Welcome to Deepen with Pastor Jobi Martin.

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Hey, church family.

Welcome back to the Deep and Devo.

We're following up on John chapter 7, which there was a lot going on in John chapter 7.

And one of the things that struck me is that there's all these different groups of people with different opinions about Jesus.

It says his brothers needed more signs because they didn't yet believe in him.

So there's a group.

There's his followers that believe in him.

But they're kind of, they want him to go to Jerusalem.

And he has this weird dialogue where he's like, no, I'm not going.

But then he does show up.

There are religious leaders, and they want him to be arrested, and a part of it is because

they think he's blaspheming, but I think a big part of it is there's this power shift that's

happening.

Because over and over now, in the Gospel of John, the Bible says that many, after they heard Jesus,

they believed.

And so the power brokers, the Pharisees and

Sadducees and the religious leaders, they see people begin to go to Jesus. And unlike what John

the Baptist did when he said, he must increase, I must decrease. They said, no, no, no, no,

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