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All Authority
John 5:16-30
I.
Introduction
A. Healing on the Sabbath (in violation of their laws) may
have brought on persecution, but it also gave Jesus an
opportunity to display and explain His authority.
B. Jesus shows us 3 reasons why He has ALL authority.
II.
Jesus has ALL authority because He is the SON
A. Every single cult, most false religions and even some
very well meaning albeit very wrong theologians and
Christians (I use the term lightly) deny that Jesus ever
claimed to be God.
1. Verse 18 shows that Jesus’ enemies knew very
well what He was claiming
2. Jesus could have said wait waitwait, I think you
misunderstand me….
a.
He didn’t
b.
He continued to press His intimate
relationship with God the Father.
c. Jesus continues on with a powerful
apologetic in defense of His claim to equality
with the Father.
3. In C.S. Lewis’ book, Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
makes this case well.
Many people say about Him (Jesus): “I’m ready to accept
Jesus as a great moral teacher but I don’t accept His
claim to be God.”
That is the one thing we must not say.
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things
Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher.
He would
either be a lunatic on a level with the man who says he is
a poached egg or else he would be the Devil of Hell.
You
must make the choice.
Either this man was, and is, the
Son of God: or else a madman or something worse.
You
can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill
Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him
Lord and God.
But let us not come with any patronizing
nonsense about His being a great human teacher.
He
has not left that open to us.
He did not intend to.
B. Jesus’ authority is grounded in His special relationship
to the Father
1. Jesus uses the words “My Father”
a.
Not “Our Father”
b.
Not “Your Father”
c. “My Father” which denotes a special familial
relationship He experiences with God that is
different from theirs (or even ours).
i.
His own
ii.
In a sense not true of others
2. Jesus claims to have been working with His
Father.
a. “Has been working…” indicating God either
hasn’t rested, or the rest has been broken.
i.
In reading this and contemplating this I
am reminded of the passage of scripture
which Jesus states “The Sabbath was
made for man”
ii.
Also where Jesus says “I am Lord of the
Sabbath” “Enter into my rest”
b.
The Father’s rest may have been broken as
early as Genesis 3 when Adam and Eve
sinned.
i.
Ever since that time God has been
working
ii.
Seeking and saving the lost
c. A.T. Robertson notes that Justin Martyr,
Origen, and others notice the fact of God’s
continuous activity.
i. Interesting to note that He made the
Sabbath for man’s blessing but cannot
observe it Himself.
d.
Jesus puts Himself on par with God’s activity
and thus justifies His healing on the Sabbath.
i. God rested on the seventh day from His
work of creation
ii.
Jesus points to His continuous work as
a justification for His Sabbath activities
iii.
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