WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.870 --> 00:00:06.590 Bruce Schuchard: Greetings. It's a pleasure to be with you again, 2 00:00:06.960 --> 00:00:08.200 Bruce Schuchard: uh, 3 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:27.209 Bruce Schuchard: so that we can uh spend some time this time with the prologue to the Gospel of John, Uh. Chapter one versus one to eighteen Uh. The text is actually one that's appointed for an interesting day. It's appointed for Christmas the day uh the day of 4 00:00:27.680 --> 00:00:42.679 Bruce Schuchard: uh, you might be, you know, wondering, asking, uh, why would the prologue to the Gospel of John be an appointed text for Christmas Day, the day of our celebration of our Lord's birth. 5 00:00:43.120 --> 00:00:45.340 Bruce Schuchard: Well, um, 6 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:50.150 Bruce Schuchard: if if our focus is verse, fourteen of the prologue, perhaps that's our answer. 7 00:00:50.210 --> 00:00:52.539 Bruce Schuchard: And the Logos became flesh, 8 00:00:52.950 --> 00:00:58.320 Bruce Schuchard: and the Logos of the second Person of the Trinity, the Creator of the heavens of the earth, 9 00:00:58.490 --> 00:01:07.359 Bruce Schuchard: descended from heaven above to take on our humanity, to become one of us, to to to to dwell with us, 10 00:01:07.460 --> 00:01:08.539 Bruce Schuchard: uh 11 00:01:09.880 --> 00:01:11.850 Bruce Schuchard: and to redeem us 12 00:01:12.740 --> 00:01:13.899 Bruce Schuchard: uh 13 00:01:15.210 --> 00:01:17.500 Bruce Schuchard: and lofty terms. Then 14 00:01:17.930 --> 00:01:23.300 the prologue provides us with an opportunity to speak to the Incarnation 15 00:01:23.460 --> 00:01:25.729 Bruce Schuchard: uh and to its 16 00:01:26.670 --> 00:01:29.770 Bruce Schuchard: cosmic and everlasting significance. 17 00:01:30.130 --> 00:01:34.760 Bruce Schuchard: Uh. So here we are with the uh, with our text for today 18 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:46.269 Bruce Schuchard: uh the eighteen versus of the pro log. Now, uh time is going to prevent us from taking a careful look at all eighteen verses uh, I think what we'll do 19 00:01:46.280 --> 00:02:00.799 Bruce Schuchard: uh this this time around uh is to focus on nine of the eighteen in particular. We'll make a quick reference to the others. Uh, but let's make our focus uh versus one to four 20 00:02:01.140 --> 00:02:05.000 Bruce Schuchard: of the prologue, and then versus fourteen to eighteen. 21 00:02:05.300 --> 00:02:14.600 Bruce Schuchard: Yeah, we'll go through the whole pro log. Uh, but these the the initial verses of the final versus will be the particular focus of our time together. 22 00:02:15.510 --> 00:02:16.550 Bruce Schuchard: So 23 00:02:16.570 --> 00:02:32.230 Bruce Schuchard: let's let's get started uh verse, one uh the uh my log of screen is uh being shared so that you can follow along. Uh, i'll use the cursor to show uh where we are in the text 24 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:41.119 Bruce Schuchard: N. R. K. A. In the beginning was uh the imperfect of a Matt 25 00:02:41.330 --> 00:02:43.850 Bruce Schuchard: uh was the word 26 00:02:43.950 --> 00:02:45.060 Bruce Schuchard: um. 27 00:02:45.270 --> 00:02:51.710 Bruce Schuchard: We'll start quick with a uh reference to a general rule that may be familiar, or perhaps it's not 28 00:02:51.870 --> 00:03:07.419 Bruce Schuchard: in the beginning. Uh, you see the preposition, and you see the object of the preposition are hey? And takes the dative. So our hey appears in the dative. Uh, But why are we translating with a um 29 00:03:08.730 --> 00:03:10.940 Bruce Schuchard: um, as though 30 00:03:11.190 --> 00:03:24.510 Bruce Schuchard: an article was modifying our say in the beginning, Why isn't this in a beginning? Well, here's the general rule when a definite object of a preposition 31 00:03:24.740 --> 00:03:26.340 Bruce Schuchard: appears, 32 00:03:26.500 --> 00:03:37.740 Bruce Schuchard: What, when we're offering a definite object of a preposition in this language, it's customary for that definite object to appear without the article. 33 00:03:38.570 --> 00:03:44.310 Bruce Schuchard: There's the there's There's the usual of the regular. The customary 34 00:03:44.990 --> 00:03:49.129 Bruce Schuchard: uh. We know, then, from uh, the 35 00:03:49.140 --> 00:04:06.069 Bruce Schuchard: what we're seeing in the text that are here can be definite, because the definite object of a proposition of normally appears without the article, not with the article uh context, otherwise tells us that an ark is likely to be 36 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:20.899 Bruce Schuchard: a reference to a definite rather than an indefinite thing. We're not just thinking of. Oh, beginning, we're thinking of the all defining primordial beginning uh the genesis, one and two beginning here 37 00:04:20.910 --> 00:04:29.819 Bruce Schuchard: in the beginning was Hall Logos, and that's an interesting thing to call Jesus and and John alone. 38 00:04:29.900 --> 00:04:33.490 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, distinguish him, distinguishes himself. 39 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:39.650 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, in this way. Uh, he alone, uh, for the most part, 40 00:04:39.780 --> 00:04:42.520 Bruce Schuchard: uh is one who uh 41 00:04:44.960 --> 00:04:49.510 Bruce Schuchard: repeatedly, in his writings, refers to Jesus in this way. 42 00:04:49.680 --> 00:05:09.120 Bruce Schuchard: He does this here in the prologue. He will do this again. And first John and his first four verses uh, and in his experience of the of the Vision on the island of Pat. Most heaven itself will refer to Jesus will refer to the Lamb as her Logos, the word 43 00:05:09.770 --> 00:05:11.050 Bruce Schuchard: uh 44 00:05:11.830 --> 00:05:14.080 Bruce Schuchard: what he is in the prologue. 45 00:05:14.760 --> 00:05:16.160 Bruce Schuchard: You will 46 00:05:16.350 --> 00:05:18.050 Bruce Schuchard: uh do. 47 00:05:18.330 --> 00:05:23.780 Bruce Schuchard: And the narrative of this uh story of Jesus that follows in the in the rest of the Gospel. 48 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:32.780 Bruce Schuchard: If he comes as this, he will come to be this: to do this, to deliver this, to speak a word that must be heard. 49 00:05:32.860 --> 00:05:34.780 Bruce Schuchard: Alright. Uh! 50 00:05:35.300 --> 00:05:38.679 Bruce Schuchard: Why is this fundamentally important and necessary. 51 00:05:38.880 --> 00:05:43.630 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, the word that especially Jesus will speak in this world. 52 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:52.740 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, is especially supremely important and solely sufficient to inform the coming of Jesus right. 53 00:05:53.060 --> 00:05:55.740 Bruce Schuchard: His is a word that must be heard. 54 00:05:56.030 --> 00:06:00.909 Bruce Schuchard: He speaks this word that must be heard, because never will. This creation 55 00:06:01.520 --> 00:06:05.020 Bruce Schuchard: No, it's Creator, it's Redeemer. 56 00:06:05.760 --> 00:06:06.920 Bruce Schuchard: Uh! 57 00:06:07.090 --> 00:06:21.699 Bruce Schuchard: Know what to make of Jesus, or His cross, or even His resurrection, apart from His revelatory word, apart from that word that must be heard, so that all things can be uh seen the way they must be seen. 58 00:06:22.220 --> 00:06:23.310 Bruce Schuchard: Um, 59 00:06:23.440 --> 00:06:26.730 Bruce Schuchard: Perhaps we've noticed the extent to which 60 00:06:26.880 --> 00:06:33.169 Bruce Schuchard: our confession regarding Jesus and his accomplishment, our confession of our salvation in Him 61 00:06:33.370 --> 00:06:52.199 Bruce Schuchard: is ours only because our our God has revealed these things to us through His sacred Uh words that must be heard. So here comes Jesus, our Logos, to tell us everything that we need to know, or we won't know 62 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:53.600 Bruce Schuchard: what's 63 00:06:54.060 --> 00:06:56.570 Bruce Schuchard: needful for us to know 64 00:06:57.510 --> 00:06:59.130 Bruce Schuchard: how long goes 65 00:06:59.590 --> 00:07:04.410 Bruce Schuchard: in the beginning was, 66 00:07:04.730 --> 00:07:07.839 Bruce Schuchard: and the Logos was 67 00:07:07.960 --> 00:07:09.500 Bruce Schuchard: with God. 68 00:07:09.640 --> 00:07:20.749 Bruce Schuchard: Uh. Notice the first, the the first use of that boss, and it's first reference. The Logos is with God. The Logos in relate is in the relationship 69 00:07:20.910 --> 00:07:38.469 Bruce Schuchard: uh to uh, this God uh the Logos exists over against uh, that us in the Godhead, with his first reference to that us. The Logos is himself not called that us so far 70 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:43.999 Bruce Schuchard: the that Austin question is the Father. The Logos was with the Father. 71 00:07:44.020 --> 00:07:46.230 Bruce Schuchard: The Logos is not the father 72 00:07:46.630 --> 00:07:59.929 Bruce Schuchard: Uh. Father and son is the focus of verse. One father and son will be the focus of verse eighteen. So at the beginning at the end the focus will be the same. 73 00:07:59.940 --> 00:08:09.350 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, the full side will meet, mutually, interpret each other as we proceed from the beginning of the prologue to to its conclusion. 74 00:08:09.650 --> 00:08:33.579 Bruce Schuchard: Uh notice uh the triadic nature of verse one the triadic speech of the Apostle. He likes to talk this way. Three clauses and Rca in Hologos. There's the first one, then a comma kai hollowed us in, press on the on, and a comma. There's the second one ky that Austin, how Logos! There's the third one 75 00:08:33.590 --> 00:08:51.939 Bruce Schuchard: Aane, Aain, Logos Logos Logos, you know, uh the stereotypical speech of the last of the Apostles. Uh He will talk this way a lot. So uh the first verse serves as a nice 76 00:08:51.950 --> 00:09:04.400 Bruce Schuchard: uh alert to to to this um more is coming real soon with our consideration in the prologue in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God. 77 00:09:04.490 --> 00:09:09.929 Bruce Schuchard: Ky. The Us. In Hologos, and the Word was God. 78 00:09:10.760 --> 00:09:19.620 Bruce Schuchard: The language of verse. One is very familiar to us, but perhaps it will. It's not known to us, uh that the Us. Here 79 00:09:19.780 --> 00:09:22.099 Bruce Schuchard: and clause number three. 80 00:09:22.380 --> 00:09:36.069 Bruce Schuchard: Now the reference is Jesus right Now the reference is the word Uh. So the Father is God, the Son is God; the Spirit is God. 81 00:09:36.080 --> 00:09:44.439 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, but each of the three persons are distinct. The Father is not the son, the son is not the father, and so on. Right? 82 00:09:44.460 --> 00:09:52.629 Bruce Schuchard: Um. These relationships are are specified here as early as first one. 83 00:09:52.870 --> 00:09:54.200 Bruce Schuchard: Uh. 84 00:09:54.330 --> 00:09:59.800 Bruce Schuchard: But again we're noticing with the Us. Right the absence of an article 85 00:10:00.310 --> 00:10:01.540 Bruce Schuchard: uh 86 00:10:01.800 --> 00:10:09.889 Bruce Schuchard: with what looks to be a definite reference to God, the Creator, the Creator of the heavens in the earth? 87 00:10:10.370 --> 00:10:11.810 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, 88 00:10:14.930 --> 00:10:18.049 Bruce Schuchard: is it possible that the Us. Is not definite, 89 00:10:18.280 --> 00:10:33.519 Bruce Schuchard: uh, or is there another general rule that we need to know something about, and the answer is, Yes, we need to need to know a little bit about call. Wells rule uh you'll find this in Wallace's Grammar. A nice discussion of call Wells rule 90 00:10:33.530 --> 00:10:48.320 Bruce Schuchard: uh call Wells rule goes something like this. It's similar to the rule for uh definite objects of prepositions. But here the definite predicate nominative that us precedes the form of the verb, a 91 00:10:48.500 --> 00:10:49.500 Bruce Schuchard: right, 92 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:59.939 Bruce Schuchard: the what? Here? Here's the general rule: When the definite predicate Nominative precedes the copula, the form of the verb A. 93 00:10:59.950 --> 00:11:19.330 Bruce Schuchard: The custom is for the definite predicate, nominative again to appear without the article. It's just the usual. It's the regular, it's It's what's normally done. Uh, we shouldn't ask why we should just notice the convention and recognize that that us can be definite. 94 00:11:19.340 --> 00:11:23.489 Bruce Schuchard: And here is an all likelihood a definite 95 00:11:23.560 --> 00:11:24.710 Bruce Schuchard: um. 96 00:11:24.890 --> 00:11:31.000 Bruce Schuchard: We're not talking about a god. We're talking about the God of the heavens and the earth. 97 00:11:31.100 --> 00:11:32.280 Bruce Schuchard: First two 98 00:11:32.390 --> 00:11:49.879 Bruce Schuchard: who toss the the the near demonstrative. This one is referring, uh immediately back to how log us, the near near demonstrative will regularly do that. It will refer to a previously previously mentioned personal thing. 99 00:11:50.440 --> 00:11:57.970 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, that's a contextually speaking, syntactically speaking, near and prior context, not far. 100 00:11:58.410 --> 00:12:05.270 Bruce Schuchard: If you're going to refer to something that's far. You use the far demonstrative I canos 101 00:12:05.630 --> 00:12:08.869 Bruce Schuchard: the near demonstrative Who tos 102 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:10.390 Bruce Schuchard: uh 103 00:12:10.610 --> 00:12:11.640 Bruce Schuchard: is 104 00:12:12.090 --> 00:12:15.219 Bruce Schuchard: the pronoun of choice. When 105 00:12:15.670 --> 00:12:30.779 Bruce Schuchard: uh, we're we're referring immediately back to something that's close, not distant this one. How Logos a was an Rc. In the beginning again. Prosthet on 106 00:12:30.860 --> 00:12:38.930 Bruce Schuchard: uh with God, it's a little redundant. It's a little repetitive. The purpose to verse two is probably to 107 00:12:39.080 --> 00:12:46.730 Bruce Schuchard: close off the ideas given in verse. One is to feature the complete thought in verse, one 108 00:12:47.270 --> 00:12:48.629 Bruce Schuchard: verse, three 109 00:12:49.030 --> 00:12:56.430 Bruce Schuchard: ponta. All things the form of the first form of the adjective pass 110 00:12:57.380 --> 00:13:13.480 Bruce Schuchard: uh pasta upon Ponta. It's neuter it's plural. It's nominative. It's the subject of again at all. The heiress of Get him? Why, all things came into being whoops 111 00:13:16.290 --> 00:13:21.700 Bruce Schuchard: sorry about that came into being did out to through him. 112 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:24.460 Bruce Schuchard: So the log us now 113 00:13:24.610 --> 00:13:27.340 Bruce Schuchard: is the creator of the heavens in the earth. 114 00:13:27.880 --> 00:13:33.840 Bruce Schuchard: The Logos is the agent of God, who was sent when it was time for the creation to happen. 115 00:13:34.450 --> 00:13:38.219 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, we believe in God the Father, the Creator. 116 00:13:38.450 --> 00:13:40.949 Bruce Schuchard: But we learn from John, especially 117 00:13:41.510 --> 00:13:45.090 Bruce Schuchard: uh, that when the create the Father Creator 118 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:46.990 Bruce Schuchard: determined, 119 00:13:47.410 --> 00:13:48.600 Bruce Schuchard: uh 120 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:53.720 Bruce Schuchard: that his desire was to create 121 00:13:57.060 --> 00:14:00.030 Bruce Schuchard: the accomplishment of that creation. 122 00:14:00.730 --> 00:14:01.860 Bruce Schuchard: Uh 123 00:14:04.770 --> 00:14:06.689 Bruce Schuchard: was given to the sun. 124 00:14:07.400 --> 00:14:08.360 Bruce Schuchard: Right 125 00:14:09.730 --> 00:14:19.549 Bruce Schuchard: we won't. Try to fathom the inter Trinitarian uh mystery of how the both father and Son can be creator. 126 00:14:20.190 --> 00:14:33.899 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, we will notice that, uh the Genesis, one into Yahweh, who comes to create the heaven and heavens and the earth who speaks, and by His word word this world is made. 127 00:14:34.420 --> 00:14:44.089 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, according to John, that Yahweh was Jesus. Uh, Jesus is the you know 128 00:14:44.200 --> 00:15:00.150 Bruce Schuchard: the person of the Godhead most immediately responsible for the reality of the creation. He is the one who spoke in primordial time. Uh, by His word. This world was summoned into existence. 129 00:15:00.280 --> 00:15:19.660 Bruce Schuchard: Uh. This, too, explains why John is intent on describing Jesus as our Logos. He is this: He speaks this: His word has this kind of creative and recreative power. 130 00:15:19.730 --> 00:15:29.099 Bruce Schuchard: How Logos all things came into being through him, Kai horris o two! And apart from him 131 00:15:29.250 --> 00:15:35.019 Bruce Schuchard: again at all, came into being. Who there? Not even 132 00:15:35.240 --> 00:15:41.009 Bruce Schuchard: hen. This is Hay Smith. I hand the adjective the number 133 00:15:41.030 --> 00:15:44.919 Bruce Schuchard: right here. It's neuter singular 134 00:15:45.210 --> 00:15:53.100 Bruce Schuchard: uh nominative right? Because Han is actually the subject of 135 00:15:53.270 --> 00:16:02.720 Bruce Schuchard: uh againata in verse three again a to in uh in the next clause again with first three 136 00:16:02.870 --> 00:16:11.029 Bruce Schuchard: uh we're gonna get eggheads in verse Six uh yet another use of Ginmi appears at the very end 137 00:16:11.370 --> 00:16:24.819 Bruce Schuchard: of verse. Three get a mike, you know. My again, my to to kind of to match and to balance the initial, you know, uh kind of emphatic use of a in a in 138 00:16:24.880 --> 00:16:36.810 Bruce Schuchard: three times in verse, one an additional time in verse, two get a my three times in verse, three, an additional use of the verb in verse Six 139 00:16:36.990 --> 00:16:38.510 Bruce Schuchard: uh 140 00:16:39.280 --> 00:16:43.760 Bruce Schuchard: yeah. The stereotypical speech of the last of the Apostles. He talks this way. 141 00:16:43.830 --> 00:16:49.760 Bruce Schuchard: Uh: the poetic nature of the prologue, especially the prologue tax this way. 142 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:55.850 Bruce Schuchard: Notice, however, the uh period after hand 143 00:16:56.240 --> 00:17:00.299 Bruce Schuchard: uh the editors are telling you that. That. Uh, 144 00:17:01.310 --> 00:17:10.479 Bruce Schuchard: well, they're telling you that there's some uncertainty as regards the punctuation of the sentence that begins with Ponta in verse three and and uh 145 00:17:11.020 --> 00:17:18.819 Bruce Schuchard: and and somewhere, you know, here, toward the end of verse three, they're saying that the sentence, they're they're they're offering it, You know 146 00:17:19.540 --> 00:17:31.530 Bruce Schuchard: A. You know, a a considered judgment regarding the pump. What what to, you know. Inform the punctuation of the sentence. The sentence ends according to the editors with Hen. 147 00:17:31.710 --> 00:17:39.240 Bruce Schuchard: Not even one thing. That means that the relative clause that follows here. Hogg 148 00:17:39.280 --> 00:17:40.450 Bruce Schuchard: I 149 00:17:41.050 --> 00:17:45.790 Bruce Schuchard: inaugurates us the next sentence. It doesn't end the previous one 150 00:17:46.420 --> 00:17:58.989 Bruce Schuchard: haw neuter singular nominative Kegan in the perfect of Get a my, get a my ganes. Am I a 151 00:17:59.060 --> 00:18:09.260 Bruce Schuchard: right? Yeah, you'll do yourself a favor if with your, you know consideration of text, as you notice verb after verb, 152 00:18:09.420 --> 00:18:21.600 Bruce Schuchard: um, and as you work with first principal parts and other principal part forms uh it's it's It's always a good thing to kind of rehearse the principal parts in your head 153 00:18:21.850 --> 00:18:30.000 Bruce Schuchard: uh, especially if those principal parts uh aren't uh as familiar as they could be, should be right. 154 00:18:30.080 --> 00:18:43.930 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, keep rehearsing those principal parts, and knowledge of them will serve you very well as your make, as you make your way through text like this one, that which has come into being 155 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:47.700 Bruce Schuchard: right. The relative clause 156 00:18:48.270 --> 00:19:05.450 Bruce Schuchard: now relative clauses usually function adjectively, but this one isn't, you know it's. It's not modifying something. I it could be modifying hen. But according to the editors, it's not. Instead, it inaugurates the next 157 00:19:05.500 --> 00:19:07.430 Bruce Schuchard: sentence. 158 00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:25.889 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, if that's right, and we'll recommend that it is right, for reasons that we um don't really have time to get into right now. Uh, but for more check check uh, you know, available commentaries, especially those that offer a detailed examination of the Greek form of the text. 159 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:27.540 Bruce Schuchard: Um, 160 00:19:27.720 --> 00:19:34.440 Bruce Schuchard: What's the relative clause doing here? It's not. It's not modifying something uh 161 00:19:36.050 --> 00:19:47.680 Bruce Schuchard: what else is possible. Sometimes relative clauses function like nouns uh the grammars will call these clauses nominalized clauses. 162 00:19:47.690 --> 00:19:56.090 Bruce Schuchard: Uh They can function as the object of a thing, the subject of a thing, that which is come into being here, 163 00:19:56.600 --> 00:20:01.870 Bruce Schuchard: uh anticipates the giving of the verb, which is in again 164 00:20:02.750 --> 00:20:06.559 Bruce Schuchard: uh the form of a met, and the third person singular. 165 00:20:06.980 --> 00:20:23.679 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, that suggests very strongly that the nominalized clause here is functioning as the subject to the verb. So we translate as follows: That which has come into being was in him life. 166 00:20:25.030 --> 00:20:26.200 Bruce Schuchard: So 167 00:20:27.100 --> 00:20:30.409 Bruce Schuchard: with his coming comes the gift of life, 168 00:20:31.190 --> 00:20:34.260 Bruce Schuchard: life and life now 169 00:20:34.350 --> 00:20:37.420 Bruce Schuchard: right for all who believe in him. 170 00:20:38.130 --> 00:20:40.120 Bruce Schuchard: Kai hates away, 171 00:20:40.580 --> 00:20:49.210 Bruce Schuchard: and the life in again was tophos the light tone on throw pone, of 172 00:20:49.560 --> 00:20:52.500 Bruce Schuchard: then gender non-specific. 173 00:20:52.770 --> 00:20:59.770 Bruce Schuchard: I'm not prepared yet to give up on the use of the gender. Non-specific English word man. 174 00:20:59.890 --> 00:21:15.439 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, but if you wish, you can, you can uh you know, adjust this in the direction of its gender non-specific semantic value, using other words. The life was the light of this world's humanity. 175 00:21:16.280 --> 00:21:17.560 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, 176 00:21:17.760 --> 00:21:29.660 Bruce Schuchard: this world's human persons. It is uh the point to the language here. First five kai tuffos and taste go to uh, 177 00:21:29.790 --> 00:21:34.050 Bruce Schuchard: and the light in the darkness find a 178 00:21:34.430 --> 00:21:35.870 Bruce Schuchard: shines. 179 00:21:36.400 --> 00:21:42.180 Bruce Schuchard: Yeah, Everything else in the pro. In these first five verses of the prologue is pitched in past time. 180 00:21:42.610 --> 00:21:43.650 Bruce Schuchard: Right 181 00:21:43.840 --> 00:21:50.050 Bruce Schuchard: in a in aain was was was a gather talk again at all, you know. Again it's a 182 00:21:50.140 --> 00:21:52.920 Bruce Schuchard: uh came into being 183 00:21:53.460 --> 00:22:00.320 Bruce Schuchard: here for the first time. Fine a is of final, and it's present tense 184 00:22:00.450 --> 00:22:03.089 Bruce Schuchard: Now it could be a historical present. 185 00:22:03.280 --> 00:22:12.359 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, but you'll see with the you know, the Esp alongside our root text here that is, fee translates the present tense form. Fine A 186 00:22:12.390 --> 00:22:15.220 Bruce Schuchard: in the In in present time 187 00:22:15.410 --> 00:22:16.960 Bruce Schuchard: shines. 188 00:22:17.330 --> 00:22:18.590 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, 189 00:22:19.840 --> 00:22:21.489 Bruce Schuchard: remember that the 190 00:22:21.870 --> 00:22:25.760 Bruce Schuchard: present, the the of the present tense, 191 00:22:26.730 --> 00:22:32.559 Bruce Schuchard: is a tense form that brings focus upon connection, the suggestion of focus upon connection. 192 00:22:32.810 --> 00:22:34.310 Bruce Schuchard: Uh 193 00:22:36.450 --> 00:22:38.579 Bruce Schuchard: and ask, You know 194 00:22:38.870 --> 00:22:44.290 Bruce Schuchard: the good question, what's what sort of focus might be. The focus upon connection here. 195 00:22:44.940 --> 00:22:51.729 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, is it perhaps continuous descriptive, Uh, you know. 196 00:22:54.300 --> 00:23:03.749 Bruce Schuchard: Does it suggest an activity that is characteristic, enduring, and defining? The answer would be, Yeah, probably 197 00:23:04.100 --> 00:23:22.210 Bruce Schuchard: right. The The Logos characteristically out of his nature uh as a function of nature as a function of who he is because he is a Logos. He also brings tall folks to speak is to reveal. 198 00:23:22.610 --> 00:23:26.199 Bruce Schuchard: To speak is to bring light 199 00:23:26.420 --> 00:23:29.160 Bruce Schuchard: uh, to bring light 200 00:23:29.430 --> 00:23:31.739 Bruce Schuchard: is to shed light 201 00:23:32.020 --> 00:23:35.770 Bruce Schuchard: uh to shed light is to enlighten 202 00:23:36.120 --> 00:23:44.139 Bruce Schuchard: what otherwise would remain uh dark, incomprehensible, uh, and and other things 203 00:23:44.320 --> 00:23:53.920 Bruce Schuchard: consistent with Jesus identity as how Logos is is. That is his identity As to folks the light of the world. 204 00:23:54.040 --> 00:23:57.010 Bruce Schuchard: With one comes the other right 205 00:23:57.150 --> 00:24:00.759 Bruce Schuchard: uh each uh, informs the other. 206 00:24:00.990 --> 00:24:04.200 Bruce Schuchard: Tough those, and how Logos 207 00:24:04.280 --> 00:24:17.320 Bruce Schuchard: and the light shines in the darkness, characteristically out of its nature, and for the sake of this world salvation. A world of darkness is the world to which the light comes. 208 00:24:17.360 --> 00:24:21.920 Bruce Schuchard: A world of darkness that the light means to enlighten. 209 00:24:22.110 --> 00:24:23.270 Bruce Schuchard: Uh 210 00:24:23.980 --> 00:24:25.669 Bruce Schuchard: is why 211 00:24:26.180 --> 00:24:28.049 Bruce Schuchard: the light comes 212 00:24:28.900 --> 00:24:37.110 Bruce Schuchard: uh shines in the darkness. Kai Hayes go to uh, and the darkness 213 00:24:37.680 --> 00:24:46.249 Bruce Schuchard: uh, or but the darkness did not Katella Then uh it 214 00:24:46.340 --> 00:24:47.540 Bruce Schuchard: uh 215 00:24:50.030 --> 00:24:53.359 Bruce Schuchard: the the. The reference about ta is top folks 216 00:24:54.040 --> 00:25:04.549 Bruce Schuchard: uh catalam bono. Yeah, if you double click the verb. You you uh, you know, gain access to the lexical entry, and B. Dag, 217 00:25:04.760 --> 00:25:10.619 Bruce Schuchard: and and importantly be dagged alerts us to the fact that kind of Lombardo can mean two things 218 00:25:11.150 --> 00:25:12.879 Bruce Schuchard: at least two things. 219 00:25:13.760 --> 00:25:23.509 Bruce Schuchard: Catalombano sometimes refers to a uh, a winning and attaining See Entry number one, and overcoming 220 00:25:23.910 --> 00:25:24.890 Bruce Schuchard: right. 221 00:25:24.940 --> 00:25:28.919 Bruce Schuchard: When light and darkness go toe to toe, 222 00:25:29.190 --> 00:25:45.539 Bruce Schuchard: and the powers, each V for supremacy right, one will excel over against the other. One will exceed uh over against the other. One will overcome the other, you know, 223 00:25:46.140 --> 00:25:57.489 Bruce Schuchard: and the uh cosmic clash of you know the light and the darkness uh the light by definition wins, it wins the day it attains uh 224 00:25:57.500 --> 00:26:16.700 Bruce Schuchard: uh a desired, and it achieves while the other fails to achieve. That's one possible way of understanding. Kata Lombano, and you know the Esp. Reflects this and the dark. But but the darkness did not overcome it. The light, 225 00:26:16.710 --> 00:26:34.639 Bruce Schuchard: the darkness is going to lose. The darkness is going to fail in the cosmic clash between Jesus and the Prince of Darkness, the Prince of Darkness will be overcome, will be defeated, will be forever consigned to defeat uh 226 00:26:34.650 --> 00:26:46.600 Bruce Schuchard: a, and so on. Right uh. But here's another thing that Kata Lombano can mean. We pan down a little bit. We notice The references to First John of five 227 00:26:47.280 --> 00:26:59.420 Bruce Schuchard: uh, you know, consistent with winning and attaining, is gaining control. Uh through the, you know, through the through the pursuit of to seize, but 228 00:26:59.510 --> 00:27:04.269 Bruce Schuchard: you know in English sees is is something also that you do with your mind. 229 00:27:04.590 --> 00:27:14.179 Bruce Schuchard: When you seize with your mind you comprehend something you get it. You understand. You know a a challenge to you, 230 00:27:14.270 --> 00:27:25.749 Bruce Schuchard: to your mind, to your understanding is something that you manage Well, you know you, you understand it. You comprehend it. Let's see now, 231 00:27:26.130 --> 00:27:27.800 Bruce Schuchard: is there? Yeah, 232 00:27:29.120 --> 00:27:44.459 Bruce Schuchard: still with the overcoming stuff. But down here at the bottom to process information, to understand, to grasp sees grasp. You know these English words are helpful to us. 233 00:27:44.470 --> 00:27:51.489 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, if perhaps with this use of Cada Lombano here in chapter one verse five uh 234 00:27:51.690 --> 00:27:56.039 Bruce Schuchard: there is, with John's intent of the suggestion of a both hand. 235 00:27:56.390 --> 00:28:04.429 Bruce Schuchard: Right? If we're asking the question uh, does the verb here mean either one thing or the other thing. 236 00:28:04.560 --> 00:28:21.139 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, we should be noticing all with the fruit also with the phrasing of that question, that, uh, the question might be leading us to to choose between two things. When John Doesn't want us to choose, he wants to to see the significance of both possibilities 237 00:28:21.940 --> 00:28:26.940 Bruce Schuchard: and the story uh that is about to be told that we'll follow the prologue. 238 00:28:26.990 --> 00:28:32.820 Bruce Schuchard: The light uh the darkness will not comprehend the light. 239 00:28:32.880 --> 00:28:39.909 Bruce Schuchard: The darkness will not in any way excel over against the light. It will not 240 00:28:40.570 --> 00:28:45.079 Bruce Schuchard: overcome the light The light is going to lose. 241 00:28:45.720 --> 00:28:52.249 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, but, uh, there's more to the loss uh than just the question of power, 242 00:28:52.310 --> 00:28:54.140 Bruce Schuchard: you know. Um 243 00:28:54.540 --> 00:28:59.879 Bruce Schuchard: ultimate power uh ultimate conquest ultimate. 244 00:28:59.920 --> 00:29:04.150 Bruce Schuchard: Oh, it! You know all all things of that nature ultimate. 245 00:29:04.540 --> 00:29:10.279 Bruce Schuchard: Um. There will also be with the telling of this story. The regular phenomenon 246 00:29:10.410 --> 00:29:14.180 Bruce Schuchard: uh of dark is having, uh 247 00:29:15.350 --> 00:29:23.460 Bruce Schuchard: a consistent difficulty in comprehending what it's looking at when it's when it's experiencing the light right. 248 00:29:23.700 --> 00:29:29.059 Bruce Schuchard: So if Jesus comes for the sake of the persons of this world who are owned by the darkness 249 00:29:30.300 --> 00:29:32.740 Bruce Schuchard: uh dogged by the darkness 250 00:29:33.530 --> 00:29:34.640 Bruce Schuchard: uh 251 00:29:36.590 --> 00:29:39.460 Bruce Schuchard: in need of enlightenment. 252 00:29:39.500 --> 00:29:40.490 Bruce Schuchard: Right? 253 00:29:41.800 --> 00:29:50.819 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, Jesus says, at the end of chapter nine, I have coming. I have come so that the sightless might see, and so that the seeing might be sightless. 254 00:29:51.670 --> 00:29:52.809 Bruce Schuchard: All right. 255 00:29:53.710 --> 00:29:55.130 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, 256 00:29:57.580 --> 00:29:59.500 Bruce Schuchard: then, maybe just maybe 257 00:30:00.260 --> 00:30:04.039 Bruce Schuchard: there, there's more to Kata Lombano that meets the I 258 00:30:04.100 --> 00:30:05.160 Bruce Schuchard: right 259 00:30:05.230 --> 00:30:09.209 Bruce Schuchard: catalom Bono. Also it alerts us to 260 00:30:09.470 --> 00:30:19.839 Bruce Schuchard: uh seeing, and I not seeing that, will go on with the narrative that follows an understanding, and not understanding a comprehending and not comprehending a hearing 261 00:30:19.860 --> 00:30:22.939 Bruce Schuchard: uh, and a partial comprehending 262 00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:39.950 Bruce Schuchard: uh, but not a complete comprehending uh that will, you know, with the regular reactions of the human beings. Uh experiencing the challenge of Jesus and the telling of the story. They will get certain things, but other things will escape them. 263 00:30:40.140 --> 00:30:49.279 Bruce Schuchard: So the question will mount. The question will become, you know, a more and more a pressing thing. When will clarity come 264 00:30:50.050 --> 00:30:51.620 Bruce Schuchard: for those who 265 00:30:51.730 --> 00:30:59.599 Bruce Schuchard: abide? You know, If you'll bite? In my word, you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. 266 00:31:00.840 --> 00:31:06.139 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, when will the truth? That is, Jesus in form? 267 00:31:06.230 --> 00:31:07.620 Bruce Schuchard: All things 268 00:31:07.830 --> 00:31:08.820 Bruce Schuchard: right? 269 00:31:09.480 --> 00:31:10.630 Bruce Schuchard: Um, 270 00:31:12.050 --> 00:31:15.289 Bruce Schuchard: yeah, it's not just a question of you know 271 00:31:15.380 --> 00:31:21.189 Bruce Schuchard: who's going to be victorious, and who's not going to be victorious? That comes with Cada Lomban, who, 272 00:31:22.330 --> 00:31:23.680 Bruce Schuchard: uh, 273 00:31:25.260 --> 00:31:27.220 Bruce Schuchard: just as important 274 00:31:27.990 --> 00:31:35.549 Bruce Schuchard: is the question of who will see or not see who will comprehend or not comprehend. 275 00:31:36.020 --> 00:31:39.360 Bruce Schuchard: Uh! To go with this Jesus In the end 276 00:31:40.980 --> 00:31:47.129 Bruce Schuchard: the human person must see what flesh and blood eyes can in no way see. 277 00:31:48.120 --> 00:31:54.509 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, how do you manage to inform what what the human senses can't measure, 278 00:31:54.740 --> 00:32:02.720 Bruce Schuchard: what customary means. For you know, measuring things in this world. What? When those things uh fail 279 00:32:02.980 --> 00:32:06.990 Bruce Schuchard: uh to measure or to describe, or to 280 00:32:07.170 --> 00:32:09.820 Bruce Schuchard: make evident to the human person 281 00:32:09.920 --> 00:32:16.089 Bruce Schuchard: things that uh still must be perceived and believed and 282 00:32:19.240 --> 00:32:20.780 Bruce Schuchard: and proclaimed 283 00:32:21.330 --> 00:32:22.340 Bruce Schuchard: right, 284 00:32:23.270 --> 00:32:28.310 Bruce Schuchard: who ultimately is Jesus? And what does it mean for him to be 285 00:32:28.940 --> 00:32:30.709 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, the risen 286 00:32:30.930 --> 00:32:32.570 Bruce Schuchard: Crucified One. 287 00:32:33.900 --> 00:32:42.539 Bruce Schuchard: Never will the experience of the resurrection be an informed experience, apart from the revelatory word of how Logos 288 00:32:42.880 --> 00:32:59.210 Bruce Schuchard: not only must he die, and then rise. He must inform their experience of these things by means of his word, or never will blind persons see what must be seen in all of these things 289 00:32:59.440 --> 00:33:05.139 Bruce Schuchard: Kata Lombano first versus six through thirteen will do quickly. 290 00:33:05.380 --> 00:33:22.890 Bruce Schuchard: Uh all things came into being through him entrepreneurs again at all. A man came into being a pistol. Manos sent parath that ooh from God on him out to you on a a name to him was John. 291 00:33:22.900 --> 00:33:31.930 Bruce Schuchard: It's just the way the language idiomatically refers to a name who toss this one will pan up a little bit here, 292 00:33:32.710 --> 00:33:51.669 Bruce Schuchard: this one, John Dale Fen, came a smart to rip on for the sake of testimony, Hannah, in order that notice the triatic use of Hannah Hannah one time and a second time. In a third time 293 00:33:51.870 --> 00:33:56.430 Bruce Schuchard: this one came in order that in order that in order that 294 00:33:56.650 --> 00:34:07.049 Bruce Schuchard: for the sake of testimony, Hannah, in order that our to raise a he might might testify parrot to photos concerning 295 00:34:07.380 --> 00:34:09.080 Bruce Schuchard: concerning the light 296 00:34:09.389 --> 00:34:10.609 Bruce Schuchard: comma. 297 00:34:10.650 --> 00:34:12.820 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, we're gonna we're gonna 298 00:34:13.090 --> 00:34:30.030 Bruce Schuchard: um speak to the purpose of John's coming three different times. Here's the second in a clause of purpose, in order that Pontests pis do so send out to, in order that all might believe through him. 299 00:34:30.040 --> 00:34:33.570 Bruce Schuchard: You'll notice that I've highlighted the out to 300 00:34:34.429 --> 00:34:43.219 Bruce Schuchard: oak in a canoes uh that one was was not okay to fost the light. 301 00:34:43.239 --> 00:34:45.639 Bruce Schuchard: Rather I'll 302 00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:53.690 Bruce Schuchard: uh we need to infer again uh the main verb that's already been provided previously. He came, 303 00:34:53.739 --> 00:35:01.929 Bruce Schuchard: Hannah, in order that Marta Ray say he might testify, period two photos concerning the light. 304 00:35:02.580 --> 00:35:18.449 Bruce Schuchard: Why did we highlight day out to, so we can notice the use of the prepositional phrase once in verse, three a second time in verse, seven and a third time in verse ten through him, through him, through him 305 00:35:18.800 --> 00:35:29.829 Bruce Schuchard: we might have initially imagined, with our reading of verse seven, that through him uh, here, at the end of verse seven refers to the Baptist. 306 00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:33.499 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, but that's not likely to be the case. 307 00:35:33.510 --> 00:35:53.469 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, Instead, the consistent reference of through Him and the prologue is Jesus. How do we know this? Here, at the end of verse seven, Notice the far demonstrative at the at the beginning of verse eight, that one was not the light. Who is that one? That one is John 308 00:35:53.680 --> 00:36:04.750 Bruce Schuchard: right? But this is a far demonstrative and out to is near. Not far him could refer to John, him could refer to 309 00:36:04.770 --> 00:36:06.149 Bruce Schuchard: the light 310 00:36:06.520 --> 00:36:07.810 Bruce Schuchard: um 311 00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:12.650 Bruce Schuchard: that Canos refers to John 312 00:36:13.070 --> 00:36:15.690 Bruce Schuchard: how to is near, not far, 313 00:36:15.930 --> 00:36:18.300 Bruce Schuchard: therefore the likely uh 314 00:36:19.290 --> 00:36:22.220 Bruce Schuchard: excuse me a second. It's my phone going off. 315 00:36:22.440 --> 00:36:33.689 Bruce Schuchard: Sorry about that. Um. Because this is a far demonstrative, and that's near not far. The reference about two is not the same as the reference of a kinos. 316 00:36:33.860 --> 00:36:46.089 Bruce Schuchard: The reference of the canos is John. Therefore the reference of the out to is Jesus through Him, through Him, through Him consistently refers throughout the prologue to Jesus, 317 00:36:46.550 --> 00:36:55.349 Bruce Schuchard: First nine in tufts to a Lathon on the true light was, 318 00:36:55.780 --> 00:37:13.779 Bruce Schuchard: we need to jump down to the part of simple aircraftmen on, because this is a pair of plastic was coming into the world. Ace ton cost one. The The relative uh clause here says more about the true light, which huh? 319 00:37:13.790 --> 00:37:18.669 Bruce Schuchard: For tid's day enlightens Ponta on throw pone 320 00:37:18.710 --> 00:37:22.259 Bruce Schuchard: uh every man, every human person. 321 00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:41.199 Bruce Schuchard: The true light which enlightens every human person was in coming er common on into the world. Yeah, don't expect pair of rastics to involve words appearing side by side all the time as ten gigro man on It is written 322 00:37:41.360 --> 00:37:51.990 Bruce Schuchard: once in a while, and actually more than once, in the Gospel of John. Uh the two words um used to build the paraphrastic uh 323 00:37:52.570 --> 00:37:59.159 Bruce Schuchard: end up being significantly separate, syntactically speaking, pain plus air phenomenon, 324 00:38:00.100 --> 00:38:06.669 Bruce Schuchard: Anto Cosmo pain. He was in the world. Caiha Kasma set out too. 325 00:38:06.870 --> 00:38:08.950 Bruce Schuchard: Uh again at all. 326 00:38:09.110 --> 00:38:21.119 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, but the world, or i'm sorry i'm getting ahead of myself and the world again at all, came into being out to again through him. Jesus! 327 00:38:21.360 --> 00:38:28.589 Bruce Schuchard: But Kai! How cosmos out on Uk, I know. But the world did not know him. 328 00:38:30.380 --> 00:38:31.799 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, 329 00:38:33.420 --> 00:38:40.399 Bruce Schuchard: if the world is a world of darkness, you know what the world's reaction, at least initially to Jesus will be 330 00:38:40.960 --> 00:38:50.559 Bruce Schuchard: uh. This will be like a cow looking at a new door to use one of Luther's favorite expressions. The cow isn't going to understand what it's looking at. 331 00:38:50.690 --> 00:39:01.020 Bruce Schuchard: Uh. The problem of of you know, seeing what needs to be seen when only your eyes are telling you what you're looking at. 332 00:39:01.050 --> 00:39:02.040 Bruce Schuchard: Right? 333 00:39:02.390 --> 00:39:07.560 Bruce Schuchard: Your eyes will never provide you with enough information. 334 00:39:07.970 --> 00:39:26.829 Bruce Schuchard: Fundamentally the world will refuse. The Logos of God will will refuse his per spoken word, and the and doing so the world will not know Jesus and the world. Uh, but the world did not know him, but some will know him 335 00:39:27.050 --> 00:39:28.069 Bruce Schuchard: right. 336 00:39:28.160 --> 00:39:31.690 Bruce Schuchard: So what seems like an absolute statement 337 00:39:31.970 --> 00:39:39.020 Bruce Schuchard: proves to be generally true. Uh, but not universally true. 338 00:39:39.230 --> 00:39:40.319 Bruce Schuchard: All right. 339 00:39:40.470 --> 00:39:43.619 Bruce Schuchard: Ace to it. 340 00:39:43.920 --> 00:40:01.570 Bruce Schuchard: Yeah, this is an adjective. It uh, and ta helps the definite article. It. It alerts us to the fact that it uh is neuter, plural, and accusative. Ace takes the accusative. He came 341 00:40:01.860 --> 00:40:06.520 Bruce Schuchard: for the sake of 342 00:40:06.640 --> 00:40:16.839 Bruce Schuchard: the persons and things that were his own, his own things, his own persons, his own things, from Cosmos to edit us. 343 00:40:16.990 --> 00:40:18.609 Bruce Schuchard: The focus 344 00:40:19.450 --> 00:40:20.959 Bruce Schuchard: narrows 345 00:40:21.630 --> 00:40:31.880 Bruce Schuchard: from all the world to ace to it. Uh, the language focuses now on the persons and things of the household of God, 346 00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:35.169 Bruce Schuchard: which which is the select people of God. 347 00:40:35.460 --> 00:40:36.569 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, 348 00:40:36.600 --> 00:40:38.739 Bruce Schuchard: the reference here is Israel. 349 00:40:39.590 --> 00:40:41.760 Bruce Schuchard: Right? Um: 350 00:40:42.130 --> 00:40:49.660 Bruce Schuchard: yeah. A little word study work will always help when it comes to these kinds of challenges. The use of it. Us here 351 00:40:49.700 --> 00:40:52.920 Bruce Schuchard: all right, his own things, 352 00:40:53.010 --> 00:41:01.619 Bruce Schuchard: and the neuter and the plural. His own things can also refer to his own persons persons and things. 353 00:41:02.010 --> 00:41:14.000 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, if you're wanting to refer to persons and things, what's customary is the neuter, not the masculine, The masculine would characteristically refer only to persons 354 00:41:14.160 --> 00:41:15.189 Bruce Schuchard: right. 355 00:41:15.420 --> 00:41:21.599 Bruce Schuchard: He came to the persons and things of his own house, his own household, his own Israel 356 00:41:21.820 --> 00:41:32.319 Bruce Schuchard: right. The Rsv. Translates with reference to house household, and the Rsv. Is completely correct When it does. That does the Esp do that? Uh, 357 00:41:33.600 --> 00:41:37.320 Bruce Schuchard: no, it doesn't it backs off um 358 00:41:37.350 --> 00:41:40.270 Bruce Schuchard: sadly. Uh, you know 359 00:41:40.400 --> 00:41:43.890 Bruce Schuchard: the reference is less explicit with Rsv. 360 00:41:44.150 --> 00:41:59.480 Bruce Schuchard: Um but Kai or ed oi. Now now the language is speaking to persons the persons of his own household. Ooh! Parella ben out on, did not receive him, 361 00:41:59.580 --> 00:42:01.649 Bruce Schuchard: did not receive him. 362 00:42:01.700 --> 00:42:05.820 Bruce Schuchard: So Israel, according to the flesh, 363 00:42:07.420 --> 00:42:15.500 Bruce Schuchard: uh Israel, as a people Israel as a nation, Israel, especially through its leaders. 364 00:42:15.950 --> 00:42:17.989 Bruce Schuchard: It's real received to not 365 00:42:20.650 --> 00:42:23.269 Bruce Schuchard: the select people of God 366 00:42:23.610 --> 00:42:25.270 Bruce Schuchard: corporately 367 00:42:28.570 --> 00:42:30.250 Bruce Schuchard: received him not 368 00:42:33.280 --> 00:42:36.639 Bruce Schuchard: now in the same way that uh believers. 369 00:42:36.670 --> 00:42:38.129 Bruce Schuchard: Oh, can 370 00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:39.990 Bruce Schuchard: um 371 00:42:42.680 --> 00:42:46.730 Bruce Schuchard: forsake their identity as sons and daughters of 372 00:42:46.790 --> 00:42:51.939 Bruce Schuchard: of the Lord when they receive the Messiah, Not 373 00:42:52.370 --> 00:42:53.380 Bruce Schuchard: you know 374 00:42:53.960 --> 00:42:59.249 Bruce Schuchard: you're no longer a child of God. If you refuse God's Son, 375 00:43:00.170 --> 00:43:02.340 Bruce Schuchard: we know that right 376 00:43:04.500 --> 00:43:08.030 Bruce Schuchard: for the same reason. When Israel refuses, 377 00:43:08.200 --> 00:43:10.880 Bruce Schuchard: you know Israel's Messiah 378 00:43:11.290 --> 00:43:14.189 Bruce Schuchard: uh Israel forfeits 379 00:43:14.270 --> 00:43:18.080 Bruce Schuchard: it's. Select status as the 380 00:43:18.380 --> 00:43:20.320 Bruce Schuchard: select people of God. 381 00:43:21.070 --> 00:43:23.779 Bruce Schuchard: Israel is Israel no more. 382 00:43:23.970 --> 00:43:26.160 Bruce Schuchard: At least that is real. 383 00:43:26.350 --> 00:43:28.690 Bruce Schuchard: Is Israel no more. 384 00:43:28.870 --> 00:43:33.800 Bruce Schuchard: If, if it seems like we're, you know, jumping to conclusions here. 385 00:43:33.910 --> 00:43:44.129 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, we should just wait a wait uh the language of what follows, and the rest of the prologue to see that this is precisely what the prologue is going to say next. 386 00:43:44.390 --> 00:43:48.489 Bruce Schuchard: If Israel has refused it's Messiah, 387 00:43:48.590 --> 00:43:55.279 Bruce Schuchard: then what becomes of what has become of Israel? The answer is, uh, 388 00:43:56.510 --> 00:43:58.310 Bruce Schuchard: with what follows 389 00:44:00.110 --> 00:44:01.850 Bruce Schuchard: Israel forfeits, 390 00:44:02.020 --> 00:44:04.780 Bruce Schuchard: so it's opportunity to 391 00:44:05.630 --> 00:44:07.579 Bruce Schuchard: lay claim to 392 00:44:08.200 --> 00:44:12.100 Bruce Schuchard: It's previous status as a select people under God. 393 00:44:12.710 --> 00:44:16.420 Bruce Schuchard: One nation under God only 394 00:44:17.230 --> 00:44:18.830 Bruce Schuchard: defines 395 00:44:19.240 --> 00:44:21.889 Bruce Schuchard: when the one nation 396 00:44:22.500 --> 00:44:24.819 Bruce Schuchard: submits itself to its God. 397 00:44:25.930 --> 00:44:27.259 Bruce Schuchard: Um, 398 00:44:28.050 --> 00:44:30.769 Bruce Schuchard: Yeah, Perhaps we should uh 399 00:44:32.360 --> 00:44:34.910 respond with care and discernment. 400 00:44:35.450 --> 00:44:40.860 Bruce Schuchard: When God, when God comes, when God speaks, when God lays claim 401 00:44:41.330 --> 00:44:46.399 Bruce Schuchard: to His His people and His creation the rest of His creation. 402 00:44:46.860 --> 00:44:55.910 Bruce Schuchard: He came to his own, uh the persons and things of his own household, but the persons of his home own household is Israel 403 00:44:56.030 --> 00:44:57.629 Bruce Schuchard: received him not 404 00:44:58.760 --> 00:44:59.779 Bruce Schuchard: um 405 00:45:00.400 --> 00:45:08.559 Bruce Schuchard: that they will no longer be the Israel of God. Another Israel of God will take its place 406 00:45:10.450 --> 00:45:17.029 Bruce Schuchard: with what follows: First twelve Ha! Soy. Let's pan down again a little bit. 407 00:45:18.200 --> 00:45:24.630 Bruce Schuchard: Hustle I de la bon outone, but as many as received him. Here comes the new Israel. 408 00:45:25.150 --> 00:45:31.820 Bruce Schuchard: Here it comes to Israel that will be faithful Israel, and that's the only kind of Israel there is 409 00:45:32.410 --> 00:45:36.589 Bruce Schuchard: any other kind of Israel ends up, not being Israel anymore, 410 00:45:37.280 --> 00:45:39.509 Bruce Schuchard: as many as received him. 411 00:45:39.810 --> 00:45:45.660 Bruce Schuchard: We need to move along here as we get closer and closer to the end of our time 412 00:45:46.770 --> 00:45:58.849 Bruce Schuchard: as many as received him. Ed o Ken, he gave to them our toys authority, Ex. Who sit on to become ganes thai tech. Not that Ooh! Children of God! 413 00:45:59.180 --> 00:46:03.769 Bruce Schuchard: Uh comma the the the next Um 414 00:46:03.840 --> 00:46:06.729 Bruce Schuchard: Well, the the what follows 415 00:46:06.900 --> 00:46:16.969 Bruce Schuchard: says more about them out toys out toys, toys to those who were believing a sta on them all to in his name. 416 00:46:18.050 --> 00:46:21.470 Bruce Schuchard: To be this you must believe in him. 417 00:46:21.930 --> 00:46:24.300 Bruce Schuchard: If you don't you aren't 418 00:46:25.460 --> 00:46:32.749 Bruce Schuchard: uh to those who are believing in His name. Hoi! More about those who are believing in his name. 419 00:46:32.830 --> 00:46:37.069 Bruce Schuchard: Hoi, relative pronoun who 420 00:46:37.240 --> 00:46:46.259 Bruce Schuchard: uh, there's the verb at the son, we're begotten, or you have been 421 00:46:46.910 --> 00:46:56.160 Bruce Schuchard: not. Ooh. X. He My tone, not by bloods. Yeah. Now, petrilineal descent from Abraham counts for nothing 422 00:46:57.770 --> 00:47:00.929 Bruce Schuchard: uh to refuse is to forfeit 423 00:47:01.400 --> 00:47:07.500 Bruce Schuchard: uh. To refuse is to leave the door open to those who won't, Refuse 424 00:47:07.640 --> 00:47:10.770 Bruce Schuchard: those who who don't refuse. 425 00:47:10.860 --> 00:47:26.229 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, we'll enter into the identity of the new Israel, not because they somehow end up being united to the flesh and blood descendants of Abraham. That's not operative anymore. It's it's not going to be operative. 426 00:47:26.240 --> 00:47:33.049 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, with the coming in the accomplishment of Jesus across the board. Now, adoption as sons 427 00:47:33.150 --> 00:47:35.199 Bruce Schuchard: will be definitive 428 00:47:35.310 --> 00:47:40.520 Bruce Schuchard: for those who belong to the the the Israel going forward, 429 00:47:40.590 --> 00:47:49.169 Bruce Schuchard: not by bloods, is comprehensively the case, even for the flesh and blood descendants of Abraham, 430 00:47:49.430 --> 00:47:56.220 Bruce Schuchard: you know, with Jesus accomplishment is coming in his accomplishment. There's only one way now 431 00:47:56.850 --> 00:48:02.700 Bruce Schuchard: to be the Israel of God going forward, and that is by grace, through faith 432 00:48:02.910 --> 00:48:16.279 Bruce Schuchard: that will be the only operative. Uh, you know, a defining principle uh the only option for inclusion into this uh pescatological reality going forward, 433 00:48:16.350 --> 00:48:19.990 Bruce Schuchard: not by patrilineal descent any more. 434 00:48:20.750 --> 00:48:25.520 Bruce Schuchard: Hudette exhale mat to Sarko, and not by the will of the flesh. 435 00:48:25.550 --> 00:48:34.830 Bruce Schuchard: You know our our flesh has no capacity to make something like this happen. We are hapless, hopeless, helpless. Uh! 436 00:48:35.360 --> 00:48:42.330 Bruce Schuchard: If we are to belong to this, our God must be the agent of our transformation, 437 00:48:42.430 --> 00:48:43.770 Bruce Schuchard: not us, 438 00:48:44.500 --> 00:48:50.909 Bruce Schuchard: not by the will of the flesh, who dex Thelem to us, and not by the will of a any mere man. 439 00:48:51.520 --> 00:48:57.909 Bruce Schuchard: Uh! For Jesus is no mere man right. The means for this will come through no mere man. 440 00:48:58.310 --> 00:49:00.639 Bruce Schuchard: Instead, the means for this 441 00:49:00.710 --> 00:49:02.800 Bruce Schuchard: will come from heaven above 442 00:49:03.170 --> 00:49:11.759 Bruce Schuchard: uh birth. You to be to be born into this right will only happen at that? O 443 00:49:11.880 --> 00:49:13.029 Bruce Schuchard: by God! 444 00:49:13.670 --> 00:49:21.590 Bruce Schuchard: Not by the will of the flesh, not by the will of a mere man, but but born of God. They will be 445 00:49:21.960 --> 00:49:31.139 Bruce Schuchard: first fourteen back to the material that we want to spend more time with closer time with Kai. How Logos Here it is Christmas! 446 00:49:32.380 --> 00:49:39.000 Bruce Schuchard: Kai! How Loga sarks I get it to, and the Logos became flesh 447 00:49:39.580 --> 00:49:41.890 Bruce Schuchard: the second person of the Trinity. 448 00:49:42.610 --> 00:49:43.839 Bruce Schuchard: Uh 449 00:49:43.900 --> 00:49:53.670 Bruce Schuchard: how Logos uh! As regards his relationship to the Father, he's the mouth of the Father in this world. When he comes he comes to speak 450 00:49:53.780 --> 00:49:58.999 Bruce Schuchard: uh when he comes. His speaking is everything to those who must hear 451 00:49:59.220 --> 00:50:14.370 Bruce Schuchard: uh! To those who must hear uh understanding comprehension, seeing what an absolutely must be seen in Jesus and in in his accomplishment, will only happen by means of how Logos right? 452 00:50:14.630 --> 00:50:15.979 Bruce Schuchard: Uh 453 00:50:16.590 --> 00:50:21.789 Bruce Schuchard: yeah, That Logos is he who was born 454 00:50:22.170 --> 00:50:23.580 Bruce Schuchard: to Mary 455 00:50:23.920 --> 00:50:24.799 uh 456 00:50:27.260 --> 00:50:30.169 Bruce Schuchard: that? Well, how Logos is the babe 457 00:50:31.350 --> 00:50:32.390 Bruce Schuchard: born 458 00:50:32.720 --> 00:50:34.379 Bruce Schuchard: to his Virgin mother, 459 00:50:36.350 --> 00:50:38.310 Bruce Schuchard: the babe that we celebrate, 460 00:50:38.520 --> 00:50:40.809 Bruce Schuchard: especially on the day of Christmas. 461 00:50:41.040 --> 00:50:54.319 Bruce Schuchard: The Logos became Flush Ki as Kenos, and and he pitched his tent tabernacle. Yeah, in the same way that there was a tabernacle in the wilderness in anticipation of the final tabernacle. 462 00:50:54.330 --> 00:51:09.139 Bruce Schuchard: Here comes the final dwelling place of the presence, the final dwelling place of the glory uh that dwelling place also at a later time. Well, with the passage of time, we should say, 463 00:51:09.380 --> 00:51:12.280 Bruce Schuchard: also becomes the place of sacrifice. 464 00:51:13.400 --> 00:51:14.490 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, 465 00:51:15.240 --> 00:51:19.080 Bruce Schuchard: when a temple exists in the sacred city, Jerusalem 466 00:51:19.300 --> 00:51:25.930 Bruce Schuchard: Temple is both place of the presence and place of sacrifice, and that's who Jesus is right. 467 00:51:26.130 --> 00:51:34.109 Bruce Schuchard: He tabernacle. He pitched his tent with us again, and finally he means to dwell with us 468 00:51:34.840 --> 00:51:42.710 Bruce Schuchard: kite at at the Uh Pamatha, and we have beheld Tang Docs on out to his glory. 469 00:51:42.850 --> 00:51:43.970 Bruce Schuchard: Comma 470 00:51:44.340 --> 00:51:55.369 Bruce Schuchard: docs on a second use of Docs on in opposition to the first. We're going to talk about glory, glory, glory! Here it'll be it will be another triad 471 00:51:55.760 --> 00:51:57.379 Bruce Schuchard: uh. Another 472 00:51:57.510 --> 00:52:02.680 Bruce Schuchard: characteristic instance of John, you know, expressing himself in this way 473 00:52:03.650 --> 00:52:17.289 Bruce Schuchard: we be. We have beheld His glory, glory as host. Monica noose. The adjective means one, and only it refers to a person or a thing of a singular sort, 474 00:52:17.520 --> 00:52:20.130 Bruce Schuchard: a monos Ganos. 475 00:52:26.070 --> 00:52:27.839 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, he is 476 00:52:28.350 --> 00:52:29.359 Yeah, 477 00:52:29.950 --> 00:52:34.980 Bruce Schuchard: for lots of obvious reasons. This is exactly who Jesus says 478 00:52:35.160 --> 00:52:40.870 Bruce Schuchard: He is the lug us of a singular kind. He is the son of a singular kind. 479 00:52:41.150 --> 00:52:42.200 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, 480 00:52:42.290 --> 00:52:44.060 Bruce Schuchard: he alone, 481 00:52:44.240 --> 00:52:45.330 Bruce Schuchard: uh 482 00:52:48.330 --> 00:52:50.240 Bruce Schuchard: is the one and only one 483 00:52:50.400 --> 00:52:51.410 Bruce Schuchard: right 484 00:52:51.550 --> 00:52:58.549 Bruce Schuchard: as of it. The adjective is in the genitive monogenous as of the one and only one. 485 00:52:58.920 --> 00:53:00.649 Bruce Schuchard: Uh: 486 00:53:00.930 --> 00:53:01.899 Bruce Schuchard: yeah, 487 00:53:02.030 --> 00:53:07.520 Bruce Schuchard: the Esp is not bad, though who else does not appear here? 488 00:53:08.140 --> 00:53:10.379 Bruce Schuchard: Uh the one and only one. 489 00:53:10.660 --> 00:53:17.539 Bruce Schuchard: Later on he'll be called the one and only son, but here he's not called that he's just called the one and only one 490 00:53:18.020 --> 00:53:29.299 Bruce Schuchard: a Monaghan ace is substantially functioning as a now it refers to a person. It refers to Jesus, the one and only one Perapa Trust 491 00:53:29.350 --> 00:53:35.229 Bruce Schuchard: from the Father Comma play race, the adjective full. 492 00:53:35.600 --> 00:53:38.169 Bruce Schuchard: It may not look like it's, 493 00:53:38.260 --> 00:53:39.399 Bruce Schuchard: you know, 494 00:53:40.410 --> 00:53:43.370 Bruce Schuchard: another accusative, but it is 495 00:53:43.870 --> 00:53:47.950 Bruce Schuchard: actually that the adjective doesn't decline 496 00:53:49.290 --> 00:53:56.489 Bruce Schuchard: uh it can be any gender number case uh or sorry any gender, 497 00:53:56.910 --> 00:53:58.450 Bruce Schuchard: any case. 498 00:53:59.170 --> 00:54:00.399 Bruce Schuchard: Uh 499 00:54:01.090 --> 00:54:02.609 Bruce Schuchard: here it's 500 00:54:03.130 --> 00:54:04.109 Bruce Schuchard: oh! 501 00:54:04.750 --> 00:54:08.660 Bruce Schuchard: Indicative of a third understood use of Docs on 502 00:54:09.120 --> 00:54:11.560 Bruce Schuchard: Tox on Docs on 503 00:54:11.790 --> 00:54:16.960 Bruce Schuchard: the docks on is as of the one and only one from the father. The Docs on 504 00:54:17.170 --> 00:54:21.569 Bruce Schuchard: is full of 505 00:54:21.820 --> 00:54:23.869 Bruce Schuchard: full of grace and truth. 506 00:54:23.950 --> 00:54:26.990 Bruce Schuchard: First fifteen gotta keep going. 507 00:54:27.660 --> 00:54:34.200 Bruce Schuchard: You want the prologue early on refers to John. The prologue returns to John, 508 00:54:34.370 --> 00:54:41.589 Bruce Schuchard: you know. Uh, there just might be something to the suggestion that the prologue is kiastic and design. 509 00:54:42.210 --> 00:54:56.040 Bruce Schuchard: You know Jesus at the beginning, the father at the beginning, the father at the end, John at the beginning, John at the end, and the design of the of the prologue. Notice what's at the center of the prologue, and the Logos became flesh. 510 00:54:57.220 --> 00:55:07.730 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, and how we belong to the Logos, and how we belong to Israel going forward. Uh! That is abidingly the interest of the center of the prologue. Right? 511 00:55:07.980 --> 00:55:10.410 Bruce Schuchard: The babe born to the Virgin 512 00:55:10.570 --> 00:55:16.510 Bruce Schuchard: uh the the that we celebrate celebrate on Christmas Day, and always 513 00:55:16.650 --> 00:55:20.139 Bruce Schuchard: uh and and what it means to belong to him, 514 00:55:20.530 --> 00:55:22.859 Bruce Schuchard: what it means for him to be 515 00:55:22.880 --> 00:55:27.809 Bruce Schuchard: here to do the things that must be done for us to belong to him. 516 00:55:28.120 --> 00:55:46.360 Bruce Schuchard: Yuanes Martyray, uh historical present, John testified. Per out to That's what he's going to do right. He comes for the sake of testimony. That's his one and only job In the telling of this story he will testify, he will testify. He will testify 517 00:55:46.510 --> 00:55:51.559 Bruce Schuchard: to Jesus, whose testimony is even greater than the Baptist testimony. The 518 00:55:51.950 --> 00:56:04.949 Bruce Schuchard: uh, the preeminent testimony of the Logos of God. The Word made flesh His word his Logos Jesus Logos will be supreme. 519 00:56:05.690 --> 00:56:12.519 Bruce Schuchard: Uh! But here, uh the first to hail the arrival of how Logos 520 00:56:12.700 --> 00:56:14.259 Bruce Schuchard: I will be. John 521 00:56:14.390 --> 00:56:25.880 Bruce Schuchard: testified concerning him. Kai Kekra again uh of Kradzo the Perfect, and has cried out leg on the part of simple kind of plastic same 522 00:56:26.300 --> 00:56:28.890 Bruce Schuchard: who toss this one. 523 00:56:29.730 --> 00:56:34.660 Bruce Schuchard: So you know the reference will be near, not far 524 00:56:35.030 --> 00:56:37.779 Bruce Schuchard: there. It is out to this one 525 00:56:38.140 --> 00:56:44.640 Bruce Schuchard: Utop. This one in was upon a pound, the one about whom I spoke 526 00:56:44.970 --> 00:56:52.930 Bruce Schuchard: again. The relative clause is functioning as a nominalized cause. It's the it's the predicate nominative of A. 527 00:56:53.490 --> 00:56:55.540 Bruce Schuchard: This one was 528 00:56:55.990 --> 00:57:00.959 Bruce Schuchard: the one about whom a pawn I spoke hearest to let go, 529 00:57:01.360 --> 00:57:20.299 Bruce Schuchard: or uh uh one about whom I said comma quotation marks, because what we've got here is a quotation inside of a quotation. Right here comes the innermost quotation, a cause of direct discourse. Common quotation marks Ha! A pistol move or common. 530 00:57:20.310 --> 00:57:22.910 Bruce Schuchard: The article modifies the part as simple. 531 00:57:22.980 --> 00:57:25.830 Bruce Schuchard: The part of simple is an attributed position. 532 00:57:26.100 --> 00:57:32.110 Bruce Schuchard: If the part of simple is an attributive position, it's either adjective or substantiable. Get used to that, 533 00:57:32.150 --> 00:57:44.580 Bruce Schuchard: and lots of participants will be immediately clear to you. Right. It's an attributed position, because I'm. An article modifies it uh it's substantival here 534 00:57:44.590 --> 00:57:58.609 Bruce Schuchard: uh, because that's that's what attributive position participants do they're either adaptive or substantive, or here substantive, the one coming up this so move after me. Gag on, then, 535 00:57:58.620 --> 00:58:06.509 Bruce Schuchard: uh perfect of ginem I has been and is sometimes. Ginem I is the equivalent of a May. 536 00:58:06.530 --> 00:58:07.689 Bruce Schuchard: I am, 537 00:58:08.070 --> 00:58:23.769 Bruce Schuchard: has been and is passed past. Uh, you know, a reference to a past uh thing, with with the suggestion of of a present enduring result. That's the thrust of the perfect has been and is, and pros then move 538 00:58:24.180 --> 00:58:33.759 Bruce Schuchard: uh before me. Now the Esp gets this absolutely right when it translates. He who comes after me ranks before me. 539 00:58:34.530 --> 00:58:35.549 Bruce Schuchard: Okay, 540 00:58:35.990 --> 00:58:37.310 Bruce Schuchard: uh 541 00:58:37.360 --> 00:58:40.459 Bruce Schuchard: Empress then refers to rank. 542 00:58:40.480 --> 00:58:44.140 Bruce Schuchard: The one coming after me is greater than me, 543 00:58:44.210 --> 00:58:49.879 Bruce Schuchard: is what John is saying so far with the class of direct discourse. 544 00:58:49.990 --> 00:58:53.880 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, but what is the next clause indicating 545 00:58:53.970 --> 00:59:01.589 Bruce Schuchard: has been and is before me. Hutti protas move A. Because he was protoss new. 546 00:59:01.800 --> 00:59:10.999 Bruce Schuchard: Now here, I think the the the Es famous leads, you know, uh ranks before me because he was before me. 547 00:59:11.130 --> 00:59:14.129 Bruce Schuchard: See the translation on next door 548 00:59:14.360 --> 00:59:23.299 Bruce Schuchard: uh to the right hand side of the screen. What in the world does that mean? Too often hearers. Readers of this translation 549 00:59:23.310 --> 00:59:35.100 Bruce Schuchard: are given the impression that John is referring to the pre-existent uh reality of the Logos existing in the Godhead before before creation before time, 550 00:59:35.210 --> 00:59:46.079 Bruce Schuchard: when that's just not likely at all, and that's not really not uh the usual thrust of pro tooss means first, 551 00:59:46.830 --> 00:59:48.919 Bruce Schuchard: you know. Uh, 552 00:59:49.120 --> 01:00:06.919 Bruce Schuchard: there's a first, there's a second, there's a third, but Jesus is Hop protoss. Not only is he her protocols, he's haw, Esketos. He's the first in the last. He's everything right. But here Protoss is comparative. 553 01:00:07.250 --> 01:00:11.749 Bruce Schuchard: It's, comparatively speaking, with reference to Jesus. 554 01:00:12.240 --> 01:00:19.270 Bruce Schuchard: You know, in excelling terms it's actually superlative. So it's superlatively saying what 555 01:00:19.790 --> 01:00:25.630 Bruce Schuchard: he ranks before me because he was pre eminently greater than me, 556 01:00:26.070 --> 01:00:32.079 Bruce Schuchard: is what the Baptist is saying here, and we'll say later on in chapter one. 557 01:00:32.410 --> 01:00:37.680 Bruce Schuchard: He does not know that Jesus is the pre-existent Logos of God. 558 01:00:38.330 --> 01:00:42.790 Bruce Schuchard: None of them will know this until he has risen from The dead. 559 01:00:43.440 --> 01:00:59.200 Bruce Schuchard: Right. Clarity will only comment in that regard later. It is way too early in chapter one, for any of them to be knowing who Jesus really is veiled in flesh. The Godhead. See, 560 01:00:59.520 --> 01:01:03.180 Bruce Schuchard: uh is talk that we're used to from our hymns 561 01:01:04.460 --> 01:01:10.060 Bruce Schuchard: uh veiled in flesh means his true identity is capped 562 01:01:10.440 --> 01:01:17.049 Bruce Schuchard: until until the later time, until his revelatory word is put is powerful. 563 01:01:17.650 --> 01:01:31.480 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, finally to reveal this uh to those that he has been with. When he's the risen one, he will give the spirit and the Spirit of truth will cause them to see 564 01:01:32.190 --> 01:01:41.949 Bruce Schuchard: what they haven't previously seen in Jesus. Starting with the Baptist, the Baptist knows that Jesus is a protoss, the preeminent one 565 01:01:42.010 --> 01:01:48.299 Bruce Schuchard: uh preeminent in that and salvation history preeminent as regards uh 566 01:01:49.010 --> 01:01:54.420 Bruce Schuchard: the eschatological things of God. He's Messiah. He's Messiah 567 01:01:55.010 --> 01:01:57.860 Bruce Schuchard: Uh in that sense he is, you know, 568 01:01:58.350 --> 01:02:01.979 Bruce Schuchard: a pre eminent child of God, 569 01:02:02.010 --> 01:02:03.930 Bruce Schuchard: son of David, 570 01:02:03.990 --> 01:02:08.860 Bruce Schuchard: you know King of Israel, and so on. Right. 571 01:02:09.250 --> 01:02:26.040 Bruce Schuchard: Um! That's what they're going to know early on about him, on the basis of the Baptist testimony, and on the basis of Moses and the prophets. We have found Him of whom Moses and the law and the prophets wrote, declares Philip right 572 01:02:26.700 --> 01:02:29.929 Bruce Schuchard: uh, they're gonna know a lot, 573 01:02:30.740 --> 01:02:31.729 Bruce Schuchard: but 574 01:02:34.410 --> 01:02:46.580 Bruce Schuchard: they will still need to later on. No, even more so, Jesus says, at the end of chapter, One even greater things than these things will, you see? Will you comprehend? 575 01:02:46.660 --> 01:02:48.200 Bruce Schuchard: Will you know, 576 01:02:48.300 --> 01:02:51.249 Bruce Schuchard: when a day of greater clarity comes 577 01:02:51.390 --> 01:03:01.310 Bruce Schuchard: right so preeminent. One notice again the triadic nature of John's uh talk, Haiti a first time 578 01:03:01.340 --> 01:03:07.920 Bruce Schuchard: for sixteen hutty a second time for seventeen hutty a third time 579 01:03:07.930 --> 01:03:27.219 Bruce Schuchard: has been in his before me because he was pre he was the pre-eminent one compared to me protest. Move. That's why you know he ranks before the Baptist. Here's another reason why Jesus ranks. Jesus enjoys a rank that is greater than than the Baptist. 580 01:03:27.230 --> 01:03:36.290 Bruce Schuchard: Uh. That is the greatest of all, and and is rivaled by no one else here. Here's a second reason why Hutti, Because, 581 01:03:36.610 --> 01:03:41.430 Bruce Schuchard: uh to play Roma toss sorry, get rid of that 582 01:03:41.520 --> 01:03:52.010 Bruce Schuchard: from his fullness. Play Roma to us out to Hey, Mace, we contest all of us. We all 583 01:03:52.160 --> 01:03:57.979 Bruce Schuchard: a label man Harris of Lombano. We have received 584 01:03:58.330 --> 01:03:59.600 Bruce Schuchard: uh, 585 01:04:01.530 --> 01:04:04.580 Bruce Schuchard: even also especially 586 01:04:08.760 --> 01:04:21.370 Bruce Schuchard: grace upon grace, grace, and place of great, a a final grace in place of a first grace, a final grace, fulfilling and supplanting, replacing. And 587 01:04:21.380 --> 01:04:30.979 Bruce Schuchard: and you know, therefore, excelling in every way over against the first grace, because the final grace is the grace to which the first grace pointed. 588 01:04:31.090 --> 01:04:33.160 Bruce Schuchard: You know initial grace, 589 01:04:33.260 --> 01:04:46.290 Bruce Schuchard: final grace 590 01:04:46.510 --> 01:05:00.430 Bruce Schuchard: uh the first grace sees its end. It comes to an end in favor of the final things. Uh that are the things of Jesus a a final grace upon you, you know. Uh 591 01:05:00.690 --> 01:05:11.239 Bruce Schuchard: summing up, fulfilling, completing, and causing every previous case to come to an end. Sacrifice, Temple, 592 01:05:11.290 --> 01:05:14.239 Bruce Schuchard: You know That's the the you know. 593 01:05:14.360 --> 01:05:15.270 Oh, 594 01:05:17.000 --> 01:05:20.519 Bruce Schuchard: the previous place of patrilineal descent! 595 01:05:20.800 --> 01:05:23.120 Bruce Schuchard: All of these things come to an end 596 01:05:23.390 --> 01:05:32.320 Bruce Schuchard: with Jesus with the accomplishment of Jesus. They are no more, because those prior things, the first grace 597 01:05:32.840 --> 01:05:36.649 Bruce Schuchard: uh was given in anticipation of the final grace. 598 01:05:37.660 --> 01:05:43.719 Bruce Schuchard: When when final grace comes final, grace is the only thing that defines from that time forward 599 01:05:43.910 --> 01:05:53.959 Bruce Schuchard: the previous things are no more nail to the cross. That's how the letter to the Hebrews describes the things of the first grace. 600 01:05:54.390 --> 01:06:02.129 Bruce Schuchard: Right? Um. Now we've prefaced uh in this way, so that we can read verse seventeen well, 601 01:06:02.730 --> 01:06:05.799 Bruce Schuchard: a final Hutty, because 602 01:06:05.830 --> 01:06:16.760 Bruce Schuchard: how Namos, the law at Dorothy was given here is passive of did only that are mo. That was 603 01:06:17.120 --> 01:06:18.689 Bruce Schuchard: through Moses. 604 01:06:18.950 --> 01:06:25.230 Bruce Schuchard: You know. Moses wrote about me, declares Jesus in chapter five 605 01:06:25.860 --> 01:06:32.390 Bruce Schuchard: uh, we have found him of whom Moses wrote to Claire's Philip, in chapter one 606 01:06:32.760 --> 01:06:41.170 Bruce Schuchard: uh Moses, Moses Uh. Noticed the Moses trajectory in the Gospel of John, and notice how significant 607 01:06:41.190 --> 01:06:52.819 Bruce Schuchard: uh the Moses Christology, uh, is for the identity of Jesus in this gospel. Notice especially, that Moses, according to John, is the first grace. 608 01:06:53.300 --> 01:07:12.619 Bruce Schuchard: You know Moses is the grace of the promise. Jesus is the final grace of the promise kept promise given. Promise capped when the promise is kept. You don't keep promising. You just stay focused on the promise, 609 01:07:12.630 --> 01:07:13.600 Bruce Schuchard: can't 610 01:07:14.560 --> 01:07:31.399 Bruce Schuchard: uh mo. The law was given through Moses, Hey, car risk. I hate a late the uh grace and truth that I ya zu kristu. There it is again, through Jesus uh came into being again at all, 611 01:07:31.720 --> 01:07:36.639 Bruce Schuchard: for on who days her, or I can pull. But 612 01:07:36.820 --> 01:07:46.720 Bruce Schuchard: the first reference of that Austin verse one was the father, the first referent of that us here in verse eighteen is the same. 613 01:07:47.020 --> 01:07:57.780 Bruce Schuchard: No one who days has seen her o rock can at any time that on meaning the father. 614 01:07:58.590 --> 01:08:03.469 Bruce Schuchard: Yeah, this looks like an absolute statement, and it's going to turn out to be an absolute statement. 615 01:08:03.660 --> 01:08:10.959 Bruce Schuchard: His voice you have never heard, declares Jesus in Chapter five. His form you have never seen. 616 01:08:11.220 --> 01:08:25.199 Bruce Schuchard: The Father does not take shape and form. The Father does not characteristically speak. The Father is not, properly speaking, the Creator, the Son is 617 01:08:25.550 --> 01:08:40.660 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, Jesus is the exclusive agent. Jesus is the exclusive spokesman Jesus is. How long those the mouth of God, not some of the time, all of the time. Yeah, we're saying that the prolog here 618 01:08:40.670 --> 01:08:53.880 Bruce Schuchard: is, is informing what First Testament uh Scripture was ever trying to talk about. Uh, when it made regular reference to the to the Theophanic experiences of the A. Patriarchs, and the profits 619 01:08:54.300 --> 01:08:58.790 Bruce Schuchard: they heard from they saw not the Father, but the son. 620 01:08:58.859 --> 01:09:05.449 Bruce Schuchard: You know the fathers of the earliest Church are clear on this. Luther is clear on this we should be clear on this. 621 01:09:05.899 --> 01:09:08.769 Bruce Schuchard: Uh no one has ever seen the father 622 01:09:09.340 --> 01:09:16.640 Bruce Schuchard: uh the father isn't in the habit of coming himself. He sends his son, 623 01:09:17.300 --> 01:09:25.209 Bruce Schuchard: the Father is the sender, the sent one is the son to see the sent one is to see the father. 624 01:09:25.540 --> 01:09:26.840 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, 625 01:09:27.140 --> 01:09:44.110 Bruce Schuchard: if you have seen me, you've seen the Father, and that's your only opportunity to see or to hear from the father. Uh, declares Jesus Monica days, the one and only one comma. So now now the language refers to Jesus. 626 01:09:44.120 --> 01:09:50.429 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, for for reasons that will be clear as we wrap up, so are we sorry we got to wrap up 627 01:09:50.819 --> 01:10:03.300 Bruce Schuchard: that us God comma her own in the bosom of the Father her own is to call upon to patrol. Yeah, there is the Father. 628 01:10:03.310 --> 01:10:15.049 Bruce Schuchard: Jesus is her own in the bosom of the Father at Canos that one Jesus ex a gay sataw, as Root has made known 629 01:10:17.480 --> 01:10:18.699 Bruce Schuchard: the Father 630 01:10:19.420 --> 01:10:20.410 Bruce Schuchard: all right. 631 01:10:20.540 --> 01:10:23.449 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, this has always been Jesus job. 632 01:10:23.680 --> 01:10:27.439 Bruce Schuchard: This has always been Jesus responsibility and role. 633 01:10:27.940 --> 01:10:34.889 Bruce Schuchard: Uh, it will continue to be Jesus responsibility and role in salvation. And the salvation story that follows 634 01:10:35.570 --> 01:10:38.590 Bruce Schuchard: He alone with makes God known. 635 01:10:38.980 --> 01:10:40.040 Bruce Schuchard: Right? 636 01:10:40.110 --> 01:10:47.920 Bruce Schuchard: We're gonna have to wrap up with that. Uh, we could actually say more. Uh on your own you might check to see 637 01:10:47.960 --> 01:10:49.219 Bruce Schuchard: uh, 638 01:10:50.220 --> 01:10:58.930 Bruce Schuchard: but the one speaking to Moses out of the burning bush and exodus three hundred and fourteen in the Septuagint. How he identifies himself 639 01:10:59.190 --> 01:11:02.130 Bruce Schuchard: He identifies himself as her own. 640 01:11:02.500 --> 01:11:09.569 Bruce Schuchard: I am the one who is. Tell the people of Israel that her own has sent you. 641 01:11:10.100 --> 01:11:23.800 Bruce Schuchard: What is John saying about Jesus here? Especially in verse eighteen, but not just in verse Eighteen. Yeah. I wish we had more time. Uh, but we don't um 642 01:11:25.350 --> 01:11:28.060 Bruce Schuchard: hopefully. This this uh 643 01:11:28.390 --> 01:11:29.440 Bruce Schuchard: um 644 01:11:30.260 --> 01:11:32.180 Bruce Schuchard: has been, you know, 645 01:11:33.090 --> 01:11:36.890 Bruce Schuchard: helpful enough uh for this time. 646 01:11:36.940 --> 01:11:40.270 Bruce Schuchard: Uh the Lord be with you. We'll see you again in the future.