John 8:21-30 21 Once more Jesus said to them, “I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come.” 22 This made the Jews ask, “Will he kill himself? Is that why he says, ‘Where I go, you cannot come’?” 23 But he continued, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. 24 I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am he, you will indeed die in your sins.” 25 “Who are you?” they asked. “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning,” Jesus replied. 26 “I have much to say in judgment of you. But he who sent me is trustworthy, and what I have heard from him I tell the world.” 27 They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father. 28 So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he and that I do nothing on my own but speak just what the Father has taught me. 29 The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him.” 30 Even as he spoke, many believed in him.
Here the Lord Jesus said to the Jews, “I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come.”
The Lord Jesus prophesied that he would leave the world, go to heaven, go to the paradise. That is he would die on the cross, ressucrected three days later, then went to heaven. They could not find him, they would die in their sin, and they would not be able to go where he went.
Jesus went on to say “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.”
The Lord Jesus came from heaven. He does not belong to this world. He belongs to heaven and would return to heaven. They are of this world, if they did not believe that he was the Christ, and rejected him as the Christ, they would die in their sins.
The Lord Jesus said, “But he who sent me is trustworthy, and what I have heard from him I tell the world.”
God the Father sent the Lord Jesus into the world. The Lord Jesus told the world what he heard from the Father. The Father was with him. He did what the Father wanted him to do, he always did what pleased God the Father.
The Lord Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he,”
To lift up the Son of Man is to lift him up on the cross, that is, he would be crucified on the cross. The Lord Jesus said these words, and many people believed in him. When he was crucified on the cross and resurrected three days later, many people knew that he was the Christ, the Savior.
I hope more people will believe that he is the Christ, come to him, to receive salvation, and walk on the path to the kingdom of heaven.
May God bless you and your family.
