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What Else Did Jesus Teach? ~ Lent Meditation 1 for 2026


From now to April 5, 2026, Easter Sunday, I am posting Lenten Meditations for your consideration, meditation, and prayer to enlighten you to the lesser-known words of Jesus that are recorded in more than one place. This Lent is the perfect time to discover what else Jesus is reported to have said in more than one place.

Let There Be Knowledge

Jesus had a secret.

He told only a few of his apostles because most of the others were not ready, vibrationally speaking, to comprehend his words. Other apostles would scoff, ridicule, or deny his teachings, thinking that they knew better than Jesus did about his dharma on Earth. Don’t you often do the same thing when someone presents information to you for your consideration in opposition to what you believe to be true?

Still, the apostles did not know what to do when they finally came to grips with the fact that they were also finding themselves at the mercy of the religious and political powers of the day.

The disciples said to Jesus, “We know that you are going to leave us. Who will be our leader?” Jesus said unto them, “In the place where you are to go, go to James the Just, for whose sake Heaven and Earth came into existence.” The Gospel of Thomas, 12

Controversy was plaguing the land of Galilee, Judea, Perea, and Samaria.[1] Everyone thought they knew all about their neighbors, Mary and Joseph, the carpenter, and their family. Mary had been dedicated to the school of virgins ever since she was three years old.[2] Joseph had married her under suspicious conditions,[3] fled with his family to Egypt on the seasoned advice of an angel,[4] and finally had settled in Nazareth.[5]

“Jesus left there and went to his hometown, accompanied by his disciples. When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed.[6]

“Where did this man get these things?” they asked. “What’s this wisdom that has been given him? What are these remarkable miracles he is performing?Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.

Isn’t this always the way that those who think they know you because they grew up with you as a child in the family or neighborhood, don’t really know the person you have become after years of continuing education and experience. There is so much more to you than most people realize, maybe even yourself.

If you say anything new and against the grain of what others think they know, as in Jesus trying to teach them something new, the indoctrination of what they think they know gets in the way of truth being told. This happened to Jesus in his day. The words of Jesus still are not being heard because of the religious spin being placed upon his words. All the words of Jesus, then and now, still fall on deaf ears, unless all of the words of Jesus are proclaimed, not only some of what was written from his famous 3 years from his ages 30 to 33, which is still going on today.

Please know there is more to know. There is a reason why the words of Jesus have been kept from you if you have not heard all of them yet. If you are anything like me, I had numerous questions on those missing years, from his ages 12 to 30, for a total of 18 adult years of Jesus. Who is it exactly who would not want me to know more than the carefully carved out words of Jesus in today’s bibles?

How would you like to only be known for what you said and did from the ages of 30 to 33? Would this be fair to you?

The truth of the problem lies between two quotes of Jesus:

  1. “I know you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill Me because My word has no place within you. I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.” John 8:37-38[7]

AND

  • “I tell you, listen and understand. For many, when they hear, will be fainthearted, but you, understand in the way I can tell you. Your father is not my Father, but my Father has become a father to you.” Jesus speaking in The Second Revelation of James 51,14-54,15

John’s famous bible quote in John 8:37-38 was allowed to stay and was layered with interpretations of religious spin matching their indoctrination, while the second quote was carved out with the precision of the surgeon’s scalpel and secretly buried in desert caves. It was as if burying critical information could dumb down their sheep. It was the sheep in wolf’s clothing at the helm of most religious dens that was and still is the problem.

But Jesus did confide in his oldest half-brother James. James, who was also called James the Just.[8] James loved him so much that he wrote down the secret Jesus revealed to him.

Do you want to know this secret?

Jesus told his closest followers, including Mary Magdalene, that his Father was “not your father,” but that his Father has “become a father to you.” The Father of Jesus Christ had pity and love for the Eternal Universal Life Force Energy intimately included within humanity because they all had Sparks of Itself.

The Original Sin was that of the fallen angels and their Nephilim children mating with human women. Humanity had already paid a precious price for being ravaged and raped, which was not humanity’s desire.

It is not only the DNA of fallen angels and Nephilim that is within the cellular structure of every human being’s DNA. The Light of the original Adam Kadman, the Limitless Living Light of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy was recognizable within the Spirit/Soul of every human being. Humanity is born of both sets of physical and spiritual DNA, which is why we have free will to choose between the two opposite Energies.

Out of empathy, compassion, and Love, Eternal Universal Life Force Energy, the Father of Jesus Christ, extended the olive branch of understanding, through Jesus, to tell you that it is the Limitless Living Light of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy that animates your very Soul.

[1] New Testament places associated with Jesus – Wikipedia

[2] The Entry of the Most Holy Mother of God into the Temple – Orthodox Church in America (oca.org)

[3] Matthew 1:18 This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged in marriage to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit. (biblehub.com)

[4] The Bible Journey | The holy family flee to Egypt

[5] The Holy Family’s Arrival in Nazareth | Franciscan Media

[6] Mark 6:1-3, NIV

[7] New International Version

[8] James, brother of Jesus – Wikipedia

The Real Reason Jesus Was Crucified ~ 3 Steps to Spiritual Health ~ Who is in Charge of Your Reasoning ~ Thinking ~ Personal Power?


Vintage engraving of Jesus Christ’s exhortation to the twelve Apostles, by James Tissot

Why has The Secret Book of John been deemed apocryphal by the Roman Emperor who had to approve the Councils of the Church Father’s decrees on what you are to believe?

All apocryphal literature has many words of Jesus that fly in the face of past and current religious indoctrination.

Why would that be so?

The Secret Book of John opens with the teaching of the Savior, and the revelation of the mysteries and the things hidden in silence, the things he taught to his disciple John. You have not heard, nor read what is written about this unless you have allowed yourself to read The Secret Book of John within the sacred pages of The Nag Hammadi Scriptures.

Have you handed over your free will to some other institution that tells you what to think, how to vote, and how to oblate yourself to their teaching?

Never do that.

It is time the world, and especially those who claim to be Christian, read all the words Jesus taught, not only his first childhood years from his birth to age 12, and only those 3 years from his ages 30-33. He taught his apostles, disciples, and of course his beloved Mary Magdalene much more.

It is time to grow in spiritual maturity.

While some ministers and authors try to find ways to justify the violent verses of the bible, regardless of denomination including Hebrews, the Church has never reconciled itself with the truth.

Jesus taught that his Father was not our father. He taught this in both the Nag Hammadi Scriptures as well as in today’s bibles. You can find his words in John 8:37-38; John 8:42-47; and John 8:19 in today’s bibles.

John 8: 37-38 says, “I know you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill Me because My word has no place within you. I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”

John 8:42-47, Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have not even come on My own initiative, but He sent Me. “Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word. “You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies. “But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me. “Which one of you convicts Me of sin? If I speak truth, why do you not believe Me? “He who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God.”

John 8:19, Then they asked him, “Where is your father?” “You do not know me or my Father,” Jesus replied. “If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”

Notice the upper case “F” and the lower case “f” in the words Father and father. This is not a typo. The first thing the Church Fathers indoctrinated the masses with was the notion that there is one God in the Nicaean Creed, from the Council at Laodicea.

Jesus also taught that there are two different gods that are involved with Creation, also known as the Big Bang Theory, the implosion and explosion of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy birthing the cosmos and everything in it, including you.

This is also explained in The Secret Book of John, which explains this in greater detail. But first, you must decide who is in charge of your thinking, reasoning, and personal power; you or the church who you have placed over your own authority. Please know they are not telling you everything you need to know. Perhaps they do not know what has been kept from them either, for unholy purposes.

Step 1 is to give yourself permission to get out from under the overburden of guilt and oppression that has been placed upon you, AND TO WHICH YOU HAVE AGREED TO BE UNDER.

Step 2 is to cancel that agreement that you have made with yourself, to be under someone else’s religious thumb. This will be a step you most likely will need to take more than once, since more than once you agreed to go along with things that made no logical sense to you. You assumed they were right. They were not.

Step 3 is to recognize and connect and/or re-connect with your Spirit/Soul aspect of yourself, which is much more than your emotional, mental, and physical Self. You are a Spark of Limitless Living Light of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy. This is what Jesus taught in those years that have been kept from you.

This Limitless Living Light of Eternal Universal Life Energy, which you call “God” of any personification, is ONE Majestic, Immeasurable Purity, is the Father of Jesus, the Christ Energy. It is the generation of human life, the father of human beings which Jesus came to teach you about. This is the reason he was crucified, because once you know this, it removes the blinders with which faith addicts blind you, AND TO WITH WHICH YOU HAVE AGREED.

I have also dealt with this subject in my new book, IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled, UNIVERSAL WISDOM. Check out: LindaHourihan.com.

In their Image and likeness book cover

The baptism Jesus taught, was for you to come into the truth of who and what you truly are, a Spark, or Breath of Wisdom and Love without conditions, animating your Spirit/Soul. It is a rebirth from the understanding with which you were indoctrinated, just like he tried so hard to teach the Hebrew people of his day. Some people could not allow themselves to hear and believe what Jesus taught. The same thing goes on today.

The baptism of Jesus is a reawakening to the Spark of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy that you consciously take on as your own. It involves your free will decision to be open to the radical and innovative knowledge that the Limitless Living Light is also ignited within you by your decision to listen to all that Jesus taught, not just what has been spoon-fed to you by preachers and teachers who continued to manipulate or hide the words of Jesus from his ages 12 to 30 simply because the words of Jesus did not agree with their words.

In their Image and likeness book cover

Baptism has been hijacked by religious controllers who then place upon you, even as an infant in some cases, the indoctrination of many belief systems that teach what Jesus himself did not teach.

You were not born with Original Sin, which was the sin of Sophia spoken of in The Secret Book of John. Again, you need to give yourself permission to read something other than the cult mentality you have been indoctrinated into. You do not need to ask the modern-day cult leader if you should read such things, obviously.

Know that anything that is not LOVE WITHOUT CONDITIONS comes from an unholy source.

Ancient Hidden Information Sheds a New Light on Current Misinformation


My book, NATURE SPIRIT WISDOM, subtitled, LIGHT WITHIN THE ANGEL, MINERAL, PLANT, AND ANIMAL KINGDOMS, offers understanding to the ancient wisdom that was hidden from view for centuries. This is liberating information. The question is, how do you handle new information when it challenges your paradigms?

Do you stay with old and outdated information simply because you are comfortable with it?

Are you ready to hear something else that Jesus taught?

Consider the following from Chapter 7 where the LIBRARY OF KNOWLEDGE says, “I know you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill Me because My word has no place within you. I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.” John 8:37-38[1]

AND

“I tell you, listen and understand. For many, when they hear, will be fainthearted, but you, understand in the way I can tell you. Your father is not my Father, but my Father has become a father to you.” Jesus speaking in The Second Revelation of James 51,14-54,15

It is Jesus speaking to you in both cases.

“Jesus had a secret.

“He told only a few of his apostles because most of the others were not ready, vibrationally speaking, to comprehend his words. Other apostles would scoff, ridicule, or deny his teachings, thinking that they knew better than Jesus did about his dharma on Earth. Don’t you often do the same thing when someone presents information to you for your consideration in opposition to what you believe to be true?

“Still, the apostles did not know what to do when they finally came to grips with the fact that they were also finding themselves at the mercy of the religious and political powers of the day.

“The disciples said to Jesus, “We know that you are going to leave us. Who will be our leader?” Jesus said unto them, “In the place where you are to go, go to James the Just, for whose sake Heaven and Earth came into existence.” The Gospel of Thomas, 12

“Controversy was plaguing the land of Galilee, Judea, Perea, and Samaria.[4] Everyone thought they knew all about their neighbors, Mary and Joseph, the carpenter, and their family. Mary had been dedicated to the school of virgins ever since she was three years old.[5] Joseph had married her under suspicious conditions,[6] fled with his family to Egypt on the seasoned advice of an angel,[7] and finally had settled in Nazareth.[8]

“Jesus left there and went to his hometown, accompanied by his disciples. When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed.[9]

“Where did this man get these things?” they asked. “What’s this wisdom that has been given him? What are these remarkable miracles he is performing?Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.

“Isn’t this always the way that those who think they know you because they grew up with you as a child in the family or neighborhood, don’t really know the person you have become after years of continuing education and experience. There is so much more to you than most people realize, maybe even yourself.

“If you say anything new and against the grain of what others think they know, as in Jesus trying to teach them something new, the indoctrination of what they think they know gets in the way of truth being told. This happened to Jesus in his day. The words of Jesus still are not being heard because of the religious spin being placed upon his words. All the words of Jesus, then and now, still fall on deaf ears.

“The truth of the problem lies between the two quotes for this chapter. The modern bible quote was allowed to stay and was layered with interpretations of religious spin matching their indoctrination, while the second quote was carved out with the precision of the surgeon’s scalpel and secretly buried in desert caves. It was as if burying critical information could dumb down their sheep. It was the sheep in wolf’s clothing at the helm of most religious dens that was and still is the problem.

“But Jesus did confide in his oldest half-brother James, who was also called James the Just.[10] James loved him so much that he wrote down the secret Jesus revealed to him.

“Do you want to know this secret?

“Jesus told his closest followers, including Mary Magdalene, that his Father was ‘not your father,’ but that his Father has ‘become a father to you.’ The Father of Jesus Christ had pity and love for the Eternal Universal Life Force Energy intimately included within humanity because they all had Sparks of Itself.

“The Original Sin was that of the fallen angels and their Nephilim children mating with human women. Humanity had already paid a precious price for being ravaged and raped, which was not humanity’s desire.

“It is not only the DNA of fallen angels and Nephilim that is within the cellular structure of every human being’s DNA. The Light of the original Adam Kadman, the Limitless Living Light of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy was recognizable within the Spirit/Soul of every human being. Humanity is born of both sets of physical and spiritual DNA, which is why we have free will to choose between the two opposite Energies.

“Out of empathy, compassion, and Love, Eternal Universal Life Force Energy extended the olive branch of understanding, through Jesus, to tell you that it is the Limitless Living Light of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy that animates your very Soul.

“Jesus showed great patience in John 8:33 when the Pharisees questioned him about this. They traced their DNA to Abraham and told Jesus they had never been slaves to anyone. They simply could not understand that their original DNA did not start with Abraham, nor did it start with Adam and Eve. Rather, human DNA included links dating back to Yaldabaoth who made the seven major archons, when they created human beings in the image and likeness of the Adam Kadman blueprint.

“When Jesus teaches about human beings being slaves to sin, Jesus is not talking about the innocence of pure humans being the ones who introduced sin, as in going against their human nature. That is the destructive reality of the greatest sexual abuse of our time, the human offspring of fallen angel DNA within all humanity.

“This is what the first quote in the modern bible is all about, that his Father (Jesus’ Father with a capital “F”) is not our father (humanity’s father with a lower case “f”).

“Have you ever wondered about that?

“Jesus points out in John 8:41 that they are doing the works of their father. The debate is about who is whose father, and who are the children of which father/Father.

“The Pharisees ignorantly persist, “We are not illegitimate children.” Not knowing any better because they were indoctrinated, they declared. “Our only Father is God Himself.”

“How do you handle misinformation when you hear it?

“Do you let wrong information, conspiracies and lies persist, or do you correct misinformation when you hear it?

“In the case of Jesus, the conversation kept going back and forth, and when faced with brutal opposition, he stood up for truth regardless of the consequence.

“Jesus then says something very intriguing. He says, “Before Abraham was born, I am!”

“Thinking they were in the right, they picked up stones to throw at him, but he hid himself and left the area.

“The Hebrew leaders in cahoots with Roman government officials, in a maligned union of church and state, could not tolerate the truth Jesus taught. It changed their paradigms too much. If this caught on more than it already had, they would all lose their power, fame, and fortune.

“What does this mean?

“If it weren’t for all those pesky miracles of Jesus healing the sick, and even raising people from death, it would have been so easy to continue to scoff, ridicule, and deny this powerful statement. The only problem with denying that he healed people and raised them from the dead, was the fact that he did all these things.

“You are a created human being with a Limitless Living Soul. This is your Light, the Light of the Holy Spirit dwelling within you. This is also known as the female aspect (even if you identify as any gender) of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy within you: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control, modesty, chastity, and goodness.

“Jesus tried to teach this in Luke 17:20-21, that the Kingdom of God is within you. The Pharisees did not take too kindly to this information when Jesus told them this. This was a hard concept to grasp because of all the indoctrination that had already taken place. No one wanted to believe that they had been indoctrinated. That’s how indoctrination works.

“Now you know this wonderful and powerful secret, that the healing power of Limitless Living Light is your Unending Battery Pack, generating all the gifts of wisdom, knowledge, counsel, fortitude, understanding, piety, and the desire to lovingly work with Eternal Universal Life Force Energy as opposed to destroying all the good you have by working against the very Energy which is fueling your eternal Soul.

“Take a good look at the world today, in every country, and you can see which strands of DNA are shining more brightly. Humanity used to have twelve active strands of DNA at true human inception. Today humanity only has two DNA strands that are active, and the rest they call junk DNA, because our DNA got messed with, as Jesus tried so hard to explain to those who really did not want to hear or know anything different from what they were previously taught.

“It is metaphysical knowledge that Jesus is now known as Sananda in the realm beyond this one. Some people love New Age Enlightenment shining this Light through the eons of time, while indoctrinated others have a difficult time grasping that which they have no basis on which to understand. Important information was hidden from them, which is not their fault. It is humanity’s fault if humanity chooses ignorance now.

“Remember, apocryphal means that the knowledge was hidden, not anti-Christ, nor anti-Jesus.

“The ‘return’ of Jesus Christ is the awakening of Christ Consciousness on Earth. You might think of this of this as the Second Coming of the Christ Energy on Earth. However, much of Christianity is still in the sandbox of childhood fears, conspiracies, if not outright lies.

“Are you loving everyone the way you wish to be loved?

“Are you forgiving everyone the way you wish to be forgiven?

“Do you treat all others the way you wish to be treated?

“This ‘Second Coming of Christ’ will radiate Eternal Universal Life Force Energy also in the familiar former Energies you might know as Mother Mary, Quan Yin, Mary Magdalene. Or you might know them as saints or ascended masters, who were people who already made their ascension just as you will when you have transmuted negative Energies into positive Limitless Living Loving Light.”

***

This book is the third in the trilogy that won the 2024 International Impact Book Awards. The second book is MY RED BAG OF COURAGE, subtitled, SURVIVAL WISDOM. The first book, IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS, subtitled, UNIVERSAL WISDOM, is currently in its Second Printing with Book Publisher USA. Check out: https://lindahourihanhhcp.com.

[1] New International Version

[2] IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENES, subtitled, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness… Genesis 1:26.”

[3] Sananda – Sananda

[4] New Testament places associated with Jesus – Wikipedia

[5] The Entry of the Most Holy Mother of God into the Temple – Orthodox Church in America (oca.org)

[6] Matthew 1:18 This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged in marriage to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit. (biblehub.com)

[7] The Bible Journey | The holy family flee to Egypt

[8] The Holy Family’s Arrival in Nazareth | Franciscan Media

[9] Mark 6:1-3, NIV

[10] James, brother of Jesus – Wikipedia

Jesus Teaching on the Mount Of Olives in John 8


Jesus teaches who he is and who we are on the Mount of Olives. The first 12 verses in John 8 are thought to be added later to make a point, not as accurate history. Jesus quoted from Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah, more than 100 times in the New Testament. The following verses are from the Gospel of John, chapter 8.

12  When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

This echos Jesus’ statement in Luke 17:20-21.

13 The Pharisees challenged him, “Here you are, appearing as your own witness; your testimony is not valid.”

14 Jesus answered, “Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid, for I know where I came from and where I am going. But you have no idea where I come from or where I am going. 15 You judge by human standards; I pass judgment on no one. 16 But if I do judge, my decisions are true, because I am not alone. I stand with the Father, who sent me. 17 In your own Law it is written that the testimony of two witnesses is true. 18 I am one who testifies for myself; my other witness is the Father, who sent me.”

19 Then they asked him, “Where is your father?”

“You do not know me or my Father,” Jesus replied. “If you knew me, you would know my Father also.” 20 He spoke these words while teaching in the temple courts near the place where the offerings were put. Yet no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come.

21 Once more Jesus said to them, “I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come.”

The sin Jesus is speaking of is not recognizing the Christ in Himself. He also taught that this Light of the Christ is in each one of us, as he did in Luke 17:20-21. It is the Universal Life of our Soul being animated by the finger and breath of God for which Jesus lived and died. This is the same teaching that Jesus is reaching all hearts open to Universal Love, Universal Life, and Universal Order, in today’s teaching about the I AM Presence within each one of us.

Some people are quick to point out that murderers, thieves, liars, et cetera, are not of the “good seed” spoken about by Jesus. They say they are pure evil or possessed. This is an incorrect understanding. That’s the same line of thinking why the people in Jesus’ day thought Jesus ought not get together with the tax collector Matthew, prostitutes, and those thought to be second-class citizens. Jesus spent his life trying to get our thinking on the right track. Even beloved Moses killed a man and still became a perfect example of how to overcome evil with good. Yet some of us are still derailed.

As mentioned in the cutline beneath the lead picture above, while Jesus did quote from Enoch, both Jesus and Enoch knew the cause of evil on Earth.

“Evil also lives inside of the common man; set free when pride kills reason and eats integrity whole. There is evil that entraps us and evil that tugs from within. But neither have control until we choose to relent. … When outcome is not considered, empathy abandoned, or compassion dismissed, evil has come of age.” – The Book of Enoch, The Omega.

22 This made the Jews ask, “Will he kill himself? Is that why he says, ‘Where I go, you cannot come’?”

23 But he continued, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. 24 I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am he, you will indeed die in your sins.”

Jesus is teaching that to deny the Life of Christ, which is beyond what most religions have hijacked for thousands of years, is different from the human spin interjected into the various belief systems.

You and I have the choice each and every day to awaken to this Christ Light, Christ Love, and Christ Order within us. We also have the free will to live in self-sabotage, self-deception, and self-denial of who and what we truly are. You and I are the Temple of God living here and now on Earth.

25 “Who are you?” they asked.

“Just what I have been telling you from the beginning,” Jesus replied. 26 “I have much to say in judgment of you. But he who sent me is trustworthy, and what I have heard from him I tell the world.”

27 They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father. 28 So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up[a] the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he and that I do nothing on my own but speak just what the Father has taught me. 29 The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him.” 30 Even as he spoke, many believed in him.

Dispute Over Whose Children Jesus’ Opponents Are

31 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. 32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

33 They answered him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?”

34 Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. 35 Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. 36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. 37 I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. Yet you are looking for a way to kill me, because you have no room for my word. 38 I am telling you what I have seen in the Father’s presence, and you are doing what you have heard from your father.[b]”

39 “Abraham is our father,” they answered.

“If you were Abraham’s children,” said Jesus, “then you would[c] do what Abraham did. 40 As it is, you are looking for a way to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do such things. 41 You are doing the works of your own father.”

“We are not illegitimate children,” they protested. “The only Father we have is God himself.”

42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God sent me. 43 Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. 44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. 45 Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me! 46 Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me? 47 Whoever belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”

This “belonging to God” is the decision you and I make each and every minute of every day. All humanity is made of the same stuff of the Earth. Check out what is in the vitamins you take each day to replenish ourselves. When we run out of energy, it is time to replenish ourselves with the stuff of the Earth.

This “belonging to God” is taking a good look at our choices of deciding to do evil over good, or good over evil. We get opportunities to do the better thing that saves the most life, to promote healing, and build up one another as well as the Earth. We can also tear down, destroy reputations, attack countries, and the like.

Just know the evil that has to be overcome starts within you and me before it extends out into our neighborhoods, states, and countries. It all starts in the thinking process. Let us take a moment to heal our thoughts, minds, and voices. That is where all healing begins.

Namaste