It is our evangelist's way of indicating His Galilean sojourn; and this miracle is the particular subject that John was led by the Holy Ghost to take up. Of this we learn nothing, here. What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? Glory would be displayed in its day. John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. It is not denunciation, but the most solemn sentence in the calmest manner. His death on the cross included much more, clearly answering to the first; His baptizing with the Holy Ghost followed His going to heaven. It is the wider, universal glory of the Son of man (according toPsalms 8:1-9; Psalms 8:1-9); but the most striking part of it verified from that actual moment because of the glory of His person, which needed not the day of glory to command the attendance of the angels of God this mark, as Son of man. Thus, in His person, as well as in His work, they joined issue. But here these streams of the Spirit are substituted for the feast of tabernacles, which cannot be accomplished till Christ come from heaven and show Himself to the world; for this time was not yet come. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? 17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Then said they unto him, Who art thou? (VersesJohn 3:7-8; John 3:7-8), It is hardly necessary to furnish detailed disproof of the crude, ill-considered notion (originated by the fathers), that baptism is in question. How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? This is the truth; but the Jews had the law, and hated the truth. (Verses John 6:59-71) What and if they should see Him, who came down and died in this world, ascend up where He was before? Coming after John as to date, He is necessarily preferred before him in dignity; for He was ( ) [not come into being ( )] before Him. When one of the first two is not in control, the soul is in a state of disarray. 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.. Thus it is not the Spirit of God simply giving a new nature; neither is it the Holy Ghost given as the power of worship and communion with His God and Father. (Psalms 132:1-18) Then they wanted to make Him a king. PRESENT_____ FUTURE_____ . (ver. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. "Truly I tell you, anyone who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life. 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. For were it not God Himself in the person of Jesus, it had been no glory to God, but a wrong and a rival. The brethren of the Lord Jesus, who could see the astonishing power that was in Him, but whose hearts were carnal, at once discerned that it might be an uncommon good thing for them, as well as for Him, in this world. In 1 Peter 3:18, how did Peter explain what God has done to bring men to Himself? 1:11). Further, it is connected intimately with the evidence of man's ruin by sin. 'I tell you the truth, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. Heavy drinking can cause you to see things that aren't. Verse John 1:29 opens John's testimony to his disciples. It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. You are leading and influencing when you are doing all of the following EXCEPT: A. NIV 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., NLT I tell you the truth, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. It is the final setting aside of Judaism then, whose characteristic hope was the display of power and rest in the world. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL It seemed natural: He had fed the poor with bread, and why should not He take His place on the throne? Till then the Holy Ghost could not be so given only when Jesus was glorified, after redemption was a fact. The Father and the Son were at work. For the Christian eternal life begins upon belief in him who sent Jesus. 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. As to Himself, He does not go at that time to the feast of tabernacles; but later on He goes up "not openly, but as it were in secret" (verseJohn 7:10; John 7:10), and taught. But hath passed out of death into life Christ's Discourse with the Jews; All Judgment Committed to Christ; The Christian Charter. Could they, then, reject the Son, and merely miss this infinite blessing of life in Him? A California couple is suing a fertility clinic claiming that doctors mistakenly transferred an embryo that tested positive for a deadly cancer gene and then tried to cover it up. Notably He is now applying it to the reconciliation of a people, who are also baptized by the Holy Ghost into one body. But let them beware how they perverted it. Try listening to 1 John 5:11-13 on a Bible app, or record it with your voice and listen. No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. Thus in one way or the other all must honour the Son. They had stumbled before, and the Lord brought in not alone His person, as the Word made flesh, presented for man now to receive and enjoy; but unless they ate the flesh, and drank the blood of the Son of man, they had no life in them. it was no lack of testimony; their will was for present honour, and hostile to the glory of the only God. In truth, Christian baptism did not yet exist, but only such as the disciples used, like John the Baptist; it was not instituted of Christ till after His resurrection, as it sets forth His death. Law, means, ordinances, could not meet the need no pool, nor angel nothing but the Son working in grace, the Son quickening. John 11:43-44). Stigma, discrimination, and violation of human rights of people with schizophrenia are common. Verily verily, I say unto you Who am the Amen, the true and faithful witness: he that heareth my word; by which is meant the Gospel, and is so called, both because it is spoken by Christ, and first began to be spoken by him; and because he is spoken of in it; his person, office, and work, peace, pardon, righteousness, life, and salvation by him, being the sum and substance of it: and by "hearing" it is meant, not a bare external hearing it; for so it may be heard, and not understood; and it may be understood in a notional and speculative way, and yet the consequences hereafter mentioned may not follow: but an internal hearing it is here designed, so as to understand it spiritually, or to have an experimental knowledge of it; so as to approve of it, love, and like it; to distinguish it from that which is not his doctrine, and to feel the power of it on the heart, and yield the obedience of faith unto it: for faith in Christ himself, the sum and substance of the word of the Gospel, is hereby expressed; to which is joined faith in God his Father, they being equally the object of it; and which is introduced as a further proof of the equality in nature which is between them; see ( John 14:1 ) ; and believeth on him that sent me; he does not say that believes on me, which might have been expected from him; but that believes on him that sent me, that is, on the Father; for as he that rejects Christ, and receives not his words, rejects and receives not him that sent him; so he that hears Christ's words, and receives him, and believes in him, receives and believes in him that sent him; and the same effects and consequences follow upon the one as on the other, upon hearing the word of Christ, as upon believing on the Father of Christ; and which is no inconsiderable proof of their perfect equality: for such a person that hears the one, and believes on the other. Not only is there no healing to be extracted from the law by a sinner, but the law makes more evident the disease, if it does not also aggravate the symptoms. This doesn't mean that what he is about to say is more true, only that it is more important. 2. by which is meant the Gospel, and is so called, both because it is spoken by Christ, and first began to be spoken by him; and because he is spoken of in it; his person, office, and work, peace, pardon, righteousness, life, and salvation by him, being the sum and substance of it: and by "hearing" it is meant, not a bare external hearing it; for so This brings in the great counterpart truth, that even God present on earth and made flesh is not enough. * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. "Jesus had simply explained the gospel that we read in John chapter 3: "That whosoever believes on the Him will not perish but have everlasting life." As there is an absolute necessity on God's part that man should be thus born anew, so He lets him know there is an active grace of the Spirit, as the wind blows where it will, unknown and uncontrolled by man, for every one that is born of the Spirit, who is sovereign in operation. In the duration, of the Salem witch trials occurred, hundreds of innocent people had been hounded and nineteen of them were hanged at the end starting in 1962. But the Spirit would not confine His operations to such bounds, but go out freely like the wind. Jesus is making the profound statement that salvation is a free gift from God for those who believe in his Son, Jesus Christ. But as many as received him, to them gave he power [rather, authority, right, or title] to become children of God." The two acts (new birth and faith) are so closely connected that in experience we cannot distinguish them. The power of Jesus' sovereign words had the power to heal (and raise the dead, cf. Did the dead (for so men are treated, not as alive under law) did they hear the voice of the Son of God? As a weapon of conviction, most justly had it in the mind of the Lord Jesus the weightiest place, little as man thinks now-a-days of it. Judgment is the alternative for man: for God it is the resource to make good the glory of the Son, and in that nature, in and for which man blind to his own highest dignity dares to despise Him. The first four chapters of John precede in point of time the notices of His ministry in the other gospels. Thus, in fact, we have the Lord setting aside what was merely Messianic by the grand truths of the incarnation, and, above all, of the atonement, with which man must have vital association: he must eat yea, eat and drink. John 7:24) They reason and are in utter uncertainty. 1. Resurrection will be the proof; the two-fold rising of the dead, not one, but two resurrections. God is in infallible control over life, death, sickness, and health (cf. Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. 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. Salem Media Group. 1 John 5:11-12 The enemy will often to cast doubt on the work God has done in your heart. John's is the only one of the four not considered among the Synoptic Gospels (i.e., those presenting a common view). The word hear is a present active imperative verb. If a man looks at the Lord Jesus as One who entered the world in a general way, and calls this the incarnation, he will surely stumble over the cross. Of course it is the revelation of Christ; but here He was simply revealing the sources of this indispensable new birth. . Expressly had He told the man to take up his couch and walk, as well as to rise. Listen with your eyes closed; try to PICTURE what is It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. John 3:31-36) he speaks of His person in contrast with himself and all; of His testimony and of the result, both as to His own glory, and consequently also for the believer on, and the rejecter of, the Son. John, therefore, who had been the honoured witness before of God's call, "the voice," etc., does now by the outpouring of his heart's delight, as well as testimony, turn over, so to say, his disciples to Jesus. b. are likely to cooperate during conflicts. But there was a man who had been infirm for thirty and eight years. 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. As a present fact, the Lord justifies the judicial act before their eyes by His relationship with God as His Father, and gives the Jews a sign in the temple of His body, as the witness of His resurrection power. How did John say a person receives the gift of salvation in John 1:12? In His name I pray, AMEN. Even now faith knows, that instead of sin being the great object before God, ever since the cross He has had before His eyes that sacrifice which put away sin. 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. From the very first, man, being a sinner, was wholly lost. John 5:25 "Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live." John 5:30 "I can do nothing on my own. Needing to turn up the volume of the television or radio. He must be born of God. For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; and hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. Heavenly things are set in evident contradistinction, and link themselves immediately here, as everywhere, with the cross as their correlative. behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. He who, living, was received for eternal life, is our meat and drink in dying, and gives us communion with His death. God's glory is His essential and intrinsic splendor. Read full chapter John 5:24 in all English translations John 4 John 6 New International Version (NIV) The Light, on coming into the world, lightens every man with the fulness of evidence which was in Him, and at once discovers the true state as truly as it will be revealed in the last day when He judges all, as we find it intimated in the gospel afterwards. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." Every advocate of PME does this. "John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This is he of whom I spake: He that cometh after me is preferred before me, for he was before me." Among adults aged 20-69, the overall . In John He is One who could be described as Son of man who is in heaven; but He belonged to heaven, because He was divine. . "Whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life." - John 5:24 Hearing His Word Jesus said, "Whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life," so we must hear what Jesus says to us, but more importantly, we must do what He says (Matt 25:40). It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. No doubt Jesus Himself had the Holy Ghost given to Him, as it was meet that He in all things should have the pre-eminence; but it shows yet more both the personal glory of Christ and the efficacy of His work, that He now gives the same Spirit to those who receive His testimony, and set to their seal that God is true. ", This response infuriated the Jews, for they knew thatJesus was making Himself equal with Almighty God. We have had his name introduced into each part of the preface of our evangelist. FIVE WONDERFUL THINGS John 5:24 Intro. Schizophrenia causes psychosis and is associated with considerable disability and may affect all areas of life including personal, family, social, educational, and occupational functioning. he might be; and this, too, as the expression of the true and full grace of God in His only-begotten Son given. Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. If He judges, it is not without full warning. It is only on the basis of a present hearing and believing that one shares the eternal life of God and enjoys deliverance from present condemnation and spiritual death. The Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. 6. (Verse John 3:10). So in the baptism with the Holy Ghost, who would pretend to such a power? He is ever God; He is the Son; He quickens and raises from the dead. They accomplished this by repeatedly pairing the white rat with a loud, frightening clanging noise. Later He was determined to be Son of God with power by resurrection of the dead. For this reason Jesus perfected revelation by fulfilling it through his whole work of making Himself present and manifesting Himself: through His words and deeds, His signs and wonders, but especially through His death and glorious resurrection from the dead and final sending of the Spirit of truth. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." The law works no deliverance; it puts a man in chains, prison, darkness, and under condemnation; it renders him a patient, or a criminal incompetent to avail himself of the displays of God's goodness. 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