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Introduction
Opening Illustration - Glasses and me have been constant companions since first grade.
We are long time friends!
I remember...
In order to see the hand of God working, you need to put on your Joy Goggles!
This life is hard and if we don’t have the right perspective, we can easily misinterpret the world around us!
That is exactly what Jesus is trying to do for His disciples in our passage today.
They still are fuzzy on what is about to happen.
All they know is Jesus keeps telling them He is going away and they just don’t understand!
The thought of losing their mentor, rabbi and friend is devastating them and they’re not sure what to do! Sorrow is beginning to take it’s toll and overwhelm them...
Main Idea - Only Jesus Can Bring True Joy from Our Sorrow
Transition -
Point 1.
1. Jesus’ Ways Can be Confusing (vs.
16-18)
Have you ever been in a conversation that you were completely lost?
Just not understanding what the person who is talking is saying?
I have, and of course, my pride often keeps me from admitting to them that I have no idea what they are talking about.
I just keep nodding in agreement as if I had a clue what they were talking about.
I was really good at this with my Algebra teacher!
Unfortunately, my test scores would eventually reveal the truth about my comprehension of the material.
Well, the disciples, I suspect, are having a similar time with what the Lord has been communicating to them.
Look at the text with me...
Explain -
Well, the disciples, I suspect, are having a similar time with what the Lord has been communicating to them.
Vs. 16 - The reality is that within hours, the Lord will be arrested, tried (illegally in the middle of the night by the way), hung on a cross and buried in a borrowed tomb.
And His disciples will no longer see Him.
But, on the third day, they will see Him as the resurrected Christ!
These words, made perfect sense to the Lord, but they confused His disciples.
They couldn’t figure out what he was saying!
In fact, John records for us that they basically repeated His words to each other and, with a shrug said something to the effect of “what in the world is he talking about?”
He was speaking “algebra” to them!
They simply didn’t understand.
Remember from the prior passage, Jesus told them that their sorrow at the thought of losing Him was clouding the greater purposes of His departure...
They didn’t understand about the crucifixion, the death and burial of Christ.
And they certainly couldn’t conceive of the Resurrection.
This was a big confusing mess from their perspective.
But from Jesus’ perspective, this was the plan the Father laid forth from before the beginning of time…before the foundations of the earth.
This was the culmination of His purpose.
This is why Jesus came.
They were looking through the wrong goggles.
They were looking through the lens of self and they just couldn’t see clearly at all!
Illustrate - I really hate getting new glasses...
Apply - Folks, Jesus was giving the disciples and entirely differently lens to look through.
A lens that would enable them to see things more clearly than they ever had before in their lives.
The concept of the resurrection should not have been a new concept for them.
Job
It is far easier, it seems, to see these things in light of the reality of the resurrection that the disciples could pre-resurrection.
It is far easier, it seems, to see these things in light of the reality of the resurrection that the disciples could pre-resurrection.
Thought were still fuzzy and confusing.
Things were not clear!
They were looking at the situation and trying to figure out how this affected them individually.
They were devastated at the reality of their future loss, they failed to see that God had a much bigger purpose and plan for the loss of their friend and teacher.
After all, He was their Savior.
And in order to save, He must first lay down His life!
Don’t we do the same thing?
When life’s realities begin to hit us and hit us hard, isn’t it interesting that the immediate thing we tend to think of is, “how does this affect me?”
It was their deep sorrow at the thought of losing their mentor, they friend, their Rabbi that clouded their thinking to God’s bigger, more glorious purposes.
Does that ever happen to you?
It happened to Joni Erickson Tada...
What are you going through right now?
What is causing you confusion?
What circumstance are you wrestling with that is tempting you to look within instead of seeing God bigger plan?
What circumstance, what sin of selfishness is stealing your joy?
Review - Only Jesus can bring true joy from our sorrow...
Jesus’ ways can be confusing...
2. Jesus’ Words Should be Liberating (vs.
19-22)
Jesus’ earnest desire is to comfort His friends in what will become one of their darkest hours.
Side note: isn’t interesting that comforting His friends is His goal for them while His darkest hour looms over Him (when the Father will pour His wrath on the innocent Son for the sins of the guilty world)?
This is our Savior!
More concerned about others than Himself.
And so, He works very hard in the next few verses to speak as plainly, frankly and lovingly as He can...
Explain - Jesus knew they were struggling with all he was throwing at them.
As He was listening to them He could hear their confusion, He could sense their dismay!
And so He launches into His famous, listen up phrases, “Truly, Truly, I say to you...” And he throws several truth bombs on them.
Truth that will help them see past there immediate circumstances so they can see the joy that is waiting for them.
And if we listen carefully, there is help for us here this morning as well.
Truth #1 - You will be devastated because death devastates - I have been around a lot of death lately from watching the vet put our beloved dog tucker down, to my cousin’s murder/suicide, to my former 36 year old neighbor’s suicide this past week to saying goodbye to Carrie Searles Uncle Frank this past week, I can tell you first hand, death is awful!
It is devastating to see someone’s life on this earth come to an end.
It has a profound affect on so many people!
Perhaps the hardest part about death is it’s finality.
Before my dad died four years ago I could call him up when I had a question about building or fixing something.
He would talk me through a solution or come over and help me figure it out.
I can’t call him anymore.
He’s no longer around to bounce things off of?
His death is devastatingly final and no matter how much I wish he were here, he is not and he will not ever be in this life.
Jesus was preparing His disciples for His death.
This brutal event that was just hours away.
Jesus would be taken, beaten beyond recognition, flogged, spat upon, mocked and eventually hung on a wooden cross with nails piercing His hands and feet!
He didn’t just die, He was killed in the most gruesome and painful ways imaginable.
The kicker of His death is he didn’t deserve it.
He was innocent of any crime, any sin, He was sinless and perfect.
Why was He killed?
Well the Jews had their reasons and the Romans had their reasons but what really matters is God’s reason for killing His Son.
Listen to the prophet Isaiah...
Isa 53
Some 700 years before the brutal event, Isaiah tell His readers what will take place in order to placate God’s anger agains them and give them the possibility for redemption.
The disciples would live through what Isaiah said would happen.
And it would be grievous, gruesome and devastating.
Because death is devastating!
Especially the death of God’s Son!
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