John 12:36-50
May 22, 2022
preached by Pastor Ryan Bouton
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Time of Reflection Quotations

“They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.”

~ Jeremiah 6:14

“Give peace in our time, O Lord; because there is none other that fighteth for us, but only thou, O God.”

~ “Da pacem, Domine,” a 7th-century hymn, as rendered in the Book of Common Prayer

“Hell is full of good intentions or desires.”

~ attributed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153)

“I have returned from Germany with peace for our time.”

~ Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, upon returning from the Congress of Berlin in 1878

“…My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.”

~ Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, September 30, 1938

“Rescue me from hanging on this line
I won’t give up on giving you a chance to blow my mind
Let the eleventh hour quickly pass me by
I’ll find you when I think I’m out of time.”

~ “The Eleventh Hour” by Jars of Clay

Sermon Passage

John 12:36-50 (ESV)

³⁶ “While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.”

When Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself from them. ³⁷ Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him, ³⁸ so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled:

“Lord, who has believed what he heard from us,
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been
revealed?”

³⁹ Therefore they could not believe. For again Isaiah said,

⁴⁰ “He has blinded their eyes
and hardened their heart,
lest they see with their eyes,
and understand with their heart, and turn,
and I would heal them.”

⁴¹ Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory and spoke of him. ⁴² Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue; ⁴³ for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.

⁴⁴ And Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me. ⁴⁵ And whoever sees me sees him who sent me. ⁴⁶ I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness. ⁴⁷ If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. ⁴⁸ The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day. ⁴⁹ For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment—what to say and what to speak. ⁵⁰ And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me.”