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Exegetical Point: People at the feast begin to suspect Jesus is the Messiah, but the religious leaders oppose him and try to stop Jesus.
Homiletic Point:
Intro
Imagine if a man speeding, and his neighbor dobbed him in.
Then, the police come to his door.
What should they do?
Should they write him a ticket?
Should they ask him if he was speeding?
Should they ask him why he was speeding?
Now in my imaginary story, the man who was speeding was an ambulance driver!
He was driving somebody who was very sick to the hospital!
Yes, it looked like he was speeding, but he actually had special permission from the authorities to go extra fast!
If the police never ask, and only listen to the complaining neighbor, then an innocent man would be punished.
God wants people to be fair.
He expects the authorities in our life to be fair and just, and to give everybody a fair go.
People should get a chance to defend themselves against accusations.
In Jesus’ day, the religious leaders thought that Jesus should be punished for the things he said, and did.
But you know what?
They weren’t interested in hearing about the reasons Jesus said the things he said, and did the things he did!
They were just offended and angry.
They wouldn’t give Jesus a fair go.
They didn’t realize that Jesus was on a rescue mission, just like an ambulance driver.
He was on a mission from God to rescue people!
People like you and me.
Recap:
In the middle of a series of conversations Jesus had around the Festival of Tabernacles in Jerusalem
Jesus had been hanging out in the north, in Gallillee because the religious leaders were trying to kill him,
But now traveled up to the festival down south and started teaching in the temple to a crowd from all over, including some religious leaders.
He was challenging people’s ideas about the Sabbath, and pushing them to see their own hypocrisy - where they claimed to keep God’s law, while they broke it themselves!
Jesus was claiming to have divine authority to teach what God says.
We’re continuing on in these conversations...
The desire to spruce it up, and make the message more “fun”.
But we’re here to see what God says, and what we are seeing week after week, and passage after passage in John is a compounding message...
Compounding interest, builds on what has been laid down, and grows and grows and grows, faster and faster...
It may feel repetitive, but John is building layer on layer to drive home the message that Jesus is the Divine Messiah, and you should believe in him.
If you don’t yet believe in Jesus, or maybe you’re unsure about whether or not you are a Christian, this is my prayer for you today: that you would believe in Jesus.
We’re not going to twist your arm, or try and trick you into it, we ask the HS to reveal this truth to you, from the word of God.
God works in hearts to bring change - especially the great change from being an enemy of God, to becoming his friend.
And it’s all possible through Jesus Christ.
Today the text is going to show us a few things about Jesus.
In fact, it will tell us 5 key things that you need to know if you want to believe in Him.
1. Jesus is Other-worldly (v25-31)
People are discussing Jesus, and the things he has been saying.
We already know from the previous section that a lot of this was hush-hush, because people were afraid of the leadership.
Lets see what they were talking about:
At this stage, the religious big wigs, most likely the Sanhedrin, had not made any official announcements about Jesus.
People were starting to wonder if their silence means they might actually believe in him?
But they are debating the point among themselves.
Does he match the profile?
The Messiah (also Christ) was the “anointed one”.
The person they were expecting is someone like King David from the OT.
God had promised a King like David would reign.
And the prophecies over the centuries had built on those expectations.
For some reason, some of the Jewish folks had got it in their head that their Messiah would kind of “appear” out of nowhere.
We’ll deal with this confusion a bit more later on.
But you can see how they’re grappling with the idea: We know this bloke.
He’s a tradie from up north.
His brothers are here at the feast.
He’s doesn’t really have mysterious origins.
Jesus hears them talking, or he knows what they’re thinking, and so he responds quite publicly:
There’s two ways to read this.
And part of the trouble is that the original Greek didn’t have the kind of punctuation we’re used to.
Sometimes it can be difficult to figure out where sentences start/end or when something is a question.
Here, Jesus could be asking this as a question: “You think know me, and where I am from?
Well let me set you straight!”
I’ve been sent from God, and I came from Him!
The other way to read it is as your translation might show it.
To paraphrase: “You know who I am and where I’m from, but that’s not the whole story, It goes further back...”
Either way, the message is clear: “Jesus is not of earthly origin”
So in that respect, the Jewish expectations were right!
They didn’t know where he was from!
Jesus was from out of this world.
He came From God the Father.
He came, not on his own authority but with the Authority of God the Father.
Jesus entered into this world because he was sent.
He was on mission.
The people listening to Jesus didn’t know who sent him.
They didn’t know God.
Their eyes were blinded, their ears deaf, their hearts were stony toward God, and so they didn’t know the God who they professed to serve.
It seems folks didn’t like this.
Maybe because they thought Jesus was being blasphemous, or perhaps because they were offended at Him telling them they didn’t know God!
They tried to grab Jesus, but they couldn’t!
SO they couldn’t catch Jesus, because God’s timing wasn’t ready.
But the crowd goes back to discussing Jesus, and wondering if he really is the Messiah.
They wonder, “will anybody be able to top this bloke?
Could anyone do better?”
Jesus miracles spoke for themselves.
Miracles are not a great reason to believe in Jesus.
But they are signs that point to his authenticity.
They prove that what he says holds weight.
Will you believe what he has said?
Jesus comes from out of this world, and he comes on God’s authority.
Will you trust him?
2. Jesus is at the Right-hand of the Father in Heaven (v32-36)
The authorities make their move.
They hears the rumors and act!
Note: Sects & groups - Pharisees (fundamentalists), Chief priests (Religious professionals, Levites), temple guards (religious police, Levites).
Also Sadducees & Sanhedrin.
They want to shut Jesus down.
As the guards come, Jesus speaks to the people:
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