Jesus is God (2)

David Jones

John 2021 • Sermon • Submitted 3 years ago

John 5:18–24

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Jesus Does What God Does

Because Jesus healed on the Sabbath, the Pharisees criticized Jesus for breaking the law. Jesus does something remarkable in response. First he emphasizes his response with “truly, truly”. Then He tells them that He only does what the Father does and that the Father reveals everything to Him.

Jesus does what God does in a like manner.

This is significant because Jesus can do what the Father does. This is a testimony to Jesus being God. There are no limitations with God, just as there are no limitations to Jesus. When we examine the things that Jesus did while he was on earth it demonstrates his deity.

And in the fourth watch of the night He came to them, walking on the sea. 26 When the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were terrified, and said, “It is a ghost!” And they cried out in fear. 27 But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, “Take courage, it is I; do not be afraid.” Matt. 14 :25-27

39 And He got up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Hush, be still.” And the wind died down and it became perfectly calm. Mark 4:39

He fed 4000 on one occasion and 5000 on another with only enough food to feed only one person with left overs.

Jesus cast out demons, cured disease, gave sight to the blind, cured the leper and many other things that only God can do.

Jesus proclaimed that the Sabbath was meant for man.

Basically Jesus was able to heal on the sabbath because it was the right thing to do, but also because He was God. Sabbath was created to give man rest and worship. Jesus did not need rest because he is God. Jesus did not need to worship because He is the object of worship.

God reveals everything to Jesus

John, Volumes 1 & 2 Like Father, like Son

It seems that Jesus is picturing his relationship with the Father in terms of an apprenticeship. Just as our Lord would have learned carpentry in the shop of his adopted father, Joseph—with Joseph entering young Jesus into his work, passing on the secrets of the trade, and honing his skills with careful attention—so God the Son learns all that the Father is doing through their working fellowship. C. H. Dodd describes how a son learns his craft: “He watches his father at work, and performs each operation as his father performs it. The affectionate father shows the boy all the secrets of his craft.” The Father shows all to the Son because he loves him. If a stranger came into your office and demanded that you present your business secrets, you would show him the door. But when a father is grooming his son to carry on his work, he opens all the files and shows him the entire business. Not that there is any ignorance or actual immaturity in God the Son—he has eternally been the almighty and all-competent Son—but rather that this speaks to Christ’s relationship with the Father.

One of our goals as parents is to bond with our children through our involvement with them and our training. It is not enough for us to discipline our children; we must also disciple them. Parents—especially fathers—should play with their children and allow the children to help them to do work. Not only do our children grow and learn things that they will need as adults, but we gain loving communion with them. Daughters gain confidence in their femininity through the attention and approval of their fathers, and sons gain a sense of purpose through the values and ideals that their fathers etch on their hearts. The perfect model for this is the communion within the Godhead. Jesus, having just begun his ministry, added that the Father’s investment in him was hardly over: “And greater works than these will he show him, so that you may marvel

God reveals the fullness of His will to Jesus because He knows the fulness of Jesus obedience to His will.

The life Jesus gives is true life of abundance.

10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and [a]have it abundantly. John 10:10

The life that I lived before Christ was no life at all. It was survival. Living only begins when you come into a relationship with Jesus Christ. William Barclay describes it best when he says: When we do that, we enter into three new relationships. (1) We enter into a new relationship with God. The judge becomes the father, the distant becomes the near, strangeness becomes intimacy and fear becomes love. (2) We enter into a new relationship with our neighbours. Hatred becomes love, selﬁshness becomes service and bitterness becomes forgiveness. (3) We enter into a new relationship with ourselves. Weakness becomes strength, frustration becomes achievement and tension becomes peace.

William Barclay, The Gospel of John, Rev. and updated., vol. 1, The New Daily Study Bible (Edinburgh: Saint Andrew Press, 2001), 222.

The things that were bringing and leading us to death in the flesh have been turned around.

Jesus radically changes who you are!

17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, [c]he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. 2 Cor. 5:17

He convicts you of sin that never bothered you before.

He creates new passions that are righteous and honoring to Him

You learn of a love that is unconditional.

You experience a liberation from strongholds in your life

You experience grace and mercy on a level that is incomparable.

Jesus awakens you from death

And you [a]were dead [b]in your trespasses and sins, 2 in which you formerly walked according to the [c]course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. 3 Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, [d]indulging the desires of the flesh and of the [e]mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us Eph. 2:1-4

You don’t realize the death you were living in until you experience the life Jesus gives. Life apart from Christ was hopelessness. All I had to live for was myself. No matter how hard I tried to be content I never had peace. It was only my relationship with Jesus that brought fulfillment to my soul. He is my satisfaction.

Life apart from Christ is death. Everything you do and desire will not bring the joy and peace you are looking for. It is only when you put Christ first in your life that you experience true life

Jesus Judges

All people will give an account of their life to Jesus

10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. 2 Cor. 5:10

Jesus tells the Pharisees that God has given all judgement to Jesus. This is because He judges the exact same as the Father.

John, Volumes 1 & 2 The Son Is Given Judgment

Jesus’ deity is proved by the fact that God has appointed him as Judge over all. Jesus said, “[For] the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son, that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him” (John 5:22–23). We may recall that John 3:17 stated that Jesus came “not … to condemn the world,” which causes some people to see a contradiction. But the point of that verse is that Jesus came to save a world that was already condemned. It does not rule out the truth that God has decreed that final judgment will take place before a throne on which his crucified and risen Son is seated as Judge. Revelation 20:12 shows the books of our lives being opened before the great white throne, with everyone judged “by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.” It also shows the “book of life,” in which are written the names of all those who belong to Christ through faith, whose sins are forgiven through his blood and who are granted entry into God’s eternal reign of glory.

When you stand before Jesus and the books are opened, what will be your response? Will it be a myriad of excuses of why you did what you did or will it be that you trusted in Jesus for the forgiveness of your sin?

Jesus Receives Honor

Jesus receives honor in the judgement. He judges as the Father judges because they are one. The fact that they are one brings Jesus honor. The Father has entrusted Jesus with the judgement because He knows Jesus will judge just as He would.

In the Judgment Jesus will receive honor.

10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Phil. 2:10-11

What matters in the judgement is the honor of Christ. He will receive honor is passing judgement on those who rejected Him as Saviour. This is because He is holy and must judge sin. By casting a person into the lake of fire he is manifesting his holiness. Does he want to do this? Absolutely not, but he must do this because in his holiness he must judge sin. Use court of law judge example.

Jesus receives honor by granting eternal life to those who received Him as Saviour. He receives honor because he demonstrates His power over sin and death for those who have repented and placed their faith in Jesus Christ.

God has given Jesus the authority to judge so He will receive honor as judge!

When you stand before Jesus, how will he receive honor in your life? Will it be by manifesting it in judgment or in victory over your sin by faith?

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