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July 17 - John 12 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's shown here. It's Wednesday, it's the 17th of
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  July. And you, you, my friends, have
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  tapped on play and invited me into your day so that we can
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  read some of God's word together because you and me, that's what
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  we do. I hope you're doing well.
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  It just occurred to me a few days ago that some of you are
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  listening in different time zones and it might not even be
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  Wednesday yet. You might be getting a sneak
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  preview into the future from Tuesday.
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  Wow. If that's you, hello from the
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  future to the past. I hope you're going well.
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  It was a good day. But now us future folk, we're
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  going to continue. This is very confusing.
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  It is Wednesday, my part of the world.
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  So I'm just going to claim that and go forward in a unified time
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  space continuum, if that's alright with you.
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  My brain can't handle anything more than that.
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  It is indeed the week that we are reading, John.
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  Today's the last day that John is going to be walking around
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  free because, well, at the end of today, he is going to head up
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  into that Passover room where John really lingers.
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  And we're going to spend much of next week in that room as he
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  shares all these different thoughts with his beloved
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  disciples. And John captures all of these
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  deep conversations that he has with his disciples as he wants
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  each of us to share in Jesus's most intimate intent because we
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  are to his disciples. And so today, today we have
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  Jesus entering back into that pit of Vipers, heading back into
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  Jerusalem, that terrifying place where there is a price on his
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  head like in the old Westerns, but he goes there nonetheless
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  because that is where the Father needs him to go.
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  So we're gonna go with him to see what it is that he says.
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  As we read together John chapter 12,
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  Six days before the Passover celebration began, Jesus arrived
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  in Bethany, the home of Lazarus, the man he had raised from the
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  dead. A dinner was prepared and
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  Jesus's honour Martha served and Lazarus was among those who ate
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  with him. Then Mary took a 12 ounce jar of
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  expensive perfume made from essence of NARD and she anointed
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  Jesus feet with it, wiping his feet with her hair.
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  The house was filled with the fragrance, but Judas Iscariot,
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  the disciple who would soon betray him, said that perfume
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  was worth a year's wages. It should have been sold and the
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  money given to the poor. Not that he cared for the poor.
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  He was a thief, and since he was in charge of the disciples
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  money, he often stole some for himself.
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  Jesus replied, Leave her alone. She did this in preparation for
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  my burial. You will always have the poor
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  among you, but you will not always have me.
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  When all the people heard of Jesus arrival, they flocked to
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  see him and also to see Lazarus, the man Jesus had raised from
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  the dead. Then the leading priests decided
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  to kill Lazarus too, for it was because of him that many of the
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  people had deserted them and believed in Jesus.
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  The next day the news that Jesus was on the way to Jerusalem
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  swept through the city. A large crowd of Passover
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  visitors took palm branches and went down the road to meet him.
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  They shouted, Praise God, blessings on the one who comes.
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  In the name of the Lord, hail to the King of Israel.
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  Jesus found a donkey and rode on it, fulfilling the prophecy that
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  said, don't be afraid, people of Jerusalem.
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  Look, your king is coming. Riding on a donkey's cult.
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  His disciples didn't understand at the time that this was a
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  fulfilment of prophecy, but after Jesus entered into his
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  glory, they remembered what had happened and realised that these
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  things had been written about Him.
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  Many in the crowd had seen Jesus call Lazarus from the tomb,
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  raising him from the dead, and they were telling others about
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  it. That was the reason so many of
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  them went out to meet him, because they had heard about
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  this miraculous sign. Then the Pharisees said to each
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  other, there's nothing we can do.
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  Look, everyone has gone after Him.
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  Some Greeks of it come to Jerusalem for the Passover
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  celebration, paid a visit to Phillip, who was from Bethsaida
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  in Galilee. They said, Sir, we want to meet
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  Jesus. Philip told Andrew about it and
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  they went together to ask Jesus. Jesus replied.
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  Now the time has come for the Son of Man to enter into his
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  glory. I tell you the truth, unless a
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  kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains
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  alone. But its death will produce many
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  new kernels, a plentiful harvest of new lives.
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  Those who love their life in this world will lose it.
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  Those who care nothing for their life in this world will keep it
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  for eternity. Anyone who wants to serve Me
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  must follow me, because My servants must be where I am, and
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  the Father will honour anyone who serves me.
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  Now my soul is deeply troubled. Should I pray Father save me
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  from this hour? But this is the very reason I
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  came. Father, bring glory to your
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  name. Then a voice spoke from heaven,
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  saying, I have already brought glory to my name and will do so
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  again. When the crowd heard the voice,
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  some thought it was Thunder, while others declared an Angel
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  had spoken to him. Then Jesus told them the voice
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  was for your benefit, not mine. The time for judging this world
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  has come, when Satan, the ruler of this world, will be cast out,
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  and when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to
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  myself. He said this to indicate how he
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  was going to die, the crowd responded.
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  We understood from Scripture that the Messiah would live
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  forever. How can you say the Son of Man
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  will die? Just who is the Son of Man
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  anyway? Jesus replied.
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  My light will shine for you just a little longer.
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  Walk in the light while you can so the darkness will not
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  overtake you. Those who walk in the darkness
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  cannot see where they are going. Put your trust in the light
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  while there is still time. Then you will become children of
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  the light. After saying these things, Jesus
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  went away and was hidden from them.
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  But despite all the miraculous signs Jesus had done, most of
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  the people still did not believe in him.
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  This is exactly what Isaiah the prophet had predicted.
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  Lord, who has believed our message?
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  To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm?
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  But the people couldn't believe. For as Isaiah also said, the
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  Lord has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts so that
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  their eyes cannot see, and their hearts cannot understand, and
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  they cannot turn to me and have me heal them.
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  Isaiah was referring to Jesus when he said this because he saw
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  the future and spoke of the Messiah's glory.
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  Many people did believe in him, however, including some of the
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  Jewish leaders, but they wouldn't admit it for fear that
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  the Pharisees would expel them from the synagogue.
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  For they loved human praise more than the praise of God.
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  Jesus had shouted to the crowds. If you trust me, you are
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  trusting not only me, but also God who sent me.
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  For when you see me, you are seeing the One who sent me.
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  I have come as a light to shine in this Dark World, so that all
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  who put their trust in me will no longer remain in the dark.
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  I will not judge those who hear me but don't obey me, for I have
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  come to save the world and not to judge it.
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  But all who reject me in my message will be judged on the
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  day of judgement by the truth I have spoken.
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  I don't speak on my own authority.
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  The Father who sent me has commanded me what to say and how
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  to say it, and I know His commands lead to eternal life,
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  so I say whatever the Father tells me to say.
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  Jesus, thank you for your words. Thank you for your description
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  of your own crucifixion and death, and that for you.
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  The most important action through all of this is that you
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  describe that as you are raised up from the earth, you will draw
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  everyone to yourself. Not that you will finally be
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  vindicated, or that you will be proven right, or that you will
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  gain victory over sin and death, but that you will draw everyone
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  to yourself. Jesus, your heart is so big and
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  so focused on being reunited with us.
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  Thank you that you go through all of this, that this plan.
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  From the very outset, the goal was always to draw us back to
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  you, back into your fold so that we could rest with you in your
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  eternal Kingdom. And so we begin that right now.
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  Lord, we offer ourselves to you. We submit to you your rule and
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  your glory, and we pray that we would live our lives in a way
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  that honours You and ashes in your Kingdom.
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  And we pray all of this in your saving, loving name, Jesus.
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  Ah, man.