Just Like The Dad

Introduction- You Look Just Like Your Dad!

Have you ever heard or used the phrase-

“You look just like your father or just like your dad or daddy”?

Illustration: Growing up in Atlanta, GA is being known as Little Charles. People recognize me because they saw features and characteristics of my father in me. For some, seeing me, was like seeing my dad, Charles Sr. In fact when I look at older pictures of my Father, I see myself

Taken a step further, we may say you are just like your dad...

which is used for saying that a man or boy has the same attitudes as his father or behaves in the same way

As an idiom

like father like son

Meaning

the man/boy being talked about is very much like/exactly like his father 

the son “has taken after his father”

the son has grown up to “be just like” his father, in temperament, manner, way of doing things, etc.

father and son behave the same way in certain things, or have the same sense of humor, or some other quality

In a way we reveal our parents, more specifically on an occasion such as Father’s day, we reveal who our Father’s are or were by who we are

Transition To Body- Revealing Christ Plainly As The Son Of God

John 20:30–31 ESV

30 Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; 31 but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

Rededicating Ourselves As Temples of the Living God

John 10:22–24 ESV

22 At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter, 23 and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the colonnade of Solomon. 24 So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”

We are the Temple of the Living God

2 Corinthians 6:16 ESV

16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Body- Oneness of Jesus Christ & The Father

Jesus’ Personal Relationship With His Father & His Sheep (vv25-28b)

Jesus does works in His Father’s name

John 10:25 ESV

25 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name bear witness about me,

Jesus’ sheep hear my voice

Jesus knows His sheep

Jesus’ sheep follow him

John 10:26–27 ESV

26 but you do not believe because you are not among my sheep. 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

John 12:26 ESV

26 If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

Hence Jesus’ sheep obey his WORD

John 8:51 ESV

51 Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death.”

Matthew 7:24 ESV

24 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

Jesus gives/provides His sheep eternal life- Jesus is the Messiah!

Jesus’ sheep will never perish

John 10:28 ESV

28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

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Jesus’ Personal Relationship With His Father & His Sheep (vv25-28b)

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Greatness of Jesus’ & The Father (v28c-29)

John 10:28–29 ESV

28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.

Illustration: Every Father ought to have a strong hand when it comes to holding/protecting their children from harm and/or danger

Jesus’ hand is stronger than anyone

The Father is greater than all

The Father’s hand is stronger than anyone

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Jesus’ Personal Relationship With His Father & His Sheep (vv25-28b)

Greatness of Jesus’ & The Father (v28c-29)

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Jesus (the Son of God)- Exact Imprint of His Father (v30-38)

Jesus’ Oneness (& uniqueness of His relationship) with His/The Father (v30)

John 10:30 ESV

30 I and the Father are one.”

Deuteronomy 6:4–5 ESV

4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Hebrews 1:3 ESV

3 He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

The Good Works (Example) of His/The Father (vv31-32)- revealed through Jesus Christ

John 10:31–32 ESV

31 The Jews picked up stones again to stone him. 32 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?”

Illustration: So the Father’s example is important!

The Father Consecrates & Sends (vv33-38)- hence Jesus consecrated & sent by His/The Father

John 10:33–38 ESV

33 The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.” 34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? 35 If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken— 36 do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? 37 If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; 38 but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”

Jesus uses scripture to respond to and meet the people questioning him where they are- God’s Word (scripture) cannot be broken i.e. it is reliable and authoritative!

The Father Consecrated Jesus

A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, 3rd ed. ἁγιάζω

include a pers. in the inner circle of what is holy, in both cultic and moral associations of the word, consecrate, dedicate, sanctify

John 10:35–36 (IVPBBC NT): Many commentators have argued that Jesus’ being “sanctified” or set apart to his mission (cf. also 17:17) may relate to the context of the Feast of Hanukkah, or “Dedication” (10:22). Hanukkah commemorated the consecration, rededication or setting apart (as again holy) of the Jerusalem temple in the time of the Maccabees in the second century b.c.

Judge the Fruit of the Tree

Matthew 7:18–20 ESV

18 A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.

Transition To Close- the Gift of the Father through the Son

A FATHER took his boys to the fair. He went to the ticket booth and bought a roll of tickets and dispensed it to his sons. Then one of his sons saw a school friend and brought him over to introduce him to his father. The school friend went over to the father, introduced himself, and then asked for a ticket! The father held back the tickets and said, “I’m sorry, I can’t give you a ticket. I need to hang on to them to give rides to my sons today.” But his son said, “That’s OK, Dad, I don’t mind sharing. You can give it to him.” When the father heard the son give his okay, the father dispensed the ticket for the fair to the young man in the name of his son. When you come to God the Father, He looks at the Son for His OK. Why? Because the gift of the “ticket’ is dependent on the Son. This is what we call grace.420

Evans, Tony. Tony Evans' Book of Illustrations (p. 140). Moody Publishers. Kindle Edition.

Close- Amazing Grace of Jesus Christ

Psalm 23:1–6 ESV

1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. 3 He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. 4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. 5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. 6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.