John 8:19-24
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Verse 19
“Where is Your Father?”
The people know of Joseph as Jesus’ earthly father. At this time, Joseph would have been dead.
The Pharisees were judging by human standards (ref. 8:15)/
Jesus rebukes: “You do not know me or my Father.” Jesus charged them with willful ignorance.
Knowing God means knowing Jesus.
Knowing Jesus means knowing God.
Jesus declared Himself to be the means of knowing God personally.
The rebuke had to sting a little: The Pharisees were great about thinking they know God. They were ignorant of God because they were unacquainted with Jesus.
Are you acquainted with Jesus?
Verse 20
Still teaching in the temple, the Pharisees were infuriated to have Jesus teaching in their prized place.
Where are some areas in our churches today that there are things forbidden?
Don’t turn that up too loud
No drinks in the sanctuary
Amos highlights a similar thought:
Amos 7:
Then Amaziah said to Amos, “Get out, you seer! Go back to the land of Judah. Earn your bread there and do your prophesying there. Don’t prophesy anymore at Bethel, because this is the king’s sanctuary and the temple of the kingdom.”
“Yet no one seized Him.”
This restraint reminds us that God can set the boundaries to the wrath of men just as He does to the waves of the sea.”
Therefore, in the way of duty, when we are called to carry our His tasks, let us not be afraid or fear as we face danger.
“His hour had not yet come.”
This is the 3rd of 9 references in John to the hour/time had not yet come.
(2:4; 7:30; 8:20; 12:23; 12:27 twice; 13:1; 16:32; 17:1)
Verse 21
The departure of Christ (a repeat of 7:33-34)
It is on His and His Father’s terms.
“I am going away.” When Christ departs, the glory is gone and the salvation is done.
“You will look for me.”
Romans
but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it. Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the “stumbling stone.”
Mankind has sought true peace since the existence of time. True peace can only come through Jesus.
“You will die in your sin.”
The one sin of rejecting Jesus will determine our eternal fate.
“To reject Jesus, refusing to believe He is God’s Son who died for our sins, is the sin which forfeits eternal life and leads to death and eternal condemnation.”
But if you do warn the wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his evil ways, he will die for his sin; but you will have saved yourself.
But if you do warn the wicked man to turn from his ways and he does not do so, he will die for his sin, but you will have saved yourself.
“Where I go you cannot come.”
To reject the Son means to reject the Father; if one rejects the Son, he or she cannot go into the Father’s Presence on the last day.
To die unforgiven in our unbelief is the greatest horror I can imagine.
This warning is expanded on in verse 24.
Those that leave this world and are unforgiven with their belief, will have no relief.
The youthful vigor that fills his bones
will lie with him in the dust.
Ezekiel
Do they not lie with the other uncircumcised warriors who have fallen, who went down to the grave with their weapons of war, whose swords were placed under their heads? The punishment for their sins rested on their bones, though the terror of these warriors had stalked through the land of the living.
Dr. J. W. McGorman analogy
“Where I go, you cannot come.”
Jesus left this world and went to Paradise. He took a thief with Him- that did not die in his sins showing that only those who are sanctified can go where Jesus goes.
Jesus is saying to these: you cannot come.
“Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.
When we go to heaven, we will be out of the reach of our enemies.
Verse 22
The questioning: the Pharisees did not understand.
They wondered if Jesus would commit suicide. This is a grievous sin in the Jewish eyes, but if it was one that took place in the defeat of battle, it was regarded as one more noble than that of being captured and brought into slavery.
They asked if He was going to commit suicide yet they had already planned to kill Him (7:1)/
They are making a mockery of Jesus’ life.
So then, the word of the Lord to them will become:
Do and do, do and do,
rule on rule, rule on rule;
a little here, a little there—
so that they will go and fall backward,
be injured and snared and captured.
Notice the malice here. Malice is the desire to harm others or see others suffer. As it grows, notice how malicious it becomes.
Verse 23
This is commentary on verse 21.
“How can you come to where I am with your spirit and disposition so contrary to mine?”
The Spirit of Jesus was not/is not of this world.
He was dead to the wealth of the world
He was dead to the ease of the body
He was dead to the praise of man
He was wholly devoted to the DIVINE and HEAVENLY THINGS
The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
Notice the phrase there “to God.” It shows purpose, it shows direction, it shows reason.
Verse 24
Repeat of verse 21 and here says it emphatically again.
The claim of Jesus is a real deal with real effects.
Mark 1:22
The people were amazed at his teaching, because he taught them as one who had authority, not as the teachers of the law.
Belief=saved
Unbelief=damnation
Only those who believe in the name of Jesus can be saved
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
“Believers die in Christ, in His love, in His arms, and so are save from dying in their sins.” Matthew Henry