Also Going Back?

Focus: John 6:66 - KJV

66. From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

John 6:66-71

The word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword. Yet, because it is true, it is bitter to many of its hearers. By this, many hearers are not drawn to want to listen to the truth-sayer any more. They are comfortable in their old ways that delivers them not from their bondages but rather keeps them perpetually yoked to the enemy. The thoughts and intents of their hearts are not ordinarily godly to make them want to continue to hear the truth about their wicked ways and to forsake it. Yet, the coming of Christ is to redirect man from the path which appears to lead to God but actually ends in destruction. Only those who find and stay with the truth shall be saved.

Being the Truth, Christ was a truth speaker without minding how His listeners took it. He would later defer some teachings knowing that the generation of the time were unable to process it. Even that which He expected them to process, many people who heard Him were unable to live by it and therefore, they had to leave Him to go back to what they were used to which was the ways of the fathers as set forth in the Torah, which way Christ was given to correct and confirm. The same situation subsists even today. Many do like to be called Christians but have since gone back from Christ because they find His words and tenets too harsh to stick with. Even amongst the twelve that He had chosen, there was one who was not completely cut off from the old order, which accounted for his betrayal of Christ.

The Lord is asking us to either stick with the tenets of Christ or hang on to what we had believed by just going back from Him. The betrayal coming out of the fold of the chosen is becoming disheartening. Many claim they are of Christ yet they are not different from Judaists. The ways of the Judaists are directly opposed to that of Christ. Hence, it is like operating in the position of Judas the betrayer to continue to follow when we are really not in agreement with Him. Let us therefore, make up our minds as to what we want done, whether to go back from following Him, or to stay on with Him like the eleven did. The reward of betrayal is always devastating. Ask Judas Iscariot.

Please pray:

Father, I thank you for your living word. The grace to stay in your word to the end, and not to deviate from it, please release upon me, in Jesus’ name. Let nothing separate me from the love of Christ for the rest of my life, in Jesus’ name. As I have laid my hands on the plough, please do not let me ever turn back, in Jesus’ name. Every voice of deception seeking to cause me to draw back, please silence them now, in Jesus’ name. Do let many people come to the knowledge of your Lordship through me in Jesus’ name.

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