{"id":3753,"date":"2019-05-14T03:53:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T03:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/takingeverythoughtcaptivetoobeychrist.wordpress.com\/?p=3753"},"modified":"2019-05-14T03:53:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T03:53:42","slug":"can-anything-good-come-out-of-nazareth-john-143-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/joshuajenkins\/can-anything-good-come-out-of-nazareth-john-143-51\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Anything Good Come Out of Nazareth? John 1:43-51"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Verse 43: Here we have a new day in the flow of the narrative in which Jesus decides to go to Galilee. As we saw in our passage last week, Jesus called his first disciples, Andrew, an unnamed disciple, and Simon Peter. As this new day begins, Jesus continues the work of making disciples as the text tells us that He found Philip and said to him, \u201cFollow me.\u201d What a wonderful thing it is to be found by Jesus. It may seem like a minor point in the context of the passage as a whole, but it is not a minor thing to be found by Jesus. Jesus is beginning his mission to seek and save the lost (Luke 19:10). Jesus came into a world of people groping around in the darkness of sin, lost as can be, and He came to find them. He is the light of the world that the darkness cannot overcome. He is a finding light. He is a revealing light, revealing God to us in a saving way. As Jesus found His first disciples it was the beginning of Him finding us. As the disciples then went and found others and made disciples who made disciples, and on and on; and in this way Jesus finds us. Jesus didn\u2019t just randomly decide to go to Galilee. This decision was not a spontaneous whim. He went on purpose. He went to find. He went to get disciples. He finds us in our darkness and sin, and when He finds us, He tells us, \u201cFollow me.\u201d He commands we follow Him. This means we obey Him, we learn from Him, we stay near to Him and walk in His ways. I love the verse from the great hymn, <\/span>And Can It Be<\/a>:<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201cLong my imprisoned spirit lay<\/span><\/p>\n

Fast bound in sin and nature\u2019s night;<\/span><\/p>\n

Thine eye diffused a quickening ray,<\/span><\/p>\n

I woke, the dungeon flamed with light;<\/span><\/p>\n

My chains fell off, my heart was free, <\/span><\/p>\n

I rose, went forth, and followed Thee.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Verse 44-45: After having been found by Jesus, Philip goes out and finds Nathanael. This is how the gospel advances in the world. We come to Christ and we go and tell others, they come to Christ and they go and tell others – disciples who make disciples, who make disciples. This isn\u2019t just some theoretical idea. This is how it really happened. One of the purposes of a verse like verse 44 is to testify that these are real historical people who really lived in time and history and did these things.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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What Philip tells Nathanael here is incredible. \u201cWe have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.\u201d<\/em> Often, when you see these terms together like this, \u201cthe law and the prophets,\u201d it is a reference to the entirety of the Old Testament. So Philip tells Nathanael, “we have found the one whom the Scriptures spoke of!” Then when he says, \u201cJesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph,\u201d Philip is simply identifying who this person was. In those days, that\u2019s how you identified someone – stating who their father was and where they were from. In this, we again see that the Lord Jesus Christ, according to the witness of the apostles and the Scripture, was a real historical person. He truly was the Word made flesh, who truly dwelt among men – God in flesh, coming into the world into time and space to seek and to save the lost. Again, as we saw with the two disciples last week, apparently, Philip had spent some amount of time with Jesus listening to Him and talking with Him in order to come to this conclusion that He is the one of whom the law and the prophets wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can only imagine what it would be like listening to Jesus explain that He is the Messiah using the Old Testament. That\u2019s one of the things we see throughout Jesus\u2019 teaching and ministry is that He constantly taught about Himself from the law and prophets. We\u2019ve got people today like Andy Stanley who claim that Christians need to unhitch themselves from the Old Testament because we\u2019ve got Jesus. What? He must not know Jesus very well! Jesus hitched himself to the Old Testament! The fallacy there of course is that the OT and NT are separate scriptures that you can hitch and unhitch from one another – that is not so – they are one. Scripture is one unit. It is unbreakable. Nevertheless, our Lord Himself was and is the one of whom the Scriptures speak. Good Israelites would\u2019ve been waiting and looking for such a one. Philip says, \u201cwe\u2019ve found Him!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Verse 46: \u201cCan anything good come out of Nazareth?\u201d This is Nathanael\u2019s response to Philip. What an interesting response and question. Why would he say this? Nazareth was a small town in Jesus\u2019 day. It was greatly despised. No one else liked Nazareth. As the common image of the Messiah was to be a great conquering King in a political sense to many Jews of the day, Nathanael naturally questions \u201cHow can our King come out of Nazareth, let alone anything good at all!? We\u2019re supposed to have a conquering King! Kings don\u2019t come from Nazareth.\u201d<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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Nathanael looked at the immediate and surrounding context and circumstances – the disgrace and the mess that was Nazareth and said, \u201cNo way. Something good from that? How can it be?\u201d Do you ever feel that way? Do you ever look at your life and your circumstances and think, \u201cHow can anything good come out of this? I have done nothing but make a mess and disgrace of my life; I am nothing special, I mess up everything I touch; I can\u2019t do anything right, I\u2019ve hurt people, disappointed people, and my life is a cesspool of sin and disgrace; what good can come out of my life?\u201d Or maybe it\u2019s not so much self-loathing as it is looking at the circumstances and situations of your life and thinking, \u201cCan anything good come out of this? Nothing ever goes my way. I have been left unwanted, I\u2019ve been abused, I have nowhere to turn; and this situation in my life is too big and too bad, and all I see is negative outcomes. How can anything good come out of this?\u201d Nathanael ends up changing his mind about the situation; and it\u2019s not because he finds out that Nazareth really isn\u2019t all that bad after all; it\u2019s because he meets Jesus. \u201cCan anything good come out of my life and out of this situation?\u201d You say. My friend, \u201cHave you met Jesus?\u201d \u201cCan anything good come out of Nazareth?\u201d Yes! Jesus came out Nazareth! Forgiveness came out of the cross! Life came out of death! Jesus came out of the tomb! Because He lives, He says to us now, \u201cAnd we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose\u201d (Romans 8:28).<\/span><\/p>\n

What was Philip\u2019s response to Nathanael\u2019s question? He simply said, \u201cCome and see.\u201d In other words, \u201cI know it doesn\u2019t make any sense; I know it seems impossible; but you just have to see for yourself.\u201d That\u2019s so often the difference; we just need to see Jesus. When we start thinking, \u201cCan anything good come out of Nazareth?\u201d It\u2019s because we\u2019re just staring at Nazareth – we are just fixated on our problem – and we aren\u2019t seeing Jesus. The whole gospel message is essentially a message about how good came out of bad. The whole Bible is filled with little stories telling the story that good comes out of bad. You might say, \u201cThat\u2019s nice, but you\u2019re young and idealistic and you don\u2019t know my life!\u201d To that I say, \u201cTrue. Come and see Jesus.\u201d Come and see. Jesus is the difference. Look at the two criminals crucified next to Jesus. Both in the same dire situation – dying by crucifixion. One presumably died and went to hell, the other to paradise. What\u2019s the difference? They both made a big stinking mess and disgrace of their life that lead them to this point! What\u2019s the difference? One saw Jesus. That\u2019s the difference. I think of the hymn Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus<\/em>: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTurn your eyes upon Jesus<\/span><\/p>\n

Look full in his wonderful face<\/span><\/p>\n

And the things of this world will grow strangely dim<\/span><\/p>\n

In the light of His glory and grace.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Verse 47: <\/b>So Nathanael agrees to go see Jesus and Jesus sees him coming and says kind of a strange thing to him. What is Jesus talking about? No deceit in Nathanael? Jesus isn\u2019t saying, \u201cLook a perfectly honest man!\u201d But as John MaCarthur puts it, \u201cJesus\u2019 point was that Nathanael\u2019s bluntness revealed that he was an Israelite without duplicitous motives who was willing to examine for himself the claims being made about Jesus.\u201d We will see in verse 51, but I believe Jesus is also referencing Genesis 28 which contains the story of Jacob\u2019s dream where he saw heaven open up and angels descend and ascend upon the ladder, or stairway, from heaven to earth. With Jesus referencing this, He is contrasting Nathanael, an Israelite, with Jacob who was later called Israel. Jacob we know was quite the trickster and deceiver in his day. Nathanael is said to have no deceit here in his intentions. So in some sense, Jesus is putting Nathanael in Jacob\u2019s place. As we\u2019ll see in v. 51, Nathanael will see not a stairway, but Jesus as the one on whom the angels descend and ascend between heaven and earth.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Verse 48: Intrigued by such a statement, Nathanael says, \u201cHow do you know me?\u201d Jesus, much like He did with Peter, gives a glimpse of His deity to Nathanael as He tells him that he saw him under the fig tree! This fig tree was obviously somewhere out of the physical sight of Jesus, but not out of His true sight; which of course amazes Nathanael, as it would to any of us in such a situation. Take yourself, for a moment, back to that verse 46 situation in your life where you are asking, \u201cCan anything good come out of this?\u201d There you are under the fig tree, asking this question because you can\u2019t see Jesus. Maybe you can\u2019t see Jesus where you\u2019re at with your eyes; but that doesn\u2019t mean Jesus can\u2019t see you. It\u2019s like covering your head with a blanket to hide from someone and thinking that since you can\u2019t see them, they can\u2019t see you. That\u2019s obviously silly. When you\u2019re in that situation unable to see Christ, He is not so limited as you. He sees. If we can live in those times knowing that Jesus sees, regardless of the darkness that we are shrouded in, then maybe we can live in those moments believing that someone good did come out of Nazareth and Jesus is the Christ, and that something good can come out of our situation. That’s faith in the Christian life. We get to live life, going through the valley of the shadow of death, knowing that the Psalm ends with us dwelling in the house of the Lord forever.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Verse 49: Nathanael responds in faith. This response of faith gives us more reason why we can say that good can come out of bad – no matter how bad the bad is in whatever it is that we are going through, the One who sees us, is the King. He governs and rules all things. Making good out of bad is what He does. He\u2019s King. Isn\u2019t it wonderful that our Savior is not one who is on a secret mission to rescue us out of this world and the devil\u2019s clutches? In other words, He\u2019s not an undercover CIA agent, but He\u2019s King. He rules out in the open. This is His world!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Verse 50-51: Jesus\u2019 omniscience in knowing and seeing Philip was just the beginning. The disciples are going to see things that are greater than that – and that was pretty great! I believe Jesus is simply referring here to the entirety of His ministry that the disciples will witness: His miracles, healings, teachings, life, death, resurrection, ascensions, and even the coming of the Holy Spirit as the gospel went forth in power with signs and wonders in that first century.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jesus then makes this very interesting statement: \u201cTruly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.\u201d What is Jesus talking about? I let the cat out of the bag earlier, but I believe Jesus is referencing, or playing off of the story in Genesis 28 of Jacob\u2019s ladder\u00a0<\/span>(Genesis 28:10-17).<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

What\u2019s the difference between Genesis 28 and Jesus\u2019 reference to it? In Jesus\u2019 reference to it the Son of Man replaces the ladder. Now what\u2019s the point of Jesus being the truer and better ladder in reference to Genesis 28? Notice that the angels are ascending and descending. The point is that Jesus is the way that God reveals Himself and relates to mankind in a saving way, and also that Jesus is the only way to the Father. Jesus is the access point between heaven and earth. God does not come down to us on a ladder, He comes down to us in Jesus Christ. This is one of the great themes of John\u2019s gospel that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, and no one comes to the Father but through Him. The gospel writer vividly sets this theme before us, as we enter into his gospel. <\/span><\/p>\n

So in the context of Jesus\u2019 conversation with Nathanael, what is Jesus saying? He is essentially saying, \u201cI\u2019m not only going to tell you all about yourself (which is what He did when He said that He saw Nathanael under the fig tree), but I\u2019m also going to tell you all about the Father. I\u2019m not only going to reveal things you didn\u2019t know about you; but I am going to reveal heaven to you.\u201d How about that? Just like Jacob experienced supernatural or heaven-sent revelation, so the disciples will experience even greater heaven-sent revelation.<\/span><\/p>\n

I believe there is another slight element to what Jesus is saying here. When he puts himself in the place of the ladder in Genesis 28, part of what He could be saying is \u201cYou are going to see me in all the Scriptures.\u201d He says that\u2019s the greater thing. That\u2019s huge. That means that when we see Christ in the Scripture we are seeing greater things\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Conclusion: <\/b>So, as we move out of the opening chapter of John\u2019s gospel into the rest of it, it\u2019s as if the writer is inviting us to come and see. Come and see the eternal Word made flesh, dwelling among us, rejected by some yet also received by some. Come and see the light of the world, the Messiah according to the Scripture, the Son of God, Son of Man, as He comes to make good out of bad and reveal heaven to us!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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