The sermon text for tonight is

The sermon text for tonight is found in John 7 25 through 39.

John 725 through 39. John 7, 25 through 39.

If you don't have a Bible, if you look in the pew right in front of you, right underneath,

there should be a pew Bible, you can use that and it's on page 893 in that pew Bible.

Again it's John 7, 25 through 39, it's on page 893 in the Pugh Bible. Look with me. Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said,

is not this the man whom they seek to kill?

And here he is, speaking openly, and they say nothing to him.

Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Christ?

But we know where this man comes from and when the Christ appears, no one will know where he comes from.

So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, you know me and you know where I come from? But I have not come of my own accord. He who

sent me is true and him you do not know. I know him for I come from him and he sent me. So they were seeking to arrest him but no one laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come.

Yet many of the people believed in him, they said,

when the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man

has done? The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the

chief priests and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

Jesus then said, I will be with you a little longer and then I'm going to him who

sent me. You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you

cannot come. The Jew said to one another where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? Does he intend to go to

the dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks? What does he mean by

saying you will seek me and you will not find me and where I am you cannot come.

On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out,

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