WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.520 Good morning. Please take your copy of God's Word and join me in John chapter 5. 00:00:04.520 --> 00:00:04.520 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:38.320 You would have no idea. Perhaps maybe only my wife knows all the things we've been walking through and dealing with. 00:00:38.980 --> 00:00:41.840 A lot going on in the life of our church. 00:00:42.100 --> 00:00:48.260 And it's not all been good, but confident it's all being worked for good. 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:54.340 This past week at the end of the week, which we do every year, your elders had a retreat together. 00:00:54.340 --> 00:01:03.100 We got away, got some rest, just spent some time having fun, talked through a few matters. 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:05.000 And it was good and it was rich. 00:01:05.340 --> 00:01:10.240 But I will say that normally I do not plan to preach the Sunday after said retreat. 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:13.780 Just circumstances didn't allow for somebody else to do so. 00:01:13.859 --> 00:01:17.260 So here we are, John chapter 5, verses 19 through 30. 00:01:17.260 --> 00:01:25.540 And I think what you can expect from me is a little more devotional than it usually is. 00:01:26.740 --> 00:01:35.040 Certainly good, I think, for myself and I think for you to be reminded that I am not the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:01:35.240 --> 00:01:38.100 I don't think anybody had any notion of that at all. 00:01:38.240 --> 00:01:42.340 But I am imperfect and I am frail. 00:01:42.340 --> 00:01:48.420 Maybe a little more probable, it's also good for you to know that I am not just a handsome robot. 00:01:52.740 --> 00:01:54.460 Which is what a handsome robot would tell you. 00:01:54.659 --> 00:02:02.260 But I'm especially feeling my frailty this morning. 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:06.859 I'm grateful that God's word is not any less powerful as we open it together. 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:11.099 John's gospel follows a pattern. 00:02:11.099 --> 00:02:14.539 First, he will present a miracle that Jesus performs. 00:02:14.780 --> 00:02:17.419 A sign that grabs attention. 00:02:18.379 --> 00:02:22.799 The characters in the story, they're paying attention now to Jesus. 00:02:23.079 --> 00:02:25.680 Or it creates some kind of conflict. 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:27.719 And it's meant to do that for us as well. 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:34.659 Second, he will record something of great importance that Jesus says. 00:02:34.659 --> 00:02:39.039 So we definitely want to pay attention to the sign itself. 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:44.539 But we really want to be paying attention to what Jesus says following that sign. 00:02:45.539 --> 00:02:55.039 Last week we looked at the beginning of chapter 5 where Jesus recorded healing a man at the pool of Bethesda who had been lame for 38 years. 00:02:55.039 --> 00:02:59.419 It has to be assumed that many people would have known this man. 00:02:59.419 --> 00:03:02.159 That he could not walk. 00:03:02.359 --> 00:03:05.439 And that his newfound ability to walk. 00:03:05.500 --> 00:03:07.819 It just would have been attention grabbing. 00:03:08.079 --> 00:03:12.019 It would have been an astounding thing to see this man healed. 00:03:12.020 --> 00:03:17.740 It certainly got the attention of the Jewish religious leaders. 00:03:18.180 --> 00:03:23.460 Particularly because Jesus performed this miracle on the Sabbath. 00:03:23.700 --> 00:03:31.020 They had added all kinds of regulation to the Old Testament commandment to keep the Sabbath. 00:03:31.020 --> 00:03:38.300 And they were vigilant about pointing out when people weren't keeping the Sabbath. 00:03:38.500 --> 00:03:41.040 And so Jesus did not sin in healing this man. 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:45.800 Nor did this man sin in taking up his mat in obedience to Jesus. 00:03:46.020 --> 00:03:49.100 But they thought that they had. 00:03:49.180 --> 00:03:51.660 And so they were looking to kill him. 00:03:52.200 --> 00:03:56.240 He was being disruptive to the religious order. 00:03:56.240 --> 00:04:00.620 If you notice verse 16 and following of chapter 5. 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:01.100 It says, 00:04:01.100 --> 00:04:04.860 And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus. 00:04:05.020 --> 00:04:08.100 Because he was doing these things. 00:04:08.760 --> 00:04:11.939 This healing on the Sabbath. 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:15.120 But Jesus answered them, 00:04:15.719 --> 00:04:18.500 My Father is working until now. 00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:21.079 And I am working. 00:04:21.639 --> 00:04:25.420 It's an astounding statement that Christ makes of himself. 00:04:25.420 --> 00:04:26.259 Of his deity. 00:04:26.939 --> 00:04:27.759 And then it goes on. 00:04:27.879 --> 00:04:28.879 John says in verse 18. 00:04:28.980 --> 00:04:31.960 This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him. 00:04:32.580 --> 00:04:34.500 Because not only was he breaking the Sabbath. 00:04:34.500 --> 00:04:38.580 But he was even calling God his own Father. 00:04:39.060 --> 00:04:42.560 Making himself equal with God. 00:04:44.120 --> 00:04:47.860 Blasphemy or profaning the name of God. 00:04:48.100 --> 00:04:52.300 Was and is a serious infraction. 00:04:52.300 --> 00:04:56.439 It would be blasphemy for me to call myself God. 00:04:56.639 --> 00:04:59.460 It would be a terrible, terrible sin. 00:05:00.660 --> 00:05:03.300 If Jesus was in fact blaspheming. 00:05:03.699 --> 00:05:07.379 Then a pursuit of justice was in order. 00:05:07.540 --> 00:05:10.480 That needed to be correct. 00:05:11.300 --> 00:05:13.199 But he was innocent of this charge. 00:05:13.319 --> 00:05:17.460 Because Jesus is God. 00:05:17.459 --> 00:05:20.039 Who is Jesus? 00:05:20.039 --> 00:05:20.079 Who is Jesus? 00:05:20.339 --> 00:05:26.039 Is the most important question to be asked or answered. 00:05:26.359 --> 00:05:28.659 You must take up this matter. 00:05:28.859 --> 00:05:31.659 Who is Jesus? 00:05:32.299 --> 00:05:35.079 Who do you believe that Jesus is? 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:40.599 Last week I mentioned the trilemma. 00:05:40.600 --> 00:05:45.980 Jesus makes some astounding claims about himself. 00:05:46.620 --> 00:05:52.480 What do you do with what he says about himself? 00:05:53.240 --> 00:05:54.840 You really only have three options. 00:05:55.040 --> 00:05:56.800 The trilemma. 00:05:57.320 --> 00:05:59.980 You must pick one of the following. 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:02.460 He was either a liar. 00:06:03.080 --> 00:06:05.300 The things that he said about himself just were untrue. 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:07.040 And he knew exactly what he was doing. 00:06:07.280 --> 00:06:08.939 And spinning this yarn. 00:06:08.939 --> 00:06:13.339 Or he genuinely believed this about himself. 00:06:13.899 --> 00:06:15.100 But it's false. 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:17.219 And so he's a lunatic. 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:23.500 Or what he said about himself is true. 00:06:23.980 --> 00:06:27.519 And so it's right for us to worship him as Lord. 00:06:27.699 --> 00:06:29.420 So that's the trilemma. 00:06:29.579 --> 00:06:30.139 Is he liar? 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:31.279 Is he lunatic? 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:34.000 Or is he Lord? 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:38.019 And we encounter this kind of trilemma in life. 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:39.600 All the time. 00:06:39.740 --> 00:06:43.360 Not nearly as weighty as the matter before us. 00:06:44.300 --> 00:06:45.339 I'll give you an example. 00:06:46.459 --> 00:06:50.100 Did you know that there are people today who think the earth is flat? 00:06:52.379 --> 00:06:53.519 They really do. 00:06:53.519 --> 00:06:57.759 If you're in the room, I don't mean to be insulting to you. 00:07:00.299 --> 00:07:01.819 We have to do something with that. 00:07:01.919 --> 00:07:03.159 What do we do with that? 00:07:03.259 --> 00:07:05.639 These people either don't really believe this to be true. 00:07:06.379 --> 00:07:10.899 They're fabricating it because they want to bother us and get it underneath our skin. 00:07:10.899 --> 00:07:14.500 Or they really believe it's true. 00:07:16.199 --> 00:07:17.139 Or they're right. 00:07:17.779 --> 00:07:21.599 And I'll leave you to guess which one I think it is. 00:07:23.060 --> 00:07:25.739 C.S. Lewis wrote in Mere Christianity, 00:07:26.620 --> 00:07:33.099 I am trying here to prevent anyone from saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Jesus. 00:07:33.879 --> 00:07:36.799 I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, 00:07:36.979 --> 00:07:40.359 but I don't accept his claim to be God. 00:07:41.179 --> 00:07:43.339 That is the one thing we must not say. 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:49.319 A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus would not be a great moral teacher. 00:07:50.219 --> 00:07:53.979 He would either be a lunatic on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg, 00:07:54.199 --> 00:07:56.459 or else he would be the devil of hell. 00:07:57.219 --> 00:07:58.139 A liar, right? 00:07:58.739 --> 00:08:00.299 You must make your choice. 00:08:01.219 --> 00:08:03.959 Either this man was and is the Son of God, 00:08:04.019 --> 00:08:06.879 or else a madman or something worse. 00:08:07.859 --> 00:08:09.439 You can shut him up for a fool. 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:12.259 You could spit at him and kill him as a demon, 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:17.100 or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. 00:08:17.860 --> 00:08:23.220 But let us not come up with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. 00:08:23.720 --> 00:08:26.259 He has not left that open to us. 00:08:26.259 --> 00:08:34.600 For us to reduce him to merely a teacher, Lewis is saying, 00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:38.539 is a great insult to what he said about himself. 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:41.600 He's either a liar or a lunatic, 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:45.000 or he is in fact who he said he is. 00:08:45.039 --> 00:08:45.860 He's the Son of God, 00:08:46.259 --> 00:08:49.039 the Lord of the universe. 00:08:49.039 --> 00:08:55.539 The Jewish religious leaders had already decided what they believed about Jesus. 00:08:56.500 --> 00:08:59.699 In some places, it's recorded for us that they think he is insane. 00:09:00.139 --> 00:09:05.659 In others, that he is of the devil, the father of lies. 00:09:05.659 --> 00:09:08.699 John 5.18, 00:09:08.860 --> 00:09:12.120 This is why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him. 00:09:12.539 --> 00:09:14.219 Because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, 00:09:14.319 --> 00:09:17.100 but he was even calling God his own father, 00:09:17.339 --> 00:09:20.139 making himself equal with God. 00:09:20.779 --> 00:09:24.339 And it is in response to this judgment in their minds 00:09:24.339 --> 00:09:27.799 that John records the following teaching of Jesus. 00:09:27.899 --> 00:09:29.360 It's on the heels of this, right? 00:09:29.439 --> 00:09:32.659 John has been very careful about what he's recorded for us here. 00:09:32.659 --> 00:09:37.500 Here, it's following this that Jesus is going to teach. 00:09:38.219 --> 00:09:40.799 Let me pray for us, and then we'll read the text. 00:09:42.539 --> 00:09:48.039 Father God, we do thank you this day for Christ, your Son. 00:09:48.740 --> 00:09:52.559 We are so very glad that he is, in fact, 00:09:52.620 --> 00:09:56.100 true to all of the things that he said about himself. 00:09:56.100 --> 00:09:59.419 But we know that we need your help this morning 00:09:59.419 --> 00:10:02.120 to rightly understand this. 00:10:02.659 --> 00:10:06.740 What a vast thing to try to wrap our minds around. 00:10:07.639 --> 00:10:11.399 What an incredible thing to have worked down deep into our hearts 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:13.719 that it might bring forth fruit. 00:10:14.819 --> 00:10:16.100 We thank you for your word this morning 00:10:16.100 --> 00:10:19.399 and for what it says to this end. 00:10:19.500 --> 00:10:23.819 We thank you that your word itself is powerful to change us, 00:10:23.879 --> 00:10:25.819 and we pray that you'd work by it. 00:10:26.199 --> 00:10:29.500 Help us to believe its promises and obey its commands 00:10:29.500 --> 00:10:32.700 and have affection for you, its author. 00:10:33.740 --> 00:10:36.259 We know we need your help in doing so. 00:10:36.360 --> 00:10:37.460 So we pray that you would help us, 00:10:38.059 --> 00:10:39.139 and we pray in Christ's name. 00:10:39.820 --> 00:10:40.080 Amen. 00:10:41.659 --> 00:10:43.679 So John 5, beginning in verse 19 and following. 00:10:43.679 --> 00:10:49.539 So, Jesus said to them, those who want to kill him 00:10:49.539 --> 00:10:53.139 because of what he said about himself being God, 00:10:53.139 --> 00:10:56.360 truly, truly, truly, I say to you, 00:10:56.439 --> 00:10:58.439 the Son can do nothing of his own accord, 00:10:58.919 --> 00:11:01.199 but only what he sees the Father doing. 00:11:01.799 --> 00:11:04.679 For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise. 00:11:05.379 --> 00:11:07.439 For the Father loves the Son and shows him 00:11:07.439 --> 00:11:09.299 all that he himself is doing. 00:11:09.860 --> 00:11:12.539 And greater works than these will he show him 00:11:12.539 --> 00:11:14.299 so that you may marvel. 00:11:14.299 --> 00:11:17.779 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, 00:11:17.879 --> 00:11:20.199 so also the Son gives life to whom he will. 00:11:21.039 --> 00:11:22.599 For the Father judges no one, 00:11:22.859 --> 00:11:25.439 but has given all judgment to the Son, 00:11:25.759 --> 00:11:28.279 that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. 00:11:29.139 --> 00:11:30.659 Whoever does not honor the Son 00:11:30.659 --> 00:11:32.919 does not honor the Father who sent him. 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:35.179 Truly, truly, I say to you, 00:11:35.759 --> 00:11:38.439 whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me 00:11:38.439 --> 00:11:39.500 has eternal life. 00:11:40.120 --> 00:11:41.579 He does not come into judgment, 00:11:41.580 --> 00:11:44.300 but has passed from death to life. 00:11:45.340 --> 00:11:46.600 Truly, truly, I say to you, 00:11:46.780 --> 00:11:49.420 an hour is coming and is now here 00:11:49.420 --> 00:11:52.100 when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God 00:11:52.100 --> 00:11:54.259 and those who hear will live. 00:11:54.980 --> 00:11:56.620 For as the Father has life in himself, 00:11:56.800 --> 00:12:00.560 so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. 00:12:01.280 --> 00:12:03.879 And he has given him authority to execute judgment 00:12:03.879 --> 00:12:05.879 because he is the Son of Man. 00:12:06.780 --> 00:12:08.200 Do not marvel at this, 00:12:08.560 --> 00:12:09.560 for an hour is coming 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:12.199 when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice 00:12:12.199 --> 00:12:13.059 and come out, 00:12:13.199 --> 00:12:15.599 those who have done good to the resurrection of life 00:12:15.599 --> 00:12:17.139 and those who have done evil 00:12:17.139 --> 00:12:19.099 to the resurrection of judgment. 00:12:20.059 --> 00:12:21.719 I can do nothing on my own. 00:12:22.199 --> 00:12:23.799 As I hear, I judge, 00:12:24.119 --> 00:12:25.619 and my judgment is just 00:12:25.619 --> 00:12:27.219 because I seek not my own, 00:12:27.339 --> 00:12:30.319 but the will of him who sent me. 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:31.500 All right. 00:12:32.019 --> 00:12:32.759 So words of Jesus, 00:12:32.879 --> 00:12:36.539 which are not always easy to navigate through. 00:12:36.539 --> 00:12:38.879 Sometimes he speaks in ways 00:12:38.879 --> 00:12:40.079 that can be a bit difficult 00:12:40.079 --> 00:12:42.339 for us to understand. 00:12:43.019 --> 00:12:43.399 However, 00:12:44.279 --> 00:12:45.959 there is a literary structure 00:12:45.959 --> 00:12:47.620 found in the book of John 00:12:47.620 --> 00:12:49.919 that helps us to this end. 00:12:50.599 --> 00:12:51.039 It's there. 00:12:51.099 --> 00:12:52.419 I need to put this in your notes for you 00:12:52.419 --> 00:12:54.299 so you can see it better yourself. 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:55.559 But this text, 00:12:55.659 --> 00:12:56.740 verses 19 through 30, 00:12:56.799 --> 00:12:58.120 is, once again, 00:12:58.699 --> 00:13:00.419 a chiastic structure. 00:13:00.959 --> 00:13:01.099 Okay. 00:13:01.259 --> 00:13:02.039 And I'm going to show you 00:13:02.039 --> 00:13:02.959 because why? 00:13:03.259 --> 00:13:05.500 Why is he repetitious? 00:13:06.039 --> 00:13:07.620 It doesn't feel like 00:13:07.620 --> 00:13:09.019 he's making a progressive, 00:13:09.299 --> 00:13:10.139 logical argument 00:13:10.139 --> 00:13:12.279 the way Paul writes in many places. 00:13:12.439 --> 00:13:13.980 So this, then this, then this. 00:13:14.199 --> 00:13:14.319 Right? 00:13:14.740 --> 00:13:16.959 This language seems to loop back around. 00:13:17.079 --> 00:13:17.620 You're right. 00:13:17.860 --> 00:13:18.019 Right? 00:13:18.179 --> 00:13:21.339 That impulse in you is correct. 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:21.959 Right? 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:22.719 So if you're unfamiliar 00:13:22.719 --> 00:13:23.639 with the chiastic structure, 00:13:23.699 --> 00:13:24.559 it comes from the Greek letter 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:26.039 for X, chi. 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:26.860 Right? 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:27.959 There's a center point 00:13:27.959 --> 00:13:29.860 to this text. 00:13:29.860 --> 00:13:30.779 So I want to show it to you 00:13:30.779 --> 00:13:32.019 really briefly, 00:13:32.320 --> 00:13:33.940 show you what the center of it is. 00:13:34.100 --> 00:13:35.460 It'll help us a bit 00:13:35.460 --> 00:13:36.820 as we look on. 00:13:37.779 --> 00:13:38.419 So first, 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:42.100 verse 19 and verse 30 00:13:42.100 --> 00:13:43.940 correspond to one another. 00:13:44.240 --> 00:13:44.360 Right? 00:13:44.600 --> 00:13:46.060 Fairly easy to apprehend 00:13:46.060 --> 00:13:46.560 that very thing. 00:13:46.620 --> 00:13:49.220 So you've got A and A prime, 00:13:49.560 --> 00:13:50.419 verse 19 and verse 30. 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:51.639 So Jesus said to them, 00:13:51.720 --> 00:13:52.519 Truly, truly, I say to you, 00:13:52.860 --> 00:13:54.320 the Son can do nothing 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:55.800 of his own accord. 00:13:55.940 --> 00:13:56.480 You see the phrase? 00:13:56.639 --> 00:13:57.180 And then again, 00:13:57.620 --> 00:13:58.399 in verse 30, 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:00.360 I can do nothing 00:14:00.360 --> 00:14:02.279 on my own. 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:03.519 See how the two things 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:04.500 correspond. 00:14:04.620 --> 00:14:05.779 They set up some bookends 00:14:05.779 --> 00:14:08.079 to this passage of text. 00:14:09.379 --> 00:14:10.480 Next we see, 00:14:10.600 --> 00:14:12.879 so B and B prime 00:14:12.879 --> 00:14:14.519 corresponding to one another, 00:14:15.079 --> 00:14:17.139 verses 20 through 23, 00:14:17.740 --> 00:14:20.399 and then verses 25 through 29. 00:14:21.240 --> 00:14:22.179 So larger sections. 00:14:22.319 --> 00:14:23.139 But thematically, 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:24.600 you can notice a pattern. 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:26.740 talk of resurrection 00:14:26.740 --> 00:14:29.060 and then judgment. 00:14:29.759 --> 00:14:31.580 In the case of verses 20 through 23, 00:14:31.779 --> 00:14:32.659 then honor. 00:14:33.180 --> 00:14:34.600 So resurrection, judgment, honor. 00:14:35.019 --> 00:14:36.159 And in the second case, 00:14:36.220 --> 00:14:37.820 verses 25 through 29, 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:38.920 resurrection, 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:40.300 judgment, 00:14:41.300 --> 00:14:42.019 and reward. 00:14:42.540 --> 00:14:43.879 So honor for Christ 00:14:43.879 --> 00:14:44.480 and the Father. 00:14:44.600 --> 00:14:45.139 In the one case, 00:14:45.220 --> 00:14:46.279 resurrection, judgment, honor. 00:14:46.580 --> 00:14:47.440 In the second case, 00:14:48.139 --> 00:14:48.800 reward for those 00:14:48.800 --> 00:14:49.920 who place their faith in him. 00:14:49.980 --> 00:14:50.460 Resurrection, 00:14:51.420 --> 00:14:51.660 judgment, 00:14:51.659 --> 00:14:51.779 judgment, 00:14:52.600 --> 00:14:53.439 and reward. 00:14:54.179 --> 00:14:54.959 Which brings us 00:14:54.959 --> 00:14:55.639 to the center 00:14:55.639 --> 00:14:57.419 of the chiasm, 00:14:57.579 --> 00:14:59.199 which is verse 24. 00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:00.899 There Jesus says, 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:01.679 Truly, truly, 00:15:01.759 --> 00:15:02.539 I say to you, 00:15:03.259 --> 00:15:04.679 whoever hears my word 00:15:04.679 --> 00:15:05.480 and believes him 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:06.219 who sent me 00:15:06.219 --> 00:15:08.139 has eternal life. 00:15:08.699 --> 00:15:09.500 He does not come 00:15:09.500 --> 00:15:10.159 into judgment, 00:15:10.779 --> 00:15:11.799 but is passed 00:15:11.799 --> 00:15:12.719 from death 00:15:12.719 --> 00:15:13.740 to life. 00:15:14.299 --> 00:15:15.539 Now there is a lot 00:15:15.539 --> 00:15:16.179 to talk about 00:15:16.179 --> 00:15:17.339 in this passage. 00:15:17.459 --> 00:15:18.079 We don't want 00:15:18.079 --> 00:15:19.199 to neglect it, 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:19.780 but if, 00:15:20.300 --> 00:15:21.160 if we had a really 00:15:21.160 --> 00:15:21.740 limited amount 00:15:21.740 --> 00:15:22.340 of time together, 00:15:22.520 --> 00:15:23.720 which is fairly limited, 00:15:24.040 --> 00:15:24.860 a limited amount 00:15:24.860 --> 00:15:25.500 of time together, 00:15:25.840 --> 00:15:26.820 I would suggest to you 00:15:26.820 --> 00:15:27.740 in this case, 00:15:27.860 --> 00:15:29.180 what you most need 00:15:29.180 --> 00:15:29.879 to hear is what's 00:15:29.879 --> 00:15:30.480 being communicated 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:31.780 in verse 24. 00:15:32.640 --> 00:15:34.780 It's being built up, 00:15:34.980 --> 00:15:36.360 it's being clearly 00:15:36.360 --> 00:15:37.220 communicated to us 00:15:37.220 --> 00:15:37.800 in other parts 00:15:37.800 --> 00:15:38.320 of the passage, 00:15:38.440 --> 00:15:39.340 but verse 24, 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:40.340 if you needed to hone 00:15:40.340 --> 00:15:42.460 in on a central thing, 00:15:42.840 --> 00:15:43.640 this is the thing 00:15:43.640 --> 00:15:45.200 that you should notice. 00:15:46.060 --> 00:15:46.540 And this shouldn't 00:15:46.540 --> 00:15:48.020 be a surprise to us. 00:15:48.019 --> 00:15:50.500 In John's structuring 00:15:50.500 --> 00:15:52.240 of Jesus' words, 00:15:52.899 --> 00:15:54.000 he's driving a point 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:54.699 that he's going to drive 00:15:54.699 --> 00:15:55.840 all throughout 00:15:55.840 --> 00:15:57.279 his gospel, 00:15:57.419 --> 00:15:58.460 like the greatest point 00:15:58.460 --> 00:15:59.019 that he could 00:15:59.019 --> 00:16:01.199 possibly drive. 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:03.340 For us to have 00:16:03.340 --> 00:16:04.679 eternal life, 00:16:05.039 --> 00:16:08.079 we must go to God 00:16:08.079 --> 00:16:10.179 through Christ. 00:16:10.899 --> 00:16:13.679 Jesus is the Messiah. 00:16:13.919 --> 00:16:14.539 It's the way 00:16:14.539 --> 00:16:17.319 that we can be saved. 00:16:17.320 --> 00:16:19.160 He states the purpose 00:16:19.160 --> 00:16:20.480 of the whole book. 00:16:20.700 --> 00:16:21.320 John 20, 00:16:22.060 --> 00:16:23.080 verse 30 and 31. 00:16:23.800 --> 00:16:24.300 Now Jesus did 00:16:24.300 --> 00:16:25.560 many other signs 00:16:25.560 --> 00:16:26.200 or miracles 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:26.740 in the presence 00:16:26.740 --> 00:16:27.260 of the disciples 00:16:27.260 --> 00:16:28.080 which are not written 00:16:28.080 --> 00:16:28.879 in this book, 00:16:29.280 --> 00:16:30.520 but these are written 00:16:30.520 --> 00:16:32.300 so that you may believe 00:16:32.300 --> 00:16:33.640 that Jesus is the Christ, 00:16:33.760 --> 00:16:34.440 the Son of God, 00:16:34.500 --> 00:16:35.680 and that by believing 00:16:35.680 --> 00:16:38.379 you may have life 00:16:38.379 --> 00:16:39.620 in his name. 00:16:40.100 --> 00:16:41.000 This is the point 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:42.900 that he's driving us at. 00:16:42.899 --> 00:16:44.779 Now I will tell you 00:16:44.779 --> 00:16:45.779 at this point, 00:16:46.459 --> 00:16:48.199 there's a temptation 00:16:48.199 --> 00:16:50.659 amongst pastors, 00:16:51.259 --> 00:16:52.319 people who preach. 00:16:54.840 --> 00:16:56.259 We don't want to get up 00:16:56.259 --> 00:16:57.240 and be boring. 00:16:57.639 --> 00:16:58.759 I just don't want 00:16:58.759 --> 00:17:00.079 to be boring. 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:01.240 The effort that I put 00:17:01.240 --> 00:17:02.120 into preaching sermons, 00:17:02.220 --> 00:17:03.379 I want to be well received. 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:04.059 I want you guys 00:17:04.059 --> 00:17:04.879 to appreciate 00:17:04.879 --> 00:17:05.740 what happens 00:17:05.740 --> 00:17:07.220 on a Sunday morning. 00:17:07.220 --> 00:17:09.440 at my purest intention, 00:17:09.600 --> 00:17:10.240 I want your lives 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:10.960 to be changed 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:12.059 from one degree of glory 00:17:12.059 --> 00:17:12.740 to another, 00:17:12.980 --> 00:17:14.360 the praise of Christ. 00:17:15.120 --> 00:17:16.720 We want it to be effectual. 00:17:16.839 --> 00:17:17.279 We want it to actually 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:18.360 accomplish things 00:17:18.360 --> 00:17:19.559 when we come together 00:17:19.559 --> 00:17:20.620 and the temptation 00:17:20.620 --> 00:17:23.559 is to be innovative. 00:17:24.839 --> 00:17:25.299 The temptation 00:17:25.299 --> 00:17:27.180 is to somehow say 00:17:27.180 --> 00:17:28.380 the same thing 00:17:28.380 --> 00:17:30.160 in some new way, 00:17:30.640 --> 00:17:31.559 some thing that will 00:17:31.559 --> 00:17:33.019 grab your attention 00:17:33.019 --> 00:17:34.960 otherwise. 00:17:34.960 --> 00:17:37.000 And I think 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:38.160 this is a grave error. 00:17:39.519 --> 00:17:40.380 I'm so glad 00:17:40.380 --> 00:17:40.980 that when that little 00:17:40.980 --> 00:17:42.579 impulse rises up in me 00:17:42.579 --> 00:17:43.900 that the response 00:17:43.900 --> 00:17:44.640 to it is, 00:17:44.740 --> 00:17:45.860 just preach the word. 00:17:46.779 --> 00:17:47.539 People are going 00:17:47.539 --> 00:17:48.759 to have tickling ears. 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:50.559 Don't entertain them. 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:53.500 Just preach the word 00:17:53.500 --> 00:17:54.400 and let us be a people 00:17:54.400 --> 00:17:55.799 who never grow tired 00:17:55.799 --> 00:17:57.559 of musing 00:17:57.559 --> 00:17:59.140 about this reality. 00:17:59.819 --> 00:18:00.819 Apart from Christ, 00:18:01.960 --> 00:18:04.700 we are due death 00:18:04.700 --> 00:18:05.279 forever. 00:18:06.279 --> 00:18:07.460 But in Christ, 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:09.900 we have eternal life. 00:18:10.440 --> 00:18:11.880 This ought not 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:13.980 be a thing 00:18:13.980 --> 00:18:14.920 that grows cold 00:18:14.920 --> 00:18:16.620 in our hearts. 00:18:17.620 --> 00:18:18.539 Perhaps the Bible 00:18:18.539 --> 00:18:19.580 is so replete with it, 00:18:19.700 --> 00:18:20.279 it says it over 00:18:20.279 --> 00:18:21.340 and over and over again 00:18:21.340 --> 00:18:22.460 because we need to hear it 00:18:22.460 --> 00:18:23.319 over and over 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:23.980 and over 00:18:23.980 --> 00:18:26.620 and over again. 00:18:27.200 --> 00:18:28.160 So we'll spend some time 00:18:28.160 --> 00:18:29.240 in these next few moments 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:31.259 doing that very phrase. 00:18:31.259 --> 00:18:33.480 Jesus makes 00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:35.980 three astonishing claims 00:18:35.980 --> 00:18:38.039 in these 12 verses. 00:18:38.180 --> 00:18:38.660 That's what we'll do 00:18:38.660 --> 00:18:39.299 as our outline. 00:18:39.420 --> 00:18:40.359 I want to draw your attention 00:18:40.359 --> 00:18:41.900 to three claims 00:18:41.900 --> 00:18:43.220 that he makes. 00:18:43.759 --> 00:18:44.839 The first claim he makes 00:18:44.839 --> 00:18:46.019 is that he is aligned 00:18:46.019 --> 00:18:47.059 with the Father 00:18:47.059 --> 00:18:48.559 in action. 00:18:49.240 --> 00:18:50.279 Jesus is aligned 00:18:50.279 --> 00:18:51.799 with the Father 00:18:51.799 --> 00:18:53.480 in action. 00:18:53.480 --> 00:18:55.759 verse 19-20 00:18:55.759 --> 00:18:58.400 and verse 30. 00:18:59.339 --> 00:19:01.160 He's upping this claim. 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:03.299 The Father is working 00:19:03.299 --> 00:19:04.460 and I am working. 00:19:04.559 --> 00:19:05.180 Not only that, 00:19:05.240 --> 00:19:06.480 but I'm doing exactly 00:19:06.480 --> 00:19:08.220 what the Father does. 00:19:08.539 --> 00:19:09.680 He's doubling down 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:10.440 on this claim 00:19:10.440 --> 00:19:13.180 that he is God. 00:19:14.160 --> 00:19:15.200 Truly, truly, I say to you, 00:19:15.240 --> 00:19:15.920 the Son can do 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:18.620 nothing of his own accord 00:19:18.620 --> 00:19:19.779 but only what he sees 00:19:19.779 --> 00:19:20.420 the Father doing. 00:19:21.240 --> 00:19:22.140 Whatever the Father does, 00:19:22.220 --> 00:19:24.960 the Son does likewise. 00:19:25.380 --> 00:19:26.960 The Father loves the Son. 00:19:27.480 --> 00:19:28.420 This relationship 00:19:28.420 --> 00:19:29.779 shows him all 00:19:29.779 --> 00:19:31.000 that he himself is doing. 00:19:31.100 --> 00:19:31.420 He's going to do 00:19:31.420 --> 00:19:32.200 greater works 00:19:32.200 --> 00:19:34.140 than healing the lame man, 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:34.940 greater works 00:19:34.940 --> 00:19:36.440 than these will. 00:19:36.560 --> 00:19:37.039 Verse 30. 00:19:37.259 --> 00:19:37.500 He says, 00:19:37.539 --> 00:19:38.180 I can do nothing 00:19:38.180 --> 00:19:39.740 on my own. 00:19:40.019 --> 00:19:40.880 This isn't speaking 00:19:40.880 --> 00:19:43.480 to Jesus' sovereign power. 00:19:43.700 --> 00:19:44.320 It's speaking to 00:19:44.320 --> 00:19:45.360 his relationship 00:19:45.360 --> 00:19:46.200 with the Father. 00:19:46.300 --> 00:19:47.259 He doesn't go rogue 00:19:47.259 --> 00:19:48.980 with his own will. 00:19:49.120 --> 00:19:49.279 He says, 00:19:49.340 --> 00:19:49.740 As I hear, 00:19:49.740 --> 00:19:50.099 I judge, 00:19:50.120 --> 00:19:50.579 and my judgment 00:19:50.579 --> 00:19:51.039 is just 00:19:51.039 --> 00:19:51.720 because I seek 00:19:51.720 --> 00:19:53.380 not my own will, 00:19:53.880 --> 00:19:54.680 but the will 00:19:54.680 --> 00:19:56.279 of him who sent me. 00:19:57.660 --> 00:20:00.180 Jesus is God. 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:01.180 Jesus does 00:20:01.180 --> 00:20:02.460 the very things 00:20:02.460 --> 00:20:04.180 that God is doing. 00:20:04.339 --> 00:20:05.160 Later on, 00:20:05.259 --> 00:20:05.839 he's going to say 00:20:05.839 --> 00:20:06.620 that he comes 00:20:06.620 --> 00:20:07.539 to seek 00:20:07.539 --> 00:20:08.920 and to save 00:20:08.920 --> 00:20:10.359 the lost. 00:20:10.599 --> 00:20:11.460 He has a purpose 00:20:11.460 --> 00:20:12.140 in the world 00:20:12.140 --> 00:20:12.880 to redeem 00:20:12.880 --> 00:20:14.759 God's people. 00:20:16.279 --> 00:20:16.539 So, 00:20:16.640 --> 00:20:17.460 what do we do 00:20:17.460 --> 00:20:18.500 with this information? 00:20:18.500 --> 00:20:19.319 Is there anything 00:20:19.319 --> 00:20:21.039 applicable to us? 00:20:21.240 --> 00:20:21.720 Of course. 00:20:21.859 --> 00:20:22.859 Of course there is. 00:20:23.579 --> 00:20:23.940 Firstly, 00:20:24.059 --> 00:20:26.220 we should trust Jesus 00:20:26.220 --> 00:20:28.559 with confidence. 00:20:29.059 --> 00:20:30.779 If we can behold Christ, 00:20:30.900 --> 00:20:31.799 then we are seeing 00:20:31.799 --> 00:20:33.839 the Father as well. 00:20:34.440 --> 00:20:35.259 If the Son does 00:20:35.259 --> 00:20:37.119 only what the Father does, 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:39.180 Jesus never 00:20:39.180 --> 00:20:42.000 misrepresents God. 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:43.180 He was 00:20:43.180 --> 00:20:43.720 chapter 1. 00:20:43.779 --> 00:20:44.599 He's an exact 00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:45.339 imprint 00:20:45.339 --> 00:20:47.000 of his nature. 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:48.660 To know 00:20:48.660 --> 00:20:49.259 Jesus 00:20:49.259 --> 00:20:50.720 is to know 00:20:50.720 --> 00:20:51.819 the Father. 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:53.019 There's no 00:20:53.019 --> 00:20:53.579 contradiction 00:20:53.579 --> 00:20:54.500 between them, 00:20:54.720 --> 00:20:55.279 which means that 00:20:55.279 --> 00:20:56.019 Jesus is 00:20:56.019 --> 00:20:56.940 entirely 00:20:56.940 --> 00:20:58.160 trustworthy. 00:20:58.640 --> 00:20:59.960 If we take up 00:20:59.960 --> 00:21:00.619 his word, 00:21:00.700 --> 00:21:01.339 we can know 00:21:01.339 --> 00:21:02.079 that this is God 00:21:02.079 --> 00:21:02.900 himself speaking 00:21:02.900 --> 00:21:03.740 to us. 00:21:04.779 --> 00:21:05.599 Which means 00:21:05.599 --> 00:21:06.140 we should submit 00:21:06.140 --> 00:21:06.759 to Jesus' 00:21:07.039 --> 00:21:07.619 authority, 00:21:07.839 --> 00:21:08.180 secondly. 00:21:08.180 --> 00:21:09.799 his perfect 00:21:09.799 --> 00:21:10.440 unity with the 00:21:10.440 --> 00:21:11.140 Father means 00:21:11.140 --> 00:21:12.180 his words 00:21:12.180 --> 00:21:14.220 carry the 00:21:14.220 --> 00:21:14.940 weight 00:21:14.940 --> 00:21:16.259 of divinity. 00:21:17.600 --> 00:21:18.220 To resist 00:21:18.220 --> 00:21:18.640 Jesus' 00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:19.279 words 00:21:19.279 --> 00:21:20.840 is to resist 00:21:20.840 --> 00:21:21.200 God 00:21:21.200 --> 00:21:22.120 himself. 00:21:22.539 --> 00:21:23.740 It's the invitation 00:21:23.740 --> 00:21:24.920 to come and 00:21:24.920 --> 00:21:25.779 believe in him 00:21:25.779 --> 00:21:26.500 that we might have 00:21:26.500 --> 00:21:27.360 eternal life. 00:21:29.019 --> 00:21:29.960 Who Jesus 00:21:29.960 --> 00:21:30.480 is 00:21:30.480 --> 00:21:31.100 matters 00:21:31.100 --> 00:21:32.120 immensely 00:21:32.119 --> 00:21:33.479 because he's 00:21:33.479 --> 00:21:34.099 aligned with 00:21:34.099 --> 00:21:34.519 the Father 00:21:34.519 --> 00:21:35.739 in action. 00:21:37.399 --> 00:21:37.679 This should 00:21:37.679 --> 00:21:38.079 cause us 00:21:38.079 --> 00:21:38.619 certainly to 00:21:38.619 --> 00:21:40.139 marvel at 00:21:40.139 --> 00:21:41.819 his works. 00:21:43.099 --> 00:21:43.559 Jesus says 00:21:43.559 --> 00:21:43.939 the Father 00:21:43.939 --> 00:21:44.599 will show him 00:21:44.599 --> 00:21:46.099 greater works 00:21:46.099 --> 00:21:46.899 so that we 00:21:46.899 --> 00:21:47.219 will 00:21:47.219 --> 00:21:48.539 marvel. 00:21:49.119 --> 00:21:49.879 The right 00:21:49.879 --> 00:21:51.099 response 00:21:51.099 --> 00:21:51.779 to this 00:21:51.779 --> 00:21:52.539 is 00:21:52.539 --> 00:21:54.019 worship. 00:21:55.519 --> 00:21:55.679 And, 00:21:55.759 --> 00:21:55.859 beloved, 00:21:55.939 --> 00:21:56.559 let me tell you 00:21:56.559 --> 00:21:57.119 that we live 00:21:57.119 --> 00:21:57.599 in a world 00:21:57.599 --> 00:21:58.259 that is looking 00:21:58.259 --> 00:21:58.919 for 00:21:58.919 --> 00:22:00.279 signs. 00:22:00.279 --> 00:22:01.619 the greatest 00:22:01.619 --> 00:22:02.160 work 00:22:02.160 --> 00:22:02.920 that the 00:22:02.920 --> 00:22:03.299 living 00:22:03.299 --> 00:22:03.779 Christ 00:22:03.779 --> 00:22:04.559 accomplishes 00:22:04.559 --> 00:22:05.259 is bringing 00:22:05.259 --> 00:22:06.059 dead 00:22:06.059 --> 00:22:06.819 people 00:22:06.819 --> 00:22:08.019 to life. 00:22:08.579 --> 00:22:08.899 And this 00:22:08.899 --> 00:22:09.379 is happening 00:22:09.379 --> 00:22:10.859 all the time 00:22:10.859 --> 00:22:11.740 around us. 00:22:12.339 --> 00:22:12.899 Dead people 00:22:12.899 --> 00:22:13.799 brought to 00:22:13.799 --> 00:22:14.160 life, 00:22:14.799 --> 00:22:15.859 moved along 00:22:15.859 --> 00:22:16.920 in holiness. 00:22:17.339 --> 00:22:17.599 It's a 00:22:17.599 --> 00:22:18.599 miraculous thing 00:22:18.599 --> 00:22:19.200 when people 00:22:19.200 --> 00:22:20.319 put off the 00:22:20.319 --> 00:22:20.680 way of the 00:22:20.680 --> 00:22:21.000 world, 00:22:21.139 --> 00:22:21.440 when they 00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:22.180 deny their 00:22:22.180 --> 00:22:22.639 flesh and 00:22:22.639 --> 00:22:23.059 they take 00:22:23.059 --> 00:22:23.399 up the 00:22:23.399 --> 00:22:23.779 things 00:22:23.779 --> 00:22:24.759 of God. 00:22:24.899 --> 00:22:25.420 Because this 00:22:25.420 --> 00:22:26.079 is not our 00:22:26.079 --> 00:22:26.700 natural 00:22:26.700 --> 00:22:27.559 inclination. 00:22:27.559 --> 00:22:28.059 Right? 00:22:28.460 --> 00:22:29.440 By nature, 00:22:29.440 --> 00:22:31.140 we were, 00:22:31.340 --> 00:22:31.759 apart from 00:22:31.759 --> 00:22:32.240 Christ, 00:22:32.519 --> 00:22:32.960 children of 00:22:32.960 --> 00:22:33.480 wrath. 00:22:34.080 --> 00:22:35.019 But now 00:22:35.019 --> 00:22:35.900 we desire 00:22:35.900 --> 00:22:36.519 to seek 00:22:36.519 --> 00:22:36.960 holiness 00:22:36.960 --> 00:22:37.840 and this 00:22:37.840 --> 00:22:38.580 is 00:22:38.580 --> 00:22:40.019 miraculous. 00:22:41.120 --> 00:22:41.640 It's 00:22:41.640 --> 00:22:42.200 miraculous. 00:22:43.259 --> 00:22:43.779 We ought 00:22:43.779 --> 00:22:44.320 to come 00:22:44.320 --> 00:22:44.920 together 00:22:44.920 --> 00:22:45.920 at church 00:22:45.920 --> 00:22:46.559 and we 00:22:46.559 --> 00:22:46.759 ought to 00:22:46.759 --> 00:22:47.400 look around 00:22:47.400 --> 00:22:47.840 at one 00:22:47.840 --> 00:22:48.140 another 00:22:48.140 --> 00:22:48.480 and see 00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:49.100 the evidence 00:22:49.100 --> 00:22:49.940 of God 00:22:49.940 --> 00:22:50.240 and grace 00:22:50.240 --> 00:22:50.460 in our 00:22:50.460 --> 00:22:50.759 life 00:22:50.759 --> 00:22:51.400 and be 00:22:51.400 --> 00:22:52.259 moved 00:22:52.259 --> 00:22:52.820 by it. 00:22:53.519 --> 00:22:54.259 Look at 00:22:54.259 --> 00:22:54.980 the goodness 00:22:54.980 --> 00:22:55.820 of our 00:22:55.820 --> 00:22:56.340 God 00:22:56.340 --> 00:22:57.180 in your 00:22:57.180 --> 00:22:57.500 brothers 00:22:57.500 --> 00:22:58.840 and in 00:22:58.840 --> 00:22:58.980 your 00:22:58.980 --> 00:22:59.320 sisters. 00:22:59.440 --> 00:23:01.039 If you 00:23:01.039 --> 00:23:01.200 were 00:23:01.200 --> 00:23:01.799 unmoved, 00:23:01.940 --> 00:23:02.880 unmoved 00:23:02.880 --> 00:23:03.880 by that 00:23:03.880 --> 00:23:04.519 on Sunday 00:23:04.519 --> 00:23:04.860 mornings, 00:23:04.960 --> 00:23:05.320 ask that 00:23:05.320 --> 00:23:05.620 God would 00:23:05.620 --> 00:23:06.080 open your 00:23:06.080 --> 00:23:07.039 eyes to 00:23:07.039 --> 00:23:07.360 see the 00:23:07.360 --> 00:23:07.720 greatness 00:23:07.720 --> 00:23:08.400 of Christ 00:23:08.400 --> 00:23:09.160 in the 00:23:09.160 --> 00:23:09.820 people that 00:23:09.820 --> 00:23:10.240 you come 00:23:10.240 --> 00:23:11.360 to fellowship 00:23:11.360 --> 00:23:11.740 with. 00:23:12.140 --> 00:23:12.480 Marvel, 00:23:12.700 --> 00:23:13.480 marvel at 00:23:13.480 --> 00:23:13.820 his 00:23:13.820 --> 00:23:15.140 works. 00:23:16.660 --> 00:23:17.140 Fourthly, 00:23:17.160 --> 00:23:17.420 we should 00:23:17.420 --> 00:23:18.340 pattern our 00:23:18.340 --> 00:23:18.920 obedience 00:23:18.920 --> 00:23:20.420 after Christ. 00:23:21.700 --> 00:23:22.080 Jesus 00:23:22.080 --> 00:23:22.960 sought not 00:23:22.960 --> 00:23:23.720 his own 00:23:23.720 --> 00:23:24.420 will but 00:23:24.420 --> 00:23:24.980 his 00:23:24.980 --> 00:23:26.580 father's. 00:23:26.720 --> 00:23:27.039 And that 00:23:27.039 --> 00:23:27.799 same 00:23:27.799 --> 00:23:28.759 posture 00:23:28.759 --> 00:23:29.180 of 00:23:29.180 --> 00:23:29.799 joyful 00:23:29.799 --> 00:23:31.099 submission 00:23:31.099 --> 00:23:31.419 should 00:23:31.419 --> 00:23:31.659 mark 00:23:31.659 --> 00:23:31.859 our 00:23:31.859 --> 00:23:32.259 lives 00:23:32.259 --> 00:23:33.279 as well. 00:23:33.419 --> 00:23:33.619 And we 00:23:33.619 --> 00:23:34.019 do not 00:23:34.019 --> 00:23:34.539 have to 00:23:34.539 --> 00:23:35.259 wonder 00:23:35.259 --> 00:23:36.180 what his 00:23:36.180 --> 00:23:36.759 will is. 00:23:36.839 --> 00:23:37.220 We have a 00:23:37.220 --> 00:23:37.639 text. 00:23:38.039 --> 00:23:38.579 It's been 00:23:38.579 --> 00:23:39.180 granted to 00:23:39.180 --> 00:23:39.399 us. 00:23:39.480 --> 00:23:39.759 We can 00:23:39.759 --> 00:23:40.859 pattern our 00:23:40.859 --> 00:23:41.700 lives after 00:23:41.700 --> 00:23:42.299 the commandments 00:23:42.299 --> 00:23:42.659 that have been 00:23:42.659 --> 00:23:43.319 given to us 00:23:43.319 --> 00:23:44.359 in the 00:23:44.359 --> 00:23:44.579 scripture. 00:23:45.259 --> 00:23:45.579 So that's 00:23:45.579 --> 00:23:45.759 Jesus' 00:23:45.960 --> 00:23:46.519 first claim 00:23:46.519 --> 00:23:46.759 that he 00:23:46.759 --> 00:23:47.159 is aligned 00:23:47.159 --> 00:23:47.460 with the 00:23:47.460 --> 00:23:48.039 father in 00:23:48.039 --> 00:23:48.639 action. 00:23:49.839 --> 00:23:50.440 Second 00:23:50.440 --> 00:23:50.879 claim that he 00:23:50.879 --> 00:23:51.379 makes is that 00:23:51.379 --> 00:23:52.039 he has the 00:23:52.039 --> 00:23:52.720 power to 00:23:52.720 --> 00:23:53.139 grant 00:23:53.139 --> 00:23:53.940 life. 00:23:53.940 --> 00:23:54.799 Jesus has 00:23:54.799 --> 00:23:55.320 the power. 00:23:55.500 --> 00:23:56.500 As God, 00:23:56.580 --> 00:23:57.000 he has 00:23:57.000 --> 00:23:58.160 the power 00:23:58.160 --> 00:23:59.380 to grant 00:23:59.380 --> 00:24:00.400 life. 00:24:01.519 --> 00:24:02.000 In verse 00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:02.960 26, 00:24:03.120 --> 00:24:03.460 he says, 00:24:03.580 --> 00:24:04.000 for as the 00:24:04.000 --> 00:24:04.580 father has 00:24:04.580 --> 00:24:05.440 life in 00:24:05.440 --> 00:24:06.080 himself, 00:24:06.299 --> 00:24:06.799 he is a 00:24:06.799 --> 00:24:08.059 source of 00:24:08.059 --> 00:24:09.039 life. 00:24:09.200 --> 00:24:09.600 He doesn't 00:24:09.600 --> 00:24:10.240 need any 00:24:10.240 --> 00:24:10.740 sustaining 00:24:10.740 --> 00:24:11.240 power. 00:24:11.400 --> 00:24:12.059 He is 00:24:12.059 --> 00:24:12.660 the power, 00:24:13.140 --> 00:24:13.880 so the 00:24:13.880 --> 00:24:14.740 son has 00:24:14.740 --> 00:24:15.840 life in 00:24:15.840 --> 00:24:16.799 himself. 00:24:17.220 --> 00:24:17.580 He doesn't 00:24:17.580 --> 00:24:18.660 need sustenance 00:24:18.660 --> 00:24:19.640 but grants 00:24:19.640 --> 00:24:20.700 it to 00:24:20.700 --> 00:24:21.820 others. 00:24:21.819 --> 00:24:23.319 Notice 00:24:23.319 --> 00:24:24.500 verse 21, 00:24:25.139 --> 00:24:25.519 for as the 00:24:25.519 --> 00:24:26.339 father raises 00:24:26.339 --> 00:24:26.839 the dead 00:24:26.839 --> 00:24:27.220 and gives 00:24:27.220 --> 00:24:27.700 them life, 00:24:27.779 --> 00:24:28.220 so also 00:24:28.220 --> 00:24:28.899 the son 00:24:28.899 --> 00:24:30.139 gives life 00:24:30.139 --> 00:24:31.179 to whom 00:24:31.179 --> 00:24:31.740 he will. 00:24:32.659 --> 00:24:33.559 Verse 24, 00:24:33.799 --> 00:24:33.980 truly, 00:24:34.079 --> 00:24:34.179 truly, 00:24:34.179 --> 00:24:34.679 I say to 00:24:34.679 --> 00:24:34.759 you, 00:24:34.779 --> 00:24:35.259 whoever hears 00:24:35.259 --> 00:24:35.799 my word 00:24:35.799 --> 00:24:36.559 and believes 00:24:36.559 --> 00:24:36.980 him who 00:24:36.980 --> 00:24:37.659 sent me 00:24:37.659 --> 00:24:38.859 has 00:24:38.859 --> 00:24:39.919 eternal 00:24:39.919 --> 00:24:41.480 life. 00:24:42.319 --> 00:24:42.599 He does 00:24:42.599 --> 00:24:42.939 not come 00:24:42.939 --> 00:24:43.439 into judgment 00:24:43.439 --> 00:24:43.779 but has 00:24:43.779 --> 00:24:44.200 passed 00:24:44.200 --> 00:24:44.759 from death 00:24:44.759 --> 00:24:46.259 to life. 00:24:47.379 --> 00:24:48.019 Verse 25, 00:24:48.279 --> 00:24:48.419 truly, 00:24:48.519 --> 00:24:48.599 truly, 00:24:48.639 --> 00:24:48.980 I say to 00:24:48.980 --> 00:24:49.039 you, 00:24:49.079 --> 00:24:49.419 an hour 00:24:49.419 --> 00:24:49.879 is coming 00:24:49.879 --> 00:24:50.619 and now 00:24:50.619 --> 00:24:51.619 is here 00:24:51.619 --> 00:24:52.079 when the 00:24:52.079 --> 00:24:52.459 dead 00:24:52.459 --> 00:24:52.819 will hear 00:24:52.819 --> 00:24:53.379 the voice 00:24:53.379 --> 00:24:54.299 of the 00:24:54.299 --> 00:24:54.579 son of 00:24:54.579 --> 00:24:54.859 God 00:24:54.859 --> 00:24:55.619 and those 00:24:55.619 --> 00:24:56.359 who hear 00:24:56.359 --> 00:24:57.959 will live. 00:24:59.059 --> 00:24:59.599 Today's 00:24:59.599 --> 00:24:59.959 passage 00:24:59.959 --> 00:25:01.000 presents us 00:25:01.000 --> 00:25:02.099 with two 00:25:02.099 --> 00:25:02.759 forms 00:25:02.759 --> 00:25:03.719 of 00:25:03.719 --> 00:25:04.119 resurrection. 00:25:04.959 --> 00:25:05.839 There is 00:25:05.839 --> 00:25:06.399 a physical 00:25:06.399 --> 00:25:06.959 resurrection 00:25:06.959 --> 00:25:08.219 that will 00:25:08.219 --> 00:25:08.879 come 00:25:08.879 --> 00:25:09.619 and every 00:25:09.619 --> 00:25:10.199 single one 00:25:10.199 --> 00:25:10.639 of us 00:25:10.639 --> 00:25:11.719 will experience 00:25:11.719 --> 00:25:12.039 it. 00:25:12.319 --> 00:25:12.979 We'll address 00:25:12.979 --> 00:25:13.739 it briefly 00:25:13.739 --> 00:25:14.839 in a moment. 00:25:15.759 --> 00:25:16.419 But here, 00:25:16.679 --> 00:25:17.379 those who hear 00:25:17.379 --> 00:25:17.719 the voice 00:25:17.719 --> 00:25:18.019 of the son 00:25:18.019 --> 00:25:18.459 of God 00:25:18.459 --> 00:25:19.899 are experiencing 00:25:19.899 --> 00:25:21.279 spiritual 00:25:21.279 --> 00:25:22.019 resurrection 00:25:22.019 --> 00:25:23.579 now. 00:25:24.019 --> 00:25:24.819 The time 00:25:24.819 --> 00:25:25.180 is coming 00:25:25.180 --> 00:25:26.399 and is 00:25:26.399 --> 00:25:27.139 now 00:25:27.139 --> 00:25:28.259 here. 00:25:28.759 --> 00:25:29.200 Dead 00:25:29.200 --> 00:25:29.639 people 00:25:29.639 --> 00:25:30.980 will come 00:25:30.980 --> 00:25:31.519 to life. 00:25:32.359 --> 00:25:32.839 And the 00:25:32.839 --> 00:25:33.440 eternal life 00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:33.700 that we 00:25:33.700 --> 00:25:34.460 have now, 00:25:34.579 --> 00:25:35.019 we don't 00:25:35.019 --> 00:25:35.460 ever want 00:25:35.460 --> 00:25:36.579 to belittle 00:25:36.579 --> 00:25:37.200 the eternal 00:25:37.200 --> 00:25:37.619 life that 00:25:37.619 --> 00:25:38.680 comes after 00:25:38.680 --> 00:25:39.899 this temporal 00:25:39.899 --> 00:25:40.399 life, 00:25:40.759 --> 00:25:41.420 but we also 00:25:41.420 --> 00:25:41.839 don't want 00:25:41.839 --> 00:25:42.220 to neglect 00:25:42.220 --> 00:25:42.480 that we 00:25:42.480 --> 00:25:43.240 have eternal 00:25:43.240 --> 00:25:44.879 life now. 00:25:45.559 --> 00:25:46.220 I grew up 00:25:46.220 --> 00:25:46.759 in a tradition 00:25:46.759 --> 00:25:47.379 that was 00:25:47.379 --> 00:25:48.420 constantly 00:25:48.420 --> 00:25:49.339 looking heavenward. 00:25:49.339 --> 00:25:49.919 what a good 00:25:49.919 --> 00:25:50.579 thing to do, 00:25:50.939 --> 00:25:51.439 but often 00:25:51.439 --> 00:25:51.740 at the 00:25:51.740 --> 00:25:52.220 neglect 00:25:52.220 --> 00:25:53.399 of now. 00:25:54.019 --> 00:25:54.579 I grew up 00:25:54.579 --> 00:25:55.059 in a tradition 00:25:55.059 --> 00:25:56.139 that sang 00:25:56.139 --> 00:25:56.679 the first, 00:25:56.899 --> 00:25:57.159 second, 00:25:57.240 --> 00:25:57.879 and fifth 00:25:57.879 --> 00:25:58.399 verse of 00:25:58.399 --> 00:25:59.019 every single 00:25:59.019 --> 00:25:59.359 song. 00:25:59.439 --> 00:25:59.679 And you know 00:25:59.679 --> 00:25:59.879 what we 00:25:59.879 --> 00:26:00.339 missed all 00:26:00.339 --> 00:26:00.639 the time 00:26:00.639 --> 00:26:00.839 in our 00:26:00.839 --> 00:26:01.099 singing? 00:26:01.919 --> 00:26:02.699 The now. 00:26:03.119 --> 00:26:03.579 The eternal 00:26:03.579 --> 00:26:05.079 life now. 00:26:05.399 --> 00:26:05.759 We were 00:26:05.759 --> 00:26:06.339 constantly being 00:26:06.339 --> 00:26:06.699 told about 00:26:06.699 --> 00:26:07.259 how to come 00:26:07.259 --> 00:26:07.879 to faith in 00:26:07.879 --> 00:26:08.179 Christ, 00:26:08.339 --> 00:26:08.839 and we were 00:26:08.839 --> 00:26:09.359 constantly being 00:26:09.359 --> 00:26:09.720 told about 00:26:09.720 --> 00:26:10.019 what would 00:26:10.019 --> 00:26:10.599 await us 00:26:10.599 --> 00:26:11.139 later, 00:26:11.259 --> 00:26:11.679 but never 00:26:11.679 --> 00:26:12.199 anything 00:26:12.199 --> 00:26:13.859 in between. 00:26:14.639 --> 00:26:15.319 The in 00:26:15.319 --> 00:26:15.899 between is 00:26:15.899 --> 00:26:16.419 rich, 00:26:16.539 --> 00:26:16.879 and it's 00:26:16.879 --> 00:26:17.439 good. 00:26:17.440 --> 00:26:18.720 it's not 00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:20.160 easy living 00:26:20.160 --> 00:26:20.600 on this 00:26:20.600 --> 00:26:21.799 side of 00:26:21.799 --> 00:26:22.200 glory, 00:26:22.580 --> 00:26:23.779 but it's 00:26:23.779 --> 00:26:24.259 good. 00:26:25.039 --> 00:26:25.340 Eternal 00:26:25.340 --> 00:26:26.380 life now, 00:26:27.180 --> 00:26:27.680 John tells 00:26:27.680 --> 00:26:28.120 us, and I 00:26:28.120 --> 00:26:29.440 can't wait to 00:26:29.440 --> 00:26:29.740 get there, 00:26:29.799 --> 00:26:30.180 because it's 00:26:30.180 --> 00:26:31.200 so very 00:26:31.200 --> 00:26:33.080 good in 00:26:33.080 --> 00:26:33.860 chapter 17, 00:26:34.860 --> 00:26:35.840 is that we 00:26:35.840 --> 00:26:38.220 know God 00:26:38.220 --> 00:26:39.640 and Jesus 00:26:39.640 --> 00:26:40.160 Christ, 00:26:40.400 --> 00:26:40.900 who he has 00:26:40.900 --> 00:26:41.080 sent. 00:26:41.180 --> 00:26:41.519 That's John 00:26:41.519 --> 00:26:42.100 17, 00:26:42.420 --> 00:26:42.940 and verse 00:26:42.940 --> 00:26:44.120 3. 00:26:44.820 --> 00:26:45.740 We can 00:26:45.740 --> 00:26:46.820 know 00:26:46.819 --> 00:26:48.039 God 00:26:48.039 --> 00:26:49.000 now. 00:26:49.899 --> 00:26:50.339 And that 00:26:50.339 --> 00:26:51.200 phrase, 00:26:51.379 --> 00:26:52.099 to know 00:26:52.099 --> 00:26:52.819 God, 00:26:53.319 --> 00:26:54.480 again, 00:26:54.659 --> 00:26:54.960 ought to 00:26:54.960 --> 00:26:56.139 warm us. 00:26:56.259 --> 00:26:56.639 Those who 00:26:56.639 --> 00:26:57.259 know him 00:26:57.259 --> 00:26:57.799 have some 00:26:57.799 --> 00:26:58.359 sense of 00:26:58.359 --> 00:26:58.839 what that 00:26:58.839 --> 00:26:59.799 means. 00:27:00.379 --> 00:27:00.839 It's a 00:27:00.839 --> 00:27:01.439 good, 00:27:01.819 --> 00:27:02.539 glorious 00:27:02.539 --> 00:27:03.379 thing to 00:27:03.379 --> 00:27:04.059 know 00:27:04.059 --> 00:27:05.519 God. 00:27:06.919 --> 00:27:07.819 By faith 00:27:07.819 --> 00:27:08.319 in Christ, 00:27:08.700 --> 00:27:09.200 we can be 00:27:09.200 --> 00:27:10.079 made alive, 00:27:10.799 --> 00:27:11.279 brought to 00:27:11.279 --> 00:27:11.559 life, 00:27:11.639 --> 00:27:12.059 have eternal 00:27:12.059 --> 00:27:12.740 life now 00:27:12.740 --> 00:27:13.639 and forever 00:27:13.639 --> 00:27:14.919 more. 00:27:15.379 --> 00:27:15.899 We see him 00:27:15.900 --> 00:27:16.720 now in a 00:27:16.720 --> 00:27:17.240 glimpse, 00:27:17.660 --> 00:27:18.060 because we 00:27:18.060 --> 00:27:18.420 still are 00:27:18.420 --> 00:27:18.880 burdened by 00:27:18.880 --> 00:27:19.340 our flesh, 00:27:19.380 --> 00:27:19.680 we still 00:27:19.680 --> 00:27:20.920 live in a 00:27:20.920 --> 00:27:21.800 cursed world. 00:27:22.700 --> 00:27:23.500 Someday we're 00:27:23.500 --> 00:27:23.680 going to 00:27:23.680 --> 00:27:24.400 behold him 00:27:24.400 --> 00:27:25.640 without any 00:27:25.640 --> 00:27:27.000 encumbrance to 00:27:27.000 --> 00:27:27.660 that reality, 00:27:28.019 --> 00:27:30.420 knowing God. 00:27:31.060 --> 00:27:31.900 The glorious 00:27:31.900 --> 00:27:32.820 thing about the 00:27:32.820 --> 00:27:33.519 life beyond 00:27:33.519 --> 00:27:34.120 this one 00:27:34.120 --> 00:27:36.060 will not be 00:27:36.060 --> 00:27:37.780 streets of 00:27:37.780 --> 00:27:38.100 gold, 00:27:39.620 --> 00:27:41.280 crystal lakes, 00:27:41.480 --> 00:27:42.240 it's not the 00:27:42.240 --> 00:27:42.700 mansions, 00:27:42.980 --> 00:27:43.420 that's not the 00:27:43.420 --> 00:27:43.740 point. 00:27:43.740 --> 00:27:44.759 is all 00:27:44.759 --> 00:27:45.000 that going 00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:45.200 to be 00:27:45.200 --> 00:27:45.380 there? 00:27:45.640 --> 00:27:45.960 Yeah. 00:27:46.519 --> 00:27:47.079 New heavens 00:27:47.079 --> 00:27:47.420 and new 00:27:47.420 --> 00:27:47.640 earth, 00:27:47.680 --> 00:27:47.980 it's going 00:27:47.980 --> 00:27:48.160 to be 00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:48.779 wonderful to 00:27:48.779 --> 00:27:49.120 behold, 00:27:49.220 --> 00:27:49.460 but the 00:27:49.460 --> 00:27:50.599 most wonderful 00:27:50.599 --> 00:27:51.460 thing about 00:27:51.460 --> 00:27:52.319 it is going 00:27:52.319 --> 00:27:52.519 to be that 00:27:52.519 --> 00:27:53.099 God will be 00:27:53.099 --> 00:27:53.359 there. 00:27:54.099 --> 00:27:54.819 That place 00:27:54.819 --> 00:27:55.620 will be lit 00:27:55.620 --> 00:27:56.380 by his 00:27:56.380 --> 00:27:56.759 glory. 00:27:56.920 --> 00:27:57.440 I don't 00:27:57.440 --> 00:27:58.180 know exactly 00:27:58.180 --> 00:27:58.680 what that 00:27:58.680 --> 00:27:59.279 means, 00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:00.460 but it 00:28:00.460 --> 00:28:00.700 means, 00:28:00.779 --> 00:28:01.140 I think, 00:28:01.240 --> 00:28:01.660 that he's 00:28:01.660 --> 00:28:03.000 everywhere all 00:28:03.000 --> 00:28:03.579 the time, 00:28:04.039 --> 00:28:04.700 that we will 00:28:04.700 --> 00:28:05.680 behold him 00:28:05.680 --> 00:28:06.920 forever. 00:28:07.660 --> 00:28:08.440 It's glorious. 00:28:09.620 --> 00:28:09.859 If you can 00:28:09.859 --> 00:28:10.740 imagine a life 00:28:10.740 --> 00:28:11.859 after this, 00:28:12.660 --> 00:28:13.700 with all of 00:28:13.700 --> 00:28:14.680 the possible 00:28:14.680 --> 00:28:15.140 things you 00:28:15.140 --> 00:28:15.440 can think 00:28:15.440 --> 00:28:15.640 would be 00:28:15.640 --> 00:28:16.220 great about 00:28:16.220 --> 00:28:16.460 it, 00:28:17.359 --> 00:28:18.120 and God 00:28:18.120 --> 00:28:18.620 the Father 00:28:18.620 --> 00:28:19.420 and the Son 00:28:19.420 --> 00:28:20.059 are not 00:28:20.059 --> 00:28:20.599 there and 00:28:20.599 --> 00:28:21.259 you're okay 00:28:21.259 --> 00:28:21.799 with that, 00:28:21.859 --> 00:28:22.160 it's a 00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:22.660 problem. 00:28:23.599 --> 00:28:24.220 The point 00:28:24.220 --> 00:28:24.740 should be 00:28:24.740 --> 00:28:25.500 that we 00:28:25.500 --> 00:28:26.279 would be 00:28:26.279 --> 00:28:28.140 with God. 00:28:29.359 --> 00:28:31.099 The judgment, 00:28:31.960 --> 00:28:32.700 the eternal 00:28:32.700 --> 00:28:33.400 destruction, 00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:34.140 is that we're 00:28:34.140 --> 00:28:35.120 not in 00:28:35.120 --> 00:28:37.220 his presence. 00:28:37.220 --> 00:28:39.559 God's 00:28:39.559 --> 00:28:39.680 And so 00:28:39.680 --> 00:28:39.960 what are we 00:28:39.960 --> 00:28:40.319 to think 00:28:40.319 --> 00:28:40.779 of this? 00:28:42.259 --> 00:28:42.860 We should 00:28:42.860 --> 00:28:43.319 believe. 00:28:44.180 --> 00:28:44.839 We should 00:28:44.839 --> 00:28:45.799 believe now 00:28:45.799 --> 00:28:46.980 and live 00:28:46.980 --> 00:28:48.200 now. 00:28:49.559 --> 00:28:50.100 We want 00:28:50.100 --> 00:28:50.600 to hear the 00:28:50.600 --> 00:28:50.960 words of 00:28:50.960 --> 00:28:51.740 Christ and 00:28:51.740 --> 00:28:52.339 believe in 00:28:52.339 --> 00:28:52.660 him, 00:28:52.740 --> 00:28:53.299 his person 00:28:53.299 --> 00:28:53.819 and his 00:28:53.819 --> 00:28:54.100 work, 00:28:54.180 --> 00:28:54.620 so that we 00:28:54.620 --> 00:28:54.940 would be 00:28:54.940 --> 00:28:55.420 granted 00:28:55.420 --> 00:28:56.480 eternal life, 00:28:56.519 --> 00:28:56.779 so that we 00:28:56.779 --> 00:28:57.220 would be 00:28:57.220 --> 00:28:58.019 spared 00:28:58.019 --> 00:28:58.860 judgment, 00:28:58.980 --> 00:28:59.160 that we 00:28:59.160 --> 00:28:59.660 would pass 00:28:59.660 --> 00:29:00.279 from death 00:29:00.279 --> 00:29:01.980 to life. 00:29:03.140 --> 00:29:03.960 Not just 00:29:03.960 --> 00:29:04.420 a future 00:29:04.420 --> 00:29:04.779 hope, 00:29:04.860 --> 00:29:05.339 although it 00:29:05.339 --> 00:29:05.779 is. 00:29:05.779 --> 00:29:07.299 It begins 00:29:07.299 --> 00:29:08.019 the moment 00:29:08.019 --> 00:29:08.980 that one 00:29:08.980 --> 00:29:10.440 believes, 00:29:10.660 --> 00:29:11.920 eternal life. 00:29:12.700 --> 00:29:13.119 Do not 00:29:13.119 --> 00:29:13.639 delay, 00:29:14.139 --> 00:29:14.740 respond, 00:29:15.119 --> 00:29:16.440 respond to 00:29:16.440 --> 00:29:16.660 the word 00:29:16.660 --> 00:29:17.180 of Christ 00:29:17.180 --> 00:29:18.379 today. 00:29:19.819 --> 00:29:20.480 We can 00:29:20.480 --> 00:29:21.019 rest in 00:29:21.019 --> 00:29:21.639 Christ for 00:29:21.639 --> 00:29:23.399 our assurance. 00:29:24.000 --> 00:29:24.779 If you 00:29:24.779 --> 00:29:25.079 hear his 00:29:25.079 --> 00:29:25.579 voice and 00:29:25.579 --> 00:29:25.940 believe, 00:29:26.259 --> 00:29:27.339 you have 00:29:27.339 --> 00:29:28.279 passed from 00:29:28.279 --> 00:29:29.899 death to 00:29:29.899 --> 00:29:30.299 life. 00:29:31.059 --> 00:29:31.899 So thankful 00:29:31.899 --> 00:29:32.700 we haven't 00:29:32.700 --> 00:29:33.339 been saved 00:29:33.339 --> 00:29:34.079 by Christ. 00:29:34.200 --> 00:29:34.740 Our salvation 00:29:34.740 --> 00:29:35.579 is secure 00:29:35.579 --> 00:29:36.339 in him, 00:29:37.019 --> 00:29:38.059 not because 00:29:38.059 --> 00:29:38.699 of some 00:29:38.699 --> 00:29:39.659 works that 00:29:39.659 --> 00:29:40.599 I do or 00:29:40.599 --> 00:29:41.599 fail to 00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:42.679 do, but 00:29:42.679 --> 00:29:43.099 because of 00:29:43.099 --> 00:29:44.659 his power 00:29:44.659 --> 00:29:45.639 to give 00:29:45.639 --> 00:29:46.599 life. 00:29:47.099 --> 00:29:47.539 Jesus has 00:29:47.539 --> 00:29:48.259 the power 00:29:48.259 --> 00:29:49.299 to grant 00:29:49.299 --> 00:29:50.199 it to us. 00:29:51.720 --> 00:29:52.299 We also 00:29:52.299 --> 00:29:53.359 want to talk 00:29:53.359 --> 00:29:53.980 about this 00:29:53.980 --> 00:29:55.139 life giver. 00:29:55.980 --> 00:29:56.500 I'm really 00:29:56.500 --> 00:29:58.220 grateful that 00:29:58.220 --> 00:29:58.859 my full-time 00:29:58.859 --> 00:29:59.419 employment 00:29:59.419 --> 00:30:00.699 sets me to 00:30:00.699 --> 00:30:01.339 the task of 00:30:01.339 --> 00:30:01.859 talking about 00:30:01.859 --> 00:30:03.139 Jesus all 00:30:03.139 --> 00:30:03.519 the time. 00:30:03.519 --> 00:30:04.200 Christ. 00:30:04.200 --> 00:30:04.879 When I'm 00:30:04.879 --> 00:30:05.400 by myself, 00:30:05.519 --> 00:30:05.960 I'm usually 00:30:05.960 --> 00:30:06.920 reading about, 00:30:07.079 --> 00:30:07.819 studying about 00:30:07.819 --> 00:30:09.000 this Christ, 00:30:09.079 --> 00:30:09.400 and then I 00:30:09.400 --> 00:30:09.779 get to be 00:30:09.779 --> 00:30:10.200 with people 00:30:10.200 --> 00:30:10.359 and I 00:30:10.359 --> 00:30:10.599 get to 00:30:10.599 --> 00:30:11.099 talk about 00:30:11.099 --> 00:30:12.639 this Christ. 00:30:12.900 --> 00:30:13.240 Some of 00:30:13.240 --> 00:30:13.500 you have 00:30:13.500 --> 00:30:13.740 to put 00:30:13.740 --> 00:30:14.119 yourselves 00:30:14.119 --> 00:30:14.960 to different 00:30:14.960 --> 00:30:15.480 tasks. 00:30:15.879 --> 00:30:16.440 Your day-to-day 00:30:16.440 --> 00:30:17.420 doesn't look 00:30:17.420 --> 00:30:18.119 like this, 00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:18.900 but I think 00:30:18.900 --> 00:30:19.139 there should 00:30:19.139 --> 00:30:19.519 be something 00:30:19.519 --> 00:30:19.920 in you 00:30:19.920 --> 00:30:20.539 pent up. 00:30:20.599 --> 00:30:21.440 Any opportunity 00:30:21.440 --> 00:30:22.599 you have 00:30:22.599 --> 00:30:23.259 to talk 00:30:23.259 --> 00:30:23.599 about the 00:30:23.599 --> 00:30:24.200 one who 00:30:24.200 --> 00:30:24.680 brought you 00:30:24.680 --> 00:30:25.259 from death 00:30:25.259 --> 00:30:26.759 to life. 00:30:26.759 --> 00:30:26.879 life. 00:30:27.319 --> 00:30:28.500 The door 00:30:28.500 --> 00:30:29.180 gets barely 00:30:29.180 --> 00:30:30.099 cracked open 00:30:30.099 --> 00:30:30.980 and you 00:30:30.980 --> 00:30:31.420 kick it 00:30:31.420 --> 00:30:31.720 the rest 00:30:31.720 --> 00:30:32.079 of the way 00:30:32.079 --> 00:30:32.460 because you 00:30:32.460 --> 00:30:32.720 want to 00:30:32.720 --> 00:30:33.359 talk about 00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:34.400 this glorious 00:30:34.400 --> 00:30:35.640 Savior. 00:30:37.480 --> 00:30:38.019 If Jesus 00:30:38.019 --> 00:30:38.859 alone grants 00:30:38.859 --> 00:30:40.019 eternal life, 00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:41.220 and he does, 00:30:42.099 --> 00:30:42.980 then the world 00:30:42.980 --> 00:30:43.640 around us, 00:30:43.720 --> 00:30:43.980 which is 00:30:43.980 --> 00:30:45.259 spiritually dead 00:30:45.259 --> 00:30:46.339 apart from him, 00:30:46.559 --> 00:30:47.240 desperately needs 00:30:47.240 --> 00:30:48.539 to hear that 00:30:48.539 --> 00:30:50.000 good news. 00:30:50.960 --> 00:30:51.700 Evangelism is 00:30:51.700 --> 00:30:52.579 not just a thing 00:30:52.579 --> 00:30:53.619 that the rare 00:30:53.619 --> 00:30:54.619 Christian does. 00:30:54.619 --> 00:30:55.399 It ought to 00:30:55.399 --> 00:30:55.859 be the 00:30:55.859 --> 00:30:56.879 lifeblood 00:30:56.879 --> 00:30:57.259 of who 00:30:57.259 --> 00:30:58.139 we are. 00:30:58.439 --> 00:30:59.199 Going out, 00:30:59.719 --> 00:31:00.500 rescue mission, 00:31:02.119 --> 00:31:02.839 carrying this 00:31:02.839 --> 00:31:04.059 message that's 00:31:04.059 --> 00:31:04.799 empowered by 00:31:04.799 --> 00:31:05.259 the Spirit 00:31:05.259 --> 00:31:05.679 to bring 00:31:05.679 --> 00:31:06.179 dead people 00:31:06.179 --> 00:31:07.359 to life. 00:31:08.619 --> 00:31:09.000 And the 00:31:09.000 --> 00:31:09.479 last little 00:31:09.479 --> 00:31:10.039 thought here, 00:31:11.319 --> 00:31:12.539 I've mentioned 00:31:12.539 --> 00:31:12.979 it kind of 00:31:12.979 --> 00:31:13.359 already, 00:31:13.539 --> 00:31:13.899 but we ought 00:31:13.899 --> 00:31:14.879 to treasure, 00:31:15.219 --> 00:31:15.479 we ought to 00:31:15.479 --> 00:31:16.179 hold tight 00:31:16.179 --> 00:31:19.539 to appreciate 00:31:19.539 --> 00:31:21.199 deeper our 00:31:21.199 --> 00:31:22.639 life in 00:31:22.639 --> 00:31:22.899 him. 00:31:23.759 --> 00:31:24.319 Understand 00:31:24.319 --> 00:31:24.720 what it 00:31:24.720 --> 00:31:25.139 means to 00:31:25.139 --> 00:31:25.939 know God 00:31:25.939 --> 00:31:26.379 and set 00:31:26.379 --> 00:31:26.879 ourselves 00:31:26.879 --> 00:31:27.379 to the 00:31:27.379 --> 00:31:28.119 continuing 00:31:28.119 --> 00:31:29.359 task of 00:31:29.359 --> 00:31:30.279 knowing 00:31:30.279 --> 00:31:31.339 God. 00:31:31.700 --> 00:31:32.319 What a 00:31:32.319 --> 00:31:33.299 privilege it 00:31:33.299 --> 00:31:33.679 is. 00:31:34.359 --> 00:31:34.879 Great 00:31:34.879 --> 00:31:35.399 privilege. 00:31:35.939 --> 00:31:36.599 Blood-bought 00:31:36.599 --> 00:31:38.500 privilege to 00:31:38.500 --> 00:31:39.000 know God. 00:31:40.519 --> 00:31:41.460 Last claim. 00:31:42.119 --> 00:31:42.500 Claim number 00:31:42.500 --> 00:31:42.799 three. 00:31:44.619 --> 00:31:45.399 Jesus has 00:31:45.399 --> 00:31:46.220 the authority 00:31:46.220 --> 00:31:48.099 to judge. 00:31:48.559 --> 00:31:49.099 See this in 00:31:49.099 --> 00:31:49.839 verse 22 and 00:31:49.839 --> 00:31:50.759 23 and then 00:31:50.759 --> 00:31:51.619 in verse 27 00:31:51.619 --> 00:31:53.579 and 29. 00:31:54.319 --> 00:31:55.339 Here we see 00:31:55.339 --> 00:31:55.980 Jesus says the 00:31:55.980 --> 00:31:56.639 Father judges 00:31:56.639 --> 00:31:57.039 no one but 00:31:57.039 --> 00:31:57.839 has given that 00:31:57.839 --> 00:31:58.720 judgment to 00:31:58.720 --> 00:31:59.939 the Son. 00:32:00.539 --> 00:32:01.480 The triune God 00:32:01.480 --> 00:32:02.000 at work. 00:32:02.139 --> 00:32:02.539 This is what 00:32:02.539 --> 00:32:04.700 Jesus does. 00:32:04.939 --> 00:32:05.559 He's a Savior 00:32:05.559 --> 00:32:06.439 but he's also 00:32:06.439 --> 00:32:08.220 a judge. 00:32:10.220 --> 00:32:10.679 Philippians 00:32:10.679 --> 00:32:11.319 chapter 2 00:32:11.319 --> 00:32:11.939 verse 5 00:32:11.939 --> 00:32:12.500 through 11. 00:32:13.919 --> 00:32:14.639 Paul gives 00:32:14.639 --> 00:32:14.980 to us an 00:32:14.980 --> 00:32:15.700 example of the 00:32:15.700 --> 00:32:16.439 mind we ought 00:32:16.439 --> 00:32:17.200 to have which 00:32:17.200 --> 00:32:17.819 is ours in 00:32:17.819 --> 00:32:18.240 Christ. 00:32:18.359 --> 00:32:19.220 It's this mind 00:32:19.220 --> 00:32:19.939 of humility. 00:32:20.200 --> 00:32:20.519 But listen to 00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:21.000 what he says 00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:21.559 going on in 00:32:21.559 --> 00:32:22.059 verse 6 and 00:32:22.059 --> 00:32:22.460 following. 00:32:23.159 --> 00:32:23.619 Jesus who 00:32:23.619 --> 00:32:24.200 was in the 00:32:24.200 --> 00:32:24.799 form of God 00:32:24.799 --> 00:32:25.099 did not 00:32:25.099 --> 00:32:26.039 count equality 00:32:26.039 --> 00:32:26.619 with God 00:32:26.619 --> 00:32:27.460 a thing to 00:32:27.460 --> 00:32:28.319 be grasped 00:32:28.319 --> 00:32:29.240 but he 00:32:29.240 --> 00:32:29.980 emptied himself 00:32:29.980 --> 00:32:30.779 by taking the 00:32:30.779 --> 00:32:31.299 form of a 00:32:31.299 --> 00:32:31.819 servant being 00:32:31.819 --> 00:32:32.440 born in the 00:32:32.440 --> 00:32:32.980 likeness of 00:32:32.980 --> 00:32:33.319 Ben and 00:32:33.319 --> 00:32:33.960 being found 00:32:33.960 --> 00:32:34.359 in human 00:32:34.359 --> 00:32:34.819 form. 00:32:35.619 --> 00:32:36.119 He humbled 00:32:36.119 --> 00:32:36.720 himself by 00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:37.019 becoming 00:32:37.019 --> 00:32:37.759 obedient to 00:32:37.759 --> 00:32:38.019 the point 00:32:38.019 --> 00:32:38.359 of death 00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:39.759 even death 00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:41.259 on a cross. 00:32:42.659 --> 00:32:43.059 Therefore 00:32:43.059 --> 00:32:45.099 God has 00:32:45.099 --> 00:32:46.000 highly exalted 00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:46.720 him and bestowed 00:32:46.720 --> 00:32:47.659 on him the 00:32:47.659 --> 00:32:48.240 name that is 00:32:48.240 --> 00:32:48.700 above every 00:32:48.700 --> 00:32:49.319 name so that 00:32:49.319 --> 00:32:50.599 in the name 00:32:50.599 --> 00:32:51.339 of Jesus 00:32:51.339 --> 00:32:52.079 every knee 00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:52.480 should bow 00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:52.819 in heaven 00:32:52.819 --> 00:32:53.339 and on earth 00:32:53.339 --> 00:32:53.740 and under 00:32:53.740 --> 00:32:54.099 the earth 00:32:54.099 --> 00:32:54.939 and every 00:32:54.939 --> 00:32:56.079 tongue confess 00:32:56.079 --> 00:32:56.659 that Jesus 00:32:56.659 --> 00:32:57.439 Christ is 00:32:57.439 --> 00:32:58.480 Lord to the 00:32:58.480 --> 00:32:59.419 glory of 00:32:59.419 --> 00:33:00.519 God the 00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:00.799 Father. 00:33:01.839 --> 00:33:02.559 Everybody 00:33:02.559 --> 00:33:03.799 everybody 00:33:03.799 --> 00:33:04.859 one day 00:33:04.859 --> 00:33:05.659 will bow 00:33:05.659 --> 00:33:07.240 before Christ. 00:33:07.879 --> 00:33:08.879 He is 00:33:08.879 --> 00:33:09.899 Lord. 00:33:11.059 --> 00:33:11.579 I don't 00:33:11.579 --> 00:33:12.059 want to find 00:33:12.059 --> 00:33:12.819 myself 00:33:12.819 --> 00:33:14.319 bowing 00:33:14.319 --> 00:33:14.859 because of 00:33:14.859 --> 00:33:15.419 judgment. 00:33:16.480 --> 00:33:17.379 I want to 00:33:17.379 --> 00:33:17.919 find myself 00:33:17.919 --> 00:33:18.980 bowing because 00:33:18.980 --> 00:33:19.860 of worship. 00:33:20.559 --> 00:33:21.420 Because I'm 00:33:21.420 --> 00:33:22.440 found in 00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:23.160 him. 00:33:23.240 --> 00:33:23.440 And this 00:33:23.440 --> 00:33:24.000 will be the 00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:25.400 basis of 00:33:25.400 --> 00:33:26.380 his judgment. 00:33:27.140 --> 00:33:27.620 That one is 00:33:27.620 --> 00:33:28.160 mine. 00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:29.980 By faith in 00:33:29.980 --> 00:33:30.620 my person and 00:33:30.620 --> 00:33:31.160 work he is 00:33:31.160 --> 00:33:32.039 found in 00:33:32.039 --> 00:33:32.500 me. 00:33:33.000 --> 00:33:33.460 I am 00:33:33.460 --> 00:33:34.599 united to 00:33:34.599 --> 00:33:35.079 him. 00:33:35.700 --> 00:33:36.920 That's what 00:33:36.920 --> 00:33:37.480 grants me 00:33:37.480 --> 00:33:38.880 eternal life. 00:33:39.599 --> 00:33:39.839 To the 00:33:39.839 --> 00:33:41.599 other not 00:33:41.599 --> 00:33:42.019 mine. 00:33:42.380 --> 00:33:43.220 I never 00:33:43.220 --> 00:33:45.000 knew him. 00:33:46.519 --> 00:33:47.200 Verse 27 00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:48.220 says he's 00:33:48.220 --> 00:33:48.480 been given 00:33:48.480 --> 00:33:49.299 authority to 00:33:49.299 --> 00:33:50.480 execute 00:33:50.480 --> 00:33:51.700 judgment 00:33:51.700 --> 00:33:53.660 because he 00:33:53.660 --> 00:33:55.140 is the 00:33:55.140 --> 00:33:56.799 son of 00:33:56.799 --> 00:33:57.160 man. 00:33:57.880 --> 00:33:58.440 You have 00:33:58.440 --> 00:33:58.920 to understand 00:33:58.920 --> 00:33:59.380 what this 00:33:59.380 --> 00:34:00.799 title means 00:34:00.799 --> 00:34:01.360 of Jesus. 00:34:01.519 --> 00:34:01.900 Son of 00:34:01.900 --> 00:34:02.100 man. 00:34:02.360 --> 00:34:02.819 It's his 00:34:02.819 --> 00:34:03.700 favorite way 00:34:03.700 --> 00:34:04.460 to refer to 00:34:04.460 --> 00:34:04.940 himself. 00:34:05.420 --> 00:34:05.880 He calls 00:34:05.880 --> 00:34:06.759 himself the 00:34:06.759 --> 00:34:07.000 son of 00:34:07.000 --> 00:34:07.860 man over 00:34:07.860 --> 00:34:08.740 and over 00:34:08.740 --> 00:34:09.460 and over 00:34:09.460 --> 00:34:09.780 again. 00:34:09.920 --> 00:34:10.320 And as I 00:34:10.320 --> 00:34:10.800 said I hope 00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:11.039 that you 00:34:11.039 --> 00:34:11.699 already know 00:34:11.699 --> 00:34:12.199 but just in 00:34:12.199 --> 00:34:12.539 case you 00:34:12.539 --> 00:34:13.000 don't and 00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:13.539 it's okay 00:34:13.539 --> 00:34:13.840 if you 00:34:13.840 --> 00:34:14.179 don't. 00:34:14.440 --> 00:34:14.539 This 00:34:14.539 --> 00:34:15.019 comes from 00:34:15.019 --> 00:34:16.239 Daniel chapter 00:34:16.239 --> 00:34:16.779 7. 00:34:17.420 --> 00:34:17.719 It's found 00:34:17.719 --> 00:34:18.579 one place in 00:34:18.579 --> 00:34:18.840 the Old 00:34:18.840 --> 00:34:19.219 Testament. 00:34:19.420 --> 00:34:19.739 Jesus 00:34:19.739 --> 00:34:20.820 elicits this 00:34:20.820 --> 00:34:21.699 title over 00:34:21.699 --> 00:34:22.579 and over 00:34:22.579 --> 00:34:23.360 and over 00:34:23.360 --> 00:34:24.079 again because 00:34:24.079 --> 00:34:24.920 it is 00:34:24.920 --> 00:34:25.840 incredibly 00:34:25.840 --> 00:34:26.639 significant. 00:34:26.820 --> 00:34:27.199 Daniel chapter 00:34:27.199 --> 00:34:27.599 7. 00:34:27.900 --> 00:34:28.119 This is 00:34:28.119 --> 00:34:28.699 verse 13 00:34:28.699 --> 00:34:29.139 and 14. 00:34:29.279 --> 00:34:29.779 Daniel says 00:34:29.779 --> 00:34:30.440 I saw in 00:34:30.440 --> 00:34:30.719 the night 00:34:30.719 --> 00:34:31.820 visions and 00:34:31.820 --> 00:34:33.079 behold with 00:34:33.079 --> 00:34:33.699 the clouds 00:34:33.699 --> 00:34:34.300 of heaven 00:34:34.300 --> 00:34:35.519 there came 00:34:35.519 --> 00:34:37.059 one like 00:34:37.059 --> 00:34:37.900 a son 00:34:37.900 --> 00:34:38.739 of man. 00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:39.179 There's the 00:34:39.179 --> 00:34:39.480 phrase. 00:34:39.940 --> 00:34:40.340 Son of 00:34:40.340 --> 00:34:40.559 man. 00:34:40.559 --> 00:34:41.799 And he 00:34:41.799 --> 00:34:43.079 came to 00:34:43.079 --> 00:34:43.699 the ancient 00:34:43.699 --> 00:34:44.380 of days 00:34:44.380 --> 00:34:44.820 and was 00:34:44.820 --> 00:34:45.340 presented 00:34:45.340 --> 00:34:46.719 before him 00:34:46.719 --> 00:34:48.099 and to 00:34:48.099 --> 00:34:48.799 him to 00:34:48.799 --> 00:34:49.119 the son 00:34:49.119 --> 00:34:49.559 of man 00:34:49.559 --> 00:34:50.699 by the 00:34:50.699 --> 00:34:50.960 ancient 00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:51.420 of days 00:34:51.420 --> 00:34:52.259 was given 00:34:52.259 --> 00:34:54.019 dominion 00:34:54.019 --> 00:34:55.659 and glory 00:34:55.659 --> 00:34:56.599 and a 00:34:56.599 --> 00:34:57.099 kingdom 00:34:57.099 --> 00:34:58.259 that all 00:34:58.259 --> 00:34:58.880 people's 00:34:58.880 --> 00:34:59.440 nations and 00:34:59.440 --> 00:34:59.799 languages 00:34:59.799 --> 00:35:00.659 should serve 00:35:00.659 --> 00:35:00.960 him. 00:35:01.719 --> 00:35:01.840 His 00:35:01.840 --> 00:35:02.460 dominion 00:35:02.460 --> 00:35:02.980 is an 00:35:02.980 --> 00:35:03.500 everlasting 00:35:03.500 --> 00:35:04.119 dominion 00:35:04.119 --> 00:35:04.539 which shall 00:35:04.539 --> 00:35:05.259 not pass 00:35:05.259 --> 00:35:05.900 away and 00:35:05.900 --> 00:35:06.539 his kingdom 00:35:06.539 --> 00:35:07.980 one that 00:35:07.980 --> 00:35:08.559 shall not 00:35:08.559 --> 00:35:08.920 be 00:35:08.920 --> 00:35:10.199 destroyed. 00:35:10.559 --> 00:35:13.239 This is 00:35:13.239 --> 00:35:14.559 Christ. 00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:15.460 He refers 00:35:15.460 --> 00:35:15.880 to himself 00:35:15.880 --> 00:35:16.259 this way 00:35:16.259 --> 00:35:17.000 over and 00:35:17.000 --> 00:35:17.699 over and 00:35:17.699 --> 00:35:18.699 over again. 00:35:19.119 --> 00:35:19.440 And in the 00:35:19.440 --> 00:35:20.159 establishment 00:35:20.159 --> 00:35:20.960 of this 00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:22.779 unfading 00:35:22.779 --> 00:35:24.420 not passing 00:35:24.420 --> 00:35:24.960 away 00:35:24.960 --> 00:35:26.139 everlasting 00:35:26.139 --> 00:35:27.259 dominion 00:35:27.259 --> 00:35:28.000 kingdom 00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:28.539 this thing 00:35:28.539 --> 00:35:28.860 that he's 00:35:28.860 --> 00:35:29.259 going to 00:35:29.259 --> 00:35:30.599 reign over 00:35:30.599 --> 00:35:31.559 forever 00:35:31.559 --> 00:35:32.139 that there's 00:35:32.139 --> 00:35:32.519 going to be 00:35:32.519 --> 00:35:33.699 peoples and 00:35:33.699 --> 00:35:34.279 nations and 00:35:34.279 --> 00:35:35.460 languages all 00:35:35.460 --> 00:35:36.639 part of 00:35:36.639 --> 00:35:37.880 he's going to 00:35:37.880 --> 00:35:38.279 judge. 00:35:39.099 --> 00:35:39.699 He's going to 00:35:39.699 --> 00:35:39.920 judge. 00:35:39.920 --> 00:35:40.240 He's going to 00:35:40.240 --> 00:35:40.860 cast out of 00:35:40.860 --> 00:35:41.380 that kingdom 00:35:41.380 --> 00:35:42.700 those who 00:35:42.700 --> 00:35:43.800 don't believe 00:35:43.800 --> 00:35:44.860 in him. 00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:45.440 But he's 00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:45.639 going to 00:35:45.639 --> 00:35:47.119 welcome in 00:35:47.119 --> 00:35:48.480 warmly and 00:35:48.480 --> 00:35:49.480 reign over 00:35:49.480 --> 00:35:51.180 forever those 00:35:51.180 --> 00:35:52.200 who do. 00:35:53.480 --> 00:35:54.340 What an 00:35:54.340 --> 00:35:54.840 astounding 00:35:54.840 --> 00:35:55.240 thing. 00:35:56.539 --> 00:35:57.000 Place your 00:35:57.000 --> 00:35:57.800 faith in 00:35:57.800 --> 00:35:58.579 Christ. 00:35:58.700 --> 00:35:59.240 His person 00:35:59.240 --> 00:36:00.039 and not a 00:36:00.039 --> 00:36:00.380 lunatic. 00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:01.059 He should be 00:36:01.059 --> 00:36:02.240 worshipped as 00:36:02.240 --> 00:36:03.340 Lord. 00:36:04.059 --> 00:36:04.960 Flee from 00:36:04.960 --> 00:36:05.579 your sin, 00:36:06.019 --> 00:36:06.559 from the 00:36:06.559 --> 00:36:07.340 judgment and 00:36:07.340 --> 00:36:08.500 wrath to come. 00:36:08.500 --> 00:36:09.860 place your 00:36:09.860 --> 00:36:11.219 faith in 00:36:11.219 --> 00:36:12.239 him. 00:36:12.739 --> 00:36:14.599 Jesus is 00:36:14.599 --> 00:36:14.960 God. 00:36:16.380 --> 00:36:17.139 Charles Spurgeon 00:36:17.139 --> 00:36:17.659 once said, 00:36:17.760 --> 00:36:18.260 this is the 00:36:18.260 --> 00:36:19.119 quotation on the 00:36:19.119 --> 00:36:19.599 back of your 00:36:19.599 --> 00:36:20.599 bulletin today, 00:36:20.659 --> 00:36:21.039 it is not 00:36:21.039 --> 00:36:22.380 possible that 00:36:22.380 --> 00:36:22.940 the man who 00:36:22.940 --> 00:36:23.579 denies the 00:36:23.579 --> 00:36:23.960 deity of 00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:24.360 Christ can 00:36:24.360 --> 00:36:24.599 be a 00:36:24.599 --> 00:36:24.900 Christian. 00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:25.539 He 00:36:25.539 --> 00:36:25.980 deliberately 00:36:25.980 --> 00:36:26.679 refuses the 00:36:26.679 --> 00:36:27.239 only way of 00:36:27.239 --> 00:36:28.300 escape from 00:36:28.300 --> 00:36:28.760 the wrath 00:36:28.760 --> 00:36:29.920 to come. 00:36:30.760 --> 00:36:32.320 Jesus is 00:36:32.320 --> 00:36:32.699 Christ. 00:36:33.320 --> 00:36:33.960 Let's pray. 00:36:33.960 --> 00:36:55.260 God