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Is Jesus the Messiah?
Part 2
Intro
Who is Jesus?
You’ve probably heard me say that this is the most important question that you will ever be asked.
And it’s true.
The way you answer the question about who Jesus is will determine how you live your life and where you’re going after this life is over.
So who is Jesus?
What are the options?
Jesus was a good man.
Jesus was a good moral teacher.
Jesus was delusional.
Jesus never existed or was made up to control the masses.
Jesus is a prophet.
Jesus is Michael the Archangel.
These are all answers that people give when people are asked who is Jesus.
But all those answers fall short of who Jesus truly is.
And unfortunately there are those that come to church and sit in Sunday School classes who also answer these questions wrongly.
If we get Jesus Wrong, we get the gospel wrong.
If we get the gospel wrong we have no hope.
So how do we find out who Jesus is, well we read his word.
We study about him.
We go to the source of how God chose to reveal himself the Bible.
Jesus will tell us who he is.
And the Gospel of John is keen on showing us who Jesus is and what he came to do.
Last week we briefly looked at Jesus’ interactions with his brothers.
They didn’t believe he was the messiah.
And they challenged him by saying if he is who he claims to be then he should go to the Festival of Tabernacles and reveal himself to the people there.
But Jesus isn’t going to be coerced by his brothers into doing their will instead of his Father’s will.
He is on a divine time table and he reveals himself to the people as He and the Father see fit.
So even though Jesus’ brothers urge him to go to the festival, Jesus hangs back and doesn’t go.
Then we read in the next couple of verses.
Jesus as the Festival
So this can cause and issue with some people.
Did Jesus lie about going up to the festival?
I know that we were studying this with a group of men one morning and that was a question that was asked.
Did Jesus intend on going to the festival or not?
We can definitively say that Jesus did not lie to his brothers?
He was waiting on confirmation from the Father that he could go to the festival.
He was not going to go to the festival in the same way that his brothers wanted him to go.
He wasn’t going to gain attention or to make a spectacle of himself.
Rather, John tells us that Jesus went “secretly”
This was probably so that he could have some private time of Worship and reflection.
But the Jews, or those that opposed Jesus were looking for him.
They expected that he would come to the Festival.
They were keeping an eye out for him.
Then in v. 12 we are introduced to another group of people that were curious about Jesus.
The crowd.
There was a lot of murmuring, whispering, and grumbling about Jesus at the Festival of Tabernacles.
Jesus’ works and teachings were creating quite a stir in Jerusalem.
And the people couldn’t come up with a consensus on how to think about Jesus.
Just look at the disperity between the people in the crowd.
Some said “He’s A good man.”
others said “He is deceiving the people.”
Without even looking honestly at Jesus they are making assumptions about who he is and what he is doing.
When the ones in the crowd say that he is deceiving people this is a serious charge.
They are saying that he is a false teacher and a Messianic pretender.
You see before, during, and even after Jesus’ ministry there were charismatic men who claimed to be the promised Savior.
We read about some in the book of Acts.
And here’s the thing, if Jesus was a false prophet or teacher under the Law of Moses he had to be put to death.
Deut 13:1-11 explicitly states that is someone rises themselves up and claims to be sent by God and they prove to be false they must be put to death.
That’s exactly how some of the crowd viewed him as a false teacher.
But this murmuring about Jesus was private.
None of the crowd wanted to talk too publically about Jesus b/c they were afraid of the Jews.
So whether they thought he was good.
Or they thought he was bad, they hid their feelings about him b/c of pressure from those who out rightly opposed Jesus.
No one wanted to take a stand on what they believed about Jesus b/c they were afraid of the consequences.
Jesus begins this feast by worshipping in private, but he is about to open himself up to the people gathered at the festival by teaching.
Jesus’ Divine Instruction
Halfway through the festival Jesus goes to the temple.
He begins to teach.
Think about the scene for a second.
Imagine we’re having a celebration here and then some random guy gets up and tries to teach you on the things of God.
Not only that, but there are rumors going around town that this man is either a good man or deceiving people.
He is opposed by the leadership in the community, but he’s also been seen doing some good things in the community.
And all of a sudden he gets up and starts teaching.
That would probably be a little shocking.
Well this is essentially what Jesus did.
He gets up and teaches and people are amazed by what he said.
They are even more amazed b/c Jesus hasn’t been trained in the ways they would have expected.
Jesus’ teaching was puzzling to those listening.
He had no formal training.
He didn’t have the degrees.
He hadn’t spent the time learning from the revered teachers of the day.
We read in Matt 7:28 “28 When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were astonished at his teaching,”
MK 1:22 “22 They were astonished at his teaching because he was teaching them as one who had authority, and not like the scribes.”
Luke 4:32 “32 They were astonished at his teaching because his message had authority.”
In First Century Judaism, anyone who wanted to teach the word of God had to have attached themselves to a Rabbi.
Rabbi’s are somewhat but not exactly equivalent to pastors today.
Disciples would attach themselves to these Rabbis and learn from them, but the mark of a true disciple would be that they would only reiterate and teach what they had learned from their Rabbi.
The rabbinic method of learning was by recitation of the opinions of the teachers of the law (their authorities).
When one was sufficiently knowledgeable of past opinions (precedents), then one might dare to express one’s own opinions on issues.
But Jesus didn’t bring opinions he had learned.
He spoke with authority unmatched by the other rabbis and their disciples.
And Jesus reveals why his teaching carries authority.
It carries authority b/c it comes directly from God.
Rather than riffing on opinions when studying scripture.
He’s not citing Rabbinic opinions.
He is speaking truth.
Truth from the Mouth of God
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