1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:03,440 All right, why don't you open your Bibles to the book of John 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,360 chapter 5? John chapter 5, If you didn't 3 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:10,560 bring a Bible, we have some underneath the seats in front of 4 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:12,960 you, and the page number is right up there on the screen, 5 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:19,680 page 890. My wife Sarah and I have 5 kids. 6 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:23,240 Our middle three are boys, so I have three sons. 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:28,560 They're all very different from one another, but also they are a 8 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:30,360 reflection of me in different ways. 9 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:34,360 So my oldest, Brooks, he is extremely particular and he's 10 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:36,240 extremely organized, just like me. 11 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:39,920 I laugh when I walk into his bedroom because he takes his 12 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:43,120 pyjamas and he folds them and he puts them on his pillow. 13 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:45,600 I'm like, that's something that I would do, right? 14 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:48,480 Very, very organized. And my son Max, is very 15 00:00:48,480 --> 00:00:50,320 physical. He always has been since he was 16 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:52,320 very little. He was always my wrestling Bunny 17 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:54,720 buddy, and we would roll around and fight each other. 18 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:58,600 And he's still that way. He's a gym rat now, which is 19 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:00,560 exactly what I was when I was his age. 20 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:04,640 My son Jude looks like me. He has the same skin tone, the 21 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:07,520 same color hair, the same color eyes. 22 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:10,720 And it makes sense, right? They're my sons, so they share 23 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:13,920 half of my DNA, the inferior half. 24 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:19,280 I helped raise them. I helped train them. 25 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:22,760 They watched me growing up, and so they learned. 26 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:25,360 And so in a way, they're a reflection of me. 27 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:29,840 This is why when you observe them, you might say like father, 28 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:31,440 like son. You've heard that phrase before, 29 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:32,960 right? Like father, like son. 30 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:36,400 And that is the title for the teaching this morning, Like 31 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:40,480 father, like son. Last week we saw Jesus earlier 32 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:45,520 on in the book of John, chapter 5, healed a disabled man on the 33 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:47,880 Sabbath. It was a day when you were not 34 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:51,160 supposed to do any kind of work according to the Jewish 35 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:54,600 tradition. And so the Jewish leaders find 36 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:57,560 out that he did this and they begin to question him. 37 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:00,800 They begin to persecute him because of what he's done. 38 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:04,200 And Jesus's response is quite shocking. 39 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:10,639 In verse 17 of chapter 5, if you look back there, it says Jesus 40 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:15,280 answered them, My father is working until now and he's 41 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:19,280 talking about how his Father is restoring broken creation. 42 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:25,200 And he says, and I am working, My father is working and I am 43 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:28,080 working. In essence, what he's saying to 44 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:33,000 these religious leaders is my father and I are one, right? 45 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:38,000 My father and I are one. The Jews understand this says in 46 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,680 verse 18, it says This is why the Jews were seeking all the 47 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:43,400 more to kill him because not only was he breaking the 48 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:47,280 Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own father. 49 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:52,600 Listen, making himself equal with God. 50 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:58,320 And now you know how people get so upset about politics, Like 51 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:01,840 people can get raging mad about politics. 52 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:06,120 Imagine how these guys feel, these Jewish leaders, religious 53 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:09,920 leaders, and here is a man who just broke the law in their 54 00:03:09,920 --> 00:03:13,640 opinion, and he is saying in essence, I am God. 55 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:17,760 That enrages them and this is what ultimately causes them to 56 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:20,960 persecute Jesus, Jesus and put him on the cross. 57 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,680 But rather than back down, what we see today in the text is 58 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:28,880 Jesus actually pushes back. They don't like what he said and 59 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:32,640 they resist him. But Jesus pushes back and he 60 00:03:32,640 --> 00:03:36,520 says to them, in a sense, I look like God, I act like God, I 61 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:41,280 sound like God because we are one, like Father, like Son. 62 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:44,800 So today in the text, we're going to be confronted with the 63 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:48,160 deity of Jesus, right? Jesus is fully man. 64 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:51,640 We know that in the flesh he came in as a human, but he is 65 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:54,640 also fully God. So we're going to be looking at 66 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:57,400 verses 19 through 30 of chapter 5. 67 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:02,200 Before I read the text, I want to just give us a moment to 68 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:07,760 quiet our hearts, to surrender ourselves over to the Bible, to 69 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:09,480 the truth of Scripture, God's Word. 70 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:14,040 I encourage you to pray for the Holy Spirit to come and to teach 71 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:18,560 you and to affect you today according to what we read and 72 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:20,160 what we hear from God. And so I'll give you a few 73 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:22,800 moments and then I'll read the text, pray for us, and then 74 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:33,480 preach. Isn't it beautiful to have some 75 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:38,840 quiet? OK, let's read John chapter 5 76 00:04:38,840 --> 00:04:43,200 starting in verse 19 says so. Jesus said to them, He's 77 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:47,440 speaking to the religious leaders now truly, truly, I say 78 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:52,280 to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what 79 00:04:52,280 --> 00:04:55,520 he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does 80 00:04:55,720 --> 00:05:00,640 that the Son does likewise. For the Father loves the Son and 81 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:03,080 shows him all that he himself is doing. 82 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:07,320 And greater works than these will he show him, so that you 83 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:10,720 may marvel. For as the Father raises the 84 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:15,800 dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom 85 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:19,000 he will. For the Father judges no one, 86 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:23,800 but has given all judgment to the Son, that all may honor the 87 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:26,760 Son, just as they honor the Father. 88 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:31,840 Whoever does not honor the Son, does not honor the Father who 89 00:05:31,840 --> 00:05:34,800 sent him. Truly, truly I say to you, 90 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:39,200 whoever hears my word and believes him who sent Me has 91 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:42,200 eternal life. He does not come into judgment, 92 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:44,720 but is passed from death to life. 93 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:49,880 Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, 94 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:53,320 when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and 95 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:57,600 those who here will live. For as the Father has life in 96 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:01,480 himself, so He has granted the Son also to have life in 97 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:06,360 himself, and He has given Him authority to execute judgement, 98 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:10,920 because He is the Son of Man. Do not marvel at this for an 99 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:15,080 hour's coming, when all who are in the tombs will hear His voice 100 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:18,640 and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of 101 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:22,280 life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of 102 00:06:22,280 --> 00:06:24,480 judgement. Verse 30. 103 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:28,680 I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my 104 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:33,560 judgment is just because I seek not my own will, but the will of 105 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:35,840 Him who sent me. Let's pray. 106 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:41,880 Father, help us send your Holy Spirit open our eyes, open the 107 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:46,320 eyes of our hearts, help us to see clearly today this amazing 108 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:50,200 revelation that Jesus is God, and help us that we would 109 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:53,600 worship you and honor you and surrender to you as God. 110 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:57,200 Help me, Lord, as I preach, helping to be faithful to your 111 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:01,080 words and faithful to your people as I seek to encourage us 112 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:03,360 and to speak to us on your behalf. 113 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:08,560 And so have your way, Lord, be glorified in Jesus name, Amen. 114 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:16,480 So really the big, big point today is that Jesus and the 115 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:19,560 Father are one. Jesus is the Father are one. 116 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:23,720 Jesus drives home this point over and over and over again in 117 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:26,520 this text that he and the Father are one. 118 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:29,600 Now, just as a little reminder, a little flashback to John 119 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:33,960 chapter 1. John opens up his gospel in 120 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:37,320 verse 1. He says in the beginning was the 121 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:40,440 word. The word we know is Jesus, 122 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:44,120 right? And the word was with God and 123 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:47,760 the word was God. Now, have you ever gone on a 124 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:52,520 trip and you pack your suitcase and you you pack it so full that 125 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:55,960 you're like sitting on it and trying to like zip it clothes 126 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:58,400 and there's like sleeves and cords hanging out. 127 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:01,440 That's what that verse is like. It is like an overloaded 128 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:04,440 suitcase. There's so much truth packed 129 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:09,560 into that verse, and now in John 5, Jesus starts unpacking what 130 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:12,520 exactly it means that the Word is God. 131 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:18,800 Verse 19 Jesus said to them, truly, truly, I say to you, the 132 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:22,640 Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what He sees 133 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:25,720 the Father doing. For whatever the Father does 134 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:30,360 that the Son does likewise. So Jesus is telling these 135 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:34,679 religious leaders that he and the Father are one in activity 136 00:08:35,039 --> 00:08:39,400 and they are one in purpose in activity and what they do and in 137 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:42,919 purpose. And he starts this off by using 138 00:08:42,919 --> 00:08:47,040 this little phrase truly, truly. And he uses that phrase three 139 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:51,480 times in this passage, verse 19, verse 24 and verse 25. 140 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:59,560 It means something like really, indeed listen up facts, you 141 00:08:59,560 --> 00:09:01,920 know, for show. This is listen to me. 142 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:06,320 This is this is for real. He's trying to grab their 143 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:08,120 attention. He's trying to arrest them so 144 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:10,320 that they would listen to him right now. 145 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:13,840 So he says, listen to me. He says the son can do nothing 146 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:18,240 of his own accord, but only what he sees the father doing. 147 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:20,480 Whatever the father does, that's what the son does. 148 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:25,120 So he says, I don't just come here doing whatever I want to 149 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:28,080 do, OK? That's not how this works. 150 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:33,200 I do what the Father is showing me that he is doing in the 151 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:36,680 world. And so I healed this invalid 152 00:09:36,680 --> 00:09:38,800 man. You read about that last week as 153 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:42,120 Gordon Yoder was preaching. I healed him. 154 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:46,440 And remember the scene. He, he was, this is one man, 1 155 00:09:46,680 --> 00:09:49,400 crippled man among many, many suffering people. 156 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:53,840 But Jesus zeroed in on him and he healed him. 157 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:57,840 He says, I healed that man because that's what the Father 158 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:00,160 showed me. That's what the Father was 159 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:02,480 doing. That was the work that God was 160 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:05,640 up to right then in that moment. He said, I want you to heal that 161 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:07,080 one and I want you to heal him right now. 162 00:10:07,680 --> 00:10:09,240 And so Jesus is saying, I heard that. 163 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:10,640 I heard that that's what God was doing. 164 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:15,120 And then that's what I did. Now this is a, a quick aside. 165 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:18,200 It's not really kind of the main point of the teaching, but I 166 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:20,360 think it's, it's, it's helpful to talk about this. 167 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:25,960 We believe that God, by his Holy Spirit, can show us what he's 168 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:28,560 doing right. He can show us what he's doing 169 00:10:28,560 --> 00:10:32,240 in the world through things like prophetic leading, through 170 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:35,640 different nudges, through dreams, through visions. 171 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:39,360 God discloses his will to his people. 172 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:43,320 So just as Jesus saw what the Father was doing, we can also 173 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:47,160 see what the Father is doing. We don't see or hear with the 174 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:51,040 clarity that Jesus did. Jesus had unbroken intimacy in 175 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:52,640 relationship with his heavenly Father. 176 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:57,360 He heard his Father perfectly. We have sin broken bodies and 177 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:00,520 minds and and souls. And so we we don't hear like 178 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:02,640 Jesus heard. But nevertheless we can learn, 179 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:06,680 we can grow in that ability. I'll never forget I was at a 180 00:11:06,680 --> 00:11:08,120 small group. This is about 20 years ago. 181 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:10,720 I was sitting in small group with some friends and the guy 182 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:14,280 who was hosting the group, he was married, newly married, and 183 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:17,120 he was distraught because he had lost his wedding band. 184 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:20,280 And so he was telling us about this in small group. 185 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:22,120 And so we somebody said, well, hey, let's pray. 186 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:24,040 You know, let's pray. God knows where your wedding 187 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:26,400 band is. And so we all sat there and we 188 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:27,800 prayed. And while we're praying, one of 189 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:31,320 the girls in the group, Becky, she has this vision of a pair of 190 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:33,720 khakis hanging in his closet upstairs. 191 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:35,680 And she shares this with the group. 192 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:39,680 And so guess what? He goes upstairs, he gets out 193 00:11:39,680 --> 00:11:42,680 his khakis and he looks in the pocket and there's his wedding 194 00:11:42,680 --> 00:11:44,800 band. And it was one of those moments 195 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:49,200 where it's like, OK, the father was showing us what he's doing, 196 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:51,480 right? God loved him, God cared about 197 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:52,720 him. Even something that you would 198 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:55,920 say, come on, a wedding band, yes, God cares about you losing 199 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:58,360 your wedding band. He revealed what he was doing. 200 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:00,160 He showed us. I think this is how Jesus 201 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:04,200 ministered right? The Spirit would disclose to him 202 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:07,040 if the Father would disclose him through the Spirit and Jesus 203 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:10,720 would follow. They are one in activity, one in 204 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:13,320 purpose. If you want to learn more about 205 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:16,520 that, by the way, come to our training learning to pray for 206 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:17,800 others. It's in about a month. 207 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:20,760 We'll start announcing that soon and we'll, we'll teach you how 208 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:26,520 to how to listen to God like that in in prayer, because Jesus 209 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:29,840 and the father are one in activity, one in purpose. 210 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:33,400 Jesus only did what God the father was doing. 211 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:36,000 We're going to verse 20. He says, for the father loves 212 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:41,200 the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing and greater 213 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:45,480 works than these will he show him so that you may marvel. 214 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:53,000 So we see that Jesus and the Father's unity is rooted in 215 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,640 love. It's rooted in a relationship of 216 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:00,200 love. Jesus was not the Father's 217 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:04,560 puppet. He was not forcefully controlled 218 00:13:04,680 --> 00:13:07,520 by the Father. The Father didn't bully him or 219 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:10,720 manipulate him to make him do the things that he wanted him to 220 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:13,880 do. The Father's work is a good 221 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:15,760 work. It's a good work. 222 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:20,600 And he lovingly included his Son in on that work. 223 00:13:21,680 --> 00:13:25,760 The Father who is restoring creation through the Son 224 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:30,960 lovingly and fully includes Jesus in his work of restoration 225 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:33,880 and redemption. The kind of image that popped in 226 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:39,440 my mind about this is like a dad who loves working on antique 227 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:43,640 cars and, and he loves his son and he wants to share something 228 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:46,640 wonderful with his son. And so he invites his son to get 229 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:50,840 underneath that hood of that car with him, learn how to restore 230 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:53,280 that thing, to bring that thing back to life again. 231 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:56,320 It's, it's, it's not just I need a help or will you please help 232 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:59,120 me? But it's out of love of sharing 233 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:05,440 this wonderful experience and opportunity together, he says. 234 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:10,920 And greater works than these will he show him, right? 235 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:12,880 You're amazed that I turned water into wine. 236 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:16,720 You're amazed that I healed that guy's son from a distance. 237 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:19,480 You're amazed that I healed this invalid. 238 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:22,880 But that ain't nothing. Just wait. 239 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:25,440 God is going to do bless you. God is going to do greater 240 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:31,280 things than these. Greater works than these will he 241 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:34,640 show him so that you may marvel. I love it. 242 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:37,080 There's no competition here between the Father and the Son. 243 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:38,600 There's no division between them. 244 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:43,680 There's just unity and love, and Jesus is saying God wants you to 245 00:14:43,680 --> 00:14:47,160 marvel at how marvelous I am, right? 246 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:50,360 He wants me to be glorified. He's lifting me up. 247 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:56,600 Jesus and the Father's unity are rooted in a relationship of 248 00:14:56,720 --> 00:15:00,760 love, verse 21 says. For as the Father raises the 249 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:07,800 dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom 250 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:10,160 he will. So interesting. 251 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:15,000 Jesus and the Father are one in giving life to the dead, right? 252 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:19,960 They do that work. The word Jesus uses here for 253 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:22,960 life is actually different than we see later on in the text. 254 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:27,080 In verses 24 and 26 here when he talks about the Father giving 255 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:29,760 them life. That word can refer to either 256 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:34,520 spiritual life or physical life. OK, spiritual life being what we 257 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:37,680 would call salvation, right? Where God makes somebody who has 258 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:39,840 has, you know, they're dead because of their sin. 259 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:44,520 They come alive through faith in Jesus, but also resurrection. 260 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:47,160 And this is this is they're both true. 261 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:50,240 Jesus and the Father give salvation and they give 262 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:54,960 resurrection, right? Jesus gives spiritual life to 263 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:58,720 the spiritually dead. And he unpacks this a little bit 264 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:00,240 more in the second-half of this text. 265 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:07,320 So if you jump forward with me to verse 25, he says truly, 266 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:10,760 truly. I say to you, an hour is coming 267 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:15,520 and is now here when the dead will hear the voice of the Son 268 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:20,160 of God and those who here will live, right? 269 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:25,080 So it's coming in the future. There is a future tense to our 270 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:28,400 salvation, but it's here now, right? 271 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:31,400 This salvation has dawned in Christ. 272 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:35,120 The dead are going to hear and they're going to be raised. 273 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:41,240 You understand the Bible teaches that apart from God's saving, 274 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:44,000 reviving work, we are dead in sin. 275 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:49,160 We are dead in sin. We are spiritually dead, not 276 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:53,840 we're struggling, not we're spiritually suffering, not just 277 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:56,960 we have some spiritual deficiencies and we need a 278 00:16:56,960 --> 00:17:01,600 little remodel. It is we are dead in our sin and 279 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:05,160 in our trespasses. We are flatlined spiritually 280 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:09,400 unless God moves and acts. We cannot come to God. 281 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:13,319 We cannot believe in God. It's all of our spiritual 282 00:17:13,319 --> 00:17:15,079 condition. Because of sin, we have been 283 00:17:15,079 --> 00:17:23,160 separated from God who is life. We need Jesus to speak life, to 284 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:27,319 revive our dead souls, to make our spirit come alive, right? 285 00:17:27,319 --> 00:17:30,040 Just like he does with Lazarus. We'll see in John Chapter 11, 286 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:33,320 Lazarus come out. Jesus speaks that to your soul, 287 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:35,200 right? And if you're a Christian, 288 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:39,360 you've heard that call. Jesus spoke and you came alive. 289 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:43,000 Jesus says that's what I'm doing, that's what the Father is 290 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,040 doing, and that's what I'm doing is doing it through me. 291 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:49,800 We saw this in John chapter 4 with the woman at the well. 292 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:54,480 She heard His words, He offered her this water that really 293 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:58,520 satisfies her spiritual thirst. She believed and she received 294 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:01,400 that water of life. She was born again, she was 295 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:05,400 saved. Verse 26 This is for as the 296 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:11,760 Father has life in himself, so He has granted the Son also to 297 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:17,640 have life in himself. Jesus says I can do this work of 298 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:21,960 salvation because my Father has granted to me to have the power 299 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:26,080 of life in myself. None of us inherently has the 300 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:28,600 power of life in our self. Scientists have been trying to 301 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:31,000 make life from scratch for a while now. 302 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:34,680 No progress, it's not working. We do not have that power 303 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:40,600 inherently in us, but God does. Jesus does and it's interesting 304 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:45,640 here in verse 26, the word that he uses for life is different 305 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:47,600 than back in verse 21. We're in 21. 306 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:51,440 It can mean spiritual life or resurrection life, physical 307 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:54,320 life. Here the the, the Greek word is 308 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:58,480 the word Zoe, which I've actually met a couple Zoe's here 309 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:00,680 in the last couple weeks. I almost named my daughter Zoe. 310 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:04,120 Actually. It's a beautiful word. 311 00:19:04,120 --> 00:19:09,800 It means the absolute fullness of life which belongs to God. 312 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:16,360 Life, real life, genuine life, active and vigorous. 313 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:21,960 That's the kind of life that Jesus came to bring to those who 314 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:23,600 would trust in him. This is one of the reasons why 315 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:27,640 we named Vita Springs Church Vita Springs Church Vita, the 316 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:31,880 Spanish word for life. We believe that when people get 317 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:37,280 connected to Jesus, this rich, abundant, overflowing, vibrant, 318 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:42,280 genuine, active, vigorous life begins to flow into your life, 319 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:46,520 and it begins to transform you, first on the inside, and then it 320 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:50,440 flows outside into your body, into your relationships, into 321 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:54,320 the world around us. It's a life that only Jesus has, 322 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:59,560 that only Jesus can give. Everybody's looking for life. 323 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:04,080 Right, college students, you're here and you know, you're 324 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:06,600 thinking about your future and you come and there's all these 325 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:09,800 temptations, right? There's all these people and all 326 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:11,960 these temptations and opportunities. 327 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:14,280 And everyone's saying you can have life. 328 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:17,880 This is going to give you life. But let me tell you, you will 329 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:21,160 not find true life in the bars or in bed with someone else. 330 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:33,040 Jesus will give you true life. John chapter one verse 4 in him 331 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:35,200 was life. It's the same word. 332 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:40,880 Zoe in Jesus was life and the life was the light of men. 333 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:48,120 So Jesus gives spiritual life to the spiritually dead. 334 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:51,240 When you trust in him, you come alive. 335 00:20:52,120 --> 00:20:55,280 You begin to experience the life of God flowing through your 336 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:59,880 veins. He also gives resurrection life 337 00:20:59,880 --> 00:21:03,680 to the physically dead, right? He brings the dead, the 338 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:05,800 physically dead, back alive again. 339 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:08,320 Look at verses 28 and 29 where he unpacks this more. 340 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:13,640 He says do not marvel at this for an hour's coming, when all 341 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:18,560 who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those 342 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:22,040 who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those 343 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:25,600 who have done evil to the resurrection of judgement. 344 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:29,360 So he says the hour's coming, right? 345 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:34,320 It's going to happen where those who are in the tombs, he's 346 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:36,880 talking about people who have physically died and they have 347 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:39,840 been buried in the tombs. He said they're going to hear 348 00:21:40,120 --> 00:21:43,520 his voice, right? They're going to hear my voice, 349 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:48,360 the voice of the Son of Man. And they're going to come out, 350 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:50,520 right? They're going to be resurrected. 351 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:52,680 They're going to come back alive again. 352 00:21:54,120 --> 00:21:57,720 And he says those who've done good to the resurrection of 353 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:00,680 life, those who've done evil to the resurrection of judgment. 354 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:03,640 So when those who've done good to the resurrection of life, 355 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:06,520 that doesn't mean that if you've been a good person, then you 356 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:08,600 will be resurrected. This is not works based 357 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:12,640 salvation, but you have been made righteous by faith in 358 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:15,160 Christ. You have been made good by faith 359 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:19,000 in Christ, His Holiness given to you, imputed to you. 360 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:23,280 And now that righteousness is evidenced by a good life, a life 361 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:25,760 of honoring God, a life of serving God, of serving other 362 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:28,480 people. He says to those who've done 363 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:32,600 good, they're going to go to the resurrection of life. 364 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:36,600 And to those who've done evil, right, those who are unrighteous 365 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:40,120 because of their unbelief, which by the way, do you know that 366 00:22:40,120 --> 00:22:42,920 that is the mother of all sins, unbelief. 367 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:46,800 We usually think of things like murder or, you know, things like 368 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:49,280 that, that that's the worst sin you can possibly commit. 369 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:55,840 But not believing that Jesus is the Messiah is the utmost of 370 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:59,720 sin. Denying him that is the utmost 371 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:06,560 of sin says for them, they go to the resurrection of judgement. 372 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:14,040 Now this is this is one of those cold hard truths that we don't 373 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:16,320 like to face, but we have to face. 374 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:24,200 You will die. You will die, you and I, We'll 375 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:29,640 end up in a tomb. We're mortals. 376 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:32,200 We got to face it. That day is coming. 377 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:35,280 When you're young, you don't think about that very often, 378 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:37,280 right? You feel like you're invincible. 379 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:42,320 When you start to get older, you start to think about that more. 380 00:23:43,120 --> 00:23:47,200 And I get an Amen from my older and wiser crowd, right? 381 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:49,840 It starts to, it's like it comes into focus. 382 00:23:50,360 --> 00:23:52,320 You start to see it on the horizon. 383 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:56,200 You start to think about it. You start to contend with your 384 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:59,040 own mortality. And it can be unnerving. 385 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:02,760 It can be a scary thing, especially when you start having 386 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:07,600 friends who are passing away, who they're your age, you know, 387 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:09,680 you knew them, you went to high school with them. 388 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:11,360 You what they and now they're gone. 389 00:24:11,360 --> 00:24:13,000 Like it's, it's a sobering thing. 390 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:16,720 We're all going to die. We're all going to end up in a 391 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:19,000 tomb. But you know what the Bible 392 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:22,000 teaches That we will all be resurrected again as well. 393 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:27,320 That this life and physical death is not the end. 394 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:31,920 And the Bible teaches, the Bible does not teach annihilationism. 395 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:35,280 Annihilationism is when you die, you just cease to exist. 396 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,480 And a lot of people just want to believe that because that can be 397 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:40,720 comforting. If you don't know what's out 398 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:44,440 there and you're not sure about heaven or hell, well, let's just 399 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:46,920 say that you just kind of you're gone. 400 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:49,600 You know, it's like you turn the screen off, it's just gone. 401 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:51,120 There's no image, there's nothing left. 402 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:55,200 The Bible does not teach that. The Bible teaches that you will 403 00:24:55,200 --> 00:25:01,200 spend eternity somewhere. Jesus is offering to those who 404 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:07,640 trust in him resurrection that leads to life, not separation 405 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:11,800 from God in hell for eternity, but in the presence of God in 406 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:15,360 life forever and ever. The resurrection is actually 407 00:25:15,360 --> 00:25:22,080 carried out through Jesus. First Thessalonians chapter 4. 408 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:25,520 Let me just read this passage that talks to us a bit about the 409 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,120 resurrection. Paul is unpacking this for the 410 00:25:28,120 --> 00:25:29,880 Thessalonians. He says, but we do not want you 411 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,200 to be uninformed. This is not on the screen, by 412 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:33,360 the way. We do not want you to be 413 00:25:33,360 --> 00:25:35,160 uninformed. Brothers, about those who are 414 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:37,720 asleep, he's not just talking about they took a nap. 415 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:40,480 He's talking about those who have died that you may not 416 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:43,040 grieve as others do who have no hope for. 417 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:48,440 Since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, Even so, through 418 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:52,840 Jesus God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. 419 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:57,160 For this we declare to you by word from the Lord, that we who 420 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:00,840 are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, when 421 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:04,440 Jesus returns again, will not proceed those who have fallen 422 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:06,920 asleep. For the Lord Himself will 423 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:11,040 descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an 424 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:14,120 Archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. 425 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,920 And the dead in Christ will rise first. 426 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:22,000 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together 427 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,160 with Him in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. 428 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:29,520 And so we will always be with the Lord. 429 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:34,280 Those who've trusted Jesus will be resurrected, and we will 430 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:40,280 always be with the Lord, forever and ever alive in him and 431 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:44,200 through him and with him. Those who are not in Christ will 432 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:48,320 also be alive, but they will be alive apart from the Lord in 433 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,800 outer darkness and agony. That's what the Bible calls 434 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:58,520 hell. You best be right with Jesus 435 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:07,840 because it matters for eternity. Jesus resurrects God through 436 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:14,640 Jesus resurrects as the Father saves, I save. 437 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,240 That's what he's saying as the Father gives life to the dead, 438 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,040 so also I will give life to the dead. 439 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:25,360 The Father and I are one. He goes on in verse 22. 440 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:31,000 He says for the Father judges no one but has given all judgement 441 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,240 to the Son, right? So we see this unity and 442 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:37,800 judgement between the Father and the Son in the Old Testament. 443 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:41,000 It's very clear that God is the judge, right? 444 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:44,400 God is the judge. In Judges 1127, the Lord is 445 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:47,080 called simply the capital J Judge. 446 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:51,360 In Genesis 1825, Abraham is talking to God. 447 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:55,640 He says, shall not the judge of all the earth do what is just 448 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:57,560 right? God is the judge. 449 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:02,080 Jesus is saying God the judge has given that authority for 450 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:06,280 judgement to me, right? He's given me that authority. 451 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:08,600 You know what the power of attorney is? 452 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:12,840 God has given Jesus the power of attorney. 453 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:15,680 The power of attorney is the authority to act for another 454 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,280 person, right? So if somebody gives you the 455 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:22,640 power of authority of attorney when you sign the papers, it's 456 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:25,000 like they were signing the papers, right? 457 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:26,640 The authority has been given to you. 458 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:28,280 That's what Jesus has in judgement. 459 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,520 The Father has given all authority to him. 460 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,800 He is the Son of man. He refers to himself. 461 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:37,760 He's the the Son of man in verse 27. 462 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:41,360 He says and he has given him authority, verse 27, to execute 463 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:45,120 judgement because He is the Son of man. 464 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,360 This is Jesus's favorite title for himself, the Son of Man. 465 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:52,320 It comes from Daniel 7. The religious leaders would have 466 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,800 been very, very familiar with this prophecy. 467 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,920 So when Jesus calls himself the Son of Man, their mind goes to 468 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,800 Daniel Chapter 7, verses 13 and 14. 469 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,560 Let me read it for you. It will also be on the screen. 470 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:09,880 He says, I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the 471 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:14,680 clouds of heaven there came one like a Son of man, and he came 472 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:18,720 to the Ancient of Days, That's the Lord, and was presented 473 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:24,520 before him, and to Him was given dominion and glory, and a 474 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:27,880 Kingdom that all peoples, nations, and languages should 475 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,840 serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting 476 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:34,840 dominion which shall not pass away in His Kingdom, one that 477 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:39,520 shall not be destroyed. The Ancient of Days gives 478 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:46,040 authority to the Son of Man. In Acts chapter 17 verse 31, the 479 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:49,480 apostle Paul says God has fixed a day on which He will judge the 480 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:53,760 world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed. 481 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:58,480 Second Corinthians chapter 5 verse 10, Paul says we must all 482 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:02,800 appear before the judgment seat of Christ. 483 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:10,760 This should have a very sobering effect on us, right? 484 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:14,360 A day is coming where you will stand before Jesus, who is the 485 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,040 great judge. He will make a judgement based 486 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:20,040 upon you. And you can either say to him 487 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:24,240 when he says, are you righteous enough for me to allow into my 488 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:27,520 heaven, right? You can say either no, I'm not, 489 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:31,200 I've tried to do it on my own, or you can say, no, I'm not, but 490 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:33,440 I've trusted you for your righteousness. 491 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,680 My sins have been forgiven because of your sacrifice on the 492 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:41,040 cross in my place. And he'll said, he'll say, come 493 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:44,840 on in, right. The judgement will be unto life 494 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:50,920 for you. So why has the Father done this? 495 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:55,040 Why has the Father done this, right? 496 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:58,720 Why has he? Why is he showing Jesus what 497 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:02,400 he's doing? Why is why is he empowering 498 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:04,880 Jesus to give life to the dead, right? 499 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:09,280 Why is he giving Jesus the authority to judge the givers? 500 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:14,360 23 He says that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the 501 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:18,120 Father, that all may honor the Son just as they honor the 502 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:21,320 Father. Just because I want my son to be 503 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:26,560 honored. Honor is recognition and 504 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:29,120 worship, right? If you honor someone, you are 505 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:33,160 recognizing them, and then you are in some way, in some sense 506 00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:38,400 worshiping them. Urban Meyers is being put into 507 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:39,920 the College Football Hall of Fame. 508 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:42,880 I don't know if you knew that. And so in December, they're 509 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:44,800 going to, they're going to honor him, right? 510 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,800 Great coach. And so they're going to 511 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:49,520 recognize him. And there's going to be a bunch 512 00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:51,120 of fanfare. And I'm sure there's going to be 513 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:52,400 a speech. And there's going to be some 514 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:54,640 kind of something that they put. And they're going to put a 515 00:31:54,640 --> 00:32:00,000 little shrine in Athens so that when people come, they can 516 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:03,840 essentially worship Urban Meyer's, right? 517 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,160 Isn't the amazing? Isn't the amazing coach right? 518 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:10,000 He's going to be honored. It's recognition and worship. 519 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,720 Why has the Father done this? Because he wants to be. 520 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:17,680 He wants Jesus to be honored. He wants Jesus to be worshipped, 521 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:20,320 to be recognized and worshipped as God. 522 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,720 They do the same work, they have the same power, they have the 523 00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:25,760 same authority. Why? 524 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:29,560 Because Jesus is God. We see the building blocks of 525 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:31,520 the doctrine of the Trinity happening here. 526 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:33,320 We haven't gotten to the Holy Spirit yet. 527 00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:35,280 We just have the Father and the Son. 528 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,480 But the doctrine of the Trinity says that God exists in three 529 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:42,880 persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, each fully God. 530 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:46,360 Yet he is 1. And here we are seeing Jesus and 531 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,560 the Father are one. This is something we cannot 532 00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:51,920 fully understand. You can try to come up with any 533 00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:53,760 analogy. You know, the Trinity is kind of 534 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:56,360 like an egg, and there's a shell and there's a white and there's 535 00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:58,760 a yolk and, you know, but it's one egg. 536 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,920 It's kind of water and steam. And there's all these things we 537 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:03,920 try to do to understand the Trinity, but ultimately it's 538 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:10,320 beyond our comprehension that Jesus and the Father are 1/3 539 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:13,640 persons, one God. So you know what you do when you 540 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:15,920 come to stuff like that in the Bible that you can't understand, 541 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,760 You marvel and you worship, right? 542 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:21,920 There's a lot of stuff like that in the Bible where it's like the 543 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:25,320 mystery belongs to the Lord and I'm my, I can't comprehend that. 544 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,520 And so I'm just going to accept that and I'm going to marvel and 545 00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:33,680 I'm going to worship him. He goes on in verse 23, 546 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:38,920 second-half of verse 23. And remember, he's talking to a 547 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:42,520 bunch of religious leaders now who are trying to honor God. 548 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:49,200 He says whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the 549 00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:53,040 Father who sent him. Whoever does not honor the Son 550 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:57,400 does not honor the Father who sent him in that day. 551 00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:00,720 To those people, that comment right there would go off like a 552 00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:04,520 bomb. They were trying to honor God 553 00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,680 the Father, but they are rejecting the Son. 554 00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,639 And Jesus says you can't do that. 555 00:34:11,639 --> 00:34:15,960 You can't do that. If you don't honor me, you can't 556 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:19,159 honor God. If you don't recognize me and 557 00:34:19,159 --> 00:34:23,360 worship me, then you are not recognizing and worshipping the 558 00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:25,719 one true God. You are blind. 559 00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:31,040 This is hard teaching. It was hard teaching for them. 560 00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:35,120 It's hard teaching for us because you know what we say as 561 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:37,120 a Christian, you believe that, right? 562 00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:39,400 You believe that that Jesus is God. 563 00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:45,280 But what we are saying when we say that is that Christianity is 564 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,480 exclusive. It's exclusive. 565 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:54,320 It is the way to God through Jesus. 566 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,960 And when you say that, what you're also saying is all other 567 00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:01,760 religions are false. They won't get you to God. 568 00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:04,640 The Hari Krishnas can't get you to God. 569 00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:06,120 The Buddhists can't get you to God. 570 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:10,000 Allah is not God. The God of the Jehovah's 571 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,120 Witnesses is not the true God. The God of the Mormons is not 572 00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:16,160 the true God. All of the other folk religions 573 00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:18,280 were saying those are not gods, those are demons. 574 00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:23,400 The Bible says those are demons. There's an exclusivity to 575 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:26,840 Christianity. Other religions claim to worship 576 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:29,760 God, but if that God is not the Jesus of the Bible, then it's a 577 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:33,840 false God. That's hard for us to accept, 578 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:35,080 isn't it? We live in a culture of 579 00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:41,320 tolerance and acceptance and inclusivity, and everybody wants 580 00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:44,600 to just, you know, you do you, you just whatever makes you feel 581 00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:48,400 better, just believe it and just believe it sincerely, right? 582 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:51,400 Maybe you've heard something like that, but sincerity won't 583 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:55,000 help you. Sincerity does not lead to 584 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,200 truth. Many are sincere about their 585 00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:59,040 belief, but they are sincerely wrong. 586 00:36:00,240 --> 00:36:04,320 I remember when I was in kindergarten, I had a meeting 587 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:08,240 with my teacher out in the hallway, and I was 4 when I 588 00:36:08,240 --> 00:36:10,320 started kindergarten. I was like, early for my age and 589 00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:11,640 I didn't know nothing. You don't know nothing when 590 00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:13,360 you're 4. I didn't even know what my name 591 00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:15,560 was. I thought my name was Anthony 592 00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:19,080 Renvestal Walter. OK, My legal name is Anthony 593 00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:20,880 Walter Renvestal. I'm named after both my 594 00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:23,360 grandpas. And so I remember sitting out in 595 00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:26,760 the hallway talking to my teacher and she, she asked me to 596 00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:28,240 write my name. And so I'm trying to write my 597 00:36:28,240 --> 00:36:30,320 name and I write Anthony Renvestal Walter. 598 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:33,120 She says that's not your name. I said that's my name, said no, 599 00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:38,440 your name is Anthony Walter. I said no, like it's my name. 600 00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:42,440 You don't know who me. Like my name is Anthony 601 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:44,920 Renvestal Walter. And she was just kind of like, 602 00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:51,160 OK, I was very sincere in my belief, and I was sincerely 603 00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:55,360 wrong. You know, sincerity does not 604 00:36:55,360 --> 00:37:00,800 equal truth. It doesn't make your worship 605 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,920 right just because you feel very deeply about it. 606 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:08,320 We're called to worship God in truth, right? 607 00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,880 We learned about that. We're in John four. 608 00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,520 We worship God in spirit and in truth. 609 00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:17,120 You have to worship the right God, and you have to do that in 610 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:18,960 the right way. And the Bible teaches 611 00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,600 unequivocally that Jesus is the way. 612 00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:25,280 Jesus is the truth. Jesus is the life. 613 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,720 He's God. He and the Father are one. 614 00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,000 If you don't honor him, you're not honoring God. 615 00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:40,360 Now, if we keep going with this, if Jesus is God, and as 616 00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:44,240 Christians were saying we believe that Jesus is God, then 617 00:37:44,240 --> 00:37:50,440 you understand we must worship and obey him as Lord and God, as 618 00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:54,520 supreme authority in all of the universe, right? 619 00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:59,080 We bow down to Him, we put ourselves low, we go underneath 620 00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:01,560 him and his rule, His reign, his authority. 621 00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:06,480 There are a lot of people that love the idea of Jesus Savior 622 00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:09,440 but will not follow him as Lord, Right? 623 00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:12,080 I want Jesus's forgiveness. That sounds pretty good. 624 00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:13,440 He's saying I don't have to feel guilt. 625 00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:15,960 OK, I'll take that. His comfort. 626 00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:18,880 He gives you the Holy Spirit. I can be comforted in my sorrow. 627 00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:21,920 I'll take that. He gives peace, He gives 628 00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:25,040 freedom, He gives hope. He gives the hope of heaven. 629 00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:26,200 He turns. I want all that. 630 00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,280 That sounds great to me. He says come to me, all who are 631 00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:30,840 weary and I will give you rest. Yeah, that sounds great. 632 00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:35,320 I would love that Jesus, but I don't want to follow him as 633 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:37,400 Lord. Right. 634 00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:42,640 All this stuff about deny yourself, take up your cross and 635 00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:45,080 follow me. That's for the fanatics. 636 00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:48,280 That's too intense. Like pluck out your eye if it 637 00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,720 causes you to sin, cut off your hand if it causes you to sin. 638 00:38:50,720 --> 00:38:52,920 That's radical. That's extreme. 639 00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:56,240 Present your bodies as a living sacrifice. 640 00:38:57,040 --> 00:39:03,040 Whoa, you know, this is like, you know, the have you seen the 641 00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,480 Burger King commercials? I really don't like Burger King 642 00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:07,440 commercials, but they they stick in my mind. 643 00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:10,480 Many people want Burger King Christianity. 644 00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:15,200 It's have it your way. You know why you rule? 645 00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:19,240 That's what it is. It's having your way because you 646 00:39:19,240 --> 00:39:21,080 rule. What do you want your 647 00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:23,480 Christianity to be? You pick. 648 00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:25,360 You choose. Like I want a Whopper with extra 649 00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:29,240 Pickles and no ketchup and some fries and a Coke 0 on the side. 650 00:39:29,240 --> 00:39:30,920 You rule. You get to pick what you want. 651 00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:33,840 Pick and choose. I want forgiveness. 652 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:35,640 I want joy. I want hope, and I want to do 653 00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:37,040 whatever I want to do with my body. 654 00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:39,280 I want to do whatever I want to do with my time. 655 00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:41,000 I want to do whatever I want to do with my money. 656 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:44,800 I want to be my own God. I want to come to church. 657 00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,800 I want to experience God's love and his kindness, and I want to 658 00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,720 yell at my kids and have sex with my boyfriend and do 659 00:39:50,720 --> 00:39:52,160 whatever I want to do with my money. 660 00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:59,480 You can't do that. You can't have it your way 661 00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:03,040 because you're not God. If you just get it your way, you 662 00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:04,840 know who's God? You're God. 663 00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:08,000 You want to know a secret? You're not God. 664 00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:15,040 I'm not God. You see why these guys are so 665 00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:17,600 incensed at Jesus? Do you see why they put him on a 666 00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:24,940 cross? Jesus says in John 14. 667 00:40:24,940 --> 00:40:31,020 He says if anyone loves me, he will keep my word and my Father 668 00:40:31,020 --> 00:40:35,900 will love him and we will come to him and make our home with 669 00:40:35,900 --> 00:40:38,980 him. If you love me, you'll follow my 670 00:40:38,980 --> 00:40:42,300 word. Jesus is saying you can't pick 671 00:40:42,300 --> 00:40:46,480 and choose. If you worship Jesus as God, 672 00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:50,520 then you must obey him as Lord. We say I'm all in, I'm all 673 00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:53,440 yours. You call the shots, you are 674 00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:59,560 authority. I want you to take a moment to 675 00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:03,200 think about yourself and your own life, your thoughts, your 676 00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:08,920 attitudes, your behaviors. Where have you let yourself off 677 00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:12,440 the hook in regards to obeying Jesus's commands? 678 00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:16,040 Where have you let yourself off the hook? 679 00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:20,000 You're so good at justifying why that doesn't really apply to me, 680 00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:28,320 and my hope is that you can feel a bit of fire in your bones to 681 00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:32,240 resist that, because that is dishonouring to Jesus. 682 00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:38,480 We don't get to choose what we want. 683 00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:43,400 He calls the shots. Whoever does not honor the Son 684 00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:45,120 does not honor the Father who sent him. 685 00:41:48,240 --> 00:41:50,160 So what do we do? What do we do with all this 686 00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:54,240 knowledge and understanding that Jesus and the Father are one? 687 00:41:54,240 --> 00:41:59,360 Jesus is God. Jesus drives it all home. 688 00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:03,600 In verse 24 he says, truly, truly, there that is again, 689 00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:09,720 listen up. I say to you, whoever hears my 690 00:42:09,720 --> 00:42:16,960 word and believes Him who sent me has eternal life, Zoe. 691 00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:22,160 He does not come into judgment, but he has passed from death to 692 00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:25,440 life. So listen up. 693 00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:31,920 He says truly, truly, anyone who hears right, He hears my word. 694 00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:36,960 You have to listen to His word. And now you realize you can hear 695 00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:38,880 something without really hearing something. 696 00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:41,480 You can hear someone without hearing someone. 697 00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:44,240 My wife reminds me of this often because she'll say something to 698 00:42:44,240 --> 00:42:48,720 me and I will have heard and comprehended in my brain what 699 00:42:48,720 --> 00:42:50,560 she said. I can even repeat it back to 700 00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:52,560 her. And sometimes I do because 701 00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:54,480 she'll say, did you hear me? And I'll say, yes, you said, da, 702 00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:56,960 da, da, da, da. And then she will say rightly. 703 00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:00,960 But you did not hear me right. You heard me with your ears. 704 00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:02,800 You did not hear me with your heart. 705 00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:06,920 So the Bible calls us not just to hear with our ears, but to 706 00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:11,160 hear with our hearts, right? Have you heard the words of 707 00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:15,560 Jesus? Has his word penetrated into 708 00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:18,520 your heart? Has it affected you? 709 00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:21,920 Has it been planted inside of you? 710 00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:25,720 You know, sometimes when I'm encouraging people, I'll give a 711 00:43:25,720 --> 00:43:27,040 word of encouragement and I will. 712 00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:30,880 I can tell they deflected it. You know, I said something kind, 713 00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:32,320 something true, and they just deflected it. 714 00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:34,760 It's like that didn't go in. I can tell by your expression 715 00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:37,440 that didn't go in, but likewise there are times when I'll 716 00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:42,200 encourage someone and I'll that hit the mark that sank in, that 717 00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:44,200 went in. That's how God's word must 718 00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:48,120 affect us. It's got to go into US, affect 719 00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:51,600 us, be planted in US. Jesus is calling us to hear. 720 00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:53,240 So I would just ask you, have you heard? 721 00:43:53,720 --> 00:43:58,760 Have you heard his words? Have you really heard Jesus's 722 00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:04,640 gospel that he came for the lost, for the weary, for the sin 723 00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:09,320 sick, that he died on a cross for your sins, that he says, if 724 00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:11,840 you believe in me, if you put your trust in me, I'll make you 725 00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:15,480 whole, I'll make you alive. If you heard him right, we're 726 00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:19,320 called to hear and then he says and believes him who sent me, 727 00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:21,320 right. So when you hear, you have to 728 00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:23,920 believe. This is more than just 729 00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:27,440 intellectually accepting information, right? 730 00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:31,840 Believing in the Bible is that leads to salvation is closer to 731 00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:33,280 our word. Trust. 732 00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:37,480 OK, It's closer to trust than just believing in formation. 733 00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:40,560 You believe it to the degree that you act upon it. 734 00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:44,400 Any skydivers out there? Have you been skydiving? 735 00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:47,440 Just a small handful of crazies among us. 736 00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:55,520 Would you jump out of that plane if you did not believe that that 737 00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:58,480 parachute was going to open anyone? 738 00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:02,680 Absolutely not. That is saving faith. 739 00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:04,760 That's what saving faith is like right there. 740 00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:08,280 It's like, I believe this to the degree that I'm willing to jump 741 00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:12,600 out of an airplane trusting that I will be caught in the merciful 742 00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:18,240 hands of Jesus. He says you got to hear, you got 743 00:45:18,240 --> 00:45:24,320 to believe, and you have to receive this eternal life, this 744 00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:29,560 Zoe life, this gift of grace, full, abundant, genuine, real, 745 00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:34,040 vigorous, overflowing, never ending life that is yours in 746 00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:36,800 Christ. The death, the judgment that you 747 00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:40,720 and I deserve because of our sin, absorbed in Jesus on that 748 00:45:40,720 --> 00:45:47,080 cross, the life of Jesus gifted to you, the Vita of God gifted 749 00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:52,200 to you and me through faith. Have you believed, have you 750 00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:55,240 heard, have you received that life? 751 00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:58,920 Have you taken hold of that life which is truly life? 752 00:46:01,720 --> 00:46:03,480 And I'm just going to add another one for fun. 753 00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:06,240 This isn't in the Bible here, but it is biblical. 754 00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:11,120 And I would add, have you shared this truth with someone else? 755 00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:15,760 Man, if you believe this to be true, and I hope you do as a 756 00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:18,720 Christian that you believe this, who do you know? 757 00:46:18,720 --> 00:46:22,840 Who doesn't know, right? Think about it for a second. 758 00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:29,760 You know God, You know the way to eternal life with God. 759 00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:35,520 Who have you shared it with? I think we need more people in 760 00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:40,280 the seats next to us who have not yet heard, who are just 761 00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:42,320 hearing, maybe for the first or second time. 762 00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:46,640 We have this wonderful gift that we get to share with people 763 00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:48,960 around us. We're called to hear, to 764 00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:52,520 believe, to receive, and then also to share with others. 765 00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:56,000 Just like Jesus came to seek and save the lost, He sends us out 766 00:46:56,720 --> 00:46:59,680 to seek the lost, to bring the lost in that they might be saved 767 00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:02,600 through faith in Jesus, who is God. 768 00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:06,240 Verse 30, I can do nothing on my own. 769 00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:13,520 As I hear, I judge, and my judgement is just because I seek 770 00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:17,360 not my own will, but the will of him who sent me. 771 00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:19,840 He said I healed that man because that's what my father 772 00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:21,280 was doing. I heard him. 773 00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:24,560 I did it, and I was just in doing it. 774 00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:27,840 I was right in doing it. I'm not some rogue prophet doing 775 00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:31,600 whatever I want to do. I'm doing the will of God who 776 00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:35,480 sent me because the Father and I are one. 777 00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:39,280 I'm God in the flesh. We're going to worship that God 778 00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:43,480 now together through song. So if you would please stand 779 00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:48,840 with me, I encourage you to honor Him today with your 780 00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:51,520 voices. That means saying that means 781 00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:56,840 sing loud, means sing with your heart, sing with energy, sing 782 00:47:56,840 --> 00:48:01,120 with faith, sing with joy. Because He's good, because he's 783 00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:04,800 with us, because Jesus went to the cross for our sins, and so 784 00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:09,720 we are forgiven and free in Him. We're going to worship together 785 00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:13,240 with a few songs and then we'll have a time of prayer at the end 786 00:48:13,240 --> 00:48:15,800 of our service for any who would like to come forward and receive 787 00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:17,200 prayer from a member of our prayer team. 788 00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:20,440 But first let me pray for all of us and for our time of worship, 789 00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:25,320 and then we'll sing together. Jesus, we worship you. 790 00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:30,280 You are so, so clear that you and the Father are one. 791 00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:34,800 You are God. And so we worship you, we honor 792 00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:36,520 you as God. We submit to you. 793 00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:41,120 We, we, we obey you Jesus, help us when we fail to obey you, 794 00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:45,320 when our pride takes over, when our just the old sinful man 795 00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:48,240 that's still alive in US, the old sinful woman that rises up 796 00:48:48,240 --> 00:48:51,120 and we disobey you. Forgive us for that. 797 00:48:52,720 --> 00:48:54,360 We want to honor you with our whole life. 798 00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:59,200 And so Jesus, I pray that this morning, these songs that we 799 00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:00,920 sing to you would be a blessing to you. 800 00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:03,160 They're to you, they're for you. They're about you. 801 00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:06,720 And so we offer them to you as as a gift, just a sign of our 802 00:49:06,720 --> 00:49:11,280 love and our gratitude. Be glorified. 803 00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:15,000 We love you, Lord Jesus, and we pray all these things in your 804 00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:18,160 good and powerful mighty name. Amen.