Jesus Rejects Brother’s Advice Series

6 Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.

His brothers are advising Jesus out of their unbelief, but Jesus does not take their advice. He is moving according to a schedule, but it is His Father’s schedule. He knew that if He would go to the feast, the Jews would kill Him, and that time had not yet come. He is not following the wisdom of the world, nor did He ever appeal to his own mind—it isn’t that He doesn’t think it is the right time to go. He is on a definite schedule from the Father; He is doing the Father’s will.

Notice the little word yet in “My time is not yet come.” Jesus did not say He would not go down to the feast, but He was not going down with them publicly to win public favor by doing something spectacular, or whatever they wanted Him to do. He would go at His Father’s appointed time and in His Father’s way.

7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

8 Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come.

9 When he had said these words unto them, he abode still in Galilee.

Christ’s time to go to Jerusalem and be crucified had not yet become full. He had no desire to gain popularity and influence people with His works.

The world is hostile to Christ. The reason is that our Lord Jesus Christ is the Light of the World. He turns on the light, and that light reveals everything that is wrong; it reveals sin. He condemns sin. That is the reason He is hated even today. He condemns sin by His very presence, by His very life. This raises hostility in man, because the heart of man is evil. Christ went to the Cross because He loved the human family. Redeeming love is what has broken the heart of hostile man.

We see this so clearly in the life of Saul of Tarsus. He was breathing out threatenings. He hated the Lord Jesus and anyone who followed Him. But when he came to know the Lord Jesus as his Savior, it broke his heart, and he could say, “He loved me, and gave himself for me” (Gal. 3:20).

6/12/12 Something caught my eye this morning as I watched the news on my laptop. There was a "Gay celebration," and I believe it was in Washington DC. A brave pastor was preaching to them about what the Bible says about Homosexuality; the gays shoved him, cursed him and God, and acted out various homosexual acts. It was disgusting, but I believe that Jesus was sometimes treated as poorly. He was taunted by the Pharisees, Sadducees, Satan, demons, and the people, but He never held back on doing His father's will. Praise His wonderful name!!!