. He has no form, no comeliness.

And when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him." And then Isaiah proclaimed concerning the Messiah, and he said, "He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrow, a man of sorrow, a man of sorrows." In Hebrew, the word, "ishmach ovot." There is no one that was like Yeshua the Messiah, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from him. He was despised and we esteemed him not. That was in his life, in the Messiah's life. And that's what we read here in these chapters of the Gospel of John. He constantly was experiencing rejection and misunderstanding.

Later on, of course, Israel in the future will say, as Isaiah in chapter 53 and verse 4, "Surely he has borne our grief and carried our sorrows, and we did esteem him stricken and smith of God and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgression. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace fell upon him, and with his stripes we are healed." You can see how Isaiah predicted the life of the Messiah, and his rejection at his first coming, and the second coming of the Messiah, and when Israel, as a nation, will accept him, when they're going to say, "Surely, surely he has borne our grief and carried our sorrows." Well, that's what we see in chapter 7, the opposition by his own people, our own nation Israel, the spiritual leaders did not acknowledge him.

So in these 13 verses of John chapter 7, we see the disbelief and the divisions that the spiritual leaders and the nations of Israel have experienced at the first coming of the Messiah, just before the Feast of Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles, is approaching as Yeshua was there confronted by the spiritual leaders of Israel. Notice, by the way, that even after the fact that many of his disciples left, as we read in John 6 and verse 66, "From that time many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him." If after this we find out that then Judas soon was going to betray him, as we read here in the last verse of John 6, "He spake of Judas Iskariot, the son of Simon, for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve." Can you imagine, even one that walked with the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, this man, Judas, in Hebrew his actually name is Yehuda, Yudah, Yudah Iskariot, he will betray the Lord eventually, and Yeshua the Messiah will be taken ultimately and be hung on a Roman cross.

And so, as in anticipation for this seventh chapter, now we find the Lord, notice he is in the Galil now. And to remind you, that by the time he left Yerushalayim, at the Feast of Passover, in chapter 6 and verse 4 it says, "And the Passover, the Feast of the Jews, was nigh." And that's where Yeshua went, and there he was ministering. Then he left Jerusalem and went back to the Galil, and he remained in the Galil between Pesach, which is usually in a month of Nisan, in the Hebrew calendar, which is the 14th day of the month of Nisan, sometime in March, April. And then he remained in the Galil until the Feast of Sukkot, Chag Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles is in the fall, on the 15th day of the month of Tishrei, in the Hebrew calendar, which is September, October.

So some five, six months have passed by, and now we have entered into the seventh chapter of the Gospel of John. Notice what we read, of course, as we begin with this seventh chapter, that the Feast of Tabernacle is at hand. It says here in verse 1, "After these things, Jesus walked in Galilee, for he would not walk in Judea, in Yehudah," and where is Yehudah, is where the city of Yerushalayim is, it's the center of Israel. So he walked in the north, in the Galil, he did not for a while, for some five, six months, did not walk in Yehudah, because of the fact that the spiritual leaders wanted to do away with him.

So he is now in the Galil, and the time of the Feast of Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacle is at hand. This is very important, beloved brothers and sisters, because the Feast of Tabernacles, the Feast of Sukkot was one of the Moadim in Hebrew, one of the appointed seasons, that God gave his people of Israel, and he commanded our people of all to come to the city of Yerushalayim, to the temple, to worship him on that Feast of Tabernacle, the Feast of Sukkot. We read in Deuteronomy chapter 16, and verse 16: "Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose." Then he gives you, Moses said to Israel, before Israel even entered into the Promised Land.

Here he told Israel, commanded them to come to the feasts that God have appointed, especially the three major feasts known as Pesach, Passover, Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks, and Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacle. In verse 16b of Deuteronomy chapter 16 it says: "In a feast of unleavened bread, and in a feast of weeks, and in a feast of tabernacle, and they shall not appear before the Lord empty. Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee." In other words, it was an amazing period of time in Jewish life. Already 3500 years ago when our forefathers came out of the land of Egypt, already there before Israel had entered into the Promised Land of Canaan, God demanded from the people of Israel to come to celebrate the Feast of Pesach, the Feast of Shavuot, and the Feast of Sukkot.

It is fascinating as you study the seven feasts of the Lord, found in Leviticus chapter 23, that these are important pointed seasons, because they were not only a pointed season in the yearly cycle in Jewish life, but it is an appointed season in the history of God's program and God's plan for all humanity. Passover represents the death of the Messiah who became the Passover lamb. The Feast of Weeks, Shavuot, is when the new covenant was, began. The Feast of Weeks represents when the new covenant, when Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, made a new covenant, and he now brought Jew and Gentile together, seen together in the body of Christ, the body of Messiah.

That represents the present day age in which we live in. When that present age will come to fruition and come to an end, and the heavenly covenant assembly will be raptured out of here, Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, is going to establish the Messianic Kingdom, which is represented by the Feast of Tabernacles. So these three feasts are very, very important for not only the history of Israel, but the history of the whole world, both for the nation of Israel, for the church, the body of Messiah, and also for the whole nations of the world. So we read here, beloved friends, dear brothers and sisters, that now in verse 1 of chapter 7, after these things, Jesus walked in Galilee, for he would not walk in Jewry, that is in Yehuda, in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

Again, to remind you that the word for Jews or the name for Yehudim in the Gospel of John is some 70 times mentioned in the Gospel of John. And again, to remind you that it's always, at least 95% of the time, whenever you read the word Yehudim, Jews, it specifically speaks of the spiritual leaders. To remind you that Jesus was a Jew, that the disciples were Jews, the population was Jewish, that the multitude was Jewish, including the Jewish leaders that were Jewish. In fact, we read, if you remember in John chapter 4, that the Samaritan woman said to him, "How come that you, being a Jew, speaks with me as Samaritan?" "Being a Samaritan," John 4 and verse 9.

So it is specifically applied to the spiritual leaders of Israel who did not recognize that he was the Messiah. It's good to remember these beloved brothers and sisters, because he doesn't speak here about all the Jewish world or the Jewish community, but specifically about the Jewish leaders that did not acknowledge his Messiahship. Well, we read in verse 2 of John chapter 7, the arrival of the Feast of Tabernacles. And the Jews' Feast of Tabernacles was at hand. And of course, to remind you again that this Feast of Tabernacles was given to the Jewish people, but it is really the Feast of the Lord. It is the Feast of Jehovah.

He gave it to his people Israel, but it was his feast. And perhaps the Gospel of John shows us that there was a decline. And instead of being called the Feast of the Lord, it says the Jews' Feast of Tabernacles was at hand, which suggests to us that there was a decline in, instead of the Lord being the object in the center, it become one's own feast. And how it is important for us to remember, even for us today, that any meetings, any fellowship, any company of believers, when we gather around the Lord, it is the Lord's house. It is the Lord's table. It is the Lord's people.

It is the Lord's flock. It's not ours. It is the Lord's flock. And we always today as well in this age, have to be very careful to recognize that it's not ours, but it is the Lord. And so we find out now in these verses 3 and 4, the words of his brethren, Yeshua's brethren, gave him this suggestion. It says in verse 3, "His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart then and go into Judea." "That thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest. For there is no man that doeth anything in secret. And he himself seek to be known openly. If thou do these things, show thyself to the world." Now to remind you, beloved brothers and sisters, that Yeshua had brethren.

He had Achim. His brothers and sisters were children of Miriam from Yosef, but they were born after the miraculous birth of the virgin birth. Yeshua was born first by the Holy Spirit of God, that the Holy Spirit of God is the one that impregnated Miriam and she gave birth to the Messiah himself long before Miriam knew her husband Yosef. And so that is important to understand that the angel of the Lord mentioned this to Miriam in the earlier passages of the Gospel of Luke. We read in Luke chapter 1. "And behold," "Thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Yeshua." "Jesus, Jesus, He shall be great, and shalt be called the Son of the Highest, and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David.

And he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there shall be no end." You see, dear friend, the angel, Gavriel, told Miriam that she will bring forth a son and shall call his name Yeshua, Yeshua, Jesus. Yeshua means Yehovah HaMoshiach, Jehovah the Savior. And he will be that born child that will be born of the Holy Spirit of God. But after he was born the Scripture teaches us that Miriam and Yosef have children of their own. To remind you, that at the end of the Gospel of Matthew, of chapter 13, the end of the 13th chapter of the Gospel of Matthew we read, where the people said, "Is not this the carpenter's son?" Verse 55.

"Is not his mother called Miriam, and his brethren, Yaakov, and Yosef, and Shimon, and Yehuda, and his sisters, are they not all with us?" "Whence then has this man all these things?" So, apparently, after Yeshua was born, some time later, Miriam had given birth to at least six children. We at least see four brethren and plurality of sisters. Well, his brethren, according to John chapter 7 and verse 3, "His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart then, Go unto Judea, that thy disciples also may see the works which thou doest. For there is no man that doeth anything in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly.

If thou doeth these things, show thyself to the world." You notice that his brethren, who have lived with him, they have lived with him in the same home, they have seen the life of their older half-brother Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, they definitely could see that he was unique in so many ways. But again, beloved brothers and sisters, to be realistic, to see that it was unusual to live with one like him, who was always obedient, who was always submissive, who was always obeying his parents, his mother and his stepfather, and of course obeying God to their letter. And the miracles that he have done, and especially now that we just finished the ministry there in the Galil, before he's now going to go back to Yerushalayim, how he met the need of multitude and fed them.

The miracles that he had performed in the Galil there. And so his brethren naturally were saying to him, "Wow, if you've done all these miracles, go to the city of Yehuda. Go to the city of Yerushalayim, where you're going to be able to show all these miracles to everyone there." He says, "There's no man that do these things in secret, and he himself seeketh to be made known openly. If thou do these things, show thyself to the world." But beloved brothers and sisters, his own brethren wanted him to go and show himself and be recognized as some miracle worker person, and they did not understand themselves that the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah, did not come here to merely show some miracles and signs and wonders, though he did so in order to bring blessing upon his people.

But the reason that he came to this world is to become the Lamb of God for the sin of this world. And so they asked him to go to the land of Judah and to the city of Jerusalem. You notice it is interesting that we read here in verses 3 and 4 that they didn't want him to do these things in secret, and they wanted him to show himself unto the world. In other words, it was not limited to Israel, but it was for the whole world to see who this man was. Show yourself to the world, not only to Israel, but to the whole world. But they did not understand, my dear friend, because the next verse says, verse 5, said that Yeshua's brothers did not believe on him at this time.

Neither did his brethren believe on him. When you really think about it, that they did not believe, lived with him, heard his voice, seen his miracles, observed his life, and yet they did not believe. What does that tell us? It tells us that naturally speaking, humanly speaking, we just simply don't believe. We need an awakening of the Holy Spirit of God. And so even though they lived with him, even though they have been with him for their youth there, and now that he is over 30 years of age in his public ministry, you would think that they should believe on him by now and recognize him because he was already, according to chapter 6 at the end, the leaders said that they understood that he was claiming to be equal with God the Father.

You remember what it says here at the end of chapter 5? It says at the end of chapter 5, the Lord said to them, "Had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me, for he wrote of me." You see, and they should have believed on him, but they did not believe. Sadly, that was the condition of the spiritual leaders of Israel, but also even of his own brethren. His own brother did not believe on him. And so, they wanted him to go, they wanted him to show himself, they wanted him to perform miracles there, everybody will look at him, and we'll see what a unique man he was, but they did not believe, according to him, neither did his brethren believe on him, because they did not believe that he was indeed equal with the Father, and he came down to this world to become the Mashiach, the Messiah of Israel, and the Savior of this world.

It is extremely interesting, because even if the brethren have not believed in him, you would think they should have. They ought to, because they have seen him first-hand. But here we see the truth of the fact that they did not recognize that he was the Messiah. There is an interesting verse that is found in the book of Psalm. The psalmist in Psalm 69, he knew that, and speaking prophetically by the word of the Lord in Psalm 69, the psalmist David speaking, you might say on behalf of the Lord, and he said in verse 8, I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.

For the zeal of thine house has eaten me up, and the reproach of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me. This is the psalm of David. This is the psalm of the trespass offering that speaks of the Messiah who became a trespass offering. He is the one that not only became a sin offering, but he also became a trespass. The Hebrew word is asham, ashem. He became guilty. He took our guilt upon himself. I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's womb. This is John 7 and verse 5. Neither did his brethren believe on him. Just to be sure, beloved friends, later on, after his resurrection and ascension, Yeshua the Messiah was ultimately acknowledged by his own brethren, and they have accepted him.

According to 1 Corinthians chapter 15 and verse 7, After that, Yeshua was seen by James, by Yaakov, who was his own half-brother. In fact, in Acts chapter 1, we see the 120 individuals that were there in the upper room, and we find out that they were his brethren were together there. It says here in Acts chapter 1 and verse 14, These all continue with one accord, in prayer and supplication, with the woman and Miriam, the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren. In fact, they became believers in Yeshua the Messiah after his resurrection. But at this point of time, his own Achim, his own brethren, according to the birth to their mother Miriam, they did not recognize him here at first, as John chapter 7 and verse 5 showed this unto us.

And so, this is the first five verses that present before us the fact that his own brethren sought Yeshua the Messiah to go to the city of Yerushalayim, to the feast of Sukkot, to the feast of Tabanakas, to show himself openly, so everybody will see him. And that the whole world will see that he was that one whom he claimed to be. But they didn't believe on him in a sense of recognizing that he is indeed Mashiach. That he is indeed God the Son. That he is indeed the one that will become a substitute for the sin of this world. That they didn't grasp. And I would like to suggest that you and I would never grasp that, my dear friend, unless the Holy Spirit of God will awaken us and reveal this truth unto us.

Well, in the next verses, verse 6, 7, and 8, we find out how the Lord Jesus, Yeshua exclaimed that his time is not yet come to reveal himself to the world. You know, one day he will come. And every eye shall see him. And everyone will wail because of him when he is going to come and reveal himself to all the world. Notice that the word world is mentioned here in John chapter 7 and verse 4. Show yourself to the world! But it was not yet a time for him to show himself to the world. That he will do at the end of the tribulation, at the second coming, when the Mashiach will come back, will return, and every eye shall see him.

But here he came in humility. He didn't come to exalt himself. He came to become the Lamb of God that will take away the sin of this world. And so as we continue, in John chapter 7, notice what we read in verse 6. "Then Yeshua said unto them, My time is not yet come, but your time is always ready." "It is not my time to reveal myself to the world. I am walking here in this world in accordance with the will of God, my Father, God the Father, Elohim Abba. And I am here in submissiveness to Him. My time will come. And I will reveal myself one day, but even my time to die hasn't yet come.

It's approaching, but I am going in a time schedule that my Father had given me. instruction to do." And so Yeshua said, "My time is not at hand. My time is not yet come, but your time is always ready." In John chapter 8, we read, I want to read just this verse here, John chapter 8. It says, "These words, speck Yeshua in the treasury, as He taught in the temple, and no man laid hands on Him, for His time was not yet come." Very interesting. John chapter 8 and verse 20. So you can see, beloved friend, that His time was not yet come. It will come. And He would ultimately become the Passover lamb, but it was not ready for Him to reveal Himself.

Now it is also interesting, we believe by divine design, that He is saying these things, especially in connection with the Feast of Tabernacles. Why? Because the Feast of Sukkot is a feast that not only takes us back to history of our people of Israel, where God took care of our forefathers on their journey from Egypt to Canaan, where Israel would build booths, and they would dwell in this simple booth, this simple Sukkot, and this Sukkot is made out of fragile kind of wood and material and so on, and there will be a temporary huts, temporary Sukkot, temporary tambarnacles. But they will represent at the same time as God has said, that they will present the future day of the coming days where God will restore Israel, and it speaks about the Messianic Kingdom.

And so Yeshua said, "It's not my time to reveal myself." He's saying, "It's not my time to reveal myself," meaning that to be seen as the king, which will be happening in the future. But first of all, I have to be the Lamb of God that will take upon Himself the sin of this world. He will not fulfill the Feast of Tabernacles before He must fulfill the Feast of Passover. Before the glory come the suffering. He must become a suffering Lamb to pay for the sin of the world first. And then He will come again, and He will come, will be the King of Kings in order to rule and reign over this world.

What a day that will be. I would like just to read you the verses that are found in Leviticus chapter 23. Where God commended our forefathers, "Ye shall dwell in Sukkot," in booth, in tabernacle, for seven days. "All that are Israelis born shall dwell in tabernacle," in Sukkot, in booth. Why? This is verse 43 of Leviticus chapter 23, "That your generation may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booth, in Sukkot, in tabernacle, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God." Amazing! God wanted our people of Israel never to forget His faithfulness during the 40 years of the journey from Egypt to Canaan.

And how He took care of the children of Israel. How He was so faithful. And He fed Israel with manna. And He protected them from their enemies. And He provided their clothes never worn out, sandals never worn out. And they could continue to walk during these 40 years now. Obviously, the older generation who grumbled and complained died physically in the wilderness. While the new little one, the new generation who walked with them now grown up, and they will be the one that will enter into the promised land. And they did. But how beautiful to recollect the faithfulness of the Lord. I remember from my youth, as a little boy, where our families, every year, on the 15th day of the month of Tishrei, we will build a sukkah, we will build a booth, and we will sit inside with my grandparents and family, and we will be singing and praising God, the God of our fathers, who protected us and cared for our forefathers from many years in past days.

And how beautifully it speaks of the future day when He will finally restore Israel, Israel, the nation who will become a believing, regenerated nation. But here, beloved friend, though His brethren wanted Him to show Himself to the whole world, Yeshua said, "My time is not yet come, but your time is always ready." And what He means by that, it is your time, and you, my friend, and mine, it is our time, always ready for us to submit to God's Word. If you are not a believer in the Lord Jesus the Messiah, it is always your time to turn to Him now while it is the day of grace.

And if you and I are believers in the Lord and you have accepted Him, it is your time, it's my time to follow Him, to love Him because He loved us, and to never forget what Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, have done for us when He paid for our sins on the shameful altar. And so your time, Yeshua said, is all the time, it is always ready. It is always ready because we, the people who live here on earth, are always ought to be ready to receive instruction from Him to become sons and daughters of the Father, accepting the Lord Jesus the Messiah as our Lord and our Savior.

And so, beloved friend, in verse 6 and 7, Yeshua continues, He says, the world, verse 7, cannot hate you, but me, it hates us, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil. Now, this is, it's so full of information for us. Notice twice the word, the world is mentioned here. Verse 4, show yourself to the world. In verse 7, the world cannot hate you, but me, it hates us, because I testify of it, and that the works thereof are evil. Now, when He's speaking about the world, He's speaking about the human beings. He doesn't speak about the world of the plant kingdom, or the animal kingdom, but the human, for God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him, shall not perish, but have everlasting life.

The world is the human race, the world, the populated world. His brethren, wanted Yeshua, to show himself to the populated world. And Yeshua said, it's not my time. Jesus the Messiah said, it's not my time. Now it will be later, but not now. But, He's teaching us another lesson in verse 7. The world cannot hate you, but it hates me. Why? Because the world, by nature, do not want God. You remember what we read in John chapter 3? In verse 19, the Lord Jesus the Messiah said, and this is the condemnation, that the light came into the world. And men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

You see, the world is a sinful world, because we all are sinners by nature. And just like Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, was rejected 2,000 years ago, if He would come today to your city, or to my city, or to your town, to my town, wherever we are in this world, men by nature will do just the same. Because men love darkness rather than light. Because their deeds are evil. All of us, my dear friend, it is so interesting, it is so interesting, that while His brethren did not believe that He was the Messiah, that He was God the Son, that He was equal with the Father, and they wanted Him to show Himself just as a miracle workers to the world.

Yeshua said, Yeshua said no. The world, because it is not my time, I will ultimately, will die first, before I will reign over this world. But the world cannot hate you, it hates me. It hates me, because the natural man hateth the things of God. The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, because it is foolishness unto him. And you can see, as we have already read earlier, that there is a constant opposition against Yeshua the Messiah. It says in verse 1, they sought to kill Him. You see, they sought to kill Him, to put Him away. Because men, by nature, want to put God away, want to put the Messiah away, because we don't like to admit that we have sinned.

And that we need forgiveness from a holy and a righteous God. And so verse 7, Yeshua said, "The world cannot hate you, but me it hates us." Because why? Because I testify of it. That the works thereof are evil. Notice the word evil. The works of the world are evil. The works of the world, in Hebrew it says ra'im, evil. Evil because the natural man is evil by nature. In the Greek language, the word for evil is poneros. In Hebrew it's ra'ah, evil. It began immediately where sin came into this world. Because God already some years, some 6,000 years ago when He created Adam and Eve, He did say to Adam and Eve, to not to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

You remember this, beloved friend, dear brothers and sisters? God commended Adam. He made the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and He commended man, verse 16 of Genesis chapter 2, saying, "Of every tree of the garden thou may freely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good, and evil ra'ah, thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day that you will eat of it, thou shalt surely die." You will inherit a sin nature. You will be separated from Me. You will die spiritually and then physically. And so, I testify of the world that the works thereof are evil. Why do we do evil?

Why do we do wrong? Why do we harm one another? Why do we commit sin? Because our deeds are evil. We are by nature having a sin nature, and that's why the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah, had to explain this to the brethren of His, the children of Miriam, to remind them, my dear friend, that the world is an evil world, and the world rejects Him. In fact, we read in John 3:19, "And this is the verdict, that light is come into the world, and men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil." In verse 18 of John 15, "If the world hates you, understand that it hateth Me first." There are so many passages in the Scripture to remind us that the world, and this is the population, the human race, evil come out of our heart.

And you know, this is, beloved friend, this is important, because if we understand that we are sinners, and we have an evil nature, once we have accepted, and we realize that God loves us, and that's the reason why Yeshua had to come to this world, so He will deal with our sins, and He will forgive us. And then we will have a hope. So, His brethren wanted Him to show Himself. He says, "It's not my time." And so now, beloved brothers and sisters, we are back in John 7, in verse 8 and 9, Yeshua said to His brethren, "You go up to the feast." "I go not up yet unto the feast, for My time is not yet full." When He had said these words unto them, He abode still in the Galilee." He said, "I'm not going to come with you." "My time is not yet come." He remained in the Galil while His brethren were gone to Jerusalem to keep and celebrate the feast of Sukkot, the feast of Booth.

Now, I would like you to notice in the next verses, verse 9 and 10, we find out that for a while, Yeshua, Jesus, remained in the Galil, but then ultimately, He would come into the city of Yerushalayim in a quiet way, not in a public way to reveal Himself as the King, but to come in a quiet way because ultimately, He was going to come to Jerusalem in order to become a sacrifice, a substitute for the sin of this world. In verses 10, we read this word, "But when His brethren were gone up, then went He alone up to the feast, not openly, but as it were, in secret." So, He did go to the feast of Sukkot after His brethren went to Yerushalayim and separate from them.

Why? Because He did not want to come publicly where everybody will be, you might say, impressed with His miracles that He has done and request signs and wonders. No, He wanted to come in a humble way to the feast of Sukkot, but now we're going to learn that from these verse 11 and 12 and 13, there was a constant debate concerning the person of the Lord Jesus the Messiah. Now, again, we always have to bear in mind that it never happened in history until that time, some 2000 years ago, when God took union humanity with His divine nature. we can appreciate the dilemma that have happened there during those days.

It will be a dilemma today should God, in the form of a man, will come in our midst today. We will be in a dilemma. We will not know how to handle that. And we will need so much grace from God to open our eyes and our hearts to understand who is that man. And so that was the dilemma that existed there in those days when Yeshua came at His first coming to be among His people of Israel. So then notice that. Here is again the word "Jews". You notice how many times the Jews, the Jews, the Jews, "Hay Yehudim, Hay Yehudim, Hay Yehudim" is mentioned here having a reference to the spiritual leaders.

So in verse 11 it says here "Then the Jews sought Him at the feast and said, "Where is He?" Where is He?" You notice they are seeking for Him. They are asking "Where is He?" because if you remember at other feasts in the times earlier that Yeshua, Jesus was in Jerusalem in the temple many, many miracles during these days of the feasts. Like we have at the end of chapter 2 where we read verse 23 "Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover in the first day many believed on Him when they saw the miracles which He did. But Yeshua did not commit Himself unto them because He knew all men and He did not know that they should testify of men He knew what was in men." In other words the Lord Jesus the Messiah knew everything and everybody at the feast have seen Him already a year earlier in the feast of Pesach miracles that He had made and He performed in the midst of the nation there which we don't have them recorded in the Gospel of John except those eight specific miracles and signs that He made in the land of Israel that recorded by the Gospel of John but nevertheless the Jewish leaders were seeking for Him why?

because they knew that many, many of the people of Israel have already followed Him. He felt a multitude in the Galil many followed Him there by the Sea of Galilee He ministered to them many were wondering who is that man? also in verse 11 the Jews thought for Him at the feast of Sukkot there and they asked where is He?

and now we learn in the next two verses the murmuring among the people concerning the person of Yeshua the Messiah in a sense we have here three groups of individuals from within the Jewish community with different view concerning the person of Jesus the Messiah first of all of course we have the Jews in verse 10 and 11 which are the Jewish leaders of Israel because they the Jewish leaders of Israel sought Him at the feast but then notice it's another two groups within the population in verse 12 there was much murmuring among the people concerning Him we read in verse 12 and notice that for some said He is a good man and others said

but He deceives the people you notice that within the people that were there there were some that said He is a good man and then there were others that say no, no, no He is not a good man but He is a deceiver because He deceives the people so we have the Jewish leaders and then we have some from among the people who said He is a good man and then others said that He is a deceiver here we have the three opinions that you might have in every generation in the whole world the nations of the world people have an opinion about Yeshua some say oh yeah He is indeed who He is He

is God the Son who became a man He is indeed the promised Redeemer that came into this world and that's why many of those accept Him but there are others who say He is only a good man He is a good man the good rabbi the good teacher and others said no, no, no He is a deceiver where do you stand on this my dear friend did you accept the Lord Yeshua the Messiah as He did who He was the eternal Son of God could you say like the Samaritan woman who says come see a man who have told me all that I ever have done is not this the Messiah can you say this

can you say this my friend or you are some of those who say He is a good man and others said no, no He is not a good man He is a deceiving man He deceived the people each one of us will have to make a decision in our life what think ye of the Mashiach what think ye of Christ is He merely another good man or is He the eternal Son of God let me remind you in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God the same was in the beginning with God all things were made by Him and without Him was not anything made which

was made in Him was life and the life was the light of men this is Him in verse 14 and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld His glory the glory as of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth do you accept Him as the eternal Word the one who is the creator of the universe because all things were made by Him and without Him nothing was made do you believe that this eternal Word this eternal Logos this eternal Mimra the eternal Son of God became a man He became a man He was dwelt among us and we beheld His glory John said the glory is of

the only begotten Son the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth do you recognize this my dear friend well look how sad and yet it is so real in the life of so many today there are some out of jealousy who are religious who say no, no, no we don't believe in Him He is not the Messiah we want to tell you who is the Messiah we want to tell you who is the one that is going to deliver you we want to tell you how to be redeemed we want to tell you how to be right with God no, no He is not the Messiah we will tell you how others

say well, He is a good man He is a pretty decent man and it's true that He is a good man because He is the only one who sinned not He is a good man but believing on Him as a good man doesn't save doesn't forgive our sins we have to recognize we have to recognize that He is the eternal Son of God this is exactly the reason why the Gospel of John was written and many other signs truly did Yeshua in the presence of His disciples which are not written in this book John, Yohanan the apostle said in John 20 in verse 30 he continued he said but these are written these, whatever miracles

written in John in the whole Gospel of John they are written they are written that ye might believe that Yeshua is the Messiah and that He is the Son of God and that believing ye might have life through His name do you believe that He is only a good man but He is not the eternal Son of God well, if He is a good man only good man a good man cannot save us he must be more than just a good man He must be divine because no man not natural man ever can be considered to be good because all have sinned there is no good not even one the only one that is good

is one that came from heaven the man from heaven whose name is Yeshua and so the others said notice in verse 12 of John 7 the other said no, no nay He is deceiving the people imagine they said that He deceived the people but He, Yeshua was the only one who spoke the truth He said later on we will read it He says I am the way the truth and the life no one come to the Father but by Me He is not a deceiver He is the Messiah He is the promised Messiah of Israel and the Savior of this world He came down from heaven to do the will of God the Father how

amazing it is my dear friend that's why it is so important to believe on Him and to recognize who He was He is indeed the one that was sent from God the Father to this world to show Himself and to provide redemption for mankind when He will die on the cross but then notice now in verse 13 and I would like to close this beloved friend it says however how bit no man spake openly of Him for fear of the Jews and again the Jewish leaders isn't it true isn't it true in every generation in the whole world as it was in days of old in Israel's history so it is today in Christendom age

the spiritual leaders who do not submit to the authority of the Word of God in every religious system in this world they are impacting people to such an extent that people out of fear do not simply acknowledge Yeshua as that promised Messiah oh my dear friend oh my dear friend may God give us the needed grace to recognize that we are to have the fear of God rather than the fear of man and the only one that can give us the strength to have the fear of God is none else but God Himself who is able to touch our hearts and to help us to to direct us to the person of Yeshua the Messiah

and to accept Him as our Lord and our Savior and therefore we are to have the fear of God and acknowledge that He Jesus is indeed the promise Redeemer may the Lord help us my dear friend may the Lord help you may the Lord turn our hearts to Him whom to know is everlasting life and never forget never forget none of us should ever forget that God so loved the world the amazing verse that is found in John 3:16 that God gave His only begotten Son this begotten Son is the Messiah is Yeshua and that whosoever will believe on Him just simply faith hearing the word of God and believing recognizing that He is the

one that died for our sins and was buried and rose again for our justification whosoever believeth on Him shall not perish but have everlasting life what an amazing promise we have my dear friend well I trust that the Lord will touch our hearts and that we will be those that recognize that He is not only a good man He is a good man because He is only one that is good and He is Yeshua from Natseret but because He is divine He is God the Son who took union humanity and became the sinless one we can trust in Him who paid for our sins and the sins of the whole world and so we are

thankful to know Him and to believe on Him and to trust Him and to accept Him as our Mashiach and our Lord and our Savior until our next meeting we will continue Lord willing God willing from verse 14 of John chapter 7 may God bless you my dear friend and encourage your heart these days and lead you to follow after Yeshua the Messiah God bless you and Shalom Shalom Shalom Shalom