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LAST week I mentioned that Jesus showing up to deaths door was like the Co-Main Event of the Evening…and I confessed that I loved watching the UFC.
Did any of you watch the last Connor McGregor vs. Dustin Porier fight?
Everyone came to the fight or you watched it at home with some friends.
Some were for Dustin to win and some were wanting Connor to win.
After the fight…some were happy…some were not so happy.
It’s always been this way…and that is how it was the day Jesus raised Lazarus from the tomb.
Some believed…and it made others hate him even more.
Crazy huh...
Lets read our text this morning:
PRAYER: I pray we HEAR the Word of God this morning and believe!
Many…who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him.
Imagine what all Mary had told them about Jesus before He got to Bethany
Think of her face when she talked to Him about Jesus.
They could see it all over her I bet…and then, when they saw what he did…they also believed in Him.
“but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.”
They just saw Jesus command a dead man to walk out of his tomb that he had been in for 4 days…and they still didn’t believe.
Have you ever heard someone say
“If Jesus was hear today and did a miracle I would believe” or
“I need to see a miracle to believe”
J.C. Ryle said it best:
There is no greater mistake than to suppose that seeing miracles will necessarily convert souls.
Here is a plain proof that it does not.
You might be thinking, “How could they not believe that Jesus was God in the flesh when He just raised a dead man from the grave?”
You either believe the Word of God or you do not.
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us...
When it comes to Christ there are only two options:
Belief
Unbelief
and neither one of these are idle
the both grow…they both progress
Do you believe the Word of God?
I don’t know…believe that He is the Messiah?
Imagine this: The Jewish Religious leaders got together…and start thinking of what they should do after hearing what Jesus had just done.
They acknowledge that he does miracles…they don’t deny it
I just want to say one thing about Christian Apologetics real fast
Think about those who deny the miracles in the Bible today.
they say that they didn’t really happen
It was some type of illusion or something…whatever they say
Here are Christ’s arch enemies…they are trying to do everything they can to stop His progress and the ONE THING they DO NOT DO....IS DENY HIS MIRACLES!
There are some who want to argue with the Atheist and try to prove to them through probabilities and give these fancy arguments as to how God must be real through the fine tuning of the Universe, etc.
But listen… the only thing that is going to open the eyes of a spiritually dead, spiritually blind person is God’s Sovereign Grace.
And the ordinary means in which this happens is through the power of His Word.
This is why we preach the Word and do not argue with the unbeliever.
We preach the Word because Hebrews says:
Not only do they recognize and affirm Christ’s miracles
They also realize the more he continues more people will believe in Him...
So WHY DON’T THEY BELIVE?
Doesn’t this sound crazy to us who believe?
How can they not see this?
Why don’t they just come to Christ and believe?
It is the same reason today…they don’t believe the Word of God…they are spiritually dead and cannot hear what God’s Word is saying.
They might be able to repeat it...
They might be able to quote it...
But THEY DO NOT ACTUALLY HEAR IT!
NOTHING WILL RIP A MANS DEAD HEART OUT OF HIS CHEST BUT GOD HIMSELF.
----- EZEKIEL 36:25-27
Look back at John 11:47-48
These religious leaders may seem to love God to some…but they are actually God Haters.
They love teaching His Word to the people
But when it came to them…it didn’t apply
People like this always want to come across “religious” and “spiritual” so they spiritualize their reasons for their actions.
They make it something it actually isn’t so it isn’t obvious as to what is going on.
They don’t want you to know their TRUE MOTIVES.
If you knew their TRUE MOTIVES it would be too obvious so they make it into something it isn’t so they can do what they REALLY want to do…keep people from following Christ!
AND preserve their power of influence.
See, these religious leaders made it out to be that they had to do something so Rome wouldn’t destroy them…
But what they really wanted was to keep their titles and positions
What they really hated was the teachings of Christ because if MORE and MORE people started following Christ…they wouldn’t be following THEM.
They FEARED ROME more than God
They FEARED losing their positions of influence more than God
They FEARED losing “their place”, THE TEMPLE, more than God
Caiaphas was a Sadducee, which were the arch enemies of the Pharisees.
Among other things, the Sadducees didn’t believe in a resurrection and the Pharisees did.
They had many disagreements but the one thing they could agree on was something had to be done to stop Jesus…
It is the same today
You can get many different religious groups together who disagree on some major issues amongst themselves but they will ALL BE IN AGREEMENT TOGETHER to stop the teaching and preaching of the true gospel of Jesus Christ.
Look at these verses again:
Caiaphas becomes a modern day politician all of a sudden.
Instead of acting like a true High Priest who wants to establish and seek justice he becomes a modern day politician.
He was to fear God…not Caesar!
He starts to preach the topical sermon of ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS and gets everything out of its context just to keep them in power.
He starts rationalizing his actions and that never ends well.
We do the same.
When we want something, in our flesh…we take our eyes off of God’s Word and what He desires and we put our eyes on ourselves…become selfish…and seek out our own desires.
THIS IS WHAT’S GOING ON HERE.
But lets give Caiaphas the benefit of the doubt real quick.
Let’s say that he truly believed he was genuinely and sincerely seeking the best interest of the people and the preservation of the Temple...
Voddie Baucham said:
You can sincerely believe a false gospel.
It just means you are sincerely wrong.
Caiaphas’ plan was to kill Christ so that the people wouldn’t rise up with Him and revolt against Rome.
His thought was if that happened, Rome would not only destroy the people but also Jerusalem and the Temple.
His plan to save the nation and the Temple backfired when his plan was accomplished.
The very thing he was trying to prevent is the very thing that happened…BECAUSE he crucified their Messiah.
Less than 40 years after this…ROME came in and completely destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple where there was not one stone left on top of the other.
All of this was prophesied by Christ throughout the Gospels (another lesson for another day).
Look at verses 51-52:
He had NO IDEA that God was using Him to prophesy.
Caiaphas meant one thing by his words and actions BUT GOD meant something completely different.
Many Passages of Scripture come to mind with this:
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