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April 8 - John 12 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It's Tuesday, it's the 8th of
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  April, and great to have your company as we continue on our
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  Lenten journey toward Easter. And if you've been listening
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  reading the Bible with me for a while, you know, I get pretty
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  sentimental when we start heading toward Easter and
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  particularly in John because John.
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  John has this incredible extended narrative as Jesus
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  heads up with his disciples into that Passover room and really
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  fleshes out the conversation and the teaching that Jesus had for
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  his disciples and has for us. But today is the last day before
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  that happens. Today is the last day that we
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  follow Jesus walking around that time, dust in his sandals as a
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  freeman before he heads up into that room and then is arrested
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  and heading toward his passion. But let's grab our palm branches
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  and wave them in the air as we read this reading today, as
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  captured in John chapter 12. Six days before the Passover
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  celebration began, Jesus arrived in Bethany, the home of Lazarus,
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  the man he had raised from the dead.
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  A dinner was prepared in Jesus honour, Martha served and
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  Lazarus was among those who ate with him.
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  Then Mary took a 12 ounce jar of expensive perfume made from
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  essence of nard, and she anointed Jesus feet with it,
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  wiping his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the
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  fragrance. But Judas Iscariot, the disciple
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  who would soon betray him, said that perfume was worth a year's
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  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 disciple's
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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
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  Jerusalem swept through the city.
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  A large crowd of Passover visitors took palm branches and
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  went down the road to meet him. They shouted, Praise God,
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  blessings on the one who comes, in the name of the Lord, hail to
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  the King of Israel. Jesus found a young donkey and
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  rode on it, fulfilling the prophecy that said don't be
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  afraid, people of Jerusalem, look, your king is coming,
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  riding on a donkey's colt. His disciples didn't understand
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  at the time that this was a fulfilment of prophecy, but
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  after Jesus entered into his glory, they remembered what had
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  happened and realised that these things had been written about
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  him. Many in the crowd had seen Jesus
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  call Lazarus from the tomb, raising him from the dead, and
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  they were telling others about it.
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  That was the reason so many went out to meet him, because they
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  had heard about this miraculous sign.
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  Then the Pharisees said to each other, there's nothing we can
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  do. Look, everyone has gone after
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  him. Some Greeks who would come to
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  Jerusalem for the Passover celebration paid a visit to
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  Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee.
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  They said, Sir, we want to meet Jesus.
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  Philip told Andrew about it, and they went together to ask Jesus.
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  Jesus replied, Now the time has come for the Son of Man to enter
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  into his 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 I will do
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  so 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 and Jesus told them the voice was for your
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  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, for they
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  loved human praise more than the praise of God.
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  Jesus 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 and 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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  Oh Jesus, we hear your invitation again and again for
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  us to live in You and to follow your teaching.
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  Our Lord, thank you for giving us such clarity of what You want
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  from us. And you know that as hard as we
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  try, our corrupted and broken human nature will make us fall
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  again and again. But as you say in this chapter,
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  you come not to judge the world, but to save the world.
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  And you have saved us, Jesus, because you did exactly what
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  your Father asked of you, and you walked that terrible road to
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  the cross, and you went through the sacrificial death to atone
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  us and bring us back into the loving embrace of you and our
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  Father and the Spirit. Oh, thank you, Jesus, for all
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  you have done for us. Continue this sanctifying work,
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  sanctifying us, changing us, pouring your holiness and
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  presence into us so that we can be more like you day after day
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  after day. We love you and we pray all of
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  this in your name, Jesus, Amen.