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Introduction:
Tell the story
Counter cultural (beatitudes)
Peter tries to stop Jesus (get behind me satan)
The King Israel Wanted
The Jews were under Roman rule at this time and they were looking for a king who would overthrow the Roman government and set them free.
(they’re going off OT scripture about the coming Messiah).
David’s Kingdom would last forever
Ancient of Days kingdom will last forever (Jesus)
This is good news to an opposed people.
Application: Sometimes we are look for the king we want and not the King we need.
Jesus’s Kingdom is Far Better
Didn’t look nothing like what they expected
born in a manger (a dusty place where animals were kept)
ate with sinners and hung with the lowest of society
His Kingdom was/is better
He came to free men from the bondage of sin not the bondage of Rome
Application: Let us look for the better Kingdom.
It might just be in some unexpected places
The King Rejected
The Jews rejected Jesus.
Pilate asked them who do they want and the said Barabbas
Application: We still reject Him today.
Ultimately because we want to do what we want to do (Herod, His own people, etc)
He Was Born For This
Jesus is truth
The baby in the manger came to set us free
For Jesus and for John truth is not merely some intellectual concept of correct facticity.
It also involves life-oriented integrity.
Accordingly, we misunderstand Johannine truth if we merely speak of the truth about Jesus or doctrinal formulations about Jesus.
Jesus is himself truth as he states: “I am the way, the truth and the life” (14:6).
Jesus was not proposing to give the disciples a map or “triptik” to heaven or a theological description about himself.
Jesus gave them himself.
There is no doubt that truth is related to ideas and matters of facticity, but Jesus’ mission was to bring people to himself and to God and in the process thereby bring them to integrity of life.
It is clearly possible to be academically right and theologically correct but still lack integrity in life.
Jesus’ mission was to integrate truth into life.
Gerald L. Borchert, John 12–21, vol.
25B, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2002), 243.
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