Today we finish off chapter 8 in the Gospel of John and are met with a  couple of hard, but simple truths revealed by Jesus which were not  understood, nor received by the Jews He was speaking to, and possibly by  those hearing today. For instance, Jesus taught that if we "Keep" His  word we would never taste of death. The Jews couldn't grasp this because  they firmly believed Abraham and the prophets were dead. What they did  not understand was the fact that the Spirit of man is eternal and will  either be eternally living with the Father (because of the work of the  Son), or will be eternally separated from God (because of the rejection  of Jesus). Another hang up they had was when Jesus told them "Abraham  rejoiced to see my day, and in fact did see me." They completely flipped  their lids on this one being as Jesus was in His thirties! Yet, they  did not realize Abraham's understanding of the gift of Isaac, and they  could not comprehend that this was all because of Jesus in the first  place as He said, "Before Abraham was, I am." This and much, much more  today with Pastor J!!!