Eavesdropping On Heaven's Situation Room Series

2.4.1 Insane Asylum

Did you hear the story about a couple of physicians in training who were touring a local insane asylum? As they walked down the halls, they heard a man shouting at the top of his lungs I am the George Washington. He continued to shout several times, “I am George Washington,” at the top of his lungs. Finally, when they came to his room, the lead physician said, "Who told you that you are George Washington?” The man replied, “God told me I’m George Washington.” His roommate in the next bed sat up and said, “I didn’t tell you any such thing!” Jesus doesn’t belong in a sanitarium. He isn’t praying to Himself.

2.4.2 Distinct Yet One

“So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise. “I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me” (John 5:19, 30).

But friends, note this carefully. While the Father and the Son are distinct beings, equal in power and in authority in every way, they are united as one like no one else. Recall that Jesus said, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work” (John 4:34). Throughout his life, Jesus made it crystal clear that He did nothing but the will of the Father. Even near the end of His life, Jesus said at the Garden of Gethsemane: “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done” (Luke 22:42). Jesus consistently did the will of the Father in every breath, every step, and every waking moment of His life. From Bethlehem to Calvary to Jesus’ ascension on the Mount of Olives, Jesus completed the will of God for His life. He was like no other human being who ever lived. Nobody else can say that. Nobody else can say, “My entire life was devoted to doing exactly what the Father wanted me to do.”

Yes, Jesus is a separate being. So Jesus is equal to God, the Father, but He is also dependent on God, the Father.

1. Why Should I Care?

2. I Can Do Nothing On My Own

3. Raised to Life

“For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will. Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live” (John 5:21, 25).

3.1 Jesus Raises All the Dead

Let those words marinate in you for a few moments.

Jesus raises categorically, every single person who has ever lived.

Who will be raised by Jesus? Verse 28 says, “All who are in the tombs…”

And who does that include? Verse 29 says, “Those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.”

Believers and unbelievers. Jesus raises all the dead. Let that sink in.

All the dead who have ever lived will be raised from the dead by Jesus. Millions of Chinese and Nigerians, and Germans and Americans.

He will raise Julius Caesar from the dead,