Jesus: I have a habit of praying in solitude, usually, at early next morning. Then I return and begin teaching.
It was like just another normal day, then, some religious group brought a lady caught with someone she wasn’t married to. They stood her up front and said to me,
THE GROUP: Professor, this woman was caught in the act of extramarital relationship. Now our Bible specifically condemns such an act. What do you say about it?
JESUS (V.O.): I looked down and wrote with my finger on the floor. And when they kept on asking me, I glanced up and said,
JESUS : Okay, if anyone of you is without sin, why don’t you come forward?
JESUS (V.O.): I looked down again and kept writing something. They got the point and, beginning with the elders, they left me alone. Then I was left with the lady standing in front of me. I looked up.
Jesus: Where did they all go, ma’am? Didn’t anybody condemn you?
THE WOMAN: No, sir.
JESUS : Well, I don’t condemn you. Go along now, and live a pure life.
Narrator: Jesus is preaching at a church.
JESUS : I am the light of the world. He who lets me lead him will have life’s light.
THE PEOPLE : Now you’re blowing your own horn. What you’re saying just isn’t so.
Jesus: All right, even if I am blowing my own horn, I’m telling the truth, because I know where I came from and where I’m going.
You measure by human standards; I don’t measure anybody. But even if I should measure a man, I would do so honestly, because I would do it with the One who sent me. Even in your Bible it says that the evidence of two witnesses is reliable. Now, I’m testifying in my own behalf, and my Father who sent me is also testifying for me. Hah!
THE PEOPLE : Where is your father?
Jesus: You don’t understand me, and you don’t understand my Father. If you had understood me, you would have understood my Father.
I’m leaving and you’ll look for me. But you can’t come where I’m going.
THE PEOPLE : Do you think he’s considering suicide?
Jesus: I am talking in the divine point of view. I am belonging to the divine order. If you wake up to who I am, you will join too.
THE PEOPLE : Who are you?
Jesus: I’ve been telling you all along.
My Father who sent me is for real. I am simply repeating in the world what I’ve heard.
When you respect me, then you will know who I am. I speak only the things my Father taught me. And he who sent me backs me up, because I am always engaged in the things he wants.
JESUS (V.O.): These words convinced many to come over to me. So I said to them
JESUS : If y’all stick by what I’ve said, you are honest followers of mine. You’ll understand the truth, and the truth will set you free.
THE PEOPLE: “Set us free?” But we are Americans. We are not in bondage to anyone. Why are you telling us like that?
Jesus: Everyone who is addicted to sin is sin’s slave. Now the slave never lives in the house of free. The free-born son lives there. So, if the Son set you free, you are genuinely free. I know that you are good Americans but for some of you my ideas don’t appeal to you. I’m preaching what I’ve actually seen from the Father; but you, you’re practicing what you’ve heard from your father."
THE PEOPLE: Our fathers are all good men!
Jesus: If indeed you are sons of the good man, you would act accordingly. As you know some of you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I got from the Father. A good man would never do that.
THE PEOPLE : …What we mean is that our God is our Father…
Jesus: If God were truly your Father, you would love me, for God sent me and that’s why I’m here. I have come simply because God sent me. I have been telling the truth all the time. Can any of you prove me guilty of any wrongdoing? No? Okay, then why don’t you believe me?
I recommend you to be rooted in God! When you are rooted in God, you pay attention to what God says and understand.
I’m not concerned about making a name for myself. I do respect my Father. So, I tell you for a fact that if you latch onto my idea, you will surely be immortal.
THE PEOPLE : (they shouted) Now we got you. Look, everybody good or bad passed away. And now here you claim, you can make us immortal? What on earth do you make of yourself?"
Jesus: If I okay myself, my okay is no good. The one who okays me is my Father, who you claim is your God. But you have no knowledge of him. I do, though. If I said I didn’t, I’d only be a liar like you. I truly do know God and I carry out the very idea of God.
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