A Charge Of Insanity

2. He has come FROM GOD. God sent Him. Notice what Jesus claimed. (and note at the same time the even though Jesus was still being persecuted, He stood on the truth. He WAS the truth so He didn’t waiver in what He claimed.)

a. He claimed, “I am not here on my own.” His mission and message were not His own. He didn’t dream it up, or plan it or plot it. He wasn’t out for self glory or to build a movement or a following. What He did wasn’t of Himself.

b. He claimed, “He who sent Me is true.” A real Person sent Jesus, and note, the Person is not only real, He is true. He is a Person who is the very embodiment of truth. What Jesus was claiming and doing was exactly what He had been sent and commissioned to claim and to do.

c. Jesus said, “You don’t know Him.” They didn’t know that Person who is truth. Jesus was saying that they didn’t know God. If they knew God, really knew Him, they would recognize and know that Jesus’ mission and works were of God. They would know that only God’s perfect love and power could speak and do as Jesus did.

3. Lastly, to close out our study for tonight, Jesus said, (v.29), “I know Him.” Jesus told how He knew God. He knew God because He was from God. And then He goes right back to what He has been saying all along—He came from God’s presence, from being face to face with Him.

He knew God because He was sent by God. While He was face to face with God, God commissioned Him and sent Him forth to proclaim and live the truth before men.

Jesus’ persistence in proclaiming the truth should be our example for standing strong in what the Bible teaches us. No matter how we are mocked, or unbelieved, or persecuted, we should stand up for what God’s Word tells us.

Jesus never backed down. No matter how much He was questioned or persecuted, He continued to proclaim the truth. We will see it again and again as we study the Gospel of John.

John 8:42, “Jesus said, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. I have not come on my own, but he sent me.”

John 10:36, “What about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’?”

John 17:21, “That all of them may be one, father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.”

If only we could be so firm in our beliefs.