Jesus Glorified-Part 1

JESUS GLORIFIED-I—John 12:20-36

Attention:

I regularly use a weedeater when I cut the grass. We have to trim a good deal—around buildings, & trees, & trimming the ditch out front. We have a gasoline powered Stihl FS 56 RC-E. It’s a great German product! I’m on my second one! I used the first one when we lived in Florida, in sand near the beach, every week for most weeks, because the growing season is at least 11 months there. I completely wore out that weedeater. I had it serviced only once. And I generally neglected it —‘rode it hard & put it up wet.’ Most every time it cranked on the third pull of the string! I’ve often said that it’s the one product that I would be pleased to do a commercial for. In an age when built in obsolescence is king, A Stihl weedeater is a breath of fresh air.

•I am ‘glorifying’—pointing to, proclaiming the worth, the beauty, the value of Stihl weedeaters!

Likewise I am very pleased with our Fiskars products. They are a Scandanavian company that makes yard tools. We bought a pair of Fiskars shears from Lowes. Heavy into their use one of the handles broke—the handle grip separated from the metal tong. They were guaranteed for ‘life’, so I took a picture of the shears & sent it to Fiskars. They sent me a new pair of shears & I returned the broken one’s in the box! No questions asked! Virtually no company provides service like that anymore!

•I am ‘glorifying’—pointing to, proclaiming the worth, the beauty, the value of Fiskars’ mainly because of their Return Policy!

You will find that at Salem Baptist Church, as every church should, we ‘glorify’—point to, proclaim the worth, the beauty, the value of, & call attention to Jesus above all else! We Glorify Him above everything! He will never forsake His people!(Gen. 12:15; Deut. 4:31) Because if it weren’t for Him we would be like the majority of people who have no hope in this world!(Eph. 2:12) We owe our very lives & eternal lives to Him!

Need:

All people are in dire need of knowing the fact, that Jesus life death, resurrection, & ascension are of eternal consequence to them.

The apostle John recorded some of the events surrounding the imminence of Jesus’ glorification.

There are aspects of Jesus’ being glorified that are of great consequence/significance.

How &/or Why is Jesus glorified?

6 significant/consequential aspects of Jesus’ glorification.

Excerpted from The New Oxford American English Dictionary:

•GLORY(Noun) = ‘High renown or honor won by notable achievements’ OR: ‘Magnificence or great beauty.’

•To GLORIFY(Verb) = ‘To cause the dignity & worth of some person or thing to become manifest & acknowledged.’ OR: ‘To render/esteem/consider as glorious.’

•GLORIOUS(Adjective) = ‘Having a striking beauty or splendor that evokes feelings of delighted admiration.’

1—Jesus’ glorification necessitates a submission to...

GOD’s PRIORITY(:20-23)

Explanation:(:20-23)Precedence

:20—“Now there were certain Greeks among those who came up to worship at the feast.”

:21—“Then they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, & asked him, saying, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.””

:22—“Philip came & told Andrew, & in turn Andrew & Philip told Jesus.”

:23—“But Jesus answered them, saying, “The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified.”

:20—“Now there were certain Greeks among those who came up to worship at the feast.”

“The Feast”—the context(12:12ff--‘Triumphal Entry’ -&- 18:1ff--‘Jesus’ Arrest’)—comprises the Passover(1 day-Nisan 14) coupled with the Feast of Unleavened Bread(7 days-Nisan 15-21). The day following the first day of Unleavened Bread was the Feast of Firstfruits(1 day-Nisan 16)—(Kevin Howard & Marvin Rosenthal in ‘The Feasts Of The Lord’).

We are not told ‘who’ these “certain Greeks” were, or ‘where’ they were from. They were evidently pilgrims &/or travelers from the “Greek”(Hellenistic) empire. They would be representatives of Gentiles. And their presence obviously speaks to the boundless outreach of the Good News of Jesus which began in Israel’s history with YHWH!

These “Greeks” were “among those who came up to worship at the feast.” So they definitely had a ‘religious attachment’ to Judaism.

They had a ‘fear of God’ to some degree, & were possibly converts to Judaism.

:21—“Then they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, & asked him, saying, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.””

We are not told ‘why’ these “certain Greeks” came to Philip in particular.

•Philip, being from Bethsaida of Galilee(bordering Gentile territory), ‘probably’ spoke Greek fluently(MNTC)...So maybe they approached him for that reason.

Mat. 10:5-7—“These twelve Jesus sent out & commanded them, saying: “Do not go into the way of the Gentiles, & do not enter a city of the Samaritans. But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’”