Sermon Tone Analysis

So we are in John chapter 10.

This morning, we are in route to the 21st verse.

So, we're halfway through and we are well into Jesus Ministry in this point of the book.

Well, into Jesus ministry, it's been, it's been a few trips back and forth is Jesus going up to Jerusalem, and then gone to Galilee and back and forth.

And Jesus has perform several Miracles, all around and especially at Jerusalem, he performed at least two Miracles that Jerusalem itself with Tony jurusan and I'm getting confused by some of the amazing.

Miracle is a healing.

A disabled man who can walk not healing.

A man who was born blind to couldn't save and feeding 5000 people.

In the wilderness, feeding the multitude in the wilderness But Jesus has been butting heads with the religious a late.

He's had his popularity grow and Wayne depending on his teaching with her know people are liking what he's saying and Jesus has proclaimed time and time again.

How he is the Fulfillment of Prophecy fulfillment of what they were expecting from the Old Testament.

It was the expected Christ.

And I don't know if you've noticed, but each Sunday that we've been working on the title of the salmon has, had, has been the Fulfillment of something.

It is been something about Jesus, identity, that is revealed in the passage and this week.

Something that's a revealed about the identity of Jesus.

That he's a Son of God, the son of God,

Last week, it was the Good Shepherd.

Jesus is the Good Shepherd of the flock, which is the church and he lies down his life to secure the flock and this passage it flows on from that it's going to rain in that the audio Shepherds and flocks continues on but it's a different time.

It's a different occasion to the previous Passage.

And it gives way to one of the most important things that Jones, golf ball has to tell us and that is Jesus, and the father are one, they United.

And it's a crazy thing for a human being to say, but Jesus bring the receipts, he can pick up his claim and back it up.

It's all going to work out way through this.

Interesting passage.

But I have to warn you.

We going to run up against two contentious doctrines in one morning in one morning.

That be afraid of the word Doctrine.

It just means teaching.

Its teaching we going to run up against these two teachings.

It's a lie is a Biblical things.

We want to have good doctor and we want to know what Jesus has to teach us.

And so we're going to look at this passage.

And when you say you what I've summarized is three notches and two responses, three notches and two responses The first nature that Jay-Z talks about is the nature of his, of the known shape.

The non shape, the shape that don't belong to Jesus, or the little ones, who I'm part of his flock.

Jesus, addresses, his opponents.

Let's, let's look at the setting and we'll see what people are saying.

And I'm using the ESV today because it's just better for this passage How sorry, going to look from this 22.

And shine, if I could just call on you to take over there.

We looking at vest 22 in the engine 10 at that time, the Feast of dedication took place at Jerusalem, it was Winter and Jesus was walking in the temple in The Colonnade of Solomon said, the Jews gathered around him and said, how long will you keep us in suspense?

If you would have crossed tell us plainly?

So, so Jace is being up at the Tabernacle.

She's been up at the top Feast of Tabernacles, and now he's back for the face of dedication is faces.

And one of the big face that you might remember from the Torah, the first five books of the Bible, the Feast of dedication is something different.

It's something that the Jews in the lighter.

After their Exile.

After the maccabean wars, they have this face with a. Remember the rededication of the temple because Antiochus epiphanes, 4th is not going to be a test.

I don't expect you remember his name but Antiochus epiphanes, the fourth had desecrated God's Temple and then they had rededicated attempt and I had a yearly celebration in at the end of the year, to remember the rededication of the temple, and thank God and you might know it by its name, Annika.

So Jesus is up at the temple for this celebration.

End.

He's is there, he's hanging out in the covered areas around the temple.

There was an area code Solomon's Colonnade and these are he's made a deal spots to congregate to take a note.

This is long before the days of public holes like we have here that we meeting in today or pox or other kind of public spaces.

So for the Jewish people whose faith in life was so centered around the temple.

Public space was basically the bit around the temple where they could meet could have classes get together.

The Jesus hanging out that he's probably teaching a crowd of people who want to hear what he has to say.

At the very least, he's probably taking his disciples and some Jews come along and they want to know.

Are you the Christ?

Stop.

Keeping me in suspense.

And now, every time Jesus is come to the temple, this being some commotion or controversy, whether it was driving out the money changers, 00 healing a man on the Sabbath.

Or it was saying something that just really annoyed people offended answer.

That was sick of the dancing around the subject.

In their minds, they asked point-blank they want to get the answer straight, are you the Messiah?

We've been waiting for How does Jesus answer this question in the next verse?

Jesus answered them.

I told you and you do not believe the works that I do in my father's name bear.

Witness about me.

But you do not believe because you are not among my shape.

So basically Jesus is correcting a misconception.

He's already been telling them.

I told you already, he's been telling them for ages every time.

Jesus is recorded interacting with people in John.

He's proving his point that he's the Messiah it's he's told them time and time again.

And now, it's not like, the, the cliche wife who's been dropping hints about what she wanted for her birthday, and then when she didn't get what she wanted, she is upset.

And the husband's just oblivious cuz he didn't pick up any of the hints.

This isn't Jesus dropping kind of subtle hints and hoping that they'll pick it up.

Jesus has been very deliberate in the Y that has communicated who he is

Jesus has told them again and again.

but not only, as Jesus told them, he's showing them he's charging them with with signs like opening the eyes of the blind which is only something that God does like feeding the multitude with bread from heaven like I did in the Exodus like making the lame walk bringing forth the new wine of the Messianic age But there's a deeper problem, he even though Jesus has called them, even though Jesus has shown them, the signs.

They do not believe because they are not part of Jesus.

Flock, you do not believe because you are not my shape.

There is a link between belief and belonging to Jesus.

And this is that first doctor in that causes people Constitution.

It's right here and it's West a bit more in the next part of the passage that we have to deal with.

This is Jesus presence, it, you do not believe because you're not part of my shape.

Even though his words and his works are there.

Plain, as day, the Jews cannot believe because they are not Jesus shape.

They're not part of the flock.

This is not something that they have control over at the end of the day.

They are excluded.

And this might affect your attitude to thinking about the world and end especially about thinking that evangelism you want to think.

Well, if there are people that I made to a, not part of Jesus flock and never will be why evangelize them.

He's the thing, Jesus knows.

But you don't, you're not Jesus.

You don't know who's part of his flock or who will become part of his flock, so to speak.

You don't know.

You do know it.

What God has told you to do, which is to go into all the world and proclaim, the gospel, teaching them, to obey, all that Jesus has commanded us.

Jesus has told us what to do.

We go into the world and we do what he's told us to do.

Proclaiming that good news.