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Honor The Son
If your new with us today we are going through the book of John.
The book of John really highlights the person and work of Jesus.
It has what theologians would call High Christology.
That means that John is making the point to put the focus on Jesus as both fully human and fully God.
We think about the seven “I am” statements in John.
I am the bread of life.
I am the gate.
I am the way, the truth, and the life.
And specifically for today I am the resurrection and the Life.
These all point to a high view of Jesus as the Christ.
As the savior.
As Lord.
John is helping us to see the glory and radiance of Jesus as the divine Son of God who has come to rescue his people.
And he is doing it to serve the purpose of driving us to belief.
John 20:31 “31 But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.”
Last week we looked at a passage that talks about Jesus’ first time interacting with the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem.
He had just performed the miracle of healing the man who had been lame for 38 years.
Sounds amazing.
Sounds miraculous.
Sounds like something to celebrate.
The problem occured b/c Jesus had healed the man on the Sabbath and in the Jewish leaders eyes caused the man to sin by having him pick up his mat.
God had commanded the Jewish people to abstain from working on the Sabbath back in Exodus 31.
Then the Jewish leaders added extra categories to what work meant.
And moving furniture was one of those categories.
So the Jewish leaders were now accusing Jesus of causing this man to sin and saying that Jesus is also a sinner b/c he was also “working” on the sabbath.
But Jesus hits them back with a retort that sets them off.
He says John 5:17 “17 Jesus responded to them, “My Father is still working, and I am working also.””
He basically was saying that you believe that God is allowed to work on the Sabbath.
Well I am the God you claim to worship therefore I am allowed to work on the Sabbath as well.
And it got the Leaders hot.
They were livid.
John tells us in John 5:18 “18 This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill him: Not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God.”
Well in this morning’s text he is going to further lay down the gauntlet.
Jesus is going to point out the unity between him and the father.
He is going to leave us without a doubt that he is equal to God the Father.
The Divinity of Jesus is essential to our understanding of who he is.
It is essential to salvation.
If Jesus isn’t God than his death was in vain.
If Jesus isn’t God than he doesn’t have the power and authority that he claimed to have.
If Jesus isn’t equal to God the Father than our faith is empty, shallow, and worthless.
If we want to know and love Jesus we have to see him as he saw himself.
And he saw himself as God in flesh.
There are many who claim to be Christian but deny the divinity and equality of Jesus with the Father.
Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses are just two examples.
But Church if we want to serve Jesus we need to know who he is.
He is the King of this universe.
He is the Creator of all.
He is the God.
Let’s pray before we dive into our text.
Unity with The Father
Like I said earlier Jesus wants us to understand his unity with the father so he begins this discourse with
Jn 5:19 “19 Jesus replied, “Truly I tell you, the Son is not able to do anything on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing.
For whatever the Father does, the Son likewise does these things.”
Jesus only does and can only do what the Father does.
They move in perfect harmony.
They move in perfect unity.
Jesus lives in perfect obedience to what the Father instructs.
Jesus came to the earth to reveal to us the heart of God.
Later in Jn 14:9 Jesus will say “The one who has seen me has seen the Father.”
Paul tells us in Col 1:15 “15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.”
Hebrews 1:3 “3 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact expression of his nature, sustaining all things by his powerful word.
After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.”
Jesus isn’t a rogue agent out to do his own thing.
He lives a life of sacrificial obedience to the Father.
While at the same time only doing what the Father instructs him to do.
Jesus and the Father are One in Action and in Will.
Jesus cannot act of his own initiative he only does what the father does
So then we have to ask ourselves what is the Father doing that Jesus is imitating.
He is saving people.
He is healing people.
He is continuing on his plan of redemption from eternity past.
We need to remember that the plan to send Jesus wasn’t a back up plan when Adam and Eve whiffed it.
The plan was from the foundations of the earth for Jesus to come and Sacrifice himself so that people could be restored into right relationship with God.
And throughout the OT we see God moving and pushing his purposes forward despite sinning and selfish people.
And what happens when Jesus comes he continues that only now it is not a broken creation that God uses but perfect divinity.
God has always been about saving.
He has always been about restoration.
He has always been about reconciliation.
And now that plan has come to its fruition with the coming of Jesus.
And this saving is done out of God’s love for his creation.
However, Jesus and God the Father share a unique form of love that guides and directs what Jesus does on earth.
john 5:20 “20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he is doing, and he will show him greater works than these so that you will be amazed.”
There is a perfect love, perfect relationship between the father and the son.
One pastor called it “Divine Delight”.
The Father Delights in the Son and the Son delights in the Father.
“All that Jesus does in anchored int he love of the Father, and love is the binding force of the unity in the…Trinity.”
The Greater works probably refers to greater works than the healing of the lame man and points forward to the next couple of verses.
What Greater works is Jesus going to perform?
He is going to have authority over life and Judgment.
He is going to be the way by which people are restored if they believe.
Jesus once again equates himself to God.
Jn 5:21 “21 And just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to whom he wants.”
Jesus here is saying that he has the power of life and death in his hands.
For the Jewish leaders they believed that only God “held the keys” to three things
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The Key of the Rain.
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The Key of the Womb.
III.
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