John 10-11
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Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.”
He uses the word for tone, or sound. Each shepherd had a sound they would make that the sheep would recognize.
No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father.”
They did not kill Jesus on the cross, they hung Him on the cross, but He dismissed His Spirit. He robbed them of the opportunity of killing Him. They couldn't have killed Him. He dismissed His Spirit. He said, "Father, into Your hands I commend My Spirit," and it says, "and He dismissed His Spirit."
Now it was the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem, and it was winter.
Now time lapse. And between verse 21 and 22 there is time lapse from October to December. The things in verse 21 were taking place during the Feast of Tabernacles in Jerusalem in October. Now John tell us,
And it was at Jerusalem the feast of dedication),
Also known as the Feast of Lights, which took place on the twenty-fifth of December. This Feast of Dedication was their celebration of the cleansing of the temple by Judas Maccabeus after it has been profaned by Antiochus Epiphanes, the Syrian leader or leader of Syria, he was a Greek. And this was the celebration of that cleansing again of the temple by this brave warrior. And Jesus was again in Jerusalem and it was winter, December.
Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods” ’?
Psalms 82:6, it said, "I have said, 'Ye are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High.'"
Now, notice He is quoting there, "I have said." He's quoting the scripture. What scripture is He quoting? Put in Psalms 82:6, Exodus 22:8-9, and now you have your own chain reference Bible. In Exodus 22, God is now laying down His law that the judges were to enact upon the people. And when these things would happen, this kind of a condition existed, this is how the judges were to rule in those cases. And so the Word of the Lord is coming to the judges over Israel that they might enact upon Israel the laws of God. So in verse 8, as He's talking about a situation of a thief is not found, then the master of the house shall be brought to the judges. To see whether he has put his hand into his neighbor's good. For all manner of trespass, whether it is for an ox, or an ass, or sheep, or raiment, or for any matter lost thing, which another challenges to be his. The cause of both party shall come before the judges and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double his neighbor.
Interesting thing is that the word translated judges is the Hebrew word elohim, which is the word for gods. So that the judges are as gods over the people in that they are controlling the destiny of these people as they meet out their judgment. They are acting in God's place, and so those whom He called gods were actually those judges who were enacting God's laws upon the people.
And He went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was baptizing at first, and there He stayed.
And He spent the next couple of months, actually from December, January, February, March until the month of April, He spent down there by the Jordan River before making His journey back to Jerusalem.
When Jesus heard that, He said, “This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
He told His disciples, "This sickness is not unto death,
but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby”.
When Jesus arrived in Bethany with His disciples, Lazarus had been dead four days. Martha ran out to meet Jesus and said that if He had been there, her brother would
not have died. Jesus told her that He was the resurrection and the life:
JOHN 11:24
Shortly after this, Martha protested at Christ's command that Lazarus' grave stone be rolled away—she knew
his body would be decomposing and would stink after four days. But Jesus said, "Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?" (v. 40).
Martha hadn't seen the glory yet. She didn't see the glory of God in her brothers death. The glory of God hadn't
been made manifest yet. The glory was manifested in Lazarus' resurrection and healing. He not only had to be
resurrected, but he also had to be healed of whatever had caused his death. God is glorified through healing and deliverance; not through sickness and suffering.
-Kenneth E. Hagin