Slacker Radio Free Internet Radio. Sorry to interrupt we wanted to confirm youre still listening. You can reduce these interruptions by creating a free Slacker account. Login or Create Account. Keep Listening. No, theres nothing wrong with your ears. We just stopped the music because you havent touched the player in a while. Jesus will not allow you to call him merely interesting, intelligent, or instructive. Everyone must reckon with his actual claims. Keep Listening. Hey, you havent touched the player in a while. You still there Keep Listening. This is a comprehensive discography of The Offspring, a Southern Californiabased punk rock band. The band has released nine studio albums, four extended plays EP. No One Ever Spoke Like This Man When they heard these words, some of the people said, This really is the Prophet. Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Is the Christ to come from Galilee Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was So there was a division among the people over him. Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him. The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, Why did you not bring him The officers answered, No one ever spoke like this man The Pharisees answered them, Have you also been deceived Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed. Nicodemus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them, Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does They replied, Are you from Galilee too Search and see that no prophet arises from Galilee. What I want to do in this message is give a quick overview of the double division that happens in response to Jesus, and then focus on the words of verse 4. The Offspring Gone Away Mp3 Download' title='The Offspring Gone Away Mp3 Download' />No one ever spoke like this man and then, with the help of Bono and C. S. Lewis, show why the portrait of Jesus in the Gospels is so offensive and so compelling. And all of this in the hope that many of you will climb down off the fence of your wavering, and give yourself totally to Jesus. A Double Division. AqlKfXbE/hqdefault.jpg' alt='The Offspring Gone Away Mp3 Download' title='The Offspring Gone Away Mp3 Download' />So first, the double division the division of verses 4. In verses 4. 04. Verse 4. Some of the people said, This really is the Prophet referring back to Deuteronomy 1. God would raise up a prophet like Moses. Then in verse 4. 1, Others said, This is the Christ that is, the long awaited Jewish Messiah. Then in verses 4. Messiah because they thought he was from Galilee and didnt know he was born in Bethlehem. But some said, Is the Christ to come from Galilee Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David wasSo verses 4. Sengoku Basara 3 Pc Single Link. So there was a division among the people over him. Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him. This is the way it happened in Jesuss lifetime on earth, and its the way it keeps happening wherever he is presented faithfully today. Pray that in this very moment you wont be on the wrong side of this division. The Officers Report No One Speaks Like Jesus. Then in verse 4. 5, the officers whom the chief priests and Pharisees had sent to arrest Jesus returned empty handed. The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, Why did you not bring him This is the hinge of the text it divides the double division in the text. Verse 4. 6 says, The officers answered, No one ever spoke like this man Of all the things they might have said about the volatile situation in the crowds and how an arrest might have caused a riot and gotten the Pharisees in big trouble, they did not cover their backsides that way. They said No one ever spoke like this man. This is the fulcrum of the text this fact the uniqueness of Jesus in the world causes a double division. Weve seen the first division the crowds have splintered into three different views about Jesus. Now comes a second division, this time defined by the Pharisees only this time, there is an intensification because the Pharisees give their diagnosis for each of the three positions. And every time they give the diagnosis of what they think is a false view of Jesus, they dig a hole deeper and deeper for themselves and their own blindness. The Pharisaical Diagnosis Everyone Else Is Wrong. First, they say the officers are deceived. Verses 4. 74. 8 The Pharisees answered them the empty handed officers, Have you also been deceived Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him So the officers have a positive impression of Jesus, and the Pharisees explain it away as deception. But who is really deceived Second, the crowds are cursed. Verse 4. 9 But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed. The crowds are in a confusion about Jesus not only because they dont know the law, but because they are under Gods curse, so they say. This is astonishing. They write off the whole Jewish populace as missing the law, and put themselves forward as the non cursed who get the law right. But who is really cursed here Third, Nicodemus, they think, is blinded by his bias. Nicodemus was himself a Pharisee, and had come to Jesus at night back in John 3, and had been told he needed to be born again. He gives a word of caution. Verse 5. 1 Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does And to this word of justice and caution his fellow Pharisees accuse him of bias. Verse 5. 2 They replied, Are you from Galilee tooSearch and see that no prophet arises from Galilee. Rather than be open to Nicodemuss concern to know the facts before they condemn Jesus, they say, in essence, the only reason you would want to give him that kind of chance is that youre part of his clan you Galileans must all hang together. Tables Turned The Pharisees Are Deceived, Cursed, and Biased. So the officers are blinded by deception. The crowds are blinded by a curse. And Nicodemus is blinded by his Galilean bias. But John means for us to see that in fact the tables are totally turned. All of these indictments are going to show the Pharisees themselves to be the really deceived, cursed, and biased ones. Allison Diagnostic Program here. And at the center of all this division and condemnation is Jesus and the words, No one ever spoke like this man. Thats the hinge and the fulcrum of this passage. John means for us to see that it is this uniqueness of Jesus in the world that is causing all the divisions and all the recrimination. Jesuss Division Causing, Utter Uniqueness. When Jesus was born, the old man Simeon said to his mother, Behold, this child is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is opposed Luke 2 3. And Jesus confirmed this destiny when he said, Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword Matthew 1. And he meant just what we are seeing in this text. It was his utter uniqueness that was causing this division. No one ever spoke like this man. What did the empty handed officers have in mind when they said that What should we have in mind Well, the last thing Jesus had said before they returned empty handed to the Pharisees was in verses 3. If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. What kind of human being talks like that Come to me and drink. And if you do, rivers of living water will flow from your heart. It seems to me, therefore, that the kind of thing John wants us to have in mind when we say, No one ever spoke like this man, is the breathtaking claims Jesus made about himself. It wasnt only or mainly his wisdom or his intelligence or his forcefulness or meekness or courage or clarity. It was the over the top claims he made about himself. No man ever talked like that Eight of Jesuss Spectacular Claims. Let me give you eight examples of Jesuss spectacular claims from this Gospel. And we could give more. No one ever spoke like this. He claims to be God.