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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:
“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
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.”
“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.
Ezekiel
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.
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.
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
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
Belief=saved
Unbelief=damnation
Only those who believe in the name of Jesus can be saved
“Believers die in Christ, in His love, in His arms, and so are save from dying in their sins.”
Matthew Henry
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