Posts Tagged ‘Abraham as our father’

By Edward O’Hara In John 8 Jesus tells the Pharisees who were the religious leaders of that day, “I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.” To which they answered Jesus saying “We have Abraham as our father”. And Jesus answered them saying, “If ye were Abraham’s children, ye would do the works of Abraham.” Now an important question to ask here is, to what works was Jesus referring? Works of the law which are the works of the flesh? Or the work of believing in Him that just 2 chapters earlier when teaching these same people Jesus told them they must do the work of God?  This was also what Jesus was referring to in John 8 when He again said “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and…