Sermon Tone Analysis

Illustration: The sick feeling of being pulled over.

Why is he troubled?

Jesus says his that his soul is troubled.

Here when he mentions his soul he is referring to the immaterial part of his being.

At the core of who he is in his humanity is troubled about what is about to happen.

In other words, this is deep struggle.

Deep turmoil.

Deeply stirred.

This comes from the Greek word ταράσσω, where we get our word for terrified.

Literally means “stirred up from the inside.”

This isn’t sinful anxiousness that we often times are so prone to.

This is legitimate trouble.

Imagine for a moment the troubling nature and soul for the unbeliever when they will hear the judgment of God pronounced against them,, when they will learn of their eternal destiny where the holy wrath and fire of God will be poured out on them forever.

Now Take that and multiply it a by a number which no man could count.

Jesus is about to absorb every ounce of the wrath of God for His people.

Every second of hell I deserved for my sin, Jesus took.

He is troubled because of my trouble.

He is troubled because of your trouble.

This troubling of His Spirit has everything to do with what we deserve and nothing to do with what he deserved .

This is why he is troubled.

Certainly an understandable thing here that he would be troubled at the reality of the Father’s wrath being brought down on Him, but with this trouble will he back out?

Example: At times in my life, I have backed out of things because I was too anxious about it.

Will Jesus back out?

Listen to what he says.

“But what shall I say, Father save me from this hour?”

Jesus highlights what would probably be the natural response for anyone who is troubled about a certain circumstance.

And Jesus had the resources at His disposal to rescue Himself if he wanted.

Matthew 26

Shall I say : Father save me from this hour, but he immediately answers that with what he knows: For this purpose I have come.

We see this same type of statement in his prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane.

Matthew 2

This is where Jesus’s absolute obedience meets the terrifying and terrible wrath of God.

He knows the purpose for his coming.

He knows what awaits him, and this troubles him.

Again, this should be my burden.

I deserve to take God’s wrath for eternity.

And thats why he is troubled, but thats also why he came.

His hour has come, but it is important to understand that Jesus came to this hour.

Jesus isn’t here begrudgingly.

Jesus is here for the glory He will receive and the salvation he will bring through His death, resurrection, and ascension.

He knows why he came.

He is there to submit completely to the plan of the Holy Trinity from eternity past.

Listen to His prayer in verse 28:

Here, we see what it motivating the obedience of the Son.

He desires that the Father be glorified.

His prayer: Father glorify your name.

How will the Father’s name be glorified?

By the Son accomplishing all that the Father has sent him to accomplish.

So when He prays this the Father responds with a audible voice that is at least heard by Jesus.

This is only the third time in Matthew Mark Luke and John that we read of an audible voice.

The times associated with this was the baptism of Jesus, the transfiguration, and now here.

All three important events that reaffirm the Sonship of Christ.

Every single one of them exalted Jesus as the one true and living Son of God.

I would be cautious in claiming that you heard an audible voice from God about the small decision in your life (marriage, buying something, your bills getting paid, your personal healing).

We aren’t Jesus, and in those things, God is not affirming the Sonship of the one he sent to accomplish his plan for the world.

If you want to hear and understand the Word of God for your life, look at what he said in his word.

Listen to what He says:

I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.

I think we can safely say that the Father is glorifying His own name through the obedience of the Son.

Go the Father has been faithful

So, far Jesus has been absolutely obedient to God the Father’s plan, and he will continue to be glorified so long as the Son is perfect in His obedience.

He has glorified- through his miracles, the sign and wonders and all that Jesus at the point has accomplished.

He will glorify it- in the death of the Son.

In the resurrection of the Son.

In the ascension of the Son.

Here we see that the Trinity is working together not for different purposes, but the same purposes.

they simply have different roles that they accomplish.

So this voice comes and the crowd hear the voice.

But what are they going to say?

Some heard something.

Some thought it was thunder.

Others thought it was an angel.

one group thought it could be explained by something natural.

The other group clearly think this is something miraculous and supernatural (perhaps an angel).

Neither group gets it right.

This isn’t surprising.

These people have made it clear time and time again that they have hard hearts toward Jesus.

it was not natural.

It was not an angel.

It was the Father.

Jesus makes the comment that this voice is not for him for for them.. if they have ears to hear.

The voice is to assure them of everything Jesus has been up unto that point and what he will continue to be.

It is his plan that he would come born of a virgin.

It is his plan, and it has glorified him that Jesus has is absolutely morally perfect.

It is in His plan, and it has glorified Him that Jesus has healed the sick, opened the eyes of the blind.

And it is in His plan, that Jesus would be crucified on a Roman cross.

It is His plan that Jesus would be placed in a tomb and according to plan Jesus will rise on third day.

Jesus has and will accomplish EVERYTHING he has set out to accomplish.

And all of this pleases the Father.

They have rejected the Words of Christ previously, he knows they will reject this as well.

But why did the voice come?

The voice is a audible answer to Jesus’s obvious and audible and visible trouble not with obeying the plan of God, but in the pain and struggle associated with obedience.

The Father here reaffirms this to Jesus and His followers of the reason for this hour.

Jesus, upon hearing this voice.

The Father is accomplishing His will and will continue to do so: Now he begins to clarify and go into the details of what will occur in just a few more days.

Look here in verse 31:

The hour coming means 4 things and He will outline them here.

Judgment is coming.

Jesus highlights here that Judgment is upon this world.

The world in the book of John is normally and often associated with the evil actions and the evil people that characterize the world and all that is in it.