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What Most Preachers Don't Tell Us About The Holy Spirit

Having knew the thought of the Pharisees, Jesus seized the opportunity to give extra caution to them, and of course to us all, not to think the Spirit of God was like him.  The statement Jesus made on that day brought us to a realization that Holy Spirit is quite different — in fact, "far far" different — from God the Father and God the Son. If you really know God the Father and God the Son quite well, and you relate to Holy Spirit the same way you relate to them, in no time, you will realize you've beaten more than you can chew. From this expository and thought-provoking post, you will learn a lot of things that most Bible preachers don't tell us — or forget to tell us — about the 3rd triune God, Holy Spirit. First, let me show you something fascinating in the Bible. Judges 9:7-15 7 Now when they told Jotham, he went and stood on top of Mount Gerizim, and lifted his voice and cried out. And he said to them: “Listen to me, you men of Shechem, That God may listen to yo...
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Check Out The People Who Wanted To Kill Jesus Before Judas Betrayed Him.



 Ever before Judas thought of betraying his master, people from Nazareth had the intention of killing him. They were angry when Jesus cited the story of Sarepta and Naaman in Luke 4:24-30.

"Then He said,'Assuredly, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own country.


But I tell you truly, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a great famine throughout all the land;

but to none of them was Elijah sent except to Zarephath,[m] in the region of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.'

So all those in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,
and rose up and thrust Him out of the city; 
and they led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw Him down over the cliff.

Then passing through the midst of them, He went His way."

In other words, his own people — from the same city, Nazareth — planned to kill him. Jesus, himself, knew a prophet could not be honored in his hometown because they knew almost everything about his upbringing. How he was given birth to in a Manger and raised by Mary who was engaged with Joseph.


The change in his life baffled them as they knew he was a born to a carpenter. More so, he was also a carpenter. Where then did he get all his wisdom? Even the words of his mouth were too weighty to be spoken by someone like him, so they thought.

The closeness of people to a prophet in their town devalues the power of God in his life.

Referring to Luke 4:24-30, he went to the synagogue to read the scripture. He was of the habit of doing such anytime he entered any city. On that fateful day, according to the aforementioned Bible verses, he read the book of Isaiah 61, which reveals his real identity as the savior of the world.

The Nazarenes heard and were astonished. Thereafter, Jesus revealed to them that they wouldn’t accept him because he emanated from the same town as them.

To buttress his point, he cited the story of the widow in Zarephath. The widow who had nothing left in the house. In fact, she wanted to prepare her last meal and die before Elijah was sent to her.

The first story didn’t annoy the Nazarenes until the Son of God mentioned Naaman who was healed by Elisha in 2 Kings 5 

(And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored to you, and you shall be clean.”... So he went down and dipped seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.") 

They felt excluded because he mentioned how God saved two gentiles without considering a jew.

Having so much indignation against the gentiles, they took the Son of God to the brow of the hill of their city, Nazareth, so as to cast him down.


Unfortunately for them, he escaped by the power of God. Miraculously, he left their midst without getting hurt.


The incident had taken place ever before he called the first three disciples according to the gospel of Luke (he called Simon, James and John in Luke chapter 5). In other words, he had not called Judas before people made attempt of killing him.


He could not be killed as it was not yet time for him to save the world from their sins. Of course, he came to die, but he couldn’t give up the ghost until the work of his father was finished. No wonder he said in John 19:30 that it’s finished.


Considering all Jesus suffered before the time of his crucifixion, he ought to have died. However, he couldn’t not die because no man had the power to take or give life except God. On the cross, he willingly gave up his life.


In conclusion, Judas was not the first person who sought ways of eliminating Jesus. Painfully, all the other people who planned to kill him failed, but Judas — the treasurer of Jesus — was successful in eliminating him. Thereby, confirming the words of the elders that the closest person to someone could be one’s enemy. 


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