Title: Feast of Pentecost / John 10:19
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Subject: Feast of Pentecost / John 10:19-
It records what happened when Jesus went up to the temple on the Feast of Pentecost. Jesus is witnessing the word of truth in the face of continued Jewish opposition. We need to realize the word for us today in the words of Jesus.
1. Jesus came to Jerusalem on the Feast of Pentecost
1) Origin of the Feast of Sujeongjeol
① The sanctuary has the meaning of [innovative, clean], and the meaning of [regeneration] [consecration] is
have.
② The origin of the Feast of Suffering does not originate from the Old Testament. Because after Malachi
Because it is the season.
According to history, around 170 B.C., a king named Antiochus Epiphanes invaded and occupied Jerusalem, slaughtered 80,000 people, and persecuted Judaism to break the law, burned the law, and performed circumcision. In order to prevent them from doing so, to subdue the Jews, and to bring shame, a statue of Zeus was brought to Jerusalem, and a pig that the Jews hated was sacrificed.
After this happened, in 165 B.C., Judah Maccabi and his brothers raised an army, led the revolution to victory, cleansed the defiled temple, and commemorated the day of its cleaning, called the Feast of Passover. This time was winter.
③ This day was also called the [Feast of Light] because there were ceremonies to decorate the temple with lanterns and to put lamps on the windows to commemorate the Jewish people’s liberation from bondage and the cleansing of the temple. .
Therefore, it was the second Independence Day for the Jews and the day of the purification of the temple.
2) Jesus and the Feast of Pentecost
① This is the time when the end of Jesus’ ministry is nearing, and when Jesus goes up to Jerusalem
His departure has implications for the Jews. Although the Jews are celebrating the day of the purification of the Jerusalem Temple called the Feast of Suffering, Jesus Christ, the true temple, was not in their minds, rather pointing out that the Jews were hostile to Jesus Christ.
② Jesus is adding to this feeling by writing by encountering the Jews at Solomon's walk, not in the center of the Jerusalem temple.
③ You can see that Jesus, the true Jerusalem, is in front of them, but the Jews do not recognize Jesus Christ.
Joel 2:13 Rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the LORD your God.
2. Jewish hostility
1)24: How long will you doubt our hearts? If you are Christ, speak plainly.
① The word [to make doubt] means [to make us curious] [to put us in a state of tension and excitement], which means [why do you make us uneasy? If you are really the Christ, please tell us frankly so that we can understand easily.]
② However, those words are found to be pretentious in the words of Jesus.
Because Jesus testifies that all his work was done in the name of God and sent by God, but the Jews do not believe it. He is rebuking Jews for not believing in miracles and miracles performed by God's power.
John 10:25 Jesus answered, I told you, but you do not believe. The things I do in my Father's name testify of me.
③ In other words, there was a fundamental disbelief and hostility in the hearts of the Jews.
2) 26: You do not believe because you are not my sheep.
① Jesus pointed this out and diagnosed the cause of their infidelity by saying that you do not believe because you are not my sheep.
② It is to testify that they are those who have departed from God's promised people.
3)31: The Jews were going to stone again.
①They, the Jews, respond to Jesus' culmination in trying to stone him. Not only did they not believe in the miracles and miracles of Jesus Christ, but they were hostile to him, and later, when they asked Jesus Christ to be crucified, they committed a crime not only to themselves but also to their descendants.
Matthew 27:25 All the people answered and said, Ascribe their blood to us and to our children.
②[John Lyle] interprets the expression [lifting up the stone] in his exposition of the Gospel of John, as Solomon’s staging was a completed building, so it would have been difficult to find a stone around it, so the Jews deliberately carried this large stone I thought it had not been done.
According to him, it seems that the Jews approached Jesus deliberately.
4)39: They tried to arrest Jesus again, but
①They refused to stone them, but they seized Jesus Christ,
They tried to catch the leaders.
② This comes from their attitude to rationalize their unbelief.
***The hostility of the Jews did not believe in him, so they tried to stone him, arrest him and drag him to the Sanhedrin, but Jesus did not back down, testifying the word of truth even in this crisis.
3. The Divinity of Jesus Christ
assertions and witnesses of Jesus himself;
1) 30: I and the Father are one.
1) Jesus' claim about the Trinity.
② Westminster Confession of Faith Large and Small Catechism
[There are three persons in a single divinity, namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, who have the same original nature, 權能, and 永遠性. The Holy Son is not born of and does not come from anyone, the Holy Son is eternally begotten of the Father, and the Holy Spirit comes out of the Father and the Son forever.]
③First, there are three persons.
Second, the divinity is the same.
Third, the three persons are distinct from each other.
2)25:...the works that I do in my Father's name testify of me.
① That is, the miracles and miracles of Jesus testify to the Messiahship of Jesus Christ.
John 5:36 I have a greater evidence than the testimony of John, the work that the Father gave me to accomplish, the work I am doing is to testify for me that the Father sent me.
3)32:... I have shown you many good works through the Father.
① The word [good works] means that the entire public life of Jesus was morally and religiously righteous.
It is evidence of innocence.
4)36:... I am the Son of God
① First, Jesus gives Psalm 82 as an example.
Psalm 82:6 I said, You are gods, and you are all sons of the Most High.
②[Don't you know that judges and rulers are called sons of God in the Psalms?]
He tells us to accept what He calls [the Son of God].
③ Therefore, the Lord indirectly testifies that He is the Son of God.
4. The Certainty of God's Grace
28: I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish.
And no one will snatch them out of my hand.
29: My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand.
1) I give you eternal life
Salvation begins in Christ. Eternal life, life, is given only by Jesus Christ.
John 20:31 But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
1 John 5:11 And this is the testimony, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
1 John 5:12 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.
Revelation 7:17 For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, leading them to springs of water of life, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.
2) It will never perish.
never perish It signifies the ultimate salvation and the eternal preservation of grace.
John 3:16 God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that everyone who believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
2 Corinthians 4:8 Although we are afflicted on every side, we are not troubled; we are afflicted, but not in despair;
2 Corinthians 4:9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; overthrown, but not destroyed;
3) And no one will snatch them out of my hand.
No one can snatch it out of the Father's hand.
No one can take away what God has given.
Romans 8:38 I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
Romans 8:39 Neither height nor depth nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Jesus Christ our Lord
**** conclusion ****
1. Let's have faith in Jesus Christ.
2. Let us believe that Jesus Christ is God the Son, the Son of God.
3. The way is to listen to and follow the voice of Jesus.
27: My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
4. That way is the way of eternal life and the unchanging way of salvation.