This whole discussion Jesus is having in this chapter starting around John 8:34 is like the same discussions we try to have with others to awaken them so they can see. But you’ll see why they can’t see is because they are servants of sin (or have been their whole life and set in shackles of a closed mind) and don’t comprehend what sin is so they have continually chose to be and remain to be led by the distractions of it. If you start your life out and live by it early on, it sets the pattern for the rest of your life through all the younger years of involvement with it. Then the end result understanding you rest on (which is wrong and wrongfully obtained by the sin that raised you because of our involvement in it the whole time) becomes the understanding you lean on wrongfully till you die physically. This is exactly what we are witnessing in all those around us just like Jesus did in this example:
34Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. 35And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: [but] the Son abideth ever. 36If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. 37I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you. 38I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
39They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham’s children, ye would do the works of Abraham. 40But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham. 41Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, [even] God.
42Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. 43Why do ye not understand my speech? [even] because ye cannot hear my word. 44Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode {5758} not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. 45And because I tell [you] the truth, ye believe me not. 46Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? 47He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear [them] not, because ye are not of God.
48Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil? 49Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me. 50And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth. 51Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death. 52Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death. 53Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself? 54Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God: 55Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying. 56Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw [it], and was glad. 57Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? 58Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. 59Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
You have to understand that “sin” the very thing that has distracted you and raised you you entire life and that you’ve never fully even understood what sin is. The proof of this entire post and statement is found in the word sin/hamartano. do you really think all the distractions of the world you were involved in throughout you whole life were of pistis? You really need to understand what sin is! to simplify it for you, Every decision (action) done apart from faith (4102 /pístis) is sin.
You cannot get much more clear than that and now it should cause you to want to go and fully understand what pistis/faith really is. This is the type of work you should have been doing your entire life! The work of our FATHER, not man….
Our daily shackled idea and use of the word faith and sin, plays a huge role in our limiting our FATHER. All the importance of faith being made obvious Hebrews 11 and not in the way we take faith at face value. Its more like the way we use the word “faith” we really should have used the word “believe” instead because there is a separation and certain value attained by comprehending this. Its like two different functions of the body. When people understand how it works, your involvement in it (through free will) causes him to to give more measures of it to us through our actions (works) which then furthers our beliefs in him and all he reveals to us.
Sin does the exact opposite and side tracks us to think we are supposed to continually be involved in all the worldly distractions/traps it uses as bait through out our whole life.
The cause and effect it is having on man by being misinformed is horrendous and all a tactic of sin causing us to assume we know so we really will never know. Right back to the leaning on our own understanding (Proverbs 3:5) rather than achieving his through pistis.
Upheaval of sanity
The worlds sanity is largely at stake
All that they know and all that they think, will soon quake
On borrowed time of a deceptive master
Little do they know, they’re headed for disaster
The upheaval of sanity they’ve always known
Can only be done, when pistis shown
To till the soil of their mind
Planting new seeds, so light they will find
When one thing is really another and its not what you think
Your whole life you’ve been lied to and all you could do is drink
Like a pawn on a board moved into position
By the true deceptive master, the opposition
Played like a tune, that mind of yours
Directing its course, through all unlocked doors
But as you step in them, they become locked
Then anything that is truth, soon becomes mocked
You’ve heard it before, keep an open mind
But the deceiver with its grips, renders you blind
Locked behind many doors of what you consider real
All the lies of deception, have their own seal
Trap after trap, bait after bait and you on a hook
All by every word you have mistook
Transformed by one word, that word is sin
The perception of the dead, right where we begin
Sure you may have got a glimpse that made you believe
But you still couldn’t see, the way this master would deceive
Because daily involvement of taking the bait
Is what has served you your sanity, on a silver plate
Original Word: αὐτόματος, η, ον
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: automatos
Phonetic Spelling: (ow-tom’-at-os)
Definition: acting of one’s own will, of its own accord
Usage: of its own accord.