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\u201cBehold Your Son\u2026 Your Mother\u201d \u2013 John 19:26,27<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a01. The Third Word \u2013 Mary and John<\/strong><\/h4>\n

There is a story about a cross eyed judge who looked at the three defendants in the dock and said to the first one, \u201cSo how do you plead?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNot guilty\u201d said the second defendant.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn’t talking to you\u201d the judge replied.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never said a word\u201d responded the third defendant.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never said a word,\u201d was virtually true of Jesus during his trials before the Sanhedrin, before Pilate, and before Herod. However, on the cross, Jesus spoke seven times. Today we look at the third in our series of Jesus\u2019 \u2018Cross-Words\u2019: \u201cDear woman, here is your son\u2026 here is your mother.\u201d And these are our crossword words: \u201cMother\u201d and \u201cSon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Who was Jesus talking to? Well, one of the persons is obvious because the verse states explicitly that \u201che said to his mother, \u2018Dear woman, here is your son.\u2019\u201d Yes, Jesus\u2019 own mother, Mary, was standing there at the foot of the cross along with some other women who had diligently followed Jesus during His ministry.<\/p>\n

The other person, the one to whom He said, \u201cHere is your mother,\u201d is simply identified as \u2018the disciple whom Jesus loved.\u2019 This term is used only in the Gospel of John, but it is used several times in that Gospel. Nowhere is the term explicitly explained. Nowhere is the identity of \u2018the disciple whom Jesus loved\u2019 explicitly revealed. Only at the very end of the Gospel are we given a hint. There Jesus is speaking with Peter about the kind of death by which Peter would die. Peter referred to this anonymous \u2018disciple whom Jesus loved\u2019 and asks Jesus about his fate. When Jesus gave an unclear answer a rumor spread that this disciple would not die. Then, in the second last verse of the Gospel of John it says, \u201cThis is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down.\u201d So, we understand that this \u2018disciple whom Jesus loved\u2019 is none other than the Gospel writer, John, himself, the son of Zebedee and Salome, the brother of James. Referring to himself as \u2018the disciple whom Jesus loved\u2019 was John\u2019s secret, anonymous and humble way of including himself in the story without specifically mentioning His own name.<\/p>\n

The name of the disciple John is conspicuous by its absence in the Gospel of John. The only mention of the name John in the entire Gospel is in reference to John the Baptist. However, John the disciple was one of the inner circle of disciples along with his brother James, and Peter. These three accompanied Jesus on a number of special occasions. They were the three who went up the Mt. of Transfiguration with Jesus. They were the three who went up with Jesus to the room where the dead daughter of Jairus lay. They were the three who went farther into the Garden of Gethsemane with Jesus when He was praying on Maundy Thursday just before He was arrested.<\/p>\n

It was of this John that Jesus said to Mary, \u201cBehold your Son.\u201d It was to this John that Jesus said, referring to Mary, \u201cBehold your mother.\u201d What significance is there in this \u2018Cross-Word?\u2019<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a02. Honour your Father and Mother<\/strong><\/h4>\n

First of all, Jesus is saying something here about the Fourth Commandment, \u201cHonour your father and your mother.\u201d Do you remember how Martin Luther explains this commandment?? He says, \u201cWe should fear and love God that we do not despise or anger our parents and other authorities, but honour them, serve and obey them, love and cherish them.\u201d<\/p>\n

You young people here today, this is probably one of your favourite commandments to break, isn\u2019t it? It\u2019s acceptable behaviour among your peers to defy parents (and teachers, too, but let\u2019s concentrate on parents). It\u2019s fair game, it seems, to openly disobey your parents, to speak against them among your friends (maybe even to their face), to belittle your parents, making them appear to be fools. Although you may not altogether enjoy it, although as a Christian your conscience may twinge and at least a little bit of guilt may well up when you do it, you are \u2018forced\u2019 into breaking the commandment in order to be a part of the crowd. We may never really learn, know or understand why, at age 12 or 13 or 14, a person begins to think that he\/she knows everything, especially knows more than parents who have had 25, 30 or 35 years more experience at living.<\/p>\n

When Paul wrote to the Ephesians he included a couple of verses about this commandment. He wrote: \u201cChildren, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. \u2018Honour your father and mother\u2019 \u2013 which is the first commandment with a promise \u2013 \u2018that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.\u2019\u201d This is a reference to the Fourth Commandment stated in Deuteronomy 5:16. God\u2019s command is to \u2018honour\u2019 parents, and his promise is long life. I often thought about this in reference to my great grandmother who died when I was in my late 20\u2019s, and when she was 98 \u00be. I thought\u2026 she must have honoured her parents. Her son, my grandfather, just lived to 98 \u00bd, but God blessed him with long life, too, for honouring his parents. God\u2019s command is to honour; Luther includes the concepts of serving, obeying, and loving and cherishing. It\u2019s very hard to do, isn\u2019t it? It\u2019s impossible, I guess. We have all failed to honour our parents. We have broken God\u2019s standard. We have sinned.<\/p>\n

Now, the question might be asked, \u201cHow long am I supposed to honour, serve and obey my parents? Until what age?\u201d A reasonable answer might be: \u201cas long as you are living in the home of your parents.\u201d But really, the answer is \u201call your life.\u201d When you are on your own, when you have your own place, when you get married and have your own family, there are probably fewer opportunities to obey your parents because you become responsible for your own life and decisions, and your contact with your parents becomes less. But the honour and respect and love for those through whom God has given you life ought never die. I have lived far away from my parents for the past 42 years, but when I retire in a few months, because they are still alive, I will have the opportunity to be near to them again and to show love and respect to them in their old age. Oh, and they still give good advice. When we go to parents for advice, for counsel, they can see an issue objectively, with maturity, and without the blinders that we might wear because we are involved in the issue.<\/p>\n

Our love and respect and honour for our parents is properly extended even to their old age. At that time, when they become more dependent, they do not deserve neglect, but they need our love and care even more. Whereas years ago families would care for aging parents or grandparents in their own home, now there are difficult choices to consider when the health of elderly family members make it hard, impossible to care for them at home. What kind of care home is needed? What place would still preserve grandma\u2019s dignity in her failing health? How do we pay for all this? In the midst of considering all these decisions, we must remember that there are a lot of lonely people in care homes, and our responsibility to honour, love, respect and visit our parents does not end when they are being cared for full-time. In the picture of the final judgement Jesus commends those who visited and cared for the sick. How much more so our own parents! And yet we fail, and we fail so miserably.<\/p>\n

Jesus, however, kept the fourth commandment perfectly for us. He remembered His duties to His mother, even as He hung on the cross. We need to make two assumptions here: one, Joseph was dead and Mary needed caring for; two, Jesus could not commit Mary to His half-brothers for some reason, perhaps because they didn\u2019t yet believe in Him. So, on the cross, Jesus\u2019 love and concern for His mother led Him to give Mary to John and John to Mary to comfort and care for each other in the days ahead. In Jesus\u2019 words you can almost hear an echo of that Fourth Commandment, \u201cHonour your father and your mother.\u201d<\/p>\n

The people in a family are much like a choir. In a choir you have four-part harmony. The voices of the sopranos or the tenors are OK alone, but the four voices together enrich one another. For a family \u2013 parents and children \u2013 to live in harmony, they don\u2019t all have to be alike and act alike. In fact, if they did it would be rather boring, and people would get on each other\u2019s nerves. Just like in a choir, personality differences in a family complement one another, and strengths are used to work together toward common goals.<\/p>\n

Last week Friday, I had dinner in Calgary with Jim, one of my good friends from high school \u2013 a friend I hadn\u2019t seen in 47 years. We talked a bit about the olden days, and I reminded him that I had skipped grades in school and caught up to my older brother, who was quite shy and didn\u2019t talk a whole lot. Jim concluded that I skipped those grades so that I could speak for my shy and quiet brother. I thought that was an interesting reflection, but that\u2019s what family members do\u2026 they complement one another\u2019s strengths and weaknesses. With effort, by sharing joys and sorrows, through love, honour and respect, harmony in a family will exist, and lives will be enriched.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 3. The Church \u2013 a New Family-ness<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The second thing we can note from Jesus\u2019 \u201cCross-Word\u201d is that Jesus may also be referring to the new family-ness, the unity that He intends there to be in the church which He is creating. In the Old Testament, this family-ness was the result of a common nationality, being one of God\u2019s chosen nation, the Jews. In and through Jesus, this family-ness is a result of the common loyalty of people with Jesus, Himself. Jesus bids Mary and John to find a new spiritual relationship with one another, not because they are blood relatives, not because both have Jewish roots, but by virtue of their common attachment, their common commitment to Him as Lord and Saviour. In Him, and in Him alone, is there a common bond, a unity of human beings one with another. Jesus creates this new fellowship of the redeemed right there under the cross. And that\u2019s where the fellowship stays and belongs \u2013 under the cross. You see that bond that we have with one another is based on what happened on the cross. Our common attachment is that we all realize and believe that we are people for whom Jesus died, people who are forgiven because of the cross. We are drawn into this fellowship in Jesus\u2019 name because we know to whom we belong. Jesus establishes this bond under the cross when He says, \u201cBehold your son\u2026 behold your mother.\u201d<\/p>\n

Take note of the family-ness, the unity that is evident in some of the post-resurrection gatherings of believers. In Acts 1 it says that the disciples were staying together and that they all joined together in prayer. In Acts 2 we hear about the fellowship, the fact that the believers had everything in common, and that they would even sell their possessions to give to those in need. Again, in Acts 4 we hear the same thing \u2013 first of all that all the believers were one in heart and mind, and that no one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but shared and even sold items to provide for the needy.<\/p>\n

Jesus wants there to be that same kind of unity \u2013 unity of heart and mind and purpose \u2013 among believers today so that we might be able to say with all honesty and sincerity: \u201cYou\u2019re a fellow believer, you\u2019re a brother or sister in Christ, and that\u2019s all it takes for me to love and care for you!\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a04. Look Beyond Yourself to Care for Others<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The last significant aspect of this \u2018Cross-Word\u2019 is Jesus\u2019 own example for us of that kind of caring and love. How often, when we are embroiled in our own trials and troubles, when life is full of hurts for us, do we simply immerse ourselves in self-pity, never bothering to think about anyone else because we are hurting too much ourselves. Whether it\u2019s sickness, family troubles, financial set-backs or whatever \u2013 we have difficulty getting out of ourselves. But look at what Jesus did. He was hanging from a wooden cross, with nails in His hands and feet, suffering and dying with the weight of the sins of the whole world on His shoulders, yours and mine included, and in the midst of His pain and struggle, He looked for His mother and the disciple whom He loved to extend His love and care outside of Himself. Of course, that\u2019s the very nature of the Man, the man-God, but I believe that it\u2019s an example for us, too. When we find ourselves up to our neck in trouble, in hurt, in pain, let us not forget our brothers and sisters in Christ, people who may themselves be experiencing trials, and who may very well need our concern and caring. When we look to extending that care and love to others, even though we ourselves are hurting, we take our gaze off of ourselves, we follow Jesus\u2019 own example of loving amid our own struggles and trials, and in the process we may gain a more objective view of our own problems, and find that healing occurs in our lives.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s exactly what Jesus did. He hung there on the cross, and He didn\u2019t wallow in self-pity over the blood streaming from His wrists, over the excruciating pain coming from pierced feet, over the gouges in His thorn-pierced scalp, over the laboured breathing that always accompanied crucifixion. Jesus didn\u2019t think of Himself and His pain. He thought of you. He loved you. He knew that His pain meant your gain, His discomfort meant your comfort, His forsakenness meant your forgiveness, His death meant your life. So Jesus was happy to endure the cross. That\u2019s what Hebrews 12 says: \u201cLet us fix our eyes on Jesus\u2026 who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame\u2026\u201d The joy set before Him? What joy was there as Jesus hung on the cross? It was the joy of reconciling you to God, once and for all. His love, His care, His compassion for you were not deterred but rather heightened during His time on the cross. Paul said it clearly in Romans 5: \u201cGod demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.\u201d He went on to say that because Christ shed His blood, you are justified, reconciled and saved. And this is reason for rejoicing.<\/p>\n

Jesus\u2019 \u2018Cross-Word\u2019, \u201cBehold your mother, behold your son,\u201d is significant in that it shows us that Jesus kept the Fourth Commandment for us and it teaches us to follow the fourth Commandment. Jesus\u2019 \u2018Cross-Word\u2019 establishes a principle of fellowship and unity among God\u2019s people based on the cross. Jesus\u2019 \u2018Cross-Word\u2019 teaches us to care for and love others, regardless of the struggles we are currently facing ourselves.<\/p>\n

So I encourage you today: Look to your parents with the love, respect and honour that God expects; look at those around you as brothers and sister in faith, and find a unity with them by virtue of your common relationship with Jesus; finally, look to others, despite your own problems, for it was at the point of death that Jesus thought not of Himself, but of you and me, and by so doing He won for us the forgiveness of our sins, and the salvation of our souls. God bless you as you care for those around you. Amen.<\/p>\n

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