Hello, my friends. Welcome back to the morning mindset. If you're new with us today, I want

to welcome you. This is potentially a providential moment for you. Because today we are facing

one of the biggest questions that every human being on the planet needs to face. And that's

the question of who is Jesus. Maybe you've been wondering that. Maybe you've been curious

about them all your life, but you've never really known how to dig into the reality of who

Jesus is. Well, today we are going to go there. We're looking at John chapter 10 verses 19 and 20.

John 10, 19 and 20. Let's read it together. There was again a division among the Jews because of

these words. Many of them said, he has a demon and is insane. Why listen to him? Others said,

these are not the words of one who is oppressed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?

Now, friends, what we have here is a debate, kind of an internal argument that's going on between

the members of the Jewish leading class at the time. They were spiritual leaders, Pharisees,

Sadducees, the high priests. They were all, at this point, divided about who Jesus was.

Because Israel had been hoping for its Messiah for hundreds of years,

had been waiting on him to arrive, and there had been many false Messiah's as well.

So these religious leaders became quite skeptical and also quite protective of the flock

of Israel. They did not want people being led astray by some fake Messiah.

And we've got to hand it to them. That's a diligent attitude. That is a good thing for them to be

doing. But when Jesus came on the scene, he was different than those other so-called Messiah's.

He was the real deal, or at least that's what he claimed. And these religious leaders are

debating amongst themselves, trying to figure it out. Now, some of them, who for whatever reason

are feeling opposed to Jesus at the moment, claim he's demon possessed, and he's insane.

They shouldn't be listening to him. Now, why would they go all the way to the extreme of him

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