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Introduction
Discipling people to Christ is difficult.
We see that Jesus even had a difficult time with mixed results.
In discipling people to Christ we must seek to offer clarity out of the confusion that this world offers.
This clarity will lead some to conversion and others to be confounded and even disillusioned.
Regardless of their reaction, we must never deviate from the message of Christ finished work on the cross leading to His finished work He has begun in all those who believe.
Clarity in Confusion
A. Is He Christ?
B. Where is He from?
What took them by surprise was the public nature of his proclamation, even in the face of such a threat.
Servant’s Songs in Isa.
Servant’s Songs in Isa.
A possible explanation suggests itself: perhaps (the Gk. interrogative participle mēpote indicates a tentative question: cf.
M. 1. 192–193) the authorities themselves have weighed the evidence, perhaps even know of fresh evidence, concluding, at least in private, that Jesus really is the Christ, the Messiah (cf.
notes on 1:41).
In John’s Gospel, this is the first time such a possibility has been articulated in Jerusalem.
B. Where is He from?
Irony in the book of John is amazing!
Non of these people know where Christ is from, they just know that He grew up in Nazareth and His family is living in Capernaum.
They are unaware of His Bethlehem birth and could really care less because they are stuck on a lie that no one should know where He is from.
C. From the confusion and convergence of differing thoughts, Jesus speaks clarity into the situation:
Jn. 7:27
—If we will listen to the Lord, we will find clarity and grounding in His gospel.
—Who and where?
—From God: unknown by the religious who are asking.
—Jesus both knows the Father and He is from the Father.
Allow the WORD to speak clarity in all situations.
So often we feel like we are the one that needs to clear up problems or our intellect should be the convincer.
But the Spirit of God through the Word of God is the convincer of hearts.
In discipling people to Christ we must seek to offer clarity out of the confusion that this world offers.
This clarity will lead some to conversion and others to be confounded and even disillusioned.
Regardless of their reaction, we must never deviate from the message of Christ finished work on the cross leading to His finished work He has begun in all those who believe.
Converted and Confounded
jn:
A. Some sought to grab Him, but Christ was not ready.
B. Many were converted, seeing the miracles.
C. Officers were sent to silence and grab Him.
When the Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about Jesus, they became alarmed.
They did not even want people to speak of Jesus (v.
13); yet here some were quietly suggesting that He might be the Messiah.
The Pharisees were so distressed by the popularity of Jesus that they joined forces with their archrivals the Sadducees.
Though the two groups historically were at opposite ends of the theological spectrum, the mutual hatred they felt for Jesus drove them together (cf.
v. 45; 11:47, 57; 18:3; Matt.
21:45–46; 27:62).
Rarely is reaching people easy.
Jesus reaching out was Him talking with people and proclaiming truth.
There were detractors, but there were also converts.
I surrender all.
In discipling people to Christ we must seek to offer clarity out of the confusion that this world offers.
This clarity will lead some to conversion and others to be confounded and even disillusioned.
Regardless of their reaction, we must never deviate from the message of Christ finished work on the cross leading to His finished work He has begun in all those who believe.
Completed Work Foretold
John 7:33-
Good writer that he is, the Evangelist, knowing how to build up suspense, refuses to tell us the outcome of the guards’ mission right away (cf.
vv.
45ff.).
Instead he tells us what Jesus is saying and doing at the same moment the guards are seeking an appropriate time to arrest him, a time that will cause minimum commotion in a crowded city bursting with messianic expectations.
Hearing of the official warrant (the Gk. of v. 33 opens with a ‘therefore’), Jesus speaks of his imminent departure in words that are clear to any reader (especially after the entire book has been read at least once).
Jesus is not just foretelling of His death but His ultimate ascension.
In discipling people to Christ we must seek to offer clarity out of the confusion that this world offers.
This clarity will lead some to conversion and others to be confounded and even disillusioned.
Regardless of their reaction, we must never deviate from the message of Christ finished work on the cross leading to His finished work He has begun in all those who believe.
John 7:
Once again the ‘Johannine irony’ is very thickly laid on.
Not only will serious readers of this Gospel remember that within six months the question of visiting proselytes will signal for Jesus the onset of the last ‘hour’ (12:20ff.),
but that after the cross, resurrection and ascension the truth of the gospel Jesus proclaimed would in fact be spread in Jewish and Gentile circles throughout the Roman Empire and beyond.
Without believing Christ, His good work has not been begun in you.
Upon believing Him, His Spirit seals you () and Sanctifies you for the glory of the Father.
In discipling people to Christ we must seek to offer clarity out of the confusion that this world offers.
This clarity will lead some to conversion and others to be confounded and even disillusioned.
Regardless of their reaction, we must never deviate from the message of Christ finished work on the cross leading to His finished work He has begun in all those who believe.
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