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· So last week we looked at the Centrality of the Cross…
· And 3 things that it accomplished…
We saw how at the cross:
God is glorified
Death and sin were conquered
All of mankind is judged
· And what we also saw was that THOUGH it SEEMED like the cross would be something that Christ would SHY AWAY from…
· He tells us – NO – this is the very reason I came!
· And He said – What shall I say then, Father save me from this hour?
· And it makes us contemplate – How we view the Christian life…
How we view – Gospel suffering…
Do we constantly PRAY for God to SAVE US FROM THE SUFFERING?
Do we constantly PRAY for God to SHOW us a DETOUR around this suffering?
· And so LAST WEEK – Christ really elevates the Death that is coming for Him…AND…
· Finishes the passage by calling for people to WALK in the LIGHT…
· Yes – it’s HARD…
· But that apart from the light – you STUMBLE in the darkness…
· It was a CALL TO FAITH…to believe in the LIGHT…
· And now this week, we come to our text…
· Coming out of last week and into this week’s passage, we see that John makes the point that – EVEN though Jesus had performed MANY signs and miraculous works…
· The people were not believing in Him…
· And you can imagine how this affected John…
*Have you ever just sit and been BAFFLED at how many people REJECT Jesus…
…Are apathetic to Jesus
…Are just NOT interested in Jesus
EVEN though THEY hear about ALL THAT’s AT STAKE?
And they DON’T EVEN look into seeing if MAYBE it’s true…?
· I have had MANY conversations about this VERY THING!
· And I always come back to the same thing John brings up today!
We’re going to see that Romans chapter 9 is going to help us with this today…
But first let’s swing back around to verse 37…
· Now – the reality that SO MANY people were still not BELIEVING in Jesus – called into question the faithfulness of God…
· WHY?
· Because God had previously said…
· Well – fast forward to our text today – and we have Jesus doing CRAZY miracles…
· And you’d think that BECAUSE He was doing these crazy things…that people would just be BELIEVING in Him left and right!
· But that wasn’t the case…
· The BELIEVING Jews at this time – they KNEW the OT promises of God…
· Yet they look out at the landscape of BELIEVERS out there at the time and it was - SLIM-PICKENS!
· And it COULD have caused people to DOUBT God’s faithfulness!
· SO – What does John do?
· The same thing Paul did in Romans 9…
· See – some people may have looked at the LACK of believers and thought it CALLED INTO QUESTION God’s faithfulness
But we’ll see that Paul and John KNEW that God was in control…
Paul starts Romans 9 by laying a foundation…
· Paul here is pointing to the reality that the Jewish Nation (Israel) – is by and large…UNBELIEVING – and not turning to Jesus…
· SO does Paul QUESTION God’s faithfulness when he looks out and sees UNBELIEVING Israel?
Paul is saying – NO – I look out and see UNBELIEVING ISRAEL and I KNOW who’s in control of all of that!
· I actually see God’s PLAN – Paul says…
Do you see Paul – ELEVATING God’s CONTROL over the BELIEF of ISRAEL…?
· This is the same thing we see in our passage today in John…
“Lord, who has believed what he heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
· This question in Isaiah GOES OUT – LORD who has believed?
I’m looking around and I see NO ONE…Who has believed???? Anyone??
And this takes us to Romans 11
· Elijah here was FREAKING OUT – And yet God replies – NO – I’m IN CONTROL HERE!!
· And it’s THIS CONTROL that John references in our text…back to John 12…
· So John looks out at the UNBELIEVING landscape and instead of DOUBTING GOD…
· He’s actually EMBOLDENED to Glory in His control!
Now what I want to do from here is focus on the remaining verses in our text today…IN LIGHT of what we’ve already seen!
· I think it will help to set up where we’re heading…
· What I want to look at is…
How Isaiah responded to GLORY…
Compared to…
How the BELIEVING Jewish leaders responded to GLORY…
And in the end - I want us to CONSIDER how God’s GLORY has impacted each of us...
Let’s look at the final verses…
Back to v41:
· What are the first 2 words of this verse?
· ISAIAH SAID!!
· So SOMETHING here has caused Isaiah to SPEAK…
· What did he speak?
· We just walked thru it…
“Lord – who has believed what we’ve spoken about?”
“He (God) has blinded their eyes…and hardened their heart”
· He’s saying – God is in control – the people don’t believe because God hasn’t allowed them to believe…
· These are HARD things to say…hard to believe…
· And YET – Isaiah speaks these things!
· WHY?
Verse – “because he SAW His glory…”
Now – who is Isaiah referring to?
· Whose glory did he see?
Let’s go to Isaiah 6 to look at the passage John is pulling from….
So Isaiah here sees a vision, and **(EXPLAIN)
And he says - I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne...
My eyes have seen the KING, the LORD of hosts!
(Yahweh)
· So John takes Isaiah’s vision and John applies that vision to – JESUS…
The “him” of v37 is Jesus…the “him” of v41 is - Jesus!
John applies Isaiah’s VISION of the GLORY of Yahweh - to Jesus Christ
So Isaiah sees the glory of GOD – and what’s the RESULT?
· First 2 words – ISAIAH SAID!
· And not ONLY did he SPEAK – but He spoke HARD things about God!!
After SEEING the GLORY of GOD – Isaiah spoke of the SOVEREIGNTY of God!
· Isaiah wasn’t CONCERNED how his message would be received!
· Isaiah wasn’t concerned if the people would HATE him…
· Wasn’t concerned if people would AGREE with him…
· Would slander him…
· Not a CONCERN!! Why?
· He SAW the GLORY of God!!
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