Series: Committed
Message: Acceptance
Preacher: Japhet De Oliveira
Refresh: Open with prayer. Read or listen to Psalm 62:5-8.
Read: John 6:22-59 — As you re-read for the final time this week in the ESV translation, what did you discover new about God’s character?
Reflect: I appreciated how Frederick Dale Bruner in his commentary The Gospel of John tied the essence of Christianity into the three famous phrases and expands on the Son of Man claim of Jesus.
The Sola Fide, Sola Christus (by Faith Alone, Christ Alone) Body, vv. 25-35.
The Sola Gratia (by Grace Alone) Coda, vv. 36-40.
By using the outwardly low but actually regal Son of Man title, Jesus may be first of all correcting the crowd’s sensationalist misapprehension of Jesus as Prophet-King (vv. 14-14), or Wonder-Chef (vs. 26). “Son of Man” sounds lowly to the first-time hearers, but Jesus keeps redefining this title in all the Gospels until we finally learn that he is no one less than the Suffering Servant of Isaiah 52 and the majestic Son of Man from heaven of Daniel 7:13-14, a crucial and compact two-verse text. I will lay it out in full, emphasizing certain words so that we may appreciate the One of whom Jesus now so surprisingly and emphatically speaks and with whom (as we soon learn) he seems of profoundly to identify (and with whom he so much wants us to identify):
"As I [Daniel] watched in the night visions, I saw one like a Son of Man coming with the clods of heaven. And he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. To him [this Son of man] was given dominion and glory and kingship, that all peoples, nations and languages should serve him, His dominion is an everlasting dominion that shall not pass away, and his kingship one that shall never be destroyed" (pp. 380-385).
Recalibrate:
Respond: Pray for open faith in Jesus.
Research: Read one of the recommended commentaries on the passage.