The first four chapters of John precede in point of time the notices of His ministry in the other gospels. Till then the Holy Ghost could not be so given only when Jesus was glorified, after redemption was a fact. he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. Two resurrections, one of life, and another of judgment, would be the manifestation of faith and unbelief, or rather, of those who believe, and of those who reject the Son. If she turned aside to questions of religion, with a mixture of desire to learn what had concerned and perplexed her, and of willingness to escape such a searching of her ways and heart, He did not refrain graciously to vouchsafe the revelation of God, that earthly worship was doomed, that the Father was to be worshipped, not an Unknown. The Jews had so misinterpreted the Law of Moses about the Sabbath day that they considered the miracles that Jesus carried out on the Sabbath, violated their strict rules. He that believes on the Son has everlasting life; and he that disobeys the Son, in the sense of not being subject to His person, "shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him" Such is the issue of the Son of God present in this world an everlasting one for every man, flowing from the glory of His person, the character of His testimony, and the Father's counsels respecting Him. There He supposes His full rejection and death. Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. John chapter 5. (Page 61; 1989). John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. The Jews had so misinterpreted the Law of Moses about the Sabbath day that they considered the miracles that Jesus carried out on the Sabbath, violated their strict rules. The close of the chapter shows us the Lord in Galilee. Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him. What Jesus said in essence is that some of you have been given ears that can continually hear. For them, Israel, or the world, all is over. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. John was not yet cast into prison. The issue of all is, that the will of man is the real cause and spring of enmity. This is the more striking, because, as we have seen, the world and Israel, rejecting Him, are also themselves, as such, rejected from the first. He is viewed as retaining the same perfect intimacy with the Father, entirely unimpaired by local or any other circumstances He had entered. There was purpose in it. This brings in the great counterpart truth, that even God present on earth and made flesh is not enough. The Lord Jesus presents Himself as putting an end to all this now for the Christian, though, of course, every word God has promised, as well as threatened, remains to be accomplished in Israel by-and-by; for Scripture cannot be broken; and what the mouth of the Lord has said awaits its fulfilment in its due sphere and season. The chapter pursues this subject, showing that it is not only God who thus deals first, with the necessity of man before His own immutable nature; next, blessing according to the riches of His grace but, further, that man's state morally is detected yet more awfully in presence of such grace as well as holiness in Christ. For example, one young. And so, in fact, it was and is. Now, it is no longer a question of nature, but of relationship; and hence it is not said simply the Word, but the Son, and the Son in the highest possible character, the only-begotten Son, distinguishing Him thus from any other who might, in a subordinate sense, be son of God "the only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father." 2. I do not mean by this all individuals, but creation; for nothing can be more certain, than that those who do not receive the Son of God are so much the worse for having heard the gospel. But when the Lord speaks of His cross, and not God's judicial requirements only, but the gift of Himself in His true personal glory as the occasion for the grace of God to display itself to the utmost, then, and not till then, do we hear of eternal life, and this connected with both these points of view. The distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. The Lord meets him at once with the strongest assertion of the absolute necessity that a man should be born anew in order to see the kingdom of God. John 5:24 Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.. 3. He entered this world, became flesh, as born of woman; but there was no diminution of His own glory, when He, born of the virgin, walked on earth, or when rejected of man, cut off as Messiah, He was forsaken of God for sin our sin on the cross. For example, I'll believe that there are only a few hours in a day instead of 24; or that 2:00 is the only hour, and that once the clock hits 2:59 it will just go straight back to 2:00 again. Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. John 5:24, NLT: 'I tell you the truth, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. The Moral Soul Is It Ok for Christians to Follow Zodiac Signs? It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. (Verse John 7:39), Nothing can be simpler than this. Such was the grace that God was displaying in Him, the true and full expresser of His mind. John 5:24 New International Version 24 "Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. It sends those. In both instances Thomas appears as a person loyal to Jesus and ready to die with him, but, at the same time, skeptical, stubborn, and realist in a somehow negative way. They knew what they worshipped, but not the Father, nor were they "true." But his ways were higher. ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." In the first three weeks of 2023, crime rates in the city have skyrocketed by 61%, compared to last year, according to Chicago police. 24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that . 6 "You alone are the Lord. (VerseJohn 4:10; John 4:10) Infinite grace! For evidently it is the theme of worship in its Christian fulness, the fruit of the manifestation of God, and of the Father known in grace. Observe, it is not (as is often very erroneously said or sung) a question of sins, but of the "sin" of the world. Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. However, this great gift of salvation is conditional. God the Father forms a new family in, by, and for Christ. Among adults aged 20-69, the overall . So we see in the attractive power, afterwards dealing with individual souls. Life resurrection will display how little they had to be ashamed of, who believed the record given of His Son; the resurrection of judgment will make but too plain, to those who despised the Lord, both His honour and their sin and shame. The refusal of His precious blood will, on the contrary, make their case incomparably worse than that of the heathen who never heard the good news. Background: thThe 5 chapter of John opens with a feast of the Jews in Jerusalem. The chapters we have had before us (John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36) are thus evidently an introduction: God revealed not in the Word alone, but in the Word made flesh, in the Son who declared the Father; His work, as God's Lamb, for the world, and His power by the Holy Ghost in man; then viewed as the centre of gathering, as the path to follow, and as the object even for the attendance of God's angels, the heaven being opened, and Jesus not the Son of God and King of Israel only, but the Son of man object of God's counsels. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. The Jews, then, who could not help, and pitied not their fellow in his long infirmity and disappointment, are scandalized to see him, safe and sound, carrying his couch on that day. , , . The panel focused on how former President Donald Trump and his allies . Download. If, on the contrary, a soul has been taught of God the glory of the person of Him who was made flesh, he receives in all simplicity, and rejoices in, the glorious truth, that He who was made flesh was not made flesh only to this end, but rather as a step toward another and deeper work the glorifying God, and becoming our food, in death. PRESENT_____ FUTURE_____ . Number two means to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ as done and said in Acts 2:38 ( full body emmersion) the cleansing of. It is life in the kingdom of God, under the Lordship of the King. In His name I pray, AMEN. Once she finally stood in . The Benefits of Hearing and Believing Elder R.M. To stand though the days are evil (Ephesians 5:16) and full of sin, error, subtle heretical seducers and sharp persecutions (2Timothy 3:13-14; Matthew 24:12-13). It is a way of love, joy, truth, goodness, peace with God, fruitfulness, stewardship, and glory to God with everything that we undertake for his sake. In addition, the city saw more than 20,000 cases of theft in 2022, nearly double the amount of theft incidents in 2021, according to the Chicago Police Department's end-of-year report. If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. The great fact of the incarnation is brought before us "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father"). His corporeal presence was not necessary; His word was enough. In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. No such sounds, no such realities were ever heard or known in Israel. A comparable passage to John 5:24 is probably John 10:27-29. (Verses John 3:1-6), But the Lord goes farther, and bids Nicodemus not wonder at His insisting on this need. 'Truly, truly, I say to you, the one who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. First, a new nature is insisted on the Holy Ghost's quickening of each soul who is vitally related to God's kingdom; next, the Spirit of God takes an active part not as source or character only, but acting sovereignly, which opens the way not only for a Jew, but for "every one." God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. They accomplished this by repeatedly pairing the white rat with a loud, frightening clanging noise. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. They wonder, as they had murmured before (John 7:12-15); but Jesus shows that the desire to do God's will is the condition of spiritual understanding. 11 What is significant about the first two signs is that they occurred in Cana of . According to Dweck and Ehrlinger, people who hold an entity theory of human nature: a. see the world as in a constant state of flux. He is a divine person; His manhood brought no attainder to His rights as God. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. The existence of divine love in believers, then facilitates the influence of the gospel on the world, and . Since opening, JPII has provided 1,050+ sonograms at no cost to women in . "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. for he knew He was the Christ. "The law was given by Moses." He was God. Blessed servant he of an infinitely blessed and blessing Master! Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. B. Inviting other members of the emergency management team to discuss common goals. Jesus explains: "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. What I believe is very important. He saw him under the fig tree. Summary: Act V, scene ii. Jesus, therefore, answered, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. Rest is not the question now at all; but the flow of the Spirit's power while Jesus is on high. The Lord Jesus did, without question, take humanity in His person into that glory which He so well knew as the Son of the Father. John 5:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life. For this, therefore, the Jews sought the more to kill Him; because He added the greater offence of making Himself equal with God, by saying that God was His own Father. As the new birth for the kingdom of God, so the cross is absolutely necessary for eternal life. Today, it is still Jesuss Word that saves. This the Lord refuses, and goes up the mountain to pray, His disciples being meanwhile exposed to a storm on the lake, and straining after the desired haven till He rejoins them, when immediately the ship was at the land whither they went. In both John and Paul the possibility of attaining eternal life and avoiding the wrath of God is dependent on believing in Jesus, the Son of God. This testimony differs from the rest in having a more permanent character. The question really is, whether man would trust God. "But He said to them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of." But they learn that it was his divine Physician who had not only healed, but so directed him. 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