Shalom, my dear friends. We are studying together the Gospel of John and this ministry meeting we are continuing on with the 12th chapter of the Gospel of John. In Hebrew, the name is Yohanan. Yohanan was the one that was presenting before us the divine nature of our Lord Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, when he was used by the Spirit of God to pen down this Gospel according to Yohanan, according to John. We are now in the 12th chapter and I would like to begin reading in this session from verse 20 of John chapter 12. We are going to read all the way to the end of the chapter.

John 12 and verse 20. John 12 and verse 20. And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast. The same came, therefore, to Philip, which was in Bethsaida of Galilee and desired him, saying, "Sir, we would see Yeshua. We would see Jesus. Philip cometh and telleth Andrew." And again, Andrew and Philip tell Jesus. And Yeshua answered them, saying, "The hour is come that the Son of man should be glorified. Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone. But if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it.

And he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. If any man serve me, let him follow me. And where I am, there shall also my servants be. If any man serve me, him will my Father honor. Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? Father, Abba, save me from this hour. But for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name." Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again." The people, therefore, that stood by and heard it said, that it thundered. Others said, "An angel spake to him." Jesus answered and said, "This voice came not because of me, but for your sake." Now is the judgment of this world.

Now shall the prince of this world be cast out. "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me." This, he said, signifying what death he should die. The people answered him, "We have heard out of the law that the Messiah abideth forever." "And how sayest thou the Son of man must be lifted up?" "Who is this Son of man?" Verse 35. "Then Yeshua said unto them, "Yet a little while is the light with you." "Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you. "For he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. "While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light." "These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them." "But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him." "That a saying of Isaiah, the prophets might be fulfilled which he spake, "Lord, who has believed thy report?

"And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?" "Therefore they could not believe, because that Isaiah said again, "He has blinded their eyes, and hardened their hearts, "that they should not see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, "and be converted, and I should heal them." "This thing said Isaiah when he saw his glory, "and spake of him. "Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believe on him. "But because of the Pharisees, they did not confess him, "lest they should be put out of the synagogue, "for they loved their praises of men more than the praise of God." "Yeshua cried and said, "He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me.

"And he that seeth me, seeth him that sent me. "I am come a light into the world, "that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. "And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not. "For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. "He that rejects me, and receiveth not my words, "has one that judges him the word that I have spoken, "the same shall judge him in the last day. "For I have not spoken of myself, but the Father which sent me, "he gave me commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

"And I know that his commandment is life everlasting. "Whatsoever I speak, therefore, even as the Father said unto me, "so I speak." Beloved brothers and sisters, we read in this message from verses 20 to the end of the chapter, to verse 50. And this is the second half of the 12th chapter, through which chapter we have learned that the Lord, Jesus, Yeshua HaMashiach, he was the one that was appealing in his final public ministry to various groups among the people of Israel. The first one was in chapter 12, verses 1 to 11. The Lord Jesus, the Messiah, was with his friends there in Beit Onya, Bethany, at the house of Miriam and Martha and Eliezer whom he had raised.

And he wanted to encourage them and to strengthen them in believing on him. Then in the second portion, verses 12 to 19, the Lord, Yeshua, the Messiah, spoke to the Jewish people who came to the Feast of Pesach. With them he communicated and he told them in these verses, 12 to 19, of the fact that he was the one that came in order to provide redemption. And as he was presenting himself before the people doing the feast, in the city of Yerushalayim, many took palm trees, branches, and they said, "Hoshana, blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord." And now the Lord came into this triumphant entry into the city of Yerushalayim.

And then we read that they understood not when he was coming to the city of Yerushalayim, he found a young donkey and he sat on it. And it is written, "Fear not, daughters of Zion," fulfilling what the prophet Zechariah was prophesying concerning the first coming of the Messiah. And if you remember, we read that these things understood not his disciples, at the first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of him. But we read that the people, therefore, that was with him when he called Eliezer out of the grave, you know what we read? For this cause the people also met him for that they heard that he had done this miracle.

And you remember we concluded in verse 19 in our previous message that the Pharisees, therefore, among the people said, "Do you see? Do you see how ye prevail in nothing? Look, the whole world is gone after him." And you see, my dear friend, dear brothers and sisters, many had followed the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah, even though their measure of understanding was limited, but they did believe, but the Pharisees and the spiritual leaders of Israel who were there, they saw that many follow him and they were so concerned because the whole world, according to them, is gone after him. Well, in the next portion, which we are dealing with in this ministry meeting, verses 20, to the end we see now that Yeshua is now relating to the Greeks, to the Hellenistic Jews who came to the city of Jerusalem for the feast, and then ultimately at the end he is also relating to those who did not believe on him.

So this passage is very important because the whole purpose behind these verses that there was final part of the public ministry of the Lord in the land of Israel and he, the Lord Jesus the Messiah, relate himself to different groups among the people of Israel. His friends in Bethany, the Jewish people who came to the feast of Pesach, the Hellenistic Jews who came to the feast, and ultimately those who did not believe on him. So there were various groups in which he was communicating with during the time that he came in this triumphant entry into the city of Jerusalem. And so when we have arrived now to verse 20 of chapter 12, from verse 20 to verse 36, we see what happened when these Greek Jews, the Hellenists who came to the feast in the city of Jerusalem and wanted to see Jesus.

We read in verse 20, and there came certain Greeks, the Hebrew word is Yevanim, in the Greek is Hellenists, among them that came up to worship at the feast. Some might say that these are Gentiles who got converted, became believers in the God of Israel. They may have been around the world in attending various synagogues. They come now to the feast in Jerusalem in order to celebrate the feast of Passover. And so some would suggest that these are simply non-Jewish Greeks who came from the nations of the world, but they must have been those who must have been converts into the God of Israel. And of course, from other texts, we can see that these Hellenists were people who actually were Jewish believers who came to keep the feast of a Passover.

But they were what we call them today Hellenistic Jews, Greek Jews who live in the diaspora. You remember, according to Acts chapter 6, there was a friction in the early assembly in the city of Jerusalem between the local Jews, the local one, the one who lived in Israel, born in the land, and others who came from among the nations of the world. We read in Acts chapter 6 and verse 1, "In those days when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Greeks or the Grecians against the Hebrews, because of their widows. They were neglected in the daily administration." In other words, there were in the early days in the local assemblies in the city of Jerusalem, in the land of Israel, there was a murmuring between the Grecian Jews and Hebrew Jews.

In other words, to remind you that the time where the non-Jews, the Gentiles, have entered into the body of Christ, the Samaritans in Acts chapter 8, and the Gentiles through Cornelius, who was the first one to come in, then the Jews, the Samaritans, and the Gentiles were now part of this local church, local assembly. But during the time where, before the church was born, before the assembly was born, we have here these Hellenistic Jews coming to the land of Israel to celebrate the feast of Pesach in the temple. So they come, and what do they say? They come to worship, and the same came, therefore, to Philip, which was of Bethsaida, of Galilee, and desired him saying, "Sir, we would see Jesus." What a wonderful expression we have here in this verse 21 in Hebrew.

So we want to see Yeshua. We want to see Yeshua. We want to see Yeshua. They've heard of him. They've heard of what he has done with the raising of Eliezer, the miracle that he has done. They came and they wanted to see Jesus. We do not even hear or read whether they have really conversed with him. But one thing we do read that they said we would see Jesus. We wanted to see Yeshua. So Philip cometh and he telleth to Andrew, verse 22, and Andrew and Philip tell this to Yeshua, to Jesus. But then you notice, in verse 23 all the way to verse 28, Yeshua, Jesus is answering Andrew and Philip, and he is telling them in verses 23 to 28, he emphasizes the fact that the glory of God, that God is going to be now glorified when he will soon die and pay for the question of sin.

It is very interesting that we do not read that he spoke to these Greeks who sought for him. Yet the answer that he has gave to Philip and Andrew is this. Notice this, beautiful. In verse 23, "The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified. Verily, Verily I say unto you, except a cone of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone. But if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." I just want to pause here for a moment. While we do not read that he is speaking now to these Hellenistic Jews, Jews from the diaspora, or Gentiles who convert to become believers in the God of Israel who came to see Yeshua the Messiah, while we do not read him speaking with them or them speaking with him, what we do read that he directed the attention of his disciples to the fact that he is about to die on a shameful tree for the redemption of mankind.

So, these Greeks may have come because they have heard about his miracles which he had made, but he is pointing to the fact that he didn't come to provide miraculous events here in this world, but he came in order that he will pay for sin because otherwise there will never be a possibility for men to enter into a relationship with God. So, he is saying the hour has come. Notice what Yeshua the Messiah always said this of himself. He called himself the son of men should be glorified. Notice the word son of men. Many times in scripture we find our Lord Yeshua using this expression Ben HaAdam or Ben Adam.

in fact, he is speaking this of himself so many times over 75 to 80 times in the gospel. Began in Matthew 8 verse 20. Yeshua says unto him the foxes have fallen and the birds of the air have nests, but the son of man have nowhere to lay his head. This is a messianic title that our Lord Yeshua the Messiah gave to himself taken from the prophecy that Daniel the prophet received from the angel when he was in the dispersion in Babylon. in Daniel we read in Daniel 7:13 I saw in the night vision then behold one like unto the son of man Ben HaAdam came with the clouds of heaven and came to the ancient of days and they brought him near before him.

This is the son of man Ben HaAdam the messianic man that will come with the clouds of heaven. Remember what we read in the book of Revelation in chapter 1 where we read in verse 7 of Revelation chapter 1 we read of the second coming of the Messiah Behold he cometh with clouds and every eye shall see him and they also which pierce him and all the kinders of the earth shall wail because of him even so. Amen. This has to do with the second coming and the Lord Jesus the Lord Yeshua the Messiah called himself Ben HaAdam Ben Adam the son of man he became a man in order to provide salvation because he could die as a man for the sin of this world.

The second time it is mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew is Matthew 9 verse 6 but that he may know that the son of man has power on earth to forgive sins as we read here in verse 6 of Matthew chapter 9 Mark in his Gospel Yeshua again mentioned the fact that he is the son of man in the Gospel of Mark chapter 2 and verse 10 and verse 10 but that he may know that the son of man has power on earth to forgive sins. You see he is Ben HaAdam Ben the son of man. We can continue on beloved brothers and sisters and dear friends throughout the Gospel in the Gospel of Luke the first time it is mentioned in Luke chapter 5 and verse 24 but that he may know that the son of man has power upon the earth to forgive sins.

And here we find out in the Gospel of John Yohanan Yeshua once and again speaking of himself calling himself Ben Adam in John chapter 1 we read and he says unto him verily verily I said to you hereafter ye shall see heaven open and the angels of God ascending and the son of man. John 3 and verse 13 no man has ascended up to heaven but he that came down from heaven even the son of man which is in heaven.

Ben HaAdam in Hebrew it's very clear Ben HaAdam is a messianic title my dear friend and I would like just to mention for the benefit of us all when the Lord was standing before the spiritual leaders of Israel confessing that he was the son of man we read that they understood that that is a messianic title that Yeshua is speaking of himself as the one that has the messianic title he is the Messiah you remember what he said in Matthew chapter 26 this is the last time in the gospel of Matthew which Yeshua used the word to use the word the son of man Jesus said unto him thou hast said it nevertheless I say

unto you hereafter you shall see the son of man sitting on the right hand of the power and coming in clouds of heaven this is Matthew chapter 26 verse 64 what do you think the high priest did in verse 65 then the high priest rent his clothes saying he has spoken blasphemy what further need have we of witnesses behold now ye have heard his blasphemy when Yeshua used the expression the son of man the spiritual leaders of Israel understood that it is speaking about the Messiah himself so you notice the hour is coming when the son of man should be glorified verily verily I say unto you and listen how beautiful except a corn of

wheat fall into the ground and die it abideth alone but if it die it bringeth forth much fruit you see it's like it's a parable it's a mashal parabolis the Lord is taking an example from that which is naturally happened here on earth to apply this to himself he will be as the corn of wheat that fall into the ground and die and just as a corn of wheat could not bring fruit unless it goes into the ground and die and then bring forth fruit there will never be fruit for God in this world for mankind unless the Messiah paid for our sin and he surely paid for the sin of this world when he

died except a corn of wheat fall into the ground my dear friend I hope we can grasp it I hope we can understand it that he was speaking the Lord Yeshua Jesus our Mashiach is speaking of himself that it was necessary for him before he will return as man to glory to heaven it was necessary that he will die first a corn of wheat must fall into the ground and die and if it doesn't die it will remain alone a corn of wheat that will not be placed in the ground and die it will not bring fruit it will not grow the Messiah had to die in order to bring fruit and what does that

mean that when Yeshua would go and die on the tree he will provide fruit for mankind so wonderful to know that so precious to our hearts to know that the reason that Yeshua Jesus the Messiah came to this world is to pay for the sin of this world so he continues and he says he that loveth his life shall lose it and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it unto eternal life in other words one that will identify with the Messiah with that corn of wheat with the Mashiach the son of man who will die he will ultimately will gain but if he will not identify with him and seek to

have his life only here in this world he will lose it what shall he profit a man if he should gain the whole world listen but lose his whole soul what will it profit every one of us know very well that we live here only for a season time is passing by we were born into this world we became young boys and girls then young men and women then older men and women then we continue on in life but time is passing by and we leave this scene we are not staying here forever he that loves his life shall lose it meaning that if you only love your life here on earth you're going to

lose it at the end my dear friend but he that hates his life meaning that he prefers to be right with God live in this world seek to live for God but making sure that his sins are forgiven trusting in the Lord Jesus the Messiah he will not only have life in this world but shall keep it into eternal life Yeshua saying in verse 25 verse 26 if any man serve me let him follow me and where I am there shall also my servant be if any man serve me him will my father honor in other words it's so beautiful to identify with Yeshua the Messiah today to accept him as our Lord and Savior

to accept that the fact that he paid for our sins that not only give us a life here blessing life here on earth but also to be with him eternally and the father God the father will honor those that trust in his son Ben Adam this is the Messiah the Messiah the Savior the Redeemer but now notice in anticipation in verse 27 look what Yeshua is saying in verse 27 in verse 28 the Lord's word now is my soul troubled now imagine my dear friend because Jesus Yeshua was sinless and because he is God and man in one he knew no sin he did no sin in him there was no sin but now he

is going to become sin for us for mankind not to become sinner no he is sinless but to be made sin he who knew no sin God made him sin for us sin sacrifice and so in anticipation for his death and to be the one that will bear our sins in his body on the tree Yeshua said my soul is troubled it's really the load that he anticipated to bear can you imagine not only the many sins in plural that each and every one of us commit but the sin nature that brought about that which made it necessary for him to come to this world and so my soul is troubled he said doesn't it

remind us of what Isaiah prophetically spoke concerning our Mashiach who would come in Isaiah 53 and verse 10 we do read what Isaiah said in verse 10 concerning the Messiah it pleased the Lord to bruise him he has put him to grief when thou shall listen to it when thou shall make his soul an offering for sin he shall see his seed he shall prolong his days and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his head it pleased Jehovah to bruise him what does that mean God wanted to punish him to bruise him to judge him so that others such as you and I who will believe on him will receive forgiveness of sins

that's why it says in Isaiah 53 and verse 10 when thou shall make his soul an offering for sin you see up till the time when the Lord Jesus the Messiah came the sacrificial system that was ordained of God pointed to him but now the Lamb of God came which is going to take the sin of this world and here is where Yeshua Jesus the Messiah anticipating his punishment on the cross for your sins and mine he says my soul is troubled what shall I say father save me from this hour don't allow me to be judged for the sin by a holy and righteous God he continues says no but for this cause came

into this world then he said notice that beautiful verse 28 he's asking the father to glorify his name you see none of us glorified God in much of our lives there were many godly men and women for which we thank the Lord that were setting an example and they did honor and glorify God in their life but they were always limited because they all like you and I have seen nature and failed and sin but here is the man the son of man Ben HaDam the Mashiach himself saying now father glorify thy name he wanted to glorify God God was dishonored the father was dishonored because of sin and because of this he made it

necessary for the Messiah to come to die and pay for the sin of this world and here Yeshua is saying father glorify your name the hour has come for me to go to the cross you notice this is like towards the end of the public ministry because from the next chapter 13 he is only with his talmidim his disciples in the upper room and then ultimately in the garden of Gatshmanim Gatshemani and ultimately he will be at the cross where he will be crucified he will die on the Roman cross and say it is finished so these are the last portion of his public ministry when he was there in the city of Jerusalem coming

from Bethany to the city of Jerusalem with this triumphant entry to the city there when the people came to celebrate a Pesach Passover and so we read that there is a voice that came from heaven my dear friend think about it voice that came from heaven was unheard of and here we find out that there is a voice that came from heaven for this one single man whose name is Yeshua Yeshua Mashiach of whom we have already read in his own baptism in Matthew chapter 3 where the voice came from heaven that says this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased in Matthew chapter 17 in a mountain of the transfiguration in

verse 5 this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased hear ye him now we see it and we hear it once again then came a voice this is verse 28 of John chapter 12 saying I have both glorified it and I will glorify it again this is the voice from Elohim Ha'abba God the Father you see God found pleasure in the person of his son who called himself Ben Ha'adam the messianic title that he himself took to say of himself Anihu Ben Ha'adam the son of man the promised messiah and so the voice came so verses 29 30 we read then the people therefore that stood by heard it and said that

it thundered others said an angel speak unto him and notice the response of Yeshua and he said to them he answered and said this voice came not because of me but for your sake now is the judgment of this world now is the prince of this world shall be cast out and I if I be lifted up from the earth I will draw all men unto me you see the answer to the people who heard that voice of God the father saying I have glorified it and I will glorify it again the people thought that it was thundering or an angel spake unto him but the Lord Yeshua the Messiah said to them the voice

did not come because of me but it came for your sake that you will understand and believe on me that you will understand that God has sent me to this world and you notice he continued and he said now is the judgment of this world now shall the prince of this world be cast out now notice that when did God judge this world you see there is yet to come a future day when judgment will fall upon all this world specifically during the tribulation day but here we learn that when the Lord Yeshua will go and die on the cross on the tree and he will be punished by a holy and righteous God for

the sake of mankind because of our sin because of the sin of this world that's when the world will be judged sin will be judged in the person of the Lord Jesus the Messiah that's why in 2nd Corinthians 5 and verse 21 the apostle made sure to help the believers to understand for he this is God has made him this is the Messiah Jesus to be sin not sinner sin sacrifice sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him in other words God is going to punish sin and that is the judgment that the world will be judged because the whole world the sin of this

world that caused men to ultimately go to eternal separation from God now when sin will be judged in the person of the Messiah Yeshua on the tree it will provide redemption to all who will believe on him but not only that my dear friend my dear brothers and sisters even the prince of the world will be cast out who is the prince of this world this is none else but Satan has satan who were already in the early days of creation in Genesis chapter 3 he beguiled Eve in the garden of Adam according according to 2 Corinthians chapter 4 Paul helps us to understand it in verse 3 we read but if our gospel be

heed it is heed to them that are lost why verse 4 in whom the God small g Satan the God of this world has blinded the mind of them which believe not less the light of the glorious gospel of the Messiah who is the image of God should shine unto them in other words you see my dear friend this God the prince of this world is none else but Satan himself in fact beloved brothers and sisters and dear friends according to Ephesians chapter 2 he is called the prince of the power of the air let me read you this verse here in Ephesians chapter 2 verses 1 and 2 and you hath he quickened who

were dead in trespasses and sins wherein in time passed he walked according to the course of this world according listen to this to the prince of the power of the air the spirit that now his obedience in other words Satan is working in the hearts and mind of disobedient children namely the unregenerated world so my dear friends and dear brothers and sisters when the Lord Jesus the Messiah would go to the tree and he would become the one that would take upon himself the sin of this world now he will not only judge the world the sin of this world but also the prince Satan who is the god of this world he will be

judged and be ultimately cast out and I if I be lifted up from the earth I will draw all men unto myself unto me notice this is very interesting verse in John chapter 12 and verse 32 and I if I be lifted up I will draw all men unto me in John chapter 3 and verse 14 he already mentioned this in verse 14 where he said as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness so must the son of man be lifted up in other words what does that mean the son of man must be lifted up John 3 and verse 14 what does it mean if I be lifted up from the earth I

will draw all men unto me in John 12 and verse 32 that lifted up is a clear indication that he is speaking about crucifixion you see to remind you that our people of Israel did not crucify Jewish people according to the law would stone someone who violated God's word but never crucifixion and so we learned this amazing lesson from prophecy again of Isaiah who have already predicted in Isaiah chapter 53 again this famous chapter that we refer to many times as we read the prophetic word of God concerning the coming of the Messiah but you remember what Isaiah said in this 53rd chapter specifically this amazing portion that speak about the Lord Jesus the Messiah

as the one that will bear he was wounded for our transgression he was bruised for our iniquity the chastisement of our peace fell upon him and with his stripe we are healed that has a reference to the fact that he will be wounded and that he will be the one that will take upon himself the sin question notice what David said in Psalm 22 and specifically in this verse 16 David said for dogs have compassed me the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me prophetically speaking about the death of the Messiah but notice at the end of verse 16 he said they pierced my hand and my feet not they stoned me but they pierced

my hand and my feet that has a reference to the crucifixion to the way the Romans would crucify those that they would punish and so you can see that the Hebrew prophet whether it is David or whether it is Yeshua or whether it is Yerimiyahu or whatever prophets of old or whether it is Moshe Moses who said a prophet like unto me God will raise from among you these prophetic words were fulfilled to the letter and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah said if I be lifted up from the earth I will draw all men unto myself and that is beautiful because it makes us a reference that he will draw all men unto him unto

me what does that mean I will draw all men I always wonder about this passage do all men draw to Jesus to Yeshua did all men since the time that Yeshua died on that Roman cross some 2000 years ago did all men came to him no we know it's very clear that not all men came to the Lord by faith and accepted him man is still rejecting him today worldwide what does he mean when he says I will draw all men unto me you see you and I men and women people will either be drawn unto him to the cross to the tree to the sacrifice as the lamb of God confessing their sin or

they will be drawn unto him to the great white throne judgment where he is going to judge the unbelievers and cast them into the lake of fire you are either coming to the Lord Jesus the Messiah by faith accepting his death on the cross on the tree and receiving his forgiveness or you will come to him you will be drawn to him in the day of judgment at the great white throne judgment and the same Yeshua as the lamb of God will be the lion of the tribe of Judah who will be the judge of all those that rejected his offer of salvation and I if I be lifted up from this earth I will

draw all men unto me notice how clearly in verse 33 and this said he signifying what death he should die Yeshua the Messiah knew very well that he will die by crucifixion because he was the one who gave us the word he is the eternal son of God he is the author he is the eternal word whatever God gave to our forefathers to put down in this record of scripture was given by himself through the spirit of God he is the creator he is the upholder of all things he is the one who became the son of man in order to provide salvation for those who believe on him and now listen to these next

verses in verse 34 35 and 36 we read the people answered him we have heard out of the Lord that the Messiah abideth forever and how sayest thou the son of man must be lifted up who is this son of man me ze ben ha adam well you notice that according to Isaiah chapter 9 and verse 6 we do read that the Messiah when he will come for unto us a child is born unto us a son is shall be upon his shoulder and his name shall be called wonderful counselor the mighty God the father of eternity the prince of peace and notice verse 7 and of his the increase of his government and peace

and shalom there shall be no end and upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom to order it and to establish it with judgment and with justice from hence forth even forever the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform it you see here it is my dear beloved friend the need to understand that when the Mashiach would come in his first coming he will come to die for the sin of this world and when he will come at his second coming he will come to rule and to reign you see Isaiah chapter 9 verse 6 7 gives us the two comings of the Messiah unto us a child is born and unto us

a son is given this has to do with his first coming he was born as a baby in Bethlehem Messiah was given by God but then verses 6 B all the way to verse 7 it deals with the second coming of the Messiah that the government shall be future upon his shoulder and his name shall be called the wonderful and counselor and so mighty God or the increase of his government shall be no end well is the government is upon his shoulder today the vast majority of the governments of this world reject him today all this is concerning the second coming of the Mashiach when a Messiah will come Israel will accept him finally at

his second coming he will rule and reign the heavenly company the church the ecclesia will rule with him over the earth the Jewish people will be used by the law to be a light to the nations of the world Israel will be a priestly nation and the world will be subdued by the Messiah and every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Yeshua is Lord to the glory of God the Father it didn't happen as yet the Lord is building the church the assembly the ecclesia now Jews and Gentiles who unite together in the body of Messiah are called out of this world to form a group that is called the body of

Messiah the ecclesia the called out ones the church the assembly so now as we move along in this passage we find out that the Lord gives the answer and he continued and he said Jesus said unto them yet a little while his light is with you walk while you have the light lest darkness come upon you for he that walk is in darkness know not whither he goes while you have the light believe in the light that he may be the children of light these things speak Yeshua and he departed and did hide himself from them you notice that now beloved brothers and sisters and dear friends up to this point the Lord Jesus the

Messiah communicated with the people who would listen to him when the Greeks the Hellenistic Jews came to the Passover to celebrate the feast and he spoke with those that would hear him as they asked we would see Jesus would you like to see Jesus the Messiah today well you have to trust in him to believe in him to accept him and you will see him by faith and soon and very soon when he is going to return he will take you to be with him and you will see the son of man Ben Adam we shall see him and we are going to be with him for we shall be as he is amazing promises

we have in the word of God let us draw nigh to the final portion of this 12th chapter which is from verse 37 to verse 50 where Yeshua is now is dealing with those who did not believe and notice what we read in verse 37 but though he had done so many miracles before them yet they believe not on him this is sad isn't it but you notice my dear brothers and sisters and dear friend from here on there was no more a public ministry of the Lord because now we read we have that record that though he had done so many miracles before them yet they believe not him believe not Yeshua we read

in verse 38 that this was the fulfillment of what Isaiah the prophet have already said some 700 750 years before Yeshua came to the land of Israel through the virgin Miriam that the saying of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled which he spake Lord Isaiah 53 verse 1 who has believed our report and to whom has the arm of the Lord had been revealed therefore they could not believe because that Isaiah said again this is Isaiah 6 and verse 10 he has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart that they should not see with their eyes nor understand with their heart and be converted and I should heal them now my dear friend this is

a very strong statement you see when Isaiah spoke these words and received these words from the Lord concerning the people of Israel in Isaiah chapter 6 Isaiah was received revelation from the Lord if you remember we read in Isaiah chapter 6 that in the year of King Uzziah that he died I saw also the Lord sitting upon the throne high and lifted up and his train filled the temple Isaiah 6 verse 1 above it stood the seraphim each one had six wings with twain he covered his face with twain he covered his feet and with twain he did fly and one cry unto another and said holy holy holy kadosh kadosh kadosh adonai tsevaot the

Lord of all the whole earth is filled with his glory the post of the door moved and with the voice of him that cried and the house was filled with smoke when isaiah saw this vision isaiah said woe is me isaiah 6 and verse 5 and i said woe is me for i am undone because i am a man of unclean lips and i dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips for mine eyes have seen the king the lord of hosts isaiah he saw this amazing vision of the glory of the lord and he recognized how sinful he is that's why he says oily in hebrew oily oily woe is me i

undone because i am a man of unclean lips and not only me because i dwell in the midst of people of unclean lips why because mine eyes have seen the king the lord of hosts this holy god the god of israel but then you notice in the next verses verse six and seven israel was cleansed unto me having a live cause in his hand which he had taken with the tongues from off the altar the altar speak of the sacrifice and he laid it on my lips and he said lo this has touched thy lip thine iniquity is taken away and thy sin is purged you see the call from the sacrifice where the blood

of the lamb was shed that cleansed him and washed his sins away and Isaiah was forgiven and then a voice was heard in verse 8 who will go for us then Isaiah said here am I send me and so when Isaiah was sent to our people Israel of all some 750 years before Yeshua came God gave him a difficult message to proclaim to the people of Israel to tell them go and tell these people hear ye indeed but understand not see indeed but perceive not make the heart of these people fatter make their ears heavy and shut their eyes lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart

and convert and be healed and Isaiah was amazed he was going to give this message to his own people whom he loved that God now have hardened their hearts that they will not believe on him and he asked God how long verse 11 of Isaiah chapter 6 and he says until the cities be wasted without inhabitants and the houses without men and the land be utterly desolate and the Lord continue to tell him that he will remove men far away and there will be a great forsaken in the midst of the land he was speaking about 586 BC when the temple in Jerusalem will be destroyed by Nebuchad Netzer and the Jewish people will be

killed many will be taken captive like Daniel Hananiah Asariah and all others and Yechezkel and Yirmiyahu and others that have been taken captive and thousands upon thousands of the Jewish people that have gone into captivity because of unbelief because God have disciplined his people who have gone astray so here we are going back to our passage beloved brothers and sisters and dear friends listen to this so here we see though you have done many miracles before them yet they did not believe on him and here we have the reason the reason come from two passages in the prophet Isaiah the first one is Isaiah 53 and verse 1 who has believed our report God reported

to the people of Israel that the Messiah would come who had believed this report we are reporting to you today that there is a way of salvation if you only trust in the word of God and in God's offer of salvation the report is before us all will you believe will you accept him today whether Jewish or Gentile whatever people tongues and nation do you receive the message of the Lord today all have seen and come short of the glory of God the way of salvation is through the Lord Jesus the Messiah here is the report but but when one hear the message and receive not the offer of the Lord notice the second part

that we read in verse 39 and 40 we read and they could not believe why they could not believe because Isaiah said again he has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart that they should not see with their eyes nor understand with their heart and be converted and should heal them these things said Isaiah when he saw his glory and spake of him whose glory Isaiah saw in Isaiah chapter 6 is the glory of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah it is the Messiah who is speaking concerning first of all the people of Israel that that is first coming because they did not accept him God would harden their hearts you see my dear friend this

is so true because God is speaking once and again and again and there will be a time that God will harden their hearts you remember what the prophet said in many of the prophecies but one of them we read in the book of Proverbs where Shlomo said we read because I have called Proverbs 1 verse 24 and he refused I have stretched out my hand that no man regarded but he have set at not all my counsel and would none of my reproof then we read in verse 26 I will also laugh at your calamity I will mock when your fear comes when your fear comes as a desolation and your destruction comes as a

whirlwind when distress and anguish comes upon you then they shall call upon me but I will not answer they shall seek me early but they shall not find me and why for they have hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord you notice beloved brothers and sisters and dear friends rejecting God's offer of salvation once and again and again there is coming a time in which God will harden hearts only he knows when only he knows to whom but God as he has done it to some of our people of Israel and as he does it to those who refuse him in the world today it is important to accept the offer

of salvation because he is the one that is able to harden the heart you see the same son who melt the wax is the same son S U N who hardened the clay the same son S O N who melts the hearts of those that are listening to him is the same son S O N who is able to harden one's heart he has blinded their eyes he has hardened their heart Isaiah tells us in Isaiah chapter 6 and here we read in John 12 and verse 40 quoting Isaiah chapter 6 and so we read listen to this verse 41 these things said Isaiah when he saw his glory Isaiah in chapter 6 of the

prophecy of Isaiah 750 years or so before the coming of the Messiah Yeshua he saw the Messiah's glory when he saw that vision then we read in verse 42 nevertheless among the chief priests also or the chief rulers also many believed in him so you see it's not all who reject him but the nation of Israel as a nation did not accept the Messiah at his first coming as it was predicted by the prophets of Israel they will accept Yeshua at his second coming and will enter into the blessing that God has intended for his people Israel but many believed on him even though these were some of the early believers who were part of

the foundation of the assembly like the apostles and the early shlichin apostles and those early that were in the city of Jerusalem who formed the local assembly of the Jewish believers in the first days of the church of the assembly so we read but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him because there was fear because of the publicly to be afraid from the spiritual leaders of the day who were blinded and did not receive him they were afraid lest they should be put out of the synagogue for they loved listen to this they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God isn't it so natural to us we because of

our sin nature we often fail to take side with God because he is fear of men and because we love the praises of men more than the praise of God but you see God has to work this out in our hearts and to cause us to love the praise of God rather than the praise of man you see even today as believers often time we fail in this because the natural man the sin nature that we have loved the praises of man rather than the praises of God that's why often time there is friction among God's people the believers because of our sin nature that we struggle with even as believers today but here we

see that they had this struggle some of them truly believe obviously the assembly began in Jerusalem the believers were there but there were those who only believed but were afraid because they loved the praises of man rather than the praises of God and listen to the conclusion in in verse 44 all the way to verse 50 Yeshua is speaking and he is saying and I want to read you these words Jesus cried and said he that believeth on me believeth not on me but on him that has sent me but he that seeth me seeth him that sent me you see me you see God the father because the triune God the father the son

the spirit whatever the father said whatever the son does is the father this is the amazing truth that there is harmony in the God head he that has seen me is really seeing the one that sent me if you want to see the father God the father look at God the son as man verse 46 I come a light unto the world that whosoever believes on me should not abide in darkness we live in a world that is darkness and turning to the Lord Jesus the Messiah is turning to the light he is the light of the world verse 47 if any man hear my words and believe not I judge him not for I

came not to judge the world but to save the world in other word one that will reject me Yeshua saying you're not going to be judged by me here and now but you will see the reason that I came is to die and to save this world from sin and judgment but the one that reject me will ultimately be judge in due time he that reject me verse 48 and receive not my word hath one that judges him the word that I have spoken the same shall judge him in the last days notice what he is saying what the Lord Jesus the Messiah is saying you know in the last days there are days coming

in which those who rejected the offer of salvation will have to stand before God and the question will be what have you done with Yeshua what have you done with Jesus the Messiah have you accepted him then you are forgiven if you rejected him God cannot allow sin to enter into his presence and so the last two verses of John 12 for I have not spoken of myself but the father which sent me he gave me a commandment that I should say and what I should speak he received commandment from God the father as man now what he would say and what he would speak here in his humanity upon the face of this earth

so verse 50 of John 12 the concluding remark of Yeshua and I know that his commandment is life everlasting whatsoever I speak therefore even as the father said unto me so I speak notice my dear friends and dear brothers and sisters Yeshua emphasizes the importance of simply believing on him people by nature love the praises of men more than the praises of God Yeshua has less message before he hides himself from the people he emphasized the importance of believing on him from here on the Lord Jesus the Messiah is not going to show himself publicly anymore but he is going to enter into this amazing time in which he will spend with his disciples chapter

13 chapter 14 chapter 15 chapter 16 chapter 17 chapter 18 in the garden of Shmanim Gan Shmanim where he will be captured and be handed over to Pilate who will ultimately lift him up on the shameful tree in order to say and to finish the work of redemption and to say it is finished beloved brothers and sisters and dear friend everyone who hear the message of the gospel whosoever believeth on him shall not perish but have everlasting life may God open the hearts of everyone who hear the message of the gospel of the grace of God the message of the grace of our Lord Yeshua Jesus the Messiah well God bless you my dear friend

Shalom Shalom