It passes over all question of dispensations, until it accomplishes, in all its extent, that purpose for which He thus died. The person of the Son was there the object of divine and overflowing joy even then, although, of course, in the full sense of the word, the Holy Ghost might not be given to be the power of it for some time later; but still the object of worship was there revealing the Father; butJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 supposes Him to be gone up to heaven, before He from heaven communicates the Holy Ghost, who should be (not here, as Israel had a rock with water to drink of in the wilderness outside themselves, nor even as a fountain springing up within the believer, but) as rivers flowing out. (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? Before the manner of His manifestation comes before us in verse 14, we have the secret explained why some, and not all, received Christ. But either or both categories #2 or #3 could play a part in what it means to pray according to God's will. "He came unto his own [things], and his own [people] received him not. He would have every soul to know assuredly how he stands for eternity as well as now. The differences between moving through life in an eternal process of death, and living through life in an eternal process of coming alive are deeper than can actually be comprehended this side of heaven. Guided, they felt, by a divine hand, they coated steel panels in white paint and welded them together until, eventually, the shape of a woman, 90 feet tall, emerged. Do they receive Him not? (Ver. 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. It is not a question of the law, but of hearing Christ's word, and believing Him who sent Christ: he that does so has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment; but is passed from death unto life. 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. Meanwhile, near Leonato's estate, Benedick asks Margaret to bring Beatrice to speak to him. Astonishingly, it is not that they will pass from death to life, but that they have already. 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. And as life is in the person of the Son, so God in sending Him meant not that the smallest uncertainty should exist for aught so momentous. His first approach is often to cast doubt on the work God has done in your heart. Nathanael's call is just as clearly typical of Israel in the latter day. This leads Philip to Nathanael, in whose case, when he comes to Jesus, we see not divine power alone in sounding the souls of men, but over creation. 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. 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. Were the Jews zealously keeping the sabbath? 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. Dost thou see? (Ver. Further, John attests that he saw the Spirit descending like a dove, and abiding on Him the appointed token that He it is who baptizes with the Holy Ghost even the Son of God. Among adults aged 20-69, the overall . John 7:24) They reason and are in utter uncertainty. What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. This is grace and truth. . No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. It became active and God's power ministered to her as the virtue went out from Jesus, because God responds to our faith. 24 "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and . If he receives Him, it is everlasting life, and Christ is thus honoured by him; if not, judgment remains which will compel the honour of Christ, but to his own ruin for ever. There He supposes His full rejection and death. 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. Expressly had He told the man to take up his couch and walk, as well as to rise. I don't realize until the next morning that it's completely insane to think any of this. 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. (VerseJohn 4:1; John 4:1) It was strange to her that a Jew should thus humble himself: what would it have been, had she seen in Him Jesus the Son of God? Paul wrote that " all Scripture is given by inspiration of God" (2 Timothy 3:16). His exaltation there is not without notice in the gospel, but exceptionally. 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. 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. Just as distinct and beyond comparison is His testimony who, coming from heaven and above all, testifies what He saw and heard, however it might be rejected. How can such have relationship with God? In the Word was life, and the life was the light of men. The word Who implies that not all were included. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. 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. John 1:29; John 1:29John 1:34; John 1:34) of John Baptist's testimony here named; the first day (ver. This statement (verse John 1:15) is a parenthesis, though confirmatory of verse John 1:14, and connects John's testimony with this new section of Christ's manifestation in flesh; as we saw John introduced in the earlier verses, which treated abstractly of Christ's nature as the Word. 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. The Lord, in the latter part of the chapter (verses John 6:27-58), contrasts the presentation of the truth of God in His person and work with all that pertained to the promises of Messiah. They could not deny Him to be man Son of man. John 5:24 Commentaries: "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. And worship is viewed both in moral nature and in the joy of communion doubly. 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. The result immediately follows. 6. Not Jacob was there, but the Son of God in nothing but grace; and thus to the Samaritan woman, not to the teachers of Israel, are made those wonderful communications which unfold to us with incomparable depth and beauty the real source, power, and character of that worship which supersedes, not merely schismatic and rebellious Samaria, but Judaism at its best. Such are the grand emphatic points to which the Lord leads. Observe, it is not (as is often very erroneously said or sung) a question of sins, but of the "sin" of the world. 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." 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. Because of God's deep love for man He devised a plan to remove his sin and save his soul eternally. John 7:6-8) They belonged to the world. 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. How singularly is the glory of the Lord Jesus thus viewed, as invested with the testimony of God and its crown! 3. (Ver. They entered not into His words more than His grace, but thought and spoke, like the Samaritan woman, about things of this life. The allusion to the fig-tree confirms this. Besides this, goodness overflows, in that the Father is gathering children, and making worshippers. 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. The implications of this are staggering. 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. 05:08. God hearing and answering Jesus didn't mean salvation from the cross, but salvation through the cross. So it must be now; for God is revealed; and the Father in grace seeks true worshippers (be they Samaritans or Jews) to worship Him. 2. At Pentecost, Jesus empowered his followers to preach his Word. Without it there is no divine understanding of Christ, or of His word, or of Scripture. No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. The rejection of Christ is the contempt of God Himself, in that of which He is most jealous, the honour of the Saviour, His Son. One must be born again for God's kingdom a Jew for what was promised him, like another. Also one of the two thus drawn to Him first finds his own brother Simon (with the words, We have found the Messiah), and led him to Jesus, who forthwith gave him his new name in terms which surveyed, with equal ease and certainty, past, present, and future. John 5:24 Context. Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. 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. 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. 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. But Jesus finds him in the temple, and said, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." The Benefits of Hearing and Believing Elder R.M. This passage is used regularly to emphasize the doctrine known as "eternal security". (Verses John 7:16-18) , The Jews kept not the law) and wished to kill Him who healed man in divine love. For that reason, they "sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.". (Ver. How did John say a person receives the gift of salvation in John 1:12? This is all perfectly true, of course; and we have it elsewhere. CNN . 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. The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. Be they who they may now, as many as receive Him become children of God. Out-of-body experiences, meanwhile, are now accepted neurological phenomena, while certain visual illusions could confound the healthy brain and create mythical beings. And while He does not hide the privilege of the Jews, He nevertheless proclaims that "the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. There is but one unfailing test the Son of God God's testimony to Him. The question really is, whether man would trust God. Some impressive stats: 365+ families have been affected by the pregnancy help services in 2019 alone. How was this? In Him was life for this scene of death; and it is of faith that it might be by grace. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? He was simply saying what Paul would teach in Romans 8: "There is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. (ver. His glorious person would have none now in relation to God but members of the family. The hearing has ended. A second and wholly new man appears the bread of God, not of man, but for men. For "he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. It is not surprising that Fackre appeals to 1Peter 3:18-4:6 to support the doctrine of salvation after death. 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. In a certain sense, the principle of John 4:1-54 was made true in the woman of Samaria, and in others who received Christ then. They accomplished this by repeatedly pairing the white rat with a loud, frightening clanging noise. His Father "saving him from death" could have meant protection from death. 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. 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. John 7:38; John 7:38) And then we have the comment of the Holy Ghost: "(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified)" There is, first, the thirsty soul coming to Jesus and drinking; then there is the power of the Spirit flowing forth from the inner man of the believer in refreshment to others. It is life in the kingdom of God, under the Lordship of the King. "He Who Has the Son Has Life" 7. If His time was not yet come, their time was always ready. His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." Download. * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. of "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." No charge could be remoter from the truth. Ironically, despite his great . And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." For nothing can be more observable than the way in which He becomes the centre round whom those that belong to God are gathered. (Page 61; 1989). It was not the time now to demonstrate in public power these coming, yea, then present truths. hath everlasting life; not only in the purpose of God, and in the covenant of his grace, and in the hands of Christ, and in faith and hope; but he has a right unto it, and a claim of it, according to the declaration of the Gospel; and besides, has the principle of it in himself, the grace of God, which springs up into, is the beginning of, and issues in eternal life; he has also a meetness for it, and has the pledge and earnest of it, the Spirit of God, and shall certainly enjoy it: and shall not come into condemnation; neither for original sin, though judgment has passed upon all men unto condemnation for it; nor for actual sins and transgressions: for though everyone deserves condemnation, yet were there as many sentences of condemnation issued out as sins committed, not one of them could be executed on such who are in Christ Jesus, as he that believes in him is openly and manifestatively in him: the reason is, because the death of Christ is a security against all condemnation; and whoever believes in him shall not be condemned, but saved; and though he may come into judgment, yet not into condemnation: he shall stand in judgment, and be acquitted by the righteousness of Christ, which he, by faith, receives as his justifying righteousness. If He judges, it is not without full warning. Summary: Act V, scene ii. John 1:11-12; John 1:11-12) It was not a question now of Jehovah and His servants. But let them beware how they perverted it. it was no lack of testimony; their will was for present honour, and hostile to the glory of the only God. John 7:25-31) He is going where they cannot come, and never guessed (for unbelief thinks of the dispersed among the Greeks of anything rather than of God). Jesus is making the profound statement that salvation is a free gift from God for those who believe in his Son, Jesus Christ. Jesus is the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, but withal, as he had said, the eternal One, yet in view of His manifestation to Israel (and, therefore, John was come baptizing with water a reason here given, but not to the Pharisees in verses 25-27). Since opening, JPII has provided 1,050+ sonograms at no cost to women in . 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. THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. John chapter 5. But all that is historically related of the Lord Jesus inJohn 1:1-51; John 1:1-51; John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36; John 4:1-54. was before the imprisonment of the Baptist. The Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. There is no other way in which the new nature is made good in a soul. (Ver. It is no question here of every man, but of such as believe. 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. John 5:24 Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. "For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved." Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. They spoke of the world; the world might hear them. John 3:14-15; John 3:14-15) It is not a question simply of the Son of God, nor is He spoken of here as the Word made flesh. 5 17. Nor was it yet complete. The 1993 World Trade Center bombing was a terrorist attack carried out on February 26, 1993, when a van bomb detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center complex in New York City. For the Christian eternal life begins upon belief in him who sent Jesus. 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! 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