NT Framework - Justice from God to Man

Because of man's rebellion and sin God instituted human government as the means of punishing evil and preventing its spread, and this delegation of authority is what enabled the crucifixion of the Messiah.

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Jeremy Thomas is the pastor at Spokane Bible Church in Spokane, Washington and a professor at Chafer Theological Seminary. He has been teaching the Bible for over 20 years, always seeking to present its truths in a clear and understandable manner. 

Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Welcome to Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas and
our series on the New Testamentframework.
Today, a smaller, bite-sizedpiece from the larger lesson.
We hope you enjoy it.

SPEAKER_02 (00:10):
Pilate came out again and said to them, Behold,
I'm bringing him out to you sothat you may know that I find no
guilt in him.
There's the second time.
Did Pilate find any guilt underthe Roman law code for Jesus
that was worthy of crucifixion?
No.
Verse 5.
Jesus then came out wearing thecrown of thorns and the purple
robe.

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Pilate said to them, Behold theman.
So when the chief priests andthe officers saw him, they cried
out, saying, Crucify, crucify.
And Pilate said to them, Youtake him yourselves and crucify
him, for I find no guilt in him.
No guilt.
Third time.
Verse 7, the Jews answered him,We have a law.
Right?
We have a law.

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And by that law he ought to diebecause he made himself out to
be the Son of God.
Now, what law are they talkingabout?
It's a law, evidently, thatrelates to him making himself
out to be the Son of God.
This was the law of blasphemy inLeviticus 24, 16.
And this law, basically, what wecall the law of blasphemy,

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someone could not misuse thename of God.
They think that Jesus hasmisused the name of God.
So hold your place here, justand glance back to John 5:18 to
see what they're referring to.

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Now you'll notice in verse 17,not one of the typical verses to
prove the deity of Christ, butthe Jews thought that he was
claiming to be God.
Verse 17, he answered them, MyFather is working until now, and
I myself am working.
In other words, if the Father isworking, I'm working, I and the
Father are one.
Okay?
For this reason, verse 18,therefore, the Jews were seeking

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all the more to kill him becausewhy?
He not only was breaking theSabbath, but also was calling
God his own father, makinghimself equal with God.
Sorry, Jehovah's Witnesses, butJesus claimed to be God very,
very clearly, and all the Jewsseem to know it, right?
They considered this ablasphemy, a breaking of
Leviticus 24, 16.

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Well, let's look over also atJohn 10, 33, just so we see that
very, very clearly that Jesusdefinitely claimed to be God.

SPEAKER_01 (02:31):
And the Jews very well understood that he was
claiming to be God.

SPEAKER_02 (02:36):
They just didn't believe that God could have a
multiple persons within himself.
They believed that God was anabsolute one.
So John 10, 33, the Jewsanswered, well, let's look at
verse uh 32.
Jesus answered them, I showedyou many good works from the
Father, for which of them areyou stoning me?

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So he's claiming to do the worksof the Father, which puts him
again on equal plane with theFather.
Verse 32, the Jews answered him,For a good work we do not stone
you, but for blasphemy, andbecause you, being a man, make
yourself out to be God.
Did they think that he wasclaiming to be God?
Sure.
I mean, unequivocally, that'svery obvious.
They considered this, though, tobe a breaking of Leviticus 24,

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16, using the name of God in awrong way.
Why did they consider this awrong way of using the name of
God?
Because they believed that Godwas an absolute one.
He did not have a diversity ofpersons within himself.
Remember, we talked about thisearlier when we were talking
about the birth of the king.
And I said that in the Hebrewyou have two words for one,
Yaqid and Akad.

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And I went through these wordsand described how the Hebrew
words that are used of God veryclearly open a window to
understand that there's adiversity of persons within
himself.
But that the Jews don't likethis, didn't like this, and they
tried to cover it up by usingthe other word for one in their

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various traditions and rituals.
When the Bible never uses themthe way that they use them in
their traditions and rituals.
So by the time of Christ, theydidn't have a view of the one
true God that permitteddiversity of persons.
So they're viewing God as anabsolute one.

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And as a result, when he madeany kind of claim to be God or
the equal of God, that was intheir mind blasphemy.

SPEAKER_01 (04:31):
Violated Leviticus 24, 16.
Now let's go back to John 19.
Pilate three times already,having stated that I find no
guilt in him.

SPEAKER_02 (04:47):
And they cry out in verse 6, crucify, crucify.
Pilate said, Take him yourselfand crucify him.
Verse 7, the Jews answered, Wehave a law.
We just went through the law.
He made himself out to be theSon of God, which is the
equivalent of God.
And so verse 8, when Pilateheard this statement, he was
even more afraid.
And he entered into thepraetorium again and he said to
Jesus, Where are you from?
Which is a very interestingquestion.

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But Jesus gave him no answer.
So Pilate, why?
Well, because Pilate, what istruth?
I mean, at that point, Jesus isdone.
And so he says to him, You donot speak to me?
Do you not know that I haveauthority to release you?
I am Pilate.
I have authority to crucify youor release you.
And Jesus answered, You wouldhave no authority over me unless

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it had been given you fromabove.
For this reason, he whodelivered me to you has the
greater sin.
Now look, what is this?
You have no authority unless ithad been given to you.

SPEAKER_01 (05:40):
Isn't that Genesis 9?
The beginning of humangovernment?

SPEAKER_02 (05:47):
What does Romans 13 say?
There's no authority but thatwhich has been given from God
above.
Why do we have human government?
Because God gave it.
God created it.
It's a divine institution.
Pilate is functioning under adivine institution of God,
right?
In an office established by God.
And now he's using thatauthority to do what?

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To permit either the release orthe crucifixion of the one who
gave human government.

SPEAKER_01 (06:16):
This is why I say it's a very unique death that he
died.
Pilate finds nothing wrong.
But the Jews keep insisting,don't they?
So what's Pilate gonna do?
Well, he's gonna give into theirinsistence.
They would always on Passoverrelease one to the Jews, whoever

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they insist on, he's gonna letthat go through.
He had the authority to stop it,didn't he?
Because God had given him theauthority.

SPEAKER_02 (06:50):
But now he's gonna take the God who gave the
authority and he's gonna put himunder this very outlaw.

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