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Today we conclude chapter 11 of the Gospel of John.
Each week we go verse by verse, chapter by chapter through the Gospel of John.
The purpose is to know God’s Word in context to its fullest so that we can know God and be known by God.
What have we discovered so far?
The disciple John records 7 Signs or miracles that Jesus performed during His ministry on earth.
While there were 7 different signs, they all had a singular purpose.
We find that purpose at the end of the Gospel of John.
So the entire purpose of the Gospel of John is to point you to Jesus as more than a man.
Pointing you to Jesus as more than a good teacher.
Pointing to Jesus as more than even a miracle worker
The purpose of the Gospel of John is to show that Jesus is the Son of God, He is the promised Messiah, and there is life in no other name but His.
The first miracle John records for us is the Miracle of Jesus turning water into wine.
Then Jesus heals the Royal Official’s Son.
Next He heals the paralytic man by the pool so the man could walk again.
In chapter 6 Jesus feeds the 5000 with 2 fish and 5 loaves.
Then Jesus walks on water and even heals a man who was born blind.
Lastly, and what we saw last week, Jesus then raises Lazarus from the dead.
John reveals Jesus as the second person of the trinity, the God-man, the Creator God, who has power over elements, sickness, ailments, and life itself.
John also reveals that it is this person that holds the key to not only this life, but the life to come as well.
Jesus came to rescue, redeem, ransom, and restore.
Jesus came to set you free from the chains that bind you to the purpose He created you for.
But there is a problem.
Not everyone will believe.
While some will be born again by the grace of God for the purpose of God, to the glory of God, and for the good of one born again.
Others will continue in their rebellion and rejection of God that will lead to eternal separation, eternal damnation.
We will see this play out now as we conclude chapter 11.
Right before we get to today’s verses we are reminded what just took place.
In His final, most epic miracle, Jesus shows His power over death itself by bringing Lazarus back to life.
What happens next?
How are those there going to respond to such a great event?
How would you respond?
We all have moments in our life that prove to be pivotal.
Life changing moments that you realize you will never be the same after that moment passes.
Many of us have more than one of those that we can think of.
The birth of my 8th child at the age of 40.
That’s a pretty big moment.
I realized how old and how broke I am at the same time!
I remember where I was and what I was doing the moment the first plane flew into the tower in New York City.
Then there was the moment that I truly saw and understood my need for Jesus.
Today we are going to watch two groups of people deal with this pivotal moment in history two very different ways.
Let’s open our Bibles or turn them on if that is your preference to John 11 verse 45 and 46.
Here we see clearly before us the two groups of people.
One group who witness the powerful work of Jesus resurrecting the dead and believe in Jesus.
They see that Jesus truly is who He has been saying He is.
They heard the stories, they knew of the commotion surrounding Him.
They were aware of the chatter and His other miracles.
But now, they came face to face with the reality of who Jesus is.
I mean what other option is there when you see a dead man come back to life.
But we see there is a second option after all.
We see that some saw the very same event and instead of following Jesus, they ran to the Pharisees.
Can you imagine what that scene may have looked like?
It would have been about a 2 mile run back to Jerusalem.
Huffing and puffing they arrive to where the Pharisees are and go before them quickly to share what they themselves are struggling to believe.
It isn’t that they didn’t believe that what they just saw really happened.
But the issue was that they put more faith and trust in the Pharisees, the teachers of Israel, than the one the teachers should have been pointing to.
They see this miracle and look to the Pharisees to interpret for them what they saw themselves.
What will the Pharisees do?
Will they believe this group who just ran all the way from Bethany to give them the news?
They have already seen first hand the healing of the blind man and the paralytic.
Will the Pharisees finally believe that Jesus is indeed who He says He is?
Will they lay down their pride, arrogance, position, and follow Jesus?
Let’s look at the next two verses to find out.
While there are many reasons why the Pharisees did not want Jesus to be the Messiah, this is what they focused on in this moment.
Their thought processes was that the Messiah would be a military revolutionary and would try to take over Jerusalem.
This last sentence says the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.
This thought terrified the Jews
If Jesus started a revolution they would be crushed by the Romans and everything would be destroyed.
Many thought this was the reason for the Messiah to come.
His purpose in their mind was to restore Israel.
But, Jesus wasn’t coming to defeat the Romans.
Jesus had a much bigger enemy in mind.
How can you say that?
Bigger than the biggest world power?
Yes, much much bigger.
Jesus came to defeat sin and Death.
Jesus came, not to deal with the Roman oppression, but to deal with the human heart oppression.
Jesus wasn’t so much concerned with what was separating the Israelites from their homeland as what was separating God’s people from God himself.
Jesus was here to deal with the root of the problem.
What is the root problem?
It wasn’t Rome.
The root problem and the eternal problem was Humanities rebellion against their God and Creator due to their sinful nature.
Jesus was coming to free His people from the chains of sin.
Jesus came to be the Resurrection and the Life so that we can be with Him for Eternity.
Jesus came for the rebellion 100%, but the rebellion Jesus came to overthrow wasn’t the one Rome started but that Adam and Eve started in the Garden.
This rebellion is the one that started in the beginning, continued in the Israelites day and even continues to this day.
This is the purpose for Jesus coming.
The Pharisees were not so concerned about people believing for the sake of belief.
Though they were to some extent, because they wanted people to come to them to get to God, not to the God-man, Jesus.
But what we see as their excuse is that their place, their temple, their ability to be who they are, would be taken from them.
As well as the nation as a whole.
They didn’t see, they hadn’t been listening, and they have completely missed the point of Jesus.
May that not be said about anyone here today.
We will have the purpose of Jesus laid before us today, do not miss getting this understanding correct.
Amongst the commotion and hysteria that must have been going on at this moment a man stands up.
You can imagine a hush falling upon the room.
He has something he needs to say, let’s take a listen in verse 49 and 50.
Truer words would rarely be spoken, but Caiaphas had one purpose in mind with his words,
And God would have another purpose altogether prepared.
So what is going on here, what is this high priest getting at?
Caiaphas was concerned for the Jews and the temple.
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