This morning text is from the Gospel of John Chapter 7.

I invite you to follow along in your Bibles, John 7 verses 1 through 18.

After this, Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea because the Jews sought to kill him.

Now the Jews feast of Tabernacles was at hand. So his brother said to him, leave here and go to Judea that your disciples may see the works you are doing.

For no man works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world,

for even his brothers do not believe in him.

Jesus said to them, my time has not yet come, but your time is always here. The world cannot hate you, but

it hates me because I testify of it that its works are evil. Go to the feast yourselves.

I am not going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come.

So saying he remained in Galilee.

But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not

publicly but in private. The Jews were looking for him at the feast and saying,

where is he? And there was much muttering about him among the people.

While some said he is a good man, others said no he is leading the people astray.

Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him.

About the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and taught. The Jew is marveled at

it saying,

how is it that this man has learning when he has never studied?

So Jesus answered them,

My teaching is not mine, but him who sent me. If any man's will is to do his will, he shall know whether

the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority. He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory, but he who seeks

the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.

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