Jesus doesn’t always meet our expectations—not because He failed, but because we had the wrong ideas. And in John 7, we see that many people were disappointed in Jesus. He didn’t operate on their timetables, they thought He hadn’t proven Himself, and He seemed like an unlikely Messiah. So in today’s Bible study, we’ll see what happened here and how we often have the wrong ideas about what Jesus should do.

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0:00 Introduction 

1:10 Jesus doesn’t always meet our expectations.
4:42 Jesus hadn’t proven himself how they thought he should.
10:04 Jesus didn’t operate on their timetables.
13:52 Jesus’ authority wasn’t recognized by them.
19:09 Jesus called out their hypocrisy.
25:19 Jesus didn’t arrive how they thought the Messiah should.
28:41 The people in John 7 who believed in Jesus as the Christ
30:45 Summary & practical takeaways from this story

Bible passages in this episode:

John 7:1-5, John 5:17-18, John 7:2-9, Psalm 37:5, Psalm 37:7, Psalm 46:10, John 7:10-15, John 1:45-46, John 7:16-23, Matthew 7:1-5, John 7:24, John 7:25-31

All verses are in the King James Version (KJV).

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