Blake Robert Templeton reflects on John 8:49-50, arguing that Jesus spoke only from God's command. He suggests believers should be similarly sourced by heaven, letting their thoughts, feelings, and words come directly from God rather than battling competing influences.
In John 8:49 and 50, so powerful. It says, for I have not spoken on my authority. The Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment. The Father himself has given me a commandment, what to say and what to speak. The Father sourced from heaven has commanded me what to say and what to speak. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me. What if that's what Jesus was wanting to restore? What if he was wanting you to be so sourced by heaven that what you thought, what you felt, and what you spoke was literally from him? And what if that could be natural on autopilot because you're not having to fight the other source because you're not connected to it anymore?
