It's Time!
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Bruce Buffer (UFC)
Mary asked Jesus to help at the wedding.
4 And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with us? My hour has not yet come.”
Feast of booths and his brothers (who didn’t believe) were trying to get him to go to Judea to show the world who he was.
6 So Jesus said to them, “My time is not yet here, but your time is always opportune.
Preaching in the temple
29 “I know Him, because I am from Him, and He sent Me.”
30 So they were seeking to seize Him; and no man laid his hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.
20 These words He spoke in the treasury, as He taught in the temple; and no one seized Him, because His hour had not yet come.
Today: we see the moment that changes.
Today: we see in the passage: It’s Time.
12 On the next day the large crowd who had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
13 took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet Him, and began to shout, “Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel.”
14 Jesus, finding a young donkey, sat on it; as it is written,
15 “Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your King is coming, seated on a donkey’s colt.”
First century Jewish historian estimated that 2.7 million people.
16 These things His disciples did not understand at the first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of Him, and that they had done these things to Him.
17 So the people, who were with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead, continued to testify about Him.
18 For this reason also the people went and met Him, because they heard that He had performed this sign.
The crowds were being pumped up to believe their King had arrived.
19 So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are not doing any good; look, the world has gone after Him.”
Enter the Greeks
Enter the Greeks
20 Now there were some Greeks among those who were going up to worship at the feast;
21 these then came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and began to ask him, saying, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.”
22 Philip came and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip came and told Jesus.
Some of the Greeks.....especially those seeking truth, would have been attracted to Monotheistic view of God. They also would have been attracted to the the moral ideology of Judaism.
They would have also heard about Lazarus.
Philip: Greek sounding name. Bethsaida......surrounded by Gentile towns.
23 And Jesus answered them, saying, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
Jesus talks about His death.
24 “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.
Two verse sermon
25 “He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal.
37 “He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.
38 “And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.
39 “He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it.
we make choices every day......
Poor vs. wealthy
The reward
26 “If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also; if anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
32 “Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven.
33 “But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father who is in heaven.
