John, Pt. 23 | John 5:19-32

Covenant Reformed Baptist Church iconCovenant Reformed Baptist Church

2 views

February 5, 2023 Tullahoma, TN Pastor Jeff Rice

0 comments

00:04
All right, if you will join me take your copy of the scriptures
00:14
We'll be in John chapter 5 verses 19 through 32
00:21
John chapter 5 Verses 19 through 32.
00:26
This is the 23rd message in the book of John If you're looking in your pew
00:33
Bibles that is page 1076 Let me pray
00:41
Our Father in God Lord We come to you in the name of your beloved
00:47
Son Jesus He is the Christ the Son of the
00:52
Living God and Lord. We ask by his name and by his faithfulness
00:59
That you will at this time use me To speak forth your word and by which you feed your people
01:10
Or they have not come here to listen to me. They come here to feast At the foot of Jesus at Mount Zion Lord in his name
01:22
Bless us Amen I'm going to begin reading the text and I'll say up front
01:34
We will not get through all my points today So this is a lot of scripture.
01:41
So Beginning in verse 19 therefore
01:47
Jesus answered and Was saying to them that them. Here's the religious
01:53
Jews truly truly I say to you The Son can do nothing from himself
02:01
Unless It is something he sees the father doing
02:08
For who for whatever the father does these things the son also does in the same manner for the father loves the son and shows him all things that he himself is doing and the father will show him greater works than these
02:32
So that you will marvel For just as the father raises the dead and gives them life even so the son also gives life to whom he wishes for not even the father judges anyone but He has given all judgment to the son
02:56
So that all will honor the son even as they honor
03:03
The father He who does not honor the son does not honor the father who sent him truly
03:12
Truly I say to you He who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and Does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death in to life
03:32
Truly truly I say to you an hour is coming and now is when
03:38
This dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live
03:46
For just as the father has life in himself even so he gives life
03:54
Gives to the son also to have life in himself and he gave him authority to Execute judgment because he is the son of man.
04:07
Do not marvel at This for an hour is coming in which all
04:13
Who are in the tombs will hear his voice? and Will come forth
04:21
Those who did good deeds to the resurrection of life And those who committed evil deeds to the resurrection of judgment.
04:33
I Can do nothing for myself as I hear I judge and my judgment is righteous because I do not seek my own will but the will of him who sent me if I alone bear witness about myself
04:55
My witness is not true There is another who bears witness about me and I know that the witness which he gives about me is true our theme for this
05:12
Lord's Day is the equality of Jesus with the father the equality of Jesus with the father my proposition is something that we have spoken about many times
05:26
Which is in every way that the father is God Jesus also is
05:33
God the father is not Outgauding Jesus, right? You know like this this term in the streets where if you hang out with someone and you have this this male
05:44
Dominance where people guys try to outman other men, right? We try to outdo one another the father does not out
05:52
God Jesus in Every way that the father is
05:57
God. Jesus also is God also Holy Spirit is
06:03
God Particularly with our text the equality here is speaking about works
06:09
The Equality from our text is speaking about works and the works here done by God the father are the same kind of works done by God the
06:23
Son The same question our text raises is the question that we have to ask ourselves today that is
06:33
Who is? Jesus C .s. Lewis one of the great authors of All time in my opinion says this quote
06:44
I Am trying here to prevent anyone from saying
06:51
The real if the really foolish thing that people often say about him
06:56
I Am ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher
07:02
But I don't accept his claim to be God. This is the one thing we must not say a
07:13
Man who is merely a man and says the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher
07:21
He would either be a lunatic on the level of a man who says he is a poached egg or Else, he would be the devil of hell
07:32
You must make a choice Either this man was and is the
07:38
Son of God Or else a madman or something worse
07:44
You can shut him up for a fool. You can spit at him and kill him as a demon
07:50
Or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher
08:04
He has not left that open to us He did not intend to do so in quotes
08:18
Jesus is either a liar a lunatic or Lord, right?
08:24
That's just what it comes down to if if he was not God and knew he was not
08:30
God then he is a liar right If he was not
08:36
God, but believed himself to be God He is a lunatic if our only two options were these two
08:46
Our gathering here together is for nothing, right? We echo what
08:52
Paul says we are to be among most people pitied and you should never call someone who claimed to be
09:02
God and knew he wasn't or Claimed to be God and wasn't but believed himself to be a good moral teacher
09:12
Her other option is is that he is Lord. He is who he says he is And if that is true, you still cannot say that he was only a good teacher
09:23
The option is not there Jesus being only a good teacher that option is not there
09:31
If he is Lord, we are to receive him as such and we are to honor him as such
09:40
His claim to deity does not allow for any of us to have that option of good teacher he is either a liar a lunatic
09:53
Or he is Lord So who is Jesus in our context?
10:00
We have Jesus traveling to Jerusalem and one of the three major feast days and at Jerusalem He spots a lame man lying by the pool of Bethesda Hoping to get healed right two weeks ago.
10:12
We walked through this This story that took place so I won't revisit that If he wasn't here
10:22
It should be on YouTube soon You can go on the Facebook page You can go on the
10:27
Facebook page and you can see it there But I've been in that we spoke about how
10:33
Jesus healed a man on the Sabbath day and told him to pick up his map We saw that from the book of Jeremiah that that that they were not supposed to carry any kind of a load on The Sabbath day and we also saw that Sabbath day keeping was the sign of the
10:49
Mosaic covenant In our outline today, we were going to see the equality of Jesus The equality that Jesus shares with his father
11:00
He does whatever the father is doing. He raises the dead and gives life He has been given all judgment and he receives honor just as the father so point number one
11:13
He does whatever the father is doing point number two He raises the dead and gives life point number three he has been given all judgment and point number four
11:26
He receives honor just as the father so we'll only go through two of the points today
11:33
So if you will join me back in our text we'll read verses 19 and 20 19 and 20 there for Jesus answered and Was saying to them remember the them here is the
11:50
Jews who were coming against him Claiming that he broke the Sabbath and making himself equal with God He said to them truly truly
12:00
I say to you religious Jews the son Can do nothing from himself unless it is something he sees the father doing
12:13
For whatever the father does these things the son also does
12:19
Listen in the same manner for the father loves the son and shows him all things that he himself is doing and the father will
12:33
Show him greater works than these so that you religious Jews will marvel
12:41
So this right here is coming in the context Of that we see taking place in verses 16 through 18 verse 16 we have that Speaking about the reason speaking about the reason they were persecuting
12:56
Jesus It says and for this reason him making a lame man
13:01
Well, and that lame man walking carrying his man on the Sabbath the Jews were
13:07
Persecuting Jesus because he was doing these things that these things would be making a lame man.
13:13
Well on the Sabbath But he answered them my father is
13:21
Working until now and I myself am working For this reason the breaking of the
13:28
Sabbath doing the miracles calling him father calling the father Calling God his father for this reason therefore
13:34
The Jews were seeking all the more to kill him because he was not only breaking the
13:40
Sabbath But he was also calling God his own father making himself equal with God so we're not gonna really touch
13:47
Sabbath here just the the fact that Jesus has been accused of Blaspheming really by calling
13:55
God his father, right? He didn't say our father right if you go back two weeks ago.
14:01
I mentioned this in there Also, he didn't say our father including himself with the
14:07
Jews. He said my father We remember in the Lord's Prayer Jesus taught his disciples to pray and we pray that every
14:14
Lord's Day we pray our Father we say our father We're including that all of us are his children in in one way by saying
14:24
Jesus saying my father He is excluding himself from the group Claiming that he himself is the
14:32
Son of God and so By that the Jews were saying that he was making himself
14:37
Equal with God Jesus seems to be telling these religious Jews that he is able to heal on the
14:45
Sabbath the reason why is because that is the work of God Jesus coming and Doing these mighty works on the
14:54
Sabbath is a part of the work of God We also saw two weeks ago that Jesus was the
14:59
Lord of the Sabbath We saw that the Sabbath was not made for man. I Was made we saw that the
15:09
Sabbath was made for man not man for the Sabbath Meaning like if you were to to take the principle that we use in general equity
15:17
Meaning that it was a way to make sure That there was a day of rest.
15:24
So if you at this time Was a master you had slaves
15:29
The Sabbath meant that you can't work your slaves seven days a week You have to give them a day off if you were a business owner
15:37
You cannot work your employees seven days a week. You must give them a day off Well, this is something that we can extract from that and say yes, absolutely.
15:47
This is something that we need, right? We don't need people Working seven days a week or you know, you might be someone what we call a workaholic, right?
15:58
And you're just trying to work your life away So a principle that we can take from Sabbath is that you
16:07
You need rest. You don't need to work your life away, right?
16:12
So this is what's called general equity of course, it's a moral law there was a
16:20
Just penalty for people that did not obey Sabbath and that just penalty was death
16:25
And so I would say we're not Including death for a workaholic, but please
16:32
Take a day off. Don't work your life away. So that's a general equity That's something that we can look at and say yes, this is something that we can apply to our own lives today
16:44
Because it was We was made for us in that way. God does not want us to live our life
16:51
Working he wants us to take a day of rest and also pointed out that we
16:56
You be far and it would be hard for you to try to prove from the text that this was
17:02
Generally speaking about a day of worship because in Jewish custom every day was a day of worship
17:10
Right every day. There was something to do in temples and synagogues So it wasn't so much of gathering together to worship
17:18
God it was Not working Don't work your life away and Jesus came and he was performing miracles on the
17:28
Sabbath And so because of that Including himself with the father that the he is the father's son.
17:35
They accused him of Blaspheming which also carried a just penalty of death
17:42
Jesus doing whatever the father does seems to be What it what is driving this discourse, right?
17:51
So if you if you just read over this discourse, you see that it's
17:56
Jesus Identifying himself with God concerning works
18:02
Jesus here has Jesus begins his argument by by Why he is able to do these works so Jesus if you as we walk through this
18:14
We're going to see the reason why he's he is saying that he is able to do the works of God Do these very works that he's doing such as healing people on the
18:24
Sabbath and it's because the father Loves him So he is able to do what the father does
18:31
Because the father loves him. That's what he's proclaiming I am able to do this because I am loved by my father in John chapter 3 verse 35 it says the father
18:43
Jesus speaking the father loves the son and Has given him all things until his hands so everything that the father does
18:52
Jesus is able to do Verse 17. He calls God father my father, but in verse 20
19:00
Speaking of God the father he see he declared he calls himself the father
19:06
So he says the father loves the son So two ways that he's supposedly in the eyes of the
19:12
Jews are is blaspheming first He doesn't include them in his he doesn't say our father.
19:18
He says my father, but then he says that the father loves the son He didn't he doesn't say that the father loves his sons
19:26
Right. He's excluding himself from the religious Jewish group He doesn't say the father loves the sons the
19:33
Jews. He says but the father loves the son and he's pointing to himself so again, if you're a religious
19:40
Jew at this time if you hold to the The law of God in a strict form you would have to say he is blaspheming and he deserves to die
19:50
So Jesus here is making himself equal with God So Jesus being the son of God calling himself
19:59
God He is making himself equal with God. Now what we need to understand here is that the equality here is being
20:08
Being remember if we're gonna walk through the doctrine of God There is only one
20:14
God right being one being the the one what the three who's one the one
20:19
What is the one being the three who's are the father son and the Holy Spirit? So his equality with God is in the being right the one being he is not saying that him and the father
20:33
Are the same person he's not saying that he is the father Right.
20:38
That's not what Jesus is saying. He is saying that he is equal with God Speaking of the being speaking of the name
20:46
Yahweh Yahweh represents the being of God so the equality in Referent to the being not the person
20:58
He begins to speak in a way I Think that we're all gonna be able to appreciate this.
21:03
He speaks in a way That would be familiar to the Jews by story but not by experience
21:13
Meaning a prophetic word, right So he is speaking in such a way that he's able to see the father and the father is showing him works so this would been familiar to them in a and by story only
21:29
Right the these stories of the prophets were passed down to the Jewish people
21:34
So by story only they were able to understand in a way of what he was saying.
21:40
They had never experienced prophets in their time
21:45
Remember before John the Baptist it had been 400 years Since God has spoken by way of prophets
21:54
Jesus is saying he does what he sees the father doing
22:00
Right. So so Jesus is saying he does that the works that he is doing he is able to see the father doing these works
22:11
Jesus here is saying that he is able to experience the father in a way
22:17
That way you and I understand theologically But we don't understand in practice we don't understand what he's
22:25
Experiencing in practice because we you and I we don't see the father right with our eyes.
22:31
We don't see the father We don't have an inner eyesight of what the father is doing in heaven We understand it theologically, but we don't understand it in practice the same with the
22:41
Jews They understood it by stories being passed down to them, but they didn't understand it in experience
22:48
We understand it This experience that he's having theologically, but we don't understand it in practice the
22:56
Jews would have probably understood this experience by way of visions or dreams
23:02
So this is how the prophets were spoke to by way of visions or dreams or even God coming in an angelic being the angel of the
23:12
Lord We would probably understand this more dealing with his omniscience
23:17
The omniscience of Jesus Christ if you turn in your Bible to John chapter 3 verse 13 and I'm going to add some words at the end that I believe should be in the text because I hold to the majority text view so verse 13 says and No one has ascended into heaven
23:45
But he who descended from heaven the son of man. That's a messianic claim
23:51
And so our Bibles also in my opinion should have who is in heaven
23:59
Who is in heaven? So if you take the manuscripts that we have the most of it
24:11
Says who is in heaven so in some way we have Jesus on earth
24:18
But it's in heaven, and I believe it's speaking of his omniscience
24:26
We understand that the hypo we understand through the hypostatic Union Jesus has two natures two natures the divine nature and the human nature and Yet he was he is one
24:39
Christ one Christ two natures Jesus in his divine nature is
24:45
Omniscience he can hold all things together by the word of his power, right?
24:51
He can be on earth present with his disciples While at the same time experiencing his father in heaven
25:00
So that's his divine nature is able to do these things he can he can be with his disciples
25:07
Hold all things together by the word of his power and experience his father in heaven
25:14
The human nature of Jesus can only be in one place at one time So he is able to experience the father in a way that we don't understand an experience.
25:26
We're not omniscient We don't hold all things together. We cannot be here and there Our understanding is merely theological
25:37
And as we transition the greater works than these That will cause them to marvel will be the rest of what our verses are speaking about so point number two
25:49
He raises the dead Look at verse 21
25:57
For as the father Raises the dead and gives them life even so the son also
26:08
Gives life to whom he wishes Now what I want to do is a little different than what we normally do
26:17
Because there's two sections as you see right here. There's two paragraphs you if you have the LSB The first paragraph is the
26:24
Jesus Equality with the father and then the second paragraph would be the two resurrections now
26:35
If you walk through this and we're going to walk through it this way We're going to see that these two parallel each other that Jesus mentioned something in one paragraph
26:44
But the answer a fuller picture of it comes in the next paragraph and so what we're going to do is
26:51
I want to We're going to look at today verse 21 and our second point along with verse 25 and 26
27:00
So I'm gonna read verse 21 again, then we'll read verse 25 and 26 21
27:10
For just as the father raises the dead and gives them life even so the son
27:17
Also gives life to whom he wishes verse 25 truly Truly I say to you an hour is coming in now is
27:28
When the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live
27:35
For just as the father has life in himself Even so he gave to the son also to have life in himself now the first thing to notice here is
27:52
The raising of the dead unto life is not a future judgment It's not a future raising of the dead.
28:00
We'll see that in verses 22 Connected to 27 and 28 verse 22 connected to 27 and 28
28:11
And we'll look at that next week the raising of the dead in verses 21 25 and 26 is speaking about Regeneration it's speaking about the new birth, which we clearly walk through in John chapter 3 right as Jesus as John is writing this gospel
28:29
And after he says something or makes a statement or makes a theological term He's not leaving it there right and as he's continuing to write he's bringing it with him the whole way
28:41
So we're gonna see this brought through the gospel all the way through this idea of the new birth
28:49
Remember Jesus speaking with Nicodemus. He tells him unless the man is born again. He cannot see he cannot enter the kingdom of God and This is speaking about what we see taking place in Ezekiel 36.
29:01
It's the regeneration that that God himself is going to to Sprinkle us with clean water.
29:08
He's going to remove our heart of stone Give us a heart of flesh and put his spirit in us
29:15
That will cause us to keep his law Now for our proof text
29:24
I want us to look at Ephesians chapter 2 Ephesians chapter 2 and let's look at verse 1
29:36
Ephesians chapter 2 verse 1 and You were dead in In your transgressions and sins
29:47
Let's stop right there and you were dead and your transgressions and sins
29:59
The death here expressed in Ephesians chapter 2 verse 1 is spiritual death
30:05
It's spiritual death Every one of us were born When we were born we were born
30:13
Physically alive right we We're physically alive every one of us.
30:19
We're born. We're physically alive, but we are Spiritually dead. This is what
30:24
Scripture tells us Think about what I just said a minute ago with that Ezekiel passage that God puts his spirit in us
30:32
We're born without the Spirit of God in us. We're born spiritually dead spiritually dead means
30:41
Spiritually listen to this spiritually unable to live for God so Spiritually dead means that you are born spiritually unable to live for God and spiritually unable to Respond to the call of God so not only can you not live for God remember?
31:03
He has to put his spirit in you that causes you to obey his law But you you are spiritually unable to respond
31:11
To the call of God and this right here would be the gospel so when someone's witnessing to you are if you hear a preacher preaching they're preaching the gospel or or In the
31:24
Reformed circle we say this quite often you know no one just wakes up and decides to be a Christian Right so whether it's we're saying that no one wakes up and decides to be a
31:33
Christian But we're also saying even if you're hearing the gospel preach you can't respond to that call
31:39
You're unable to respond Because you're spiritually dead we hear people debating the idea of free will all the time
31:54
This free will idea this Spiritual death that we're speaking about that is the dividing wall
32:03
That your will cannot climb over You cannot climb over the fact that you are spiritually dead
32:13
In order for anyone to not be spiritually dead they must be given life
32:20
And that is what our text is talking about so if you look back at our text again
32:28
I'm gonna read again. I'm gonna try to do it a little slower John 5 21 25 and 26 and as I'm reading it think about Spiritual death not a physical resurrection, but a spiritual death that's being spirit spiritual with the spiritual resurrection
32:48
Again next week we'll see the physical death with physical resurrection For just as the father
32:57
Raises the dead so if you just look at verse 21 it seems to be talking about physical That's why I'm saying like the next portion gives more light for just as the father
33:06
Raises the dead and gives them life even so the son also gives life to whom he wishes
33:19
Truly truly I say to you an hour is Coming right here and now is
33:28
So if this was future there wouldn't be no and now is When the dead will hear the voice of the
33:36
Son of God and those who hear will live For just as the father has life in himself even so he gives
33:44
To the son also to have life in himself Now turn back to Ephesians chapter 2
33:58
Ephesians chapter 2 tells us what spiritual death looks like Ephesians 2 will read verses 1 through 3
34:09
And you were dead and the transgressions of your sins in which you
34:16
Formerly walked according to the course of this world according to the ruler of the power of the air the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedient among whom we also
34:34
Formerly conducted ourselves in the lust of our flesh Doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind we were by nature
34:48
Children of wrath even as the rest of mankind our spiritual death
34:55
Was are by nature were by nature born Spiritually dead the conduct of the spiritual death is fleshly
35:10
I Sounds weird right the conduct of the spiritual death of spiritual death is fleshly because we're born physically alive
35:22
And the conduct that's been that that takes place in the spiritual dead is fleshly
35:27
They conduct themselves it says in the lust of the flesh Doing the desires of the flesh and their mind the
35:37
Greek word here for flesh as Actually speaking about bodies Like when it says the flesh conducting yourself in the flesh.
35:46
It's this the Greek word for body That's all it means is your body The Greek word here for mind speaks about thoughts and imaginations
35:57
Thoughts and imaginations meaning not only are we living for our flesh or our
36:04
Let me not put it on us. Not only are they the spiritual dead living for their flesh
36:11
But that their flesh is what draw is what's been driven by their mind their flesh is only doing
36:18
What their mind tells them to do right? They're only reacting on the thoughts the imaginations of their their mind their heart the will of a person
36:33
You talk about this the whole free will controversy the will of a person who is driven by their mind
36:40
Carrying out the desires of their flesh is not free right if You are living for the desires of your flesh, and it's being driven by the imagination of your mind
36:56
You're not free You're enslaved
37:03
You cannot Live for God and you cannot respond to the call
37:11
You're unable to I hit this too many times.
37:17
Okay, the only way for them to be made
37:23
Alive spiritually and able to respond to the call of God Again, we go back to John 3 is regeneration.
37:31
You must be born again And as the father has the power to raise the dead and to give life
37:42
Jesus has the power to raise the dead and give life.
37:48
This is what's 21 is talking about. So let's look back at 21 I'm gonna point out something real quick 21
37:58
Chapter John chapter 5 verse 21 for just as the father Raises the dead and gives them life even so the son also gives life to him right here
38:10
He wishes to whom he wishes on the great day of judgment
38:17
All people are going to get life and come out of their graves Right everyone that's that has died will come forth will receive some kind of life new bodies and will come out of their graves some will go to To be with God and some are going to go into destruction, but but every one of them come out the grave alive
38:42
This resurrection this raising of the dead he says to whom he wishes Meaning that's this this resurrection is not for everyone this raising of the dead is not for everyone
38:54
But it's for whom he wishes Right and we could go back to the doctrine of election, which we're not going to do right now
39:02
We we walk through that previously in this in this gospel notice
39:11
He doesn't say Again, it's everyone. It's not to everyone but also notice that this life regeneration that's being spoken about it's talking about the first and between the first and second advent so first advent
39:30
Jesus Christ the the hypostatic Union God enters into creation Jesus becomes flesh
39:38
Right that's first advent Jesus enters into time the infinite becomes finite the
39:44
Creator enters creation first advent second advent Jesus comes back
39:51
His feet touched down on earth second coming and at that moment
39:57
He will judge the living and the dead so what takes place between first advent and second advent is
40:05
Regeneration this is what this raising of the dead is speaking about it says an hour is coming and now is
40:14
This is speaking about the first advent an hour is coming in verse 28 if you see verse 28
40:21
It says do not marvel at this for an hour is coming It doesn't say and now is and an hour is coming.
40:29
That's future tense It's not that our the hour is coming and now is
40:38
This is the one that's coming. That's future tense This is speaking about the second advent the return of Jesus Christ and when that happens
40:48
That raising of the dead again. We'll look at that next week from verse 28 will take place so Let's just read that for clarity
40:57
Verse 28 do not marvel at this I want you to see if you notice the difference an hour is coming in which all
41:06
Not who he wishes right all Who are in the tombs will hear his voice and Will come forth and Those who did good deeds to the resurrection of life and those who committed evil deeds to the resurrection of judgment
41:25
So in verse 21 again verse 21 doesn't Doesn't separate the two so if you just read verse 21
41:33
It seems like it's speaking about what verse 28 is speaking about it doesn't seem to be speaking about a a
41:40
Spiritual resurrection, that's why you have to look at 25 26 and then
41:47
Again 27 through 29. There's two resurrections there
41:58
So back to where we are but the hour is coming and now is this life from the dead is regeneration and It takes place when a spiritual dead person hears the voice of the
42:16
Son of God, so how does it take place a spiritually dead person
42:21
Hears the voice of the Son of God. That's what it says verse 21
42:31
No, excuse me verse 25 is now coming is now here when the dead will hear the voice of the
42:41
Son of God So the a good question to ask is this How does a spiritually dead?
42:50
Person hear the voice of the Son of God right how does the spiritual dead hear the voice of the
42:55
Son of God and I believe that it's through gospel preaching and gospel conversation through gospel preaching whether it be behind the pulpit on a street corner or You sitting around a table talking with family or talking with friends
43:14
That that's how they hear the voice of the Son of God when ministering the gospel to the spiritually dead those who hear the voice of the
43:23
Son of God are Given life and those who hear my voice or your voice remain dead in their trespasses and sins
43:32
Right like something happens in the preaching of the gospel whether you're ministering
43:37
By by speaking forth the truth and pulpits are on streets or just having conversation
43:42
To where it's not you speaking or or we can say that's not
43:47
You who they are hearing So as I'm preaching if they do not hear the voice of Christ calling them
43:56
They will remain dead in their trespasses and sins They must hear the voice of the
44:02
Son of God the gospel is God's power for salvation So somehow as the gospel is being ministered the voice of God speaks forth
44:12
Whether it's like we see in John 11 when he calls for Lazarus Lazarus come forth
44:18
You know for me, you know, I can't tell you that I actually heard Jesus Jesus and Jeff come forth
44:24
But it's through that message of the gospel right that that I heard the voice of the Son of God I was given life.
44:31
I was given life. I was given faith to believe and You so so you and I when we call someone to repent
44:43
So this is the the gospel called the call of God when we call someone to repent and believe
44:49
We we can't call them to repent and believe without speaking forth The Message of reconciliation.
44:57
So after we preach to them the message of reconciliation we call them to repent and believe
45:04
They cannot respond to gospel proclamation unless they hear the voice of God Salvation is through the proclamation of the gospel.
45:17
That is the message of reconciliation So when you're witnessing to someone You know, you have to talk about God who is
45:26
God you have to talk about man who is man and you have to talk About Jesus who is
45:31
Jesus and then you have to call them to repentance right, this is the
45:38
Steps right. We need to tell people that there's only one God and you are not him and that this one
45:46
God has revealed himself to us in time through Jesus Christ who lived the life that we could not live and he took upon himself the death that we deserve because We have broken
45:59
God's law and because we have broken God's law. We are condemned but Reconciliation is given to us because God so loved the world
46:09
Red yellow black and white he sent his son to live the life They could not live and to take their punishment and then we call them to faith and we call them to believe
46:20
Right, if you do not take those steps, they cannot hear the voice of God They cannot hear
46:27
Christ. The gospel is God's power for salvation now real quick by way of conclusion
46:35
Jesus has absolute Equality with the father he does what he sees the father doing think omniscience
46:45
Both the father and the son raised the dead and give life and Again, I would add that to spiritual death and also physical the
46:58
Jews understood Jesus to be making himself equal with God calling God his own father and by Calling the father calling himself the father's son
47:10
The question is is is what do you understand Jesus to be doing here?
47:16
Right is Jesus not really making himself equal with God Right does it seem to be that's what he's doing
47:24
But that's not really what he's doing right as we or is is you know Like we have some critics say well, he's not actually saying he's
47:32
God's what the Muslims will say He's not actually saying he's God and you got the one is Pentecostals are saying Well, he's actually saying he is the father when he says that he's
47:40
God. He's actually saying that him and the father are the same Right, or is he actually?
47:47
Making himself equal concern and deity the him and the father He the things that he's doing.
47:54
He's actually seeing the father do Omniscience and because both of them shared deity right the being of God He's able to do what the father is doing is that what you believe
48:07
Right. Do you believe that that Jesus is
48:14
God meaning? the second person of the Trinity Or is
48:20
Jesus just a liar Is he a lunatic on the level of a man who believed he is a poached egg
48:30
Or he's Lord right like those are only three options Jesus did live
48:35
Jesus of Nazareth is a real historical being And every one of us who live and die we have to make a choice is he a liar
48:48
Is he a lunatic? Or is he Lord because I can tell you this he's not just a good teacher.
48:57
I pray this day You believe he is Lord. I'm available to anyone who wants to talk
49:05
Pastor Cowan Josh I might should just say your leadership We're available.
49:12
If you want to talk join me in prayer Father Lord, we thank you for your word
49:23
We thank you that you have sent your son and that reconciliation is made not because We're very intellectual and we were able to you know, see the good from the bad
49:40
But because you Through this message have raised us up to spiritual life every one of us
49:48
Lord. We're born shaking our fist sending Assault words at you
49:56
Worshiping ourselves in the mirror Or any one of these spiritually dead people if had the opportunity would remove you from the throne and sit on it themselves
50:12
But we're so thankful That you have waken us to spiritual truth that you have given us a new heart
50:23
That beats for you and you have placed your spirit in us and that you have washed us with pure water
50:30
And then now we are able to see the truth and live for you in Jesus Well, we thank you for this meal that we are about to receive
50:41
And Lord, I just pray that you will help us to understand that this is a way that you are growing us in holiness
50:49
That you have given to the church word and sacrament Had a wonderful conversation last week about it
50:59
Please Lord in Jesus name Use this to grow us in holiness