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Sabbath teaching continues
Jesus is still in Jerusalem during feast of the Jews.
And our story will continue there.
A quick review:
In Jerusalem for feast, we don’t know what one (5:1)
Jesus meets man with infirmity (5:5)
What was the infirmity, how long did the man have it?
Jesus questions the man (5:6-8)
What was the question?
Jesus heals the man (5:9)
What did the man do upon Jesus words?
The accusations start flying (5:10-13)
What was the question by the Jews (v.12)?
The healed man sells out Jesus (5:14-15)
Now let me set the stage some so we can understand the text a little more when we get to it in a few minutes.
Let me start with a question, a scenario, and I would like your input: Daughter, new boyfriend, or someone she is interested in, do you check him out?
Do you investigate some?
Well now let’s move on and let me give you a cultural picture.
The Jews here are the leaders of the Jews, this is the Sanhedrin comprised of Pharisee’s, Sadducee’s and Herodians that make up the Jewish counsel.
The Counsel was responsible for the protection of God’s word, and the Law of Moses.
They had added many things , 614 on top of what Moses wrote, all so to protect God’s word and the Law of Moses.
The Counsel was responsible for investigating new teachers, preachers that showed up to make sure they lined up with the set standards and make sure they were not false teachers.
They had sent out people to check out John the Baptist (Jn1:19-24) now they were very suspicious of Jesus of Nazareth.
It is believed that in Luke the healing on the demoniac that was on the Sabbath transpired prior to this healing we looked at last week.
You can find that in Lk4:31-37 on your own.
So, the Sanhedrin was not totally out of line in checking out, being suspicious of Jesus of Nazareth.
(transition) now lets let our passage unfold and here is what we will look at tonight, Lord willing.
Gleaning from the passage (Jn5:16-23)
The Controversy (Jn5:16-18)
The first claim (Jn5:19-23)
Gleaning from the passage
Scripture works together to paint the story of God’s love, God’s plan of redemption.
John paints the picture in the gospel of God’s Son Jesus and there is life in His name.
Tonight we start to look at what Jesus has to say himself too.
Anything stick out to you of significance in this passage, any general observations?
Why were the Jews persecuting Jesus (v.16)?
Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath
Jesus makes statement (v.17) about both He and the Father, what is it?
The Father and the Son are both working
Jesus answer (v.17) did not make the Jews happy, what more made them mad (v.18)?
Breaking the Sabbath, and claiming equality with God.
According to (v.19)
What does the Son do?
Only what He sees the Father doing, and He does it in like manner
Because of the Fathers love for the Son, what does the Father do (v.20)?
Father shows Him “all things” and will show Him greater works
The Father raises from the dead, in like, what does the Son do (v.21)
He gives life to whom He wishes
Who has all judgment given to (v.22)?
Does this contradict (Jn3:17)?
All judgment is given to the Son, and no contradiction for Jn3:17 is about condemnation, not about the judgment being delivered.
Can you honor the Father and not the Son according to (v.23)?
No you cannot, if you honor the Father you must honor the Son too.
(Transition) - Now that we have gleaned, let’s learn together from our passage, are you up for it tonight?
The Controversy
Controversy (N): Disagreement, typically when prolonged, public and heated.
I believe it is always good to define terms.
Now think for a minute what was the controversy about?
Let me give you the passage again to consider the answer.
Other healings beyond the demoniac mentioned before (Lk4:31-37( there is the disciples picking grain on the Sabbath (Mt12:1-8), healing the withered hand on the Sabbath (Mt12:9-14).
What God had given a Sabbath for man, man turned into a prison house of regulations.
This prison house, created this controversy we have before us now.
For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him (v.16)
Why?
For breaking the Sabbath rules that man set, going beyond what God said.
the Jews called for absolute devotion to the traditions of man surrounding the Sabbath.
It became absolute obsession and absurdity.
Let me give you an example.
Here is the law, no going potty in the camp, and the Jews considered Jerusalem their camp, and it would be work to walk outside the camp to use the potty.
They would break the Sabbath rules.
This due to the travel restrictions that the Jews had put in place for the Sabbath.
Jesus did not come from the status quo, or act according to the status quo.
The Jews did not like it, He was disrupting things and they were angered to the point that they sought to kill Him, but there was more behind it too.
They sought to kill Him because of the statement about his Father and He have been working (v.17)
Jesus did not explain, He just stated a fact, the Father was working, so He was working.
What angered them is now that He called God His Father.
Jesus had told the religious leader Nicodemus that He was the only begotten Son (Jn3:16).
He told the outcast women he was the Messiah (Jn4:26).
This led to the the Samaritans understanding he was the Savior of the world (Jn4:42).
Then the to the Roman official believed and put that belief into action (Jn4:50).
So the religious, the outcast, the disenfranchised, and the world He had revealed himself.
But yet the status quo did not accept, believe Him and sought to kill him, now because he made himself publically equal with God, and to them that was blasphemy and worthy of death.
Philo once said “God never stops working, for as it is the property of fire to burn and of snow to be cold so of God to work.”
But maybe you are are thinking what about what it says about God resting:
Or what is says in Exodus
The Lord makes the Sabbath holy, not man, the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
God rested from creation after six days, but did not stop working.
Nor does the Son stop working.
For He is the Lord of the Sabbath, and to us He is our Sabbath.
Commentator Morrison said “It the old world, it was hardly an honourable thing to work.
It was a think for slaves and serfs and strangers, not for freeborn men.
Hence work and greatness rarely went together; and nothing could be more alien to the genius of paganism that a toiling God.
It was a revolution when Jesus taught ‘God loves.’
But it was hardly less revolutionary when He taught ‘God works.”
Ceasing, resting from creation did not mean stopping from preserving, sustaining and governing creation.
They sought to kill Him because of his claimed unity with the Father
Tenney said “His explanation shows that he did not claim identity with the Father as one person, but he asserted his unity with the Father in a relationship that could be described as sonship.”
The change happens from the accusation from Sabbath breaker to blasphemer (v.18)
They did not miss the fact of Jesus words making Him equal with God, which he was.
He was God in the flesh (Jn1:1-2, 14, 16)
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