Title: Evil Conspiracy / John 11:47
Title: Evil Conspiracy/John 11:47-
The text is a scene where Jesus is in front of the cross, and the high priests and Pharisees gather to plot to kill Jesus Christ. We need to realize the wickedness of man in the text.
Some of those who saw Jesus raised Lazarus went and reported this to the Pharisees, and the Pharisees and the scribes were holding a so-called countermeasure meeting.
1. The beginning of the evil conspiracy of the high priests and the Pharisees
John 11:47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled a council,
(1) The high priest as a political leader
The high priest was at that time a political rather than a religious leader, a Sadducee, ruling Jerusalem on behalf of Rome.
(2) Pharisees as religious and spiritual leaders
The Pharisees literally means [separation] [sex], claiming the purity of religion at the time, and they were those who insisted on the purity of faith to the extent that even among the Jews, they considered themselves [separated].
(3) Public offering
They gathered in a public meeting called the council and the Sahedrin. The Pharisees and Sadducees were originally enemies because they had different doctrines and different pursuits, but you can see that they had one purpose in killing Jesus Christ.
(4) Plan for evil
They are not gathered to practice the truth, but are focused on destroying Jesus Christ.
2. Misunderstanding and unbelief
John 11:47 ... What shall we do, since this man does many signs?
John 11:48 If we leave him like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take our land and our nation.”
(1) This man does many signs.
- The Jewish leaders also heard and knew the signs and miracles of Jesus Christ in detail,
He knew that it was not made by human ability.
(2) What shall we do?
- The question is what action to take.
Do you believe it as a proof of the Messiah who came by the power of God, or will you remove it as a false heresy?
end? The attitude that the Jewish leaders are talking about is a disbelief that can no longer be left alone.
It comes from negation.
(3) If you leave me like this
- If you just let them preach the gospel and perform miracles
(4) Everyone will believe in me.
- They themselves admit that all the Israelites will believe in Jesus Christ.
Their problem is not that they see the truth from God's side, but that they discern the good and evil of the truth from their own heart.
(5) And the Romans will come and take away our land and our nation.”
① In these words, misunderstanding and unbelief are crossed together.
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If the number of people who claim increases, they form a political force, and if they aim for an independent state through a coup, the vague fear that the Romans will abolish their autonomy system is recorded as being expressed, but Jesus Christ has never been a political person. He never said that he came into the world as a leader, a political messenger, and he did not say that his country belonged to this world.
John 18:36 Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world, but if my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have fought so that I would not be handed over to the Jews. Now my kingdom is not of this."
② Also, because the Romans gave the Jews autonomy to solve religious problems, not political problems, autonomously, so the activities of Jesus Christ were not regulated by the Romans. The Pharisees and high priests are trying to eliminate Jesus Christ by making him a political danger in order to prevent their status and privileges from being shaken by the religious advent of Jesus Christ.
③The high priests and Pharisees are rejecting the Messiah who came into the world with a frame of mind that is [self-centered] [self-centered] rather than [God-centered].
3. Caiaphas' remarks
John 11:49 One of them, Caiaphas, the high priest that year, said to them,
‘You know nothing.
John 11:50 You do not think that it is profitable for you that one man should die for the people, that the whole nation should not perish.'
⑴ Position of person in charge
① Caiaphas was Annas' son-in-law and was the high priest in Jerusalem from AD 18-36.
② Therefore, Caiaphas was the symbolic Jewish political and religious leader of his time, and he was responsible for all decisions.
(2) Caiaphas' pride
John 11:49 ... `You know nothing.
① Everything you say is unnecessary.
② It is an act of disregarding the discussion itself of others.
⑶ The person in charge
① Caiaphas's logic that it is better for one person to die seems logical, but it is the most demonic logic.
Jeremiah 9:8 Their tongue is deadly flesh, they speak lies; with their mouth they speak peace to their neighbor, but in their heart they are evil.
② It is the logic that by removing the truth of Jesus Christ, they maintain their status and that untruth can cover the truth.
③Dawn does not come by twisting the neck of a chicken that crows at dawn.
⑷The providence of God in Caiaphas' words
John 11:51 He did not speak these words of his own accord, but since he was the high priest that year, Jesus did for the nation.
John 11:52 again
Not only for that nation, but to gather and unite the scattered children of God.
to foretell that he is going to die
① Although Caiaphas spoke according to his own intentions, it also became the fulfillment of God's providence.
② God’s decrees, choices, and plans seem to be what people do according to their own will, but they work beyond them all.
Proverbs 16:09 A man's heart plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps.
③ Although Caiaphas uses his own logic as an excuse for the people, the death of Jesus Christ is
It was a death for all the people, a death as a ransom.
4. Silent consent
John 11:53 From that day on, they plotted to put Jesus to death.
(1) Although he did not say anything, all who sat in the midst of it all agreed with Caiaphas's remarks to kill Jesus Christ.
(2) Their conspiracy was the beginning of a meeting to plan to kill Jesus Christ in the end, and the Passover came to an end.
(3) Evil plans have only produced very bad results.
Proverbs 29:10 A lover of blood hates the blameless, but seeks the life of the upright.
***conclusion
Let us not stand together in doing evil.
1. Do not sit with evil conspiracies
Psalm 1:1 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners.
do not sit in the seat of the scornful
2. Let's take off the sunglasses of unbelief
Proverbs 19:28 A false witness despises justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.
3. Beware of responsible words.
Proverbs 30:32 If you are foolish and exalted yourself,
If you do anything evil, shut your mouth with your hand.
4. Let's not do the evil of silence.
Luke 19:40 He answered and said to them, "I tell you, if these men remain silent, the stones will cry out."