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Last week we started our study in John 5:25-30.
I encourage you to open your bibles there this morning.
As we have been working through John 5, we have Jesus responding to his critics with some important teaching.
We know it is important because he begins his teaching points with “Very truly I tell you.”
In the original Greek in which John wrote his Gospel, it is “Ἀμὴν ἀμήν λέγω ὑμῖν,” ‘Truly, truly,’ or ‘Most assuredly’ I tell you.
It is important, and he wants us to hear and learn.
The first point he was making is that the Son is God just as the Father is God.
What the Father does, the Son does.
They work in complete unity.
The second point is that whoever hears the message of the Son and believes the Father (because to hear the Son is the Hear the Father, and to believe the Father is to believe the Son) HAS eternal life.
Not might have.
Not in the future will have.
Rather, right now, has eternal life.
Eternal life is knowing God the Father and the Son, and being in relationship with them for all eternity starting now.
They will not be condemned at the final judgment.
They have crossed over from death to life.
Done.
A very important point.
The third point he is making we started looking at last week.
This point is summed up in verse 25.
A time is coming - something in the future.
And has now come - something right now in the present.
What is coming in the future, and is happening right now?
The dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live.
Last week we looked at the aspect of the Resurrection that is happening right now.
Right now, Jesus is wanting to give life to those who are dead in sin.
Sin is anything that is contrary to the character and standards of God.
Every thought, word and deed that is contrary to God’s character and righteous standard is sin.
We looked at the scriptures and saw that we all are born as sinful human beings.
We go on and continue to sin.
We saw from James how sin starts as a something we desire.
Then, when we give into that desire, we sin, and are enslaved to that sin.
And then sin leads to death.
I shared last week how we only tend to use the word ‘sin’ in church or bible study.
The word that we use in our everyday language which James describes as being ‘dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed’ is the word “Addiction.”
What the Bible described in this way so long ago, our society has hijacked.
They have taken this description of sin, and said that we are not responsible for our behaviors because we are being dragged away by some ‘addiction’.
It’s not my fault!
I am addicted!
This is the lie of Satan to pull us away from the truth of God’s word.
This is the lie that keeps so many from finding the true cure for these sinful, addictive behaviors.
Because when it isn’t my fault, when it isn’t a matter of sin, people no longer need the Savior.
The truth is, the root of the sin, the root of the addictive behavior is our own evil desires.
We are ultimately responsible.
When we by into the lie of the world, our own flesh and the devil that it is not our fault, we miss out on the only cure, our Savior!
Instead of saying, “Wow!
God describes me!
That is me!
I have desires that I give into, and then I feel like a slave to that behavior!
I am a sinner!
I need a savior!”, they say, “I need a pill and rehab.”
Pills and rehab may help to suppress a behavior, and temporarily remove us from the situations in which we are tempted, but they are not a cure for the sin that underlies the behavior.
No, the cure for sin, the cure for our addictive sinful behaviors, that cure is found in Jesus.
Our society wants us to think that the cure is going to come through some drug or rehab.
Unfortunately, that is why people go through rehab 6, 7, 8, 9, 10… times.
They do not find a cure.
The problem is they are not treating the root of the sin.
Our own evil desires that lie at the root of the sin.
Those desires which need to be crucified with Christ, and replaced with Him and His desires.
The cure for sin is only found in Jesus, the one who can give life to those who are spiritually dead in sin.
The Son has life.
He is not created.
And, he is the author of Life.
He has the ability to give life to us now.
He will raise us up out of our sin, and give us eternal life when we believe in Him.
That is the Theology of Resurrection that brings Hope to us today!
We do not have to live in addiction to our sinful desires and addictive behaviors.
We do not need to stay in that same old rut.
We need to confess those sinful desires to Jesus.
We need to come to him for salvation in His name.
We need Him to renew our minds and remake us in His image.
He is the one who can give us life!
The Resurrection that brings true Hope has now come to those dead who hear the voice of the Son of God and listen!
That is what Jesus was talking about when He said a time has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son and God and those who hear will live.
Now, we will look at the aspect of the resurrection that is yet to come.
We see this in verses 27-30.
Notice that this section has bookends in 27 and 30.
What do verses 27 and 30 have in common?
Both verses speak of the Son judging.
Jesus is warning those who are opposing him of the judgment to come.
Let’s break this down and work through it.
Okay, we need to make sure we understand who is doing what here.
Who is the ‘he’ that has given whom, the ‘him’, authority to judge?
We can see from the context.
Look back at verse 26.
‘He’ is the Father.
‘Him’ is the Son.
The Father has given the Son authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.
Why is that a reason?
What does it mean that ‘he is the Son of Man?’
Son of Man
Remember who the audience is.
Jesus is speaking to the Jewish religious leaders, the Pharisees who have studied the Bible.
They know the scriptures they had at that point, what we call the Old Testament today.
In the Old Testament, Daniel was a prophet who spoke much about God’s plan for the future.
In Daniel 7, Daniel speaks of the coming Messiah, the Chosen One who was going to come and establish God’s Kingdom.
Now, while I would love to just study through Daniel 7 with you right now, I think it best to stay on target with answering our question from John 5:27.
Why does Jesus say, Son of Man?
The answer is in Daniel 7:13.
Let’s read just a little bit of the context… Daniel has seen a vision of the kingdoms of the world from the Babylonian Empire on.
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