John 12:34-41 (Damned, for the Glory of God)

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The Positive Dominion of Christ and the Coming Setbacks

Over the last several weeks. We've been talking about the positive aspects of Jesus's kingdom. We've been talking about the wonderful things we've been talking about his being anointed by Mary To be king.

We've we've talked about him riding into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey with the praise of the city Following him. We've been talking about how he fulfilled the prophecies and we talked about explicitly How he's going to have dominion over the entire world.

The Old Testament prophesies that Jesus will eventually own the nations and that all the families of the earth. We blessed in him. It's almost like the disciples were singing a starship song from the 1980s.

We can build this thing together. We can we can stand strong forever. Nothing's gonna stop us now, right? That's the anthem that was sort of playing on the on the Spotify playlist of the disciples and.

Yet we know That it's not always joy and sunshine and roses in the kingdom of God. Yes, the kingdom of God is gonna grow. Yes, the kingdom of God is going to take over the entire world as the water covers The sea it's a back access.

But it's not always Positive there's moments where we go three steps forward and then there's moments where we go two steps back. There's moments where we see setbacks and we're in a moment right now of setbacks in this country while the gospel is growing in places like China and places even like Nigeria where they're being persecuted.

The Gospels growing in Africa in such a way that I read a demographic study a couple years ago that blew my mind. Did you know that if you line up every single Christian on earth according to demographics white male white female black male black female?

Asian you line them up the most populous group of Christians on earth is black female. Did you know that? There's more black women Christians on earth than any other demographic the gospel. Although it's in its infancy form is exploding in Africa, but it's really really Seeing some setbacks here.

We know that these things are going to happen. Because Dominion doesn't just mean that God is going to take control of the world and everything is going to be Rosy every single moment the enemy is gonna fight back.

The world the flesh and the devil are going to fight against the advance of the kingdom of God. We're seeing that now in our country. We're seeing a vital aspect of Dominion that God is not only going to claim for himself a world But he's also going to claim those who are not a part of his new world.

He's not only going to claim those who are his he's also going to declare those who are not. And that's the negative side of Dominion. I don't mean negative as though it's it's not glorious. Because God gets glory and everything that he does.

What I mean is that.

For us.

It's hard topic to talk about. It's God choosing his people in God choosing those who are not and we see This negative side of Dominion in our passage today. Today what I want us to do is In them as we draw near to the end of summer.

Everyone is happy. I want to talk about a very hard topic. I want to talk about nine aspects of what unbelief is and Not just what unbelief is. Consequences that will be given to those who don't believe.

It's not that we just don't believe and have faith their Consequences to not believing in Jesus we're gonna look at nine of them in our passage today and then as we close. We're gonna look at application.

What does this mean for us? What does this mean for us who believe? What does this mean for us here in this room? We're still not sure. What does it mean for us who are here who think that we're Christians?

But aren't what does it mean holistically? That's what we're gonna be looking at today. So if you will turn with me to John 12 34 through 41 as we examine these passages together. The crowd that gives you a hint where it's going.

John always begins his passages with the crowd when it's negative. The crowd then answered him. We have heard out of the law that the Christ is to remain forever. And how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up?

Who is this Son of Man? So Jesus said to them for a little while longer the light is among you walk while you have the light so that the darkness Will not overtake you. He who walks in the darkness Does not know where he goes.

While you have the light believe in the light so that you may become sons of the light. These things Jesus spoke and he went away and hid himself from them. But though he had performed so many signs before them yet they were not believing in him.

This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet when he spoke Lord who has believed our report and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed for this reason? They could not believe. For Isaiah said once again, he has blinded their eyes and he has hardened their heart.

So that they would not see with their eyes and perceive with their heart and Be converted so that I would heal them. These things Isaiah said because he saw his glory and he spoke of him. Let's pray Lord, we are bound to your scriptures.

We are bound to preach what is in your scriptures. We don't get to reinterpret them. We don't get to Put a positive spin on them so that our carnal Sin infected minds can better digest them. We must preach what the word says.

We must embrace what the word says. Lord I pray today as we examine these passages which are very hard for the carnal mind to accept Lord I pray that those who are truly yours would rejoice and see the glory.

That you have even on this negative side of Dominion and Lord, I pray That for all those who are not Lord I pray that you would show them great mercy. Give them your Holy Spirit. So that their eyes would be open and they could see the truth from Scripture.

So they would be converted. Lord, I pray these things in Christ's name. Amen. We know from the Bible that unbelief is A part of the human condition. It shows up in the very beginning in the Garden of Eden.

It's a disease that entered into the framework of humanity from one act of rebellion against God. God gave the rules. Humanity chose not to follow them not out of good intention. Humanity chose to elevate themselves to be like God and as a result There were dire consequences for their unbelief.

Again, unbelief is not just the absence of faith unbelief. It is that. But it's also Consequences that come upon you that make your reality worse. Perhaps the greatest consequence of all one that we won't be talking about That much today is that it blinds you even to its existence.

Sin blinds you to the fact that it's tempting you sin blinds you to the fact that it's polluting you sin blinds you to The fact that it's corrupting you and decaying you so that you say I'm okay. And yet you're not without the external aid of God and God alone.

These consequences are insurmountable. Humans cannot Save themselves. They must have a Savior. We we know from the Bible that we were born with unbelief in our hearts. The psalm says that we came forth.

We were born in iniquity. We were conceived in iniquity. So that means that everyone in this room who has a father and mother Just everyone Was conceived in iniquity. The only person who didn't have both father and mother was Jesus Christ.

Sin nature did not transfer to him. But to all of us it did. That's the curse of unbelief that you have inherited death as your reality. The consequences that we're going to be talking about which there are nine of them this morning are also yours.

The only way that you can Be free from these things is if Christ Claims you as his own. So let's begin the first consequence of unbelief this morning is that you will be blind to what the scripture teaches if You're in your sins if you are lost if you're an unbeliever, you will be blind to what the scripture says.

You can't understand it. You can't interpret it. You can't know the meaning of the text. You will be blind After everything that Jesus has done for these people. It says after all the miracles after all the things that he's shown them all the signs all the wonders all the sermons everything that He's shown them.

They still do not believe After all of the filled prophecies after all the scriptures that he quoted, you know when Jesus says you've heard it said, but I tell you After all of that, they're still Blind to what the scriptures are actually saying.

They in this passage the crowd in this passage is the Jews this group of people that love to clamor and Cling to Jesus as he was teaching and then they would pop up every now and then and they would say oh.

But wait, doesn't it say in the scripture? It's that same group. It's the same group that in John chapter 2 Jesus says that he would not entrust himself to. Because he knew the heart of man. He knew what was in man.

And he would not give himself to these particular people because he knew what was in them. This is the same group of people than John chapter 6 when he preaches a hard sermon they say these things are hard and we're Gonna leave you and abandon you.

Jesus when Jesus speaks truth. They don't have the spirit to help them understand that truth and they get offended by it and they leave and that's what's happening here. They're quoting the scriptures in total ignorance.

Do you remember the same group in Matthew 22 when they said Jesus is it right for us to pay taxes to Caesar? They weren't asking because they wanted an economics lesson. They were trying to trick him.

They were weaponizing scripture against him. And then when he humiliated them another group of people came up this time the Sadducees and they said Jesus. Who's a brother had seven or there were seven brothers and one married a woman?

He died then the second one married her and then he died and then on and on to the seventh. Whose wife will she be in the resurrection? They weren't asking because they really wanted to know. They were asking because they wanted to trick Jesus.

They were weaponizing scripture against Jesus. This is the propensity of the antagonistic Jews at the time that Jesus was ministering that they would Weaponized scripture to try to trick him and to try to trap him.

This is especially true near the end of his ministry where they hate him and they want to see him Humiliated and it always backfires and blows up in their face. Have you ever met anybody like this today still exist where they'll say things like Hey Kendall.

Do you believe that homosexuality is a sin and you'll say yes. The Bible says that homosexuality is a sin and then they'll then they'll without a moment's notice. They'll say but doesn't the Bible also say you can't eat shrimp and then they'll laugh like they've accomplished something profound.

They don't understand the word. They're not they don't understand that Christ has fulfilled the ceremonial mall so that we can eat shrimp and pork and that we can have Clothing with different fibers and that we can those things have been put away.

But the moral law of God has not been put away. They don't understand scripture. So when they say those things they showcase their ignorance. Which is rampant among unbelievers because they cannot know the Bible.

He has clouded their mind he has veiled them so that they cannot understand the truth of Scripture. Listen what they say. Then the crowd then answered him we Pointing themselves at the authority have heard out of the law.

We have heard out of the law that the Christ is to remain forever. And how can you say The Son of Man must be lifted up. Who is the Son of Man. This crowd is not coming like the beggar who says I believe but God help me with my unbelief.

They're not coming like Mary Who in Gabriel tells her that as a virgin she's going to be expecting and have a child and she says how can these things?

Be.

That wasn't her saying Angel you're wrong. How can these things be? She's trying to believe. She's yearning to believe but yet. She's confused in her humanity. That's the difference between a believer and an unbeliever when it comes to Scripture.

A Believer comes to the text and says these things are really difficult for me to understand. How can I possibly understand. The Lord help me understand them. The unbeliever comes and says I can't believe this.

How can these things be?

Do you see the disposition difference one comes hoping to believe. One comes hoping to be justified in their unbelief? One comes with doubt seeking answers. One comes without seeking justification. That's the difference.

The unbeliever is not coming to try to understand The Scriptures. The unbelievers coming to justify themselves in their unbelief. Both of them have confusion. Confusion is not the problem. The Lord has never condemned someone because they were confused.

The Lord has never I want someone to hear this has never condemned someone because you didn't understand a hard doctrine. Never. Do not look down on yourself. Because you're wrestling with predestination or you're wrestling with eschatology or you're wrestling with penal substitutionary atonement or plenary inspiration of Scripture.

Whatever other doctrine you're wrestling with it. You're like, I don't get it. It's not Confusion that's the problem. It's the disposition. It's the disposition. Do you want to believe. Are you yearning to believe?

Are you submitting your? confusion to the Lord. Are you coming looking for justification? The truth one of the things that it does more clearly than anything else is it divides. We live in a world today where people say That we shouldn't divide over anything that everybody your truth your truth my truth my truth that you know, whatever.

No, that's not what truth does. That's a lie. If a lie unites or if something unites everyone in error. Then it is a lie.

Truth.

Necessarily divides. It divides the sheep and the goats. It divides the wheat and the chaff. It divides the bone and the marrow. The truth will expose on what team you're on. You're either on the team of truth or you're in the team of lies.

You're even the truth of God or you're in the Camp of the enemy. Truth will expose you. And when that happens Maybe you get offended in the church today in churches that preach the truth. Those who are not his will get offended and leave.

They will get bored and they will neglect the gatherings and they will stop coming. They will twist scripture to justify themselves. They will. They will try to live in some sort of justification like for instance, I've heard someone say well God sees us as married.

So we're just gonna live together. That's a justification for your for your flesh. Love is love right so I can go to my lesbian sister's wedding. It's a complicated issue. It's hard. But we cannot stand an affirmation of things that the Bible calls an abomination.

We don't have to be mean about it. We don't have to be hateful. We don't have to say You know anything. Offensive in a sense of we don't have to be the offending party. We let scripture do the offending.

We say I'm sorry I can't attend your wedding. That's what a Christian says. I.

Can't.

Celebrate something that God hates. I Love you. I want you to repent but I cannot go to this. That's what a Christian says an unbeliever says. What's what's it matter? Love is love. God sees us all and he and he looks at us and we're basically good, right?

The unbeliever will when confronted with their sin become angry. It's a really hard thing to be confronted with your sin. Let's just admit that as Christians when someone comes to you and says you lied about me.

The very first thing that we want to do is we want to become defensive, right? You gossiped about me and then they show you evidence and you're like I did that but I don't want to let you know that I did that because now I'm gonna appear weak to you and you're gonna take advantage of me.

Those are the games we play but eventually the Christian. Eventually the Christian the one who has the Holy Spirit inside of their heart will Joyfully repent it with sorrow in their heart. They will run from their sin and they will run to the Savior.

That's what Christians do not unbelievers. Unbelievers can't do that. They will become angry. They will say things about you. Well, look at what you do. They will become defensive they will slander you and they will leave.

That is the nature of an unbeliever. That is the nature of an unbeliever 2 ,000 years ago when Jesus was speaking to them and that is the nature of an unbeliever today. That we cannot understand the truths of Scripture.

We will not submit our life under the authority of Scripture. That is what it means. And that's just the first consequence. The second is that you will not only be ignorant of Scripture you will be ignorant of Christ.

If you're an unbeliever, you can't understand who Christ is. You just can't Look at what they say. We have heard out of the law that the Christ is to remain forever. They had misconceptions of who Jesus is because they weren't true believers.

They were expecting that Jesus Was going to give them this Physical kingdom where the Jews were going to be the greatest nation on earth and Rome was going to come and bow down before them. And give them gifts and honor and tribute and all the nations were going to come to Jerusalem and praise them.

They had this physical view of the kingdom of God where God is going to elevate them above the nation. So they had a view of the Christ remaining forever. That was wrong. Jesus really is remaining forever.

But he's not in a dusty sand bowl in the Middle East sitting on their putrid rusting throne that moth and rust will destroy. He's at the right hand of God reigning in heaven forever. He really will remain forever, but it's important how we view Jesus.

Jesus doesn't exist to elevate us. We exist to elevate him. That's what they were doing. They were looking at Jesus. They were looking at the Messiah saying you exist to make us better. Instead of the opposite which what a Christian does and says we exist to magnify you.

They got him wrong. Because they did not have true belief in their heart. This sin abounds in the church today. Maybe not in the same way, but it abounds anytime you look at Jesus and You make Jesus look like the Jesus that you want in your image then you have done Idolatry and blasphemy and it's all over the place.

Like the Jews today someone a political Jesus who's gonna enact policies and who's gonna whip us up into a frenzy so that we can go to elections and Participate in ballots today. We had somebody stopped by the church and say during your sermon.

Can you mention this ballot opportunity that we want for the community and and I very nicely said we won't do that. Someone a national Jesus that will make America great again. Someone at heirloom Jesus.

That's my mama's Jesus and that's my grandmama's Jesus and I'm just gonna take this as some heirloom. That's been passed down from generation to generation as some rite of passage, but he doesn't affect my life.

He doesn't actually help me walk with God. He doesn't he is no meaning to me other than he's something that sits on a shelf. We know many people like that I grew up in the South. Where Christianity is infected by that?

Are you a Christian? Yeah, my mama is we don't say mother we say mama. Just so you know. Yeah, my mama's a Christian. My dad's a Christian. That has nothing to do with whether you're a Christian or not.

Some today want a prosperity Jesus. Where Jesus dotes on you and loves you and is obsessed with you like a teenage boy is with his Girlfriend. Where all he wants to do is make you happy where all he wants to do is give you stuff and you become consumed with materialism and houses and cars and and health and you say that I'm so blessed because I have all this stuff and.

Yet you have no concept whatsoever of the starving Christians in Africa. No concept whatsoever the persecuted Christians in North Korea. Are they not blessed as? Jesus who died for us. Not blessed. What about Paul decapitated for us.

Was he not blessed. What about Peter crucified upside down. Was he not blessed. This sort of Superficial prosperity gospel is garbage and it ruins so many people's faith. My mother-in-law. Would watch TBN Kenneth Copeland and all of these things before she died and she would go through awful bouts of depression saying Why won't God heal me?

I have faith. She believed that her that the.

That the.

Concentrated dose of her faith would motivate God to heal her. So she lived constantly with doubt and depression and frustration and bitterness towards God. God didn't promise earthly health to us. God said in this world, you're gonna have many trials.

You're gonna troubles you're gonna fiery trials that you're gonna wonder why they're happening. Peter says don't wonder why they're happening. You're gonna have all kinds of evil that's spoken against you says anyone who wants to live a godly life will be persecuted.

Why do we believe that we're so good and so special that we get to have nice cars nice houses and a carefree life. When our Lord and Savior did not He was murdered for us and we're called to be like him to give up our life for him.

It's not a sin To be well off. It's not a sin to be born in America if you're here and you have the lowest Minimum wage job that you can think of you are rich not a sin. It's not a sin to have things to send for your things to have you.

You belong to Christ. You don't belong to your possessions. You don't belong to your cars. You don't belong to your job. You don't belong to your family. You don't belong to your kids. You belong to Christ above all else.

And if you don't see that that's the heart of idolatry. Superficial Jesus. I've seen this one all over the place in the church. Jesus looks past my sin because he's forgiven me. Jesus forgives me. I sin we make a perfect match.

That's the heart behind it. Don't tell me to repent you legalist. My God loves me and gives me grace and he he thinks I'm special just the way that I am. Yeah, he he loves you, but he doesn't love you just the way that you are.

He loves you in spite of who you are to change you into the image of him. Do you see how a false view of Jesus can give you a false faith. It can shipwreck you cause you depression cause you frustration and ultimately Damn you because you don't know who Christ is.

The unbeliever can't know who Christ is for the believer. Don't let these Artificial Gospels infect your faith because they will cause you nothing but agony and misery. More examples could be given. But unbelievers cannot understand the scripture that is what we see here and that is what we see over and over and over in the.

Text.

That's the second consequence. The third is that you will be offended by the cross. You will Look at what Jesus says. Or look at what the crowd says. We have heard out of the law that the Christ is to remain forever.

And then they also say but how can you say? You have to read it like that it's not. They're not saying to Jesus, you know, how can you say it like this Jesus? I want to that's not what they're doing. They're saying how can you say that the Son of Man is going to be lifted up?

We don't get the meaning behind that that they got. If I were to ask you today. You know, what is it gonna feel like next week when when you're lifted up? Maybe there's some context where that would make sense.

But you're not gonna feel the weight of it. Like they did lifted up was a euphemism for crucifixion. At that time crucifixion was scandalous and ugly. It was the it was the scourge of all the nations.

It was the definitive declaration that Rome has more power than you and they can mercilessly kill you. Crucifixion is Where you become your own? executioner. How is that possible. Rome is the one who crucified Jesus in a crucifixion?

The weight of your body sinks down so that your abdomen presses on your diaphragm and you suffocate and The only thing that can keep you alive is if you take your feet pierced by nails and scrape your back up a splintered wooden beam because they didn't polish it before you got on it and as the barbs of Splinters are pressing into the meat of your body.

You take a breath and you sink back down and you begin suffocating all over again that stops when you stop pushing up effectively. Becoming your own Executioner it was an awful death. It was reserved for the lowest class of criminal.

The lowest class of human being was the one that Rome decided to Crucify so in that. You can imagine why everyone hated it. It was done publicly so that you would have to watch it. It was done with the person hanging on the cross that was naked to shame them and to humiliate them.

It was done as propaganda for the power of Rome. The phrase above Jesus's head king of the Jews was mockery. It was not an acknowledgment. Now the Jews had more reasons to hate crucifixions than this.

Not only was it the worst form of punishment that any society had ever created. They had reasons to believe that this was even worse. Not just physically brutal, but spiritually brutal you remember in the Garden of Eden.

Where did the curse happen?

At a tree at a tree.

The Jews connected these things and they started believing that it was a curse to hang from a tree. Moses says it in Deuteronomy 21. Anyone who hangs from a tree is under the curse of God. You think about the man Absalom?

That's David's son. David's son Absalom, which means the peace of my father and yet he was in rebellion against his father. Trying to take over his father's kingdom. Well as David's armies were chasing after him Absalom is riding away on a mule.

Why is he on a mule. Because he thought he was gonna be King. Because Kings ride into the cities on mules. So he's riding away his hair gets caught in the tree limb. He's hanging from a tree. What happens to him?

He's murdered.

The Jews would have looked at that as the curse fell on Absalom as he's hanging from a tree and he was pierced through by Joab. Think about Haman. Do you remember the book of Ezra? I mean Ezra Esther.

The Jews are being persecuted by this wicked man named Haman. He makes a 75 foot tall sharpened piece of wood that he's gonna impale Mordecai on. I'm not gonna describe what impaling is but use your imagination.

It's bad and.

Yet.

It was Haman who was murdered in that way because God vindicated Mordecai. God vindicated the Jews. God vindicated the righteous and It was Haman who died under the wrath and curse of God hung on a tree.

Deuteronomy 21. Anyone who hangs on a tree is under the curse of God. So at this time the Jews would have seen all the physical brutality of Rome and they would have hated this thing called crucifixion.

But they were also seen the spiritual underpinnings of it. They would have said anyone Who is on that tree is? No better than Haman is. No better than Absalom is no better than Adam and Eve at the foot of the tree under the curse of God.

They would have looked at this as physically violent and spiritually significant. No one Would have been on that cross if God was pleased with them. That's the way they would have came at this. They would have said God always vindicates the righteous.

They would have said and look at David. Look at Mordecai. God vindicates the righteous. So when Jesus said that he was going to be lifted up. They would have said how can you say that Jesus? How can you claim to be the Messiah who we know is righteous and you die the death of a sinner?

How is it that you're going that you think you're going to be crucified and God doesn't save you from it. God always saves the righteous, right? See what they did. So when Jesus died on the cross the only righteous man who ever lived Undergoing the wrath of God as a substitute for us.

They couldn't understand it at all. They couldn't see it. They said well, he must be wicked because God let him die. That's what they would have said. The reason that they said that is because they were unbelievers.

Had the Spirit of God came inside of their mind inside of their heart. They would have had opened eyes and they would have seen the truth like Peter and they would have declared it boldly in Jerusalem.

They would have seen the truth like Thomas and they would have declared it in India. They would have seen the truth like Peter and they would have declared it in the city of Rome. But because they were dead and their trespasses and sins they could not see it.

Paul tells us about this in 1st Corinthians 1 7. He says but we preach Christ crucify and you have to hear all of the weight underneath that. To the Jews, it's a stumbling block into the Gentiles. It's foolishness.

Paul is saying that this gospel is scandalous to the unbeliever. So much so that the Jews cannot even possibly comprehend it and the Romans and the Gentiles would say this can't be a great man. Great men don't die.

The death of a crucifixion would have been foolishness to them. Unless the Holy Spirit comes in our heart. We will not believe Scripture. We will not believe Christ and the cross will be offensive.

To us.

Which leads us now to the fourth consequence of unbelief. You will be overtaken by darkness. If you don't believe in Jesus, you will not understand Scripture. You will not understand Christ. The cross will be offensive to you and you will be overtaken by darkness.

This is what it says. So Jesus said to them For a little while longer the light is among you. He's the light the light of the world while you walk or Walk while you have the light so that darkness will not overtake you.

Jesus is warning them. He's saying that you have just a little while left before I leave. The light of the world what what a rare privilege That these Jews had out of every generation that's ever lived.

That is the generation visited by God to his people. They got to live with God. They got to see him. They got to to wrestle with who he is and he's saying I'm about to leave and the night is leaving. And you will be overcome by darkness.

That's what he's saying. Now this doesn't apply to the Christian. Because the Holy Spirit comes in and illuminates our life the Holy Spirit comes in and brings the light of God. Holy Spirit comes in. That's why Jesus could say you are the light of the world.

Because when the Holy Spirit comes in us We look like little candles scattered throughout the entire world lighting it up for the glory of Christ. The Holy Spirit does not leave us in the darkness if you're a Christian.

But if you're an unbeliever. You'll be overcome by it. Conquered by it destroyed by it and you will be inescapable. You will be in inescapable darkness. I think about all of the examples of people today.

How hard they study when they go to college? How driven they are to see progress come to the world? How how much passion they have to understand the cosmos all these beautiful lights and and things in the sky.

They've just created a new telescope that's going to replace the Hubble so that they can see brilliant images of of the cosmos you have Elon Musk trying to build a Rocket of some sorts to get us to Mars so that we can be interplanetary.

You've got people who are longing to understand the origin of the species and how we came about. You've got people who are working Tirelessly to fight diseases and to come up with cures for cancer and for AIDS and for various different things.

You've got people who are fighting for justice so that people who are treated poorly will be treated, right? You've got people who are working and spending all of their energy to try to bring light to the world.

But what little bit of flicker that they can bring apart from Christ is but darkness to God. All of our human Machinations are not worthy to be compared to what God can do when he brings the Holy Spirit into a believer.

These things will not redound for the glory of God these things these things that people are driven by will end up in darkness. I'm not saying that fighting cancer is bad. I'm not saying that trying to to Get cures to diseases and anything like that.

It's bad. I'm saying the motivation Will not bring light. Because God says that if you do not walk with the light who is Christ. The way the truth in the life if you are not in him. You will be overtaken by darkness.