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John 7:25-39
“A limited opportunity to drink.”
My hope is that at the end of this message you will strengthen you conviction:
-that Jesus is Lord,
-that the time to make a decision to follow Jesus is limited,
-and those who do follow Jesus find deep satisfaction.
Read John 7:25-39
Pray
Opening - Who is Jesus?
Was Jesus a liar, a lunatic, or is He Lord?
Those in our passage had to make that decision.
You have to make that decision.
Short context -
Our passage today begins with ...
-Jesus going to Jerusalem late during the Feast of Booths.
-The feast of booths was one of 3 big celebrations during the year.
-During the feast of booths the Jews celebrated how God took care of them when He freed them from Egypt and they wandered in the wilderness for 40 years living in tents.
-People would be excited.
-The atmosphere during the week would be that of combining the social excitement of being at the state fair and spiritual excitement of Easter morning and worship.
-Lots of great social and spiritual energy.
-There would be hundreds of thousands of people in Jerusalem.
-The floor of the Temple would be filled with a crush of people.
-It seems that Jesus came late to allow the festivities to get started so he could slip in unnoticed by the religious leaders.
-We find Jesus today in the Temple teaching.
-He can’t help, but to go to the most crowded place and tell people how great His father is and how the people can be saved.
There is a warning in our passage today that Jesus gives the people.
It’s our big idea - Stated in a sentence it is...
Those who reject Jesus have very little time to receive his blessing.
Transition - To be a Christ Follower, you have to make a decision about who Jesus is.
In our first point, the people had to answer a question.
John 7:25-31, “Will I accept Jesus as God or reject Him?”
The Rejection of Jesus -
We are talking talking about the Identity of Jesus.
Who He is.
Can I ask you a very personal question - Who is this man named Jesus?
C.S. Lewis asked it this way.
Who would you say Jesus is?
Is Jesus a Liar, a Lunatic, or is He Lord?
For the average blue collar Jew ....
There was a popular belief in that day that the Messiah was going to appear in the Temple, no one will know where He came from, and would lead His people in victory over Rome - as a warrior King.
BUT - Jesus, The man before them wasn’t this man who came out of no - where.
He didn’t look like a warrior king.
They knew his mother and father were Marry and Joseph.
They knew where He came from.
-This would have made Jesus a liar.
He was not the Messiah as He claimed to be.
Transition - The religious leaders painted Jesus as a crazy man, a Lunatic.
The religious leaders thought He was a threat to their religious customs.
Their religious hierarchy, the way they viewed God.
Jesus was a threat to their way of doing things.
He was accused of having a demon in Him.
They painted Jesus as a lunatic.
The religious leaders claimed that Jesus wasn’t to be trusted because He was out of His mind.
A demon was controlling him, like a marionette.
The narrative of the religious leaders was that Jesus was a lunatic.
John 1 tells us this about Jesus rejection.
John 1:10-11
10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.
11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.
12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
Transition - Interesting enough there were some religious leaders like Nicodemus who we will find out later did not think Jesus was Lunatic.
-Nicodemus fell into this 3rd category.
Those who believe in Jesus as Lord
While the large majority of people rejected Jesus, many believed in Him.
They did believe that He was the Son of God.
They did believe that He could forgive sin.
They did trust their entire life to Him.
My friend, Have YOU trusted your life fully to Jesus?
Do you believe ...
-That Jesus has paid the price for your sin on the cross.
-That He has saved you from the condemnation of sin.
-That He is the final authority over your life.
For those of you who have fully trusted Jesus, are you regularly giving all of yourself to Him?
Is Jesus a liar, lunatic or is He Lord?
Transition - Accepting or rejecting Jesus will have a massive impact on your life.
Acceptance and rejection in general can change your life.
Illustration - There was a time in my life where a rejection changed my life.
-I dated a young lady in High School for a year.
Eventually the relationship ran its coarse.
Unfortunately, I saw the end of the relationship before she did and broke up with her.
But for a 16 year old, a year long relationship is a big deal.
-In hindsight, that was a relationship I should not have been in.
-That rejection was a good rejection.
A rejection that effected my life in a good way.
There were many times when an acceptance changed my life.
-Acceptance to college.
-Meeting Susan and her accepting me.
Both of these acceptances radically changed the trajectory of my life in a wonderful way.
Transition - There is nothing that will change you life more powerfully accepting Jesus and rejecting this world!
Pause
There are some observations I want you to see in this first section.
Observation 1
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31, God will always keep a remnant.
-While most people rejected Jesus, God always has a remnant of believing people that He has kept secure.
-God wants you to be His remnant.
-In Our Culture, Where Jesus and His followers are rejected, God has asked that you be part of the few that trust Him and Follow Him, and represent Him here in this broken world.
Observation 2
-vs.
30, God’s plan trumps the human will
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