Nor will the full force of this expression be witnessed till the glorious result of His blood shedding sweep away the last trace of sin in the new heavens and the new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. 1 John 5:11-12 The enemy will often to cast doubt on the work God has done in your heart. He is viewed as retaining the same perfect intimacy with the Father, entirely unimpaired by local or any other circumstances He had entered. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? 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. The two acts (new birth and faith) are so closely connected that in experience we cannot distinguish them. 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! (Verses John 1:41-44), On the morrow Jesus begins, directly and indirectly, to call others to follow Himself. This is an audio sermon by Michael Pickett titled "Hearing and Believing" The scripture text that brother Michael is preaching from is John 5:24-25 and the audio is 53 minutes long. Verse 9 "Immediately the man became well. All rights reserved. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me." John 5:37 John chapter 5. May it be exalted above all blessing and praise! In Jesus' Name we pray.. "Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good." ~ Romans 12:21 (Col. 1:9-14) "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people." ~ Prov 14:34. But there was this difference from the former occasion, that, at the marriage in Cana (John 2:1-25), the change of the water into wine was clearly millennial in its typical aspect. John 5:24: "Truly, truly, I say to you, he 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." Clearly, when it comes to being alive or dead, there are two and only two categories of people. This brings all to a point; for the woman says, "I know that Messiah cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things." 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. 10 It is our judgment, despite a popular view that the specific signs number seven, the author, in fact, did not intend a catalog comprised of any specific number. First, we must worship, if at all, in spirit and in truth. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. Matthew, Mark, and Luke start, as far as regards the public labours of the Lord, with John cast into prison. It is not surprising that Fackre appeals to 1Peter 3:18-4:6 to support the doctrine of salvation after death. God hearing and answering Jesus didn't mean salvation from the cross, but salvation through the cross. Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. ", Jesus laid out this truth veryemphatically by starting what He said with the words verily, verily: "Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes Him who sent me has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. 1 The psalmist proclaimed: "The entirety of Your word is truth, and every one of your righteous judgments endures forever" (119:160). God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. John 3:19; John 3:19) Other things, the merest trifles, may serve to indicate a man's condition; but a new responsibility is created by this infinite display of divine goodness in Christ, and the evidence is decisive and final, that the unbeliever is already judged before God. We were dead in our trespasses and sins, walking in darkness (Eph 2:1). This is indispensable; for God is a Spirit, and so it cannot but be. It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. John 1:20-25) John does not even speak of Him as one who, on His rejection as Messiah, would step into a larger glory. B. Inviting other members of the emergency management team to discuss common goals. No doubt He must become a man, in order, amongst other reasons, to be a sufferer, and to die. Peter wrote in 4:6, "for this is the reason the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead.". John 1:26-27; John 1:26-27) For himself he was not the Christ, but for Jesus he says no more. 4 5 One who was . What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? This passage is used regularly to emphasize the doctrine known as "eternal security". The same God who did not leave Himself without witness among the heathen, doing good, and giving from heaven rain and fruitful seasons, did not fail, in the low estate of the Jews, to work by providential power at intervals; and, by the troubled waters of Bethesda, invited the sick, and healed the first who stepped in of whatever disease he had. 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. The effect is thus final, even as His person, witness, and glory are divine. and the more manifest from His lips to one who was a real impersonation of sin, misery, blindness, degradation. None but a divine being could thus deal with the world. It is evident, that were He not God, it would be an interference with His glory, a place taken inconsistent with His sole authority, no less than it must be also, and for that reason, altogether ruinous to man. (VerseJohn 4:10; John 4:10) Infinite grace! God is in infallible control over life, death, sickness, and health (cf. "But He said to them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of." Christ here, it will be noticed, is not so much the quickening agent as Son of God (John 5:1-47), but the object of faith as Son of man first incarnate, to be eaten; then dying and giving His flesh to be eaten, and His blood to be drank. Man is morally judged. I don't realize until the next morning that it's completely insane to think any of this. Those who believe will repent and put their faith in Christ and begin living. He gave them title to take the place of children of God, even to those that believe on His name. In short, the riches of God's grace are here according to the glory of the Son, and in the power of the Holy Ghost. For though the Son (that eternal life who was with the Father) was a man, in that very position had the Father given Him to have life in Himself, and to execute judgment also, because He is Son of man. 5 Things You Should Know about the ESV Bible Translation. He acts as such. Life out of death was wanted by man, such as he is; and this the Father is giving in the Son. And let him that heareth say, Come. But Jesus replied, "My Father is working until now, and I Myselfam working. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours." "The law was given by Moses." Man, dead in sins, was the object of His grace; but then man's state was such, that it would have been derogatory to God had that life been communicated without the cross of Christ: the Son of man lifted up on it was the One in whom God dealt judicially with the evil estate of man, for the, full consequences of which He made Himself responsible. He will have all honour the Son, even as Himself. God's glory is His essential and intrinsic splendor. 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. (Ver. John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. Heavenly things, therefore, could not but be natural to Him, if one may so say. John 3:1-36 follows this up. Scripture is, or may be, before man always. How little they conceived of what was then said and done! He reminds them of his previous disclaimer of any place beyond one sent before Jesus. Overall, around 400 couples have volunteered to take part. The Son had not come to execute the judgments of the law they knew, nor even to promulgate a new and higher law. What Jesus said in essence is that some of you have been given ears that can continually hear. 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. 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. 6. John's is the only one of the four not considered among the Synoptic Gospels (i.e., those presenting a common view). #3 him who sent me Whoever believes Jesuss Word believes God, who gave his one and only Son (Jn 3:16). 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. (Ver. (Ed. 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"). Thus it is a kind of transitional fact for a most important part of our gospel, though still introductory. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life. This, of course, supposes the setting aside of Jerusalem, its people and house, as they now are, and is justified by the great fact of Christ's death and resurrection, which is the key to all, though not yet intelligible even to the disciples. 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. (Verses John 7:3-5) The Lord intimates the impossibility of anticipating the time of God; but then He does it as connected with His own personal glory. Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. "And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. How, indeed, could it be stayed within narrow limits? For believers in Christ to enjoy the fullness of joy promised them by God all the time (John 16:23-24) 5. Just as in John 4:1-54, so here it is a question of power in the Holy Ghost, and not simply of Christ's person. John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. He explained that His whole life was to do the will of the Father and to carry it out in the power of the Spirit so asto please the Father, by only saying and doing the things that He heard from the Father. (Verse John 3:16), Let it not be passed by, that while the new birth or regeneration is declared to be essential to a part in the kingdom of God, the Lord in urging this intimates that He had not gone beyond the earthly things of that kingdom. To stay connected to their parent stock, as a branch and be fruitful (John . Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. John 5:24 In-Context. Isaiah 44:3; Isaiah 44:3, Isaiah 59:21, Ezekiel 36:25-27 ought to have made the Lord's meaning plain to an intelligent Jew. It is not simply the new birth such as a saint might, and always must, have had, in order to vital relations with God at any time. Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. , He hath eternal life, and doth not come into judgment. A comparable passage to John 5:24 is probably John 10:27-29. 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. How was this? As you listen, use the following three steps to help yourself learn the passage. I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. Hence the Lord, while fully owning the labours of all preceding labourers, has before His eyes the whole boundless expanse of grace, the mighty harvest which His apostles were to reap in due time. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. Nor was it yet complete. Thus we have traced, first, hearts not only attracted to Him, but fresh souls called to follow Him; then, in type, the call of Israel by-and-by; finally, the disappearance of the sign of moral purifying for the joy of the new covenant, when Messiah's time comes to bless the needy earth; but along with this the execution of judgment in Jerusalem, and its long defiled temple. And let him that is athirst come. But if the Spirit speaks of the Son of God, the law dwindles at once into the smallest possible proportions: everything yields to the honour the Father puts oil the Son. * He says, One was among them of whom they had no conscious knowledge, "that cometh after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to loose." 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 didn't spare him death. This gives occasion to Jesus to teach us the lesson that conscience must be reached, and sense of sin produced, before grace is understood and brings forth fruit. 21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. But either or both categories #2 or #3 could play a part in what it means to pray according to God's will. 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. What sayest thou of thyself? But "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." (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. It is not now the revelation of God meeting man either in essential nature, or as manifested in flesh; nor is it the course of dispensational dealing presented in a parenthetic as well as mysterious form, beginning with John the Baptist's testimony, and going down to the millennium in the Son, full of grace and truth. 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. It was but preliminary, of course; still it was a deep reality, the then present grace in the person of the Son, the Saviour of the world, who filled their once dark hearts with light and joy. Eph. . Man, under law, proved powerless; and the greater the need, the less the ability to avail himself of such merciful intervention as God still, from time to time, kept up throughout the legal system. Ephesians 3:20 Context. It is not merely a Messiah, who comes and offers Himself, as we find in other gospels, with most painstaking diligence, and presented to their responsibility; but here from the outset the question is viewed as closed. 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. But He, being God, was manifesting and, on the contrary, maintaining the divine glory here below. Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. It was an extraordinary birth; of God, not man in any sort, or measure, but a new and divine nature (2 Peter 1:1-21) imparted to the believer wholly of grace. Alas! Some impressive stats: 365+ families have been affected by the pregnancy help services in 2019 alone. Meanwhile, for Christian worship, the hour was coming and in principle come, because He was there; and He who vindicated salvation as of the Jews, proves that it is now for Samaritans, or any who believed on account of His word. We see the world with our brain, and at best that organ is merely a very good guesser, says Sekuler. 3. Following this accusation, the Lord Jesus taught His disciples all about His unique relationship with God the Father. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL Hearing, Swing, and Believing in the Gosl of John 329 John 1,19-51 The narrative portion of the gospel tegins with an interchange between John and a delegation from Jerusalem (1,19-28), an account of John's testimony to Jesus and its effect on two of his own disci- pies (1,29-39), and a description,of the effect of their words and It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. Neither does the Spirit say exactly as the English Bible says "sons," but children. Then (ver. The Word, in order to accomplish these infinite things, "was made. What a witness all this to His person! 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