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The time had come.
Specifically, Jesus’ time had come.
It was passover.
The greatest of the festivals.
John wants us to know that the Passover Lamb is actually Jesus…Jesus fed the crowds at Passover time, and he spoke to his disciples about them feeding on his body and blood.
Now, it is the final Passover for Jesus.
This gathering with Jesus would point forward to the events that would happen the following day when Jesus was arrested and ultimately crucified.
This gathering with his disciples had a new and emphasized meaning.
Passover.
John wants us to understand, if nothing else, that this passage is about Jesus.
Passover has been about Jesus as the Passover Lamb
Jesus said, at the Passover, that the Temple woulbe destroyed and rebuilt.
But he clarified, he ws talking about his own body.
Even as he fed crowds at Passover time… he spoke of the people feeding on his body and blood.
Chapter 6
Yes, John wants us to know that the Passover is everything about Jesus.
And now, Jesus is here for the final Passover.
and in this extraordinary scripture, Jesus explains what the meal was all about.
Second, Jesus time had come.
He knew it, and had been talking about it in the previous chapter.
Everything in Jesus’ life, up to this point, had been preparing him for this moment.
It is not just Jesus’ time to die.
It’s Jesus time to go to the father.
It is not time travel, but rather the continuance of his eternal existence.
You see, Jesus was going from here to another place, from this existence to another locale where his existence would continue.
Our culture places a great deal of emphasis on the temporary nature of life.
We are born, we die.
So do what you can in between.
Grab all the gusto, buy all the toys, live while you can.
Because one day it will end.
A country song put it this way: The main character is in his early 40’s when he discovers that he has a terminal illness.
And he’s asked “what did you do?”
He said
"I went skydiving
I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fumanchu
And I loved deeper
And I spoke sweeter
And I gave forgiveness I'd been denying"
And he said
"Someday I hope you get the chance
To live like you were dying"
He said
"I was finally the husband
That most of the time I wasn't
And I became a friend a friend would like to have
And all of a sudden going fishin'
Wasn't such an imposition
And I went three times that year I lost my dad
I finally read the Good Book, and I
Took a good, long, hard look
At what I'd do if I could do it all again
And then
Problem is, it’s a bill of goods our culture has sold us that isn’t true.
It’s a grand marketing scheme that helps sell beer and chevy trucks, but it ain’t so.
We weren’t created for just this life.
We were meant for another as well.
God didn’t create us to have our 3 score and ten so he could move on to the next victim in line.
He created us for eternity.
The Psalmist delcares this eloquently in Psalm 139,
Our birth initiates our journey in this chapter of our living.
And it’s important and the events of this life have meaning, but it is not all there is.
The time between our birth and death certificates is important, but there is so much more to it than just that.
This life is preparation for the life to come, but it is not the only life.
And Jesus time had come.
Not to die only, but to transition to the next life.
He was now going from this existence to an eternal existence with his father.
Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father,
And so, he’s about to perform the very purpose of his coming.
He’s about to reveal what His entire life was about.
Notice how John says it.
He loved them to the end.
And what Jesus was about to do, would be the ultimate act of love for his disciples.
Remember in John 10 Jesus identifeid himself as the good shepherd
That’s what the “end” of this verse is meant to represent.
The “end” is the good shepherd laying down his life for the sheep.
So this love of Jesus, it’s not just a grin and bear it love to the end… it’s a love that goes to the uttermost.
The act of love that Jesus is about to perform, nothing and no one else could do for them.
It was a supreme act of love.
slide of a crucifixion cross.
Jesus has a perfect love for an imperfect group of followers,
Jesus has an infinite love for a finite group of people, Jesus has a complete love for an incomplete band of brothers.
Jesus love is infinite, perfect, and eternal.
And we look back through the events of the crucifixion and we see that love in that way.
It’s a perfect love that is about to be revealed.
But notice this
At the very moment that love is at it’s greatest expression, that is when evil creeps in and tries to destroy it.
Judas had allowed the whisper of Satan to get in the way of seeing the love Christ had for him.
When love is revealed in its clearest way you can count on sin to find a way to obscure it.
Isn’t it odd that John would tell us in the middle of dinner that Judas was going to betray Jesus?
John has told us many things worth noting, particularly with regard to Satan and his working amongst even his own disciples.
Look at John 6.70
Yes, we knew it was coming.
But the way in which it is revealed is startling.
At the dinner table, where Jesus is picking up the tab.
In the Old Testament, Nehemiah says that he told no one “Of what God had put in his heart to do for Jerusalem.”
Paul, in writing to the Corinthians, says that he is thankful to God for “putting into the heart of Titus the same earnest care” that he himself had for the Corinthians.
Today we talk about God putting things on our hearts.
Mission work.
To visit a sick or grieving person.
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