Interlude: Son of God•
A Sermon by Dr. Bob Griffin, Teaching Elder at Sovereign Grace Church
I. SON OF GOD – FORESHADOWED
John 10:22-23 At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was December, and Jesus was walking in the Temple, in the colonnade of Solomon.
A. RETELLING
1. EXTREMITY
2. ENLIGHTENED
3. EXPEDIENCY
B. REMEMBRANCE
1. EXALTATION
2. EXPECTATION
II. SON OF GOD – TESTED
A. RESPONSE
John 10:24 So the Jews gathered around Him and said to Him, “How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”
1. EXIGENT
2. EXAMINATION
B. REJECTION
John 10:25-26 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father’s name bear witness about Me, but you do not believe because you are not among My sheep.”
1. EXPERIENCE
2. EXPOSED
C. REGENERATION
John 10:27-30 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, Who has given them to Me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are One.”
1. EXPLANATION
2. EXTENT
III. SON OF GOD – CONFRONTED
A. REACTION
John 10:31 The Jews picked up stones again to stone Him.
1. EXCITEMENT
2. EXECUTION
B. REASONING
1. EVAULATION
John 10:32 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of them are you going to stone Me?”
2. EXCUSE
John 10:33 The Jews answered Him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone You but for blasphemy, because You, being a man, make Yourself God.”
3. EVIDENCE
John 10:34-38 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? If He called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—do you say of Him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?
If I am not doing the works of My Father, then do not believe Me; but if I do them, even though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me and I am in the Father.”
4. ESCAPE
John 10:39 Again they sought to arrest Him, but He escaped from their hands.
C. RESULT
John 10:40-42 He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there He remained. And many came to Him. And they said, “John did no sign, but everything that John said about this Man was true.” And many believed in Him there.
1. EXIT
2. EXULTATION