( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. Hence, after having first unmistakably laid down the necessity of the cross, He next shows the grace that was manifested in the gift of Jesus. Such was Jesus in person, contrasted with all who belong to the earth. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? If I believe that God can't or won't do a certain thing, then it usually follows that God doesn't. Present Future Past 8. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? 11 What is significant about the first two signs is that they occurred in Cana of . God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." Man was judged: another Man was there, the Lord from heaven, soon to stand in resurrection. This He does in verses 16-19. Memorize 1 John 5:11-12 Assurance of Salvation And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his son. Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. For John abiding in Christ involves love for one another, as in John 15:9-17, and John 5:24. His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. It is not merely or most of all a great prophet or witness: He is the Son; and the Father has given all things to be in His hand. Then, resuming the strain of verse John 1:14, we are told, in verseJohn 1:16; John 1:16, that "of his fulness have all we received." How did John say a person receives the gift of salvation in John 1:12? * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. Thus we have here the other side of the truth: not merely what God is in life and light, in grace and truth, as revealed in Christ coming down to man; but man is now judged in the very root of his nature, and proved to be entirely incapable, in his best state, of seeing or entering the kingdom of God. 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. God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. and the two disciples leave John for Jesus. And let him that heareth say, Come. #2 whoever hears my word and believes We are saved by hearing the truth of the gospel of Christ (Rom 10:17). This was necessary for the kingdom of God; not for some special place of glory, but for any and every part of God's kingdom. I praise and thank You thatI have passed from death to life, by believing on Jesus. It is His person as incarnate first, then in redemption giving His flesh to be eaten and His blood to be drank. Indeed, it is the total eclipse, not merely of law and remedial mercies, but even of promised Messianic glory, by everlasting life and resurrection at the last day. What love! '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. 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. Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal life. I don't realize until the next morning that it's completely insane to think any of this. "He that believeth on him is not judged: but he that believeth not is judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. All-or-nothing thinking usually leads to extremely unrealistic standards for yourself and others that could affect your relationships and motivation. In his most famous and controversial experiment, known today as the "Little Albert" experiment, John Watson and a graduate assistant named Rosalie Rayner conditioned a small child to fear a white rat. Thus, as in the former case the Lord's dealing in Galilee was a type of the future, this appears to be significant of His then present path of grace in that despised quarter of the land. And so, in fact, it was and is. Why should He not show Himself to the world? Summary: Act V, scene ii. And let him that is athirst come. "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." "He was in the world, and the world was made by him." Since you have been given these ears I command you to faithfully hear the word of the kingdom. The close of the chapter shows us the Lord in Galilee. The Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. But the Lord reproaches him, the master of Israel, with not knowing these things: that is, as a teacher, with Israel for his scholar, he ought to have known them objectively, at least, if not consciously. The distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. 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. But this, however worthy of God, and indispensable for man, could not of itself give an adequate expression of what God is; because in this alone, neither His own love nor the glory of His Son finds due display. 22 For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son, 23 that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. (VersesJohn 3:20-21; John 3:20-21). he would not. Psychologist Albert Bandura described these beliefs as determinants of how people think, behave, and feel. 2. He acts as such. He hath this immediately, and not merely, he shall have. The first four chapters of John precede in point of time the notices of His ministry in the other gospels. The Son gives life, as the Father does; and not merely to whom the Father will, but to whom He will. This will be displayed in the millennium, when the marriage will be celebrated, as well as the judgment executed (Jerusalem and its temple being the central point then). It would not suit God, if it would suit man, that He, seeing all, should just pronounce on man's corruption, and then forthwith let him off with a bare pardon. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life. John 3:17; John 3:17) This decides all before the execution of judgment, Every man's lot is made manifest by his attitude toward God's testimony concerning His Son. (Verses John 7:40-53). 6. John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! 1 John 5:11-12 The enemy will often to cast doubt on the work God has done in your heart. Here He is not portrayed as the Son of man who must be lifted up, but as the Son of God who was given. Nobody had gone up to heaven: God had taken more than one; but no one had gone there as of right. So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? What Jesus said in essence is that some of you have been given ears that can continually hear. Ironically, despite his great . Thus the Holy Ghost, given by the Son in humiliation (according to God, not acting on law, but according to the gift of grace in the gospel), was fully set forth; but the woman, though interested, and asking, only apprehended a boon for this life to save herself trouble here below. . The hour was one for faith, or unbelief. Thus former things pass away; the old man is judged, dead, and clean gone. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. not the Jews only; for, as far as intelligence went, it was little better with the disciples till He rose from the dead. The Benefits of Hearing and Believing Elder R.M. Sons they might have been in bare title; but these had the right of children. A. 3 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie--the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One needs no more than to read, as believers, these wonderful expressions of the Holy Ghost, where we cannot but feel that we are on ground wholly different from that of the other gospels. 5:24 - Jesus speaks of the wonders of God's salvation. I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. It is thus strikingly an anticipation of the result in glory. When the man that had been healed obeyed Christ's instruction and picked up his bed to carry it home, it was construed as work, and they accused Jesus of violating their laws. In the first three weeks of 2023, crime rates in the city have skyrocketed by 61%, compared to last year, according to Chicago police. Yet before a miracle, as well as in the working of those which set forth His glory, it is evident that so far from its being a gradual growth, as it were, in His mind, He had, all simple and lowly though He were, the deep, calm, constant consciousness that He was God. There is the need of another nature, and the only way in which this nature is communicated is by being born of water and the Spirit the employment of the word of God in the quickening energy of the Holy Ghost. John 5:19-29), It is evident, then, that the Lord presents life in Himself as the true want of man, who was not merely infirm but dead. 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. Black-or-white thoughts may also set you up for. The Jews, with all their privileges, were strangers here. None the less did the result of His death proclaim His Deity. The Father and the Son were at work. None else could do either work: for here we see His great work on earth, and His heavenly power. What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. ", This response infuriated the Jews, for they knew thatJesus was making Himself equal with Almighty God. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment." How truly it is man under law! John then declared his own waning before Christ, as we have seen, the issues of whose testimony, believed or not, are eternal; and this founded on the revelation of His glorious person as man and to man here below. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." Now it is that the great question is decided; now it is that a man receives or refuses Christ. He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. B. Inviting other members of the emergency management team to discuss common goals. #2 "whoever hears my word and believes" We are saved by hearing the truth of the gospel of Christ (Rom 10:17). John 5:24 In-Context. For if, on the one side, God has taken care to let us see already the glory of the Son, and the grace of which He was full, on the other side, all shines out the more marvellously when we know how He dealt with a woman of Samaria, sinful and degraded. b. are likely to cooperate during conflicts. In Him was life for this scene of death; and it is of faith that it might be by grace. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" (Ver. How blessed the contrast with the people's state depicted in this chapter, tossed about by every wind of doctrine, looking to "letters," rulers, and Pharisees, perplexed about the Christ, but without righteous judgment, assurance, or enjoyment! John 5:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life. The disciples come; the woman goes into the city, leaving her waterpot, but carrying with her the unspeakable gift of God. The man went off, and told the Jews that it was Jesus: and for this they persecuted Him, because He had done these things on the sabbath. They were not to wonder then at what He says and does now; for an hour was coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; those that have done good to resurrection of life, and those that have done evil to resurrection of judgment. (Ver. To see Jesus is to see His Father (John 14:9). None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. "No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son," etc. Glory would be displayed in its day. According to Romans 5:8, how has God shown that he loves you? 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