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liberty bible church 8~/17~/08 a.M.
By Tom Zobrist
“why isn’t the world christian?”
John 7:40-52
introduction
Illus. of “Helping Hand” A priest is walking down the street one day when he notices a very small boy trying to press a doorbell on a house across the street.
However, the boy is very small and the doorbell is too high for him to reach.
\\ After watching the boy’s efforts for some time, the priest moves closer to the boy's position.
He steps smartly across the street, walks up behind the little fellow and, placing his hand kindly on the child's shoulder leans over and gives the doorbell a solid ring.
Crouching down to the child's level, the priest smiles benevolently and asks, "And now what, my little man?"
To which the boy replies, "Now we run!"
If the priest would run, this certainly would be a poor testimony.
Many times, people say they don’t want to be a Christian because the church is full of hypocrites.
I’m not disputing that.
What I do think is that many times this is not the real reason.
If Christianity is true, then why do the majority of the people on the planet reject it?
Is it just because Christians are bad testimonies, or is there more to it?
Why isn’t the world Christian?
Why do so many reject the message of the Gospel?
OPEN to the passage.
*Prop.
*In this passage, we see why many reject Christ and His message of salvation.
Open in PRAYER.
PREVIEW the passage.
We’re in the middle of a confrontation between Jesus and the religious leaders at the Feast Tabernacles, about six months prior to His crucifixion.
The crowds are confused over who He is or how they should react to Him.
In these events, we see why many reject Christ.
First, they reject Him because…
i.
THE MESSAGE OF JESUS causes separation vs. 40-44
Illus. of the response the article about COCUSA got this summer.
Many positive, some negative.
What’s interesting is that the author covered a Jewish camp before and got zero responses.
Why so many for COCUSA?
Because the message of Jesus is so divisive.
It separates people.
Let’s look first at…
a.
Differing Opinions about Jesus
V 40a 1.
Cf. 37-38 and explain.
V 40b 2.
This refers to the future prophet mentioned by Moses in Deut.
18:15, 18.
They were right.
Jesus did fulfill that prophecy.
Cf.
Acts 3:22 But still, many rejected Him.
V 41a 3.
Others thought that He was the Christ or Messiah.
And they were right, but that idea was rejected because of Jesus’ hometown.
V 41b
V 42 4.
They were right again.
These people seem to know more than their religious leaders about the Scriptures.
According to Samuel and Isaiah, Jesus would come from the line of David and Micah predicted that He would be born in Bethlehem, David’s hometown.
They were so close.
If they would have done some investigation, they would have seen that indeed Jesus fulfilled all the OT prophecies.
But they didn’t and so there were…
b. differing factions over jesus
V 43 1.
Jesus was the source of the division by just being Himself.
Illus. of sometimes when we serve God and do what He wants, we will be a source of division in a sinful culture.
I.e.
COCUSA When we represent Christ, there will be those that oppose and we may be a source of separation.
V 44 2.
Those that opposed Him wanted to arrest Him and get rid of Him, but they didn’t.
It was not yet time and God used the division among the people to allow Jesus to continue His teaching.
3.
It must be noted here that many had a favorable opinion of Jesus but they failed to commit themselves to Him.
Illus. of in our world there are many people that have a favorable opinion of Jesus, but they fail to personally put their faith in Jesus.
To trust in Him alone may put us in a position of being divisive, because His message causes separation.
Cf.
Matt.
10:34
*Trans.*
Most of the world is not Christian because THE MESSAGE OF JESUS CAUSES SEPARATION.
Second, they reject Christianity because…
ii. the message of jesus is too simple vs. 45-52
Illus. of our world values education and rewards it handsomely.
They struggle with something as simple as the Gospel, which cannot be earned.
It must be received by grace through faith.
Hard workers struggle with this concept.
It is too simple.
They want a religion that takes some effort.
As we saw in our Scripture reading, God has made foolish the wisdom of the world.
We see that here.
a. Jesus’ message is simple, yet impressive
V 45 1.
The men who were sent to arrest Jesus came back without Him.
How hard could it be?
He’s not armed.
Why didn’t they arrest Him?
V 46 2.
The reason they didn’t bring Jesus in was because His message was so different.
He wasn’t like the other religious leaders.
Jesus was an impressive teacher.
Even those that opposed Him were often impressed by Him.
His message was simple, but it was delivered with power.
It was impressive.
Second…
b. jesus’ message is simple, yet wise
V 47 1.
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