
Jesus is ... The Great Joy of the Father
• Glen Salzman • Series: Jesus is ...
John 5:16-23. Jesus is ... The Great Joy of the Father 16So the Jewish leaders began harassing Jesus for breaking the Sabbath rules. 17But Jesus replied, “My Father is always working, and so am I.” 18So the Jewish leaders tried all the harder to find a way to kill him. For he not only broke the Sabbath, he called God his Father, thereby making himself equal with God. 19So Jesus explained, “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself. He does only what he sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does, the Son also does. 20For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he is doing. In fact, the Father will show him how to do even greater works than healing this man. Then you will truly be astonished. 21For just as the Father gives life to those he raises from the dead, so the Son gives life to anyone he wants. 22 In addition, the Father judges no one. Instead, he has given the Son absolute authority to judge, 23so that everyone will honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son is certainly not honoring the Father who sent him. Jesus is the Place Where Heaven and Earth Meet In the person of Christ, there meet infinite highness, and infinite condescension, infinite justice, and infinite grace, infinite glory, and lowest humility, infinite majesty, and transcendent meekness, deepest reverence towards God, and equality with God, infinite worthiness of good, and the greatest patience under the suffering of evil, an exceeding spirit of obedience, with supreme dominion over heaven and earth, absolute sovereignty, and perfect resignation, self-sufficiency, and an entire trust and reliance on God. (-Jonathon Edwards “The Excellencies of Christ”) What is the one thing only Christians can do? Only Christians can experience joy in the full deity of Jesus. The enemy can never enjoy God.