John Ch7:1-44 Gunnedah Presbyterian Church Sunday the 24th of August 2014 LGS
Intro: Words have an incredible power to convey meaning.
Consider David Cummings’ Experience:
David worked as a Bible translator for Whycliffe for 6 years in highlands of Papua New Guinne among the Binamari People. He needed a word for Forgiveness, but was told that in that culture there is no word for Forgiveness.
One day, he was watching a man breaking off a piece of a stick and shoving it into the wall of his hut, intrigued, he asked what it meant. The owner of the hut said: “There are things this person has done wrong to me, and I’m going to get him back!” “The stick is like that person and the wrong things they’ve done. || Suddenly the David knew he’d found the word he needed for forgivness, Or at least the phrase. || So gathering the people, he told them this story: He said: When you and I do something wrong it’s like God shoves a stick into the wall of Heaven. Like God saying; These people have done this, they will pay for these things. But, because of His great mercy, God also says to His Son: “I’m going to send you into the world, and I’m going to punish you for all the sticks in the wall that these people have done. Where does Forgivenss come? Forgiveness comes when God says; ‘I’m going to take the sticks out of the wall.’ Jesus answers our condemnation and brings forgiveness between us and God.
Words have an incredible power to convey meaning, but the hearer must be able to receive the meaning.
簡介：詞有不可思議的力量來傳達意思。
考慮大衛卡明斯經驗：
大衛在Binamari人民內部的巴布亞新Guinne高地擔任聖經翻譯為Whycliffe6年。他需要一個詞來形容寬恕。但被告知，在這種文化是沒有字的原諒。
有一天，他在看一個人掰了一塊一棒，並順手把它變成自己的小屋，好奇的牆上，他問是什麼事。小屋的主人說：“有這種事的人做錯了我，我就要讓他回來！”“棒子就是這樣的人，錯誤的東西，他們所做的一切。 ||突然，大衛知道他找到他所需要的forgivness的話，至少這句話。 ||因此聚集了人，他告訴他們這個故事：他說：當你和我做了錯事就好像上帝塞到棍子進入天堂的牆。就像上帝說;這些人已經這樣做了，他們會支付這些東西。因為自己的大憐憫，但神也說他的兒子：“我要送你進入這個世界，我要懲罰你在牆上，這些人已經做了所有的棍子。哪裡forgivenss來嗎？寬恕來當上帝說; “我要帶枝出牆。”耶穌回答說，我們譴責和我們與神之間帶來了寬恕。
詞有不可思議的力量來傳達意思，但聽者必須能夠接受的意思。
So far in John’s Gospel, there have seen varied responses to Jesus. John has told us in Ch1 that Jesus’ coming is like light shining into the darkness – but the darkness has not understood it – has not been able to comprehend it, not engaged with it.
Like Lightning connecting the earth and the sky through a dark night, how can the darkness understand light? On what level can it comprehend it. Light is heat and expansion, declaration and revelation. And in Jesus’ coming the light has dawned, His light is not the brief flash of prophet like Moses or Elijah, his coming is the steady strong unflinching glory of God’s presence pushing back the darkness in the brilliant ark of His splendour!
But within the darkness there are differing reactions to the light. It’s not just that the light is being revealed, but because the light is being revealed something of the darkness also is being revealed. || Christ is being revealed, || but more and more as we move through this gospel so too are people, and their various shades and attitudes to Christ.
I think sometimes we fall into a comfortable way of thinking about the three years of Jesus ministry, as though it was all pleasant and nice for Him. As though all He had to do was go on long itinerant ‘hike’ around the countyside, telling a few parables, healing a few unfortunates, having a picnic on a mountainside, going to a wedding, or telling some nice stories to his mates who were walking along with him on the ‘hike’. But the public ministry of Jesus, His dealing with people, was far more complex and at times heated than just a guided tour would be.
When the charge of the lightning touches the atmosphere, there is heat, there is noise as the light is revealed and also as the darkness into which it is coming is revealed.
There is tension and struggle and turmoil in almost every part of those three years leading ultimately to the Cross. Where the depths of darkness did its best to forever extinguish the light. And you see that spark, that expansion, that contest here in chapter 7 of John’s gospel also.
Here we are told here about the incredible hardness of people’s hearts to Jesus. In Verse 5. || Even His brothers don’t believe in Him! Despite the way He lived, and spoke, and acted among them. Even His closest relatives, according to the flesh, don’t believe Him to be the Messiah. Light is incomprehensible to darkness. Darkness doesn’t get it! Darkness by itself will never ‘discover’ light any more than a darkened room can invent electricity or a candle, just by being dark.
到目前為止，在約翰福音，也看到了不同的反應耶穌。約翰告訴我們在通道1，耶穌的來臨是喜光照耀在黑暗中 – 但黑暗並沒有理解它 – 一直沒能理解它，而不是搞吧。
像閃電一樣，通過一個漆黑的夜晚連接地球和天空，如何能在黑暗中了解到光？在什麼水平可以將它理解它。光熱和膨脹，申報和啟示。而在耶穌發出的光已破曉，他的光不是先知的短暫閃光像摩西和以利亞，他的到來是神的存在推回黑暗中的輝煌方舟他的輝煌的沉穩有力堅定不移的榮耀！
但是，黑暗中也有不同的反應輕。這不只是光被發現，但因為光線被透露的東西在黑暗中也被發現。 ||基督被發現，||但越來越多隨著我們通過這個福音，因此，同樣是人，他們的各種色調和態度基督。
我覺得有時候，我們陷入思考三年耶穌的事工，因為雖然它的美和好為他一個舒適的方式。好像所有他所要做的就是去長江湖“加息”周圍的countyside，講述了幾個比喻，醫治了幾個不幸的，上了山野餐，去參加一個婚禮，或者講一些很不錯的故事，他的隊友誰與他的“加息”正走著。但耶穌，祂與人打交道的公共事務部，是更為複雜的，有時加熱不僅僅是一個導遊會。
當閃電的電荷接觸到大氣中，有發熱，有噪音的光透露，也因為到它即將被揭示黑暗。
有緊張和鬥爭和動盪的這三年，最終導致交叉的幾乎每一個部分。凡黑暗的深處盡全力永遠熄滅了燈光。而你看到的火花，那膨脹，那場比賽在這裡約翰福音也是第7章。
在這裡，我們在這裡講述了令人難以置信的硬度人們心中耶穌。在詩歌5||連他的兄弟不相信他！儘管這樣，他活了下來，說話和行動當中。甚至他最親近的親屬，根據肉，不相信他是彌賽亞。光線是難以理解的黑暗。黑暗沒有得到它！黑暗本身永遠不會“發現”光比黑暗的房間裡任何更多可以發明電或一支蠟燭，只是被黑了。
People need God to open their hearts to the Gospel. || They need that first spark of the Holy Spirit to bring God’s grace to begin a wonderful work there. Something different to the darkness has to enter it. Otherwise the coming of Christ, who He is and what He’s really come to do will never be understood by the natural human heart. J.R.R Tolkien the writer in his book ‘Lord of the Rings’ Trilogy he often is describing huge immovable stone doors upon which the only way they could be opened or even find the handle to open them was if light shone upon in a certain way. Many times the Dwarves or Pippin, or Samwise Gangees would want to give up, but Frodo would wait on the light, and its coming would make all the difference. Well it’s like that with some people. The darkness in them is like a slab of granite rock, until the light shines upon them and reveals something in them, a chink a gap, a handle, a keyway, the God will use to open their stone cold hearts.
The gospel of a Saviour coming into the world to save sinner like us, to rescue us from this present evil world and from the wrath to come, the wrath that will fall upon all the evil and treacherous, and villainous of the world. That Gospel of a king who gives his life on a cross to make a way for us, is too ‘out there’ for the darkness in its natural way to make any sense of, but once that illumination of the Spirit come then something truly amazing occurs. Life comes where there was none before. Hope rises where hopelessness reigned. A doorway of light has opened. Like many of the Jews, these brothers of Jesus don’t in their natural way see these things. They’d heard Christ’s teaching, they had lived in Christ’s presence and shared meals and travelled with him but that was not enough to make them believers! No wonder Jesus said back in the chapter before: “No one can come to me unless the father who sent me draw him.”
If you know Jesus Christ as your friend and trust him as your Lord, then you know that that has taken a tremendous work of God to achieve that within you. You say; ‘But I don’t feel like it was such a profound work, in fact most of the time I hardly feel any different at all’. But one day you will know. One day we will know Him as we are known by Him. But it’s not only the ‘darkness’ of rank unbelief that characterised the dark not comprehending the light. There are other more nuanced reactions to Jesus as well.
We are told in verse 12 that there was widespread murmuring and whispering about Him among the crowds. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others replied, “No, he deceives the people.” In verse 15 some of the Jews can’t work out how in the world he could get such knowledge without having ever studied. In verse 20 some accuse Him of being demon possessed.
人們需要上帝敞開心扉福音。 ||他們需要聖靈將神的恩典第一火花，開始了精彩的在那裡工作。不同的東西在黑暗進入。基督否則未來，他是誰，什麼他真的來了，做永遠的天然人的心臟可以理解。托爾金在他的書中Triogy“指環王”的作者，他經常被描述巨大的不可移動的石頭門後，他們可以打開甚至是唯一的途徑找到手感，打開他們的是，如果光線照在以某種方式。很多時候，Dwaves或皮蓬，或Samwise Gangees會想放棄，但佛羅多會等待的光，它的到來將會使所有的差異。好了這樣的一些人。在其中的黑暗就像是花崗岩的平板，直到燈光照在他們身上，揭示的東西在其中，裂口縫隙，把手，鍵槽，神會用打開他們的石頭冰冷的心。
救主來到世上的福音拯救罪人像我們一樣，從這個罪惡的世界，從世界的憤怒來，將落在所有的邪惡，奸詐的憤怒，和流氓來救我們。這福音國王誰給他的生命在十字架上進行的方式為我們的，是太’那裡’在其自然的方式使任何意義上的黑暗，但是一旦聖靈的光照進來，然後什麼了不起發生。人生好似那裡之前有沒有。希望升起的地方絕望籠罩。光的門口已經打開。像許多猶太人，耶穌的這些兄弟也不要在其自然的方式看到這些東西。他們會聽到基督的教導，他們一直住在基督的存在和共享餐點，並與他一起旅行，但是這還不足以使他們的信徒！難怪耶穌說，早在一章才道：“沒有人能到我這裡來，除非誰送我的父親拉攏他。”
如果你知道耶穌基督作為你的朋友，相信他為你的主，那麼你知道這已神的巨大的工作，實現了在你們心裡。你說; “但我不覺得它是如此深刻的作品，其實大部分的時間，我幾乎感覺不到有什麼不同可言”。但是有一天你會知道的。有一天，我們會知道祂是我們所知道的。但它不是唯一的排名不信的特點是深不理解光的“黑暗”。還有其他更細微的反應，以耶穌為好。
我們被告知在12節，有普遍的抱怨和竊竊私語關於他的人群中。有人說，“他是個好人。”其他人回答說：“不，他欺騙的人。”在15節的一些猶太人無法工作，如何在世界上他可以不經學過獲得這樣的知識。在第20節的一些指責惡魔附身他。
In verse 25-27 others murmur among themselves about Jesus origins and whether He could actually be the Christ. The Pharisees hear what some in the crowd are whispering and send guards to arrest Him. In verse 40 some say
“Surely this man is the Prophet.”
41Others said, “He is the Christ.”
Still others asked, “How can the Christ come from Galilee? 42Does not the Scripture say that the Christ will come from David’s family and from Bethlehem, the town where David lived?”
We see how confused they are and how ill-informed they are. Of course He was from Bethlehem, but they only knew him growing up in Nazareth.
Verse 43 continues on: 43Thus the people were divided because of Jesus. 44Some wanted to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.
45Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him in?”
46“No one ever spoke the way this man does,” the guards declared….
Do you see how the coming of Jesus reveals light, but it also reveals something in the darkness as well? How many opinions are there of Jesus today? And how many different religions there are in the world, everyone’s got an opinion, everyone thinks they’re an expert. And they say; ‘you should tolerate this one’s opinion because it’s just as valid as everyone else’s’! Mutual ignorance, fallacy built on speculation, Theory dressed as fact.
All sorts of differing opinions about Jesus just the same as there were here in the 1C. We should realise that whenever the gospel is preached there will be differing kinds of reactions to Christ. There will be some who believe and then there will be others who have all kinds of nuanced varied differ kinds of greyness, and fluffy thinking, but in the end its just darkness.
What do you think of Jesus? .
Is Jesus your everything, or is He only part of your everything? Is the fact that He is interested in you something the thought of which fills you with awe and wonder or does it fill you with dread and trepidation? Or is it neither of those two emotions, are you just numb without any feeling? Isn’t that like a kind of darkness anyway?
Which is it light or darkness?
在25-27節等彼此之間的雜音關於耶穌的起源，以及是否他實際上可能是基督。法利賽人聽到一些在人群正在竊竊私語和發送警衛逮捕他。在40節有人說
“當然，這人是先知。”
41有人說，“他是基督。”
還有一些人問，“怎樣才能基督是從加利利？ 42不聖經說，基督將來自大衛的家人和伯利恆，大衛住在城裡？“
我們看到他們，他們是多麼迷茫，多麼不靈通的。當然，他是從伯利恆，但他們只知道他成長在拿撒勒。
43節繼續對43這樣的人被劃分，因為耶穌的。 44有些想抓住他，但沒有人把一隻手在他身上。
45最後的差役回到祭司長和法利賽人，誰問他們：“你們為什麼沒有帶他來？”
46“沒有人說話這人做的方式，”衛兵宣布…。
你看到了耶穌的到來是如何揭示光，但它也揭示了一些在黑暗中呢？有多少意見是耶穌有今天？有多少不同的宗教有在世界上，每個人的得到了一個觀點，每個人都認為他們是專家。他們說; “你應該容忍這樣的人的意見，因為它只是作為有效的其他人一樣的”！相互無知，謬誤，建立在投機，理論裝扮成事實。
各種不同的關於耶穌的看法只是因為有這裡的1C相同的。我們應該認識到，只要有福音傳給他們會有各種不同的反應的基督。會有一些誰相信再會有其他人誰擁有各種不同的細緻入微的不同種類的灰色，毛茸茸的思考，但最終它只是黑暗。
你覺得耶穌？ 。
耶穌是你的一切，或者說是他的一切的一部分？是事實，他對你感興趣的事情，而讓你充滿敬畏和驚奇或者它充滿你們的恐懼和驚恐的念頭？或者是這兩種感情是沒有，你只是麻木，沒有任何感覺嗎？心不是說喜歡那種黑暗呢？
這是它的光或暗？
In verse 37 Jesus introduces a diverse way to think about this light/darkness contrast. He says: “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. 38Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.”
He contrasts Thirst with Satisfaction. Lack, with Abundant blessing and provision. Now admittedly we’re not exactly in the middle of Summer heat wave here, quite the opposite, but given a little imagination each of us can picture what it is to have a deep and insatiable thirst. And to have that met Abundantly, overflowingly, lastingly. Most of us, would like our heart to be like a deep mountain spring overflowing in rivers of living water.
It’s fitting that Jesus introduces this analogy of water here at the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles (or Booths), because water featured large in this festival. It was a reminder among things of the peoples time in the wilderness, how God provided water for them out of a rock face. Also people of this time knew only too well that to lack water was to shortly fade away and die. Water too was associated also with washing and holiness and a new start.
Jesus words also tie in with what He said to the Woman at the Well back in Chapter 4, where He said: “Whoever drinks this water that I shall give him shall never thirst, but the water I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
The sense of complete abundant satisfaction. How can the dryness understand the water? As soon as the water touches it, it changes. Dryness is melted, coolness liquefied, drenching our heat, refreshment, life effervescent, Moisture, growth and Newness. But does Jesus paint these pictures so we’ll just be impressed, and maybe give him a Job as a speech writer for up and coming politician of the day, is this just flowery conversation the way Shakespeare or Jane Austin would use it? No. These words and descriptions of life by Jesus are meant to expose not only who He is, but also to expose something in us, namely our need of the lasting things that He alone gives. He calls us to engage with something so different it will forever change us, and change us in the best possible ways.
“If anyone is thirsty, Spiritual thirst.
If anyone is serious about relating to God, has a desire for their spiritual thirst to be met, if anyone is aware that they of all people, that they themselves need a Saviour. They should come to Him. And He will meet that need beyond their wildest dreams.
在第37節，耶穌介紹去想這個光/暗對比不同的方式。他說：“人若渴了，讓他來給我喝。38信我的人，就如經上所說，溪流活水從他腹中要流出的。“
他對比口渴滿意。缺乏，具有豐富的祝福和規定。誠然，現在我們不正是在夏季熱浪的中間位置，正好相反，但由於一點點想像力，我們每個人能想像它是什麼，有一個深刻而貪得無厭的渴求。並有大量滿足，overflowingly，持久。我們大多數人，希望我們的心臟能像深刻的山泉水四溢的活水的江河來。
這是恰當的，耶穌介紹這個比喻的水在這裡住棚節（或攤位）盛宴的最後一天，因為水大特色在這個節日。這是其中的人民的時間在曠野，神如何提供水給他們出了岩石表面的東西提醒。也是這個時候人非常清楚，為缺水是在短期內消失和死亡。水也被相關也與洗滌和聖潔，一個新的開始。
耶穌的話也配合了他對女人的恩早在第4章，他說，說：“喝這水是我給他的，永遠不渴，但水我給他的是在他水井雨後春筍進入永生。
完整豐富的滿意感。如何才能幹明白水？只要水接觸它，它的變化。乾燥熔化，液化涼意，我們淋熱，止咳化痰，生活泡騰片，水分，生長和新奇。但耶穌描繪這些照片，我們就留下深刻的印象，也許給他一份工作，擔任演講撰稿人和未來的日子政治家，這只是華麗的談話莎士比亞或簡奧斯汀會使用它的方式嗎？號，這些詞和生活的描述耶穌是為了揭露，不僅他是誰，也揭露一些在美國，也就是我們需要的持久的東西，他一個人給了。他要求我們搞的東西如此不同，將永遠改變我們，改變我們以最好的方式。
“人若渴了，精神性煩渴。
如果有人認真與神，都必須滿足自己的精神渴求的願望，如果有人知道所有的人，他們，他們自己需要一位救主。他們應該來找他。而他將滿足這一需求超出了他們最瘋狂的夢想。
If anyone knows that they above all else need to be forgiven, need a second chance, need to make amends then they are thirsty. Come to the water and drink! Believe and rivers will flow!
People thirst for all kinds of things, but almost none of those things give one drop of satisfaction. But Jesus will. Jesus says “come to me all you who are weak and heaven laden, and I will give you rest.” He offers fresh water, sparkling water, life-giving water drawn from Heaven.
Until we know that we are lost we can not comprehend being found. Until we know that we’ve been blind, we cannot comprehend seeing with new eyes. Until we know that we’ve been destitute, we can’t comprehend what it is for Jesus to be our shield and portion for all eternity.
“If anyone is thirsty,
let him come to me and drink. Jesus says.
如果有人知道他們高於一切需要被原諒的，需要第二次機會，需要彌補那麼他們渴了。來的水，喝！相信和河流會流！
人們渴求的各種事情，但幾乎沒有這些東西給一滴滿意。耶穌會的。耶穌說“到我這裡來你誰是弱者和天堂·拉登，我就使你們得安息。”他提供新鮮的水，蘇打水，從天上拉賦予生命的水。
直到我們知道，我們失去了我們無法理解被人發現。直到我們知道，我們已經失明，我們無法理解用新的眼光看。直到我們知道，我們已經一貧如洗，我們無法理解它是什麼，耶穌是我們的盾牌和部分的烙印。
“人若渴了，
讓他來給我喝。耶穌說。
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