John 13:31-38
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Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
In scene 2
In the Play by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, one of the most
JULIET
170Romeo!
JULIET
Therefore when he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him;
Romeo!
ROMEO
My nyas?
ROMEO
My baby hawk?
JULIET
What o'clock tomorrow
Shall I send to thee?
ROMEO
JULIET
ROMEOLet me stand here till thou remember it.
ROMEOLet me stand here until you remember your reason.
The Humiliating Glory
The Humiliating Glory
JULIET175I shall forget, to have thee still stand there,
Remembering how I love thy company.
What time tomorrow should I send a messenger to you?
JULIETI’ll forget it, and you’ll have to stand there forever. I’ll only remember how much I love your company.
ROMEOI’ll keep standing here, even if you keep forgetting. I’ll forget that I have any home besides this spot right here.
ROMEO
ROMEOAnd I’ll still stay, to have thee still forget,
Forgetting any other home but this.
By the hour of nine.
JULIET
ROMEO
By nine o'clock.
Tis almost morning. I would have thee gone.
180And yet no further than a wanton’s bird,
That lets it hop a little from his hand
Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,
And with a silken thread plucks it back again,
So loving-jealous of his liberty.
JULIET
I will not fail. 'Tis twenty year till then.
ROMEO
I have forgot why I did call thee back.
JULIET
I would I were thy bird.
I won’t fail. From now until then seems like twenty years. I have forgotten why I called you back.
ROMEO
JULIET
Let me stand here till thou remember it.
Sweet, so would I.
Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing.
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
ROMEO
Let me stand here until you remember your reason.
One of the most famous line in all of that play.
JULIET
175I shall forget, to have thee still stand there,
Remembering how I love thy company.
JULIET
I’ll forget it, and you’ll have to stand there forever. I’ll only remember how much I love your company.
ROMEO
And I’ll still stay, to have thee still forget,
Forgetting any other home but this.
ROMEO
I’ll keep standing here, even if you keep forgetting. I’ll forget that I have any home besides this spot right here.
At first glance it doesn’t make sense
JULIET
'Tis almost morning. I would have thee gone.
180And yet no further than a wanton’s bird,
That lets it hop a little from his hand
Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,
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And with a silken thread plucks it back again,
So loving-jealous of his liberty.
JULIET
It’s almost morning. I want to make you go, but I’d only let you go as far as a spoiled child lets his pet bird go. He lets the bird hop a little from his hand and then yanks him back by a string.
ROMEO
how could something be sweet and sorrowful at the same time? Especially a good bye?
185I would I were thy bird.
ROMEO
I wish I was your bird.
In this case, it is sorrowful because Juliet would rather Romeo stay there with her and it will bring her sorrow that he will leave.
JULIET
But its sweet in that she knows, if he leaves, the reunion and what happens tomorrow will be be sweet.
Sweet, so would I.
We come to a passage today, where Jesus is preparing His disciples for his departure from the world and his exaltation back to his heavenly abode.
And it is both sorrowful and sweet.
Sorrowful because their friend and leader for the past 3 years is about to be glorified.
Sweet because Jesus in securing his glorification will also secure theirs.
Because of His work on the cross and in the tomb, he will secure salvation for all those who will trust in Christ.
Jesus knows this, but the disciples are having a hard time.
So lets look at this passage and see how Jesus will prepare them for his departure.
Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing.
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
Verse 31
Verse 31
Therefore when he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him;
My sweet, so do I. But I would kill you by petting you too much. Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow that I’ll say good night until tonight becomes tomorrow.
The Humiliating Glory
The Humiliating Glory
When Judas had gone out, it is almost as if this gets the ball rolling.
The betrayer is gone to his his betraying.
Jesus says here, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him.”
Now this is interesting that he says this.
But didn’t one of Jesus’s followers, one of his closest friends, just leave to betray him
Really? now? Where does this confidence come form?
he is confident because even though he knows the thought and the plan hatched in Judas’s mind, he also, knows the thoughts and plans hatched in the mind of God before the foundation of the world.
Again, as we learned last week, Jesus is not taken by surprise by this sudden betrayal of one of His closest.
In fact, this betrayal and this act by Judas serves to promote the glory of Christ.
but how can this lead to glory?
Jesus, embarrassingly is out about to be betrayed by one of His own. A man unmistakably connected to Jesus. He was one of the ones he loved.
Jesus is about to stand on trial before a Jewish court. People will spit on him.
He will be mocked.
A crown of thorns placed upon his head and a royal robe placed upon Him.
He will be beaten within an inch of life.
His hands and feet will be nailed to a cross.
And he will die.
and yet, here he says, “Now is the son of man glorified.”
That doesn’t sound to glorious.
In fact, it sound humiliating.
But here is the beauty of the person and work of Christ.
He came to be humiliated.
Everything that humiliates Him in His time on earth, serves to glorify Him in heaven.
Think about His life up to this point.
He is born into a stable. His visitors and those surrounding His birth were mostly animals and some shepherds.
He grew up as the son of the carpenter.
He was Nazarene and “Can anything good from Nazareth?
Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
The entire life of Christ is characterized by humiliation.
We should have expected this though right?
But we also see that his humiliation serve for his glory.
The Old Testament prophesied it!
He was despised and forsaken of men, A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; And like one from whom men hide their face He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed.
His life proved it.
And the New Testament confirms it.
Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin;
Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Christ emptied himself.
He grew up in another obscure village.
He worked in a carpenter shop until he was thirty and then for three years was an itinerant preacher.
He never wrote a book.
He became a servant.
He never held an office.
He never owned a home.
He never had a family.
Dr. James Francis had this to say about him.
He never went to college.
He never put his foot inside a big city.
He never traveled two hundred miles from the place where he was born.
He never did one of the things that usually accompany greatness.
He had no credentials but himself.
He had nothing to do with this world except the naked power of his divine manhood.
“Here is a man who was born in an obscure village as the child of a peasant woman.He grew up in another obscure village.He worked in a carpenter shop until he was thirty and then for three years was an itinerant preacher.He never wrote a book.He never held an office.He never owned a home.He never had a family.He never went to college.He never put his foot inside a big city.He never traveled two hundred miles from the place where he was born.He never did one of the things that usually accompany greatness.He had no credentials but himself.He had nothing to do with this world except the naked power of his divine manhood.While still a young man the tide of popular opinion turned against him.His friends ran away.One of them denied him.Another betrayed him.He was turned over to his enemies.He went through the mockery of a trial.He was nailed upon the cross between two thieves.His executioners gambled for the only piece of property he had on earth while he was dying, and that was his coat.When he was dead, he was taken down and laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend.Nineteen wide centuries have come and gone and today he is the center of the human race and the leader of the column of progress.I am far within the mark when I say that all the armies that ever marched, and all the navies that were ever built, and all the parliaments that ever sat and all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man upon the earth as powerfully as has this one solitary life.”
While still a young man the tide of popular opinion turned against him.
His friends ran away.
One of them denied him.
Another betrayed him.
He was turned over to his enemies.
He went through the mockery of a trial.
His life was characterized by all of those things and yet he is glorified.
He was nailed upon the cross between two thieves.
His executioners gambled for the only piece of property he had on earth while he was
dying, and that was his coat.
When he was dead, he was taken down and laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend.
Nineteen wide centuries have come and gone and today he is the center of the human race and the leader of the column of progress.
I am far within the mark when I say that all the armies that ever marched, and all the navies that were ever built, and all the parliaments that ever sat and all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man upon the earth as powerfully as has this one solitary life.
We look back on this now with the benefit of Scripture, and we can see the glorious aspects of His death, but His disciples were in the middle of it. I’m sure it was hard to see the glory when they are watching the Lord and friend be strung up by their own people.
But what Jesus said happened.
He is glorified. And God is glorified in him.
and in verse 32, If the Father is glorified, He will also glorify the son.
That is, if Christ is fully obedient to the Father in all things.
Christ has been glorified because He glorified the Father, by being obedient.
For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,
But with this glorification, come a difficult consequence.
He
The glory comes whenever he completes his task and He is exalted by the Father, but if he is exalted to the Father he is going to be exalted from the Disciples
We know that what Jesus will do will serve for His glory, but with this glorification comes the ever approaching reality that these disciples are going to be on their own.
Listen to what he says in verse 33
“Little children, I am with you a little while longer. You will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’
Essentially, what Jesus says is that time is short.
They don’t have him for much longer.
And in just a few days, they, like the Jews wont be able to enjoy the blessing of his physical bodily presence.
Sure, His spirit is always with them, but His body will ascend.
That being said, He gives them some final instruction as to how they are to live in light of His ascension and as they like we wait for His second coming.
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
He gives them a new commandment. That they love one another.
Is this new though?
But this isn’t just any type of love. The type of love that he is requiring of them is the same love with which he loved us.
And this is going to be the love that motivates them to genuinely love each other.
He has
They are commanded to love one another, as or like He has loved them.
This isn’t some empty command with no foundation.
They have experienced the love of Christ.
They have been fed by him, taught by him, chosen by him, saved by him both physically and spiritually, and most recently they have watched him washed each of their feet.
Illustration- Some people struggle with how to make a marriage work because they’ve never seen one work out. Some people struggle with how to parent, because maybe they didn’t have the blessing of having a parent. Some people have struggles loving because they have never experienced love.
Illustration- Some people struggle with how to make a marriage work because they’ve never seen one work out. Some people struggle with how to parent, because maybe they didnt have the blessing of having a parent. Some people have struggles loving because they have never experienced love.
Not the case with these disciples.
Doesn’t say to love like your mom, your dad, you.
Their friend and brother Jesus has loved them perfectly.
He has been perfectly selfless.
Perfectly forgiving.
Perfectly understanding.
Never once, has he said something sinful to them.
Never once, has he gossiped.
Never once has his friendship and love for them been in question.
And they are about to watch Jesus be brutally whipped and killed for them.
Now he says to them, “Love each other, like I have loved you.”
And this command I would add extends to us here today.
He has called us to love each other like he has loved us.
Keep in mind who he is speaking to.
These are his own. His disciples. The men who will be taking the Gospel to the world and building the church through.
So what is he telling them.
Those who are His must love one another.
We must treat other the way he treated us.
Which means, We don’t get to pick and choose who it is that we are going to love within the church.
Christ has loved us all, so therefore we love each other.
But what I see in the majority of churches today doesn’t look like the love Iread about in Christ.
Gossip, slander, arguing, being nit picky about things, criticizing but offering no help, sarcasm, and sometimes hatred of others within the church.
We say things like:
“I love her, but I don’t like her.”
“I put up with him because I have too.”
“She gets on my nerves.”
“He gets on my nerves.”
“Man, I hope so and so doesn’t come.”
“That person just doesn’t fit in.”
Church we need to be careful.
Because the moment we start saying things about a fellow church member or another believer , is the moment we have stepped in to the sin of slandering the bride of Christ that he bought with His own blood.
Be very careful of how you treat the bride of Christ.
We hold bitterness in our hearts towards people within this church about past sins that Christ has forgiven them for. The question I have for you: Does Christ do that to you?
Maybe theres’ a member or a pastor that was here previously that used to attend this church, but you no longer talk to them and you don’t want to because they did something to you or you just didn't see eye to eye , or maybe you just didn't like them. Hear me out church: Christ died for them. its time to make things right.
I would invite you think think of the way Christ has loved you , and see if that matches up with how you are loving God’s people.
Because, we are required to love the way we have been loved, forgive the way we have been forgiven.
In fact, to do this or to fail to do this is the distinguishing mark to a watching world that we are or we aren’t His people.
Look in verse 35
“By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
The is the second of distinguishing marks of a believer and disciple of Christ is his or her love for others in the body of Christ.
The first was in .
Jesus tells His disciples. “You’ve seen me do it. Now you.”
If ever need to know how far you must go in loving those in the church, just at the cross.
Look at the humiliation that led to our glory.
we have the tendency to have the mindset, “I’m gonna get mine and do what I want and get what I deserve.”
At the cross, Jesus is not getting the punishment that he deserve, he is getting the punishment we deserve.
Sometimes, whats required for someone’s best, is me to get the worst.
And we have to be willing to do that, because he did that for us.
Thats a big if there.
They will know IF
Sadly today, churches are not know for love.
They are known for everything else, but not love.
I wonder if we have forgotten in our lives altogether what says.
The World is looking.
And they will know us by our love.
Application:
Believers, its time to evaluate your love for each other.
And the proper evaluation isn’t through looking at your neighbor and seeing his or her love. The proper evaluation is looking at Christ and evaluating your love for other in light of the cross.
Next time, you feel like gossiping, slandering, or arguing with one of your fellow church members, I would invite you to take a moment and gaze at the cross.
Then love like you’ve been loved.
Forgive like you’ve been forgiven.
And Maybe at times, take the worst for the best for others.
They will know if.
Let’s pray