Not Yet My Time: Jesus at the Feast

All the laws that God gave his people, all the celebrations that they were doing was all pointing forward to Jesus, was all pointing forward to when the Messiah would come, who would fulfill all the promises and the requirements of the law. So John in his gospel provides for us how salvation history, that is how God has been working since the very beginning to bring salvation to mankind culminates, comes together in Jesus, the Messiah. [00:45:36] (30 seconds)  #MessiahFulfillment

You shall rejoice in your feast because the lord your god will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful. So it was a time of celebration of not just the past, but also the present, and what God had given them in the harvest. But it also looked to the future, because the prophet Zechariah envisioned a time when all nations would come to Jerusalem to celebrate this feast, this feast of booths. So there is this time coming when god will bring peace and all nations will celebrate it together. [00:43:13] (37 seconds)  #FeastOfBoothsHope

No wonder the world hates me. No wonder the world wants to kill me. They don't want anything to do with me because I am the one that is bringing light to the sin of the world. Now he's bringing light to the sin of the world so that the world will see and say, uh-oh. We have a problem. We need help. [00:57:24] (18 seconds)  #LightExposesSin

Here in this the this passage, we see that God's timing is best, and that we should not only seek his will on what to do, but remember that he has his own perfect timing as well. This is evident in our prayers when we ask god to do something. Sometimes he says yes. Sometimes he says no. Sometimes he says not yet. Just wait. Not yet. And we can trust him that his timing is perfect. [01:04:28] (30 seconds)  #TrustGodsTiming

So water from the rock points to Jesus. The pillar of fire points to Jesus. The Jewish laws in the Old Testament, they were not just a legal code, not just a code of dos and don'ts. Alright? The the festivals were not just a time of remembrance where we remember what god did for us, but they were also prophetic. And what do I mean by that is that they also pointed forward to something. [00:45:09] (26 seconds)  #FestivalsPointToJesus

So Jesus speaks here about divine timing. Twice he says, my time has not yet come. Alright. The second time he says, my time has not yet fully come. Earlier in John, if you remember the the the wedding in Cana, when his mother came to him and asked him to help, when they ran out of wine for the celebration. He tells his mother, my time has not yet come. Jesus was very focused on divine timing. [00:54:31] (30 seconds)  #MyTimeHasNotYet

This was another fatal flaw that his brothers and others misunderstood about the messiah. Not only did they not understand who he was as messiah, but that he was operating on god's timetable, not his own and not theirs. From the beginning of time, God planned out the moment when he would sacrifice his son for the sins of the world. [00:55:02] (22 seconds)  #GodlyTimetable

Finally, there is much confusion about who Jesus is in our world. Remember, there were some who said he's a good man, while others were saying he's he's leading people astray. Don't follow him. But what John told us from the very beginning of the book in chapter one verse one is that Jesus is God. And so the stories that he is relating to us are showing us just that, as we will see as we continue through these next couple chapters. [01:06:46] (30 seconds)  #JesusIsGod