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INTRO
If you remember last week, we came to a familiar story in the Bible...
One that we’ve all heard before - the story of the Woman Caught in Adultery, brought before Jesus.
And what we learned right off the bat was that this story is not believed to be original to John, the author of this gospel.
This story is not found in the earliest manuscripts, but instead found in later ones...
AND SO we approached the text last week with that in mind.
We didn’t BASE any theology on the story alone…INSTEAD we saw that the story simply highlighted TRUTH found throughout the Bible...
Truth about forgiveness...
…Christ as judge
…and truth about Obedience flowing from a Foundation of Grace...
With that said - I do have a regret from last weeks sermon.
I wish that I had held off on walking thru that story last week...
and maybe even waited till the end of chapter 8.
As we talked about last week, the story of the Adulterous Woman BROKE UP the flow of the text...
And we’ll see that this week.
This week - Our context is going to place us BACK AT the Feast of Tabernacles...
…in the temple, with Jesus teaching the Jews.
So let’s get to it.
BODY
The first thing we should notice here is found actually in this last verse....v20.
Where did Jesus speak these words?
He was in the TREASURY
OK - so let’s fill in some gaps here with info about the TREASURY...
SLIDE: Pic of Temple
One of the things that people did when they came to the temple was - Give Money
The treasury would have been located in the Temple - in what was called - The Court of Women...
SIZE: Football Field
...Women couldn't enter into the next inner court beyond the court of women...
...so that was where the Giving took place.
they wanted both men and women to be able to give
And around the porch of the court of women there were 13 places to give money...
And every one of them would have been in use due to the feast - 10's of thousands of people would have been there..
During the feast of tabernacles, if you remember, they performed 3 rites...
One pertaining to water, which we've talked about...
One pertaining to the RISING SUN
And one pertaining to light...
What we've seen so far from Jesus Christ...
is that He takes all of what we know about life in this world...and
He points it ALL to HIMSELF!\
With the water ritual - He stood up and declared to the people of Israel - I am the Fountain of Living Water...Come to me and never thirst
Earlier in John - with the reference to the Manna in the wilderness - He declared - I am the BREAD of Life...
And now in our text today - He declares - in the Treasury....I am the light of the world!
During the feast of Tabernacles, huge candelabras were set up all throughout the court of women...Remember - this court is about the size of a football field.
And so every night of this feast, they would go all throughout the court, and light these candelabras.
And they would burn all night...
What did this represent?
Remember what the feast of tabernacles commemorated?
The wandering in the wilderness
What do we know about the wandering?
So God led the people through the wilderness using LIGHT...And the way the people commemorated that was to LIGHT these huge candelabras every night of the feast...
And at some point during the feast....
One night - maybe right after they lit up the court of women...
OR
One morning - maybe right after they put them all out...
At some point - Jesus stands up and says...
And the leaders knew what He meant...
SLIDE: Jesus Christ: The Light to Be Followed
Jesus Christ
Jesus isn't merely a light to be looked at...
He didn't say - I am "A" light in the world...
He said - I am THE light of the world..."WHOEVER FOLLOWS Me will not walk in darkness"!
What do we know about light...?
it - DISPELS darkness!
Jesus says - I will DISPEL the darkness of:
ignorance: (without Christ, we're fools) - (If you give up Jesus intellectually, you have no justification for math, science, laws of logic, none of it)
sin: (without Christ, we're guilty) - (if you REJECT Jesus Christ, you embrace guilt before God)
sadness / sorrow (without Christ, we're hopeless) - (if you REJECT Jesus Christ, you embrace hopelessness)
death (without Christ, we're dead) - (If you REJECT Jesus Christ, you embrace death and destruction)
Jesus says - don't just KNOW who I am...FOLLOW ME...
Follow Me and I'll lead you to eternal life...
but what does it mean to follow?
Let’s actually go back and LOOK BACK to what the Feast of Tabernacles was commemorating...
It was celebrating God’s PROVISION in the wandering...
So let’s FOCUS in on that…to see what it means to - FOLLOW CHRIST
What we need to see from these passages is that the Israelites were in complete submission to the guidance of the cloud (God).
Where it went, they went.
Where it stayed, they stayed.
If you want to live a life that is glorifying to God,
• then He MUST BE in His proper place!
• Out front…leading you.
• BUT we fight that don’t we?
• Oh we might be fine with Him steering as long as things are GREAT!
(Job is good, finances, relationships are great)
• BUT THEN...
• Your seemingly steady job GOES SOUTH...
• AND your finances go down with the ship...
• Maybe a relationship takes a bad turn...
• Then what?
• Don't we so often want to take control and get our lives back on track!???
• You might be saying - well i think so, but what does that look like..?
• Here's what it might look like:
• Your Schedule is JAMMED...
• You barely find time in the day to take a shower...
• AND THEN...
• Church decides to put on an event!
And they.need.help!
• So, your schedule is JAMMED, and instead of trying to HEAR God in the situation...
• The first response is - NO WAY...CAN'T do it!*
• An instance where you may be trying to take control of the wheel is when you say - No way...Can't do it...AND you say it without being still...and trying to examine where you are at Spiritually.
• See, here's the thing...
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