Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

We continue this Lord’s Day morning in John chapter 5 verses 17 -24.

I have something to say before we get started.

Every day that the Lord allows me to prepare a sermon, I say it in that way because apart from His grace we can do nothing, but I feel so blessed and privileged in my studying- to each time gain a great understanding of what I present to you on Sunday’s.

I am left in awe often because of the power that I see in Scripture, the power in Christ’s statements, but especially in the power behind the reason He says things.

The truth is, you really don’t see the beauty of Scripture if you aren’t intimate with it.

That’s why I say to read repetitively, we make it a point to say to you read your Bible, but even more than than that, seek to understand more through word study, commentary study, sermon study and etc.

If you are interested, let me know so I can help you.

What prevents us from growing more in the Lord?

I hope you all know the answer to that and if you don’t, Scripture does provide the answer to that.

Desire for the world and the things of the world!

I become sorrowful at times that most who attend church, come to hear a sermon, come to make an appearance but don’t want intimacy with God.

As I study more I see more and more how people want the blessings and miracles that God can provide, and I hear this when people say, “God is good,” “thank you Lord” and “thank you Jesus.”

Why do we gladly accept God’s goodness and love for our lives but want nothing to do with His holiness and righteousness for our lives?

We want the blessings but not the one who gives them.

The more I become intimate with His Word I see how much God despises that attitude and speaks against it in the very Scriptures we’re studying.

Like I said, because I get to study the Word closely to be able to speak and teach it, I am able to become intimate with God.

This isn’t not just for me to do, but for you also.

Moving on, the power of what and why Jesus does what He does is what we see as we continue in this wonderful portion of Scripture.

Everything that we saw in the last sermon and today is wrapped around the 4th Commandment.

Please listen carefully as I read it for you.

Today’s teaching is

8 “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

9 “Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you.

11 “For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.

8 “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

9 “Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you.

11 “For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.

We left off last time in verse 16 where it says:

16 For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath.

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What do these 2 verse have to do with one another?

Why does Jesus make a stand against Jewish rabbinical tradition having to do with the Sabbath?

Why do the Jews seek to kill Him for this?

Was there a misunderstanding of the Sabbath with the Jews with Jesus and God the Father?

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These are questions the Scriptures are going to answer for us and we are going to learn so much more.

Jesus gives us 5 claims in verses 17-24 of His full equality with God the Father for why He does what He does on the Sabbath.

These claims are Jesus equal to God in 1) Person 2) In works 3) In Power and Sovereignty 4) In Judgment 5) And in Honor

My wife and I talked about a specific Scripture that is very important going into our teaching today.

Please turn with me to as we begin here this morning.

Controversy Over Sabbath-Labor

Mark 2:23–28; Luke 6:1–5

12 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath.

And His disciples were hungry, and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. 2 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!”

3 But He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: 4 how he entered the house of God and ate the showbread which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? 5 Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless?

6 Yet I say to you that in this place there is One greater than the temple.

7 But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless.

8 For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”

Controversy Over Sabbath-Healing

Mark 3:1–5; Luke 6:6–10

9 Now when He had departed from there, He went into their synagogue.

10 And behold, there was a man who had a withered hand.

And they asked Him, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”—that they might accuse Him.

11 Then He said to them, “What man is there among you who has one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift it out?

12 Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep?

Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.” 13 Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.”

And he stretched it out, and it was restored as whole as the other.

Why does Jesus do what He does on the Sabbath and claim that He is the Lord of the Sabbath, and by what basis does He have the right to do so?

Let’s begin with His first claim.

Equal In Person

17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.”

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We begin where we left off, with Jesus violating the man-made observances of the Sabbath.

The healing of the man at Bethesda on the Sabbath sparked a controversy and a hatred by His own that would lead to the cross.

Verse 16 says:

16 For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath.

But Jesus answered them

17 But Jesus answered them,

But Jesus answered them.

There were many other instances when when questions arose by the Jews and Jesus responded but this on is unique.

Its unique in the sense that the Greek verb translated “answered” has legal usage as in a courtroom when one is making a formal defense of the charges brought against him.

why is this important?

Because:

He was giving His legal defense before the authorities who were accusing Him of things they deemed worthy of death.

But what was Jesus’ defense?

He said, “My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.”

This goes back to the 4th Commandment.

The Jews knew that the Sabbath was instituted not for God but for man as says

27 And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

What do I mean by this?

God rested on the 7th day from creation as says but never ceased from being active in sustaining it.

God holds this world together but if God stopped there would be complete chaos and annihilation in the entire universe because says, “ for in Him we live and move and have our being.”

It is God that upholds and sustains the universe and earth and sustains it.

R.C. Sproul says:

Though the work of creation was completed at the end of the sixth day, God’s involvement with His creation didn’t stop.

In fact, Jesus said, it continues even until now.

So when Jesus says, “My Father has been working until now,” God is not obligated to the Sabbath like man and is at work in sustaining all things even at the present time.