JESUS IS TESTIFIED TO (4 OF 32)
Scripture: John 5:19-43, John 5:45-47
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Jesus is Testified To (4 of 32)
Series: John
Patrick Edwards
John 5:19-47
Introduction
Last week we spent our time together in the first half of John 5 where we saw the first big clash between Jesus and the Jewish leaders of His day. More, though, than a clash between Jesus and the Jews, we saw that really it was a clash of the new life coming into the old. We watched Jesus encounter a man who had been lame for over three decades, who had little to no hope in life, who had become settled in his meaningless existence and in his sin. Jesus approached him though with the offer of true healing, a healing that was not only physical but spiritual.
You see, throughout John's Gospel over these past five months we've seen one reoccurring theme: that Jesus is a new Genesis. He is the beginning of all things made new. He is the one who brings meaning into what is meaningless; substance into what is empty; light into what is dark; life into what was dead; new into what was old. We've seen this at the wedding of Cana, in the Temple, in His conversation with Nicodemus, in the instruction of John the Baptist, in the scene with the Samaritan woman at the well, in the healing of the sick boy, and last week with the healing of the lame man on the Sabbath. Every scene of John's Gospel, every word in fact, has been featured with this specific truth in mind that Jesus is bring about new creation itself!
Now if anyone should have understood and recognized this, it should have been the Jews, God's own people, right? Those who had the trustworthy revelation of God, who knew of God's creation of the universe, who knew of God's redemption of His people, they should have been able to spot, you would think, this new creation and better redemption in front of them. And, yet, as we saw last week, most of the Jews did not. The religious leaders of the Jews, in fact, almost unanimously rejected what Jesus said and did. Why? Well as we began to see last week and as we see more f ...
Series: John
Patrick Edwards
John 5:19-47
Introduction
Last week we spent our time together in the first half of John 5 where we saw the first big clash between Jesus and the Jewish leaders of His day. More, though, than a clash between Jesus and the Jews, we saw that really it was a clash of the new life coming into the old. We watched Jesus encounter a man who had been lame for over three decades, who had little to no hope in life, who had become settled in his meaningless existence and in his sin. Jesus approached him though with the offer of true healing, a healing that was not only physical but spiritual.
You see, throughout John's Gospel over these past five months we've seen one reoccurring theme: that Jesus is a new Genesis. He is the beginning of all things made new. He is the one who brings meaning into what is meaningless; substance into what is empty; light into what is dark; life into what was dead; new into what was old. We've seen this at the wedding of Cana, in the Temple, in His conversation with Nicodemus, in the instruction of John the Baptist, in the scene with the Samaritan woman at the well, in the healing of the sick boy, and last week with the healing of the lame man on the Sabbath. Every scene of John's Gospel, every word in fact, has been featured with this specific truth in mind that Jesus is bring about new creation itself!
Now if anyone should have understood and recognized this, it should have been the Jews, God's own people, right? Those who had the trustworthy revelation of God, who knew of God's creation of the universe, who knew of God's redemption of His people, they should have been able to spot, you would think, this new creation and better redemption in front of them. And, yet, as we saw last week, most of the Jews did not. The religious leaders of the Jews, in fact, almost unanimously rejected what Jesus said and did. Why? Well as we began to see last week and as we see more f ...
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