infinite truth! 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. It is not that He denies the truth of what they were thus desiring and attached to. 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. A comparable passage to John 5:24 is probably John 10:27-29. I apprehend the words the Authorised Version gives in italics should disappear. But let them beware how they perverted it. On this basisJohn 7:1-53; John 7:1-53 proceeds. 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. Frequently asking others to speak more slowly, clearly and loudly. 11:33-36. The Three-Part Soul The soul consists of three parts: appetitive (appetites or urges), spirited (emotional), and rational. What can be more evident, or more instructive? We were dead in our trespasses and sins, walking in darkness (Eph 2:1). Now, it is the Holy Ghost in the power that gives rivers of living water flowing out, and this bound up with, and consequent on, His being man in glory. Gospel According to John, fourth of the four New Testament narratives recounting the life and death of Jesus Christ. The sacrificial death of Him who is God goes far beyond the thought of Israel. * The best text omits other expressions, evidently derived from verses John 1:15; John 1:30John 1:30. "Master, eat," said they. Praying "according to the will of God" in 1 John 5:14-15, I believe, is praying according to God's intended action, which could be either his moral will (category #2) or his permissive will (category #3). ( ) flesh, and dwelt among us." His earthly rights are just where they should be; but not here, where the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father has His appropriate place. (Verses John 7:19-23) What judgment could be less righteous? The power of Jesus' sovereign words had the power to heal (and raise the dead, cf. (VersesJohn 3:20-21; John 3:20-21). 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. (Verse John 3:10). 4 5 One who was . Bear in mind that one of the points of instruction in this first part of our gospel is the action of the Son of God before His regular Galilean ministry. He hath this immediately, and not merely, he shall have. 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. This question is raised, or rather settled, by the Lord in Jerusalem, at the passover feast, where many believed on His name, beholding the signs He wrought. WONDERFUL PRIVILEGE: HEARING THE WORD OF GOD. VERSION, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. The looking for signs and wonders is rebuked; but mortality is arrested. 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. 5 17. From the very first, man, being a sinner, was wholly lost. The ignorance of the world has been proved, the rejection of Israel is complete: then only is it that we hear of this new place of children. 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. 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. John's is the only one of the four not considered among the Synoptic Gospels (i.e., those presenting a common view). 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." Is It Ok for Christians to Follow Zodiac Signs? And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. This plan centered on the sacrificial death of His only Son, Jesus Christ. It is not John's business here to call attention to His Messiahship, not even when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask, Who art thou? 1:11). No charge could be remoter from the truth. It was impossible that there should not be righteous dealing with human evil against God, in its sources and its streams. He explained the mutual love they have for each other. The Central Theology in John According to John 20:30-31, the signs which Jesus performed were many. The Father did not judge, but committed all judgment into the hands of the Son, because He is the Son of man. Psychologist Albert Bandura described these beliefs as determinants of how people think, behave, and feel. The disciples of John dispute with a Jew about purification; but John himself renders a bright witness to the glory of the Lord Jesus. The Father and the Son were at work. Background: thThe 5 chapter of John opens with a feast of the Jews in Jerusalem. Till then the Holy Ghost could not be so given only when Jesus was glorified, after redemption was a fact. It was much, yet was it little of the glory that was His; but at least it was real; and to the one that has shall be given. 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. Observe, that blessed as the light is, being God's moral nature, truth is more than this, and is introduced by grace. Thus solemnly does the meek Lord Jesus unfold these two truths. 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). In the beginning of the chapter it was rather an essential indispensable action of the Holy Ghost required; here it is the privilege of the Holy Ghost given. 24 "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and . And so, in fact, it was and is. Heavy drinking can cause you to see things that aren't. Had it been meant, it was no wonder that Nicodemus did not know how these things could be. Governmental healing even from Him might only end in "some worse thing" coming. What sayest thou of thyself? 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.". It is not the only soul-saving truth that Jesus ever uttered or that John ever wrote. He speaks of Himself as the Son of man in death; for there could be no eating of His flesh, no drinking of His blood, as a living man. 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. Salem Media Group. The distinctiveness of such a testimony to the Saviour's glory need hardly be pointed out. The one, like the other, contributes to this great end, whether the Son of man necessarily lifted up, or the only begotten Son of God given in His love. John 5:24, NASB: '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. He has unsuccessfully attempted to write Beatrice a love sonnet according to the flowery and ornamental conventions of Renaissance love poetry. He wanted nothing; He came to give yea, the very best, so to speak, that God has. 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. The US Capitol is once again secured but four people are dead - including one woman who was shot - after supporters of President Donald Trump breached one of the most iconic . And in this He is sovereign. What is there in God more truly divine than grace and truth? The two acts (new birth and faith) are so closely connected that in experience we cannot distinguish them. The Benefits of Hearing and Believing Elder R.M. 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. Thus we feed on Him and drink into Him, as man, unto life everlasting life in Him. A second and wholly new man appears the bread of God, not of man, but for men. God never left Himself without witness; He did not even among the Gentiles, surely yet less in Israel. God hearing and answering Jesus didn't mean salvation from the cross, but salvation through the cross. b. are likely to cooperate during conflicts. 05:08. Resurrection will be the proof; the two-fold rising of the dead, not one, but two resurrections. How did John say a person receives the gift of salvation in John 1:12? They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into 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. There is the nicest care to maintain His personal glory, no matter what the subject may be. John was not yet cast into prison. Here there is no John proclaiming Jesus as the One who was about to introduce the kingdom of heaven. If He spoke the truth, they were blasphemers. This only secures His honour in those that believe God's testimony to Him, the Son of God; and to these He gives life, everlasting life now, and exemption from judgment, in this acting in communion with the Father. . 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. God the Father forms a new family in, by, and for Christ. Of this we learn nothing, here. Thus, in His person, as well as in His work, they joined issue. Such is God's vindication of His outraged rights; and the judgment will be proportionate to the glory that has been set at nought. It is here we learn in what condition of His person God was to be revealed and the work done; not what He was in nature, but what He became. "Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" The existence of divine love in believers, then facilitates the influence of the gospel on the world, and . He acts as such. 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. Schizophrenia causes psychosis and is associated with considerable disability and may affect all areas of life including personal, family, social, educational, and occupational functioning. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him." Nothing less than everlasting life in Christ can deliver: otherwise there remains judgment. Then He rebukes the carnality of His brethren. The term "pro-life" spans beyond ending abortion and makes sure women and babies get the care that reflects their dignity and celebrates life in all circumstances. 2. 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. #4 has eternal life and will not be judged The believer has begun eternal life upon salvation. Whosoever denieth the Son hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. They had no common thoughts, feelings, or ways with the Father and the Son. Nor was it from any indistinctness in the record, or in him who gave it. Glory would be displayed in its day. Nehemiah 9:5-8 (NLT) 5 Then the leaders of the Levitescalled out to the people: "Stand up and praise the Lord your God, for he lives from everlasting to everlasting!" Then they prayed: "May your glorious name be praised! Mark what, as such, He does declare Him. (Verses John 4:20-30), The disciples marvelled that He spoke with the woman. 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. 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. Nothing is said about the fan in His hand; nothing of His burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire. but He, who is the Word made flesh, is the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, and so competent to declare, as in fact He has. 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. But He, being God, was manifesting and, on the contrary, maintaining the divine glory here below. "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." 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." Here, accordingly, it is not so much the means by which life is communicated, as the revelation of the full blessing of grace and communion with the Father and His Son by the Holy Ghost, in whom we are blessed. 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. John 1:29-34) How rich it is, and how marvellously in keeping with our gospel! C. Encouraging someone else to assume the leadership role in the group. Details are not called for now, but just the outline of the truth. (See Hebrews 12:2, Hebrews 13:11-13) Again, let me just remark in passing, that although, no doubt, we may in a general way speak of those who partake of the new nature as having that life, yet the Holy Ghost refrains from predicating of any saints the full character of eternal life as a present thing until we have the cross of Christ laid (at least doctrinally) as the ground of it. Deut. 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. 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. 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. How were they not enjoyed in despised Samaria those two days with the Son of God among them! 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 (VerseJohn 4:10; John 4:10) Infinite grace! No mere man, nor angel, not the highest, the archangel, but the Son. 6. 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. The addition of "unto him" detracts, to my mind, from the exceeding preciousness of what seems to be, at least, left open. No doubt there are intervening applications; but such is the ultimate result of His work as the Lamb of God. 1 The psalmist proclaimed: "The entirety of Your word is truth, and every one of your righteous judgments endures forever" (119:160). Hence the Son, being in this ineffable nearness of love, has declared not God only, but the Father. The results for the believer or unbeliever are eternal in good or in evil. It was worldliness in its worst shape, even to the point of turning the glory of Christ to a present account. The question really is, whether man would trust God. "Ye will not come to me that ye might have life." 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. But here it was not God's purpose to record it. His joy was that of a friend of the Bridegroom (to whom, not to him, the bride belonged), and now fulfilled as he heard the Bridegroom's voice. But the chapter does not close without a further contrast. 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. 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. Today, it is still Jesuss Word that saves. It is the revelation of God yea, of the Father and the Son, and not merely the detecter of man. Both of them were in relation to man on the earth; the one while He was here, the other from above. #2 "whoever hears my word and believes" We are saved by hearing the truth of the gospel of Christ (Rom 10:17). Ephesians 3:20 Context. Needing to turn up the volume of the television or radio. We see the world with our brain, and at best that organ is merely a very good guesser, says Sekuler. (Ver. Verse John 1:29 opens John's testimony to his disciples. "He Who Has the Son Has Life" 7. Without sign, prodigy, or miracle, in this village of Samaria Jesus was heard, known, confessed as truly the Saviour of the world ("the Christ" being absent in the best authorities, ver. Each had his own; all are harmonious, all perfect, all divine; but not all so many repetitions of the same thing. 1 John 5:11-12 The enemy will often to cast doubt on the work God has done in your heart. It is there that we found the Lord, in the other synoptic gospels, fulfilling His ordinary ministry. (Page 61; 1989). His aspect as thus tabernacling among the disciples was "full of grace and truth." "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." Under all changes, outwardly, He abode as from eternity the only-begotten Son in the bosom of the Father. Here was a meeting, indeed, between such an one and Him, the Son, true God and eternal 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." His own love and person were warrant enough for the simple to lift the veil for a season, and fill the hearts which had received Himself into the conscious enjoyment of divine grace, and of Him who revealed it to them. They are embodied& revealedin Jesus - Jno. 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. 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. 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. 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. He didn't spare him death. It was sabbath-day. He was God. Jno. 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 not a message or a sign, however significant at the moment, which passes away as soon as heard or seen. 24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that . But his ways were higher. 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