Daily Devotional for Saturday, April 18

The Hostility Against Jesus

“And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken,” Luke 18:34.

From 1956 to 1978, a long-running game show called “To Tell The Truth” was aired nationally. There were always three people, all of whom claimed to be the same person who was questioned by a panel of four celebrities. One of them was the real person, while the other two were just impostors. The panelists would take turns questioning the contestants about their subject and then try to guess which of the three people was the real person.

The apostles were blind to the truth because they had false notions of who the Messiah would be and what he would do. They may have listened to false teachers who only spoke the parts of the prophets that they wanted to hear. They may have listened to people of their day to determine what they thought they knew about the Messiah. They should have read or listened to all of what the prophets had said. Today, many are worshiping a false Jesus based on false notions that our media, false teachers and the world want us to believe. Christians should base all their notions and beliefs about Jesus on the Scriptures. Too many churches are lifting up a Jesus of their own making and are not lifting up the real Jesus. There is a lot of hostility to the real Jesus in our culture today.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

If you are learning more about Jesus from social media, secular college classes, popular books, movies, television series and documentaries you may need to get into God’s Word an reevaluate your notions.

Jonathon D. Smith