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Introduction: How do we know what is true?
Introduction:
How do you know whom or what to believe?
How can we know what is true?
Fake news vs. reality.
1.
The people’s ideas about Jesus
(v.
12-13, 15, 20, 25-27, 31)
He’s a good man (v.
12).
-He’s healed people, done good things, taught good things, etc.
No, he’s leading the people astray (v.
12).
-He’s a false prophet and should be killed.
(Deuteronomy 13:1-5; Deuteronomy 18:20)
Fear of speaking openly (v.
13)
He’s wise and intelligent, but how? (v.
15)
He’s demon-possessed (v.
20)
He can’t be the Messiah because we know where he’s from (v. 25-27)
Maybe he is the Messiah, or at least like the Messiah?
(v.
31)
2. Jesus’s claims about himself
(v.
16-18, 28-29)
His teaching originated with God the Father, not with himself (humanly speaking).
(v.
16)
-Submitting ourselves to God’s will enables us to confirm that Jesus’s teaching is from God. (v.
17)
Jesus seeks the glory of God the Father who sent him, which demonstrates that Jesus is true.
(v.
18)
-seeking the glory of God and not one’s own glory is the mark of a true person
-we know we can trust someone who exalts God and not himself
-we distrust people who exalt themselves instead of God
-when your goal is to exalt yourself instead of God, you will do anything to make sure you get the glory
-but when your goal is to exalt God, you won’t care what people think of you as long as God gets the glory
Jesus did not come on his own, for his own purposes and glory, but for the glory of the Father (v.
28)
Jesus knows the Father, He came from the Father, and He was sent by the Father (v.
29)
3. Jesus’s indictment of the people
(v.
16, 19, 23-24, 28)
Indirectly he tells them they should not be amazed at his wisdom in teaching.
(v.
16)
-they’re fascinated by his teaching, but they’re focused on human credentials
They were using the law to justify themselves and exalt themselves (“Look how good I am!”), but Jesus says they are all lawbreakers.
(v.
19)
They were unjustly angry at Jesus for breaking their Sabbath traditions (v.
23)
-their traditions were unjust
They were judging by appearances and not with righteous judgment.
(v.
24)
They thought they knew all about him, but they didn’t really know him at all (v.
28)
They don’t know God (v.
28)
-their refusal to trust Jesus and accept him and his teaching as true demonstrated that they did not know God at all (these are the Jews!)
-John 5:22-23 (Honoring the Son = honoring the Father)
-John 5:42 (Loving God = loving Jesus)
-John 7:28 (Knowing God = knowing Jesus)
· None of these things can happen (honoring, loving, and knowing God and Jesus) as long as you are in love with the praise of man.
The Root of Sin: Self-exalting Pride
· This is at the root of all our sin and rebellion against God – we want to put ourselves in God’s place and be our own God and get the glory that belongs to God alone.
As long as you seek to be exalted and receive honor and glory from others, you cannot know, love, or honor God or his Son Jesus Christ.
And you cannot know the truth.
· You will never be able to know and love and trust in Jesus as long as you crave the approval and praise of other people.
Jesus said this in John 5:44 —“How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?”
-the answer: YOU CAN’T!
Application:
1. Believe that Jesus is true and speaks the truth always.
· In a world where we don’t always know what we can trust and what is true, there is someone we can always trust, who always spoke the truth.
· We know that Jesus is true because he honored God and not himself.
Because he exalted God and humbled himself, we can be sure that everything he says is true.
He’s the only one we can always trust, because he did this perfectly.
2. Kill your self-exalting pride and your desire for human praise and seek the glory of God alone.
· This is a constant battle for us.
We must constantly be seeking to put to death our desire for the approval of others and replace it with a desire to honor and exalt God in everything we say and do.
God-exaltation is the trademark of truth.
May God help us to be true – like Jesus – and seek his glory and not our own.
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