John, pt. 75 | John 12:27-36

in case she wasn't here for the announcements this morning we do have my wife make sure want me to say this and I forgot to say this but we do have a fellowship meal after every service and feel free to please join us even if you didn't bring anything there's always plenty we take acts 242 very serious they gathered together for the teachings of the

Apostles to break bread fellowship and pray so after the Lord's Supper we sit down and have a meal together also at 2 o 'clock or 145 ish whatever

I want to do after we eat we're gonna go over and look at that new building and we're hoping the

Lord is gonna bless us with I have the keys so if you want to come join us as we look at this it's an actual church building right

I'm gonna have to do anything to juice it up so if you want to come and check out this building and that's why

I purple today so you won't be so shocked when there's a lot of purple and lavender in there but we will be painting now if you will take your copy of the scriptures and turn with me to the gospel of John chapter 12 we will consider verses 27 through 36 the outline will be on the back of your bulletin the gospel of John chapter 12 verses 27 to 36 and this is our 75th message in this glorious gospel let me pray glorious God Lord Father Son and Holy Spirit we gather together to worship you and a part of our worship of you is to hear from you well we gather to hear from you and the only thing in the way is me so Lord I ask through the power of your

Holy Spirit Lord that you will speak to this broken vessel to your people as well as myself that we may feast at the foot of Zion the feet of Christ and your new covenant kingdom and worship you this day through your word in Christ's name amen let's begin with the text

John chapter 12 27 to 36 Jesus speaking now is my soul troubled and what shall

I say father save me from this hour but for this purpose

I have come to this hour father glorify your name then a voice came from heaven

I have glorified it and will glorify it again the crowd that stood there heard it said that it had thundered others said an angel has spoken to him

Jesus answered this voice has come for your sake not mine now is the judgment of this world now with a ruler of this world be cast out and I when

I am lifted up from the earth will draw all people to myself he said this to show by what kind of death he was going to die so the crowd answered him we have heard from the wall that the

Christ remains forever how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up who is this

Son of Man so Jesus said to them the light is among you for a little while longer walk while you have the light what's darkness overtake you the one who walks in darkness does not know where he is going while you have the light believe in the light that you may be come sons of light our theme for this

Lord's Day is the glory of God and my proposition is this

Jesus brings glory to God by doing what he was purposed to do that's how we to bring glory to God by doing what we were purposed to do

Jesus brings glory to God by doing what he was purposed to do my dear friends are we are you walking in the calling that God has purposed for you to be are you children of light are you sons and daughters of light are are you even aware that God has a purpose for your life he's sovereign in our outline today we're going to see the glory of God in five ways and the purpose of Jesus in judging the world in judging

Satan in drawing all people and in shining through his people but as we transition we have already saw that the

Christ that these Jews and the Scriptures won it was not the Christ that they got the

Christ that they won it was not who they got they wanted a someone a

David figure a Judah Maccabee to comment and to rescue them from Rome they saw themselves as being under tyranny they they looked at these prophecies and I took them to wood and to literally thought that he was going to come and that he was going to rescue them from Rome and I did not understand that these prophecies were fulfilled in a now and not yet but they were right then fulfilled but not fully fulfilled and the reality meaning that they are fulfilled spiritually they fell on the same sword that most

Christians fall on today when it comes to prophecies they did not understand that the spiritual was in fact had more substance than the earthly fulfillment concerning some of these prophecies they were fulfilled they were in fact fulfilled the way that God and Trinity had purpose for them to be fulfilled and that is in Christ and we looked at some of those passages last week where it had a prophecy and you saw the earthly fulfillment but then you saw in another way that it was going to be fulfilled and you have to look at that in the way of the

New Covenant and that it was not literally fulfilled but it is being literally fulfilled spiritually and we saw last week of how the the spiritual body is the real tangible substance right that these physical bodies that we're in now they're pointing to something greater especially us who are in Christ at the resurrection of the dead when we will come forth without the marred image of God but the full image of God which is

Christ so point number one the glory of God and the purpose of Jesus Christ it's taken from verses 27 through 28 but let's just begin with verse 27

Jesus speaking he says now my soul is troubled and what shall

I say father save me from this hour but for this hour but for this purpose

I have come to this hour now being under CRBC here you know that what the purpose of Jesus right it's the covenant of redemption

God the Father purpose to save a people God the Son would accomplish that purpose in time while God the

Holy Spirit applies the purpose in eternity past God the Father chose to save a people in and through his son and his son would come into time and live the life that they could not live by keeping the law of God in their place as a substitute and then he would die in our place as a substitute taking the punishment that we deserve for breaking that law and in that message of what

God the Son did for us the Holy Spirit applies that purpose remember the purpose to save a people in the new birth by making us sons and daughters of God Jesus has come to that hour to fulfill that purpose he has lived the life that we could not live and he is about to take upon himself the punishment that we deserve on that cross in our text

Jesus says but for this purpose I have come to the hour look at verses 23 and 24 and Jesus answered them he's speaking to Philip and Andrew who have come to him who who are telling him that that Gentiles are coming and they're wanting to see

Jesus they're they're wanting to see him and he says the hour has come for the

Son of Man to be glorified truly truly I say to you unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies it remains alone but if it dies it bears much fruit that hour was for him to die and to be raised from the dead so that you and I who are in him when we die at his second coming we will be raised from the dead him going into the earth and coming out is the first fruits of our going into the earth and coming out when he says to be glorified it's speaking of his resurrection when he is the first fruits of our resurrection this resurrection theme began in John chapter 11 and it's still continuing this should show us how important it is for us to understand the resurrection of the dead and it also should show us how full preterism is not of the

Christian faith these people who walk around who claim the name of Christ but who say that the resurrection of the dead has already taken place that the second coming of Jesus Christ has already taken place and there is no more devil they're not a part as a matter of fact we will be like John and said well they went out from us for they were not of us for if they would have been of us they would have be with us yet they went out to show that they were never of us that our is speaking of his death burial resurrection and ascension the message by which we are to be saved

Romans chapter 1 verse 16 tells us that the gospel is God's power for salvation bread says it quite often whenever we go out and we witness together we're one string banjo we got one message we tell it in many different ways right he's got his personality

I got whatever this what this is right here right we go on the street it's the same message it's taken from different verses or give me any verse

I can give you the message we're proclaiming the same message the life death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ that's what we go out and preach that's the power of God we have no power outside that message imagine that the very power of God is on our lips yet some of us refuse to share this message it's like having the cure for disease and keeping it in your pocket while your loved one is dying and in our text we see

Jesus overcoming human emotion to fulfill his purpose look at verse 27 again he says now my soul is troubled what should

I say father save me from this hour save me from what I'm about to go through but for this purpose

I have come to this hour he has come to die and to be raised from the dead the ultimate glorifying moment in Scripture if I should be so bold to say is when

Jesus Christ raises from the dead he defeats death

I mentioned last week something that Ray Comfort says he says that the

Old Testament tells us that God promises to destroy death and in the

New Testament we see how he destroys death just do the resurrection of the dead through what

Christ has done however in order to be raised from the dead you first have to die this means that the

God man must die he came to be glorified but in order to be glorified he must die we ask ourselves well why is

Jesus the soul trouble the Greek word here for trouble is the same Greek word used in John chapter 5 where it says that the the waters were trouble at the waters were stir up there's something in Jesus that stirred up and in our context it's probably best understood as an inward commotion you ever get an argument with yourself

I usually win when I do like you have these mixed feelings taking place you think you're saying

Jesus had mixed feelings read the text read the text it says because I say this because at this moment

Jesus seems uncertain and that's what that word means the

Greek word for trouble it means uncertain you said what Jesus was uncertain

Jesus came Jesus has come and he felt rejection he came for his own people and his own people did not receive him he has come he has felt the rejection of his people he is going to once and for all atone for sins something that these people have been doing as every

Judaism day after day week after week year after year they're bringing sacrifices to atone for their sins they have these things ingrained in them they're brought up to memorize these things sacrifice after sacrifice lamb after lamb bulls birds bulls goats and birds life after life blood flowing from the temple and all these things were pointing to Jesus Christ everything every sacrifice

John sees Jesus and says behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world he's saying that that that right there was a type and and now we have the anti type that that was a shadow and now we have the substance that these things were just pictures of what's going to take place and what was going to take place is there before them my dear friends

Jesus feels the rejection and some of these people who have rejected him and will reject him by crying out crucify him are about to have their sins atoned for and he's troubled he's actually feeling it he knows what it's like to be rejected and we're seeing this in Scripture it says

Jesus is troubled because we're unworthy we're unworthy for Christ to die for us they were unworthy we're unworthy for his grace and his mercy if you're in Sunday school

I was speaking about we're talking we're speaking on grace and in order to understand grace you must understand mercy that that mercy is

God not given to us what we deserve which is his wrath and that mercy is God given to us what we don't deserve which is the forgiveness of our sins we don't deserve these things and right here

I just think we see Jesus and he's and he's speaking about that he's like they don't deserve what I'm about to do for them they don't deserve it he's he's about to fill the full wrath of God for the elect of God and although his soul was troubled he came for that purpose he was not going to not do it to die for sinners to die in the place of sinners sometimes

I think we sever the humanity of Christ with the razor's edge of his divinity we don't want to talk about his humanity because we're so caught up with his divinity my dear friends

Jesus is truly God but he's also truly man he hungered he thirst when he walked all day his feet hurt right he had to use the restroom when we don't think about these things concerning the

Messiah but they're true he was truly man and sometimes

I just think we gloss over this and sever it on account of his divinity the text speaks just as much about his humanity as it does his divinity and we come to text like this we have to say what it says he was troubled he was uncertain he's about to die for a people who are unworthy who have been rejecting him and will continue to reject him until they hear the gospel of God's power and God regenerates them you say

God had speaking of Jesus God had to be a man because men cannot excuse me

God had God had to be a man to die because God cannot die that's what

James says God cannot die Jesus had to be the God man he had to be man because God cannot die and yet he had to be

God in order to keep the law and raise from the dead because a mere man can do neither one he had to be

God and man not 50 % God 50 % man truly

God everything that God is Jesus is in the flesh and also still today he's never ceased to be

God but he became flesh and he dwelled among us the scripture tells us he who knew no sin is about to become sin by being nailed hands and feet to a

Roman cross Deuteronomy chapter 21 22 through 23 tells us cursed is anyone who is hung on the tree you've ever wondered how is it that my sins were applied to Jesus it's because Jesus became a curse he was hung on a tree turn with me to Galatians chapter 3

Galatians chapter 3 let's read verse 13 to see what

Christ did on that tree it says Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us for it is written cursed is anyone who is hung on a tree when he was hung on that tree that is how our sins are applied to him because he who knew no sin became sin by becoming a curse the scripture in Deuteronomy says cursed of God so on the

Isaiah tells us in 53 that it pleased the Lord to crush him he took our sins upon himself that's what troubled him that's what troubled him that's why he was uncertain but he was not going to let that emotion defeat the purpose by which he came he came for the elect and he is leaving with the elect we need some

Pentecostal up in here right then right we need some yelling and screaming we need some no don't run around ring Julie will leave okay he came for the elect and he is leaving with the elect of God past present in that scripture and future where we stand and so on and so forth it happened that day even though he was troubled he is about to face the wrath of God in our place as a substitute and in verse 28 we see that the father is glorified in the purpose of his son look back at that John chapter 12 verse 28 he says father glorify your name then a voice came from heaven

I have glorified and I will glorify it again the father was glorified in sending his son and in his son's obedience and in the miraculous signs and wonders done by his son all these things that Jesus did the father was glorified the father was glorified and his name was glorified and the father will glorify his name again in the death burial resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ point number two the glory of God and judging the world again we're gonna look at verse 28 through 31 a let's begin with verse 28 and 29 father glorify your name then a voice came from heaven

I have glorified it and I will glorify it again the crowd that stood there and heard it said it had thunder others said an angel had spoken to him

Jesus has called for God the father to glorify him meaning to raise him from the dead he knows what's about to happen to glorify the name of Yahweh Yahweh is

God's covenant name if you are a believer in Jesus Christ you are his covenant people this is the name that he has given to us to know him by Yahweh that is our

God father son and Holy Spirit and what Jesus done with his life his death his burial resurrection and ascension us to glorify the name of Yahweh and to redeem for Yahweh a people who are chosen and precious

Yahweh being God's covenant name is which is what the scriptures tell us that it was in the blood of Jesus and my dear friends what greater way to glorify the name of Yahweh than to usher in the new covenant the new covenant by which all who are in heaven are saved again

I spoke about this in Sunday school though Abraham was in the old covenant he was saved through the new covenant he was credited with a righteousness you and I today are debited with that same righteousness

Abraham was looking forward to a seed that would come that would keep the covenant inherit the land and bless the nations we're looking back at the one who came and kept the covenant who inherited the land and who was blessing the nations oh what a great way to glorify your name the father is saying

I have glorified it and I will glorify it again and those that were at that feast heard something some said it had thunder while others said an angel had spoken to him some might have even heard the words but were uncertain by who was speaking the words one thing that we know for sure is that others did not even hear the words

I have glorified it and I will glorify it again remember last week

I was talking about you can hear something but not listen I use my daughter as an example right

I could use my son as an example as well so day -day like he just doesn't like to clean right

I'm gonna kids in here like that they don't like to like to clean like you yeah yeah I know

Sam don't right right like I tell Trinity Trinity clean your room like she heard the words but if she doesn't clean a room she didn't listen there's a difference between hearing and listening right

Dalen hears the words clean your room if he doesn't clean his room he he didn't listen to the command so there were people here that that did not hear those words or people here that might have heard them words but they didn't know who it was from they said it's an angel or something and we're gonna see here later that people were not listening they did not hear them because those who do not hear them could not hear them look back at John chapter 8

John chapter 8 look at verse 47

John 8 47 Jesus speaking to the religious leaders in this he's speaking about how they're not you know they might be children of Abraham by descent but not the spiritual children of Abraham that their father is actually the devil in verse 47 he says whoever here

I mean whoever is of God hears the words of God for this reason you did not hear them it's it is that you are not of God so those who are there that heard it thunder they didn't hear it because they're not of God they're not of God they did not hear the father speaking because they're not of God go back to our chapter and look at verse 30 it says

Jesus answered he says this voice has come for your sake not mine what came for their sake some could not hear others did not recognize the voice you can have the scriptures and not recognize who it is that's speaking to you

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Lord your sake this is for your sake that they're gonna know for sure in that judgment that is we're going to see that was a now but there's still like greater fulfillment of it they're gonna know that that voice was for their sake simply put the father is speaking to them but they could not listen this is now the third time that the father has spoken in Jesus's three and a half year ministry the first time was at the baptism of Jesus in Matthew chapter 3 verse 17 the father said this is my beloved son in whom

I am well pleased he has already lived the life that they could not live from childhood own up to his baptism where he begins his earthly ministry he's lived the life that they could not live and the second time we saw was on the the

Mount of Transfiguration the father speaks to Peter James and John and says this is my beloved son in whom

I am well pleased listen to him listen to him we see in the in the

Torah that Moses prophesies a prophet coming from among them that he will be from among the brothers and that when he comes they are to listen to him not just hear him not just hear his words but to listen to him do what he says to do and what he's told us to do is to follow him proclaiming himself to be the light that was in the wilderness

John chapter 8 verse 12 we know that Peter James and John heard the father and in Matthew chapter 3 at the baptism of Jesus the text seems to indicate that those who were there heard the father and yet in our text the hearers could not hear the father whether they heard thunder or whether they thought it was an angel they could not hear the father the

Jews have forsaken God by rejecting his one and only son and now it's time for judgment it's time for judgment look at verse 31 a

Jesus says now the judgment excuse me now is a dyslexia right it just kicks in now is the judgment of this world you say huh that's future ladies and gentlemen we're not dispensationalist he said now is the judgment in the same way that we would see has that lamb as John said behold the

Lamb of God who came and take away the sins of the world that lamb year after year from the wilderness all the way up to that point was picturing something greater the judgment that's in our text that was then is pointing to something greater the judgment began on that cross he says now is the judgment of this world turn with me to Matthew chapter 3 you see in verse 2 speaking of John the

Baptist he's preaching in the wilderness he calls them to repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand we get down here in verse 7 and you see that he sees the

Pharisees and the Sadducees they come into the waters of Jordan he calls them brood of vipers he says who warned you to flee from the wrath to come and therefore do not think to save yourselves do not say that we have

Abraham as our father but I tell you that God is able to raise up children from Abraham from stones and look at verse 10 he says even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees in every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit it's cut down and thrown into the fire that is thrown into judgment verse 11

I baptize you with water into repentance but he who is coming after me is mightier than I whose sandals

I'm unworthy to carry he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire judgment verse 12 the whittling fork is in his hand and he will clear the thrashing floor and he would gather his wheat thank sheep into the barn but the chaff thank goats he will burn up with an unquenchable fire judgment some are going to be baptized with the

Holy Spirit regeneration Pauline gonna see a the new birth while others are going to be baptized with fire with judgment my dear friends that took place on that cross on that cross everyone who will ever be baptized in the

Holy Spirit that judgment fell on Jesus and everyone that will not be baptized in the

Holy Spirit but will be baptized in fire the rendering of that judgment was settled that day look at Luke chapter 12

Luke chapter 12 beginning of verse 49

Luke chapter 12 verse 49 Jesus speaking he says

I came to cast fire on the earth judgment that's that doesn't mean passion right as some of our evangelical

Christian brothers would think it's not talking about passion he says I came to bring fire on the earth and would that it were already kindled look at verse 50

I have a baptism to be baptized with he's already been baptized by this time by John the

Baptist this baptism is not speaking of being put under water this is not speaking of being emerged underwater as a matter of fact when we're baptized what's what does it point to the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ when he says

I have a baptism to be baptized with he is speaking of his death burial and resurrection he says and how great is my distress you see the human side of Christ there again until it is accomplished look at the next verse

I get my Bible to work right he says do not think that I have come to give peace to the earth no

I tell you but rather division on that cross

Christ died for the elect while simultaneously rendering judgment on the non elect the case was settled that day that hour that was coming the judgment of those who who lived are living or who will ever live took place that day in an already and not yet reality point number three the judgment of Satan verse 31

B he says now will the ruler of this world be cast out now what does it mean that the ruler of this world which is the devil was cast out because it says he was cast out then that same judgment that's coming speaking of his death does it mean that there is no devil no that's where the full preterists fall off the cliff the book of Revelation tells you what it means it means that he can no longer deceive the nation's meaning he cannot keep the gospel from saving the elect of God from among the nations look with me at Revelation chapter 20

Revelation chapter 20 will read verses 1 through 3

Revelation chapter 20 it's the very last book of the Bible beginning in verse 1 we'll read a verse 3

John says then I saw an angel coming down from heaven holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit a group in a great chain and seized the dragon the ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan and bound him for a thousand years and threw him into the pit and shut and sealed it over him right here so that he might not deceive the nation's any longer until the thousand years were ended after that he must be released for a short time again all this took place on that cross turn with me to Hebrews chapter 2 in Hebrews chapter 2 he starts mentioning that he did not send an angel into this world to subdue it the

Greek word for subdue is to hypotasso it means to take control of he did not send angels into the world to take control of the world but he sent his son

I like to tell people like this I like to imagine if you will we take a round table and in that round table we cut a hoe the size of a bowling ball and then we take and glue chess pieces all the way around the table like you have this battle that's being waged between different opponents right and then when you take that bowling ball and you put it over the hoe and you let it go and all those chess pieces that are glued to that claw are going to go into that hoe following after the bowling ball

I just to give you an image of what's taking place my dear friends on that cross that is where God struck the death blow on that cross make sure you know

Hebrews chapter 2 verse 14 says this since therefore the children share in flesh and blood speaking of the

Jews who he came to his own people right he had he was born a Jew flesh and blood he himself speaking of Jesus likewise partook in the same thing speaking of flesh and blood the word became flesh that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death that is the devil that's the fulfillment of Genesis chapter 3 verse 15 that the the seed of the woman would bruise the head of the serpent it was on that cross on that cross

Jesus removes the power of death from the devil binds him and keeps him from deceiving the nation so that the gospel can go forth as it says in our text he was cast out why so that when we preach the gospel the power of God can be on display so that we can preach the gospel my dear friends when we do not share the gospel with our neighbors we are taken from the glory of God and the judgment of Satan point number four

God the glory of God and drawing all people this is taken from verses 32 to verse 34 another spy points

I will get this done within the time there's a lot of work we're gonna read verses 32 to 33 to begin with I can get on the right page he says and I when

I am lifted up from the earth will draw all people to myself and he's he said this to show by what kind of death he was going to die you see that it's all pointing to the cross again this judgment will accumulate and Jesus being lifted up meaning him dying on that cross

Jesus has often in this gospel mentioned that he is going to be lifted up go back to John chapter 3 verse 14 this is speaking of the story that we see in the wilderness where where the people were complaining about the manna they they were complaining that they wouldn't mean as good as they wanted to eat so God caused serpents to come down and bite them and they were dying and then

Moses cries out to God because the people came running to Moses and God tells

Moses to put us a bronze serpent up on the pole and that for everyone who looks to this serpent they would be healed in verse 14

Jesus says as Moses lifted up remember that there's a bronze serpent on a pole as Moses was lifted up the serpent in the wilderness so must the

Son of Man be lifted up right here he's telling them that he is going to be lifted up on a cross chapter 8 turn to chapter 8 with me we'll look at verse 28 chapter 8 28 says this so Jesus said to them when you lift when you have lifted up the

Son of Man then you will know that I am he this is the

Tetragrammaton Yahweh and that I do nothing of my own authority but speak just as the

Father has taught me as our text says concerning him being lifted up it is speaking of his crucifixion it's telling us by what kind of death he is going to die and that is how the crowd understood it and we will see that in verse 34 as well as the fact that they've misunderstood the prophecy look at verse 34 of our text

John chapter 12 verse 34 so the crowd answered him we have heard from the law so they're going back to the

Torah right they're going back to the the old covenant scriptures we have heard from the law heard what that the

Christ remains forever see they're thinking literal they're thinking wooden they're not understanding that he that he's come to die and then he is with us even to the end of the age is what he tells his disciples in Matthew chapter 28 he is with us revelation chapter 1 says that Jesus walks among the lampstands and it says in verse 19 and 20 that the church is his lampstand my dear friend

Jesus is in this room now and if you're in Christian you have the Spirit of Christ in you now he is with us they said we have heard from the law that the

Christ remains forever think about it in the Davidic Covenant they knew that the Christ was going to come from David that this this son of David would keep the law and what would he do sit on the throne forever but at the resurrection we saw that that's when

Jesus sat on the throne which is in heaven and it says how can you say that the

Son of Man must be lifted up they understood this as the cross this must have been a common saying at this time to be lifted up is speaking of being hung on the cross then they said who is this son of man like it's a different one from the one that they have heard of who is this son of man remember they see him coming they scream son of man

Hosanna save us right that's what Hosanna means it's the Hebrew word for save us save us from the tyranny that we are in there won't physical salvation earthly tangible they're not thinking of heavenly salvation because they don't see themselves as sinners who have violated

God's law they're thinking earthly they're not thinking spiritual they're thinking what the earthly things they're not they're looking at the earthly things and not what the earthly things are pointing to oh my dear friends so many

Christians get this confused today however in verse 32 it tells us that Jesus is to be lifted up from the earth speaking of his crucifixion and when that happens he will draw all people to himself look back at verse 32 and I when

I am lifted up from the earth will draw all people to myself not all as in every person but all as in all the elect all that the father purpose to save Covenant of Redemption look at John chapter 6 verse 37

John 6 37 Jesus speaking he says all that the father gives me will come to me and whoever comes to me

I will never cast out so in order to come to Jesus we come to him through this gospel message someone has to preach the message right so while we have evangelism someone has to preach his message so all those who you you cannot come to him unless you have been given to him by the father which is the beginning of that Covenant of Redemption the father purposing to save a people this is what's known as election look back at look at verse that verse that I just read with our verse so let me read that again all that the father gives me will come to me and whoever comes to me

I will not cast out go back to verse 32 and when I am lifted up from the earth

I will draw all people to my self and that is done through the preaching of the gospel what's the preaching of the gospel about all the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ remember

God the father had purpose to save the people he does this through his sons the part the the person and work of his son when it is preached point number five the glory of God shining through his people our calling our purpose in this life is to radiate the light of God remember in the very beginning

I said you know your purpose do you know what what God has called you to do it is to radiate the light of God in the same way that the light that the

Sun gives light to the moon and we're able to see the Sun's light through the moon your purpose in this life as a

Christian is to radiate God's light it's to be sons and daughters of light look at verses 35 and 36 so Jesus said to them the light is among you for a little while longer walk while you still have the light lest darkness overtake you the one who walks in darkness does not know where he is going while you have the light believe in the light that you may become sons of light now as we've already walked through this we kind of seen this language several times right in this gospel the light among them is speaking about the three and a half years of Jesus's ministry and the darkness that could overtake him is speaking about that period of time that three days in which

Jesus was in the tomb when Jesus was what Jesus was doing was he was calling them to repent he was calling them to follow him before that hour came that hour of darkness because that darkness could overtake them imagine imagine the darkness of those three days right when the

Son of God was in the tomb and and in darkness started one imagine that darkness and Jesus comes forth right like I said earlier like that's the most glorifying moment in Scripture we see that death was defeated what the

Old Testament promise was going to happen we see the then of that promise we see it taking place to us now because we were born dead in our trespasses and sins in which we were regenerated

Paul ain't gonna see it when the new birth came to us we were born again made new in Christ and when we die

Christians we pass out of judgment into life and Jesus says those who believe me even though they die yet shall they live but then there's an ultimate fulfillment when

Christ comes back and were raised from that grave Jesus was saying give glory to God by following him and become sons and daughters of light but instead of great majority will cry out crucify him during his judgment this morning

I was trying to remember I'm like in my podcast I think I said a Semitism but it was really

Tom and Jerry right there's this episode where we're y 'all kids I don't know about Tom and Jerry you're messing out right so there's this episode where Tom is chasing

Jerry and he has a he has a shotgun right and and they're yeah right and there's this there's this hole in the tree that Jerry the mouse runs into but there's another hole right above in that tree and so as Tommy shoves this double barrel shotgun into the hole it comes back out and it points right on his butt right and so and as he pulls the trigger thinking that he's about to shoot

Jerry Tom shoots himself in the butt that's what happens here they think they're judging

Jesus and that the cruelty judges them those who are his he took their place in judgment and those who are not his their judgment was rendered their judgment was rendered and although Jesus was speaking to them these things still apply today

God still receives glory in the purpose of Jesus Christ his penal substitutionary atonement penal meaning he took the penalty of sin a substitutionary was is in our place and the atonement means it is atoned for we are at one mint with God because of the atonement of Jesus Christ and in that final judgment that's coming against those who are not in Jesus God will receive glory from the scream and smoke of their torment

Satan as we speak is still on a chain unable to deceive the nations while we preach

Christ Jesus crucified and in glory God will draw all the elect to himself and because of what

Christ has done you can become children of God you can become sons and daughters of lights my dear friends if you're not a

Christian look back at verse 36 he says while you have the light believe in the lights that you may become sons of lights by way of application this verse for us is speaking none of his earthly ministry but the first and second advent this time period this thousand years that the text would say but is but we will look at it as the the first advent to the second advent of Christ right darkness is going to come again when

Satan is released there's gonna be a little short time period where he's able to deceive the nations but right now as we stand we know this is true right like we have we have people over here in our congregation now from our street ministry

Joe Joe is a Christian now

Joe through Joe coming and his family coming we have Robert who

I was able to witness to Robert Robert as a Christian now Satan cannot deceive he cannot deceive the nations right now we still have a moment of life that we're to walk in and for those who are not a

Christian who believe in this light and follow Jesus can become children of light we can become children sons and daughters of light by believing in Jesus Christ by following after Jesus as it stands we're still in this time period of the first and second advent we are available to anyone who wants to talk join me in prayer father son and Holy Spirit Yahweh we thank you for your word we thank you that you left no stone unturned that you have revealed these things to us

Lord and well we just ask that we will be faithful stewards of what you've revealed to us and to live in light of what

Christ has done for us live knowing that we are forgiven that although we live in this saint and sinner reality

Lord that we can walk and we can radiate your light to those who we come in contact with Lord please give us strength in our weakness

Lord I pray that through this word today that those who are here who heard it or those who will hear in the future by way of video

Lord that you will use this word to grow them in holiness conforming them to the image of Jesus Christ and Lord now as we are about to partake in this supper but we ask that you use this as well to grow us to the image of Jesus Christ Lord I ask if there's been those in here who are stubborn and rebelling this week and who are unwilling to repent and turn from their sins that you will prevent them from the table well

Lord I know there's people in here like me who have sinned who have fallen short of your glory who may not have opened their mouth when they should have or may have said something they shouldn't have but they've looked to you in faith and confessed their sins knowing that you are faithful and just to forgive us of our sins well