05-27-2018 – Rejected and Accused of Blasphemy, Jesus Departs
05-27-2018
Rejected and Accused of Blasphemy, Jesus Departs
John 10:22-42
“Rejected and Accused of Blasphemy, Jesus Departs.”
Read John 10:22-24... The Feast of Dedication, known today as Hanukkah or Feast of Lights, takes place on the 25th of Chislev (Nov.-Dec).
Read John 10:25-31... Evidently these Jews weren’t paying attention in John 5:17; 8:12, 24, 58.
Jesus is God in human flesh, giving His life as payment for our sins (see 2Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 9:26b).
To those who genuinely belong to God through Christ, being born of the Spirit of God (John 1:12-13), “...to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God...” “...born of God.”
Those who belong to Christ have eternal life (John 11:25-26), “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in Me will never die.”
Jesus states His own equality with the Father; the Jews pick up stones to throw at Him.
Read John 10:32-33... The Jews are unwilling to believe Jesus is God in the flesh, the One who came to die for our sins (see John 1:1-4, 14, 18).
Mark 10:45, “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many."
Hebrews 9:26, “He [Christ] has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself.”
Hebrews 10:10, “We have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”
Read John10:34-38... This is, at first reading, a difficult teaching, that God would call Israel’s corrupt judges gods.
Psalm 82:1-2, “A psalm of Asaph. God presides in the great assembly; He gives judgment among the ‘gods’: ‘How long will you defend the unjust and show partiality to the wicked?’” 6-7, “I said, 'You are "gods"; you are all sons of the Most High.' But you will die like mere men; you will fall like every other ruler."
Verse 35... God called these wicked judges “gods”, although they were just sinful men. So shouldn’t the One sent by the Father, to save us, be called the Son of God?
Jesus appeals to the Jews, but they are so spiritually blind they cannot recognize His works as the works of God; (verse 38) even if they don’t believe Him, they should believe the miracles themselves and come to the conclusion that the Father is in Jesus and He is in the Father, for (verse 30) “He and the Father are one.”
Read John 10:39-42... These hardhearted Jews don’t want to believe in Jesus, they want to arrest Him and bring Him to the Sanhedrin, but He escapes their grasp [cf. John 7:30; 8:20, “His time had not yet come”].
Jesus departs Jerusalem and goes back across the Jordan, where John baptized Him [John 1:28, Bethany, “beyond the Jordan]. While there, many people comets Him saying, everything John said about Him is true.
Note: Although John performed no miracles, the people considered him to be a prophet from God and a true witness of the Messiah (see John 1:29-33).
Like the time of Christ, today most people reject Him, only those who come to Him believing, repenting of sin, will be granted forgiveness for sins, eternal life and (John 1:12),“the right to become children of God.”
John 7:17, “If anyone chooses to do God's will, he will find out whether My teaching comes from God or whether I speak on My own.”
John 6:28-29, They asked Him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?" 29, Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one He has sent."
John 8:24, “I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am [the one I claim to be].”
John 20:31, “These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.”