Shalom dear brothers and sisters, our study is in the Gospel of John, that is Yohanan, and i would like you please to turn with me to John chapter 8 and i would like with the Lord's help to conclude today with this eighth chapter reading from verse 48 to 59 what a blessing it is to study together the gospel of John again to remind us all that John whose Hebrew name is Yohanan was the apostle that the Lord has called him to be the one that will present this amazing gospel that is called by his name, the gospel, the Besorah, according to Yohanan, to John. To remind you, John, Yohanan was that man, the disciples, who he said that Yeshua loved, that Jesus loved.

He sensed the love of the Lord Jesus for himself and for all those that have trusted in him. And in fact, for God so loved the whole world that he gave his only begotten son, the Mashiach, the Messiah, that whosoever believeth on him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. I'm reading in John chapter 8, verses 48 to 59, and please follow me. We read, Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, a Shomoni, and hast a demon? Yeshua answered, I have not a demon, but I honor my father, and ye do dishonor me, and I seek not mine own glory, there is one that seeketh and Judges.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, if a man keep my saying, he shall never see death. Then said the Jews, this is the Jewish leaders, unto him, now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets. And thou saith, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death. Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead, and the prophets are dead? Whom makest thou thyself? Yeshua answered, If I honor myself, my honor is nothing. It is my Father that honoreth me, of whom ye say that he is your God. Yet ye have not known him, but I know him.

And if I should say I know him not, I should be a liar like unto you, but I know him and keep his saying. Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day, and he saw it, and was glad. Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? Yeshua said unto them, Verily, verily I say, Unto you before Abraham was, I am. Then took they up stones to cast him, but Yeshua hid himself and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by. Beloved friend, this passage is very interesting because in this last portion of the 8th chapter of the Gospel of John, Yeshua now is coming to a climax by showing to these Jewish leaders of the day who did not recognize him as the Messiah, the promised Messiah of Israel and the Savior of this world.

He presented before them once again in this climax of this eighth chapter because he is departing from the temple at the end of this deliberation and here we can see that while still yet in the temple in the city of Jerusalem and to remind you that Yeshua the Messiah taught in the temple as we began the eighth chapter Yeshua went unto mount olives and early in the morning he came again into the temple and all the people came unto him and he sat down and taught them and that's where he had this long dissertation with the spiritual leaders of Israel but here beloved friend as he is coming to the end of this eighth chapter and just about to leave the temple after a time of discussion and a deliberation and teaching and instructing and ultimately seeking for them as well as for you and I today to understand that He is the eternal Son of God, that He is that promised Redeemer, the promised Messiah, that He is the one that was sent from the Father down to this world.

He is. That one. And so after this long deliberation, seeking to instruct them to recognize that He is indeed that promised Messiah, they He consistently, in this discussion, in this 8th chapter, rejected the fact that his claims were right. In fact, in the earlier portion of the chapter, he told them, I am the light of the world. This was verse 12 and then later on he had presented himself as the one that present the truth and ye shall know the truth knowing me, knowing him is knowing the truth and the truth shall make you free and then he said in verse 46 which of you convinces and convict me of sin and he was that sinless one who did not sin, who knew no sin, in whom there is no sin, but to grasp it, to understand it, and to accept him.

It was that which was extremely difficult for the leaders of Israel to accept, and the hardening of the heart, and a lack of appreciation of the Word of God, and understanding, and accepting of the Word of God, that the Messiah will come in the fullness of the time as a man, and he will be indeed the one that will proceed out of heaven, that he will be the eternal one who will enter humanity. That was beyond their comprehension. That was that which they have rejected. And sadly, still today, many people from all over people, tongues and nation, we still reject the fact that Yeshua is the eternal God, the Son, equal with the Father, who came down to this world, became a man, was born to the Virgin Miriam, lived a special, unique, sinless life, died a substitutionary death on the Roman cross, was buried and rose again for our justification, had been taken to heaven and is sitting right now at God's right hand, waiting for the day when he will return to establish here the rule of God as King of Kings and Lord of lords, and sharing through his servants the message of the gospel that whosoever will believeth on him should not perish but have everlasting life.

And we are privileged today to have this message proclaimed to us in the presentation of the gospel now notice beloved brothers and sisters what we see here in the next verses we have just concluded verse 47 in which we read he that is of God here is God's word Yeshua said in that long discussion at the temple in Yerushalayim he said ye therefore hear them not because ye are not of God anyone who do not hear the word of God and do not hear that which the Lord is seeking to present as the one who came from heaven as the promised Messiah as the Redeemer if one reject him as they have done it in the past and sadly many do it today in this world in which we live in it says really you are not of God and my dear friend all of us who first heard the message initially rejected this message initially rejected the Lord Jesus did not accept him as our Lord and Savior and Messiah how sad it is but God in his grace.

Have helped us and open our eyes when we repented and confessed our sins before him And he turned us to the person of the Messiah and showed us that he was that one that loved us so much and gave himself for us. And so look, we continue now in verses 48, the religious leaders of the day. It says here, then answered the Jews again, some 70 times the word Jews mentioned in the Gospel of John. Almost all of them has a reference to the Jewish leaders, to the spiritual leaders. They said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, a Shomroni, and has a devil.

Now this is interesting because you remember that the Shomroni, the Samaritans and the Jews did not have any dealing one with another. And as we have already mentioned this, In the study of John 4, we could see that historically the Samaritans have gone away. The Shomonim, the northern kingdom of Israel, have gone away, departed from the ways of God. And since that time, there was a break between the northern kingdom, namely Israel, and the southern kingdom, namely Judah. And now we find again this expression, the Samaritan. This expression of the Samaritan was already mentioned in John chapter 4, there when Yeshua himself have gone to Galilee, but he must go through Samaria.

And we did read this in John 4 and verse 9, that the Jews have no dealing with the Samaritans. In other words, because the Samaritans departed from the God of Israel, because they have worshipped idols, because they have turned to other gods, because they have been violated the word of God, God had to take them away and ultimately bring the Assyrians and to take them to captivity. So the Jews did not have any dealing with the Samaritans. And that continued from time to time, from about the time of King Solomon's son, Rehovam, up till the time that Yeshua the Messiah came, some 800 years. But then we read once again that the Lord Jesus came in order to not only bring the grace of God for the nation of Israel, but to reach beyond the border of Israel, to the Samaritan, and ultimately to the uttermost part of the earth.

And here, Yeshua, Jesus, is accused that he is a Samaritan. In other words, he is, in a sense, what they were really saying, that he is an enemy of God rather than the one that came to represent God. And therefore, they were accusing him. So we said that you are a Samaritan and you have a demon. You have a demon. You know that it says, in the King James, he said that you have a devil, but there is only one devil. But they meant that you have a demon. You are demon-possessed. And you see, my dear friend, Yeshua the Messiah was the one that the Spirit of God was not given to him by measure.

He was the man that the fullness of the Spirit of God resided upon him. According to Luke 4, verse 1, and Jesus being full of the Holy Spirit, full of the Holy Spirit, and he was led by the Holy Spirit, by Ruach ha'Elohim. So to accuse him that he had a devil, a demon, was completely out of that which was the truth. He was the only man that ever lived a life in such a way that he was totally submissive to God and totally controlled and led by the person of the Holy Spirit of God. And so we read in this verse that they accuse him that he was a Samaritan.

In other words, he was born to a Samaritan family and that he was demonic possessed, but how different it was from the truth, because our Lord Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, was in a sense like, if you remember in Luke chapter 10, the good Samaritan. The one that was unexpectedly came to help this wounded individual in order to heal him and to raise him up from his wounds and from his sickness and from his pain and so on. And this is the reason why God sent his son, the Messiah, to come down to this world in order to save sinners such as you and I. And so accusing him to be a Samaritan was wrong.

And yet he came from heaven for people like us who are enemies by nature. According to Romans 5, we read that while we were yet without strength. While we were yet without strength. While we were yet sinners. When we were enemies. The Messiah came. Romans chapter 5 and verse 6. Romans 5 and verse 8. Romans 5 and verse 10 for when we were without strength in due time the Messiah died for the ungodly verse 8 but God commanded his love towards us that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us the Mashiach died for us Romans 5 and verse 10 for if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his son in other words their purpose of the coming of the Messiah is for his own enemy and yet they accuse him that he was a samaritan and that he has a demon how sad it is my dear brothers and sisters and i hope today that you and i all realize that Yeshua Jesus our Messiah is the one who came in order to save us and to redeem us but the accusation was false and it's always once and again throughout history men who are is blinded to the person of the Lord accuse him as being not from God and being merely only a man but here you see how the Lord Jesus is expressing himself before the leaders of this day.

And so we read in verse 49 his Yeshua's respond and he says i have not a demon a devil in the king's gen but it's a demon but i honor my father and ye do dishonor me he says i do not have a demon i do not have a demon i actually i am the one that honor my father he says in verse 49 and and really i honor my father and i do come for his pleasure and but ye do dishonor me and just interesting because this to accuse him to have the devil and the word really devil is also has to do with saying that there was an evil spirit in him there was a demon in him false spirit in him accusing him but in reality he says no he says i am the one that is honoring my father i came in order to honor him but you do not honor me notice what it says in John 5 and verse 23 as we have already discussed this we read that all men what the father want.

Verse 22 and verse 23 for the father Judges no man but he committed all judgment unto the son that all men should honor the son even as they honor the father he that honoreth not the son honoreth not the father which he has sent and so my dear beloved brothers and sisters the accusation that he has a demon and that he is the one that is a samaritan is downright wrong and Yeshua is expressing himself by saying i do not have a demon or an evil spirit no i honor my father i honor my father imagine when all have sinned and all come short of the glory of God from Adam in the garden of eden until today throughout the whole history of the human race there was only one that honor God to the fullest there was only one that gave glory to God from the moment that he was born until the moment that he died i honor my father i honor God and Yeshua indeed honored God in his life and in his death what an amazing.

Truth to learn beloved brothers and sisters concerning the Lord Jesus who came to honor the Father. But sadly, Yeshua said to them, but he said, ye do dishonor me. You dishonor me. Now you see, it's precious to realize that the Lord Jesus honored the Father, but sadly by rejecting him it is dishonoring God dishonoring the son dishonoring Yeshua Jesus the Messiah by rejecting him as the one that was sent from God and so the Lord is responding to them when he was accused that he is a samaritan and that he has a demon in him he's responding he says not so not so i do not have a demon i honor my father but you do dishonor me and so he was really in a sense he's the answering to the fact that when he's going to come to this world he's going to be rejected he will be despised you remember as the prophet Isaiah said in Isaiah chapter 53 that he will not be acknowledged he will not be accepted he will not be.

Embraced and Isaiah mentioned this in many other passages but specifically in Isaiah 53 where we read who has believed our report and to whom is the arm of the Lord have been revealed for he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of a dry ground he has no form no comeliness and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him he is despised and rejected of men a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief and we hid as it were faces from him he was despised and we esteemed him not beloved brothers and sisters the fulfillment is right here in this 8th chapter of the Gospel of John.

He did not receive the honor that he deserved to receive at his first coming as Isaiah and the prophets of Israel have already foretold that he will be the one that will be despised and rejected of men. And so we continue as we progress here, Yeshua continues, he's speaking in verse 50 he said i seek not mine own glory the Hebrew word for glory is kavod and the word kavod mean weight and value and honor he said i do not look for my own glory but there is one that seeketh and Judges i do not seek for my own glory but someone else is seeking this on my behalf in other words can you imagine the Lord of glory came from heaven in order to be accepted by the world that he created for his own pleasure and yet he is rejected by men in first Peter chapter 2 we read listen to these verses beloved brothers and sisters in verse 21 1 Peter 2 21 we read for even there unto ye are called Peter is writing to the believers because notice Messiah also suffered for us leaving us an example that we should follow in his steps who did not sin neither was guile found in his mouth who when he was.

Reviled he reviled not again when he suffered he threatened not but he committed himself to him the judge righteously who his own self bear our sins in his own body on the tree that we being dead to sin should live unto righteousness by whose stripe ye are healed and here we read how the Lord Jesus the Messiah said in John chapter 8 and verse 50 that he doesn't seek his own glory he is not the one that pursue after glory for himself and when you think it's really fascinating because he is the Lord of glory he is the God of glory he is the Messiah the Messiah to him belong all the glory and yet he said i do not seek mine own glory you know how it is for us as human being sinners we always love to have glory we always love to be exalted but here comes one that is not seeking for his own glory That also reminds us of what the Apostle Shaul Paul said When he wrote his letter to the Philippians in chapter 2.

Where Paul wrote Christ Jesus in verse 5 at the end Mashiach Yeshua Who being in the form of God Thought it not robbery to be equal with God But made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in likeness of man and being found in a fashion as a man he humbled himself and became obedient unto death even the death of the cross this is verses 5 at the end of Philippians 2 to verse 8 I, Yeshua said in verse 50 I do not seek my own glory i seek not my own glory but he continued to say in the very same verse there is one that seeketh and Judges there is one that seeketh and Judges yesh echad asher hu mevakshu In other words, there is one that is God the Father.

This is Ha'Abba, God the Father. He is seeking to give glory for his son, the Mashiach, the Messiah. There is one that seeks for that glory. And that one is God himself. He desires to give glory to Yeshua the Messiah. We read, actually, as we continue in Philippians chapter 2, after we read of the seven steps of humiliation, when the Lord Jesus the Messiah became a man, when God became a man and was humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross, Then at the very same chapter, in verses 9 to verse 11, we read, Wherefore, God also has highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name, that at the name of Yeshua every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and of things in earth, and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus the Messiah is Lord, To the glory of God the Father.

Notice the word glory is mentioned in Philippians 2 and verse 11. The word is kavod. You see, the glory for God the Father was brought for him, not from you and I, because we all have sinned. But God received glory from his Son who became a man. And was willing to lay down his life for the sin of the world. And therefore we read at the end of verse 11. That every tongue should confess that Yeshua the Messiah is Adon, his Lord. To the glory, to the kavod, to the honor of God the Father. And so, while many reject Yeshua even till today in the world in which we live in.

Yet, the Father, God the Father, He wishes, and as it says here in verse 50, He seeks for that. He seeks that all should recognize and give glory to the Son, because through Yeshua the Messiah, God the Father received the glory that He deserved to receive. And how it must have been such a pleasure for him to see these men living here in this world sin apart. Giving him this glory that he deserved. And you know, when you trust in him, when I trust in him, God is so pleased. Because what we really say, that we fail, and we sin, and we are wrong, and he's right.

And that he is the one that provides for us forgiveness through the Messiah, through Yeshua. And that now we can give him glory on the basis of the finished work of the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, because he is the one who died for us. He paid for the sin. Now, of course, in John 8, the Lord hasn't died as yet, but it is in anticipation. Not only because of his perfect life, but also his perfect substitutionary death, which he soon to go under when he will die on the shameful tree. A little bit later on, some months after from the time of John chapter 8. And so, beloved brothers and sisters, God is the one that will be making sure to provide the glory that He will receive from His Son.

Notice what it says in John 17, also in anticipation of His death. Yeshua is lifting up His voice. He's lifting up His eyes and He's looking to heaven. And he says, Abba, Abba, Father, the hour is come. Glorify thy son that thy son may also glorify thee. In verse 2 of chapter 17, as thou has given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou has given him. And Yeshua continues in verse 3, And this is eternal life, that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou had sent. And then notice what he says, beloved friend, in verse 4 of John chapter 17, I have glorified thee on the earth.

I have finished the work which thou hast given me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. I have manifested thy name unto the man which thou hast given me out of the world. And he continued there in John chapter 17. But beloved brothers and sisters, you see, Yeshua didn't seek his own glory. The Lord Jesus, the Mashiach, did not seek for his own glory, But God is seeking His glory. And you know why? Because God found pleasure in this man, the Messiah, of course, who is His Son, the eternal Son of God, as man.

And now we can read that He will seek, but notice, He will also judge us. He will seek for that, and He will also judge. He will evaluate. In other words, what Yeshua is really saying, you dishonor me. Verse 49, you dishonor me. I do not seek my own glory, but God does. And he will judge. He will show you and he will, in a day coming, my dear friend, every one of us will have to stand before God. And God will have to ask this question, what have you done with my son, with the Mashiach, Yeshua, Jesus? Have you accepted him or you rejected him?

Have you invited him into your life or you turned him away from yourself? Have you continued to live in sin and didn't repent of your sins and turn to me? Or you repented and accepted the provision that I provided for you? My dear friend, there is no other solution for the human sin. The only solution is God's provision, the Lord, Yeshua, Jesus, the Messiah. That's why we read earlier in John 3 and verse 16, this is the word of the Lord. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.

But you see, it says in verse 18, He that believeth on him is not condemned. Praise God for that. But he that believeth not is condemned already. Why? Because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Ben Ha'Elohim. And so Yeshua is saying to the leaders of the day, one day God will show you he is the judge and he is the one that is seeking for my honor and my glory and he is the one who will be the judge. And we are all going to have to stand before him one day and he will ask us, what have you done with Yeshua HaMashiach, my son whom I sent for your redemption.

And so we continue here in the next verses, verse 51. Here is the promise to those who will trust in him and trust his word. Yeshua is saying, Verily, verily, I say unto you, if a man keep my saying, listen, he shall never see death. Now, beloved friend, listen, the Bible teaches us, Scripture, the Word of God teaches us of three deaths. There is the physical death, there is the spiritual death, and there is the eternal death. The word death, mavet, simply means separation. Separation. When we enter into this world, we were separated from God spiritually because we have a sin nature. When we have continued on to live life, God is appealing to us to accept Him so we will not be eternally separated from Him.

And if a man or woman or any person lives life and ultimately died, his body will be separated from the soul and the spirit. So, spiritual death means spiritual separation. We must accept the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah, before we're going to die, before we're going to have this separation between the body and the soul and the spirit. Because if we would believe in him before we will die before we leave this world we we will never separate from him will be eternally with him that's why he says here in verse 51 verily verily i say unto you if any or if any men keep my saying in other words take what i said appropriate to your heart and your conscience accept the word of God recognize that i came to this world to become the one that will bring salvation will pay for your sin if you do so you shall never see death now what does he mean here he doesn't speak about physical death while of course some will never see physical death when the rapture gonna come if the rapture is going to occur today the assembly the church the true church will be raptured they that are already have gone before the dead in Christ shall rise first and then we which are alive and remain first as alone in chapter 4 shall be caught up together to meet together with them the Lord in.

The air and so shall we ever be with the Lord so there will be those who will not go through the physical death physical separation and they will be taken out of here like Enoch Hanok in Genesis chapter 5 we read of him like Eliyahu Elijah who had been taken to heaven not going through the process of death there were a few exceptions and the saints that belong to the ecclesia to the church to the assembly who will remain alive when the Messiah going to come to rapture the church to take the church to be with him in glory there will be those who will not go through the physical process of death but to remind you that we do read in Scripture that it is appointed unto men once to die this is the process that normally speaking every person in this world we would have to go through the process of death.

This is the way that God had set it in this world. When Adam. Sinned, God said, the day that you will eat out of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall die. So that sentence had been passed on upon all men. But my dear friend, there are those who will not go through death physically because at the rapture they will be taken out of here. But normally speaking, Hebrews 9 verse 27, it is appointed unto men once to die and after this the judgment. But the Lord does not speak here in John 8 verse 51 about the physical death but about the spiritual death the spiritual separation in other words verily verily i said to you if a man keep my saying keeping me make it your own appropriate to your heart and conscience accept the fact that the Lord said that we all have sinned that he came to pay for the sin of this world to fulfill the the Hebrew Scriptures to be the Messiah, the anointed one, the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world, if one will appropriate that, he said, he shall never see death.

Never be separated from God. This is fascinating when we see this in the Word of God. There is a passage in Revelation, chapter 20, chapter 21, and chapter 22, which make a reference to this eternal death for those who reject the Messiah in Revelation chapter 20 in verse 4 we read and I saw thrones and they they set upon them and judgment was given unto them and I saw the souls listen of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the word of God and which had not worshipped the beast and neither his image neither had received his Mark upon their forehead though on their hand and they lived and reigned with the Messiah with Christ a thousand years but listen to this but the rest of the dead live not now it says the rest of the dead they were dead physically they were dead spiritually but now they will die eternally another hand let me remind you they will be separated from God eternally it says in verse five but the rest of the dead live not again until a thousand years were finished.

This is the first resurrection blessed and holy is he that has part in the first resurrection on such listen to this the second death have no power that second death is the eternal death that will come upon all who rejected the Messiah. In fact, in Revelation chapter 20, it's mentioned that it is a second death, and notice in contrast to the first resurrection of those who are believers who will enter into the Messianic kingdom. And we can read in chapter 21 and chapter 22. So the Lord is speaking here, Yeshua is speaking about this spiritual separation that the believers on him who will appropriate his work of redemption to the hearts and conscience, they will never see death.

If they would go through the death of the physical death, the body in the grave, the soul and the spirit return to the Lord, but never anymore to be separated from him, waiting the day of resurrection when the body will be resurrected and the soul and the spirit unite with the body and they will be, the believers will be ushered. For time and for eternity to be with the Lord Jesus the Messiah, never to be separated from God, never to be separated from the Lord. Now notice that as we continue on, beloved brothers and sisters, then said the Jews unto him, now we know that thou hast a demon, Abraham is dead, and a prophet, and thou sayest, if a man keep thy saying, he shall never taste death?

Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead, and the prophets are dead? Whom makest thou thyself? You notice this? They did not grasp the fact that Yeshua was speaking of far more beyond the physical death, but he's speaking about the spiritual and eternal death here in this verse 51. So that's why, sadly, the leaders, the Jewish leaders said, now we know that you have a demon, because Abraham is dead, the prophets are dead. Well, what do you think happened to Abraham? What do you think happened to the prophets of Israel, the godly prophets of Israel that spoke for God, to Moses, to Elijah, to all the godly men in the history of our people of Israel?

They died physically but they are in the presence of God they were the ones that were gone to paradise in fact in Luke 16 we read of the one that Eliezer who went to Abraham's bosom they're in a good place of blessing because they will never die because they have trusted God they will never die spiritually they will never die eternally they died physically because it is appointed unto man once to die but there is a time of resurrection of the body and the death for the believer is only with respect to the body never for the soul and because death means separation and because there were believers they will never be separated you and i will never be separated simply because we have been bought by the precious blood of the lamb Yeshua himself so So, here it is, sadly, Abraham is dead, the prophets are dead, and you say that if a man keep my saying, he will never taste death.

They speak about physical death. They don't understand that the Lord spoke about spiritual and eternal death, and of course spiritual and eternal life for the believers in him. So we read in verse 53, are thou greater than Abraham, our father, than our father Abraham, which is dead, and the prophets are dead? Who do you make yourself? They could see that he claimed to be divine by asking these questions. Whom makest thou thyself? If our father Abraham has already died, and our prophets of old have already died, who do you make yourself that you claim to say that the one that will believe in you and appropriate what you say will never see death?

Even Abraham died, they are saying. Now again, oh, my dear friend, It's so important for us to grasp what the Lord is really teaching here. You see, the prophets that have died, their body was placed in a tomb, but their soul and the spirit returned to the Lord to enjoy eternal relationship with the Lord. There are a couple of verses that we need to read to help us understand concerning Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the fathers of the nation of Israel in the Gospel of Matthew in the 22nd chapter we read these words I think it is very important to read the words that the Lord have spoken in Matthew chapter 22 verse 32 says I am the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob God is not the God of the dead but of the living this was a response that the Lord gave to the Sadducees who approached him and sought to find fault in him and they, the one that gave him this illustration of a man who died to a wife and then his brother and he died and there were seven brethren who died and so they asked him of course a question to try to cause Yeshua to stumble and to fall they said to him in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven for they all were hurt Yeshua answered and said unto them.

Ye do err not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God for in the resurrection they are neither married nor given in marriage but are as the angels of God in heaven but as touching the resurrection of the dead have you not read that which was spoken unto you by God saying I am not I was but I am the God of Abraham at all time Abraham is alive I am his God now as it was in the time when he was here on earth i'm still his God he's alive though his body is in the grave but he is with me he is in a blessed place i am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob God is not the God of the dead Abraham died physically but his soul and the spirit is alive with the Lord i'm not the God of the dead i am the God of the living i'm the God of Abraham he says and the God of Isaac and.

The God of Jacob this is so beautiful anokhi elohei Avraham elohei Yitzhak elohei Yaakov in Hebrew God is not the God of the dead but of the living Matthew chapter 22 verses i read 25 on to verse 32 as the Lord thought to explain this to them and my dear friend listen this is so true it is appointed unto man once to die physically we all going to go through the process of physical separation from the the soul and the spirit will be separated from our human body who gets older and decay and ultimately back to the ground but the believer is alive with God in fact Paul said in 2nd Corinthians 5 that every true believer is absent from the body but present with the Lord now of course the leaders of Israel do not have the light that you and I have today and it's true but the sufficient light they have that they should have known that believing on the Mashiach will give them the ground upon which they can receive forgiveness and will never see death spiritually and i trust.

That all of us understand this that you and i who have trusted in him trusted in Yeshua trusted in the Messiah we belong to the Lord for time and for eternity and we will never see any more eternal separation never spiritual separation anymore because once we are born from above all that are in Mashiach Yeshua our new creation all things have passed away all become new you must be born again John 3 tells us by the word of the Lord new birth means never to die spiritually and eternally always to have the eternal relationship with the Lord. So they ask him, are you greater than our father Abraham?

He is dead. The prophets are dead. Who do you make yourself? Of course, Yeshua, again, beloved brothers and sisters, this is the wonderful theme of the Gospel of John. Many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples which are not written in this book we read in John chapter 20 and verse 30. And then in verse 31 it says but these are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ that Yeshua he is the Messiah the son of God who do you make yourself they ask him in verse 53 of John 8 well John says you need to believe that Yeshua is the Messiah and that he is the son of God and that believing he might have life through his name you see my dear friend there is no life without him because by nature we are all dead spiritually in trespasses and sins and if we will not accept him we will die eternally not only physically but also eternally but when one of accept the Mashiach accept Yeshua embrace him as his or her Lord and Savior we become born from above and we will never see spiritual and eternal death at all because he died so the believer in him will never need to die he was separated from a holy and a righteous God he was separated from him as a man he was separated because God laid upon him.

The iniquities of us all the three hours of darkness he cried my God my God at the end before he died why has thou forsaken me we read in Matthew the gospel of Matthew chapter 27 he was forsaken that you and I will never need to be forsaken this is an amazing grace of God and so we read Yeshua the Messiah answered in verse 54 and 55 and 56 to the Jewish leaders of the day and he's answering to you my dear friend if you have these questions and these objections concerning him he will answer to you whoever you are from every people, tongue, and nation he said if I honor myself my honor is nothing it is my father that honoreth me of whom ye say that he is your God yet ye have not known him but I know him And if I should say I know him not, I should be a liar like you.

But I know him and keep his saying. So in other words, I know who I came from. I know who I am. Yeshua is saying, I came from my father. My father is the one that seeks to honor me. I don't look for honor for myself. You look for honor for yourself. I'm not. Notice what Yeshua said in verse 56 your father Abraham rejoices to see my day and he saw it and he was glad now wait a minute when did Abraham our father saw the day of Yeshua the Messiah when did he see as Yeshua Jesus said Abraham your father he rejoiced and he saw it he saw my day and he was glad he was glad you remember in Genesis chapter 22 when Abraham was asked by God in the beginning of chapter 22 when God tested him and he said take now thy son thine only son Isaac whom thou lovest and get thee into the land of Moriah and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

Can you imagine God requested from Abraham our father to take his only son Yitzchak to offer him upon one of the mountains this is Mount Moriah to sacrifice him the very son of promise Yitzchak to be offered on the altar and it was there that God had revealed to Abraham the fact that the Mashiach will come in the fullness of the time and if you remember we read the whole story there in Genesis 22 from verse 6 all the way to verse 14 it says in verse 6 and Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and he laid it upon Isaac his son and he took the fire in his hand and a knife and they went both of them together the father and the son together is a picture of God the father and God the son when Yeshua came to this world he was sent by the father to come to this world to provide redemption to be laid on an altar in order to pay for the sin of this world we read in Genesis 22.

7 and Isaac's peck unto Abraham his father and he said my father and he said here am I my son and he said behold the fire and the wood but where is the lamb for a burnt offering and Abraham said my son God will provide himself a lamb notice God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering and they went both of them together and they came unto the place which God have told him off and Abraham built an altar there and he laid the wood in order and he bound Isaac his son, in Hebrew we call it Akedat Yitzhak the binding of Isaac that's a picture of the cross of the death of the Messiah who was nailed to the tree and he laid him on the altar upon the wood and Abraham stretched forth his hand and he took the knife to slay his son and the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven and he said Abraham, Abraham, and he said, here am I, hineni in Hebrew, hineni, here I am, ready to do your.

Bidding, and he said, lay not thine hand upon the lead, neither do thou anything unto him, for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me, can you imagine the test that Abraham had to go through and yet God did not want Yitzchak he didn't want Isaac he wanted the heart of Abraham to submit to him and Abraham went all the way up to the moment that he was ready to offer Yitzchak Isaac his only son whom he loved but then God showed him that Yitzhak was but a picture of the coming Mashiach of the Redeemer the son of the father so we read Abraham lifted up his eyes and he looked and behold behind him a ram caught in the thicket by the horn and Abraham went and he took the ram and he offered him up notice for a burnt oven instead instead of his son Yitzchak notice verse 14 Abraham saw my day Yeshua said and he rejoiced in John 8 verse 56 we read in verse 14 of Genesis chapter 22.

And Abraham called the name of this place of that place Jehovah Yireh Jehovah Jehovah Yireh will see to it will provide Jehovah will provide the Lord will provide in a suitable time in a fullness of the time God Jehovah the Lord will provide his own son the Mashiach himself to provide redemption for all humanity as it says to this day in the mount of the Lord it shall be seen and you know beloved brothers and sisters when Abraham in Genesis chapter 22 was ready to offer his son where do you think it was? In Genesis 22 God said to him in verse 2 get thee into the land of Moriah and offer him for a burnt offering Mount Moriah is exactly where Yeshua Jesus the Messiah was right here in this temple in the city of Jerusalem upon Mount Moriah the same heart the same mountain Abraham saw my day he saw it and he was glad your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day you know we over the generation in the land of Israel and among our Jewish people are long longing for the Mashiach to come when will the Messiah come when will the Messiah come but here he came Abraham longed for that day he rejoiced for the promised day that the Mashiach will come to give himself as a ransom for many upon the mountain called Moriah right there in the land of Israel in the city of Yerushalayim and indeed the Messiah came and he was glad Abraham was glad Are you glad that the Messiah has come?

We would have no hope, my dear friend, without him. We've all sinned. We've all come short of the glory of God. God so loved us that he was willing to provide the Redeemer to come to this world in order for us to receive forgiveness of sins. My dear friend, Yeshua is here in John 8, representing himself before Israel, longing for Israel to accept him, longing for the religious leaders of the day to accept him, and also now that it's 2,000 years later, he's longing for you, my dear friend, whoever you are, wherever you are in this world, to accept him, to realize that he is the way, the truth, and the life, and there is no other ground upon which anyone can be in any relationship with a holy and righteous God, Because the only way must be through God the Son in the person of Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah.

And so notice the last remarks here. It says in verse 57, Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not 50 years old. And of course, Yeshua was about 33, 33 and a half years old when he died. You are not even 50 years old. And you have seen Abraham? Notice he said earlier that Abraham saw my day. They say, you have seen Abraham? And Jesus answered, he says, verily, verily, I say unto you, and listen to this statement, my dear friend, in John 8, verse 58. He said, Yeshua said to them, before Abraham was, I am. Notice what he said? He doesn't say before Abraham was, I was. No, but before Abraham was, I am, Anochi, Ani.

That is a statement that presents before them the fact that he is that great I am that is found in Exodus chapter 3 that God gave to our forefathers, the people of Israel, through Moshe, when Moshe had been on that mountain. And he wanted to know as he was going to go to Egypt to bring the people of Israel out. And Moses said unto God, in verse 13 of Exodus chapter 3, Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel and say unto them, The God of your fathers has sent me unto you, and they shall say unto me, What is his name? What shall I say unto them?

Moshe ask God in the wilderness on Mount Sinai there and notice the answer of the Lord how wonderful and God said unto him I am that I am in the Hebrew it's a little bit different it says I will be that which I will be meaning you will tell the people of Israel that I am the self existing one and I will be to them all that which I will be unto them every need I will be to them every sorrow and trial they will have I will meet their need I am I am the eternal one and I will be for them everything and he said thus shall thou say unto the children of Israel I am hath sent me unto you the Hebrew word is I am that I am.

And then verse 15, he continued. And God, moreover, said unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, Jehovah, the Lord, capital L, capital O, capital R, capital D, this is the name of God, the self-existing one, The eternal one. The covenant keeping God with Israel. The Lord God of your father. The God of Abraham. The God of Isaac. And the God of Jacob. Has sent me unto you. This is my name. Forever. And this is my memorial. Unto all generations. This is my name. In Hebrew. Ze Shmi Leolam. The name of the Lord. The name of the sacred name. Yahweh, Jehovah, is the name of God.

The all sufficient one. The one that will meet the need of everyone that have trusted in him. And our people, of all the people of Israel. When they walked with him, he met every need. And here Yeshua, this is God the Son. As a man, he is telling to the leaders of Israel before Abraham. I am. Long before Abraham was created by God. He was born into this world. Yeshua is the eternal Son. As we read in John 1 and verse 1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. Abraham was not there.

Verse 3 says, all things were made by Him, and without Him was nothing made which was made. He is the Creator. In verse 14, and the Word became flesh. John 1, 14, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. That's the one that Yeshua wanted them to understand. And sadly, sadly, they didn't, as many today in the world in which we live in, do not understand. And you and I, if we understand this a little bit, very little, it's purely by the grace of God alone. And so the conclusion was, because they understood that he says that he is the great I am, before Abraham I am then took they stones to cast at him the last verse of John 8 this is in verse 59 but Yeshua hid himself and went out of the temple going through the midst of them and so he passed by in other words no one can do any harm to him because as long that his time was not yet to die he just passed on and you notice it says here and he went out of the temple where was the temple Beit HaMikdash was in Jerusalem where in Jerusalem upon Mount Moriah upon the very same place when Abraham was offering seeking to offer his son Yitzhak in obedience to God.

But here in the very same mountain, Yeshua the Messiah will ultimately died and become the Redeemer, the Savior of this world. His hour was not yet come, as we have already read earlier in John 2.4, John 7.30 and John 8 where we are in these previous. Verses that we have, that His hour was not yet come John 8 and verse 20. My dear friend, how wonderful it is that Yeshua is the one that loved us so much and came down to this world. The great I Am took union humanity with His divine nature and he loves Israel, he loves us all and he seeks to bring humanity back to himself.

Have you accepted him? Have you trusted in him? Because he promised. He promised. I say unto you, if a man keep my saying, he shall never see death. Eternal salvation. Eternal relationship with God. May God bless you, my dear friend. May the Lord lead us all to continue to follow after Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, who loved us and gave himself for us. Well, I will say Shalom Shalom.